Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.16-rc6, released on March 11. Linus notes: "Ok, we're getting closer, although the 2.6.16 release certainly seems to drag out more than it should have." As one would expect, this patch is dominated by fixes; see the long-format changelog for the details.

The mainline git repository contains a few dozen patches merged since -rc6; many of them are fixes for bugs found in the Coverity scan. There is also a patch which disables the sysfs interface for the error detection and correction (EDAC) subsystem; that interface "needs more thought" and so will be hidden until the issues get worked out.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.16-rc6-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include a new set of NFS superblock sharing patches (which are creating NFS problems for some testers) and a bunch of fixes.

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