Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.22-ac4

Kernel.org Mirrors

Trying to squash various little bugs. Again IDE changes, handle with care. Hopefully the ALi hang is now fixed.

Linux 2.4.22-ac4

• On a drive with LBA48 capability under LBA48 size with a controller that is LBA48 PIO only issue LBA28 DMA commands. (me)
• Switch to LBA28 commands on drives that are small enough when the hwif isnt fully LBA48 (me)
• Nvidia IDE updates (Allen Martin)
• ide-tape didnt initialize all needed fields (Stuart Hayes)
• ide-scsi had the same bug causing an oops in some situations (me)
• Better fix for the scsi_lib recount problem (Doug Ledford)
• Avoid pop noises on suspend/resume with WM9712 codecs (Liam Girdwood)
• Be smarter about bogus cdrom size info (Daniel Pittman)
• Fix IDE compilation on PPC (Paul Mackerras)
• When aacraid jams up use the eh handler to give it some breathing time to untangle itself (me)
• Fixes for K7 cpufreq problems
• Allow long recovery time for CD with ACPI as well as with APM
• Hopefully fix hotunplug disconnect (me)

Linux 2.4.22-ac3

• Small fixes for HPT372N IDE (Ronny Buchmann)
• Fix booting on boxes with default MP configs (Mikael Pettersson)
  Affected many older Pentium boards
• Make qd65xx select modes properly (Andries Brouwer)
• Add Netmos 6 way serial idents
• Fix a couple of DRI warnings (Mikael Pettersson)
• ACPI updates, fix VIA ACPI problem (Andrew da Quincy)
• Fix acpi=off oops (Bero Rosenkranzer)
• Add command remapping to ide-scsi tape (Stuart Hayes)
• Add lba48_pio handling (me)
  Large disks on controllers that can do PIO LBA48 or DMA LBA28 now switch to PIO for large disks, not fail
• Fix a detach handling bug in the ide hotswap (me)

Linux 2.4.22-ac2

• Taint on sii6512 module that someone (Arjan van de Ven) "accidentally" marked as GPL but is nonfree
• Fix incorrect bool v dep_bool in isdn config (Paolo Ornati)
• Correct ricoh mem0 definition (Komuro)
• Add module device tables to ide pci modules (Johannes Hazl)
• SATA driver core update (Jeff Garzik)
• Add VIA SATA driver (Jeff Garzik)
• Updated CMPCI driver (ChenLi Tien)
• Fix bridge forwarding with checksumming hw (Stephen Hemminger)
• Fix lots of vblank thinkos (Soreren Sandmann, Anders Carlsson)
• Fix docs typo (Dafydd Harries)
• Small HPT raid updates (Wilfried Weissmann)
• Add Intel ESB2 IDE (Bill Nottingham)
• Fix up LBA48 check for PDC20265 (Petr Vandrovec)
• Fix typo in amd76x IDE driver (Stéphane Loeuillet)
• Add VIA 8231 IRQ router entries (Sebastian Reichelt)
• Clean up dead compat warning stuff in isdn (Gerardo Pozzi)

Linux 2.4.22-ac1

• Resync with Marcelo
  
• ATM oops fix (Chas Williams)
• Trident audio clean up/fixes (Marc Boucher)
• SonyPI and MEye driver updates (Stelian Pop)
• Update ntfs warning fixes (Richard Russon)
• PCxx warning fix (R Krishnakumar)
• Fix amd76x crash case (Herbert Xu)
• Update kernel build maintainers (Arno Wagner)
• list_head_empty can use const (Inaky Perez-Gonzales)
• Update cpufreq (Dominik Brodowski)
• Fix wrong error paths in ymfpci (me)
• Fix gcc 3.x/DRM 4.0 warnings (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in cpqphp (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in act200l (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in nsp_cs (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in af_irda (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in ircomm (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in irlan (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in irlap (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in irlmp (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in irnet (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Fix gcc 3.x warnings in irda core (Gerardo Pozzi)
• Watchdog driver for ALi M6117 (Federico Bareilles)
• Fix opl3sa2 mixer ioctl copy/user handling (me)
  Found by Stanford checker
• Fix appletalk router dev copy/user handling (me)
  Found by Stanford checker

