Linus Torvalds: Linux 6.13-rc7

A levél második felében megosztotta, hogy számára a karácsonyi időszak hagyományosan LEGO építéssel telik, de idén emellett gitárpedál-kit összeszerelésekkel is foglalkozott. Bár nem gitározik, élvezte a barkácsolást, és különösen az Aion FX készleteit kedvelte. Mivel a kész pedálokat nem tudja hasznosítani, felajánlja, hogy egy kernel-fejlesztőnek elkészít egyet, ha 2024-ben volt commitja a kernel forráskódjában. Az érdeklődők választhatnak egy készletet az Aion FX weboldaláról, és ha szerencsések, Linus kézzel összeszereli és elküldi nekik. Figyelmezteti azonban az érdeklődőket, hogy a végeredmény "egy szoftverfejlesztő forrasztópákával készített munkája" lesz.

Well, it looked a bit quiet at the start of the week, but then things
picked up, and we're definitely back to speed after the two quiet
holiday weeks.

This rc7 is slightly bigger than normal, but considering the timing,
it's pretty much where I would have expected, and nothing really
stands out. The diffstat looks fine, and the appended shortlog doesn't
look strange either.

So unless something odd happens the upcoming week, I expect to release
a final 6.13 next week as per the normal schedule.

                   Linus

PS: one final note on the holidays, and a check to see if anybody
actually ever reads these weekly rc announcements of mine:

For _me_ a traditional holiday activity tends to be a LEGO build or
two, since that's often part of the presents both for Xmas and
birthday, which pretty much coincide for me.

So too this year.

But in addition to the LEGO builds, this year I also ended up doing a
number of guitar pedal kit builds ("LEGO for grown-ups with a
soldering iron"). Not because I play guitar, but because I enjoy the
tinkering, and the guitar pedals actually do something and are the
right kind of "not very complex, but not some 5-minute 555 LED
blinking thing".

I've done quite a few, but the kits I really enjoyed doing were from
Aion FX. And since I want to have the excuse to continue to do them,
and since I don't actually have any _use_ for the resulting pedals
(I've already foisted off a few only unsuspecting victims^Hfriends), I
decided that I'm going to see if some hapless kernel developer would
want one.

So here's the deal: as an admittedly pretty weak excuse to keep buying
and building kits, and still consider it "work", if any kernel
developer (as defined as "has a commit authorship from the year 2024
in my kernel git tree") feels they really need a guitar pedal in their
life, hand-built by yours truly, please send me an email (*from* that
email address that is in the git tree) with the subject "I WANT A
GUITAR PEDAL".

Pick any in-stock pedal kit from

    https://aionfx.com/project-type/kit/

and make sure it's actually in stock (because not all of them are).
And next week, I'll pick one person at random - assuming anybody wants
one - and will buy that kit with my own money (hashtag "not sponsored
by Aion FX, I just really like their kits"), build it with my own
shaky little fingers, and send it to the victim by US postal services.

We're not talking Amazon two-day delivery here, just to be clear.
Also, if you are not in the US, who knows what happens between USPS
and you. I'll drop it off at the local post office, but I can't
guarantee anything more than that.

And it's may be worth noting that while I've had good success so far,
I'm a software person with a soldering iron. You have been warned. I
will test the result to the best of my abilities, and the end result
may actually work (note: you will have to provide your own guitar,
playing abilities, and pedal power supply). But you should set your
expectations along the lines of "quality kit built by a SW person who
doesn't know one end of a guitar from the other".