Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.21rc5-ac2

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Linux 2.4.21rc5-ac2

• Backport tlan update and add 64bit support (me)
• Make SiS APIC work (me)
• Fix incorrect strncmp in sclp driver (Pete Zaitcev)
• Fix further cmpci copy/user bugs (Hollis Blanchard)
• Update ACPI to newer intel base code (Bero Rosenkraenzer)
• Fix a bogus ; in the ACPI code (Pavel Machek)
• IDE I/O and DMA state machine fixes (Alexander Atanasov)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of ma600 (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)

Linux 2.4.21rc5-ac1

• Resync with Marcelo 2.4.21-rc5
• IBM S/390 architecture bug fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• IBM S/390 DASD driver fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• IBM S/390 sclp fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• IBM tape fixes (Martin Schwidefsky)
• AGPgart support for SiS651 (Thomas Winischhofer)
• Fix emulation bug in the mips utsname handling (Ben
  Collins)
• Fix module list race (Keith Owens)
• Fixes to CRC32 library and optimisations (David Woodhouse,
  Joakim Tjernlund)
• I/O pause waitqueue fix (Jens Axboe)
• Fix typo in ide Config.in (Carl-Daniel Hailfinger)
• Fix ac97 to init volume mute bit on volume control lacking
  codecs (me)
• Correct vm86 virtualisation of pushf iopl (Stas Sergeev)
  Fixes some problems with dos4gw
• Nvidia AGP support (someone in Nvidia)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of sdla_chdlc (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of olympic (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of DECnet (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Fix gcc 3.3 build of cs46xx (Eduardo Pereira Habkost)
• Report -EFAULT back on /proc/misc (Daniele Bellucci)
• Merge S/390 ctrlchar handler fix (Pete Zaitcev)
• Add oneshot support to UHCI USB as well (Pete Zaitcev)
• Fix type errors in kcopy irq save (Guy Streeter)
• Major merge of aacraid updates (Mark Salyzn, Deanna Bonds)
  64bit stuff, raid mode, SATA, other new idents
• Rewrite the aacraid link list code to be 64bit safe (me)
  This aacraid is likely to need a bit more debugging yet and also
  there is work to do on error recovery handling
• Fix CRC library problem with ksyms (me)

Linux 2.4.21rc4-ac1

• Resync with Marcelo 2.4.21rc4
• Allow setuid core dumps by a sysctl (me)
  First test release. Note that you probably want to set the core
  dumping path to somewhere like /cores/ via sysctl when using this
  feature. Setuid cores are made root only and owner rw only.

Linux 2.4.21rc2-ac3

• Possible fix for IDE lost IRQ problem (Alexander Atanasov)
• Add VIA KL/KM266 AGP (Dietrich Radel)
• Handle older Compaq ACPI * prefix to HID (Andrew Grover)
• Add mmio==2 support to the ide-dma layer (me)
• Clean up and document the CMD680 driver (me)
• Fix the CMD680 resource handling bugs (me)
• VIA 8327 IDE support (Vojtech Pavlik)
• Update SiS IDE for 655/630SET and oddments (Lionel Bouton)
• Fix missing exports for modular XFS (Bero Rosenkraenzer)
• Update worst case quota block count for ext3 (Jan Kara)
• Add CRC32 libraries backport (David Woodhouse, Duncan
  Sands)
• HDLC doc fixes (Krzysztof Halasa)
• Use tail -n for the posixly afflicted (Olaf Hering)
• Fix wrong use of strstr in reiserfs (Sam Ravnborg)
• Correct AMD enable bits (Vojtech Pavlik)
  Should fix IDE boot timeout when probing empty AMD device
  slots
• Fix netlink compile with gcc 3.3 (Andrew Church)
• Frame buffer is in bits so fix vesafb (Adam Mercer)
• Make ksoftirqd cpuid match 2.5 (and allow for 100 cpus without
  overflow..) (Martin Hicks)
• Fix a pcmcia without ISA crash (Pavel Roskin)
• Fix cs89x0 set_mac_address handling (Stefano Fedrigo)
• Update the ide tags I forgot to do before (me)
• Fix a delayed block/xfs problem from a missed merge (Christoph
  Hellwig)

REMOVED FOR NOW

• RMAP

REMOVED FOR GOOD

• LLC (See 2.5)
• VaryIO (Never accepted mainstream)

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“In the same way it might be interesting to see what
happens if you put cigarette into gasoline tank?”

— Pavel Machek