Kernel release status

[Posted December 1, 2004 by corbet]

The current 2.6 prepatch remains 2.6.10-rc2; Linus has released no prepatches since November 14.

Patches continue to accumulate, slowly, in Linus's BitKeeper repository. These include the un-deprecation of MODULE_PARM() (it is generating too many warnings, and the fixes will not be merged before 2.6.10), a new major number (180) for the "ub" USB storage driver, some x86 single-stepping fixes, a large number of "sparse" annotations, the token-based memory management fix, a memory technology device (and JFFS2) update, a frame buffer device update, some user-mode Linux patches, some page allocator tuning, and a few architecture updates.

The latest patch from Andrew Morton is 2.6.10-rc2-mm4. Recent changes to -mm include a new "DMA32" memory zone on the x86_64 architecture, some big architecture updates, a quiet fix for a seemingly exploitable x86_64 buffer overflow, and lots of fixes.

The current 2.4 prepatch is 2.4.29-pre1, which was released by Marcelo on November 25. The bulk of this patch consists of driver and filesystem backports from 2.6.