> So if something they should be merged the last thing before the > final release, IMHO. ok, but one thing not to forget : they'll have to be merged on 2.4 and 2.6 (and perhaps 2.2) at the same time, to ease back-port of patches. Lots of typos are common between all three branches -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/