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Linus Torvalds: Linux-2.4.11-pre5

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LT
Linus Torvalds
Oct 7, 2001

http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/

Date:   Sun, 7 Oct 2001 11:49:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: Linus Torvalds 
Subject: Linux-2.4.11-pre5


USB and quota update.

And the fix for VM breakage in pre4.

                Linus

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pre5:
 - Keith Owens: module exporting error checking
 - Greg KH: USB update
 - Paul Mackerras: clean up wait_init_idle(), ppc prefetch macros
 - Jan Kara: quota fixes
 - Abraham vd Merwe: agpgart support for Intel 830M
 - Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader cleanups
 - Al Viro: more cleanups
 - David Miller: sparc64 fix, netfilter fixes
 - me: tweak resurrected oom handling

pre4:
 - Al Viro: separate out superblocks and FS namespaces: fs/super.c father=
s
   fs/namespace.c
 - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update
 - Marcelo Tosatti: resurrect oom handling
 - Hugh Dickins: add_to_swap_cache racefix cleanup
 - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update
 - Martin Bligh: support clustered logical APIC for >8 CPU x86 boxes
 - Richard Henderson: alpha update

pre3:
 - Al Viro: superblock cleanups, partition handling fixes and cleanups
 - Ben Collins: firewire update
 - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
 - Urban Widmark: smbfs updates
 - Kai M=E4kisara: SCSI tape driver update
 - various: embarrassing lack of error checking in ELF loader
 - Neil Brown: md formatting cleanup.

pre2:
 - me/Al Viro: fix bdget() oops with block device modules that don't
   clean up after they exit
 - Alan Cox: continued merging (drivers, license tags)
 - David Miller: sparc update, network fixes
 - Christoph Hellwig: work around broken drivers that add a gendisk more
   than once
 - Jakub Jelinek: handle more ELF loading special cases
 - Trond Myklebust: NFS client and lockd reclaimer cleanups/fixes


 - Greg KH: USB updates
 - Mikael Pettersson: sparate out local APIC / IO-APIC config options

pre1:
 - Chris Mason: fix ppp race conditions
 - me: buffers-in-pagecache coherency, buffer.c cleanups
 - Al Viro: block device cleanups/fixes
 - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS 1.1.20 update
 - Andrea Arcangeli: VM tweaks
LT

Linus Torvalds

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