From: Alan Cox
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac4
Date: 14 Feb 2002 16:12:06 -0500
[+ indicates stuff that went to Marcelo, o stuff that has not,
* indicates stuff that is merged in mainstream now, X stuff that proved
bad and was dropped out]
*
* If you have SIS IDE hardware please handle this kernel with care
* and report success/failures to Lionel.
*
Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac4
o SIS IDE driver update (handle with care) (Lionel Bouton)
o First set of I2O endian cleanups (me)
o Make i2o_pci.c 64bit/BE clean (me)
o Maybe fix crash on i2o scsi abort/reset paths (me)
o Make i2o use the passed scsi direction flag (me)
o Fix awk failure path in menuconfig (Andrew Church)
o Merge varies doc updates (Steven Cole)
o Add serial support for the Lava Octopus-550 (Jim Treadway)
o OPL3SA2 cleanup (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Add missing blkdev_varyio export (Todd Roy)
o Update Changes file, config and experimental (Niels Jensen)
checks
o Fix highmem warning in aacraid (Andrew Morton)
o Make tpqic02 use new style request region (Marcus Alanen)
o Only turn off mediagx/geode TSC on 5510/5520 (me)
| From information provided by Hiroshi MIURA
o Massively clean up the AGP enable and bugfix it (Bjorn Helgaas)
o Fix oops if you try to use the RW wq locks (Bob Miller)
o Remove FPU usage in neomagic fb (Denis Kropp)
o Merge IBM JFS (Steve Best, Dave Kleikamp,
Barry Arndt, Christoph Hellwig, ..)
o Updated sis frame buffer driver (Thomas Winischhofer)
Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac3
o Clean up various macros and misuse of ; (Timothy Ball)
+ Correct procfs locking fixup (Al Viro)
o Speed up ext2/ext3 synchronous mounts (Andrew Morton)
o Update IDE DMA blacklist (Jonathan Kamens)
o Update to XFree86 DRM 4.2 (compatible to 4.1) (Rik Faith,
and adds I830 DRM Jeff Hartmann,
Keith Whitwell,
Abraham vd Merwe
and others)
o IBM Lanstreamer updates (Mike Phillips)
o Fix acct rlimit problem (I hope) (me)
| Problem noted by Ian Allen
o Automatically set file limits based on mem size (Andi Kleen)
o Correct scsi reservation conflict handling (James Bottomley)
and add the scsi reset api code
o Add further kernel docs (me)
o Merge to rmap-12e (Rik van Riel and co)
|merge patch from Nick Orlov
o Small fix to the eata driver update (Dario Ballabio)
Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac2
o Nat Semi now use their own ident on the Geode (Hiroshi Miura)
o/+ Put #error in two files that need FPU fixups (me)
o Correct a specific mmap return to match posix (Christopher Yeoh)
+ Add Eepro100/VE ident (Hanno Boeck)
o Add provides for DRM to the kernel make rpm (Alexander Hoogerhuis)
+ Fix a problem where vm86 irq releasing could be (Stas Sergeev)
missed
o EATA and U14/34F driver updates (Dario Ballabio)
o Handle EMC storage arrays that report SCSI-2 (Kurt Garloff)
but want REPORT_LUNs
o Update README, defconfig, remove autogen files (Niels Jensen)
o Add AFAVLAB PCI serial support (Harald Welte)
+ Fix incorrect resource free in eexpress (Gianluca Anzolin)
o Variable size rawio optimisations (Badari Pulavarty)
+ Add AT's compatible 8139 cardbus chip (Go Taniguchi)
o Fix crash with newest hpt ide chips (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix tiny SMP race in pid selection (Erik Hendriks)
o Hopefully fix pnpbios crash caused by early (me)
kernel_thread creation
Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac1
o Initial merge of DVD card driver (Christian Wolff,Marcus Metzler)
| This is just an initial testing piece. DVB needs merging
| properly and this is only a first bit of testing
o Random number generator support for AMD768 (me)
o Add AMD768 to i810 driver pci ident list (me)
o Initial AMD768 power management work (me)
| Unfinished pending some docs clarifications
o Fix bugbuf mishandling for modular es1370 (me)
+ Fix up i2o readl abuse, post_wait race, and (me, Arjan van de Ven)
some deadlock cases
+ Added cpu_relax to yam driver (me)
+ Fixup AMD762 if the BIOS apparently got it wrong(me)
(eg ASUS boards)
+ MP1.4 alignment fixup
o pcwd cleanup, backport of fixes from 2.5 (Rob Radez)
o Add support for more Moxa cards to mxser (Damian Wrobel)
o/+ Add remaining missing MODULE_LICENSE tags (Hubert Mantel)
o Fix floppy reservation ranges (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Fix max file size setup (Andi Kleen)
Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac3
o Fix a wrong error return in the megaraid driver (Arjan van de Ven)
* FreeVXFS update (Christoph Hellwig)
+ Qnxfs update (Anders Larsen)
o Fix non compile with PCI=n (Adrian Bunk)
o Fix DRM 4.0 non compile in i810 (me)
o Drop out now dead CLONE thread/parent fixup (Dave McCracken)
* Make NetROM incoming frame check stricter (Tomi Manninen)
* Use sock_orphan in AX.25/NetROM (Jeroen PE1RXQ)
o Pegasus update (Petko Manolov)
o Make reparent_to_init and exec_usermodehelper (Andrew Morton)
use set_user, fix a tiny set_user SMP race
o Mark framebuffer mappings VM_IO (Andrew Morton)
o Neomagic frame buffer driver (Denis Kropp)
- Needs FPU code fixing before it can be merged
o Hyperthreading awareness for MTRR driver
o Correct NR_IRQ with no apic support (Brian Gerst)
* Fix missing includes in sound drivers (Michal Jaegermann)
Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac2
* i810 audio driver update (Doug Ledford)
o Early ioremap for x86 specific code (Mikael Pettersson)
| This is needed to do things like apic/dmi detect early enough
o Pentium IV APIC/NMI watchdog (Mikael Pettersson)
* Add C1MRX support to sonypi driver (Junichi Morita)
* Fix "make rpm" with two '-' in extraversion (Gerald Britton)
o Fix aacraid hang/irq storm on i960 boards (Chris Pascoe)
* Fix isdn audio compiler behaviour dependancy (Urs Thuermann)
* YAM driver fixes (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
* ROSE protocol stack update/fixes (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o Fix UFS/CDROM oops (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Fix nm256 hang on Dell Latitude (origin unknown)
| Please test this tree with other NM256 based boxes and check
| those still work...
