Linux kernel 2.6.32: virtualization, power management and more drivers

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"When releasing the 2.6.31 kernel, maintainer Linus Torvalds said the amount of device driver code has been steadily increasing since 2.6.27, but 2.6.32 will continue to aggressively add in bug fixes and performance enhancements across the entire code base.

"The developers put in requests for Torvalds to merge code from their working repositories with "git pull" into the main source tree.

"Already there are signs of key activity in the initial merge window for 2.6.32, including:"

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