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 --
| Linus Torvalds | Linux 2.6.27-rc8 |
| Trent Piepho | [PATCH] [POWERPC] Improve (in|out)_beXX() asm code |
| Satyam Sharma | Re: 2.6.23-rc4-mm1 "no CRC" MODPOST warnings |
| Bart Van Assche | Integration of SCST in the mainstream Linux kernel |
git: | |
| Bill Lear | Dangers of working on a tracking branch |
| Jeff King | Re: What's cooking in git/spearce.git (topics) |
| Jason Garber | git push [rejected] question |
| Maxim Gordienko | [GIT-P4] usage under Windows |
| Richard Stallman | Real men don't attack straw men |
| Leon Dippenaar | New tcp stack attack |
| GVG GVG | ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host |
| Brandon Lee | DELL PERC 5iR slow performance |
| Jeff Garzik | Re: [PATCH] drivers/net: remove network drivers' last few uses of IRQF_SAMPLE_RANDOM |
| Paul Moore | [PATCH v7 00/17] Labeled networking patches for 2.6.28 |
| Denys Vlasenko | Re: bnx2 dirver's firmware images |
| Herbert Xu | Re: csum offload and af_packet |
