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Alan Cox: Linux kernel 2.2.18pre14

Date: Sun, 1 Oct 2000 14:19:10 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.2.18pre14
 
Bug squash number two.
 
This should really fix the which compiler bugs. It should also be close to
having everything in the kernel build correctly on x86 again. PCMCIA still
uses some very large udelays which need to become mdelay() based instead.
 
Everything but x86 is probably in need of some small fixing by the port
maintainers.
 
Alan
 
Stuff left to do for 2.2.18final
-       Merge the S/390 stuff and make S/390 build again
-       Hunt bugs in the stuff so far.
-       Fix the megaraid (revert if need be)
 
The S/390 stuff shouldnt touch the mainstream so from hereon in its simply
a case of squashing bugs as they pop out until its ready to be 2.2.18.
 
2.2.18pre14
o       Reorder attributes in drm to work with gcc272   (me)
o       GNU cross compilers are foo-bar-gcc             (Russell King)
o       Add extra strange pcnet32 ident                 (Willy Tarreau)
o       Since no vendor can get which right.. use a     (Miquel van Smoorenberg)
        shell script instead
        | Please nobody tell me this fails in some bash version!
o       Should be using bash not bash2 (escaped debug)  (Petri Kaukasoina)
o       spin_unlock_irq wrong debug mode printk         (Willy Tarreau)
o       Fix pcxx for the loops changes                  (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix ov511/via-rhine name clash                  (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix bridge compile with loops_per_sec change    (Mitch Adair)
o       8139too driver added                            (Jeff Garzik)
 
2.2.18pre13
o       Change udelay to use loops_per tick             (Philipp Rumpf)
        | Otherwise we bomb out at 2GHz which isnt far enough
        | away with 1.4/1.6GHz stuff due out RSN
o       Fix drivers using big delays to use mdelay      (me)
o       Fix drivers that used loops_per_sec             (Philipp Rumpf, me)
o       Fix yamaha PCI sound SMP bug                    (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Change to preferred USB init fix                (David Rees)
o       Fix rio fix                                     (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Catch the VT but no mouse case in init/main.c   (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix the 'which' compiler stuff                  (Horst von Brand,
                                                         Peter Samuelson)
        | Can someone verify for me this works on Slackware and
        | on Caldera ?
o       Add devfs include. Devfs wont be going into 2.2 (Richard Gooch)
        but this again makes it easier to do 2.2/2.4
        drivers.
                                                                                                     
2.2.18pre12
o       Fix cyrix MTRR handling bug                     (IIZUKA Daisuke)
o       Fix ymfpci poll                                 (me, Arjan)
o       Update radio-maestro, add Configure.help        (Adam Tla/lka>
o       Fix rio/generic serial build bug                (Marcelo Tossati)
o       USB build bug fix                               (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix missing ac97_codec.c return value           (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix several warnings                            (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Made the PS/2 reconnect behaviour optional      (me)
        | Its now 'psaux-reconnect' on the boot line
o       Allow for newer Hauppauge with 4 ports          (Krischan Jodies)
o       Switch sound drivers from library to object     (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Kill the not working ac97 lock on the 810       (me)
o       Automatically select older compilers for kernel
        builds on Debian and RH                         (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Start volumes higher on ac97, teach the driver  (Rui Sousa)
        about 5bit and 6bit codec precision and use
        the mute bit.
 
2.2.18pre11
o       Kill bogus codec_id assignment                  (Linus Torvalds)
o       Update codec init code to handle id right       (me)
o       Fix dead/clashing define for NFS                (Trond Myklebust)
o       Remove the find_vga crap from bttv              (me)
o       Fix return on probe failure for cadet           (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Add missing configure.help stuff from 2.4test   (Alan Ford)
o       Fix inia100/megaraid define clash               (Arjan van de Ven)
o       __xchg marked as taking volatiles               (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix vwsnd warning in sound core                 (Arjan van de Ven)
o       wdt_pci driver should return -EIO on error      (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix init_adfs_fs warning                        (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix the joystick driver option parsing          (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Update mkdep to handle // commenting            (Mike Klar)
o       Thunderlan driver typo fixes                    (Torben Mathiasen)
o       Add KX133/KT133 stuff to the AGP/DRM            (Jeff Nguyen)
o       FIx multiple card bug in eepro driver           (Aristeu Filho)
o       Initial YMF PCI native driver                   (Pete Zaitcev)
        | Based on Jaroslav's ALSA driver and I've tweaked it
        | a bit and maybe broken it 8)
o       Fix procfs unlink bugs                          (Willy Tarreau)
o       X.25 bugfix backport                            (Henner Eisen)
o       Fix incorrect free_dma on DMAless boxes         (Boria)
o       Fix via audio driver merge                      (Nick Lamb)
o       Update plusb driver to 2.4 one                  (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Put description info in wacom driver            (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Update both UHCI drivers to match 2.4test       (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Masquerade cleanup/warning fixes                (Horst von Brand)
                                                                                                        
