David Miller survived my 13-patch patch-bomb
This is good news, DaveM accepted all the 13 netfilter related patches that I had pending for 2.6.9. The patches included a number of optimizations, the ctstat, connection-based accounting, TCP window tracking, and some conversions to new in-kernel-API (seq_file, module_param).
Now let's hope that 2.6.8 will be released soon and we can start the 2.6.9 cycle...