Linux 2.5.1-pre9 Released

Dec 11, 2001, 08:41 (18 Talkback[s])

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Changelog:

pre9:
 - Jeff Garzik: separate out handling of older tulip chips
 - Jens Axboe: more bio stuff
 - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS 1.1.21 update

pre8:
 - Greg KH: USB updates
 - Jens Axboe: more bio updates
 - Christoph Rohland: fix up proper shmat semantics

pre7:
 - Jens Axboe: more bio fixes/cleanups/breakage ;)
 - Al Viro: superblock cleanups, boot/root mounting.

pre6:
 - Jens Axboe: more bio stuff
 - Coda compile fixes
 - Nathan Laredo: stradis driver update

pre5:
 - Patrick Mochel: driver model infrastructure, part 1
 - Jens Axboe: more bio fixes, cleanups
 - Andrew Morton: release locking fixes
 - Al Viro: superblock/mount handling
 - Kai Germaschewski: AVM Fritz!Card ISDN driver
 - Christoph Hellwig: make cramfs SMP-safe.

pre4:
 - Jens Axboe: fix up bio highmem breakage, more cleanups
 - Greg KH: USB update

pre3:
 - Al Viro: more superblock cleanups
 - Jens Axboe: more patches for new block IO layer
 - Christoph Hellwig: get rid of the old, long- deprecated SCSI error
   handling

pre2:
 - Greg KH: USB update
 - Richard Gooch: refcounting for devfs
 - Jens Axboe: start of new block IO layer

pre1:
 - me: README references to 2.4.x -> 2.5.x
 - Alexander Viro: fix unmount inode breakage, show_vfsmnt cleanup
 - Jeff Garzik: fix 8139too initialization