Kernel release status

The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.24-rc4, released by Linus on December 3. He says that the size of the patch is "a bit disheartening," and, in fact, there are quite a few changes which have been merged. They are almost all fixes, but there also the addition of a CPU accounting controller for monitoring the CPU usage of groups of processes. See the short-form changelog for the details, or the full changelog for lots of details.

As of this writing, just under 100 changesets have gone into the mainline repository since the -rc4 release.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.24-rc4-mm1. Recent changes to -mm include the latest timerfd API, a new memory controller patch, and a reimplemented ramdisk driver.

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