Linux kernel 2.2.17pre12 released

Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2000 01:25:38 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox 
To: kernel@linuxtoday.com
Subject: Linux 2.2.17pre12

Ok I'm going for stabilising the oddments 2.2.16 got a bit wrong before
we move onwards. This even though a pre patch should be somewhat more
solid than 2.2.16. It contains just the important bug fixes

James Cloos is making diffs between 2.2.17pre versions are available at
                http://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre
                ftp://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre

2.2.17pre12
o       Fix PC300 X.21 support                          (Ivan Passos)
o       Smart2 driver minor fixes, one new card id      (Charles White)
o       Fix PS/2 reconnect lockup on SMP                (David Nelson)
o       Fix duplicate PCI ids                           (Tim Waugh)
o       Fix 100Mbit fdx on DEC45x driver                (Phil Ezolt, Bill Carr)
o       Cyclades serial fixes                           (Ivan Passos)
o       Additional scsi blacklist entries               (Matt Domsch)
o       Allow ppp deflate to be compiled in             (Paul Gortmaker)
o       Fix i2o block multidrive bug I added in pre10   (Boji Kannanthanam)
o       Hopefully fix the scsi error handler/initrd bug (me)
o       Small sparc power handling bugfix               (Dave Miller)
o       Directory testing fix if CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH    (Wojciech Purczynski)
o       Export exec_usermodehelper, clean up baycom     (Thomas Sailer)

2.2.17pre11
o       Tlan driver update                              (Torben Mathiasen)
o       Ext2 error message typo                         (Andreas Dilger)
o       Updated Yamaha PCI audio driver                 (Daisuke Nagano)
o       Small PPP oops fixes                            (Paul Fulghum)
o       SMBFS compile fix                               (Urban Widmark)
o       Small cisco hdlc/lmi fixes                      (Krzysztof Halasa)
o       Fix hdlc mode switch                            (Ivan Passos)
o       Fix fbmem driver bug with size checks           (Petr Vandrovec)
o       Merge the Emu10K driver                         (Rui Sousa and co)
o       Synclink driver updates                         (Paul Fulghum)
o       Appletalk SMP locking fixes                     (Jens-Uwe Mager)
o       Don't offer Toshiba Laptop for non x86          (Francis Galiegue)
o       Further PPC minor merges                        (Paul Mackerras)

2.2.17pre10
o       Fix up the eepro driver further         (Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho)
o       Update URL for Japanese Configure.help          (Goto Masanori)
o       Remove tty driver sleep race                    (Andrea Arcangeli)
        | this backs out a fix but a fix we no longer need
o       Tim Waugh moved                                 (Tim Waugh)
o       Urban Widmark becomes new smbfs maintainer      (Urban Widmark)
        | Also cleanup debug stuff
o       Fix several cs46xx bugs                         (Tom Woller, me)
o       Fix INET=n compile failure                      (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Handle i2o boot volumes sanely                  (Boji Kannanthanam,
                                                         me)

2.2.17pre9
o       Fix toshiba driver to work compiled in          (me)
o       Fix scsi sg driver panics with some cards       (Douglas Gilbert)
o       Fix select() handling bugs in DoubleTalk driver (Jim Van Zandt)
o       Alpha fixes for fbcon. matroxfb and pm2fb       (Jay Estabrook)
o       Further TCP fixes (please give these a good
                beating)                                (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o       Add some delays to cs46xx to try and fix the    (me)
        'only works on 2nd load' bug some people see

2.2.17pre8
o       Fix sparc64 sym53c8xx breakage                  (Dave Miller)
o       Further PPC merge updates                       (Paul Mackerras)
o       Fix the I/O slowdown in 2.2.17pre7              (Marcelo Tosatti)

2.2.17pre7
o       Fix the rate adaption, default to 48KHz         (me)
        Correctly setup VRA bits. Variable speed
        now works on capable codecs (AD1881 etc)
o       Crystal Soundfusion 46xx driver                 (me)
        | Most of the work actually from the ALSA driver by Jaroslav
o       PC300 driver update                             (Ivan Passos)
o       Further PPC merges                              (Olaf Hering)
o       Further 3c59x/3c90x fixes                       (Andrew Morton)
o       Fix i810 potential oops                         (Vladimir V. Klenov)
o       Atari partition probe must be last (no magic)   (Michael Schmitz)
o       Merge aty128fb driver for PPC                   (Brad Douglas)
o       Fix the multiple ide directories in proc bug    (Shigeo 'Geo' Tanai)
o       Fix zImage build for chrp PPC                   (Olaf Hering)
o       Toshiba SMM driver for configuration utils      (Jonathan Buzzard)
o       Rename cp932 back                               (Yoshihiro Kajiki)
o       Fix endian bug in cp932 handling                (Yoshihiro Kajiki)

