From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Linux 2.6.25-rc4
Date: Mar 5, 1:03 am 2008

It's a few days late, but I was waiting for some updates for some of the

most annoying regressions until releasing it, so the end result is

hopefully more useful as a result.
In particular, the block layer changes should hopefully have sorted

themselves out, and CD burning etc hopefully works for people again. Same

goes for the the scheduler regressions, and a number of annoying boot-time

problems.
In short, if you had any issues, please do test, and make sure that the

regression list gets updated (whether fixed or not).
The dirstat shows that (as usual) most of the changes are in drivers and

arch (~51% and ~17% respectively), with about half the driver updates

being in network drivers. Full details for those who care:
	   2.0% Documentation/

	   3.6% arch/blackfin/

	   3.6% arch/cris/

	   2.3% arch/sparc/kernel/

	   2.8% arch/x86/

	  17.3% arch/

	   2.1% drivers/char/

	   7.0% drivers/dma/

	   3.0% drivers/firewire/

	  24.0% drivers/net/

	  50.6% drivers/

	   5.6% fs/cifs/

	   9.4% fs/

	   3.6% include/

	   5.2% kernel/

	   3.9% mm/

	   2.5% net/
but in general, it's really a fair amount of small changes spread all

over, with most of the changes being quite small (604 commits, most of

them small, with the BNX2X network driver being and the new fsldma driver

the only one that got some bigger changes).
So give it all a good testing,
		Linus

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