Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.19-rc3, released by Linus on October 23. It contains a fairly long list of fixes, but things do seem to be settling down a little bit. See the long-format changelog for the details.

A very small number of patches - all fixes - have been merged since 2.6.19-rc3 was released.

Adrian Bunk is maintaining a list of known regressions in 2.6.19; it is surprisingly short.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.19-rc2-mm2. Recent changes to -mm include the addition of the I/OAT DMA engine tree, a big set of x86 patches, sharing of page tables for huge TLB pages, a set of library functions for reversing the bits in a value, initial support for virtualizing process sessions, and some ongoing tty driver work.

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