2.6.5

• Released April 4, 2004 [http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.5 changelog]

• Adaptative lazy readahead [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=87698a351b86822dabbd8c1a34c8a6d3e62e5a77 (commit)]

• CDROMREADAUDIO dma support: support DMA for extrating audio [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=6cea839a9cb769215c2a3cf2056ff1b09ea08378 (commit)]

• Netpoll infrastructure [http://lwn.net/Articles/75944 (LWN article)]

• New "kref" reference counting mechanism [http://lwn.net/Articles/75920 (LWN article)]

• AIO support for reiserfs [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=71b95e3ebaa658cdb361c78b613267776957995b (commit)]

• Read-only support for UFS2 [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=e935d5b963465e88c09896056578d8ece381dc9a (commit)]

• Display number of slab, mapped and pagetable pages in the sysrq-M output [http://kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/old-2.6-bkcvs.git;a=commit;h=53c3a164bde6946bb9ca65eb021b0cf96035b5d3 (commit)]