Linux kernel 2.2.15pre8 released

Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2000 20:35:30 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.2.15pre8

2.2.15pre8
o       Fix put_tty_char race on SMP                    (Andrew J Kroll)
        | This may well fix the serial mouse jumping problem
        | people have reported for a long time.
o       Fix compile compbination for IPv6/netlink       (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Add Yamaha CRW6416S to the lun blacklist        (Tim Waugh)
o       Fix symbol clash if a given pair of ISDN
                boards both got compiled in             (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Hopefully fix the X.25 problem                  (Henner Eisen)
o       NCPfs permission handling updates               (Petr Vandrovec)
o       Clean up Maestro includes                       (Arjan, me)
o       Fix a memory leak in eql drivers                (Alessandro Rubini)
o       Support byte counters in the tlan driver        (Niels Baggesen)
o       Tlan fixed backported from 2.3.x                (Torben Mathiasen)
o       Ultrasparc support for SK98 Gnic card           (Christoph Goos)
o       Fix up PCI bus scans on some compaq machines
o       APM power management fixes/extra bios workarounds
                                                        (Stephen Rothwell)
o       Merge 2.3.x fixes into 2.2.x Solo and CMPCI     (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       Stop panic on SRM Alpha clearing the screen     (Jay Estabrook)
o       EEPro100 turn off copy break mode and fix
        u32/ulong problem on Alpha                      (Jay Estabrook)
o       IDE geometry fix                                (Andries Brouwer)
o       Update IBM S/390 port                           (IBM)
o       Fix an IPv6 dependancy in the config.in         (Arjan van de Ven)

2.2.15pre7
o       Fix problems with irq loss on Dell PowerEdge's  (Dell)
        | This may help other SMP boxes too
o       Update maintainers                              (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o       Maestro Powermanagement updates                 (Zach 'Fufu' Brown)
o       AX.25 returned wrong address in recvmsg         (Tomi Manninen)
o       AX.25 returned wrong address in recvmsg         (Tomi Manninen)
o       Kill warning in ipc/shm.c                       (Dave Miller)
o       Poll table alloc fixes                          (Manfred Spraul)
o       Add another drive to the blacklists             (Yoshihiro Kawabe)
o       Clean up K6/K7 cache reporting                  (Catalin Muresan)
o       SCSI tape updates                               (Kai Makisara)
o       Clean out the remaining gfp debug               (me)
o       Fix lmc Makefile bug                            (Andrew Stanley-Jones)

2.2.15pre6
o       SMC-mca updates                                 (David Monro)
o       Stallion driver update                          (Wayne Meissner)
o       DAC960 updates                                  (Leonard Zubkoff)
o       CPQ Array updates (adds SA431)                  (Charles White)
o       Fix creative joystick crash
o       Fix bogus RST when fins crossed                 (Dave Miller)
o       Gemini serial driver update                     (Cort Dougan)
o       Work around some MediaGX DMA bugs               (me)
        - Info thanks to Nat Semi
o       Fix type clashes between irda and Ingo HSM      (Dag Brattli)
o       IDE DMA abort handling fixes                    (Andre Hedrick)
o       Cyrix 5530 IDE support                          (Mark Lord)
o       3Ware raid controller driver                    (Adam Radford)
o       Fix sunrpc queue corruption bug                 (Trond Myklebust)
o       Sparc config updates                            (Dave Miller)
o       Fix SMP powermac booting                        (Paul Mackerras)
o       Fix bonding documentation                       (Lennie Besselink)
o       CPIA parallel camera driver                     (Peter Pregler)
o       Alternative page allocation hang fixes          (Andrea Arcangeli)
        | Reverted some of the other fixes. This wants
        | sorting nicely for 2.3.x, for 2.2.x Andrea's
        | approach is easier to verify
o       Fix shm/remap bug                               (Eric Biederman)

2.2.15pre5

o       Support newer SCSI devices that lack READ6      (Jens Axboe)
        and WRITE6 commands.
o       Fix for the lanmedia bug I added when merging   (Andrew Stanley-Jones)
o       Qnxfs now builds with gcc 2.7.2                 (Arjan van de Ven,
o       Qnxfs now builds with gcc 2.7.2                 (Arjan van de Ven,
                                                         Anders Larsen)
o       Gemtek radio documentation update               (Jonas Munsin)
o       Sparc 32bit hook fixes                          (Jakub Jelinek)
o       Make 1284 probing more reliable                 (Tim Waugh)
o       ISDN4linux update                               (Karsten Keil)
o       Small irda fixes                                (Dag Brattli)
o       Channel bonding                                 (Thomas Davis)
o       Fix an IDE probing problem with CRW9624's       (Mark Lord)
o       Fix cases where things write to user space
        in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE as well as some other
        odd quirks                                      (Ben LaHaise et al)
o       Fix problem with Acer 50x drive and Linux ATAPI
        violation                                       (Mark Lord)
o       Page alloc change + debug traps                 (Rik Van Riel)
o       Add 5LUN blacklist for the LASOUND CDX7405      (Brendan Miller)