Linux 2.4.22-rc2-ac3

• Finish off the core IDE hotplug support (me)
  If your hardware supports it you can now hdparm -b0 /dev/hdc change drive hdparm -b1 /dev/hdc
• Fix problem with wan Config.in (Adrian Bunk)
• Fix NTFS warnings (Gerardo Exequiel Pozzi)
• Add a 3com ident to the tulip driver (Ion Badulescu)
• Clip drives when LBA48 isn't available (Jan Niehusmann, Andries Brouwer)
• Update megaraid2 driver (Atul Mukker, Haruo Tomita)
  Plus remove some escaped volatiles

Linux 2.4.22-rc2-ac2

• Add USB firmware download driver (Oliver Kurth, Joerg Albert, Alex)
  Mostly clean.
• Add USB atmel wireless driver (Oliver Kurth, Joerg Albert, Alex)
  Some cleanup still in progress
• Fix crash from rmmod of pcwd (me)
• Fix a case where ptrace could lose data on paging (Ingo Molnar)
• HPT366 may try to set too high a PIO mode (Andries Brouwer)
• Further hotplug work (me)
• Further updates to the sk98 driver (Mirko Linder)
• Fix a warning from proc_mkdir_mode (Tom Callaway)
• Add missing idents for a rocketport card (Matt C)
• Fix an error in the new IRQ router probe (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
• Fix SMP hang in the trident driver (Muli Ben Yehuda)
• Fix warning in xdr.c (Stephane Ouellette)
• Libata updates for SATA drivers (Jeff Garzik)
• Backport 2.6 CPU capabilities (Jeff Garzik, Mikael Pettersson)
• Fix error paths in AD1889 for leaks (Francois Romieu)
• Further cciss updates (Mike Miller)
• ServeRAID updates (Jack Hammer)
• Iptables updates (Harald Welte)
• TFTP nat update (Harald Welte)

Linux 2.4.22-rc2-ac1

• Add hwif->sata to fix cable issues with SI3112 (me)

Linux 2.4.22-rc1-ac1

• Fix steal_locks problems (Herbert Xu)
  Should have us back in LSB compliance etc
• Print X_DSDT not DSDT if only one is present (Alex Williamson)
• Fix an ultra-obscure journal leak in ext3 (Stepehn Tweedie)
• Add framework for IDE hotplug (me)
• Unshare the file handles for init before (me) exec
• XAPIC have 8bit fields, also at least one (Ernie Petrides) vendor seems to have 8bit write, 4bit read!
• Merge lots more help texts (Steven Cole)
• Fix missing brackets on ti pcmcia (Chip Salzenberg)
• hwif->hold IDE fix for mediabay (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
• ip2 warning fixes (Adrian Bunk)
• tipar warning fix (Adrian Bunk)
• amd76x_pm warning fix (Adrian Bunk)
• sbc watchdog warning fix (Adrian Bunk)
• tp600 warning fix (Adrian Bunk)
• firmware loader needs hotplug (Manuel Estrada Sainz)
• Fix pci consistent leak in i810_audio (Leann Ogasawara)

Linux 2.4.22-pre10-ac1

• Just tracking Marcelo - merge pre10
  - Remove bcm4400 now b44 is in
• Merge ALi5455 updates (Ni Wei)
• Merge Cmedia cmpci updates (C L Tien)
  Lots of updates but this should get all the newer hardware working
• Merge ATI Radeon IGP GART support
• Add VIA CLE266 to AGP tables (me)
• Update wolfson driver, move to miscdev (Liam Girdwood)
• NFS root fixes (Herbert Pötzl)
• CCISS maintainer change and shared IRQ fix (Mike Miller)
• PWC updates (Nemosoft)
• Merge requeest_firmware back port (Manuel Estrada Sainz)
• Fix hd only non modular build (Jerome Chantelauze)
• Remove bogus check in siimage (Kresimir Kukulj, me)
• Fix softdog non nowayout behaviour (me)
• VIA IDE timing check fix (Jiho)
• Fix UDMA66 on old pdc202xx with one drive (Jörgen Stohr)
• Tdfxfb big endian and memor sizing fixes (Richard Drummond)
• Initial SGI Altix IDE driver merge (Aniket Malatpure)
  Still scope for further work but this is self contained
• Further Configure.help updating (Steven Cole)
• Use isochronous not isosynchronous (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Fix tiny data leak in old stat (various)
• Add help for CONFIG_IEEE1394_OUI_DB (Adrian Bunk)
• Further SATA driver updates (Jeff Garzik)
• Ensure HAS_TSC is always set to Y or N (Jan-Benedict Glaw)
• Fix missing include for ppc32 (Olaf Herring)
• AMD7xx TCO driver update (Zwane Mwaikambo)
• Add more PCI router entries (Jeff Garzik)
• Fix cpia __FUNCTION__ warnings (Michael Buesch)
• Remove un-needed range checks in cpia (Michael Buesch)
• Update i810 watchdog to handle ICH5/ICH5R (Wim Van Sebroeck)
• Update promise Configure.help (Ruth Ivimey-Cook)
• Fix settrigger compliance with OSS API (Thomas Sailer)
• Fix syntax error in PPC64 config check (Alan Brady)
• Update required quota tools (Steven Cole)
• CPUfreq updates (Dominik Brodowski)

