Kernel release status

A handful of changes have gone into the mainline git repository since the 2.6.25-rc6 release.

As of this writing, vger.kernel.org is down, slowing the development process somewhat. Or, perhaps, slowing talk and speeding development. Regardless, the failure (a disk in vger's RAID array) is being addressed with the intent of getting vger back online as soon as possible.

I'm on an iPhone, and too lazy to do the work, but I think the lwn authors *always* comment 
that there's an awful lot of patches going in this late in the release cycle. I dont think
it's a bad 
thing, but it's probably worth acknowledging that up until -rc5 at least, new stuff goes in.
It just 
does.