2.2.18pre10
o       Add printk level to partition printk messages   (me)
o       Fix bluesmoke address report/serialize          (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Add 2.4pre CPUID/MSR docs to 2.2.18pre          (Adrian Bunk)
o       Update to the 2.4pre via audio driver           (Jeff Garzik)
o       Fix small SMP race in set_current_state         (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Fix __KERNEL__ checks in sparc headers          (Dave Miller)
o       Fix ADFS root directory bug added in pre9       (Russell King)
o       Trap incorrect swap partition sizes             (Andries Brouwer)
o       Fix nfsroot bootp/dhcp on sparc64               (Dave Miller)
o       Tidy up tcp opt parsing                         (Dave Miller)
o       Check range on port range sysctl                (Dave Miller)
o       Back out erroneous i2c.h change                 (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix trident hangs due to over zealous addition  (Eric Brombaugh)
        of midi support
o       Fix big endian/macro bug in ext2fs              (Andi Kleen)
o       Bring dabusb driver into line with 2.4          (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Bring event drivers into line with 2.4          (Franz Sirl,
                                                         Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Fix usb help texts                              (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Generic frame diverter                          (Benoit Locher)
o       Bring USB serial back into line with 2.4        (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Fix DVD driver rpc state bug                    (Jens Axboe)
o       Fix extra sunrpc printk                         (Tim Mann)
o       USB init tidy up                                (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Allow PlanB video on generic PPC                (Michel Lanners)
o       Doc fixes/trim cvs logs on isdn drivers         (Kai Germaschewski)
o       USB hid, hub, ibmcam, dsbr100 devices updates   (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Return EAFNOSUPPORT for out of range families
o       Fix SMP locking on floppy driver                (Jonathan Corbet)
o       Add module author info to acm.c                 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Update CREDITS to reflect all the USB guys      (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
 
o       ipfw wrong allocation flag fix                  (Rusty Russell)
o       Implement Sun style lockf/nfs cache barriers    (Trond Myklebust)
o       Updated ISI serial driver                       (Multitech)
        | You may well need their newer firmware set/loader for the
        | later cards too
 
2.2.18pre9
o       Fix usb module load oops                        (Thomas Sailer)
o       Bring USB boot drivers in line with 2.4t8       (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       And USB print drivers                           (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       And USB Rio driver                              (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       And USB dc2xx driver                            (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       And USB mdc800 driver                           (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       NFSv3 support and NFS updates                   (Trond Myklebust and co)
o       Compaq 64bit/66Mhz PCI Fibrechannel driver      (Amy Vanzant-Hodge)
o       Disable microtouch driver (doesnt work in 2.2   (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
        currently)
o       Update ADFS support                             (Russell King)
o       Update ARM arch specific code and includes      (Russell King)
o       Update ARM specific drivers                     (Russell King)
o       Use both fast and slow A20 gating on boot       (Kira Brown)
        | if your box doesnt boot I want to know about it...
        | Needed for stuff like the AMD Elan
                                                                                              
2.2.18pre8
o       Fix mtrr compile bug                            (Peter Blomgren)
o       Alpha PCI boot up fix                           (Michal Jaegermann)
o       Fix vt/keyboard dependancy in USB config        (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix sound hangs on cs4281                       (Tom Woller)
o       Fix Alpha vmlinuz.lds                           (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND bug, allow root to open     (Jens Axboe)
        the cd door whenver.
o       Update ov511 to match 2.4                       (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Further devio.c fix                             (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Update NR_TASKS comment                         (Jarkko Kovala)
o       Further sparc64 ioctl translator fixes          (Andi Kleen)
 
2.2.18pre7
o       Fix the AGP compile in bug                      (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Revert old incorrect syncppp state change       (Ivan Passos)
o       Fix i810 rng to actually get built in           (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Megaraid compile fix, joystick, mkiss fixes     (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Kawasaki USB ethernet depends on net            (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Compaq cpqarray update                          (Charles White)
o       Fix usb problem with no USB unit found          (Oleg Drokin)
o       Driver for the radio on some maestro cards      (Adam Tlalka)
o       Additional shared map support needed for sparc64(Dave Miller)
o       Fix wdt_pci when compiled in                    (me, Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix usb missing symbol when non modular         (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Identify chip and also handle MTRR for the      (me)
        Cyrix III
o       Allow binding to all ports multicast            (Andi Kleen)
o       Bring USB docs up to date                       (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Bring USB devio up to date                      (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       pci_resource_len null function for non PCI case (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix synchronous write off end of disk bug       (Jari Ruusu)
 
