Linux 2.4.9-pre2 Is Out

Aug 13, 2001, 07:02 (1 Talkback[s])

Aschwin van der Woude writes "Linus Torvalds is getting into 5th gear. Yesterday he released 2.4.8, and now he is up to 2.4.9-pre2 already. Does he want to get 2.4.9 ready as soon as possible, and open the 2.5 tree?"

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.9-pre2.gz

Changelog:

pre2:
 - me: fix forgotten nfsd usage of filldir off_t -> loff_t change
 - Alan Cox: more driver merges

pre1:
 - Rui Sousa: emu10k1 module fixes, remove joystick part.
 - Alan Cox: driver merges
 - Andrea Arkangeli: alpha updates
 - David Woodhouse: up_and_exit -> complete_and_exit
 - David Miller: sparc and network update
 - Andrew Morton: update 3c59x driver
 - Neil Brown: NFS export VFAT, knfsd cleanups, raid fixes
 - Ben Collins: ieee1394 updates
 - Paul Mackerras: PPC update
 - me: make sure we don't lose position bits in "filldir()"