The General Purpose Interface Bus (GPIB, AKA HP-IB) has finally received stable drivers, and will be merged in the Linux 6.19 kernel release, 53 years after it was launched by HP. Phoronix explains that GPIB support was first added to the mainline Linux kernel last year, but now they have been declared stable.
This driver addition was highlighted by Greg Kroah-Hartman in a staging pull request for Linux 6.19-rc1. “Here is the big set of staging driver updates for 6.19-rc1,” wrote Kroah-Hartman….