Kernel release status

The current 2.6.10 prepatch remains 2.6.10-rc1; no new kernel prepatches have been released since October 22.

Patches continue to accumulate in Linus's BitKeeper repository; they include the ext3 block reservation and online resizing patches, sysfs backing store, locking behavior annotations for the "sparse" utility, a reworking of spin lock initialization (see below), the un-exporting of add_timer_on(), sys_lseek(), and a number of other kernel functions, an x86 signal delivery optimization, an IDE update, I/O space write barrier support, a frame buffer driver update, more scheduler tweaks, some big kernel lock preemption patches, an IDE update, a large number of architecture updates, and lots of fixes.

The current prepatch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.10-rc1-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include the kswapd high-order page freeing patch, a new PCMCIA device model integration patch, some scheduler tweaks, a generic CPU time abstraction (which comes from the S/390 port), and various fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is still 2.4.28-rc1; Marcelo has released no prepatches since October 22.

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