Linux kernel 2.2.16pre7 released
May 31, 2000, 18:56 (0 Talkback[s])
Date: Wed, 31 May 2000 13:36:19 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.2.16pre7
Ok this is the target for the 2.2.16 final release. If its got problems now
would be a good time to find them. There should be nothing that works
worse than 2.2.15, and hopefully a lot that works rather better.
The trident driver backport and other new driver stuff will wait for 2.2.17
Alan
2.2.16pre7
o Fix masq_mod compile breakage (me)
o readv/writev didnt error oversized (Chris Evans, Dave Miller)
requests properly.
o Report SMBUS nicely in pci (Chip Salzenberg)
o Acenic 0.44 (Jes Sorensen)
o Fixes for Acenic 0.44 + dhcp (Chip Salzenberg)
o Add DHCP to the ip autoconfig stuff (Chip Salzenberg)
| Yes this all belongs in user space. No not for 2.2/4
| Someones 2.5 mission is to get rarp/bootp/dhcp all working via
| initrd!
o EEpro100 driver v1.20.2.4 (Andrey Savochkin)
o Fix cmpci compile problem (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix i810 audio compile problem (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix build problem with no TCP/IP (Arjan van de Ven)
2.2.16pre6
o VM fixes (Rik van Riel)
o TCP and other net fixes (Dave Miller)
o Identify Intel cascade cpus (Dragan Stancevic)
o Sparc and sparc driver cleanness fixes (Dave Miller)
o Kill unused slhc_init stuff (Paul Gortmaker)
o Backport modprobe fixes from 2.3.x (Keith Owens)
o cmpci fixes (midi out, spdif) (Daisuke Nagano)
o Legacy mode Yamaha PCI audio driver (Daisuke Nagano)
o French translation has moved (Pierre Tane)
o Fix memory scribble in ip_masq (Andi Kleen)
o Mention iso8859-14 in docs (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix string handling in xconfig (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Updated 3c59x driver (Andrew Morton)
o Fix make xconfig and old tk (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Olympic driver fixes for PPC (Mike Phillips)
o Bring capabilities closer to POSIX spec (Andrew Morgan)
| Note. This subtly changes cap_bset behaviour
2.2.16pre5
o Work around the cmpci DMA buf bug (me)
o Fix a couple of headers (Andrew Morgan)
o 2.2 backport of Jeff's via audio code (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix the infamous 8K 3c590 stall bug (Anders Pedersen, Don Becker)
| Yay and it only took 3 years to find ;)
o ATAPI probe fix (Geert Van der Plas)
o Fix n_tty.c invalid copyuser (Andrew Morton)
o NLS init cleanups/config docs (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o EEpro support for old ISA cards (Aristeu Filho)
o Export disk_name for other users (me)
o Add blkdev.h to sparc64 ioctl32 (Fredrick Koehler)
o Handle thinkpad APM bios bugs (Stephen Rothwell
under threat from Rusty ;))
o FPU, CTC and other bug fixes for S/390 (IBM)
o Fix signal alt stack on exec (Bruno Haible)
o SCSI generic update (Doug Gilbert)
| Roman your sg race patch clashed - can you sort with Doug
o Add TIMEDIA cards to parport (Tim Waugh)
2.2.16pre4
o Computone driver update (Doug McNash)
o MPP fixes for ISDN (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix gcc 2.7.2 compile problem (Jarno Paananen)
o Packet Engines GNIC-II driver (Don Becker, Keith Underwood)
o Fix disk stats for Compaq Smart2 (Rolf Fokkens)
o Fix missing brace on ppc (Andreas Tobler)
o Riscom/N2, Moxa C101, SBE WanXL drivers (Krzysztof Halasa)
o RCC became Serverworks (Matt Domsch)
o Fix 3c515/59x halt on 2^32 packets (Andrew Morton)
o PSS driver update (Anthony Barbachan)
o NFS inode/shrink dcache race fix (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix access_ok when len is a short (Thomas Sailer)
o Support syncppp/hdlc on Synclink card (Paul Fulgham)
o Fix 3c59x reporting of new cards (I Lee Hetherington)
o XConfig enhancements (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Increase timeouts on girbil (Michael McConnell)
o Configurable ramdisk size (also tides (Alex Beregszaszi, me)
away an S/390 ifdef)
2.2.16pre3
o Fix stupid SMP bug in the i810 audio (me)
|And yes I can call it stupid, its my
|bug !!
