Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 kernel is 2.6.5, which was announced by Linus on April 3. Changes since -rc3 include another ALSA update, some architecture updates, and various fixes.

Linus's BitKeeper repository has no new patches; he is off the net for the week. In its place, Andrew Morton has put together a "merge candidate" tree, the current release of which is 2.6.5-mc2. This tree contains the laptop mode patches, a set of ReiserFS updates, IPv6 support for SELinux, the lightweight auditing framework (see below), the POSIX message queues patch, the fcntl() file_operations method (covered here last month), some virtual memory improvements, non-exec stack support, various architecture updates, and lots of fixes - 207 patches in all.

The current -mm tree is 2.6.5-mm2; recent additions to -mm include some software suspend fixes, an autofs4 update, and more fixes. The 4G/4G virtual memory patch has been dropped for now; it was suspected of causing some problems, and it gets in the way of the other virtual memory work being done.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.26-rc2, which was released by Marcelo on April 5. This patch adds a relatively small number of fixes, including adds some IDE updates, and an XFS update.

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2.6.5 Failed for Me

Posted Apr 8, 2004 2:23 UTC (Thu) by ncm (subscriber, #165) [Link]

I found I needed the yenta-TI-irq-routing-fix patch from Andrew's -mm1, not found in his -mc2 and thus likely not to be in 2.6.6. This is an ordinary commodity laptop with the very common Intel 440BX/PIIX4 chipset and TI PCI1220 cardbus bridge.