Linux 2.4.7-pre5 Released

Jul 10, 2001, 13:56 (0 Talkback[s])

[ Thanks to Taco IJsselmuiden for the tip. ]

The latest from Linus (Linux 2.4.7-pre5) has been released. Check http://ftp.kernel.org/mirrors/.

Changelog:
pre5:
 - remember to bump the version string
 - Andrea Arkangeli: softirq cleanups and fixes, and everybody is happy
   again (ie I changed some details to make me happy ;)
 - Neil Brown: raid5 stall fix, nfsd filehandle sanity check fix

-pre4:
 - David Miller: sparc and networking updates
 - Al Viro: SysV FS add_link off-by-two bogosity.
 - Jeff Garzik: merge D-Link DL2k GigE driver, other network driver cleanups
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
 - Alan Cox: more merging (MPT fusion core)
 - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
 - Stas Sergeev: make sure we return out of vm86 mode when interrupts
   get re.enabled
 - Rusty Russell: netfilter fixes for ipt_unclean and ip_queue
 - me: initialize page->age when adding it to the swap cache
 - Paul Mackerras: PPC updates
 - some subtle fs/buffer.c race conditions (Andrew Morton, me)

-pre3:
 - merge with Alan (SCSI subsystem)
 - Jeff Garzik: make serial driver PCI hotplug-aware

-pre2:
 - merge with Alan (USB, zoran, sony motion-eye, rio, dmi-scan)

-pre1:
 - merge with Alan (irda, s390, mips64, chris, sk98lin, mips/mm)
 - rth: fix alpha RTC calibration
 - Paul Mackerras: fix PPC typo