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Linux kernel 2.2.17pre2 released

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 15, 2000

Date: Thu, 15 Jun 2000 18:33:27 +0100

From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu
Subject: Linux 2.2.17pre2

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

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)
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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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