Alan Cox writes: Ok this is 2.0.37pre5. It fixes the obvious glaring bugs that pre4 found. What I do still have is a big pile of often muddled updates because I've got several versions from people sometimes of indeterminable age that piled up while 2.2 got a bit hectic. Im missing some updates (pptp for one). Can people whose stuff isnt there please send new diffs _versus 2.0.37pre5_. Alan 2.0.37pre5 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre4 o Configuration tool fixes (me) o MegaRAID update (AMI) o ioctl thread fix (me) o RCPCI update (Red Creek) o IDE OOps fix (from 2.2) o Symbios 53c416 driver (Lieven Willems) o PARIDE enhancements (Grant) o SMART2 update (Compaq) o Cyclades PCI update (Cyclades) o ISO 8859-15 (From 2.2) o DAC960 update (Leonard Zubkoff) 2.0.37pre4 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre3 o IDE updates (Andrew Balsa, Andre Hedrick and co) | This should now get big disks the right size for one | Also blacklists apparent problem WDC drives | Test heavily o Compaq SmartRAID support (Compaq) o DC390 updated (Kurt Garloff) o TIOCSBRK (Uwe Bonnes) o EPIC update (Don Becker) o Build with PROCFS=n (Hans-Joachim Baader) o ISOfs handle more icky cds (Ulrik Dickow) o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford) o PARIDE update (grant) o Config for memory cleaned (me, Riley, others) 2.0.37pre3 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre2 o Nasty cache bug fixed (Mikael Pettersson) | Quake should work again now. o NCR53c8xx update (Gerard Roudier) o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford) o Initio driver update (Bas) o Dumb sound bug cured (Oleg Drokin) o Lance multidetect fix (Orc) o Miscellaneous cleanup/small fixes (Hans-Joachim Baader, Scott, Riley and others) 2.0.37pre2 includes the following changes over 2.0.37pre1 o ACard SCSI driver (ACard) o Initio SCSI update (Initio) o Tulip driver update (Don Becker) o Add new SMC card to PCI (Andrew Pam) o DVD may have >800Mb files (Ulrich Habel) o Readv/writev mand lock fix (Jamie Lokier) o Support for 2Gig/3Gig machines (Ingo/Leonard) | Im not sure quite if Ingo's patch is based on Leonards or whatever | Also if you use 2Gig or 3Gig you are shrinking the per process | address space. So dont do it casually. o Fix protocol bug in IGMP2 code (Julian Highfield) o Floppy driver update (Alain Knaff) 2.0.37pre1 includes the following changes over 2.0.36 o Serial supports a couple of PCI cards (Henning Schmiedehausen) o Tekram (DC390T) update (Kurt Garloff) o DAC960 beta driver (Leonard Zubkoff) o Slow A20 gate fix (Leonard Zubkoff) o Keyboard race fix o 3c59x updated (Don Becker) o DEPCA updated (Don Becker) o EEPro100 updated (Don Becker) o RTL8139 updated (Don Becker) o Initio 91XX driver (Initio, arranged by SuSE) o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford) o ICMP include symbol fix o Bridge port change fix (Vova Oksman) o PPTP masquerading
Linux 2.0.37pre5 released
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