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Alan Cox: Linux 2.5.67-ac2

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Apr 18, 2003

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Next set of updates. Cautionary words still appy.

Handle with care, no naked flames, do not inhale....

Linux 2.5.67-ac2
o       Remove now unrequired identity hack for proc    (me)
o       Resync with Linus -bk8 snapshot
o       Merge core H8300 updates                        (Yoshinori Sato)
o       Merge summit ID strings                         (James Cleverdon)
o       Input layer typo fixes                          (Randy Dunlap)
o       Update Intermezzo maintainer info               (Jörn Engle)
o       Further C99 initializer updates for audio       (Art Haas)
o       Fix sound driver crashes with pnp               (Daniel Ritz)
o       Rio requires uaccess.h  (Bug #566)              (Bob Miller)
o       Sx requires uaccess.h                           (John Kim)
o       Minor ipmi fixes                                (Corey Minyard)
o       z2ram compile fix                               (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o       Fix an SMP boot bug in -ac                      (Osamu Tomita)
o       Unbreak visws                                   (Andrey Panin)
o       Switch ide-cs to pcmcia_driver                  (Christoph Hellwig)
o       Fix the trackpoint problem on Dell8100          (Arne Koewing)
o       Add another broken bios to the list

Linux 2.5.67-ac1
o       Fix the problem with Serverworks bootup when    (Robert Hentosh,
        the BIOS forced PIO modes                        me)
o       BIO walking functions                   (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &
o       BIO walking code documentation           Suparna Bhattacharya)
o       Fix ide taskfile for new prehandlers    (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o       Fix ide taskfile DMA read/write         (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o       Remove old style non taskfile PIO       (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o       Clean up duplicated IDE code            (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o       Huge update to DVB                              (Michael Hunold)
        | This reconciles a large fork in DVB development
o       Fix build for PC164 Alpha                       (Marc Zyngier)
o       Clean up PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE in IDE              (me)
o       Fix mdelay problem on PPC                       (Paul Mackerras)
o       Add pc9800.h header                             (Osamu Tomita)
o       Add pc9800 uni map files (not console code)     (Osamu Tomita)
o       Resync 2.4 and 2.5 opl3sa2 support              (Daniel Ritz)
o       Fix missing include for copy*user in cpufreq    (me)
o       Fix slip for new module locking on ldisc        (me)
o       Update lp486e to new style locking etc          (me)
o       Update 3c574_cs to new style locking            (me)
o       Clean up scc locking for 2.5                    (me)
o       Merge 2.5.67
o       Fix mtd build                                   (me)
o       FIx 3c505 build                                 (me)

Linux 2.5.66-ac2
o       Resync with Linus -bk8
o       Fix modules build                               (me)
o       Fix arch syscalls to return long                (Randy Dunlap)
o       USBfs kerneldoc                                 (David Brownell)
o       More i2c updates                                (Greg Kroah Hartmann)
        | FIxes several driver compiles
o       Fix IDE locking/phase handling on timeout       (Manfred Spraul)
o       C99 initialisers for DMAsound                   (Maciej Soltysiak)
o       C99 initialisers for OSS audio                  (Maciej Soltysiak)
o       C99 intialisers for emu10k1                     (Maciej Soltysiak)
o       Move dead MOD_ calls from floppy driver         (Bob Miller)
o       Fix macmace abuse of GFP_DMA                    (Matthew Wilcox)
o       Improve hpt kconfig entry                       (Adrian Bunk)
o       Generic HDLC updates                            (Krzysztof Halasa)
o       Fix es968 kmalloc parameters                    (Pablo Meinchini)
o       Fix als100 kmalloc parameters                   (Pablo Meinchini)
o       PC98xx updates to existing merge                (Osamu Tomita)
        | Keyboard, ALSA, floppy
o       Fix misc_register fail path for upd4990a        (Stephan Maciej)
o       Fix pegasus endian bug                          (Paul Mackerras)
o       Wireless needs __init                           (Paul Mackerras)
o       Fix gus compilation when built in (lock         (Peter Waechtler)
        clash)
o       Sony PI driver update                           (Stelian Pop)
o       Spelling fixes for Alpha                        (Steven Cole)
o       Spelling fixes for x86-64                       (Steven Cole)
o       Add a "blank now" key mapping                   (Pavel Machek)
o       Remove 23 bogus includes of version.h           (Burton Windle)
o       Fix cs4232 build                                (Daniel Ritz)
o       Update v850 architecture                        (Miles Bader)
o       Fix taint mishandling for AMD CPU               (Manfred Spraul)
o       Fix compile of dt019x audio                     (John Kim)
o       Kill "compatmac"                                (Adrian Bunk)
o       Fix via82cxxx_audio build                       (me)
o       Fix acpi build                                  (me)
o       Resync with bk9
o       Fix oprofile build                              (John Levon)
o       PnP updates                                     (Adam Belay)
o       Fix visws framebuffer compile                   (Andrey Panin)
o       Avoid LBA48 modes on disks that don't need      (Jens Axboe)
        them (saves a 2nd command cycle on each I/O
        as suggested by Mark Lord)
o       Clean up ide list handling for drives           (Alexander Atanasov)
o       Remove present check from drivers (now          (Alexander Atanasov)
        handled by the list stuff)
o       Fix SMP boot timer oops                         (me)
        | Thanks to Steven Cole for pinning this down to
        | 5 lines of change
o       Port ltpc driver to spinlocks                   (me)
o       Fix cadet driver missing symbol                 (me)
o       Fix cops driver locking                         (me)
o       Fix arcnet.c locking                            (me)

Linux 2.5.66-ac1
o       Fix up ESI handling in esp.c                    (me)
        | Lots more needs fixing in this driver yet
o       Merge Linus 2.5.66
o       Fix cramfs compile problems                     (Jeremy Brown, me)
o       Fix mad16 breakage                              (Adrian Bunk)
o       Iphase fixes port to 2.5                        (Chas Williams,
                                                         Eric Leblond)
o       Fix ipc/msg race                                (Manfred Spraul)
o       Let hdparm know about speed change fails        (Jens Axboe)
o       Don't issue WIN_SET_MAX on older drivers        (Jens Axboe)
        (Breaks some Samsung)
o       Resync with Linus bk3 snapshot


Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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