Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.11-rc3, released by Linus on February 2. This prepatch adds 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. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's BitKeeper repository contains a small number of patches, including some IDE updates, some additional checking in read() and write() (see below), a DMA blacklist for problematic serial ATA drives, and a handful of fixes.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.11-rc3-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a firewire update, the address space randomization patches (covered on last week's security page), the "BIO pool" mechanism, the removal of the realtime rlimit patch (see below), and more fixes.

There still have been no 2.4.30 prepatches.

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