Con Colivas [interview] has released a patch for his O14 interactivity patchset [story] with the following comment, "Reverse the "fix" which broke SMP and small change to requeuing. Will consider how to fix it properly."

Continuing to build toward an official 2.6 kernel, Linux creator Linus Torvalds today released the 2.6.0-test3 kernel, noting, "The bulk of the diff by far is various architecture updates, and in particular bringing MIPS[64] a bit closer to being up-to-date for 2.6.x But there's arm, alpha, h8300 and ia64 updates too."

This kernel release also lays the foundation for a more secure kernel, bringing in Andrew Morton's [interview] recent merge of the SELinux mandatory access control framework. Linus commented briefly, "Merging the SELinux security architecture also ends up growing the patch, even though it may not be all that noticeable for most normal users."

Other additions and fixes include a large collection of CPUFreq updates by Dave Jones [interview], numerous network driver driver updates, a large collection of USB updates, a long-standing PCMCIA lock-up fix, and a read-ahead bug fix. Linus' complete email and changelog follow.

Marcelo Tosatti has released the 2.4.22-rc2 kernel, saying, "it contains yet another bunch of important fixes, detailed below."

The full changelog follows.

Con Kolivas [interview], who maintains the -ck interactivity patchset for the 2.4 kernel [story] has been maintaining a patchset against the 2.6.0-test kernel tree, also for boosting interactivity. His latest patchset, 'O14int' was released today against both the mainline 2.6.0-test2 development kernel and Andrew Morton's [interview] 2-6.0-test2-mm5 branch. Con describes it simply as "more duct tape interactivity tweaks", going on to detail the recent changes.

Alan Cox has released 2.4.22-rc2-ac1.

Linux 2.4.22-rc2-ac1
o	Add hwif->sata to fix cable issues with SI3112	(me)

Complete changelog within.

2.4 kernel maintainer Marcelo Tosatti has released 2.4.22-rc1. He says:

"Here goes the first release candidate of 2.4.22. Please test it extensively. Detailed changelog below."

David Mosberger reported in a lkml mesage Linus's current bk tree (http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5) builds and works out of the box for ia64! He adds:

"For maximum performance/stability, I'd still recommend to use the ia64-specific patches, but for someone who needs to build bleeding edge kernels for multiple architectures, being able to use Linus' tree should make it a lot easier to include ia64 in their regular testing."

Linus has released a couple of 2.6.0-test kernels now... How many KernelTrap readers are actually using it? How stable has it been for you?

(BTW: The brief README-2.6 file is somewhat humorous...)