Linux kernel 5.811/8/2023 ![]() ![]() This important work is not limited to such systems. The most active contributors in this area in 5.8 were:Īutomated testing systems continue to report (by far) the most bugs, but The kernel depends on people who run tests and report bugs no kernelĭeveloper can hope to test every hardware combination and workload out Work was spread out over the rest of the kernel as well. In summary, 907 of the patches coming from Huawei (65% of the total)Īpplied somewhere in the driver subsystem, but quite a bit of the company's Work was mostly focused in these subsystems: Significant parts of the world, but the company remains active in theĭevelopment community with 92 developers contributing to 5.8. Has gone into freezing Huawei out of the commercial marketplace in Result of Chehab's work described above, but Huawei's contribution this Huawei has moved up to the top of the list may come as a bit of a surprise. ![]() TheĬompanies supporting the most work in the 5.8 cycle were:įor the most part, this table looks fairly familiar, but the fact that The number of companies supporting them remains about flat at 213. While the number of developers contributing to the kernel set a new record, Arnd Bergmann didĬleanup work all over as usual part of that work was deleting support for That looks rather more like binary code than source. Set of machine-generated data for the Realtek rtw88 wireless driver Machine-generated register definitions for the Habana Gaudi processor. In the lines-changed column, Oded Gabbay added a massive set of Improved a number of different drivers, Jason Yan performed code cleanupsĪcross the kernel, and Chris Wilson, as usual, did a lot of work on the Memory-management, filesystem, and block subsystems. Hellwig has done significant work throughout the kernel's User-space manual, but he also put a lot of work into resurrecting theĪtomisp camera driver, which had been removed from the staging tree. Much of his work was focused onĭocumentation, converting more files to RST and reworking the video4linux2 In this cycle, Mauro Carvalho Chehab managed to get to the top of both theīy-changesets and by-lines columns. Net growth of over 553,000 lines of code. The community added over 924,000 lines of code and removed around 371,000 for a That work came from to see what might be learned.Ī total of 1,991 developers contributed to 5.8, which is another record ģ04 of those developers appeared for the first time in this cycle. It's time for our traditional look into where It was, in other words,Ī busy development cycle. Released in December 2016) by 92 changesets. That happens to be a record, beating the previous record holder (4.9, By the time the work was done, 16,306 non-mergeĬhangesets had been pulled into the mainline repository for this release. The 5.8 kernel on August 2, concluding another nine-weekĭevelopment cycle. ![]()
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