2.2.18pre6
o       Fix the IDE PCI not compiling bug               (Dag Wieers)
o       Kill an escaped reference to vger.rutgers       (Dave Miller)
o       Small rtl8139 fixups                            (Jeff Garzik)
o       Add USB bluetooth driver                        (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Fix oops in visor driver                        (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Remove some unneeded ext2 includes,fix a bug    (Andreas Dilger)
        in the UFS code
o       Fix rtc race between timer and rtc irq          (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Fix slow gettimeofday SMP race                  (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Check lost_ticks in settimeofday to be more     (Andrea Arcangeli)
        precise
                                                                                                                   
2.2.18pre5
o       Added older VIA ide chipsets to the not to be   (me)
        autotuned list
o       Fix crash on boot problem with __setup stuff    (me)
o       Small acenic fix                                (Matt Domsch)
o       Fix hfc_pci isdn driver                         (Jens David)
o       Fix smbfs configuration problem                 (Urban Widmark)
o       Emu10K wrapper/build fixes                      (Rui Sousa)
o       Small cleanups                                  (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix sparc32 build bug                           (Horst von Brand)
o       Fix quota oops                                  (Martin Diehl)
o       Add i810 random number driver                   (Jeff Garzik)
o       Clear suid bits on ext2 truncate as per SuS     (Andi Kleen)
o       Fix illegal use of section attributes           (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Documentation for nmi watchdog                  (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       Fix uninitialised variable warnings             (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Save DR6 condition into the TSS                 (Ryan Wallach)
o       Add additional __init's to the kernel   (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o       Backport 2.4 wdt_pci driver                     (JP Nollman, me)
o       AGP i810 fixes                                  (Chip Salzenberg)
o       UDMA support for ALI1543 & 1543C IDE devices    (ALI)
o       2.4 MSR/CPUID driver backport                   (Dave Jones,
                                                                H Peter Anvin)
o       Fix incorrect use of kernel v user ptr in NCPfs (Petr Vandrovec)
o       Updated scsi tape driver                        (Kai Makisara)
                                                                                          
2.2.18pre4
o       Remove the aacraid driver again, having looked  (me)
        at what is needed to make it acceptable and
        debug it - Im dumping it back on Adaptec
o       DAC960 update                                   (Leonard Zubkoff)
o       Add setup vmlinuz.lds changes for Sparc         (Arjan van den Ven)
o       Sparc updates for drm, ioctl and other          (Dave Miller)
o       Megaraid driver update                          (Peter Jarrett)
o       Add cd volume 0 to the amp power off on the
        crystal cs46xx                                  (Bill Nottingham)
o       Fix IPV6 fragment and kfree bugs                (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o       Fix emu10k build bug                            (me)
o       Emu10K driver upgrade. Adds emu-aps support     (Rui Sousa)
o       Updated IBM serveraid driver to 4.20            (IBM)
o       Ext2 block handling cleanup from 2.4            (Al Viro)
o       Make the ATI128 driver modular                  (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       Fix megaraid build bug with gcc 2.7.2           (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix some of the dquot races                     (Jan Kara)
o       x86 setup code cleanup                          (Dave Jones)
o       Implement 2.4 compatible __setup and __initcall (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Tidy up smp_call_function stuff                 (Keitaro Yosimura)
o       Remove 2.4 compat glue from cs4281 driver       (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       Fix minor bugs in bluesmoke now someone actually
        has a faulty CPU and logs                       (me)
o       Fix definition of IPV6_TLV_ROUTERALERT          (Dave Miller)
o       Fix in6_addr, ip_decrease_ttl, other            (Dave Miller)
        minor bits
o       cp932 fixes                                     (Kazuki Yasumatsu)
o       Updated gdth driver                             (Andreas Koepf)
o       Acenic update                                   (Jes Sorensen)
o       Update USB serial drivers                       (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o       Move pci_resource_len into pci compat           (Marcelo Tosatti)
                                                                                                               
