Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 19:14:40 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.4.1ac19
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
"An innovation a day keeps the monopolist away"
2.4.1-ac19
o Fix second module/exception table race (me)
| I hope ;)
o Additional CPIA usb ident (Adam J Richter)
o Add SA1100 udc and also stall recovery to (Oleg Drokin)
usbnet
o Limit smbfs to 2Gig/file (Urban Widmark)
o Config/doc update for the eicon driver (Armin Schindler)
o Update PMS driver to new request_region (Andrey Panin)
o sys_semop bug check is overcareful (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix ipc off by one on checks in ipc (Hugh Dickins)
o Allow exceptions during module init (Philipp Rumpf)
o Driver namespace cleanup (Jeff Garzik)
o Network driver cleanups (Jeff Garzik,
o PPC irq updates (Paul Mackerras)
o SMP fixes for PPC boxes (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix tmpfs block size reporting (Christoph Rohland)
o Update maintainers to add missing YAM maintainer(Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o Add hooks for /proc/rtas (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix wrong bogomip reporting on SMP ppc (Paul Mackerras)
o Remove unused dbcf inline function on PPC (Paul Mackerras)
o Update Cort Dougans email/urls (Paul Mackerras)
o Dont assume bit settings on pcnet/pci chips (Paul Mackerras)
o Add mac ppc serial console hooks (Paul Mackerras)
o Frame buffer driver updates for ppc (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix devfs names for ppc serial (Paul Mackerras)
o Move some symbols out of net where they didnt
belong, and into right export locations (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Tidy and fix up syncppp drivers (Krzysztof Halasa)
2.4.1-ac18
o Fix SO_SNDTIMEO bugs (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix tmpfs fsync (Lennert Buytenhek)
o PPC now uses generic pci bus setup (Paul Mackerras)
o Remove PPC boot argument printing (Paul Mackerras)
o Jeff Tranter has moved (Jeff Tranter)
o ymf_pci driver cleanups (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix USB 2.0 compliance in hub.c (Brad Hards)
o Fix usb hub device claim race (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix some bugs in mac_hid driver (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix more typos (Dag Wieers)
o PPC compile warnings/symbol export fixes (Paul Mackerras)
2.4.1-ac17
o Fix pegasus for bigendian (Roman Weissgaerber)
o Further smbfs fixes (Urban Widmark)
o Update ISDN version tags (Kai Germaschewski)
o Finish ISDN move to new style module_init (Kai Germaschewski)
o Small Eicon driver updates/fix license bug (Armin Schindler)
o Fix reiserfs tail packing problem (Alexander Zarochentcev
Chris Mason)
o Export aci symbols from drivers/sound/aci.c (Alexandr Kanevskiy)
o Merge Linus 2.4.2pre4
o Starfire update (Ionu Badulescu)
o Fix 3270 merge (Richard Hitt)
2.4.1-ac16
o Fix the exception table/unload race (me)
o Further tulip fixup (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix USB oops on traverse/delete race (Randy Dunlap)
o Set max_sectors to 255 for hd/xd drivers (Paul Gortmaker)
| This should make them work again
o Fix typo in USB makefile (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix accidental change to scsi_scan (Steve Ralston)
o Hid rollover/endian fixes (Paul Mackerras)
o Drop via pci fixup (me)
o Further hp5300 fixups (Arjan van de Ven)
o PCnet 32 init changes for non SEPROM cards (Eli Carter)
o Fix acpi idle reporting on SMP (Philipp Hahn)
o Add non PCI pci device list walk macro (me)
| pointed out by Mikael Pettersson
o IBM S/390 3270 drivers (Richard Hitt)
2.4.1-ac15
o Fix the non booting winchip/cyrix problem (me)
| Nasty interaction with the vmalloc fix
| wants a cleaner solution. This one is a hack
