Kernel prepatch 2.6.27-rc1

Linus has announced the 2.6.27-rc1 release and the close of the 2.6.27 merge window. "Finally. I don't know why, but this one really did feel pretty dang busy. And the size of the -rc1 patch bears that out - at 12MB, it's about 50% bigger than 26-rc1 (but not that much bigger than 24/25-rc1, so it's not like it's anything unheard of)."

Highlights for 2.6.27 will include lots of new drivers (including the gspca webcam drivers), support for hardware data integrity checking in the block layer, support for checkpointing and restoring of virtual machines in Xen, the ftrace tracing framework, mmiotrace, the tracehook patches, delayed allocation in ext4, the UBIFS filesystem, multiqueue networking, kexec jump, the extension of a number of system calls for safer user-space programming, and much more. See the short-form changelog for details, or the long-form changelog for lots of details.

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... and the powerpc 32/64 merger is finally complete with the removal of arch/ppc.  (Hooray!)

And support for Xen DomU on x86_64 architecture.

... and NFS export of FUSE file systems (e.g. NTFS-3G users also asked this for a long time).

...and a new ISDN stack (mISDN), finally!