Kernel prepatch 2.6.26-rc1

Linus has released the 2.6.26-rc1 prepatch and declared the 2.6.26 merge window to be closed. "So this merge window was somewhat rocky in the sense that there was a lot of arguments about it, but at the same time I at least personally think that from a technical angle, we had somewhat less scary stuff going on than has been almost the rule lately." At about 7500 commits, this cycle has fewer changes than the last couple have; a lot of the changes are infrastructural, so there will be fewer obvious new features with 2.6.26 than with some of its predecessors. Some of the more significant additions include PAT support in the x86 memory management code, more realtime group scheduler work, read-only bind mounts, the KGDB debugger, and lots of new drivers. See the short-form changelog for details, or the full changelog for lots of details.

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