| to get people up and running again
o Fix typo in vfat changes (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Update scsi blacklist table (Karsten Hopp)
o dscc4 wan driver update (Francois Romieu)
o Fix clgenfb warning (Bryan Headley)
2.4.1-ac14
o Fix tulip problems introduced by in ac13 (Manfred Spraul)
o S/390x build fixes (Ulrich Weigand)
o Fix off by one error in octagon driver (David Woodhouse)
o Fix dasd driver for new queues (Holger Smolinksi)
o Networking standards compliance fixes
o Fix binary layout assumptions in sym53c416 (Arjan van de Ven)
o tmpfs timestamps (Christoph Rohland)
o Further mkdep changes (Keith Owens)
o Fix 16bit vfat handling (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o JIS nls fixes (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Handle more than 8 luns (Eric Youngdale,
Doug Gilbert)
o Minor scsi clean ups (Eric Youngdale)
2.4.1-ac13
o Fix pnic tulip problems (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix USB printer read and poll problems (Johannes Erdfelt)
o Fix parport pci list corrupt bug (Tim Waugh)
o Fix sbpcd driver crashes (Paul Gortmaker)
o Clarify the locking doc (Rusty Russell)
o i810 audio doesnt need OSS (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix vmalloc fault race (Mark Hemment)
o Makedep fixes (Keith Owens)
o Fix missing unlock_kernel on usb hub (Paul Mundt)
o Fix smbfs+bigmem, buffer and listing bugs (Urban Widmark)
o Merge tms380 isa token ring support (Jochen Friedrich)
o Sigmatel change didnt help, removed (Jeff Garzik)
2.4.1-ac12
o Make tmpfs use link counts of 2 on directories (Christoph Rohland)
o Update Documentation/sound/Introductions (Wade Hampton)
o Fix bug in new tlb shootdown code (Ben LaHaise)
o Add isa_* api to the Alpha (Richard Henderson)
o Export down_trylock on Alpha (Richard Henderson)
o Fix maestro3 build on ia64 (Bill Nottingham)
2.4.1-ac11
o Hack the setup code to do the right thing for (me)
Cyrix processors. Cpuid on cyrix should now work
o Change sigmatel codec inits (Jeff Garzik)
o Revised TLB shootdown patch (Ben LaHaise)
o Use pci quirks to handle the nonstandard irq (Andrey Panin)
setup for VIA ACPI
o If a user sets an io on the opl3sa2 assume they (me)
mean it even if isapnp isnt turned off
o Fix xmms cpu burn on i810 audio (Marcus Sundberg)
o Fix pnic problems with tulip driver (Manfred Spraul)
o Add pci skeleton driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix vfat mishandling of 16bit characters (Kazuki Yasumatsu)
o Fix syntax things found by his source code (Jean-Luc Leger)
analyser
o Fix pcmcia ixj build bug (Florian)
o Remove dead via sound docs (Jeff Garzik)
o add __dev_alloc_skb for drivers needing to force(Jeff Garzik)
allocation types
o Fix arcnet initializers (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix various warnings (Keith Owens)
o Further MPT fusion updates (Steve Ralston)
o sock_alloc_send_skb fix (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix signed/unsigned handling on 8139too (Jeff Garzik)
o Document problem with old powertweak (Dave Jones)
o s/controler/controller/ spelling fixes
o S/390 build fixes (Neale Ferguson)
2.4.1-ac10
o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre3
o More net driver clean up (Jeff Garzik)
o Further maxiradio fix (Francois Romieu)
o Lock reclaiming fixes (MCL)
o Update ver_linux (Steven Cole)
o Add support for the Socket LP-E CF+ ethernet (Nicolas Pitre)
o Fix microtek scanner abort handling (Oliver Neukum)
o Fix very dumb bug in my dma.c changes that (me)
Linus noticed
o Clean up AGP alloc/destroy a little (me)
| Again a Linus request
o Remove dead 8129 config help (Dave Jones)
o Clean up extra unneeded check in setup.c (Dave Jones)
o Improve mkdep, remove acpi special case (Keith Owens)
o Fix bogus dead comment in fs.h (Jens Axboe)