2.2.15pre4

o       VM algorithm changes                            (Rik van Riel)
o       Fix compile bug in qnxfs changes                (Leos Bitto)
o       Sparc32 KRUPS/Javastation fixes                 (Peter Zaitcev)
o       Powermac fixes including OOM behaviour          (Paul Mackerras)
o       Fix 3c529 setup                                 (David Weinehall)
o       Remove the I2O test on Megaraid, doesn't work
        for all cases. Back to vanilla AMI code         (me)
o       Upgraded Davicom driver to v1.28                (Sten Wang)
o       SMC ircc update                                 (Dag Brattli)
o       Add module initialising debug stuff             (Keith Owens)
o       Fix defconfig                                   (Niels Jensen)
o       3c509 PPC and SMC mca fixes                     (David Monro)
o       Fixes for RIO driver for older cards            (Rogier Wolff)
o       Add Specialix SX+ support to SX driver          (Rogier Wolff)
o       Add custom divisor support to Specialix IO8+    (Nicolas Mailhot)
o       Clean up gemini PPC, turn on L2 for other cpus  (Cort Dougan)
o       QlogicFC updates                                (Chris Loveland)
o       Lan Media T1/T3 card driver                     (Lan Media Corp)

2.2.15pre3

o       Fix Sangoma stuff if compiled into kernel       (Mario Lorenz)
o       Fix smbfs for sparc64                           (Dave Miller)
o       Specialix Rio drivers                           (Specialix, Rogier Wolff)
o       Elf extra sanity checks from code audit         (Solar Designer)
o       Megaraid update to 1.07                         (Dell/AMI)
o       Fix hang on boot with I2O configured megaraid   (me)
o       Fix small bug in the socket filter code         (??)
o       QNX file system updates                         (Anders Larsen)
o       Intel 82559ER support in eepro100 driver        (Cobalt)
o       Workaround for 16C750 emulation bug             (Cobalt)
o       Show "preN" in make menuconfig                  (Alan Ford)
o       Adaptec 29xx driver updates                     (Doug Ledford)
o       Handle cross CPU TSC differences                (Ingo Molnar)
o       Update IRDA to match the 2.3.x codebase         (Dag Brattli)

2.2.15pre2

o       Fix RTC build problem with Nautilus             (Michal Jaegermann)
o       Quieten NFS debugging messages                  (me)
o       Fix bug in connect/listen handling in TCP       (Dave Miller)
o       Fix missing $(CC) cases                         (Pascal DuPuis)
o       Fix SMP tcp hang                                (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Hopefully fixed PLIP                            (me)
o       Fix sigtimedwait bug                            (Christophe Blaess)
o       Updated epic100 driver                          (Donald Becker)
        | If it works cool, if not we back it off
o       Sparc updates                                   (Dave Miller)
        | Fixes bugs with >258Mb on sun4d/sun4m
        | si_addr is set in siginfo
        | Fix signal type for FP/div events
        | DP division FPU emulation fixes
        | Fix sparc64 parport locking keyboard
        | ESP can be built as a module
o       Network fix kit                                 (Dave Miller and co)
        | Nagle improvements, TCP_CORK/FIN fix
        | /proc/net/tcp reports type 4 for timer
        | Fix TIME_WAIT logic
        | Clean up timer performance
        | Handle shutdown() in CLOSE_WAIT right
        | Report state change on tcp_fin after setting
        |       new state
        | Shutdown on close in write_err case           (Paul Russell)

2.2.15pre1

o       Handle crossing X25 restart confirmations       (Guntram Blohm)
o       Large direct block I/O with small readahead
                could fail                              (Mikulas Patocka)
o       Remove duplicate asm op                         (Chris Noe)
o       IUCV Update for S/390                           (Martin Schwidefsky)
o       Fixes to allow Linux/390 to run on P/390        (Martin Schwidefsky)
o       Some PPC configs didnt compile                  (W Lewis)
o       Maybe fix TCP delack hang                       (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Missing task state change                       (Natapov Gleb)
o       Fix 82596 false probes                          (Richard Hirst)
o       Fix typo in ixj driver                          (Tim Waugh)
o       Add AOpen PD-2 DVD to ghost list                (Rogier Wolff)
o       Masquerading site has moved                     (Hugh Redelmeier)
o       Fix FAT bug                                     (Pavel Pisa)
o       Small NFS fixes                                 (HJ Lu)
o       Update ES1370 to handle rev7 chips              (Tom Sailer)
o       Use amateur radio drivers on Sparc              (Tom Sailer)
o       SCSI generic documentation updates              (Douglas Gilbert)
o       Fix clearing of NT in head.S                    (Willy Tareau)
o       Add winchip2 MTRR support                       (Bart Hartgers)
o       CREDITS entry for Victor 'RTLinux' Yodaiken     (Victor Yodaiken)
o       Zoltan Boszormenyi has changed address          (Zoltan Boszormenyi)
o       eepro100 updates                                (Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich)
o       Update Davicom driver                           (Davicom)