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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac1

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jan 29, 2002

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From:   Alan Cox 
Subject:        Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac1
Date:   29 Jan 2002 12:12:18 -0500      

This is just a standing still release. Most of the work was actually done
by Arjan van de Ven.

[+ indicates stuff that went to Marcelo, o stuff that has not,
 * indicates stuff that is merged in mainstream now, X stuff that proved
   bad and was dropped out]

Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac1
o       Merge with 2.4.18pre7                           (Arjan van de Ven)
        | + some quota fixups redone by me
        | several 18pre7 netfilter bugs left unfixed for now
o       Rmap-12a                                        (Rik van Riel and co)

Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac2

o       Re-merge the IDE patches                        (Andre Hedrick and co)
*       Fix check/request region in ali_ircc and lowcomx(Steven Walter)
        com90xx, sealevel, sb1000
*       Remove unused message from 6pack driver         (Adrian Bunk)
*       Fix unused variable warning in i60scsi          (Adrian Bunk)
o       Fix off by one floppy oops                      (Keith Owens)
o       Fix i2o_config use of undefined C               (Andreas Dilger)
*       Fix fdomain scsi oopses                         (Per Larsson)
*       Fix sf16fmi hang on boot                        (me)
o       Add bridge resources to the resource tree       (Ivan Kokshaysky)
*       Fix iphase ATM oops on close in on case    (Till Immanuel Patzschke)
+       Enable OOSTORE on winchip processors            (Dave Jones, me)
        | Worth about 10-20% performance 
*       Code Page 1250 support                          (Petr Titera)
*       Fix sdla and hpfs doc typos                     (Sven Vermeulen)
o       Document /proc/stat                             (Sven Heinicke)
*       Update cs4281 drivers                           (Tom Woller)
        | Fixes xmms stutter, remove wrapper code
        | handle tosh boxes, allow record device change
        | trigger wakeups on ioctl triggered changes
o       Fix locking of file struct stuff found by ibm   (Dipankar Sarma)
        audit
o       Use spin_lock_init in serial.c                  (Dave Miller)
*       Fix AF_UNIX shutdown bug                        (Dave Miller)

Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac1

o       32bit uid quota
o       rmap-11b VM                                     (Rik van Riel,
                                                         William Irwin etc)
o       Make scsi printer visible                       (Stefan Wieseckel)
*       Report Hercules Fortissimo card                 (Minya Sorakinu)
*       Fix O_NDELAY close mishandling on the following (me)
        sound cards: cmpci, cs46xx, es1370, es1371,
        esssolo1, sonicvibes
*       tdfx pixclock handling fix                      (Jurriaan)
o       Fix mishandling of file system size limiting    (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       generic_serial cleanups                         (Rasmus Andersen)
o       serial.c locking fixes for SMP - move from cli  (Kees)
        too
o       Truncate fixes from old -ac tree                (Andrew Morton)
o       Hopefully fix the i2o oops                      (me)
        | Not the right fix but it'll do till I rewrite this
*       Fix non blocking tty blocking bug               (Peter Benie)
o       IRQ routing workaround for problem HP laptops   (Cory Bell)
*       Fix the rcpci driver                            (Pete Popov)
*       Fix documentation of aedsp location             (Adrian Bunk)
*       Fix the worst of the APM ate my cpu problems    (Andreas Steinmetz)
*       Correct icmp documentation                      (Pierre Lombard)
*       Multiple mxser crash on boot fix        (Stephan von Krawczynski)
o       ldm header fix                                  (Anton Altaparmakov)
*       Fix unchecked kmalloc in i2c_proc       (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
*       Fix unchecked kmalloc in airo_cs        (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
*       Fix unchecked kmalloc in btaudio        (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
*       Fix unchecked kmalloc in qnx4/inode.c   (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
*       Disable DRM4.1 GMX2000 driver (4.0 required)    (me)
*       Fix sb16 lower speed limit bug                  (Jori Liesenborgs)
o       Fix compilation of orinoco driver               (Ben Herrenschmidt)
o       ISAPnP init fix                                 (Chris Rankin)
o       Export release_console_sem                      (Andrew Morton)
*       Output nat crash fix                            (Rusty Russell)
*       Fix PLIP                                        (Niels Jensen)
o       Natsemi driver hang fix                         (Manfred Spraul)
*       Add mono/stereo reporting to gemtek pci radio   (Jonathan Hudson)
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