Date: Wed, 3 Jan 2001 18:22:16 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.2.19pre6
2.2.19pre6
o Yamaha PCI sound updates (Pete Zaitcev)
o Alpha SMP ASN reuse races (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Alpha bottom half SMP race fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Alpha SMP read_unloc race fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Show registers across CPUs on SMP alpha death (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Print the 8K of stack not the top 4K on x86 (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Dcache aging (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Kill unused parameter in free_inode_memory (Andrea Arcangeli)
2.2.19pre5
o Fix dumpable stuff (Wolfgang Walter)
o PPA driver update (Tim Waugh)
o ARM updates (Russell - ptrace.c errored please (Russell King)
resolve)
o Fix NFS data alignment on ARM (Russell King)
o Fix hang on boot with ALi5451 shared irq midi (Stephen Usher)
o ESS Maestro 3 driver (Zach 'Fufu' Brown)
o Belorussia/Ukraine NLS table (koi8-ru) (Andy Rysin)
2.2.19pre4
o Fixed duplicate info on the microcode driver (Daniel Rogers)
o Update watchdog structs for nice user export (Eric Brower)
o Update Documentation/devices.txt (H Peter Anvin)
o Tweak sched.h to handle limit in Sparc (Andrea Arcangeli)
'make check_asm'
o Move isdn pci definitions into pci.h (Kai Germaschewski)
o Tidy init data/static vars in the isdn code (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix abuse of int for bitops in isdn (Kai Germaschewski)
o Use named initializers on the AVM B1 (Kai Germaschewski)
o Switch capi message length to unsigned (Kai Germaschewski)
o ISDN updates (Kai Germaschewski)
o Update microcode code to check features right (Tigran Aivazian)
in 2.2
o E820 handling fixup (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix ne2k-pci driver build bug (J.A. Magallon)
o DC390 driver updates (Kurt Garloff)
o Handle thinkpad E820 edx overwriting (Marc Joosen)
o Update the osst driver to 0.8.6.1 (Kurt Garloff,
Willem Riede)
o Init the cmpci if compiled in (Raúl Núñez de Arenas Coronado)
o ATP870U SCSI updates to fix disconnect bug (Wittman Li)
o Clean up the usbdevfs backport (Dan Streetman)
o Fix ATI rage makefiles (Brad Douglas)
2.2.19pre3
o Merge ADMtek-comet tulip support (Jim McQuillan)
o Update microcode driver (Tigran Aivazian)
o Merge Don Becker's NE2K full duplex support (Juan Lacarta)
o Optimise kernel compiler detect, kgcc before (Peter Samuelson)
gcc272 also
o Fix compile combination problems (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update via-rhine driver to include Don's changes(Urban Widmark)
for VT6102
o Documentation updates (Tim Waugh)
o Add ISDN PCI defines to pci.h (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix smb/fat handling for pre 1980 dates (Igor Zhbanov)
o SyncLink updates (Paul Fulghum)
o ICP vortex driver updates (Andreas Köpf)
o mdacon clean up (Pavel Rabel)
o Fix bugs in es1370/es1371/sonicvibes/solo1/ (Thomas Sailer)
dabusb
o Speed up x86 irq/fault paths by avoiding xchg (Mikael Pettersson)
locked cycles (from Brian Gerst's 2.4test change)
o Tighten up K6 check in bug tests (Mikael Pettersson)
o Backport configure scripts bug fixes (Mikael Pettersson)
o Fix duplicat help entries (Riley Williams)
o Fix small asm bug in constant size uaccess (David Kutz)
o Update ymfpci driver to handle legacy audio (Daisuke Nagano)
o Remove ymfsb driver now no longer needed (Daisuke Nagano)
o Add Empeg support to usb-serial (Gary Brubaker)
o Fix e820 handling (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix lanstreamer SMP locking (George Staikos)
o Fix S/390 non SMP build (Kurt Roeckx)
o Fix the PCI syscall on PowerMac (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o Fix IPC_RMID behaviour (Christoph Rohland)
o Fix NETCTL_GETFD on sparc64 (Dave Miller)
o Tidy unneeded restore_flags/save sequence (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
on the ultrastor
o Fix resource clean up on error in 89xo (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
driver
o Update wireless headers (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Fix non modular emu10k init (Mikael Pettersson)
o Fix cpuid/msr driver crashes (Andrew Morton)
o Write core files sparse (Christoph Rohland)
o Merge the i810 tco (watchdog) timer (me)
| original by Jeff Garzik
2.2.19pre2
o Drop the page aging for a moment to merge the
Andrea VM
o Merge Andrea's VM-global patch (Andrea Arcangeli)
2.2.19pre1
o Basic page aging (Neil Schemenauer)
| This is a beginning to trying to get the VM right
| Next stage is to go through Andrea's stuff and sort
| it out the way I want it.
o E820 memory detect backport from 2.4 (Michael Chen)
o Fix cs46xx refusing to run on emachines400 (me)
o Fix parport docs (Tim Waugh)
o Fix USB serial name reporting (me)
o Fix else warning in initio scsi (John Fort)
o Fix incorrect timeout (that couldnt occur
fortunately) in sched.c (Andrew Archibald)
o Fix A20 fix credits (Christian Lademann)
o Support for OnStream SC-x0 tape drives (Willem Riede,
Kurt Garloff)
o Intel 815 added to the AGPGART code (Robert M Love)
o 3Ware scsi fixes (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Clean up scsi_init_malloc no mem case (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix dead module parameter in ip_masq_user.c (Keith Owens)
o Switch max_files and friends to a struct to (Tigran Aivazian)
be sure they stay together
o Update microcode driver (Tigran Aivazian)
o Fix free memory dereference in lance driver (Eli Carter)
o ISOfs fixes (Andries Brouwer)
o Watchdog driver for Advantech boards (Marek Michalkiewicz)
o ISDN updates (Karsten Keil)
o Docs fix (Pavel Rabel)
o wake_one semantics for accept() (Andrew Morton)
o Masquerade updates (Juanjo Ciarlante)
o Add support for long serialnums on the Metricom (Alex Belits)
o Onboard ethernet driver for the Intel 'Panther' (Ard van Breemen,
boards Andries Brouwer)
o VIA686a timer reset to 18Hz background (Vojtech Pavlik)
o 3c527 driver rewrite (Richard Procter)
| This supercedes my driver because
| - it works for more people
| - he has time to use his MCA box to debug it
o Minix subpartition support (Anand Krishnamurthy
Rajeev Pillai)
o Remove unused() crap from DRM. You will need
to hand load agp as well if needed (me)
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Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
http://www.linux.org.uk/diary http://www.brainbench.com
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