Linux 2.4.9-pre3 Released

Aug 14, 2001, 14:52 (4 Talkback[s])

Aschwin van der Woude writes "Linus Torvalds is now firmly running in fifth gear, and is releasing kernel like a machine. He must be very eager to get the 2.5-branch started."

Links :

http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/testing/patch-2.4.9-pre3.gz

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

Changelog :

pre3:
 - Patrick Mochel: fix PCI:PCI bridge 64-bit memory type detection
 - me: more forgotten nfsd off_t -> loff_t
 - Alan Cox: ide driver merge
 - Eric Lammerts, Rik van Riel: when oom, kill all threads.
 - Ben LaHaise: use down_read, not down_write() in map_user_kiobuf.
   We don't change the mappings, we just read them.
 - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
 - Roland Fehrenbacher: sparse lun check
 - Tim Waugh: handle awkward Titan parallel/serial port cards
 - Stephen Rothwell: APM updates
 - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS updates

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()"