Kernel release status
[Posted April 4, 2006 by corbet]
The current 2.6 prepatch is 2.6.17-rc1, released by Linus on
April 2. Patches merged since last week include the splice() and
sync_file_range() system calls (see below), hotplug memory support
for User-mode Linux, an LED subsystem, the conversion of local_t
into a signed type, basic support for braille devices in the input layer, and
the "ipath" driver for PathScale InfiniPath devices.
See last week's and
the previous week's summaries
for detailed lists of changes in 2.6.17-rc1.
For even more detail, see the short-form and long-format
changelogs.
No patches have been merged into the mainline since 2.6.17-rc1 was
released.
The current -mm tree is 2.6.17-rc1-mm1. Recent changes
to -mm include a lot of fixes and a new version of the kgdb debugger, but
little in the way of major changes.
