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Alan Cox, long-time kernel developer at Red Hat, announced last week that he would be leaving Red Hat in January for Intel, where he can concentrate more on areas of low-level development.
As you'd imagine from such a statement, this doesn't end Cox's involvement with the Linux kernel or open source development.
This week, the Linux kernel and Intel developer teams announced they had discovered the probable cause of the e1000e bug. This bug was particularly destructive, as it would corrupt the EEPROM/NVM of some Intel ethernet adapter chipsets, completely disabling them. Though this issue was patched to prevent damage to these components prior to the 2.6.27 kernel's final release, the actual reason for the corruption was unclear.
