On Tue, 2004-10-05 at 16:19 +0200, Kyrre Ness Sjobak wrote: > When is 2.6.9 due to be ready? > The standard answer for any question like this: When it's ready. Linus will release it when he feels it is ready to be released. On the other hand, the fix for the via-velocity problem is probably already in the rawhide kernels: [dhollis@dhollis-lnx ~]$ rpm -q --changelog kernel-2.6.8-1.590 | more * Tue Sep 28 2004 Jeremy Katz <katzj@xxxxxxxxxx> - add patch from Roland McGrath/James Morris to fix mprotect hook bug (#133505) * Mon Sep 20 2004 Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@xxxxxxxxxx> - 2.6.9-rc2-bk5 -- David Hollis <dhollis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>