Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2001 23:56:39 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.4.2ac8
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
2.4.2-ac8
o Fix loop over loop crash (Jens Axboe)
o Fix radeon build problems (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
o Stop two people claiming the same misc dev id (Philipp Rumpf)
o capable not suser on sx.c (Rob Radez)
o Fix an ixj build combination bug (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Add integrator to ARM machines (Russell King)
o ARM include/constant cleanups (Russell King)
o Update ARM vmlinuz.in (Russell King)
o ARM i2c fixes (Russell King)
o ARM scsi updates (Russell King)
o ARM header updates (Russell King)
o Handle E820 bios returns with overlaps (Brian Moyle)
o Fix a sparc64 include build bug (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Loop race fix (Jens Axboe)
o s_maxbytes wasnt set for old style compat (Chris Dukes)
mounts in reiserfs
o Fix the fact we dont see all busses on some (Don Dupuis)
Compaq machines
o Fix missing watchdog configure.help (Fernando Fuganti)
o Fix oom deadlock (hopefully) (Rik van Riel)
o Fix binfmt_aout sign handling bug (Andrew Morton)
2.4.2-ac7
o Fusion driver updates (Steve Ralston)
o Olympic fix (Andrew Morton)
o Work around hardware bug in older Rage128 (Gareth Hughes)
o Handle broken PIV MP tables with a NULL ioapic
o Use capable in esp serial driver (Rob Radez)
o Use capable not suser in console (Rob Radez)
o Small networking fixups (Dave Miller)
o Fix make menuconfig breakage (Keith Owens)
o Enable cmpxchg8 on Rise P6 (Dave Jones)
o Fix wakeup losses on cpu_allowed using tasks (Manfred Spraul)
o Maestro3 now works with > 256Mb of ram (Zach Brown)
o Opl3sa2 isapnp=0 handling was wrong (Jérôme Augé)
| I've fixed it a little differently however
o Turn off slow kmem chain check if not doing (Ingo Molnar, me)
slab debugging
o Fix cpu speed checking code (Mikael Pettersson)
o Make bus computation more accurate (me)
o Advantech watchdog driver (Marek Michalkiewicz)
o dz.c serial clean up (Rob Radez)
o Fix MSG_TRUNC for OOB TCP (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix oops on unconfigured loop (Arjan van de Ven)
o Drop nbd ll_rw_blk change (Linus has spoken ;))
o pci resource api (Jeff Garzik)
o Further Natsemi updates (Don Becker,
Jeff Garzik)
o Switch aurora serial to capable() (Rob Radez)
o Radeon frame buffer (Ani Joshi)
2.4.2-ac6
o Remove incorrect modules doc changes (Keith Owens)
o Fix elf.h defines (Keith Owens)
o Add 0x2B mtrr decode for intel/cyrix III (me)
o Make bigmem balancing somewhat saner (Mark Hemment)
o Update irda (Dag Brattli)
o New FIR dongle support (Dag Brattli)
o 3ware driver updates (Adam Radford)
o Further reiserfs tail conversion fixes (Chris Mason)
o Fix tpqic02 to use capable (Rob Radez)
o Set last_rx on comtrol hostess driver (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Raid Oops fix (Neil Brown)
o Fix last_rx/skb refs on cyc_x25 (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix last_rx/skb refs on 3c589 (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Highmem fixes for deadlock (Andrea Arcangeli,
Ingo Molnar)
o Another minor tulip fix (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix hinote and maybe other ps/aux hangs (me, Mark Clegg)
o Fix resource handling on 53c7xxx (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix scsi_register failure handling on AMD scsi (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling on aha1740 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling on blz1230 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling for dec_esp driver (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling for fastlane scsi (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix scsi_register failure on qlogic_fas (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix scsi_register failure on qlogicfc (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix irq alloc failure leak on sun3x_esp (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix wd7000 init failures (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix nbd device (Steve Whitehouse)
o Fix try_atomic_semop (Manfred Spraul)
o Parport fixes (Tim Waugh)
o Starfire start/stop if fix (Ion Badulescu)
o Fix raw.c off by one bug (Tigran Aivazian)
