== Patch Review ==
* Orion/Kirkwood/etc mbus data rework in preparation for DT support from Andrew Lunn.
* Kirkwood GPIO implementation using atomic set/clear_bit from Holger Brunck. Patch NAKed.
* Generic instruction opcode manipulation helpers from Dave Martin.
* Fix for kernel boot failure on NSLU2 from Arnaud Patard.
* Optimization for process_sdio_pending_irq from Sangwook Lee. I asked for further justification as the optimization may not be so.
* Allow sched_clock to be selected at runtime from Marc Zyngier.
* More assorted small patches from random people.
== Upstream Contributions ==
* Rework the early boot code register assignment to facilitate debugging. Posted for comments. Need to be updated after other patches touching the same area were merged in RMK's tree.
* Resumed work on the arch_idle() removal patch series.
== Linaro Kernel Maintenance ==
* None.
== Miscellaneous ==
* Discussion about removal of NO_IRQ on ARM.
* Helped Daniel Lezcano with regressions on ux500 from my vmalloc series.
* Looked at alleged problems with the dynamic phys-virt patching code, reported by Michael Walle.
== Vacations ==
* Away from December 23rd, back on January 3rd.