o Clean up config.in syntax errors (Christoph Hellwig)
o Offer Duron in CPU option list for clarity (Terje Rosten)
o New binutils need --oformat, old ones handle it (Andreas Jaeger)
o Move bitops include in fs.h inside __KERNEL__ (Herbert Xu)
o Fix misspellings of weird (Felix Odenkirchen)
o Fix typos of 'valid' while we are at it (Luuk van der Duim)
2.4.1-ac9
o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2
o Highmem bounce fixes (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix cosa driver kfree (Jan Kasprzak)
o Clean up pdoc202xx driver sleeps (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Final bits of NFS file handle changes (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix usbnet driver (David Brownell)
o ATM includes fixes (Werner Almesberger)
o Remove unneeded vm_enough_memory check (Werner Almesberger)
o Fix free_dma prototype case (Bill Nottingham)
o Fix build bugs from pci_match_device fix (me)
o HP5300 USB scanner driver (Oliver Neukum,
John Fremlin,
Jeremy Hall)
o DSP_SETFRAGMENT fixes for ymfpci (Pavel Roskin)
o Fix codafs error returns (Rob Radez)
o Fix 48 misspellings of interrupt (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 20 misspellings of successful (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 11 misspellings of suppress (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 46 misspellings of address (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 26 misspellings of receive (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 7 misspellings of acquire (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 4 misspellings of unneccessary (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 13 misspellings of until (André Dahlqvist)
2.4.1-ac8
o Fix irlap speed changes and kfrees (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Further NTFS updates (Anton Altaparmakov,
Yuri Per, Rob Radez)
o Fix buglets in config.in for aic7xxx (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Cleanup irda QoS code (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Fix mca documentations (Rob Radez)
o Fix irlan device attach problems (Dag Brattli)
o Fix irda dongle crash case (Dag Brattli)
o Change Kaweth firmware loading, add DU-E10 (Eric Sandeen)
o pci_enable cleanups for networking (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix rcpci45 probing (Jeff Garzik)
o Use SET_MODULE_OWNER() in lanstreamer (Jeff Garzik)
o Use pcmcia defines as per seperate pcmcia net (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix people calling netif_start_queue from a (Jeff Garzik)
timeout
o Remove 8129 driver (use 8139too) (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove dead malloc.h from net drivers (Jeff Garzik)
o Update eata driver to 6.04 (Dario Ballabio)
o Add DE320 support to ne2.c (Alfred Arnold)
o Kernel hacking doc updates (John Levon)
o Fix CPU detection offsets in head.S (Mikael Pettersson)
o Fix apic init/cpu detect problems (Mikael Pettersson)
2.4.1-ac7
o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel)
| This should make things feel a lot faster especially
| on small boxes .. feedback to Rik
o Silence osf syscall error printk (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Don't trust ARC irq routing on ruffian (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Report the right module on 3c59x for pcmcia (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update i82365 driver to add locks, delays, and (Arjan van de Ven)
'bouncing' on the card detect
o Get the name right on ide-cs (v ide_cs) and do (Arjan van de Ven)
resource claims
o Merge parport_cs (David Hinds)
o Merge sedlbauer_cs (Marcus Niemann)
o Fix a bug in the Cyrix pirq routing (me)
2.4.1-ac6
o Fix eepro100 reporting on lockup fix (Ion Badulescu)
o Clean up i810 error message (me)
o Fix S390 build bug (me)
