Linux kernel 2.2.14pre18 released

Date: Sat, 1 Jan 2000 21:37:48 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com

Final spit and polish

2.2.14pre18
o        Dave Jones moved                                (Dave Jones)
o        Fix minor errors in nautilus Alpha code                 (Michal Jaegermann)
o        Remove a debugging printk in SDLA Frame Relay   (Nenad Corbic)
o        Final IDE clean up                              (Mark Lord)
o        ISDN update                                     (Karsten Keil)

2.2.14pre17
o        Fix the IDE problem                             (Mark Lord)
o        Clean the AHA1542 scribble ptr on free          (Steven S Dick)
o        Fix bridge for non x86 platforms                (Jack Howarth)
o        SIS900 update                                   (Ollie Lho)
o        Fix missing argument                            (Willy Tarreau)
o        Update tulip fixes (add debug only checks)      (Wolfgan Walter)
o        Fix technical posix violation in sigprocmask    (Cristian Gafton)
        handling
o        Fix AF_UNIX sysctl bug                          (Rusty Russel[l])
o        NCPfs time stamp handling fixes                         (Wolfram Pienkoss)
o        VFAT bogus EINVAL cases                                 (Wolfram Pienkoss)
o        Moxa serial drivers                             (Moxa)

2.2.14pre16
o        Fix ixj build bugs                              (Quicknet, Arjan, me)
o        Fix timer handling crashes on ixj               (me)
o        Fix scsi generic interruption oops              (Doug Gilbert)
o        UMSDOS fixes and updates                        (Matija)
o        Revised verson of the fs/super changes          (Dave Miller)
o        Fritz PCI ISDN fix                              (Karsten Keil)
o        Fix fatfs buffer leak                           (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Update joystick drivers                                 (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Tulip update                                    (Wolfgang Walter)
o        IDE geometry fixes                              (Andries Brouwer)
o        IDE pio multiwrite fix                          (Mark Lord)

2.2.14pre15
o        Revert the fs/super.c changes for mount                 (me)
        | Should fix ncp/smbmount
o        Fix typos in S/390                              (Adrian Bridgett)
o        Up to date devices.txt                          (H Peter Anvin)
o        IPS driver update                               (IBM)
o        Block device corruption fix                     (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Telephony core merge (core code + Quicknet IXJ) (Quicknet, me)

2.2.14pre14
o        PMAC audio fix                                  (Paul Mackerras)
o        Nautilus/Irongate updates for Alpha             (Richard Henderson)
o        Fix masquerade compile bug                      (Frank McIngvale)
o        Fix mmap on NTFS
o        Hopefully fix ncpmount                          (me)
o        Fix NM256 compile                               (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Updated Sangoma drivers                                 (Nenad Corbic)
o        Fix acquire watchdog bug                        (Andrew Draper)
o        Fix the compile/init for old_tulip              (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o        PLIP crash on last init failure                         (Egbert Eich)
o        Add a sanity check to raid0                     (Andi Kleen)
o        Most of the IBM S/390 port merge                (Assorted IBM folks)
        | This is in to sort out the final oddments not
        | the complete beastie.

2.2.14pre13
o        Cure SMP deadlock on non DMA ide disk           (me)
o        Change argument copying for mount (needed for
        Davem's sparc64)                                (me)
o        Fix missing tlb flushes on vmscan               (Dave Miller)
o        Account always defragment off as well as on     (Julian Anastasov)
o        Fix APIC handling with short form table                 (Eirik Fuller)
o        GDTH driver update                              (ICP Vortex)
o        Finish fixing the AX.25 socket bug              (Tomi Manninen)
o        QlogicFC driver update                          (Chris Loveland)
o        New Tlan maintainer                             (Torben Mathiasen)
o        Hopefully fix the NFS submount bug              (Trond Myklebust)
o        Fix mem= on Alpha                               (Jay Estabrook)
o        Allow hiding interfaces from global arp                 (Alexey Kuznetsov &
o        IPV6 autoconfig for non ethernet                 Julian Anastasov)
o        event is now global_event, the export defined
        made a horrible mess of local variable/structs
        when debugging with source                      (me)

