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| September 20, 2021 — 11:05 GMT (12:05 BST)
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Linux kernel creator Linux Torvalds has announced Linux 5.15-rc2, the second release candidate for the the next version of the Linux kernel.
Torvalds’s weekly Sunday wrap-up marked the progress in the Linux kernel but he has also taken the time to point out the thirtieth anniversary of Linux v0.01, which he uploaded from Helsinki on the evening of September 17, 1991.
Torvalds initially resisted disabling -Werror by default but was open to making its behavior dependent on certain expectations. He ended up restricting -Werror to test builds of the kernel.
However, he warned last week: “My “no warnings” policy isn’t exactly new, and people shouldn’t be shocked when I then say “time to clean up *YOUR* house too”.”
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“I want to particularly thank Guenter Roeck for his work on tracking where the build failures due to -Werror come from,” Torvalds wrote Sunday.
“Is it done? No. But on the whole I’m feeling fairly good about this all, even if it has meant that I’ve been looking at some really odd and grotty code. Who knew I’d still worry about some odd EISA driver on alpha, after all these years? A slight change of pace ;),” he continued.
Torvalds remains convinced -Werror is for a “good cause” and said it wasn’t “too bad” he spent much of the week “looking at reports of odd warnings-turned-errors.”
“The most annoying thing is probably the “fix one odd corner case, three others rear their ugly heads”. But I remain convinced that it’s all for a good cause, and that we really do want to have a clean build even for the crazy odd cases,” he explains.
“We’ll get there,” he wrote.
Linux 5.15 stable should be released around November and includes better support for Microsoft’s NTFS file system.
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Liam Tung
| September 20, 2021 — 11:05 GMT (12:05 BST)
| Topic: Enterprise Software