o Merge PnPBIOS patch (Thomas Hood, David Hinds, Tom Lees,
Christian Schmidt, ..)
o Merge new sis frame buffer drivers (Thomas Winischhofer)
* cs46xx oops fix (Mike Gorse)
* Fix a second cs46xx bug related to this (me)
o Fix acpitable oopses on boot and other problems (James Cleverdon)
o Fix io port type on the hpt366 driver (Pete Popov)
o Updated matrox drivers (Petr Vandrovec)
* IPchains fixes needed for 2.4.18pre7
o IDE config text updates for the IDE patches (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Merge the first bits of ZV support (Marcus Metzler)
o Add initial ZV support to yenta socket driver (me)
for TI cards
* Fix pirq routing on the CS5530 (me)
| Finally the palmax pcmcia/cardbus works properly
Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.18pre7 (Arjan van de Ven)
| + some quota fixups redone by me
| several 18pre7 netfilter bugs left unfixed for now
o Rmap-12a (Rik van Riel and co)
Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac2
o Re-merge the IDE patches (Andre Hedrick and co)
* Fix check/request region in ali_ircc and lowcomx(Steven Walter)
com90xx, sealevel, sb1000
* Remove unused message from 6pack driver (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix unused variable warning in i60scsi (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix off by one floppy oops (Keith Owens)
o Fix i2o_config use of undefined C (Andreas Dilger)
* Fix fdomain scsi oopses (Per Larsson)
* Fix sf16fmi hang on boot (me)
o Add bridge resources to the resource tree (Ivan Kokshaysky)
* Fix iphase ATM oops on close in on case (Till Immanuel Patzschke)
* Enable OOSTORE on winchip processors (Dave Jones, me)
| Worth about 10-20% performance
* Code Page 1250 support (Petr Titera)
* Fix sdla and hpfs doc typos (Sven Vermeulen)
o Document /proc/stat (Sven Heinicke)
* Update cs4281 drivers (Tom Woller)
| Fixes xmms stutter, remove wrapper code
| handle tosh boxes, allow record device change
| trigger wakeups on ioctl triggered changes
+/o/X Fix locking of file struct stuff found by ibm (Dipankar Sarma)
audit
o Use spin_lock_init in serial.c (Dave Miller)
* Fix AF_UNIX shutdown bug (Dave Miller)
Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac1
o 32bit uid quota
o rmap-11b VM (Rik van Riel,
William Irwin etc)
* Make scsi printer visible (Stefan Wieseckel)
* Report Hercules Fortissimo card (Minya Sorakinu)
* Fix O_NDELAY close mishandling on the following (me)
sound cards: cmpci, cs46xx, es1370, es1371,
esssolo1, sonicvibes
* tdfx pixclock handling fix (Jurriaan)
o Fix mishandling of file system size limiting (Andrea Arcangeli)
* generic_serial cleanups (Rasmus Andersen)
o serial.c locking fixes for SMP - move from cli (Kees)
too
* Truncate fixes from old -ac tree (Andrew Morton)
* Hopefully fix the i2o oops (me)
| Not the right fix but it'll do till I rewrite this
* Fix non blocking tty blocking bug (Peter Benie)
o IRQ routing workaround for problem HP laptops (Cory Bell)
* Fix the rcpci driver (Pete Popov)
* Fix documentation of aedsp location (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix the worst of the APM ate my cpu problems (Andreas Steinmetz)
* Correct icmp documentation (Pierre Lombard)
* Multiple mxser crash on boot fix (Stephan von Krawczynski)
o ldm header fix (Anton Altaparmakov)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in i2c_proc (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in airo_cs (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in btaudio (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in qnx4/inode.c (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Disable DRM4.1 GMX2000 driver (4.0 required) (me)
* Fix sb16 lower speed limit bug (Jori Liesenborgs)
o Fix compilation of orinoco driver (Ben Herrenschmidt)
* ISAPnP init fix (Chris Rankin)
o Export release_console_sem (Andrew Morton)
* Output nat crash fix (Rusty Russell)
* Fix PLIP (Niels Jensen)
o Natsemi driver hang fix (Manfred Spraul)
* Add mono/stereo reporting to gemtek pci radio (Jonathan Hudson)
