“Greg KH announced the first maintenance release of the 2.6.11
kernel, 2.6.11.1. Quickly acting on the recent lengthy discussion
regarding kernel release numbering, Greg and Chris Wright have
begun to maintain this branch. With each 2.6.x release, they will
maintain 2.6.x.y releases available from your nearest kernel.org
mirror. This first maintenance release includes three simple
patches, not including the makefile change, addressing a problem
with keyboards on Dell machines, and raid6 compilation on the ppc
architecture. Andrew Morton noted that he has additional fixes
appropriate for this tree that will likely lead to a 2.6.11.2
release in the relatively near future…”
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