Kernel prepatch 2.6.22-rc1
Linus has announced the 2.6.22-rc1 prepatch
and closed the merge window for
this cycle. 2.6.22 will include the long-awaited IVTV video tuner
driver, the mac80211 ("Devicescape") wireless networking stack, the
utimensat() system call, private futexes, the SLUB allocator, the eventfd system calls, a
completely new Firewire stack, support for the "Blackfin" CPU architecture,
and much
more. See the short-form changelog for the
details, or the
log-format log for vast amounts of detail.