Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.11-rc2.

Linus's BitKeeper repository, which looks like it is heading for a 2.6.11-rc3 release before too long, contains an XFS update, a set of out-of-memory killer fixes, a generic transport class mechanism (which replaces the SCSI transport code), some architecture updates, the removal of bcopy(), a fix for writable module parameters in sysfs (it never actually worked before), and various fixes.

The current -mm release is 2.6.11-rc2-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include the unexporting of register_cpu() and unregister_cpu(), an InfiniBand update, a tool for tracking page-level memory leaks (see below), the addition of the unprivileged realtime scheduling rlimit code (covered here last week; this code replaces the SCHED_ISO patch), and a fair number of fixes.

The current 2.4 kernel remains 2.4.29; the 2.4.30 process has not yet begun.

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Posted Feb 3, 2005 3:21 UTC (Thu) by dlang (✭ supporter ✭, #313) [Link]

he did it to you again

Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 18:35:39 -0800 (PST)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Linux 2.6.11-rc3

This has a number of architecture updates (mips, arm, ppc, x86-64, ia64),
and updates ACPI, DRI, ALSA, SCSI, XFS and InfiniNand.. And a lot of small
one-liners all over.

I'd _really_ like to calm down for a final 2.6.11 now, so please note
anything really important I missed, but keep the rest pending. And give
this a good testing..

Oh, and the automated bitkeeper mirroring to bkbits.net seems slightly
broken right now (hasn't updated in the last 48 hours), but the tar-balls
are all there, and the BK upating mechanism will hopefully be fixed soon.

(I've got a few BK trees in private places, it's only the public
bkbits.net one that hasn't gotten mirrored out yet - many other BK
developers will know where to find my secondary trees and can pull from
them instead).

Linus

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Posted Feb 3, 2005 6:13 UTC (Thu) by yanfali (subscriber, #2949) [Link]

Hangs on initializing udev on FC3. If the anyone who can fix this needs more diagnostics email me at yanfali (at) best (dot) com.

I have a weird IDE/SCSI hybrid system, with the main disk booting from a LSI Logic / Symbios Logic 53c1010. It is running 2.6.10 vanilla right now. I compiled and booted 2.6.11-rc3 and it works all the way up to initializing udev where it hangs. Hardware is an athlon-xp on an nforce2 chipset.