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Linux kernel 2.2.14pre3 released

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 30, 1999
Date: Sat, 30 Oct 1999 02:10:47 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com

I've not fixed the masquerade stuff yet (I've got some fixing instructions
from the authors but they are not clear enough to be reliable - please send
a patch). I've also not played with the IDE yet. I want more data before
deciding what to do.

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...

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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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