An early sampling of response showed that many members, were, in fact, willing to contribute to the cause. Input can stil be sent, as this release is expected to be held until the very end of the year. A small sampling of initial responses to his note showed the following fixes and recommendations:

Adrian Bunk:
[SPARC]: Fix RTC build failure.
include/linux/irq.h: #include <linux/smp.h>
[SUNGEM]: Fix link error with CONFIG_HOTPLUG disabled.
[SPARC]: introduce a SPARC Kconfig symbol
Alan Stern:
usbcore: allow suspend/resume even if drivers don't support it

Alex Williamson:
[ACPI] increase owner_id limit to 64 from 32

Andi Kleen:
Fix swiotlb pci_map_sg error handling
Fix build with CONFIG_PCI_MMCONFIG

Andreas Gruenbacher:
nfsd: check for read-only exports before setting acls

Bart De Schuymer:
[BRIDGE-NF]: Fix bridge-nf ipv6 length check

Ben Collins:
block: Cleanup CDROMEJECT ioctl
Fix typo in x86_64 __build_write_lock_const assembly

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
powerpc: g5 thermal overtemp bug

David S. Miller:
[IPSEC]: Perform SA switchover immediately.
[SPARC64]: Stop putting -finline-limit=XXX into CFLAGS
[IPSEC]: Fix policy updates missed by sockets
[SPARC]: Kill CHILD_MAX.
[VIDEO] sbuslib: Disallow private mmaps.

Hiroyuki YAMAMORI:
[IPV6]: Fix Temporary Address Generation

Ian McDonald:
[DCCP]: Comment typo

Jean Delvare:
V4L/DVB (3188): Fix compilation failure with gcc 2.95.3.

Knut Petersen:
Fix framebuffer console upside-down ywrap scrolling