http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/1/16/416
It's out there now, or at least in the process of mirroring out.
About half of the bulk is a late MIPS merge (tssk, tssk, but I really couldn't make myself care too much), and there are a few odd new drivers there too. In fact, of the non-MIPS code, drivers is about half of the remaining one, and then firmware (which is really drivers too but shows up separately) is half of _that_ remaining half.
And there's the system call sign-extension for for the architectures that need it (ppc/64 and s390/64). The rest is really pretty small.
But despite being small, that's probably more important and noticeable to most people: the first slew of regression fixes. We had non-working 3D acceleration on many machines (no compiz! What shall we do without those wobbly windows!) that should be fixed, and a ton of other irritating issues like that.
The fixes are usually not all that big, but -rc1 really wasn't very good.Admittedly it wasn't really expected to, with the whole holidays thing.
So hopefully -rc2 is back to "normal -rc1 quality", and perhaps better.And since I'm leaving for LCA, it had better be better - I've done this release with the laptop I'm taking with me, just to check that I have all the pieces ready to fix up anything while at LCA, but I am not planning on being very active. And I know I'm not the only one there.
I'm not sure exactly what the limit for the kernel mailing list email size is, but I _think_ the shortlog should fit, at just over 32kB. It's short enough that people can read it an see what kind of silly small buglets got fixed, but I'll send it as a follow-up to this email in case it's big enough to trigger list limits for people.
Linus
