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Linux kernel 2.0.37-pre11 released

Alan Cox writes:

Well the ftruncate bug means one more release. I've also merged a few minor
other fixes and the 1.0 version of the Compaq SMART2 driver.

You need binutils 2.8 or 2.9 to build this kernel tree. 2.7 is not good
enough

    ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/.

Linux 2.0.37pre11

o   Ftruncate fix                   (Linus)
o   Bring APM more in line with 2.2         (Steven Rothwell)
o   Small fixes/Symbols             (FreeSWAN)
o   EQL bug fix                 (Rumen Svobodnikov)
o   Fix serial memleak              (Armin Groesslinger)
o   Mmap race fix                   (Stephen Tweedie)
o   1.0 SMART2 driver               (Compaq)

Linux 2.0.37pre10

o   Alpha compile bug cured             (Jeff Garzik)
o   Cyclades update                 (Cyclades)
o   Remember to call check_privacy on boot      (Mikael Pettersson)
o   Alpha fixes for ne.c                ("Solar Designer")
o   Make fsync behave for large ext2 files      (Scott Laird)
o   RCPCI45 update                  (Red Creek)
o   Alpha makefile tweak                (Michael Chastain)

Linux 2.0.37pre9

o   Appletalk probe bug             (Jens-Uwe Mager)
o   Further multicast fixes             (me)
    | We should now pass the JDK mcast tests
o   Export fddi symbols             (Christoph Goos)
o   Autoset ARCH, Makefile fix          (Paul Slootman)
o   PCI handling fix                (Thomas Bogendoerfer)
o   PCI2000, PCI2200, PSI240 drivers        (Perceptive Solutions)
o   Our netrom code crashed BPQ         (Tomi Manninen)
    | BPQ doesn't appear to have been fixed in most
    | places. If you run BPQ, you should worry about this 8)
o   Updated DAC960 driver               (Leonard Zubkoff)
o   Updated Adaptec 29xx driver         (Doug Ledford)
o   Assorted minor tweaks/cleanups          (various)

Linux 2.0.37pre8

o   Fixed a small multicast problem         (me)
o   PIII disable serial ID              (me, from Phil Karns
                                code)

Linux 2.0.37pre7

o   Fix the floppy driver works for alternate blocks
    of 20 odd days on the Alpha bug         (Paul Slootman)
o   Accept IEE802.3 arps on ethernet        (Volker Dormeyer)
o   Autofs overflow fix                 (H Peter Anvin)
    | backported to 2.0.x
o   Off by one error in block driver        (Rune M. Brinckmeyer)
o   Bridge should be silent if disabled     (Tomasz Motylewski)
o   Another bad ne2k clone added            (Jari Malinen)
o   Wavelan updated                 (Jean Tourrilhes)
o   InitIO updates                  (Bas)
o   InitIO A100 support             (Initio/Bas)
o   Added Tripace TC-2550 driver            (Tripace)
    (anyone with a card care to port it to 2.2)

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