Linux 2.4.22-pre6-ac1

• Merge to Marcelo 2.4.22-pre6
  - Replaces the -ac O_DIRECT changes with Marcelo style
  - Quota is now as Christoph merged plus the autoload patch
• Fix the escaped xapic bits. I think we now have it right but acpi=off may be broken (me)
• Keyboard driver updates for stuck key fix (Chris Heath)
• Update scsi blacklists (Tom Coughlan)
• Update Maintainers (OGAWA Hirofumi)
• Fix usb scanner unplug oops (Sergey Vlasov)
• Fix netfilter circular dependancy (Sërgio Monteiro Basto)
• Fix a USB memory scribble (David Brownell)
• Configure.help updates (Steven Cole)
• Fix oom_kill rekilling bug (Marc-Christian Petersen)
• Fix cciss idents (Mike Miller)
• Fix 5 accidentally removed configure.help bits (Steven Cole)
• Fix highpoint crash case (Wilfried Weissmann)
• Add late registration of IDE driver hook/debug (me)
• Add Wolfson as maintainers for their codecs (Liam Girdwood)
• Fix ide-floppy double reporting (me)
• Further proc/ptrace/etc stuff (Solar Designer)
• The tty procfile can reveal keycounts make (Solar Designer) it root only
• Add missing -EFAULT checks for sysctl (Solar Designer)
• ia32 on ia64 size check (Solar Designer)

Linux 2.4.22-pre3-ac1

• Resync with Marcelo makes it a lot smaller
• Fix k7 powernow (Duncot Bruno)
• Update DRM driver maintainer inf
• (Rik Faith)
• Export acpi_disabled for drivers (Stelian Pop)
• Fix duplicate cpu_has (Mikael Pettersson)
• Fix x86_64 show_regs (Mikael Pettersson)
• Fix yenta hang with PCI serial int (Russell King)
• Fix warning in bootsect.S with newer cpp (Michael Buesch)
• Fix scsi debug mode10 bug (Jeff Garzik)
• Fix vicam build with older gcc (Margit Schubert-White)
• Fix sbni build with newer gcc (Margit Schubert-White)
• Fix isdn_ppp warnings with newer gcc (Michael Buesch)
• Fix nsp scsi warnings (Michael Buesch)
• Fix warning in fs/buffer.c (Michael Buesch)
• Fix warning in svcsock.c (Michael Buesch)
• Quota autoloading (Jan Kara)
• Read lapic version correctly (Venkatesh Pallipadi)
• Add S/390 qeth driver core (Utz Bacher, Cornelia Huck, Frank Pavlic, Andreas Hermann)
• Add S/390 qdio driver core (Utz Bacher)
• Fix negative numbers in Configure (Mikael Starvik)
• Add missing configuration help texts (Steven Cole)
• Fix cs46xx/i810 audio crash on unload (Josko Plazonic)
• Fix bcm4400 with newer binutils (Adrian Bunk)
• Update ata-scsi driver (Jeff Garzik)
• Add Intellinet USB2 ethernet idents (David Hollis)
• Fix & bracketing in mm/filemap.c (J A Magallon, me)
• Remove duplicate config.in entries (Steven Cole)
• Fix codec register before probe case (me)
• Wolfson AC97 touchscreen driver (Liam Girdwood)
  Needs an official device id yet...
• Intelfb updates (David Dawes)
• Intelfb makefile fix (me)
• Scsi scan race fix (T Prashanth)
• Make acpi handle hardware with no smm cmd port (Jesse Barnes)

