Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.10-rc3, announced by Linus on December 3. Changes since -rc2 include the un-deprecation of MODULE_PARM() (it is generating too many warnings, and the fixes will not be merged before 2.6.10), a new major number (180) for the "ub" USB storage driver, some x86 single-stepping fixes, a large number of "sparse" annotations, the token-based memory management fix, a memory technology device (and JFFS2) update, a frame buffer device update, some user-mode Linux patches, some page allocator tuning, and a few architecture updates. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository currently holds a DVB update and a set of bug fixes. Very few patches are being accepted currently as the kernel hackers try to stabilize things for the final 2.6.10 release.

Andrew Morton has released no -mm patches over the last week.

The current bugfix patch from Alan Cox is 2.6.9-ac13.

The current 2.4 prepatch remains 2.4.29-pre1; Marcelo has released no prepatches since November 25.

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Kernel release status

Posted Dec 9, 2004 8:57 UTC (Thu) by Felix.Braun (subscriber, #3032) [Link]

It should be noted that the 2.6.9-ac13 patch found on ftp.kernel.org is actually identical to 2.6.9-ac12. The true -ac13 has been released without further announcement as -ac14. See this thread.

Posted Dec 16, 2004 8:48 UTC (Thu) by alexs (guest, #13637) [Link]

the former device number of ub was in the experimental range
and was hardcoded in the driver with some comment like
"stolen from the experimental range for a week".
in other words, that driver is no longer experimental. ;-)