Further development on the 2.0 series.
Alan Cox writes:
I finally (I hope) nailed the threading crash some people saw - it was
flock(). Also backed out the problematic mmap entry.
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 2.0.37pre12
o mmap race fix wasnt - removed (me)
o Further 20 day alpha floppy fix (Paul Slootman)
o PPTP/IPSEC masq update (John Hardin)
o Fix 240 day select bug() (Ville Herva)
o Fix threaded flock/close bug (me)
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)