Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.12-rc6, released by Linus on June 6. This one should, if all goes well, be the final testing release before 2.6.12 comes out. Most of the patches are basic fixes, but there is also the (temporary, hopefully) removal of the Philips webcam decompression code, the conversion of the IDE code over to the device model way of doing things, a CPU frequency controller update, and a user-mode Linux update. See the long-format changelog for the details.

Linus's git repository has since accumulated a few dozen small fixes.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.12-rc6-mm1. Recent additions to -mm include semi-persistent permissions for sysfs files, the "scalable TCP" congestion control algorithm, hotplug CPU support for the x86_64 architecture, RapidIO support (see below), an NFS update, an unlocked_ioctl() operation for block devices, and the v9fs filesystem (covered here last month).

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