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.

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