2.2.17pre6
o       Fix some NTFS bugs, stop it touching win2K      (Anton Altaparmakov)
o       Wait for dirty buffers to sync sometimes        (Marcelo Tosatti)
o       AIC7xxx update (hopefully its happy now)        (Doug Ledford)
o       Put #!/bin/sh on the scripts from Menuconfig    (Wolfgang Sourdeau)
o       2.2 elevator wasnt coalescing enough            (Jens Axboe)
o       Fix ppc build problem                           (Andreas Tobler)
o       PPC video updates                       (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o       List extra Athlon flags as in 2.3.*             (me)
o       Handle AMD Athlon L2 cache reporting errata     (me)

2.2.17pre5
o       Fix alpha compile problems on lmc and dmfe      (me)
o       Fix sparc32 lockd translation                   (Dave Miller)
o       Fix HDLC problems with packet lengths           (Ivan Passos)
o       PMAC updates - should now build         (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
        video update rejected as too risky
o       Removed unused trashing var                     (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Proper fix for the TCP crash case               (Andi Kleen)
o       Further small vm fixups                         (Rik van Riel)
o       Fix SCSI tape bugs                              (Kai Makisara)
o       Lanmedia driver fixes                           (Andrew Stanley-Jones)
o       ES1370/1371 GETOSPACE fixes                     (Thomas Sailer)
o       FAT CD fix                                      (Jens Axboe)
o       Further small shared irq 3c59x fix              (Andrew Morton)
o       Fix scripts/Configure comment handler           (Jun Hamano)

2.2.17pre4
o       Winchip C6 has buggy TSC                        (Dave Jones)
o       TCP crash workaround for the problem seen by
        auctionwatch                                    (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o       VM improvements (mm-fix-3)                      (Andrea Arcangeli)
o       Revert parport change in pre2 for now           (me)

2.2.17pre3
o       Fix possible hang in TCP code under high net/   (Mark Hemment)
        disk load
        | Im very interested to know if this fixes some of the
        | reported high load box totally hangs cases
o       Fix a sparc64 problem with SABRE
o       Bring the PPC port back into line (Cort Dougan, Paul Mackerras,
                                Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Henry Worth
        | Lots of PPC fixes, DMA sound suspend fix, GMAC ethernet,
        | PPC changes to de4x5 for new apple stuff, core99 fixes
        | adb, rth, macserial and media bay work
o       Require root for keymap reloading               (Stephen Thorne)
o       Fix a reported CD-ROM oops                      (Jens Axboe)
o       Give BSD behaviour for iovec overruns           (Ivan Kokshaysky)
        | Also should fix OSF emulation
o       Set file type on sockets in ext2                (Andreas Dilger)

2.2.17pre2
o       Fix memory leak in appletalk drivers            (Hu Chengjun)
o       Fix bridge + rtl8139 bug                        (Jeff Garzik)
o       ICH audio hack for slow to reset codecs         (Vladimir V. Klenov)
o       One liner fix to the kswapd logic               (Rik van Riel)
o       Fix dtr on close bug in the SX serial driver  (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o       Fix saving of db6 on debug traps                (James Cownie)
o       Teach setup code about transmeta processors     (H Peter Anvin)
o       Fix some SMP races in parport                   (Tim Waugh)
o       Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND, rpc2 region info query     (Jens Axboe)
o       Small AFFS fixes                                (Dave Jones)
o       Test fsuid before DAC_OVERRIDE in procfs        (Solar Designer)
o       Add Cyclades PC300 driver                       (Ivan Passos)
o       List Andries as partitioning maintainer         (Andries Brouwer)
o       Remove __LIBRARY__ from unistd.h syscall tests  (Erik Troan)
o       Resync 2.2 and 2.4 i810 drivers                 (me)
o       Upgrade aic7xxx driver to 5.1.30. This should   (Doug Ledford)
        fix the problems with EISA/VLB cards
o       Resync the ixj telephony driver with Quicknet   (me)
        | Word of warning: Stuff built against the 2.2 ixj
        | driver is back compatible. Stuff built against their
        | release we merged with is not as they clashed with
        | ioctls already allocated for other uses.

2.2.17pre1
o       Fix the md failure to work                      (me)
o       Fix the Irix 6.x FIN foodfight bug              (Andi Kleen)
        | Someone needs to fix IRIX too
o       Fix the Alpha debugging printk                  (me)
o       Fix the 2.2.16 problem with some cdroms         (Jens Axboe)
o       Fix the i2o scsi crash on boot                  (me)
o       Fix yamaha audio when compiled in               (me)
o       Fix es1371 rev 8 cards                          (Thomas Sailer)
o       Don't listen for TCP on lockd port              (Trond Myklebust)
o       Fix sparc32 signal handling                     (Eddie d'Ost)
o       Fix sym53xxx sparc stuff                        (Dave Miller)
o       Fix crashes on unload/remove of initio scsi     (Thomas Graichen)
o       FIX eepro100 on sparc                           (Dave Miller)
o       Remove Alessandro from the maintainers          (Alessandro Rubini)
o       Fix erroneous cp932 code page data              (C Huang)