Release notes for v2.5.10
Summary of changes from v2.5.9 to v2.5.10
============================================
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/16 1.532)
Rename O_TARGET to <subdir>.o in drivers/usb.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/16 1.533)
Cleanup drivers/usb/Makefile and Config.in's
Use the fact that now O_TARGET == <subdir.o> to simplify the
Makefile.
Correct mod-subdirs use.
Remove unneeded code from drivers/usb/*/Config.in
<tony@cantech.net.au> (02/04/17 1.531.4.1)
[PATCH] Change "return EBLAH" to "return -EBLAH in drivers/*
Hello All,
This is a simple patch that changes several "return EBLAH"'s in drivers/*
for "return -EBLAH". I have done my best to check the call stack to ensure
that the change in sign of the return values wont break anything.
The patch supplied is agaist linux-2.4.19-pre6
<oliver@neukum.name> (02/04/19 1.531.4.2)
[PATCH] USB hpusbscsi device added
USB hpusbscsi driver
- device added
<greg@kroah.com> (02/04/19 1.531.4.3)
USB keyspan driver
Added support for the 19QI and 19QW devices.
Updated the firmware images with new versions.
minor cleanups to the driver.
<greg@kroah.com> (02/04/19 1.531.4.4)
USB core
Took out the limitation that drivers had to take up 16 minors. Now
they can use only 1 if they want to.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/21 1.531.6.8)
Move CAPI subsystem and AVM drivers to their new place in the tree.
<s.doyon@videotron.ca> (02/04/22 1.536)
[PATCH] added Tieman Voyager USB Braille driver
added Tieman Voyager USB Braille driver
<mark@hal9000.dyndns.org> (02/04/22 1.537)
This updates the ov511 driver to the latest stable version (1.60).
Summary of changes:
- Remove palette conversion and related code
- Full OV518 support (except for color), initial OV518+ support
- Improved OV6620 quality (Credit: Alexandre F.)
- ov51x_init_isoc() should exit if usb_submit_urb() fails
- ISO completion handler should only issue warning if bad data is received
- Added "mirror" module parameter; reverses image horizontally
- Changed USB control transaction fields to match Windows driver
- New decompression module locking (decomp_ops->owner), per Greg's advice
- EXPORT_SYMBOL_NOVERS => EXPORT_SYMBOL
- New devices: Lifeview USB Live TV PAL/SECAM and PAL D/K+B/G
- Disabled buf_timeout feature. It was calling vfree() in interrupt
context, which is illegal. Memory is deallocated immediately on close().
- Most sensors thought to be OV7620AE were actually OV76BE. Changed code
to reflect this, and emit a warning if an OV7620AE is encountered.
- Miscellaneous cleanups and bug fixes
<greg@kroah.com> (02/04/22 1.538)
USB ov511 driver
changed test_bit() call.
<petkan@mastika.lnxw.com> (02/04/22 1.539)
USB pegasus and rtl8150
Rx tasklet cleanups for both pegasus and rtl8150
<greg@kroah.com> (02/04/22 1.540)
USB keyspan driver
general cleanups:
- removed commented out function prototypes
- removed duplicate function prototypes
- removed unneeded #include
- added named initializers
- merged lots of the individual device structures into general 1, 2, and 4 port structures.
<david-b@pacbell.net> (02/04/22 1.541)
[PATCH] PATCH: 2.5.8 ehci, submit errors
It fixes problems with interrupt transfers, which I think that
nobody else has run into (or I'd surely have heard of it :).
Looks like not many folk are using USB 2.0 hubs yet.
- wasn't checking enough of the periodic schedule to
detect bandwidth overcommit (would BUG out)
- frames to uframes is rightshift 3, not 8 :)
- properly cleans up (no oops!) after certain rare errors
in the interrupt submit path (just my luck to hit one)
- use that cleanup to bypass some old implementation
shortcuts in the control and bulk submit paths
- there are also some other minor updates/cleanups
<david-b@pacbell.net> (02/04/22 1.542)
[PATCH] Re: PATCH: 2.5.8 ehci, submit errors
Oh, and for non-x86 platforms with interesting pci
mapping, this tweak to one new routine would be
important in a particular error path I've yet to see ... :)
<dkuhlen@fhm.edu> (02/04/22 1.543)
[PATCH] fix USB documentation bug
USB fix documentation bug
After some source investigations I discovered a harmless mistake:
The description of the usb_control_msg(...) function says
it returns 0, or less than 0 if an error occured, but
the usb_internal_control_msg returns length, which is sometimes >0
(success) or <0 if error.
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/22 1.531.7.1)
Remove one occurence of list-multi in drivers/isdn/tpam/Makefile
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/22 1.531.7.2)
Remove list-multi in drivers/net/*/Makefile
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/22 1.531.7.3)
Remove list-multi in sound/*/Makefile
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/22 1.544.2.1)
Duh. Re-fix the UP setup_per_cpu_areas() case that got
fixed a few times too many already ;)
<anton@samba.org> (02/04/22 1.544.2.2)
[PATCH] double down() in nfsd_symlink
As a result of the recent BKL removal in notify_change, nfsd_symlink
downs the inode semaphore twice (the first time is in fh_lock).
<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de> (02/04/23 1.547)
Fix a typo which left aic7xxx/Makefile broken
Now it really works (I tried).
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/23 1.548)
Fix some strange (and incorrect) reiserfs bit-op casts..
No object-code changes, but removes warnings from the stricter
typechecking.
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/23 1.549)
Add a "const" qualifier to test_bit() on x86, to avoid
warnings for proper usage.
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/23 1.550)
Update to version 2.5.10
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/23 1.551)
Add ATI Radeon 8500 ID
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/23 1.552)
Bitops need "unsigned long".
<oliendm@us.ibm.com> (02/04/23 1.553)
[PATCH] 2.5.9 SEM_UNDO patch
As we discussed some time ago, here is a patch for the SEM_UNDO change
that can be applied to linux-2.5.9.
<haveblue@us.ibm.com> (02/04/23 1.554)
[PATCH] Locking in sync_old_buffers
Move BKL into the fs-specific write_super()'s.
<kuebelr@email.uc.edu> (02/04/23 1.555)
[PATCH] spelling mistakes
Fix a few spelling mistakes in documentation (arch/i386/boot/setup.S,
Documentation/sysrq.txt).
<smurf@osdl.org> (02/04/23 1.556)
[PATCH] MegaRAID - compile fix for 2.5.9
This fixes compile errors. It has been tested with a weekend of Bonnie++ 8GB
runs on a RAID0 setup at the OSDL. This was built against and tested on 2.5.8
and applies cleanly to 2.5.9.
LSI told me they have a version 2.0 of the driver in development but
it would be really nice to have the dang thing working now ;-)
<ak@muc.de> (02/04/23 1.557)
[PATCH] x86-64 next sync for 2.5.9
This patch fixes up some lose ends left over from the last x86-64 jumbo merge.
- make it compile again. ia32_ioctl was referencing IDE ioctls that got
remove in a merge race
- Use the memset/FXRSTOR way to initialize the FPU, as discussed.
- Fix semctl/shmctl ABI (thanks to Andreas Schwab)
- Other minor fixes.
<torvalds@home.transmeta.com> (02/04/23 1.558)
Fix include files for write_super BKL move.
Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.
LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.
Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2025 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved
Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.