Kernel prepatch 3.18-rc1
In a relatively predictable move, Linus has released 3.18-rc1 and closed the 3.18 merge window
sooner than expected. He has, however, said that he will be more than
usually open to post-rc1 pull requests from people who "grovel a
bit." "There is also at least one pull request that I am
hoping to get asap and planning on still pulling, ie I'm very much still
hoping to get overlayfs finally merged." In the end, 9,711
non-merge changesets found their way into the mainline repository during
this merge window.