Who follows the kernel merge windows here?
Within the last day or two, there's some rather neat, and odd things:
- MACsec (802.1AE), commit 010998815230792aa8923a4b72deef0fd0c5f2e5¹
* About time at that! Yes, message security and transport security
are more general, but not every protocol does them.
- KCM, commit 9531ab65f4ec066a6e6617a08a293c60397a161b²
* Really odd, but it may be your thing.
- Built-in microcode images
* Now you can finally, with the built-in initramfs (special ELF
section), have your entire kernel, microcode, and live system in
an initramfs, as a single file. EFI sycophants³ will note that
this means you can have your entire live system as an EFI
application.
- The usual developer-cool but user-uninteresting stuff: refactoring,
bug fixes, optimizations, yadda yadda.
And then there's just funny things like these:
Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
with lots of configured addresses. We were doing things like
traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
well.
Richard's got some stuff in mainline again:
935c9e7 audit: log failed attempts to change audit_pid configuration
133e1e5 audit: stop an old auditd being starved out by a new auditd
¹:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=010998815230792aa8923a4b72deef0fd0c5f2e5
²:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit?id=9531ab65f4ec066a6e6617a08a293c60397a161b
³: Humour aside, in all due seriousness, it's kind of neat.
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