Download Linux Kernel 2.5.71

We received a notification via our muksubmit that a new 2.5 development Linux Kernel has been released, which has been numbered 2.5.71. Since the changelog is too long to post completely, you can post this here proofread. Linus had the following to say about this release:

I think I’ll call this kernel the “sticky turtle”, in honor of that historic “greased weasel” kernel, and as a comment on how sadly dependent I’ve become on the daily BK snapshots. It’s been too long since 2.5.70.

I’ll do better, I promise. While most developers happily use either the daily snapshots or the BK tree itself, not everybody does, and a lot of users want “real releases”.

There’s nothing hugely interesting here, but Al Viro ha s been cleaning up the tty layer, and Stephen Hemminger has been fixing up some network device alloc/free issues with the help of various people.

And obviously there are the normal usb/ pcmcia/ sound/ architecture updates. With driver models and networking thrown in as a bonus.

Linus