Kernel release status [LWN.net]

The current 2.6 development kernel is 2.6.28-rc3, released on November 2. It contains the usual pile of fixes, along with the removal of the (now unused) prepare_write() and commit_write() VFS methods and new drivers for Elantech (EeePC) touchpads, and Intel X38 memory controllers.

Also merged was a driver API change; drivers which support FASYNC no longer need to make a final call to fasync_helper() at release time.

As of this writing, a few dozen post-rc3 patches have been merged into the mainline repository. Along with the fixes is a new I/O memory mapping API for graphics drivers; see the separate article below for details.