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Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot

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The lad himself finds and fixes a tricky one… or does he?

Work on Linux kernel 7.3 is underway, and a bug fix just came in from an unusual source: Linus himself. Well, kind of…

The new bug fix has the title of Don’t hand out the flat CCS storage as usable VRAM, and it comes from emperor penguin Linus Torvalds .

Now that kernel 7.2 is out, the team is hard at work on what will be kernel 7.3, which means lots of bug-bashing. However, while Torvalds remains in charge of the overall kernel project, as he has said a number of times, including on stage last November, “for the last almost 20 years, I’ve not been a programmer.”

This bug is an exception to that – but it’s only a partial exception. The technical issue itself was not all that interesting. Due to...

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