Hi,
Here goes -pre3, with the new IDE code. It has been stable enough time in
the -ac tree, in my and Alan's opinion.
The inclusion of the new IDE code makes me want to have a longer 2.4.19
release cycle, for stress-testing reasons.
Please stress test it with huge amounts of data ;)
pre3:
- -ac merge (including new IDE) (Alan Cox)
- S390 merge (IBM)
- More cciss fixes (Stephen Cameron)
- Eicon SMP race fix (Armin Schindler)
- w9966 driver update (Jakob Kemi)
- Unify crc32 routine (removes lots of duplicated
code from drivers) (Matt Domsch)
- Lanstreamer bugfixes (Kent Yoder)
- Update scsi_debug (Douglas Gilbert)
- MCE Configure.help update (Paul Gortmaker)
- Fix SMB NLS oops (Urban Widmark)
- AGP Config.in update (Daniele Venzano)
- Fix small thinko in UFS set_blocksize return handling (me)
- Avoid unecessary cache flushes on PPC (Paul Mackerras)
- PPP deadlock fixes (Paul Mackerras)
- Signal changes for thread groups (Dave McCracken)
- Make max_threads be based on normal zone size (Dave McCracken)
- ray_cs wireless extension fix (Jean Tourrilhes)
- irda bugfixes and enhancements (Jean Tourrilhes)
- USB update (Greg KH)
- Fix through-8259A mode for IRQ0 routing on APIC (Maciej W. Rozycki/Joe Korty)
- Add Dell Inspiron 2500 to broken APM blacklist (Arjan van de Ven)
- Fix off-by-one error in bluesmoke (Dave Jones)
- Reiserfs update (Oleg Drokin)
- Fix PCI compile without /proc support (Eric Sandeen)
- Fix problem with bad inode handling (Alexander Viro)
- aic7xxx update (Justin T. Gibbs)
- Do not consider SCSI recovered errors as fatal errors (Justin T. Gibbs)
- Add Memory-Write-Invalidate support to PCI (Jeff Garzik)
- Starfire update (Ion Badulescu)
- tulip update (Jeff Garzik)