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 2.2.1ac7 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 -ac6 to avoid any confusion.
Definitely let me know if you have any ac7 specific problems. Don't bother
Linus unless 2.2.1 unpatched also breaks.
Alan
Differences between 2.2.1ac6 and 2.2.1ac7
o Merge with Linus 2.2pre5 (me)
o Fixed the timer bug report (me)
| It was actually ok, but scsi_sleep didnt call
| init_timer()
o Shaper fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Test driver for a pair of sealevel wan cards (me)
o Fix crash case on rpciod being killed by root (Trond)
o Some warning fixes (Niels Jensen)
o Autofs security hole fix (Peter Anvin)
o Allow persistent dma buffers on sound for
non modular cases (Andrea Chiavazza)
o Hopefully fix "interrupt from stopped card"
on ne2k (me)
o Wavelan update (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Accept IEE 802.2 ARP on ether (RFC1042) (Volker Dormeyer)
o ICMP limiting disabled on loopback (Andi Kleen)
o IPX forwarding on unconfigured iface fix (me)
o IEE1284 readback timeout increased (Tim Waugh)
o Zoltrix radio API fix (Carl van Schaik)
o Hooks for work in progress ESS Maestro driver (me)
o Legacy 8bit SB mode supported on ESS Maestro (me)
| Im working on the real stuff.
o IRDA Update (Dag)
Differences between 2.2.1ac5 and 2.2.1ac6
o Merge to Linus 2.2.2pre
o chgrp security fix (Mark Jefferys)
o Delete now ignored source route config (Jim Bauer)
o NTFS out of memory crash fixes (Steve Dodd)
o HFS corruption fixes (Adrian Sun)
o IPX NULL pointer oops fix (Daniel Drown)
o IDE SCSI lun fix (Wolfgang Wander)
o Fix mkdir clearing setgid bit on dirs (Trond)
o IP filter security holes fixed (Andi, ANK)
o VM Improvements (Stephen Tweedie)
o PPP/VJ panic on Alpha fix (Adrian Sun)
o TCP timer race, timer bughunter (Ingo Molnar)
o Typhoon radio support (Henrik Seidel)
o COSA update (Jan Kasprzak)
o SMC ultra updated (Don Becker/Tom Rini)
o SyncPPP keepalive count upped (Jan Kasprzak)
o ACard PCI fixes (Krzysztof Baranowski)
o Future Domain MCA compile bug fixed (David Weinehall)
o IRDA update (Dag Brattli)
o QlogicFC update (Chris Loveland)
o Lock inode on fdatasync() (Chris Lawrence)
Differences between 2.2.1ac4 and 2.2.1ac5
o Fixed a dumb sound bug introduced in ac4 (me)
o Last bits of Linus 2.2.2pre1 merged (Niels)
o Warning cleanups (assorted)
o drivers/net/Config.in fix (Niels)
o scripts/ver_linux fix for net tools (Niels)
o CS89x0 module MODULE_PARMS missing (me)
o NFS lockd changes (HJ Lu)
o NFS write clustering fixes (Trond)
o Merged with Linus 2.2.2pre2
o EEPro100 IRQ share fixes (Kai Makisara)
o Fixed the TLAN crashes when out of memory (me)
Differences between 2.2.1ac3 and 2.2.1ac4
o AIC7xxx updated (Doug Ledford)
o Make clean fixes (Niels)
o smbfs ioctl definition (Michael Warfield)
o Test work to fix DEFxx driver for 2.2 (me)
o Proc fs documentation fixes (Ulrich Windl)
o Fix AMD step reporting (me)
o CODA crash in /proc cure (Andrea)
o Firewall marks lost on buffer copies (ANK, Rusty)
o Sound core fixes for ALSA use (Jaroslav)
o Changes to NFS client flow control (Trond)
o SyncPPP negotiation fixes (me)
o Merged in Linus 2.2pre1 diffs so I can
generate new diffs for Linus
o Draft "block size query" ioctl (me)
| This is for comment/testing. Don't assume
| its going to become a linux api item just yet
Differences between 2.2.1ac2 and 2.2.1ac3
o VHX probing should be fixed (me)
o Zoltrix TV card supported (Artur Skawina)
o 8K blocks/write cluster NFS (Trond/Olaf Kirch)
| This is a big patch but based on previously
| tested code. I've put it in because - well it goes
| rather fast 8)
o Renamed bits of the genhd 2048 byte code to keep
Linus happy (me)
o Added EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to smc ultra (me)
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