Linux 2.4.21-ac4

• Fix the postfix problem (Stephen Tweedie)
• Put in the not so nice ide scsi crash fix (me)
  This fixes the first 99% of the problem so its a definite improvement for now
• Fix exec file handling semantics (me)
  Noted by Paul Starzetz
• Export mmu cr4 flag data for direct render (Ian Romanick)
• Resync various bits of missing docs (Steven Cole)
• Implement 2.5 like block exclusive for CD in 2.4 (some burner like tools want it) (Arjan van de Ven)
• Fix nVidia AGP (Marcelo Penna Guerra)
• JFS full file system fix (Dave Kleikamp)
• Add arch specific code for SH-64 processor (Paul Mundt)
• Handle scsi_unregister fail in gdth driver (Michael Still)
• Fix clock reporting printks for siimage (Pablo Martikian)

Linux 2.4.21-ac3

• Fix an hpt driver bug triggered by the new HPT (me) BIOS
• Initial VIA and S3 DRM modules merges (VIA)
  These are marked up with some warnings and need a chunk of clean up work yet.
• btaudio update (Gerd Knorr)
• Backport 2.5 ipc/sem.c fix (Manfred Spraul)
• Fix scsi_register failure path for aacraid (Michael Still)
• First crack at fixing the ide reset oopses (me)
• Fix the incompatibility between via audio and esd/gnome desktops (me)

Linux 2.4.21-ac2

• Fix an HPT37x oops case with 374 and non 33Mhz clock (me)
• Fix some emu10k1 oopses from the ac97 updates (me)
• Fix AF_UNIX dgram select problem (Krzysztof Halasa)
• Fix Make xconfig problem (Edward Macfarlane Smith)
• Add another new eepro100 ident to eepro100.c (Tom Alsberg)
• Fix aacraid new volume crash (me)
• Fix math-emu build with gcc 3.3 hopefully (me)
• Fix wrong comparisons on some sound drivers for codec detect (Adrian Bunk)
• Fix problem with eexpress driver (Shane Shrybman)
• Remove LNZ reference from Configure.help (Matthias Andree)
• Add support for Cirrus PCI/PCMCIA (Komuro)
• Allow both Cirrus and 82092 to exist together (me)
• Fix a remove race in the 82092 driver (me)
• Fix dnotify bug with read/writev (Zou Pengcheng)
• SiS IDE update (Lionel Bouton)
• Add PCMCIA bus ident to ethtool for pcmcia devices (Bill Nottingham)
• Backport 2.5 updates to overcommit interface (Rik van Riel)
• Synclink driver updates (Paul Fulghum)
• Fix z85230 losing frames by waking the queue too early (Stefan Tamas)
• O_DIRECT race fixes (Stephen Tweedie)
  Tweaked a little to merge with XFS. XFS folks should double check these.
• Allow use of db4 to build aicasm (J A Magallon)
• Revert problematic scsi change (fixes ppa/imm) (ChrisW)
• Further highpoint raid updates (Wilfried Weissmann)
• Fix data direction for start stop scsi command (Heiko Carstens)
• Fix a module loader memory leak (Keith Owens)
• Fix multiple ircomm bugs (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Fix irda qos handling, add tx_window setting (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Correct race in IrLMP (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Fix an RR/Poll handling error in irlap (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Update irda-usb driver (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Fix IrIAP leak (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Mask C/R bit in irlap connection address (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Fix some non modular build errors (Jean Tourrilhes)
• Remove duplicated junk from dasd_fba (Rik van Riel)
• Fix mac8390 typ
• (Etsushi Kato)
• Fix m68k floppy warnings (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Fix apollo compile (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Update mac sonic driver (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Fix atari pamsnet driver (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Fix mac68k keyboard warning (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Fbcon fixes (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• M68K page handling fixes (Roman Zippel)
• Use ptrace_check_attach on m68k (Andreas Schwab)
• Remove m68k phys/virt fallback (Roman Zippel)
• Fix lmc build on some platforms (Geert Uytterhoeven)
• Update meye driver (Stelian Pop)
• Update sonypi driver (Stelian Pop)
• Fix a couple of glitches in the added 1210SA support for siimage (Hugo Mills)
• Fix llc802.2 leak case (Oleg Drokin)
• Add more unexpected apic filtering (Randy Dunlap)
• Fix a case where hid rejected some UPS devices (Vojtech Pavlik)
• Fix via audio crash on setup (me)

