Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 00:01:26 +0000 (GMT) From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk To: kernel@linuxtoday.com Subject: Linux 2.4.1-ac8 ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/ 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 2.4.2-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) --- 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