o Update version id on cpqarray driver (Charles White)
o Further aic7xxx fixes (Doug Ledford)
| again please report aic7xxx stuff to Doug
o Further maxiradio cleanups (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
o Change ide to use mdelay cleanly (Petr Vandrovec)
| Still broken for PROMISE if no IDE_CS
o Fix duplicated ncpfs fix (Petr Vandrovec)
o Improve inode hash function (Dave Miller)
o Correct 62 misspellings of transferred (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Update AC97 codec setup and tables (Jeff Garzik)
2.4.1-ac5
o Fix zero page corruption (Ben La Haise)
o Elevator corruption fixes (Jens Axboe, Linus)
o Fix fdatasync possible corruption problem (Arjan van de Ven)
o Further KSLI ethernet fixes (Eric Sandeen)
o Merge the correct version of the pm fixes (me)
| noted by Mikael Pettersson
o Account for inode/dcache in free memory (Rik van Riel)
o Add info on how to check reiserfsprogs versions (Steven Cole)
o Disable write combining on serverworks LE chips (Mark Rusk)
o Fix via audio crashes (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix ip accounting rules bug (Rusty Russell)
o Handle USB printers that use device not (Johannes Erdfelt)
interface descriptors
o Fix wheel on graphire usb tablet (Peter Hofmann)
o Clean up maxiradio driver (Francois Romieu)
o Fix visor USB size reporting on buffers (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update USB serial documentation (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix locking on etherworks3 ethernet (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix empeg USB driver problems (Gary Brubaker)
o Generic USB serial driver fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update USB serial configure.help (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add more device support to mct_u232 USB (Cornel Ciocirlan)
o Fix typo in asm-ppc/semaphore.h (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Report reiserfs tools in ver_linux (Steven Cole)
o Fix resource leaks in NCR_53c406, atari_scsi (Rasmus Andersen)
and qlogicisp
o Move pci_enable_device earlier for hamachi (Dave Jones)
o Type 6 drives are apparently floppy 2.88M (Dave Jones)
o Remove duplicate pci_enable_device in ne2kpci (Dave Jones)
2.4.1-ac4
o Fix sk_in use counting in svcsock.c (Neil Brown)
| Not yet a complete and final agreed solution
o Add support for KLSI USB ethernet (Brad Hards,
Stephane Alnet, 'the Zapman', and co)
o Update aic7xxx driver (Doug Ledford)
| Please test this carefully and cc reports to Doug
o Add help for CONFIG_INPUT (Steven Cole)
o 3c523 driver update (Tom Sightler)
o Fix reiserfs Changes entry further (Steven Cole)
o Limit ide scatter gather to 128 blocks (Jens Axboe)
o Merge hppa config.in changes (Matthew Wilcox)
o Fix tx timeout recovery on via rhine (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix stale comments in fs/block_dev.c (Tigran Aivazian)
o Further defxx driver work (Maciej Rozycki)
o winbond 840 reported wrong setting value (Maciej Rozycki)
o Guillemot Maxi radio support (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
o Allow sleeping in pm callbacks but with locking (me)
working
2.4.1-ac3
o Remove ancient dead net/Changes file (Janice Girouard)
o Merge Linus 2.4.2pre1
o Resync xirc2ps with Dave Hinds tree (dilinger)
o Finish sorting out ramfs problems (Mike Galbraith)
o Update AWE32 documentation (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Remove reference to dead PPP documentation (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Make max_map tunable (Werner Almesberger)
o Fix dead references to java support in some (Andre Dahlqvist)
arch/config
o Make shmfs estimate size limits if none set (Christoph Rohland)
o Revert Crusoe hanging pci hanging changes
| Im still chasing something weird in this
| area that some of the pci changes I have fixes...
