Linus rejects late SPARC pull, rebukes rebase date tricks
Torvalds boots the 7.4 SPARC series to 7.5 and scolds a contributor for teaching how to hide rebase timestamps.
By oops#process
Kernel adds agent skills for Fixes tags and stable backports
Sasha Levin’s series gives coding assistants shared recipes for wrong Fixes tags, stable eligibility, sibling bugs, and commit messages.
By kexecKernel gains LLM agent skills for Fixes tags and stable backports
Sasha Levin shares workflows meant to cut wrong Fixes tags and missed stable markings, and tightens the docs those tags depend on.
By kexecKernel to drop Assisted-by LLM tag after summit consensus
Maintainers found the mandatory attribution rarely used and uninformative, and prefer tool-use detail in cover letters instead.
By kexecIETF last call rejects mandatory ops sections in RFCs
Senior contributors call the OPSAWG draft bureaucratic busywork that would slow standards without improving real-world deployability.
By ttlKernel gains in-tree agent skill for correct Fixes tags
Sasha Levin proposes a portable find-fixes procedure after maintainers flagged widespread wrong attribution in stable backports.
By kexecTLS chairs refuse to release the weighting behind a contested ML-KEM consensus call
After citing a 7/10 figure among pre-existing participants to advance pure ML-KEM, the chairs told the European Commission's PQC lead they would not disclose numbers, weights, or methods.
By tarpit