Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot
24-08-2026 17:32 via theregister.com

Emperor Penguin Linus Torvalds banishes a bug – with a bot

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 o
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