From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2/..
This is primarily for people who want the large file array
support. Most of the other stuff I intend to submit on to Linus for
2.2.1/2.2.2.
If you have a problem in 2.2.0ac1 verify you can duplicate it
with 2.2.0 before posting general bug reports if possible, also
make sure its obvious a bug report is about -ac1 to avoid any
confusion.
Definitely let me know if you have any ac1 specific
problems.
Alan
Differences between 2.2.0 and 2.2.0ac1
Bug Fixes
- Fixed the ESS compile problem
- Changed the OPL3-SA contact as requested by Hannu
- Small number of time wrap fixes
- Xconfig/atyfb config fix
- AFFS apparently didnt get the flag fixes when the other drivers
did. - /proc/mem locking
Additional Features
- Support for very large numbers of file handles per process
(> 1024) - Better bw-qcam driver
- NFS client understands pipes on file systems mounted via
NFS - Symbol name matching between versioned/unversioned modules
Additional Drivers
- Qlogic Fibrechannel
- Symbios 53c416
Other
- ADFS updated
- Lots of ARM merges
- Ted’s fsync change to ext2