Alan Cox releases his second patch to the 2.2.1 kernel.
Alan Cox writes:
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2/..
This is primarily for people who want the large file array support. Most of the
other stuff I intend to submit on to Linus for 2.2.1/2.2.2 -> whenever
If you have a problem in 2.2.1ac2 verify you can duplicate it with 2.2.1
before posting general bug reports if possible. Make sure it is obvious
if a bug report is about -ac2 to avoid any confusion.
Definitely let me know if you have any ac2 specific problems. Don't bother
Linus unless 2.2.1 unpatched also breaks.
Alan
Differences between 2.2.1ac1 and 2.2.1ac2
o ESS updates (Rolf)
o IDE probe irq fails fall back to the default IRQ (me)
o Fixed an annoying use of hex not strings in net/sunrpc (me)
o Initio A100 scsi support (Initio, Bas)
o PS/2 mouse compat fixes (Scott Ananian)
o MegaRAID update (AMI)
o NFSD fix (Not sure who originated it)
o Geometry fixes for IDE
o Error in SCSI error workaround (Daio Ballabio)
Differences between 2.2.0ac2 and 2.2.1.ac1
o Merged with Linus 2.2.1
Differences between 2.2.0ac1 and 2.2.0ac2
Bug Fixes
o Ingo's fix for the "execute a core dump" crash
o IRDA update
o Endianness & other fbcon fixes
o GUS setup
o ESS build on Alpha (unknown symbol in modular build)
o Baycom driver could lock parallel port
o MegaRAID update
o Midi timing fixes
o Correct permissions on a write only sysctl
Additional Features
o Full (I hope) support for 2048 byte media M/O drives.
Other
o Erik Andersen moved address
Differences between 2.2.0 and 2.2.0ac1
Bug Fixes
o Fixed the ESS compile problem
o Changed the OPL3-SA contact as requested by Hannu
o Small number of time wrap fixes
o Xconfig/atyfb config fix
o AFFS apparently didnt get the flag fixes when the other drivers
did.
o /proc/mem locking
Additional Features
o Support for very large numbers of file handles per process
(> 1024)
o Better bw-qcam driver
o NFS client understands pipes on file systems mounted via NFS
o Symbol name matching between versioned/unversioned modules
Additional Drivers
o Qlogic Fibrechannel
o Symbios 53c416
Other
o ADFS updated
o Lots of ARM merges
o Ted's fsync change to ext2
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/alan/2.2/patch-2.2.1-ac2.bz2