Linux 2.4.19-pre1 Released | Linux Today

Linux 2.4.19-pre1 Released

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 25, 2002

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Changelog:

pre1:

- Add tape support to cciss driver                        (Stephen Cameron)
- Add Permedia3 fb driver                                (Romain Dolbeau)
- meye driver update                                        (Stelian Pop)
- opl3sa2 update                                        (Zwane Mwaikambo)
- JFFS2 update                                                (David Woodhouse)
- NBD deadlock fix                                        (Steven Whitehouse)
- Correct sys_shmdt() return value on failure                (Adam Bottchen)
- Apply the SET_PERSONALITY patch missing from 2.4.18         (me)
- Alpha update                                                (Jay Estabrook)
- SPARC64 update                                        (David S. Miller)
- Fix potential blk freelist corruption                        (Jens Axboe)
- Fix potential hpfs oops                                (Chris Mason)
- get_request() starvation fix                                (Andrew Morton)
- cramfs update                                                (Daniel Quinlan)
- Allow binfmt_elf as module                                (Paul Gortmaker)
- ymfpci Configure.help update                                (Pete Zaitcev)
- Backout one eepro100 change made in 2.4.18: it 
  was causing slowdowns on some cards                        (Jeff Garzik)
- Tridentfb compilation fix                                (Jani Monoses)
- Fix refcounting of directories on renames in tmpfs        (Christoph Rohland)
- Add Fujitsu notebook to broken APM implementation 
  blacklist                                                (Arjan Van de Ven)
- "do { ... } while(0)" cleanups on some fb drivers        (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Fix natsemi's ETHTOOL_GLINK ioctl                        (Tim Hockin)
- Fix clik! drive detection code in ide-floppy                (Paul Bristow)
- Add additional support for the 82801 I/O controller        (Wim Van Sebroeck)
- Remove duplicates in pci_ids.h                        (Wim Van Sebroeck)
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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