Linux 2.4.21-ac1

• Further ehci fixes and updates (David Brownell)
• CPUfreq updates (Dominik Brodowski)
• Updated DMI blacklists and facility to disable APM idling (Arjan van de Ven)
• Allow an NFS to specify if d_revalidate is a stale handle event or not (Trond Myklebust)
  Should fix CODA and VFAT problems
• Ignore residue on autosense commands in sym53c8xx_2 (Tony Battersby)
• SiS frame buffer updates (Tomas Winischhofer)
• Add Xyratex to scsi list of large/sparse lun (David Lethe)
• MPT fusion driver updates (Pam Delaney)
• Hopefully fix the Promise SX6000 clash with PDC202xxx IDE drivers when using 20277. (me)
• Add a framework for plug in ac97 drivers (me)
• Fix IRQ handling in speedstep-ich (Samuel Thibault)
• Redo the AC97 codec plugin interface (me)

• Sync with Marcelo 2.4.21rc8
• Fix megaraid tools breakage due to bad fix
• Add support for Dell XP 4100CX SCSI (Gregg Lebovitz)
  Possibly a contender for the longest delay in patch application ever (2.5 years)
• Fix force_ac97 printk in nm256 driver (Douglas Kilpatrick)
• Fix plip hang on ifdown/ifup (Stas Sergeev)
• Two more minor siimage updates (me)
• Handle PDC20275 on Promise SX6000 (me)
• Fix erroneous licensing clash (Kurt Robideau)
• DSCC driver updates/reset handling (Francois Romieu)
• Add initial support for Adaptec/SII 1210SA (Hugo Mills, me)
  Tidied up Hugo's changes so we can cleanly add more idents later
• Fix missing hid include (Pete Zaitcev)
• Driver for AX8817x based USB ethernet (Tivo, Dave Hollis)
  Original driver by Tivo, cleanup by Dave Hollis Supports Linksys USB200M, Netgear FA120, Dlink DUB-E100, Hawking UF200
• Remove bogus printk in AWE driver (me)
• Fix init of mp_bus_id table (Herbert Xu)
• Fix double iounmap on octagon probe fail (Francois Romieu)
• Fix several floppy driver SMP races (Jens Axboe)
• Fix a shmem deadlock (Andrea Arcangeli)
• Fix ST16654 uart overrun (Ed Vance, William King)

Linux 2.4.21rc7-ac1

• Sync with Marcelo 2.4.21rc7
• PC300 updates (Henrique Gobbi, Nigel Metheringhma)
• Fix ide-proc crash with no drivers loaded (Herbert Xu)
• Fix pc300 build with new binutils (Adrian Bunk)
• Minor | to || in fpu emulator (Margit Schubert-While)
• Fix remaining CRC32 build problem with luck (David Woodhouse)
• Use pentium3/4 targets with newer gcc (Margit Schubert-While)
• Remove DRM id string stuff as in 2.5 (Margit Schubert-While)
• Merge radeonfb updates for newer radeon (Margit Schubert-While)
• Add nokia 5510 to usb-storage (Markus Gaugusch)
• Merge hfsplus file system (Roman Zippel, Brad Boyer, ...)
• Fix ac97 build on SMP (Adrian Bunk)
• Fix pcnet32 unload crash with multiple cards (Matt Wilson)
• Make it clear AMD IDE covers Nvidia (Paolo Ornati)

Linux 2.4.21rc6-ac2

• Add framework for pci_device_restart error (me) recovery
• Smarter vesafb ram handling for double buffering (Thomas Backlund)
• Fix vesafb docs (Thomas Backlund)
• Fix ppp_generic error path leak (Patrick McHardy)
• Add VIA P4M266 AGP1x/2x/4x support (Nimrod A Abing)
• Allow vga16 frame buffer on IA64 (Jeremy Katz)
• Fix & v && in sysrq.c (Margit Schubert-While)
• Remove various bits of old # if 0 in pdc202xx (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger me)
• Further hacking on the SI680 driver (me)
• Add the Toshiba Piccolo IDE (me)
• Update ac97 layer so that it has alloc/release (me)
• Make the drivers use the ac97 changes (me)
• Fix up drivers not doing ac97 locking (me)
• Fix memory leak in forte ac97 handling (me)
• Always tune DMA on the SI680 as the BIOS firmware doesn't. (me)

Linux 2.4.21rc6-ac1

• Merge with Marcelo 2.4.21-rc6
• Finish off the codec->digital operations (me)
• Move i810 code into generic digital ops (me)
• Make i810_audio use ac97_codec ops properly (me)
• Add per card quirk handling to aacraid (me)
• Resolve pipe writing to r/o file systems (Stephen Tweedie)
• Add missing hidden device check (Mark Salyzyn)
• SG fixes (Douglas Gilbert)
• Update ACPI to next Intel release (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
• Fix pcibios code on SH3 for core changes (Paul Mundt)
• Resync tlan with Jeff (Jeff Garzik)
• Fix solutionengine build (Paul Mundt)
• SH build issues fixes (Paul Mundt)
• First cut at making modular IDE happy again (me)