o Merge HPPA hackers into CREDITS (Mathew Wilcox)
o Merge some of the HPPA updates (Mathew Wilcox)
o Add Reiserfs tools to changes (Steven Cole)
o Fix i2o Configure.help typo (YOSHIMURA Keitaro)
o SuperH HD64465 host bridge support (Greg Banks)
o Fix modversion.h includes (Keith Owens)
o Tlan driver probing updates (Jeff Garzik)
o Change media drivers to use new style module (me)
locking
| Janitorial job - fix the last ones that
| don't use module_*() and dump the init code
2.4.1-ac2
o Fix matrox G450 framebuffer support (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix description of DMA-mapping.txt (Dave Miller)
o Fix accidental revert of classifier bug (Dave Miller)
o Fix accidental revert of isdn change
o Fix datagram hang on shutdown (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix 64bit build of clntproc (Michal Jaegermann)
| wants a tidier solution yet
o Fix ide toc caching bug introduced in 2.4.0 (Fredrik Vraalsen)
| this should fix the DVD playback problems
o Swapfs renaming and final bits (Christoph Rohland)
o Further APIC/NMI updates (Mikael Pettersson)
o Add further kernel doc contributions (John Levon)
o ACPI battery tweaks (Pavel Machek)
o Further ramfs fixes (Ingo Oeser)
o ROMFS fixes (Mike Galbraith)
o CS4281 fixes (Thomas Woller)
o Shift to authors official fixes for acenic (Jes Sorensen)
o Update the usb host<->host network drivers (David Brownell)
| Experimental but he wanted feedback so if you
| have one beat it up a bit
2.4.1-ac1
o Resync with Linus 2.4.1
o Fix recursive make_request crash (Ingo Molnar)
o Updated VIA IDE driver (Vojtech Pavlik)
| Please exercise due care and caution testing this
| bit...
o Fix case where threaded apps might write to (Ben LaHaise)
freed kernel memory
o Fix ACPI oopses on tecra (apparently bios bugs) (Pavel Machek)
o AHA152x fixes from maintainer (Juergen Fischer)
o Fix case where scsi could hang on boot waiting (Rogier Wolff)
for a disk spinup
o Further maestro3 pm work (Zach Brown)
o Further NTFS fixes (Yuri Per)
o Add GNU make to the list of URLs in Changes (Steven Cole)
o Make dmx3191d enable device before touching it (Rasmus Andersen)
o Make the sbpcd driver actually useful in 2.4 (Paul Gortmaker)
o Make buslogic enable device before touching it (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix tty module locking mishandling (Maciej Rozycki)
o Workaround code for APIC problems with ne2k (Maciej Rozycki)
| this will break original 82489DX devices for now
| ie _very_ early dual pentium boards
o Fix iptos netfilter bug (Rusty Russell)
o Fix get/set_fpu_mxcsr to check xmm ont fxsr (Doug Ledford)
o Fix name_to_kdev_t symbol (Adam J Richter)
o Update magic sysrq docs (Jeremy Dolan)
o Support for ETinc PCIsync boards (Francois Romieu)
o Mass duplicated word spelling fixes (Dave Jones)
o Update sb driver to use spinlocks (Chris Rankin)
o Fix leak in bmac driver (Hans Grobler)
o Fix kmalloc check in atm/common (Hans Grobler)
o Fix buffer leak in defxx (Hans Grobler)
o Fix kmalloc check in netrom driver (Hans Grobler)
|BTW side exercise - how about using vmalloc here ?
o Ditto for rose (Hans Grobler)
|Ditto for comment ;)
o Fix lockd 64bit handling (H J Lu)
o Tidy pci_match_device ifdefs (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix qla1280 handling of registration failure (Rasmus Andersen
Rakesh Rakesh)
o Config include fixes (Niels Jensen)
o MatroxFB updates (Petr Vandrovec)
o Tidy fat_read_super to use get_hardsect_size (Tigran Aivazian)
o Fix m68k bitops ffs() (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix ip_nat_standalone ksyms stuff (Rusty Russell)
o Fix copy_from_user mishandling in ip_fw_compat (Rusty Russell)
o Fix romfs for 2.4ac maxbytes (Mike Galbraith)
o filemap/aging updates (Rik van Riel)
o Enable device before reading irq in ne2k-pci (Martin Diehl)
o Remove surplus nr_ioapics definition (Rasmus Andersen)
o S/390 build fixes (Florian Laroche)
o Advansys driver fixes/portability (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix out of message handling error in i2o_block (Jason Lai)
o Fix bit granularity of 32 in ACPI driver (Adam J Richter)
o Fix unsafe casting for ARM on NFS root mount (Russell King)
o Fix mxcsr masking on pentium IV (Doug Ledford)
o Update u14/eata drivers to 6.03 (Dario Ballabio)
o Fix signed/unsigned mess in sysctl handlers (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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