Software Update: Linux Kernel 2.6.3

Andante points us to a new release of Linux kernel 2.6. This is numbered 2.6.3 and has a laundry list to changes. Release candidate 4 of this industry was released last Monday and included improved Radeon support and support for PPC and PPC64 systems. In the final version mainly the minor bugs have been removed from the code. Linus Torvalds has circulated the following text:

Okay, it’s out.

There were some minimal changes relative to the last -rc4, mostly some
configuration and build fixes, but a few important one-liners too.

happy testing,

Linus

Summary of changes from v2.6.3-rc4 to v2.6.3
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Alexander Viro:
o blkdev_put() data corruption

Andrew Morton:
o mremap NULL pointer dereference fix
o cifs: kunmap_atomic() takes a kernel address
o Tuner bug fix

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:
o fix build with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_IDEDMA=n (once again)

Ben Collins:
O [SPARC64]: Add symbols to show_stack, and make oops stack output
work

David Mosberger:
o fix ia64 build failure
o Fix radeon warning on 64-bit platforms

David S Miller:
O [SPARC64]: Fix non-PCI build, reported by David Dillow
O [SPARC64]: Fix warnings on non-PCI build
O [SPARC64]: Fix build with sysctl disabled

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
O [NETFILTER]: Fix signedness overflow in ip” rel=”external”>,6_tables.c

James Simmons:
o small fbmem.c fix

Jim Paradise:
o Fix fencepost error in x86_64 IOMMU

Linus Torvalds:
o Fix the dependency chain for I2C_ALGOBIT from the FB drivers that
need it.
o Linux 2.6.3

Roman Zippel:
o Avoid bogus warning about recursive dependencies[break]Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Tarball
Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Bzip2
Linux Kernel 2.6.3 Patch