Date: Mon, 27 Sep 1999 01:05:34 +0100
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
2.3.18ac9
o ESS solo fix resource grabs (Tom Sailer)
o Sscape timeout fix (Artur Skawina)
o PPC resync (Cort Dougan)
o Don't mark video-rom busy (Jeff Garzik)
o Video ram test was optimised out (Russell King)
o Tx FIFO changes for pcnet32 (HP)
o Spinlock the pcnet32 driver (me)
o NCPfs updates (Petr Vandrovec et al)
o Optimise small shm create/delete (Manfred Spraul)
o NFS root argument parsing ('unslider')
o IRDA Updates (Dag Brattli)
o IN2000 and Seagate SCSI fixes for (bero)
gcc 2.95.1+
o Turn off legacy mode on UHCI (Andy Henroid)
o Update configure.help sizes (Imel)
o Don't steal the fdc resource on
the Alpha cy82c963. (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o BTTV race fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Add CAP_MKNOD to give equivalent to (Chris Evans)
securelevel behaviour
o Compile cleanups (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
o Japanese Configure.help has moved (NAKANO, Takeo)
o Scan only active consoles (Neil Booth)
o Add maintainer entries for ray_cs (Corey Thomas)
o Fix some sunrpc/tcp races (Dave Miller)
| Doesn't fix the connect bug..
o Fix typo in a2091 driver (David Weinehall)
o Fix for small lost netfilter patch (Rusty)
o Fix HZ assumptions in ESDI drivers (Artur Skawina)
o Update IDE geometry handling (Andries.Brouwer)
o Fix SAA5249 HZ assumptions (Artur Skawina)
o SCSI debug HZ assumption fixes (Artur Skawina)
o PS2ESDI ibm ps/2 ntoebook fixes (Jean-Luc)
o Parport HZ assumption fixes (Artur Skawina)
o Further compile combination fixes (Arjan van de Ven)
o SKTR driver should now work (Adam Fritzler)
o Fix Alpha strnlen_user (Ivan Kokshaysky)
forward port from 2.2
o USB audio update (Thomas Sailer)
o Misc fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix errors in nr_thread counting (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Handle token ring multicasting (Mike Phillips)
2.3.18ac8
o Hpefully finally kill the pci scan bugs (Petr Vandrovec)
o Compile fix for Buz (Olivier Galibert)
o Fix usb keyboard map table (Gregory Smith)
o More compile combination fixes (Arjan van de Ven)
o I2O update (LAN primarily) (Juha Sievanen)
o Stop arm partition probes screwing
up block sizes (me)
o Fix scsi floppy hang (me)
2.3.18ac7
o Final squash of the ide cmos-probe (Matti Aarnio & )
module bug (me)
o Fix missing linux/wait.h in paride (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix rtl8139 warnings, switch to I/O (me)
| Testing for now
o Attempt to fix ide tape setup crash (me)
o Updated Symbios SCSI driver (Gerhard Roudier)
o ES1869 speed fix (Daniel Franklin)
o Fix missing probe definitions (James Manning)
o Fix ezusb, update audio usb (Thomas Sailer)
o Fix compiled in opl3 build bug (Thomas Molina)
o ibmmca scsi cleanup/fixes (David Weinehall)
o Fix the PCI probe for memory based (Jeff Garzik)
network cards
o Remove old PPP code (Paul Mackerras)
o ESS Maestro update (Zach Brown)
o Mixed cleanups (Jeff Garzik)
o Lots of compile error fixes (Arjan van de Ven)
o Missing oom fix from ac6 (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix wchan values (Andrea Arcangeli)
2.3.18ac6
o Module name in setup functions (Richard Guenther)
o Fix several compiled-in doesn't work (me)
net driver bugs (my fault)
o Fixed radio driver compile bugs (Stephen Halloran, me)
o Fix bttv compile time bugs and lockup (Arnd Bergmann)
o Fix strnlen_user for gcc 2.95+ (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o i486 string cleanup (Petko Manolov)
| We don't use this but why not keep it clean
o Fix compiled in proc/usb (Pavel Machek)
o i386 tlb handling fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Tighten security on slip/ppp ldisc (me)
| Thanks to Marc Schaefer for spotting that one
o Config cleanups (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix filemap_nopage loops under low mem (Chuck Lever)
o USB updates (Gregory Smith)
| This breaks ezusb. Can you fix pls..
