Linux-2.6.23.12

[Julio Meca Hansen]

New version of the Linux kernel, 2.6.23.10, released as of December 14th 2007

By taking a look at the GIT summary, seems like this new version has some network-related changes like IPv6, NETFILTER, among other things like XFS, USB, libata and other small changes. For more information, here's the ChangeLog:

​http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.10 ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.10

And here's the download links:

​http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.10.tar.bz2 ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.10.tar.bz2

Julio

[bryan@linuxfromscratch.org]

From the ChangeLog above:

create /sys/.../power when CONFIG_PM is set

The CONFIG_SUSPEND changes in 2.6.23 caused a regression under certain configuration conditions (SUSPEND=n, USB_AUTOSUSPEND=y) where all USB device attributes in sysfs (idVendor, idProduct, ...) silently disappeared, causing udev breakage and more.

This is another fix for udev's usb_id segfault (without the patch that's in the SVN book, but with kernel 2.6.23.10, usb_id should no longer segfault). However, we may want to keep the usb_id patch, since what usb_id was doing before was extremely wrong anyway. Maybe changing the description of the patch to something like "fix the handling of certain error conditions in usb_id:" would work.

(But note that the usb_id patch has been merged into upstream udev, so with this kernel version, it would probably work to remove the usb_id patch and simply wait until we can figure out how to get the new udev versions to work.)

[Julio Meca Hansen]

Now version 2.6.23.11, seems they did something wrong with the last release:

commit 3ecefbaef80c10eea3523b4387c59be3e1afbbbc
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:   Wed Dec 5 21:35:23 2007 -0800

    BRIDGE: Section fix.
    
    WARNING: vmlinux.o(.init.text+0x204e2): Section mismatch: reference to .exit.text:br_fdb_fini (between 'br_init' and 'br_fdb_init')

Author: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Date:   Fri Dec 14 19:29:43 2007 -0800

    Revert "Freezer: Fix APM emulation breakage"
    
    This reverts commit a6eda373a0fe1c4d169d0ec081518d68323428ab.
    
    It causes a build breakage.

ChangeLog:

​http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.11 ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.23.11

Download:

​http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.11.tar.bz2 ​ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.23.11.tar.bz2

Julio

[Matthew Burgess]

Now 2.6.23.12. Release announcement at ​http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0712.2/1170.html.

[Matthew Burgess]

Fixed in r8444.