Linux Kernel: Weekly Recap - Driver Updates & Memory Management
This week brought significant driver subsystem updates including USB, TTY, and staging drivers, along with critical memory management fixes and infrastructure improvements across multiple kernel components.
Duration: PT2M52S
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- Show: Linux Kernel
- Published: 2026-04-20T00:00:00Z
- Audio duration: PT2M52S
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Good morning, I'm your host with the Linux Kernel weekly recap for April 13th through 20th, 2026.
Zero pull requests were merged with 30 additional commits this week.
**Driver Subsystem Updates**
Linus Torvalds merged several major driver subsystem updates. The USB and Thunderbolt changes include 176 commits featuring new USB power supply driver support, device tree updates, and dwc3 driver enhancements. Notable additions include StarFive JHB100 USB 2.0 DRD controller support and various security fixes for…
The TTY and serial driver updates removed the unused ESP32 driver and implemented a second attempt at moving TTY ports to dedicated workqueues. The staging driver changes brought 154 commits of cleanup work, primarily from new kernel developers, with significant improvements to the octeon driver's variable type…
**Critical Memory Management Fixes**
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