Kernel release status

The current development kernel is 2.6.0-test1; Linus has been busy and has released no new development kernels over the last week.

Linus has put a few things into his BitKeeper tree, including some ACPI fixes, an ia-64 update, a PPC32 update, a number of USB tweaks, a new local_t for cpu-local atomic variables, and various other fixes and updates.

The current stable kernel is 2.4.21. The current 2.4.22 prepatch is 2.4.22-pre7, released by Marcelo on July 18; it includes a Super-H architecture merge, some I/O scheduler work, and various fixes and updates. Marcelo promises the first release candidate within a couple of weeks.

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