Ok, it’s two weeks since 2.6.15, and the merge window is
closed.
In fact, it already closed yesterday when I was planning on
doing the release, but we had people over for dinner, and things
devolved. “The best-laid plans of mice and
kernel-developers…”
Anyway, it’s out there now. The ShortLog is pretty readable – if
you are into that kind of stuff–but as usual for an -rc1 release
(which has all the frantic merging going on), it’s actually too big
to post on the kernel list due to the size limits. It weighs in at
4000+ lines and 169kB.
Anyway, if you’re a git user, here’s what generated the
shortlog:
git-rev-list
–no-merges –pretty=short v2.6.15..v2.6.16-rc1 |
git-shortlog
> ../ShortLog
and you can find the full log on
kernel.org as ChangeLog-2.6.16-rc1 if you want to.
The diffstat is also too big to post. It’s also all over the
map: there’s actually a fair number of cleanups in there that have
affected a lot of files, as did the new mutexes, for example.
There’s also updates for various architectures: powerpc
continues the long slog to a merged tree–now ppc32 is mostly done
too, but there’s updates to arm, x86[-64], m68k, frv, ia64,
pa-risc, m32r, s390, etc…
And usb, i2c, pcmcia, fbdev, v4l, drm, scsi, alsa, input layer,
network drivers, infiniband… The tty layer got some clean-ups too
(wonder of wonders).
OCFS2 was merged, fuse updates, fat fixes, and p9fs, XFS and NFS
updates.
And largish networking updates: there’s a “common netfilter”
setup now, which you’ll notice when you do “make config” or
equivalent, since a lot of the netfilter rules now work on ipv4
and/or ipv6 rather than having separate (and duplicate) versions
for each.
Linus