2.2.14pre12
o        Fix an IP checking bug                          (Stephan Uphoff)
o        Ultrasparc corruption bugfix                    (Dave Miller)
o        Tidy up the drive spin up timer                         (Jens Axboe)
o        Fix AX.25 hanging socket bug                    (Tomi Manninen)
o        PPC SMP build bug fix                           (Cort Dougan)
o        Fix SCSI CD memory leak on readraw mode                 (Martin Vogt)
o        Firewall rule counting fix                      (Emanuele Caratti)
o        Fix script symbol collisions on NCR 53c78xx     (Richar Hirst)
o        Unload lp if it finds no ports                  (Tim Waugh)
o        Improve old/new tulip docs                      (Wichert Akkerman)
o        Syncookie memory leak                           (Andi Kleen)
o        dput could be called on freed dentry            (H J Lu)
o        SCSI end_request race fix                       (Soohoon Lee)
o        Fix shared irq bug in synclink driver           (Paul Fulghum)

2.2.14pre11
o        Back out Rusty's ipfw patch                     (me)
        | Should fix the malloc error reports
o        Hopefully fix the AX.25 "buggy" messages
o        SCSI disk spin up broke in pre9 - now fixed I   (me)
        hope
o        ESS Maestro fixes for NEC Versa                         (Zach "Fufu" Brown)
o        Fix cosmetic buffer counting bug                (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Fix compile warnings in dquot.c                         (Daniel Roesen)
o        Fix fs/namei problem that bit autofs            (Linus Torvalds)
o        Soundscape PnP support                          (Sergey Smitienko)
o        Compaq Deskpro M internal sound support                 (Colin Scott)

2.2.14pre10
o        Further PPC updates                             (Cort Dougan)
o        TCPv6 crash fix         
o        Update Tlan driver maintainer                   (James Banks)
o        Fix syncookie URL                               (Daniel Roesen)
o        Move the scsi_malloc lock                       (Peter Blomgren)
o        Advansys update                                         (Bob Frey)
o        Fix Acard compile as built in driver            (Arjan van de Ven)
o        NFS directory link count fixes                  (Jim Winstead)
o        sk98 compile fixes                              (Christoph Goos)
o        Fix HFS back compatibility problem              (Adrian Sun)
o        More PPC updates                                (Cort Dougan)
o        Sk98 update                                     (Christoph Goos)
o        Update kernel-docs                              (Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche)
o        Buffer race on flush fixes                      (Andrea Arcangeli)

2.2.14pre9
o        Updated Acard scsi driver. Used their 2.0 driver (Acard + me)
         + my tweaks
        | Treat this with care. It should be ok but its
        | a major driver change.
o        PPC update for bootx                            (Cort Dougan)
o        Compile combination fixes                       (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix scsi_malloc locking holes                   (Jens Axboe)
o        Fix sk98 non x86 problems                       (Christoph Goos)
o        Fix lp port tunelp bits                                 (Tim Waugh)
o        Alpha updates                                   (Jay Estabrook,
                                                  Richard Henderson)
o        gcc 2.95 changes
o        pcnet32 fix                                     (Thomas Bogendoerfer)

