Linus Torvalds writes:
There’s a new pre-2 on ftp.kernel.org in testing: this one
contains various small documentation updates and updates to
xconfig, but the important parts (and the smallest part of the
actual patch) are:
- shared file lockup fix by Stephen Tweedie
- my fix for the TCP bug that Ingo found
- Ingo’s io-apic setup fixes, which should finally get rid of the
spurious apic interrupts with some motherboards and the ExtINT
setup. - inode leak thing
- SMP scheduler potential race condition fix
- sound driver updates
- partition and disk fixes (2kB blocksize media and some IDE disk
geometry and irq detection issues).
None of the fixes are critical to most people, but all of them
_can_ be critical to people who have seen vulnerabilities in the
area. As such, if you’re happy with 2.2.1 there is no pressing
reason to test this patch out, but I hope to have the pre-patches
so that the final 2.2.2 can be left around for a while (CD-ROM
manufacturers etc would certainly prefer to not see lots of
releases).
Linus