o Cyclades Update (Ivan Passos)
o Autoload paride protocol (Tim Waugh)
o Upgrade IBM ServeRAID to 4.0 (IBM)
o Back out ARM fix (Russell King)
o AF_UNIX peer credentials on socketpair (Malcolm Beattie)
o Use all onboard memory patch for IBM tr (Mike Phillips)
o Handle WPI CDS-32X (Jens Axboe)
o Fix CD-ROM ioctls (Jens Axboe)
o Add AFVALAB and TIMEDIA parallel ports (Tim Waugh)
o Switch to 2.3.x format for invalid
EIP/ESP reports (Keith Owens)
o Add v1.20 to seagate bios matches (Matthias Heidbrink)
o Fix initio scsi shared irq free (Thomas Graichen)
o Possible sign mishandling issues fixed (Solar Designer)
o EEPro 10 ISA support (Aristeu Filho)
o Update megaraid firmware URL (Dell)
o Export inet as well as net notifier (Pekka Riikonen)
o Fix smc 9194 memory handling bug (Heiko Pruessing)
o Export init_mm for Alpha (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Avoid scheduling while waiting for someone
else to send an IPI (alpha) (Andrea Arcangeli)
o move ll_rw_blk data into BSS (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Elevator starvation fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Safer IRQ probe (Andrea Arcangeli)
o refill deadlock fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix set_blocksize (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Stop deadlock if timer reinserts itself
too fast (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix swap_blockmap deadlock (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Change syncppp API to match 2.3.x and (Ivan Passos)
remove some limits
o Bring S/390 port into line with latest
IBM patch set (IBM)
o Fix HDLC driver bits (Paul Fulghum)
2.2.16pre2
o IRDA updates (Dag Brattli)
o I2O fixes for bugs found in Intel tests (Boji Tony Kannanthanam)
o SunRPC security fix (Chris Evans)
o Fix memory handling bug in console (Russell King)
o 3c59x cleanups/fixes/etc (Andrew Morton)
o DVD ioctls (Jens Axboe)
o Fix dcache typo (Nimrod Zimmerman)
o Linux gcc checks assumed no gcc 3.x (Graham Stoney)
o CPIA update (Peter Pregler)
o Add another AHA152x signature (Jarl Friis)
o SBC-60xx watchdog (Jakob Oestergaard)
o Fix 4096 byte block scsi diskd evices (sara@procsys.com, me)
o Fix dumb IPX arcnet/ethernet routing bug(Alexandr S. Agranovsky)
o Remove bogus dmfe warnings (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix problem with i810 driver and
dumber codecs (me)
o Geometry fix for misjumpered disks (Andries Brouwer)
o Further procfs fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Small ext2 fix (Stephen Tweedie)
o Quota oops fix (Andi Kleen)
o Fix debug spinlocks and !SMP (Alan Modra)
o Fix appletalk device locking bug (Avery Pennarun)
2.2.16pre1
o Intel 810 audio driver (lots of people)
o EEpro100 updates (Andrey Savochkin)
o S390 ksyms fixes (Dougie Lawson)
o Procfs fixes (H J Lu)
o MDA console driver fixes (Edward Betts)
o Kernel doc pointer updates (Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche)
o 16bit code page translation support ('Cosmos')
o Remove 4.3GHz CPU speed limit (Wayne Scott)
o Handle mouse reconnect event (Brent Verner)
o make Xconfig update (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Remove key repeats from random input (Kevin Buhr)
o Fix maestro unload on irq failure (Willy Tarreau)
o Fix a fencepost error in fatfs (Dan Yefimov)
o Switch 8259 handling to match spec (Manfred Spraul)
o Autodetect unscaled M/O partitions
and read them anyway (Gregory Hosler)
o Add XEN-II support to Apricot.c (Richard Hirst)
o SMBfs updates (Andrew Tridgell)
o I2O updates (Boji Tony Kannanthanam)
o W6692 isdn fixes (ISDN cvs)