2.2.14pre8
o        Fix profiling on sparc                          (Dave Miller)
o        Fix Sparc/Alpha FPU emu bugs                    (Jakub Jelinek)
o        Fix net symbols and net init config option      (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o        MatroxFB update                                         (Petr Vandrovec)
o        Aic7xxx update                                  (Doug Ledford)
o        Advansys SCSI update                            (Bob Frey)
o        PPC default configuration updates               (Cort Dougan)
o        Kmod could chdir() init by accident.            (Chip Salzenberg)
o        NFS dentry revalidation fixes for unfsd bugs    (Trond Myklebust)
o        Fix sdla symbol clash bug fix bug               (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Backout keyboard fix (causes packet loss and    (me)
        other problems)
o        Fix SMP races in scsi cd                        (Jens Axboe)
o        MorePPC updates                                         (Cort Dougan)
o        AMI MegaRaid update                             (AMI)
o        Print hash sizes in K not in bytes              (Zack Weinberg)
o        Fix SMP races in scsi generic                   (Doug Gilbert)
o        Split BT848/MSP3400 for cleaner compile/cfg     (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Alpha FPU emulator update                       (Jakub Jelinek)
o        Fix error in Config.in                          (Sam Clippinger)
o        Fix fencepost error on mmapping the top page    (Christian Zankel)
o        Fix a case where a busy CD could be ejected     (Jens Axboe)
o        Include both tulip drivers (sigh)               (me)

2.2.14pre7
o        IRDA builtin config fix                                 (Arjan van de Ven)
o        YAM without procfs fix                          (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Maths emulator  updates                                 (Dave Miller)
o        Sparc updates for symbios controllers           (Dave Miller)
o        PowerPC update                                  (Paul Mackerras)
o        PowerPC update update                           (Cort Dougan)
o        Sparc build fix for ide-tape                    (Dave Miller)
o        Fixes for some compile combinations failing     (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix scsi/iphase config check                    (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Arlan + procfs fix                              (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix ver_linux for sh utils 2.0                  (Kent Skaar)
o        VGA16 fix and sdla symbol clash fix             (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix sparc/raid build problem                    (Dave Miller)
o        Jazz16 audio speed rounding improvement                 (David Schleef)
o        PCI documentation update                        (Bret Indrelee)

2.2.14pre6
o        Fix missing auth check in shaper                (me)
o        ISDN update                                     (Karsten Keil)
o        Sparc update                                    (Dave Miller)
o        NFS/TCP races fixes                             (Dave Miller)
o        Remove unused nfs show_dentry routine           (Dave Miller)
o        Networking updates                              (Dave Miller)
o        Fix to oom changes in ptrace for kills          (Dave Miller)
o        Delay on keyboard polls to fix some DECompaq kit(Phillip Ezolt)
o        Documentation for the SiS900 card. Move to non  (Ollie Lho)
        experimental
o        SMBfs improvements on directory scan            (Andrew Tridgell)
o        Documentation additions for oops-tracing        (Keith Owens)
o        Add HITACHI GF-1050 to the DVD RAM list                 (Rogier Wolff)
o        Longer timeouts in ide-scsi for CD-RW           (Mark Lord)
o        Fix IDE/PCI compile
o        Export inode_generation_count
o        Maestro driver update                           (Fufu Brown)

2.2.14pre5
o        Ext2fs race fixes                               (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Quota fixes                                     (Jan Kara)
o        IPC msg accounting fixes                        (Andi Kleen)
o        Inode leak fixes                                (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Transparent proxy bug fix                       (Andi Kleen)
o        PowerPC updates                                         (Cort Dougan)
o        NCR885E PPC driver                              (dan@synergymicro)
o        SunRPC initialisation fix                       (Trond)
o        SMBfs long directory fix                        (Pete Hilton)
o        Blacklist update                                (Thorsten Kranzkowski)
o        Bus mouse fixes                                         (Alexis Wilke)
o        Lance unload fixes                              (Mika Kuoppala)
o        Dcache hash sizing changes                      (Andrea Arcangeli)

