Linux 5.17 Released With AMD P-State Driver, Plenty Of New Hardware Support

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 5.17 Released With AMD P-State Driver, Plenty Of New Hardware Support

Following the one week delay to the release schedule, Linus Torvalds issued the Linux 5.17 stable release a short time ago...

https://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-5.17-Released

[er888kh]

Huh? I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe it is some idiom I don't know, but I'm utterly confused.

I am a native Swedish speaker (Torvalds native language). Though I speak mainland Swedish, not Finland Swedish (there are subtle differences). That doesn't help decode this. And I don't speak Finnish at all.

I am not a native speaker, but this is what I think:
- Brown paper is just some cheap paper you wrap other stuff with
- Fodder is some low quality food that cannot be consumed by people, so it is fed to livestock

So my guess is:
"There were some easy to fix bugs that would be solved after rc7; if it wasn't for the rc8, they would have been fixed (some trivial and boring fixes) in the first stable release. And they were not important or interesting bugs at all."

[Vorpal]

avoid some brown-paper bugs that would otherwise have been stable fodder

Huh? I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe it is some idiom I don't know, but I'm utterly confused.

I am a native Swedish speaker (Torvalds native language). Though I speak mainland Swedish, not Finland Swedish (there are subtle differences). That doesn't help decode this. And I don't speak Finnish at all.

[NateHubbard]

Huh? I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe it is some idiom I don't know, but I'm utterly confused.

I am a native Swedish speaker (Torvalds native language). Though I speak mainland Swedish, not Finland Swedish (there are subtle differences). That doesn't help decode this. And I don't speak Finnish at all.

I assume it's a reference to brown paper bags, but I don't get it either.

[tildearrow]

Huh? I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe it is some idiom I don't know, but I'm utterly confused.

I am a native Swedish speaker (Torvalds native language). Though I speak mainland Swedish, not Finland Swedish (there are subtle differences). That doesn't help decode this. And I don't speak Finnish at all.

Could also be that Torvalds has been in the US for a long time.

[lumks]

it's something like this

A programming bug that is so stupid that it makes the programmer want to put a brown paper bag over his head.

[cl333r]

it's something like this

And what does "stable fodder" mean?

[numasan]

And what does "stable fodder" mean?

Probably the comments about how many bugs there are in the stable release?

[moriel5]

Vorpal cl333r I believe that "fodder" means food (or perhaps prey? English isn't my native language, however I did live in the US during part of my childhood), so perhaps food for the horses?

I would hazard a guess that the point is that something might not be as worth doing as it originally seems, or something similar to that.

[er888kh]

Huh? I'm not a native English speaker, so maybe it is some idiom I don't know, but I'm utterly confused.

I am a native Swedish speaker (Torvalds native language). Though I speak mainland Swedish, not Finland Swedish (there are subtle differences). That doesn't help decode this. And I don't speak Finnish at all.

I am not a native speaker, but this is what I think:
- Brown paper is just some cheap paper you wrap other stuff with
- Fodder is some low quality food that cannot be consumed by people, so it is fed to livestock

So my guess is:
"There were some easy to fix bugs that would be solved after rc7; if it wasn't for the rc8, they would have been fixed (some trivial and boring fixes) in the first stable release. And they were not important or interesting bugs at all."

[moriel5]

I am not a native speaker, but this is what I think:
- Brown paper is just some cheap paper you wrap other stuff with
- Fodder is some low quality food that cannot be consumed by people, so it is fed to livestock

So my guess is:
"There were some easy to fix bugs that would be solved after rc7; if it wasn't for the rc8, they would have been fixed (some trivial and boring fixes) in the first stable release. And they were not important or interesting bugs at all."

Thanks, I remembered that "fodder" had to do with food, however I could not remember the context.
Your explanation certainly makes sense (and is similar to my assumption of the meaning of the quote).