3.17 Merge window, part 3
Linus released 3.17-rc1 and closed the
merge window for the 3.17 release on August 16. He had suggested that
the merge window could be extended, but that's not how things turned out.
Only a small number of changes made it into the mainline repository after
last week's summary was written.
User-visible changes merged in this time include:
- The xfs filesystem now requires a kernel built with 64-bit sector
numbers. There is also a sysfs directory for xfs now with a small
number of parameters mostly of use for filesystem testing.
- The NFS client now supports RCU-based lookups, speeding the task of
looking up files when the information is available in cache.
- New hardware support includes:
- Miscellaneous:
STi thermal controllers,
Allwinner A31 DMA controllers,
Renesas Type-AXI NBPF DMA controllers, and
TI DRA7xx PCIe controllers.
- Networking: APM X-Gene SoC-based Ethernet controllers.
- Miscellaneous:
STi thermal controllers,
Allwinner A31 DMA controllers,
Renesas Type-AXI NBPF DMA controllers, and
TI DRA7xx PCIe controllers.
In the end, 10,890 non-merge changesets found their way into the mainline
repository during the 3.17 merge window. This cycle has now entered the
stabilization phase; the final 3.17 release can be expected, if all goes
well, sometime in early October.
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