Linux 2.4.17-pre7 Released | Linux Today

Linux 2.4.17-pre7 Released

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Dec 10, 2001

[ Thanks to Johann
Scheepers
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pre7:

- More USB updates                              (Greg KH)
- Add missing checks on shmat()                 (Christoph Rohland)
- ymfpci update                                 (Pete Zaitcev)
- Add aacraid driver                            (Alan Cox)
- Actually apply some of the Alan's changes
  which were on pre6 changelog.                 (silly me)
- Clean up t128 SCSI driver                     (Alan Cox)
- Clean up dtc SCSI driver                      (Alan Cox) 
- Undo lcall patch from -pre6                   (me)
- More ISDN updates                             (Kai Germaschewski)


pre6:

- ISDN fixes                                    (Kai Germaschewski)
- Eicon driver updates                          (Kai Germaschewski)
- ymfpci update                                 (Pete Zaitcev)
- Fix multithread coredump deadlock             (Manfred Spraul)
- Support /dev/kmem access to vmalloc space     (Marc Boucher)
- ext3 fixes/enhancements                       (Andrew Morton) 
- Add IT8172G driver to Config.in/Makefile      (Giacomo Catenazzi)
- Configure.help update                         (Eric S. Raymond)
- Create __devexit_p() function and use that on 
  drivers which need it to make it possible to 
  use newer binutils                            (Keith Owens) 
- Make PCMCIA compile without PCI support       (Paul Mackerras)
- Use copy_user_highpage instead copy_highpage
  on COW path.                                  (David S. Miller)
- Cacheline align some more performance
  critical spinlocks                            (Anton Blanchard)
- sonypi driver update                          (Michael C.B. Ashley/Bob Donnelly)
- direct render for some SiS cards              (Torsten Duwe/Alan Cox)
- full handling of the NFSv3 'jukebox' feature  (Trond Myklebust)
- NFS performance improvements                  (Trond Myklebust)
- More parport fixes                            (Tim Waugh)
- Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs                 (Alan Cox)
- NCR5380/PAS driver update                     (Alan Cox)
- Add aacraid to the SCSI list                  (Alan Cox)
- fdomain driver fixes                          (Alan Cox)

pre5:

- 8139too fixes                                 (Andreas Dilger)
- sym53c8xx_2 update                            (Gerard Roudier)
- loopback deadlock bugfix                      (Jan Kara)
- Yet another devfs update                      (Richard Gooch) 
- Enable K7 SSE                                 (John Clemens)
- Make grab_cache_page return NULL instead 
  ERR_PTR: callers expect NULL on failure       (Christoph Hellwig)
- Make ide-{disk-floppy} compile without 
  PROCFS support                                (Robert Love)
- Another ymfpci update                         (Pete Zaitcev)
- indent NCR5380.{c,h}, g_NCR5380.{c,h}, plus 
  NCR5380 fix                                   (Alan Cox)
- SPARC32/64 update                             (David S. Miller)
- Fix atyfb warnings                            (David S. Miller)
- Make bootmem init code correctly align 
  bootmem data                                  (David S. Miller)
- Networking updates                            (David S. Miller)
- Fix scanning luns > 7 on SCSI-3 devices       (Michael Clark)
- Add sparse lun hint for Chaparral G8324 
        Fibre-SCSI controller                   (Michael Clark)
- Really apply sg changes                       (me)
- Parport updates                               (Tim Waugh)
- ReiserFS updates                              (Vladimir V. Saveliev)
- Make AGP code scan all kinds of devices:
  they are not always video ones                (Alan Cox)
- EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS in floppy.c                 (Alan Cox)
- Pentium IV Hyperthreading support             (Alan Cox)

pre4:

- Added missing tcp_diag.c and tcp_diag.h       (me)

pre3:

- Enable ppro errata workaround                 (Dave Jones)
- Update tmpfs documentation                    (Christoph Rohland)
- Fritz!PCIv2 ISDN card support                 (Kai Germaschewski)
- Really apply ymfpci changes                   (Pete Zaitcev)
- USB update                                    (Greg KH)
- Adds detection of more eepro100 cards         (Troy A. Griffitts)
- Make ftruncate64() compliant with SuS         (Andrew Morton)
- ATI64 fb driver update                        (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Coda fixes                                    (Jan Harkes)
- devfs update                                  (Richard Gooch)
- Fix ad1848 breakage in -pre2                  (Alan Cox)
- Network updates                               (David S. Miller)
- Add cramfs locking                            (Christoph Hellwig)
- Move locking of page_table_lock on expand_stack
  before accessing any vma field                (Manfred Spraul)
- Make time monotonous with gettimeofday        (Andi Kleen)
- Add MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to ide-tape.c         (Mikael Pettersson)
- Minor cs46xx ioctl fix                        (Thomas Woller)

pre2:

- Remove userland header from bonding driver    (David S. Miller)
- Create a SLAB for page tables on i386         (Christoph Hellwig)
- Unregister devices at shaper unload time      (David S. Miller)
- Remove several unused variables from various
  places in the kernel                          (David S. Miller)
- Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
  it may be not valid on some platforms         (David S. Miller)
- Fix RTC driver bug                            (David S. Miller)
- SPARC 32/64 update                            (David S. Miller)
- W9966 V4L driver update                       (Jakob Jemi)
- ad1848 driver fixes                           (Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
- PCMCIA update                                 (David Hinds)
- Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses   (Paul Mackerras)
- Correctly free per-process signal struct      (Dave McCracken)
- IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup               (Nathan Myers)
- ymfpci driver cleanup                         (Pete Zaitcev)
- Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
  only BSD.                                     (Robert Love)
- Fix serial module use count                   (Russell King)
- Update sg to 3.1.22                           (Douglas Gilbert)
- ieee1394 update                               (Ben Collins)
- ReiserFS fixes                                (Nikita Danilov)
- Update ACPI documentantion                    (Patrick Mochel)
- Smarter atime update                          (Andrew Morton)
- Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it   (Andrew Morton) 
- IrDA update                                   (Jean Tourrilhes)
- Count locked buffers at
  balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
  heavy IO workloads                            (Andrew Morton)
- USB update                                    (Greg KH)
- ide-scsi locking fix                          (Christoph Hellwig)

pre1:

- Change USB maintainer                         (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Speeling fix for rd.c                         (From Ralf Baechle's tree)
- Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
- Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist      (Arjan Van de Ven)
- Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list    (Arjan Van de Ven)
- Remove crap character from Configure.help     (Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
- Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
- Update osst sound driver to 1.65              (Willem Riede)
- Fix i810 sound driver problems                (Andris Pavenis)
- Add AF_LLC define in network headers          (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers       (Erik Andersen)
- Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
  modules
- Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
  implement NFS method                          (Alexander Viro)
- Updated i8k driver                            (Massimo Dal Zoto)
- devfs update                                  (Richard Gooch)

Web Webster

Web Webster

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.

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