Date: Thu, 9 Nov 2000 17:52:29 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds torvalds@transmeta.com To: Kernel Mailing List linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: test11-pre2 Nothing stands out as affecting most people here. Security fix for /proc, and various cleanups. Alpha and sparc fixes. If you use RAID or ramdisk, upgrade. Linus ----- - pre2: - Stephen Rothwell: directory notify could return with the lock held - Richard Henderson: CLOCKS_PER_SEC on alpha. - Jeff Garzik: ramfs and highmem: kmap() the page to clear it - Asit Mallick: enable the APIC in the official order - Neil Brown: avoid rd deadlock on io_request_lock by using a private rd-request function. This also avoids unnecessary request merging at this level. - Ben LaHaise: vmalloc threadign and overflow fix - Randy Dunlap: USB updates (plusb driver). PCI cacheline size. - Neil Brown: fix a raid1 on top of lvm bug that crept in in pre1 - Alan Cox: various (Athlon mmx copy, NULL ptr checks for scsi_register etc). - Al Viro: fix /proc permission check security hole. - Can-Ru Yeou: SiS301 fbcon driver - Andrew Morton: NMI oopser and kernel page fault punch through both console_lock and timerlist_lock to make sure it prints out.. - Jeff Garzik: clean up "kmap()" return type (it returns a kernel virtual address, ie a "void *"). - Jeff Garzik: network driver docs, various one-liners. - David Miller: add generic "special" flag to page flags, to be used by architectures as they see fit. Like keeping track of cache coherency issues. - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly - David Miller: networking - fix some bridge issues, and correct IPv6 sysctl entries. - Dan Aloni: make fork.c use proper macro rather than doing get_exec_domain() by hand. - pre1: - me: make PCMCIA work even in the absense of PCI irq's - me: add irq mapping capabilities for Cyrix southbridges - me: make IBMMCA compile right as a module - me: uhhuh. Major atomic-PTE SMP race boo-boo. Fixed. - Andrea Arkangeli: don't allow people to set security-conscious bits in mxcsr through ptrace SETFPXREGS. - Jürgen Fischer: aha152x update - Andrew Morton, Trond Myklebust: file locking fixes - me: TLB invalidate race with highmem - Paul Fulghum: synclink/n_hdlc driver updates - David Miller: export sysctl_jiffies, and have the proper no-sysctl version handy - Neil Brown: RAID driver deadlock and nsfd read access to execute-only files fix - Keith Owens: clean up module information passing, remove "get_module_symbol()". - Jeff Garzik: network (and other) driver fixes and cleanups - Andrea Arkangeli: scheduler cleanup. - Ching-Ling Li: fix ALi sound driver memory leak - Anton Altaparmakov: upcase fix for NTFS - Thomas Woller: CS4281 audio update
Linus Torvalds: 2.4.0-test11-pre2
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