Linux Today: Linux News On Internet Time.
Search Linux Today
Linux News Sections:  Developer -  High Performance -  Infrastructure -  IT Management -  Security -  Storage -
Linux Today Navigation
LT Home
Contribute
Contribute
Link to Us
Linux Jobs

Partner Sites
JustLinux.com
Linux Planet
PHPBuilder
Technology Jobs

Top White Papers

More on LinuxToday


Linux 2.2.15pre3 released

Jan 18, 2000, 04:39 (0 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Alan Cox)

Some driver updates, further bug fixing. I plan to do just bug fixing from now on, or very small driver changes. The other driver stuff will get held over (eg parallel port CPIA camera driver). Give this a good hard beating the focus is entirely on bug zapping for a 2.2.15.

2.2.15pre3

Fix Sangoma stuff if compiled into kernel (Mario Lorenz)
Fix smbfs for sparc64 (Dave Miller)
Specialix Rio drivers (Specialix, Rogier Wolff)
Elf extra sanity checks from code audit (Solar Designer)
Megaraid update to 1.07 (Dell/AMI)
Fix hang on boot with I2O configured megaraid (me)
Fix small bug in the socket filter code (??)
QNX file system updates (Anders Larsen)
Intel 82559ER support in eepro100 driver (Cobalt)
Workaround for 16C750 emulation bug (Cobalt)
Show "preN" in make menuconfig (Alan Ford)
Adaptec 29xx driver updates (Doug Ledford)
Handle cross CPU TSC differences (Ingo Molnar)
Update IRDA to match the 2.3.x codebase (Dag Brattli)

2.2.15pre2

Fix RTC build problem with Nautilus (Michal Jaegermann)
Quieten NFS debugging messages (me)
Fix bug in connect/listen handling in TCP (Dave Miller)
Fix missing $(CC) cases (Pascal DuPuis)
Fix SMP tcp hang (Andrea Arcangeli)
Hopefully fixed PLIP (me)
Fix sigtimedwait bug (Christophe Blaess)
Updated epic100 driver (Donald Becker)
  • If it works cool, if not we back it off
Sparc updates (Dave Miller)
  • Fixes bugs with >258Mb on sun4d/sun4m
  • si_addr is set in siginfo
  • Fix signal type for FP/div events
  • DP division FPU emulation fixes
  • Fix sparc64 parport locking keyboard
  • ESP can be built as a module
Network fix kit (Dave Miller and co)
  • Nagle improvements, TCP_CORK/FIN fix
  • /proc/net/tcp reports type 4 for timer
  • Fix TIME_WAIT logic
  • Clean up timer performance
  • Handle shutdown() in CLOSE_WAIT right
  • Report state change on tcp_fin after setting
  • new state
  • Shutdown on close in write_err case (Paul Russell)

2.2.15pre1

Handle crossing X25 restart confirmations (Guntram Blohm)
Large direct block I/O with small readahead could fail (Mikulas Patocka)
Remove duplicate asm op (Chris Noe)
IUCV Update for S/390 (Martin Schwidefsky)
Fixes to allow Linux/390 to run on P/390 (Martin Schwidefsky)
Some PPC configs didnt compile (W Lewis)
Maybe fix TCP delack hang (Andrea Arcangeli)
Missing task state change (Natapov Gleb)
Fix 82596 false probes (Richard Hirst)
Fix typo in ixj driver (Tim Waugh)
Add AOpen PD-2 DVD to ghost list (Rogier Wolff)
Masquerading site has moved (Hugh Redelmeier)
Fix FAT bug (Pavel Pisa)
Small NFS fixes (HJ Lu)
Update ES1370 to handle rev7 chips (Tom Sailer)
Use amateur radio drivers on Sparc (Tom Sailer)
SCSI generic documentation updates (Douglas Gilbert)
Fix clearing of NT in head.S (Willy Tareau)
Add winchip2 MTRR support (Bart Hartgers)
CREDITS entry for Victor 'RTLinux' Yodaiken (Victor Yodaiken)
Zoltan Boszormenyi has changed address (Zoltan Boszormenyi)
eepro100 updates (Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich)
Update Davicom driver (Davicom)