Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.12-rc3.

Linus's git repository contains a number of new "sparse" annotations, a CIFS update, various architecture updates, resource limits for niceness and realtime scheduling (see below), a new valid_signal() function (for testing signal numbers), a JFS update, some networking tweaks, and lots of fixes.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.12-rc3-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include a number of new git trees, a cpufreq update, a new /proc/zoneinfo file, some preparatory patches for Xen, and some ext3 latency reduction work.