Linus Torvalds, the Linux boss-man, usually attracts eyes resulting from his attention-grabbing and sometimes very expressive takes whether or not it’s relating to {hardware} or software program.

This vacation season although Torvalds is in a fairly content material temper because the Linux improvement crew managed to wrap up Linux kernel model 6.13 launch candidate 7 (rc7) and thus the ultimate steady launch needs to be out subsequent week.

In his weekly announcement put up addressing the state of Linux kernel improvement, Torvalds wrote:

Properly, it appeared a bit quiet initially of the week, however then issues picked up, and we’re undoubtedly again to hurry after the 2 quiet vacation weeks.

This rc7 is barely larger than regular, however contemplating the timing, it is just about the place I might have anticipated, and nothing actually stands out. The diffstat appears to be like high-quality, and the appended shortlog would not look unusual both.

So until one thing odd occurs the upcoming week, I count on to launch a closing 6.13 subsequent week as per the conventional schedule.

Torvalds had a heat tone in his mail as he described his favourite vacation passion of constructing LEGOs, but additionally added that he has been having fun with DIYing some guitar pedal package builds which is one thing that has grown on him this yr.

As such he’s even providing to construct a fortunate Linux kernel developer a guitar pedal in order that Torvalds can justify fueling his personal newfound passion ahead. He writes:

For _me_ a standard vacation exercise tends to be a LEGO construct or two, since that is usually a part of the presents each for Xmas and birthday, which just about coincide for me.

However along with the LEGO builds, this yr I additionally ended up doing a lot of guitar pedal package builds (“LEGO for grown-ups with a soldering iron”). Not as a result of I play guitar, however as a result of I benefit from the tinkering

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I’ve accomplished fairly a number of, however the kits I actually loved doing have been from Aion FX. And since I wish to have the excuse to proceed to do them, and since I do not even have any _use_ for the ensuing pedals (I’ve already foisted off a number of solely unsuspecting victims^Hfriends), I made a decision that I’ll see if some hapless kernel developer would need one.

So this is the deal: as an admittedly fairly weak excuse to maintain shopping for and constructing kits, and nonetheless contemplate it “work”, if any kernel developer (as outlined as “has a commit authorship from the yr 2024 in my kernel git tree”) feels they really want a guitar pedal of their
life, hand-built by yours really, please ship me an e mail (*from* that e mail deal with that’s within the git tree) with the topic “I WANT A GUITAR PEDAL”.

… subsequent week, I am going to choose one individual at random – assuming anyone needs one – and can purchase that package with my very own cash … construct it with my very own shaky little fingers, and ship it to the sufferer by US postal providers.

And it is could also be value noting that whereas I’ve had good success thus far,
I am a software program individual with a soldering iron. You have got been warned.

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You will discover the total message right here on the Linux Kernel Mailing Checklist (LKML) web site.