Linux kernel 2.6.32: virtualization, power management and more drivers | Linux Today

Linux kernel 2.6.32: virtualization, power management and more drivers

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Sep 16, 2009

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“When releasing the 2.6.31 kernel, maintainer Linus
Torvalds said the amount of device driver code has been steadily
increasing since 2.6.27, but 2.6.32 will continue to aggressively
add in bug fixes and performance enhancements across the entire
code base.

“The developers put in requests for Torvalds to merge code from
their working repositories with “git pull” into the main source
tree.

“Already there are signs of key activity in the initial merge
window for 2.6.32, including:”


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