Linux creator Linus Torvalds released [1] the much anticipated 2.6.11 Linux kernel declaring, "so it's now _officially_ all bug-free." Though bugs are certain to still remain, quite a bit of effort was made to stabalize this release. On February 12'th, Linus uploaded 2.6.11-rc4 [story [2]] containing only fixes, planning to follow it with the official 2.6.11 release. However, instead it was followed on February 23'rd by 2.6.11-rc5 [story [3]] to deal with "some laptop resource conflicts, various ppc TLB flush issues, some possible stack overflows in networking and a number of other details". Today's release contained minimal changes, "mostly some fixes from various code checkers".

The 2.6.11 patch to the 2.6.10 kernel is about 4MB compressed, and it or the entire 2.6.11 kernel can be obtained from your nearest kernel.org mirror [4]. The kernel makefile still contains the name Woozy Numbat, as given for the 2.6.10 release last Christmas eve [story [5]]. Read on for the relatively short changelog since 2.6.11-rc5.

From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To: Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Linux 2.6.11
Date: 	Wed, 2 Mar 2005 00:02:03 -0800 (PST)


Ok,
 there it is. Only small stuff lately  - as promised. Shortlog from -rc5 
appended, nothing exciting there, mostly some fixes from various code 
checkers (like fixed init sections, and some coverity tool finds).

So it's now _officially_ all bug-free.

			Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.6.11-rc5 to v2.6.11
============================================

<c.lucas:com.rmk.(none)>:
  o [SERIAL] drivers/serial/*: convert to pci_register_driver

<takis:lumumba.luc.ac.be>:
  o prism54 not releasing region

Alex Williamson:
  o [SERIAL] 8250 woraround for buggy uart

Alexander Nyberg:
  o SELinux: Leak in error path
  o SELinux: null dereference in error path

Andrea Arcangeli:
  o Make the new merged pipe writes check for SIGPIPE

Andrew Morton:
  o binfmt_elf build fix
  o [IA64] ia64 audit build fix
  o genhd: NULL checking fix

Andries E. Brouwer:
  o __devinitdata in parport_pc
  o __init in cfq-iosched.c
  o remove __initdata in scsi_devinfo.c
  o __initdata in apic.c
  o more apic.c

Aurelien Jarno:
  o USB: Fix usbfs regression

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:
  o [ide] fix build for built-in hpt366 and modular ide-disk
  o [ide] fix IRQ masking in ide_do_request()

Ben Dooks:
  o [ARM PATCH] 2498/1: CREDITS - add Ben Dooks
  o [ARM PATCH] 2505/1: Remove FTVPCI from debug code

Bjorn Helgaas:
  o [SERIAL] discover PNP ports before PCI, etc
  o [SERIAL] add TP560 data/fax/modem support

Chris Wright:
  o fix audit inode filter
  o send audit reply to correct socket

David Gibson:
  o ppc64: hugepage hash flushing bugfix

David Howells:
  o Make keyctl(KEYCTL_JOIN_SESSION_KEYRING) use the correct arg

David S. Miller:
  o [IPV4]: Fix lost routes in fn_hash netlink dumps
  o [AF_UNIX]: Fix SIOCINQ for STREAM and SEQPACKET

Dmitry Torokhov:
  o Input: add more PNP IDs to i8042 driver

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o sysfs: fix signedness problem
  o fix module paramater permissions in radeon_base.c
  o USB: fix bug in acm's open function

Harald Welte:
  o [NETFILTER]: ipt_hashlimit rule load time race condition

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
  o add sysctl helper functions to provide milliseconds-based
    interfaces
  o [IPV4] Use appropriate sysctl helpers for gc_min_interval_ms
  o [IPV6]: Unregister per-device snmp6 proc entry earlier

Jens Axboe:
  o [PATCH] Fix bounced bio and dm panic

Kenji Kaneshige:
  o [IA64] pci_irq.c: need signed variable to handle error return from
    acpi

Linus Torvalds:
  o Fix possible pty line discipline race
  o Properly limit keyboard keycodes to KEY_MAX
  o Make pipe "poll()" take direction of pipe into account
  o Linux 2.6.11

Nishanth Aravamudan:
  o [PKTGEN]: Replace interruptible_sleep_on_timeout()

Olaf Hering:
  o Fix incorrect __init on 'modedb[]' array

Patrick McHardy:
  o [NETFILTER]: Prevent NAT from seeing fragments

Randy Dunlap:
  o [ide] make 1-bit fields unsigned
  o srat: initdata section references
  o sound/oss/aedsp16: init/exit section cleanups
  o sonicvibes: fix initdata references
  o sound/oss/opl3as2: fix init section reference
  o isdn: use __init for ICCVersion()
  o dc395x: fix section references
  o hp100: fix section references
  o rrunner: fix section references

Robert Olsson:
  o [PKTGEN]: reduce stack usage

Russell King:
  o [ARM] Fix dma_mmap() size argument

Sascha Hauer:
  o [ARM PATCH] 2496/1: i.MX DMA fix
  o [ARM PATCH] 2497/1: i.MX pll decode

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