Alan Cox: Linux kernel 2.2.18pre1

Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2000 23:54:06 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux 2.2.18pre1

Since 2.2.17 isnt out yet I've released 2.2.18pre1 versus 2.2.17pre20. So
you need to grab 2.2.16 then apply the 2.2.17pre20 patch then the 2.2.18pre
patch of choice.

2.2.18pre1  (versus 2.2.17pre20)

o       Update symbios/ncr driver to 1.7.0/3.4.0        (Gerhard Roudier)
o       Updated ATP870U driver                          (ACard)
o       Avoid running tq_scheduler stuff sometimes with (Andrea Arcangeli)
        interrupts off
o       Futher cpu setup updates                        (me)
o       IBM MCA scsi driver updates                     (Michael Lang)
o       Fix incorrect out of memory handling in bttv    (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix incorrect out of memory handling in buz     (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix incorrect out of memory handling in qpmouse (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in ipddp         (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in sdla          (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in softoss       (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in ixj           (Dawson Engler)
o       Fix error handling memory leak in ax25          (Dawson Engler)
o       Merge the microcode driver from 2.4 into 2.2    (Tigran Aivazian)
o       Fix skbuff handling bug in the smc9194 driver   (Arnaldo Melo)
o       Fix problems with SIS900 driver on some 630E    (Lei-Chun Chang)
        boards
o       Make vfat use the same generation rules as      (H. Kawaguchi,
        in windows 9x                                    Chip Salzenberg)
o       Fix oops in the CPQ array driver                (Arnaldo Melo)
o       Fix ac97 codec not setting the id field         (Bill Nottingham)
o       Further work on the cs46xx/CD power bits        (me)
o       Synclink updates                                (Paul Fulgham)
o       Synclink init bug fix                           (Arnaldo Melo)
o       Handle odd interrupts from toshiba floppies     (Alain Knaff)
o       Fix trident driver build on nautilus Alpha      (Peter Petrakis)
o       Add later sb16 imix support tot he sb driver    (Massimo Dal Zotto)
o       Ignore luns that report can be connected, but   (Matt Domsch)
        not currently
o       Fix dereference after kfree in uart401.c        (Dawson Engler)
o       Return correct SuS error code for an unknown    (Herbert Xu)
        socket family
o       Add sub window clipping to the bttv driver      (Thomas Jacob)
o       Fix nfs cache locked messages                   (Trond Myklebust)
o       Fix the modutils misdocumentation               (Martin Douda)
o       Remove bogus biosparm code from seagate.c       (Andries Brouwer)
o       Return correct error code on failed fasync set  (Chip Salzenberg)
o       Handle dcc resume with newer irc clients when   (Scottie Shore)
        doing an irq masq