"So I tried to hold people to the merge window," Linus Torvalds began in announcing the 2.6.23-rc2 kernel, "and said no to a few pull requests, but this whole '-rc2 is the new -rc1' thing is a disease, and not only is -rc2 late, it's bigger than it should be. Oh, well." He noted that over 250 people contributed patches between -rc1 and -rc2, adding:

"A lot of the changes are small, and a lot of them really are fixes, but there's a MIPS merge in there too, and some absolutely _huge_ diffs due to some drivers undergoing Lindent cleanups (28 _thousand_ lines changes in advansys.c, and the PNP files got Lindented too, although those weren't nearly as big).

"But if you ignore the Lindent changes, the MIPS merge, the lguest documentation updates, and the MPT fusion driver changes, and the removal of the broken arm26 support, the rest of the changes really aren't that big."