2.2.14pre4
o        Signal race fix                                         (Dave Miller)
o        NFS root fix                                    (Peter Braam)
o        NFS root fix fix                                (Trond)
o        COMX drivers                                    (Gergely Madarasz)
o        Wireless updates                                (Jean Tourrilhes)
o        Netdev list has moved                           (Ralf Baechle)
o        SMP and other fixes for scsi generic            (Douglas Gilbert)
o        Fix IP masquerade                               (Joseph Gooch)
o        Bridge printk levels                            (Stuart Lynne)
o        IPFW fix rule number logging, improve locking   (Rusty)
o        Fix bug in fd array expansion                   (Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich)
o        Make FPU emulator safe with newer compilers     (Bill Metzenthen)
o        SiS900 driver update                            (Ollie Lho)
o        Documentation fix                               (Michael Babcock)
o        EATA scsi update                                (Dario Ballabio)

2.2.14pre3
o        ISDN ppp VJ fix                                         (Henner Eisen)
o        ESS Maestro sound driver                        (Zach "Princess" Brown)
o        ESS 18xx driver update                          (Rolf Fokkens)
o        SiS 900 driver update                           (Ollie Lho)
o        Tulip 0.91g + ppc                               (Donald Becker)
o        Defragment option doc fix                       (Matthias Eckermann)
o        Gcc 2.95 fixes for hfmodem                      (Thomans Sailer)
o        Page cache hash size fix                        (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Fix duplicated module installs                  (Alex Kanavin)
o        APM maintainer has moved                        (Stephen Rothwell)
o        Clean up x86 detection code                     (Dave Jones)
o        Fix MiroACI compile problems                    (Yasuhide OOMORI)
o        wait4() fixes                                   (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        wait event race fixes                           (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        network backlog clear race fix                  (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        bdflush wakeup fix                              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        grow inode overcommit fix                       (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Fix a tcp syncookie handling bug                (me)

2.2.14pre2
o        Back out buggy masquerade tweak
o        Add Matrox G400 fb support                      (Petr Vandrovec)
o        a.out improvements                              (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        More build fixes                                (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Report new intel CPU caches correctly           (Dragan Stancevic)
o        Fix doubled io_apic_setup extern                (lots of folks)
o        Updated list of documentation about the kernel  (Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche)
o        IDE/SMP fixes                                   (Mark Lord)
        | This isnt Andre's big stuff - yet...
o        Quota fix                                       (Jan Kara)
o        Handle NEC 260 IDE CD right                     (David Woodhouse)
o        Masquerade fix                                  (Joseph Gooch)
o        PCI parallel port handling                      (Tim Waugh)
o        Tulip 0.91g                                     (Donald Becker)

2.2.14pre1
o        Update Alpha architecture slightly              (Jay Estabrook)
o        Multi-apic support                              (Ingo Molnar)
o        Fix FC4 compile glitch                          (me)
o        PCNet 32 speed ups                              (HP, me)
o        Update oldpci tables
o        Qlogic Alpha fixes                              (Jay Estabrook)
o        Audio compile fixes
o        knfsd 0.4.7                                     (HJ Lu et al)
o        Hashing scale by memory                                 (Dave Miller)
o        Revert a.out change, switch from timers to      (Several people)
        counts
o        Support very big disks                          (Andries Brouwer)
o        Compile cleanups                                (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Fix enabled flag on transparent proxy on        (me)
o        SIS900 driver update                            (SIS)
o        Small PPC update                                (Cort Dougan)
o        Increase loader heap for uncompressing          (HJ Lu)
o        Future domain build fix                                 (Anthony Barbachan)
o        Bring PCI sound drivers in 2.2.x in line with
         2.3.x enhancements                      (Thomas Sailer)
o        Documentation fixes                             (Thierry Vignaud)
o        Bridge update (more of a rewrite)               (Matthew Grant)
o        Masquerade fix                                  (Juanjo Ciarlante)
o        Changes file update                             (Chris Ricker)
o        NFS zero padding cleanup                        (Trond Myklebust)
o        Clean up OPL3 configuration and surplus options         (Thomas Molina)
o        GCC 2.95 patches                                (Bero Rosenkraenzer)
        | If you hit problems please verify them with an 
        | older gcc, but you should now be able to build
        | with 2.95.* to go looking for them...