o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev)
2.4.2-ac5
o Add Epson 1240U scanners to usb scanner (Joel Becker)
o Fix eth= compatibility (Andrew Morton)
| Should fix 3c509 problems for one
o Add Pnp table to opl3sa2 (Bill Nottingham)
o Update loop driver fixes (Jens Axboe, Andrea
Arcangeli, Al Viro)
o Fix busy loop in usb storage (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add cardbus support to olympic (Mike Phillips)
o Make BUG() configurable to save space (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add configurability to most kernel debugging (various people)
functions on x86
o Richard Günther/binfmt_misc page move (Richard Günther)
o Fix de4x5 crash (Nikita Schmidt)
o Hopefully fix the smc-mca driver (me)
o Don't run the disk queue if we didnt launder (Marcelo Tosatti)
any pages
o ALi 6 channel audio and sp/dif updates (Matt Wu)
o Fix USB thread wakeup scheduling (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix alignment problems with uni16_to_x8 (Ivan Kokshaysky)
2.4.2-ac4
o Fix Make xconfig failure (J Magallon)
o Fix a typo in the ISDN docs (Jim Freeman)
o Fix the 3ware driver a bit more (Ben LaHaise)
| should now be usable
o Update Dave Jones contact info (Dave Jones)
o Revert wavelan inline->macro change (Jean Tourillhes)
| CVS gcc and 2.96-74 don't accidentally unline it now
o Zerocopy TCP/IP patches (Dave Miller,
Alexey Kuznetsov,
and many more)
o Fix up command line options to old ncr driver (Martin Storsjö)
o NFS locking should call fs layer locking if (Brian Dixon)
present
o Fix cs46xx wakeup/poll problem (David Huggins-Daines)
o Add some missing MTD config help texts (Steven Cole,
David Woodhouse)
o Fix Alpha build bug (Sven Koch)
o Final i386/ptrace bit
o Finish off the vmalloc/WP fixup (me)
o Include file config.h fixes (Niels Jensen)
o More dscc4 updates (Francois Romieu)
2.4.2-ac3
o Add documentation for the fb interfaces (Brad Douglas)
o Work around apic disable_irq hardware bugs (Maciej Rozycki)
o Rage128 not "Rage 128" (Brad Douglas)
o Make ioremap debugging conditional (J Magallon)
o Merge Ninja pcmcia scsi driver (YOKOTA Hiroshi)
o Update 8139too docs (Jeff Garzik)
o Tulip updates, merge bits from 0.92 (Jeff Garzik,
Don Becker)
o Epic100 update (Jeff Garzik)
o Clen up Ariadne driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove dead wavelan prototype (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove unused arlan variable (Jeff Garzik)
o Clean up lance public symbols (Jeff Garzik)
o Switch fmv18x to spinlocks, fix other bits (Jeff Garzik)
o Clean up acenic global symbols (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix IDE blocking kmalloc with irqs off (Arjan van de Ven)
| I've redone the code a bit so it might be wrong again 8)
2.4.2-ac2
o Merge the loop device fixes (Jens Axboe)
o Fix af_unix SYSCTL=n build failure (Russell King)
o Adjust the throttling point for write (Jens Axboe)
throttles
o Fix sunhme ioremap (Andrey Panin)
o Fix disk change handling with removable sd (Alex Davis)
o Update/fix irq docs (Matthew Wilcox)
o Update PPC gmac and ncr885e drivers (Cort Dougan)
| bmac patch dropped as it loses other fixes
o Kai Petzke has moved (Kai Petzke)
o Fix starfire driver so pump doesnt kill it (Ion Badulescu)
2.4.2-ac1
o Merge Linus 2.4.2 tree
| We now have disagreeing ymfpci fixes. I've kept the ones
| I tested for now.
o Back out sr.c change (me)
o Fix moxa smartio driver (Tom Mraz)
o Hugh Blemings change of address (Hugh Blemings)
o Allow more i2o config time for slow calls
o Aty128fb updates (Brad Douglas,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
Michel Danzer,
Andreas Hundt)
o Add "loop" name to the root dev names (Barry Nathan)
o Further spelling cleanups (Dag Wieers)
o Remove bogus warning emissions from aha1740 (Nick Holloway)
o Remove surplus assignment in vmalloc (Francis Galiegue)
o Remove unneeded ifdef in i386/kernel/irq.c (Francis Galiegue)
o Add door locking ioctl to ide-floppy (Francis Galiegue)
o Allow scsi disk opening O_NDELAY for removables (me)
o Fix cosa compile warnings (me)
o Clean up dumpable/setuid write ordering (me)
o Hopefully fix the 3ware crashes (me)
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Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
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