Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 6.5-rc4 Exposes An Interesting Numerical Coincidence

Linus Torvalds released the latest weekly test candidate of the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel...

https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.5-rc4

[DanL]

'exacty'?

[shmerl]

So when is bcachefs coming, 6.6?

[fitzie]

So when is bcachefs coming, 6.6?

it could be there. seems like kent has got all of his pre-reqs on target for 6.6, but it could easily get bumped. I think if it hasn't landed by 6.6-rc2 then it doesn't look good.

Christoph is still disapproving of the way bcachefs uses bio/iomap for example:

https://lore.kernel.org/linux-kernel/[email protected]/

[CommunityMember]

So when is bcachefs coming, 6.6?

"No wine before it's time" -- Orson Welles

6.6 may be a target, but that will work out only if working with the impacted subsystem maintainers works out well (the previous patch series involved a lot of different maintainers). It would help a great deal if there were corporate sponsorship (and therefore long term maintenance assurances) available from one of the large supporters of the Linux foundation rather than it being more of an unfunded, few person, show. For better or worse, Linux is an adult now, and serious long term commitments are now part of the decision process for acceptance.

[uxmkt]

When the commits are no longer coming, that's a sign of software being done ;^)