Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 03 Jun 2011 09:01:48 +0200 | From | Jiri Slaby <> | Subject | Re: Linux 3.0 change listings - Wonderful World of Linux 3.0 |
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On 05/30/2011 09:59 PM, Joe Pranevich wrote: > Happy Memorial Day! I'm a day later than I said that I would be, but I > have attached a first draft of the "Wonderful World of Linux 3.0" > document. Please take a look and I hope that you find this helpful, > but I also hope that it can be a place that individuals not associated > with kernel development can turn to find out what is new in the > release. (With "new" being relative, of course. With no dev release, > these features have been available already.) > > Good thing I didn't post it yesterday anyway, since I was still > calling it Linux 2.8. :) > > Please take a look at this and let me know if I should make any > corrections. I appreciate your help.
Hi, what about static analysis and found bugs? There appeared a lot of tools which were first run on the 2.6 kernel and wiped out many kind of bugs. This includes imbalanced locking, NULL/dangling pointer dereferences, . I don't think that for example Coverity was ever run on linux-2.4 or 2.5. I for sure know, that linux kernel verification project, smatch, stanse and coccinelle didn't even exist before 2.6.
So 3.0 in fact should be safer, at least in many paths which are barely tested otherwise -- fail and go-here-once-in-a-year paths.
regards, -- js
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