o Make scsi_debug compile again (Matti Aarnio)
o Fix (I hope) the signal delivery hole (me)
Solar Designer found.
o Fix ATM ambassador SMP compile (Bernhard Rosenkraenzer)
o PPC updates (Cort Dougan)
o Remove some more bmap cruft (Lennert Buytenhek)
o Fix a config.in item (David Weinehall)
o Fix ibmmca compile (me)
o IRDA updates (Dag Brattli)
o Expose needed lp userspace constants (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Task locking fixes (Chuck Lever)
o DMAram fencepost fix (Daniel Kobras)
o Hopefully fixed blocksize error on scsi (me)
probe for partitions
o Add "dmabug" module option for OSS (me)
o Neomagic 256 sound driver
o EATA driver updated (Dario Ballabio)
o NFS locking tweaks (Trond)
o Hold kernel lock for swap_free (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix scribble in random driver (Ted Tso)
o Clean up a pile of resource handling
and other bugs in Don's new drivers (me)
| Hopefully the 8 card bug is gone.
| 3c59x is back to I/O only
o Re-ordered sound Config.in (several people)
o Fix the new net subdirs for builds of
non modular. Added a wan directory (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
2.3.18ac5
o Davicom DM9102 ethernet driver (Sten Wang, Davicom)
o IDE CD update (Jens Axboe)
o USB CPIA driver update (Johannes Erdfelt)
o Clean up all the si_band signal bugs (Stephen Tweedie)
o Improved ncurses test for dialog build (David Parsons)
o PCMCIA Makefile fixes, resync to tree (David Hinds)
o Menuconfig no longer needs GNU awk (David Parsons)
o PCMCIA makefile fixes (Christof Petig)
o Mixed type/sign and include fixes (Giacomo Catenazzi)
o Some alpha build fixes (James McCollough)
o Moved pci_scan into drivers/pci (me)
o Network driver updates (Don Becker)
- Tulip 0.91m
- Yellowfin 1.03a
- 3c59x 0.99M
- epic100 v1.07j
- rtl8139 v 1.08d
2.3.18ac4
o Fix the dumb scsi bug I hope (me)
o Further config updates (David Weinehall)
o SyncLink driver udpate (Paul Fulghum)
o ISOfs fix (Todd Sabin)
o Fix OPL3 compile ("CaT")
o Low memory setup fix (Gerhard Wichert)
o make Xconfig big rework (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o Config file fix (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o Kupdated (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Merged most of the 2.2.13pre fixes (me)
| Note non x86 isnt merged, nor most
| drivers with active maintainers
2.3.18ac3
o Cleaned up the PCMCIA makefiles - now works (me)
modular
o Move proc fs documentation into fileysystems (Jeff Garzik)
o Fixed SMP locking for softdog read/write (me)
| Note in 2.3.x the master kernel lock isnt held
| for read/write methods on drivers
o Added SMP locking to bw-qcam and bttv (me)
Also to some other drivers (eg radio*)
o Fix LAVA PCI idents (Tim Waugh)
o Fix kunmap debug bug (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Kill remaining __init calls (Tigran Aivazian)
o Big config file cleanup (David Weienhall)
o MediaGX audio workarounds (me)
o Set PCI master flags on OHCI USB (me)
o OHCI SMM to native takeover (me)
o Re-enable FOOF fix (Mikael Pettersson)
o Parport fixes (Mikael Pettersson)
o Wavelan fixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
o ParPort init fixes (Tim Waugh)
o ISAPnP for ne2k (Richard Guenther)
| Someone could generalise the probe table stuff ..
o Export scsi_wait_cmd (Doug Gilbert)
o Errno comment fixes (Artur Skawina)
o Automagical module parameter->setup parser (Richard Guenther)
| This was broken for non arrays. I think I have
| it fixed properly.
o Hopefully fixed the Defxx driver (me)
2.3.18ac2
o Fix PCMCIA link error on net modules (me)
o Various small tidyups (Jeff Garzik)
o Turn the freeing of kernel resources to become
a kernel thread into a single function (me)
o Flushpage fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Update USB audio patches (Tom Sailer)
o E820 memory sizing fixes (should sort the IBMs) (David Parsons)
o Use xargs for the make clean pass (David Parsons)
o Made APM a bool for now (me)
o s/Happyly/Happily/ (David Weinehall)
o Fix invalid resource free in serial (Nick Holloway)
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