More goodies for 2.6.15

Last week's what's going into 2.6.15 article had a long list of changes merged into the mainline. The kernel developers weren't done, however. Here is a list of changes merged since that article was written:

• A big XFS update (including barrier support).

• A SCSI RDMA protocol initiator for InfiniBand.

• The open-iSCSI patches.

• The removal of the (broken) Compaq fibre channel driver.

• RapidIO bus support.

• The netlink connector patch, with the process events connector on top.

• A number of packet scheduler improvements.

• An ALSA update.

• The un-exporting of a number of kernel symbols (clear_page_dirty_for_io, console_unblank, cpu_core_id hugetlb_total_pages, idle_cpu, nr_swap_pages, phys_proc_id, reprogram_timer, swapper_space, sysctl_overcommit_memory, sysctl_overcommit_ratio, sysctl_max_map_count, total_swap_pages, user_get_super, uts_sem, vm_acct_memory, and vm_committed_space,).

• A big purge of code which checks pointers for NULL prior to passing them to kfree().

• A big reorganization of the block subsystem code (it has its own top-level block directory now).

• A memory technology devices update, including support for OneNAND, Sibley, and resident flash disk devices.

• The shared subtrees patches.

• An MPPE encryption module for PPP.

• The removal of all Bluetooth-related files from /proc (they are in /sys/class/bluetooth now).

• Some significant reworking and cleanup of the software suspend code.

• Big changes to the DVB and Video4Linux subsystems, including support for a number of new devices.

• A number of open sound system drivers are now explicitly scheduled for removal in January (probably 2.6.16, in other words).

• Version 1 of the Video4Linux API has also been scheduled for removal (in July, 2006).

• Support for rotation of the console screen (to support mobile devices which have a natural orientation which is not zero degrees).

• A number of scheduler tweaks to improve efficiency and resource usage on larger systems.

• Big updates to the ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers.

There is also the usual big pile of fixes, and a number of architecture updates.

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