2.2.18pre3  (versus 2.2.17pre20)
o       Clean up most of the compatibility macros       (me)
        that various people use. I've systematically
        moved the 100% correct ones to the headers
        used in 2.4
o       Fix newly introduced bug in kmem_cache_shrink   (Daniel Roesen)
o       Further updates to symbios drivers              (Gerhard Roudier)
o       Remove emu10K warning and mtrr warning          (Daniel Roesen)
o       Fix symbol clash between cs4281 and esssolo1    (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix acenic non modular/module build issues      (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix bug in alpha csum_partial_copy that could   (Herbert Xu)
        cause spurious EFAULTs
o       Yet another eepro100 variant sighted            (Torben Mathiasen)
o       Minor microcode.c final tweak                   (Daniel Roesen)
o       Document that ATIFB is now modular              (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       Parport update                                  (Tim Waugh)
o       First set of ext2 updates/fixes                 (Al Viro)
o       Bring smbfs back into line with 2.2             (Urban Widmark)
        | This should make OS/2 work again
o       Fix S/390 _stext (still doesnt build dasd)      (Kurt Roeckx)
o       Remove unused vars in arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c (Daniel Roesen)
o       Update the DHCP initrd support                  (Chip Salzenberg)
o       Allow opening empty scsi removables like IDE
        with O_NONBLOCK (needed for some ioctls)        (Chip Salzenberg)
o       Back out vibra mixer change
o       Fix error returns in sbni driver                (Dawson Engler)
o       Initial merge of the aacraid driver             (Adaptec)
        | Much deuglification left to be done here
o       Report megaraid: on obscure megaraid error      (Daniel Deimert)
        strings
o       Add another CS4299 id string                    (Mulder Tjeerd)
 
2.2.18pre2  (versus 2.2.17pre20)                                                            
o       Fix the compile problems with microcode.c       (Dave Jones,
                                                         Daniel Roesen)
o       GDTH driver update                              (Achim Leubner)
o       Fix mathsemu miuse of casting with asm          (??)
o       Make msnd_pinnacle driver build on Alpha
o       Acenic 0.45 fixes                               (Chip Salzenberg)
o       Compaq CISS driver (SA 5300)                    (Charles White,
        + cleanups                                       me)
        + gcc 2.95 fixup
o       Modularise pm2fb and atyfb
o       Upgrade AMI Megaraid driver to 1.09             (AMI)
o       Add DEC HSG80 and COMPAQ 'logical volume' to
        scsi multilun list
o       SK PCI FDDI driver support                      (Schneider & Koch)
o       Linux 2.2 USB backport                          (Vojtech Pavlik)
        backport 3 + further fixes from the USB list
        + mm/slab.c fix for cache destroy
o       AGP driver backport                             (XFree86, Precision
        DRM driver backport                              Insight, XiG, HJ Lu,
                                                         VA Linux,
                                                         and others)
 
2.2.18pre1  (versus 2.2.17pre20)                                                                          
o       Update symbios/ncr driver to 1.7.0/3.4.0        (Gerhard Roudier)
o       Updated ATP870U driver                          (ACard)
o       Avoid running tq_scheduler stuff sometimes with (Andrea Arcangeli)
        interrupts off
o       Futher cpu setup updates                        (me)
o       IBM MCA scsi driver updates                     (Michael Lang)
o       Fix incorrect out of memory handling in bttv    (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix incorrect out of memory handling in buz     (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix incorrect out of memory handling in qpmouse (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in ipddp         (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in sdla          (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in softoss       (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in ixj           (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in ax25          (Dawson Engler)
o       Merge the microcode driver from 2.4 into 2.2    (Tigran Aivazian)
o       Fix skbuff handling bug in the smc9194 driver   (Arnaldo Melo)
o       Fix problems with SIS900 driver on some 630E    (Lei-Chun Chang)
        boards
o       Make vfat use the same generation rules as      (H. Kawaguchi,
        in windows 9x                                    Chip Salzenberg)
o       Fix oops in the CPQ array driver                (Arnaldo Melo)
o       Fix ac97 codec not setting the id field         (Bill Nottingham)
o       Further work on the cs46xx/CD power bits        (me)
o       Synclink updates                                (Paul Fulgham)
o       Synclink init bug fix                           (Arnaldo Melo)
o       Handle odd interrupts from toshiba floppies     (Alain Knaff)
o       Fix trident driver build on nautilus Alpha      (Peter Petrakis)
o       Add later sb16 imix support tot he sb driver    (Massimo Dal Zotto)
o       Ignore luns that report can be connected, but   (Matt Domsch)
        not currently
o       Fix dereference after kfree in uart401.c        (Dawson Engler)
o       Return correct SuS error code for an unknown    (Herbert Xu)
        socket family
o       Add sub window clipping to the bttv driver      (Thomas Jacob)
o       Fix nfs cache locked messages                   (Trond Myklebust)
o       Fix the modutils misdocumentation               (Martin Douda)
o       Remove bogus biosparm code from seagate.c       (Andries Brouwer)
o       Return correct error code on failed fasync set  (Chip Salzenberg)
o       Handle dcc resume with newer irc clients when   (Scottie Shore)
        doing an irq masq                                                                                       

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