From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752011AbXLDFIW (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:08:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750831AbXLDFIP (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:08:15 -0500 Received: from smtp2.linux-foundation.org ([207.189.120.14]:48811 "EHLO smtp2.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750798AbXLDFIO (ORCPT ); Tue, 4 Dec 2007 00:08:14 -0500 Date: Mon, 3 Dec 2007 21:08:12 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Linux 2.6.24-rc4 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org We should have one week between -rc releases, but I was gone for a week over thanksgiving (as were some other kernel developers), so this one is a bit late. It's been almost the rule rather than the exception, but I promise I'll be better... Anyway, there aren't a lot of exciting changes here, but there's still a _lot_ more churn than I really hoped for at the -rc4 stage. Blackfin, MIPS and Power do stand out in the diffstats, but ARM and x86 got some updates too. And we had some ACPI churn (processor throttling etc), along with various driver updates: ATA, IDE, infiniband, SCSI, USB and network drivers.. And on the filesystem side, cifs, NFS, ocfs2 and proc. Ugh. Too much. In fact, the diff from -rc3 is almost 36,000 lines, and that's the smaller git one with the renames shown as renames (not the ones I upload as patches to kernel.org - those are done so that people with GNU patch and other legacy patch programs can use the diffs). I'll blame the two-week window for some of it, but even so, this is a bit disheartening. I'm really hoping that we're slowing down and -rc5 won't be anywhere near that large. That said, none of the changes are really _exciting_ or really scary. And we should have fixed a number of regressions, although more certainly remain. Linus