[ Thanks to Linux User &
Developer magazine for this link. ]
“Last month saw the opening and subsequent closing of
the 2.6.35 kernel’s merge window, the period of time during which
all of the exciting new features that have been waiting in the
wings (and in linux-next nightly kernels provided by Stephen
Rothwell) are considered for merging into the official ‘mainline’
kernel source tree by Linus Torvalds. Recent releases have often
added a new file system (or perhaps two), but 2.6.35 does not add
any new file systems. It does add many other new features,
including support for profiling virtual machines from the host
machine using ‘kvm perf’, the KDB in-kernel debugger that has
augmented the existing KGDB support for remote debugging, the
memory compaction patches, and memory hotplug support in the SLAB
memory allocator.“A number of other features were of course not added in this
release, including the ‘suspend blockers’ from Google’s Android
that have been debated heavily on the LKML (Linux Kernel Mailing
List) over the past month. Overall, a good set of features and
accompanying discussion are on their way to a solid release. “The
bulk should be there. And please, let’s try to make the merge
window mean something this time – don’t send me any new pull
requests unless they are for real regressions for major bugs,
okay?” stated Linus Torvalds, on 2.6.35.”