Linus Torvalds : Linux 2.6.35-rc2 is out!

From: Linus Torvalds;
Sender: linux-kernel-owner;
Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:15:36;
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List;
Subject: Linux 2.6.35-rc2


So -rc2 is out there, and hopefully fixes way more problems than it
introduces.

I'm slightly unhappy with its size - admittedly it's not nearly as big as
rc2 was the last release cycle, but that was an unusually big -rc2. And I
really hoped for a calmer release cycle this time.

In fact, for once I'm going to enforce -rc3 being sane, because the
upcoming week is the last week of school for my kids. And when the kids
get out of school, I'm going be offline for a while. And as a result, I
_really_ don't want to pull anything even half-way scary in the next week
for -rc3.

So any pull requests had better be obvious fixes only, and this time I'm
not going to let things slide.

Anyway, the biggest patches in -rc2 are some staging drivers (70% of the
patch is just that), so while it's still biggish, at least most of it is
clearly staging.

Of the remaining non-staging 30%, half of _that_ is just the regular
drivers (drm: i915 and radeon, along with some dvb updates is a noticeable
chunk), with a new Core i7 EDAC driver that I had gotten a pull request
for before -rc1, but just hadn't had the energy to pull until -rc2 (same
goes for a build system update - the pull request predated -rc1).

And some late powerpc changes that I do _not_ think predated -rc1. Tssk.
I'm really not going to let things like that slide next -rc, as mentioned.

But the most important part is obviously the regression fixes, which tend
to be small and not show up much in the patch statistics. A number of
reverts, a number of fixes, hopefully things are all rosy.

And it really isn't _that_ bad - the -rc2 shortlog is almost never small
enough to be worth posting on the mailing list, but I think it's doable
this time, even if it's borderline. So ShortLog appended if people care
about the (summary of) details.

Linus