Linux 2.4.21rc5-ac2

• Backport tlan update and add 64bit support (me)
• Make SiS APIC work (me)
• Fix incorrect strncmp in sclp driver (Pete Zaitcev)
• Fix further cmpci copy/user bugs (Hollis Blanchard)
• Update ACPI to newer intel base code (Bero Rosenkraenzer)
• Fix a bogus ; in the ACPI code (Pavel Machek)
• IDE I/O and DMA state machine fixes (Alexander Atanasov)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of ma600 (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)

Linux 2.4.21rc5-ac1

• Resync with Marcelo 2.4.21-rc5
• IBM S/390 architecture bug fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• IBM S/390 DASD driver fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• IBM S/390 sclp fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• IBM tape fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• AGPgart support for SiS651 (Thomas Winischhofer)
• Fix emulation bug in the mips utsname handling (Ben Collins)
• Fix module list race (Keith Owens)
• Fixes to CRC32 library and optimisations (David Woodhouse, Joakim Tjernlund)
• I/O pause waitqueue fix (Jens Axboe)
• Fix typo in ide Config.in (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
• Fix ac97 to init volume mute bit on volume control lacking codecs (me)
• Correct vm86 virtualisation of pushf iopl (Stas Sergeev)
  Fixes some problems with dos4gw
• Nvidia AGP support (someone in Nvidia)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of sdla_chdlc (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of olympic (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of DECnet (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of cs46xx (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Report -EFAULT back on /proc/misc (Daniele Bellucci)
• Merge S/390 ctrlchar handler fix (Pete Zaitcev)
• Add oneshot support to UHCI USB as well (Pete Zaitcev)
• Fix type errors in kcopy irq save (Guy Streeter)
• Major merge of aacraid updates (Mark Salyzn, Deanna Bonds)
  64bit stuff, raid mode, SATA, other new idents
• Rewrite the aacraid link list code to be 64bit safe (me)
  This aacraid is likely to need a bit more debugging yet and also there is work to do on error recovery handling
• Fix CRC library problem with ksyms (me)

Linux 2.4.21rc4-ac1

• Resync with Marcelo 2.4.21rc4
• Allow setuid core dumps by a sysctl (me)
  First test release. Note that you probably want to set the core dumping path to somewhere like /cores/ via sysctl when using this feature. Setuid cores are made root only and owner rw only.

Linux 2.4.21rc2-ac3

• Possible fix for IDE lost IRQ problem (Alexander Atanasov)
• Add VIA KL/KM266 AGP (Dietrich Radel)
• Handle older Compaq ACPI * prefix to HID (Andrew Grover)
• Add mmio==2 support to the ide-dma layer (me)
• Clean up and document the CMD680 driver (me)
• Fix the CMD680 resource handling bugs (me)
• VIA 8327 IDE support (Vojtech Pavlik)
• Update SiS IDE for 655/630SET and oddments (Lionel Bouton)
• Fix missing exports for modular XFS (Bero Rosenkraenzer)
• Update worst case quota block count for ext3 (Jan Kara)
• Add CRC32 libraries backport (David Woodhouse, Duncan Sands)
• HDLC doc fixes (Krzysztof Halasa)
• Use tail -n for the posixly afflicted (Olaf Hering)
• Fix wrong use of strstr in reiserfs (Sam Ravnborg)
• Correct AMD enable bits (Vojtech Pavlik)
  Should fix IDE boot timeout when probing empty AMD device slots
• Fix netlink compile with gcc 3.3 (Andrew Church)
• Frame buffer is in bits so fix vesafb (Adam Mercer)
• Make ksoftirqd cpuid match 2.5 (and allow for 100 cpus without overflow..) (Martin Hicks)
• Fix a pcmcia without ISA crash (Pavel Roskin)
• Fix cs89x0 set_mac_address handling (Stefano Fedrigo)
• Update the ide tags I forgot to do before (me)
• Fix a delayed block/xfs problem from a missed merge (Christoph Hellwig)

REMOVED FOR NOW

• RMAP

REMOVED FOR GOOD

• LLC (See 2.5)
• VaryIO (Never accepted mainstream)

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