[ag-automation] Fwd: [torvalds at osdl.org: Linux v2.6.18-rc1]

[Robert Schwebel]

Collegues,

Just in case you didn't notice, 2.6.18-rc1 is out and the Realtime
Preemption developers, lead by Ingo Molnar & Thomas Gleixner, have
pushed quite some issues into mainline. Linus Announcement shows that
the following topics (being important for our realtime activities)

- the generic IRQ layer
- lockdep
- support for priority inheritance mutexes
- the generic time keeping layer (clock event)

made it into the tree. Thomas told me yesterday that the next -rt patch
will be based on -rc1, so it is expected that there will be a major
patch size reduction once -rt1 is out.

Regards,
Robert

----- Forwarded message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org> -----

Date:	Wed, 5 Jul 2006 21:26:35 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at osdl.org>
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Linux v2.6.18-rc1
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0607052115210.12404 at g5.osdl.org>


Ok,
 the merge window for 2.6.18 is closed, and -rc1 is out there (git trees 
updated, the tar-ball and patches are still uploading over my pitiful DSL 
line - and as usual it may take a short while before mirroring takes 
place and distributes things across the globe).

The changes are too big for the mailing list, even just the shortlog. As 
usual, lots of stuff happened. Most architectures got updated, ACPI 
updates, networking, SCSI and sound, IDE, infiniband, input, DVB etc etc 
etc.

There's also a fair amount of basic infrastructure updates here, with 
things like the generic IRQ layer, the lockdep (oh, and priority- 
inheritance mutex support) stuff by Ingo &co, some generic 
timekeeping infrastructure ("clocksource") stuff, memory hotplug 
(and page migration) support, etc etc.

Git users should generally just select the part they are interested in, 
and do something like

	git log v2.6.17.. -- drivers/usb/ | git shortlog | less -S

to get a better and more focused view of what has changed.

Have fun,
		Linus

----- End forwarded message -----

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