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From: Linus Torvalds [email protected] To: [email protected] Subject: [RFC] Remove IPv4 support from kernel, effective next merge window Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2025 10:42:00 -0700 Message-ID: [email protected]

Hey folks,

After yet another deeply technical and entirely calm discussion about HRT (High-Resolution Timers) that somehow devolved into 200+ replies, personal insults, and at least one GIF of a raccoon, I have decided it’s time to take drastic measures.

Effective next merge window, we will be removing IPv4 support from the kernel. This will both (a) resolve the maintainers’ scheduling disputes, and (b) force the world into the IPV6 utopia we were promised back in 1998.

If you need IPv4 after this point, you can either:

run an ancient kernel from before the change (good luck with the bugs), or rewrite your applications to use IPv6 and learn to love colons in your addresses. Yes, I realize this will break roughly *everything *. No, I don’t care. I have already switched all my machines to IPv6-only, except for the toaster, which unfortunately still insists on using a 192. 168. x. x address. The toaster will be replaced.

If you disagree with this decision, I suggest you take it up with the HRT maintainers. But please keep it civil this time. (Or at least keep the raccoon GIFs under 1MB.)

  • Linus :::
  • cm0002@toast.oooOP
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    2 months ago

    I’ve never been able to quote and get spoiler to work fully, I think the 2 are just incompatible with each other, best I get is this partial working one where closed it’s quoted and when you open it it goes outside the quote

    Yes, but you also sent it to a .ml comm, soo it came here ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯

      • cm0002@toast.oooOP
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        2 months ago

        [email protected] is the primary one I contribute too as well as primary for my .ml crossposting

        But, where possible, I have identified secondary comms to crosspost to. The sh.itjust.works one is the next largest off-world off-ml linux comm that isn’t programming.dev

        I don’t really check for active mods, if it becomes an issue for a comm I usually just request to be made a mod at some point