Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.2 aka "Feisty Dunnart"

Feb 04, 2004, 14:30 (1 Talkback[s])
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I just pushed out the BK trees, and the tar-ball/patches are going out as I write this, for Linux 2.6.2. The honor of naming it goes to Gernot Heiser, for reasons that are largely alcoholic, I suspect. Good job!

The changelog from -rc3 mainly contains some ppc64 updates, see the summary for more details on some of the other changes.

Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.6.2-rc3 to v2.6.2

Andrew Morton:

• ppc32: watchdog definition fixes
• ppc64: add missing include guards, from Nathan Lynch
• ppc64: lparcfg_write
• ppc64: fixes for compile with CONFIG_PROC_DEVICETREE=n, from Nathan Lynch
• ppc64: missing set_fs(KERNEL_DS) in ppc32_timer_create, from Marcus Meissner
• ppc64: defconfig update
• ppc64: Use preferred_console to select a reasonable default console
• ppc64: add/remove config.h
• ppc64: export memchr and csum_partial
• ppc64: fix && vs & bugs in lparcfg, from Julie DeWandel
• ppc64: SLB rewrite
• ppc64: use CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ around xmon sysrq code
• Trivial cleanups to hugepage support
• s390: general update
• s390: inline assembly constraints
• s390: sclp bug fixes
• RAID-6: x86-64 crash workaround
• ppc32: MBX MAC address fix
• fix the build for NR_CPUS > 4*BITS_PER_LONG

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

• fix issues with loading PCI IDE drivers as modules
• fix/improve modular IDE

Ben Collins:

• IEEE1394(r1112): Adds a "ieee1394_guid" attribute to the scsi device for sbp2
• IEEE1394(r1116): Make sure to unregister addr space when a driver is removed

David S. Miller:

• [SPARC64]: Fix wakeup races in power.c, with help from Andrew Morton
• [COMPAT]: Fix TUNSETIFF ioctl compat, it takes an ifreq ptr not an int
• [TG3]: Bump version and reldate

Grant Grundler:

• [TG3]: Fix DMA test failures
• [TG3]: Only fetch NVRAM_CMD reg if TG3_FLAG_NVRAM

Jozsef Kadlecsik:

• [NETFILTER]: Fix NAT leak with fragmented packets, missing conntrack put in ip_copy_metadata()

Keith M. Wesolowski:

• [SPARC32]: Align pkmap properly
• [SPARC32]: Copy full soft PMD in vmalloc fault handler
• [SPARC32]: Kill spurious newline in dmesg output

Len Brown:

• [ACPI] proposed fix for AML parameter passing from Bob Moore http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1766

Linus Torvalds:

• Upgrade x86 defconfig to something less ancient
• Make EHCI have a 20ms power-on to power-good timeout
• Warn loudly if somebody passes a negative value as the size to "vsnprintf()".
• Linux 2.6.2 aka "Feisty Dunnart"

Mirko Lindner:

• sk98lin: Reset Xmac when stopping the port