Core Driver Patches in the 2.6.25 Merge Window | Linux Today

Core Driver Patches in the 2.6.25 Merge Window

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 31, 2008

“Prefacing a series of 196 patches, Greg KH noted, ‘due to the
low level nature of these patches, and because they touch so many
different parts of the kernel, a number of the subsystem
maintainers have asked me to get them in first to make merging
other trees easier.’ Linus Torvalds agreed and quickly merged the
patches into his tree. Greg summarized the many changes:

“‘They can be broken down into these major areas…”


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