Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.15-rc1

Ok,
 there it is, go wild. Get the git trees, the tar-balls and
the patches (some or all of the above may still be mirroring out
but should show up shortly).

It’s hard to go through in any great detail, because even the
shortlog is actually almost five thousand lines and about 200kB in
size, and would thus run afoul of the mailing list limits so I
can’t include it here.

The same is true of the diffstat, only even more so. The unidiff
is about a million lines in size, just the diffstat is 300+kB.

The changes are really pretty much all over the place, with over
four thousand commits merged in the two weeks since 2.6.14…

v4l, dm, networking, NFS, SCSI, sound, drm, agp, cpufreq, input,
i2c, jfs, xfs, jffs2, ntfs, cifs, network drivers, infiniband…
You name it.

Big architecture changes: the normal flow of arm updates, but
also parisc updates and a couple of big MIPS updates. And the
powerpc architecture got re-jigged a lot…

The ppc32 and ppc64 trees have largely been merged (to a new
generic “powerpc” architecture that can be compiled either 32-bit
or 64-bit), and that moved a number of files around. Similarly, the
core block-layer got moved to its own subdirectory.

Oh, and the inevitable qla firmware updates probably account for
over fifty thousand of the diff lines. So those things partly
explain how you get a million-line diff without actually
necessarily having conceptual changes that big.

In fact, a lot of the changes are quite small. There’s just a
lot of those too…

Those with git access can easily get the shortlog (which is
still pretty readable) with

        git log
–no-merges v2.6.14..v2.6.15-rc1 | git-shortlog

and it only takes half a second to generate on a fast machine.
It’s worth it if only because of this entry:

         Adrian
Bunk:
            I
am the new monkey.

(among the four-thousand other non-simian ones).

                         Linus