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Linux kernel 2.2.9ac4 released

[ For experts only -lt ed ]

Alan Cox writes:

    ftp://ftp.*.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/alan/...

    This should fix the NFS hangs (I hope). Yes it reports itself
    as 2.2.9ac3. No I don't care right now 8)


2.2.9ac4

o   Upgrade to knfsd 1.3.3b         (Assorted)
o   APM update              (Steve Rothwell)
o   EISA lne390 driver fixes for Jensen (Carsten Jacobi)
o   Fix i386 signal handling/sound bug  (Nimrod Zimmerman)
o   AVEC TV card support            (Adam Fritzler)
o   Fix memory corruption on sd_detach  (Maciej W Rozycki)
o   Fix multiple swapon crash       (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o   Fix SMP hang error in signal delivery   (me)
o   Fix sign bug in rlimits call        (Solar Designer)
o   SUS noncompliance bug with pipes    (Julian Bradfield)
o   Second sig recalc error fix     (Andrea Schwab)
o   SCSI generic doc update         (Doug Gilbert)
o   Minor MCA cleanups          (David Weinehall)
o   NFS hang fix                (Trond Myklebust)

2.2.9ac3

o   SCSI generic update         (Douglas Gilbert)
o   Fix a lot of races in the Quota code    (Jan Kara)
o   knfsd quota fix             (Jan Kara)
o   Fix seek/pos handling on /dev/mem   (Steven Hand)
o   Fix alpha building on 2.2.9ac2      (Daniel J. Frasnelli)
o   TCP lock dropping speedup for SMP   (Andi Kleen)
o   COSA driver update          (Jan Kasprzak)
o   Juanjo is now Masq maintainer       (Rusty)
o   ADS cadet autodetect fix        (Frederick F. Gleason)
o   Fix wdt driver to use __init        (Stephen Torri)
o   Fix ip firewall memory leak     (Rusty)
o   IRDA update                 (Dag Brattli)
o   ESS speed fix               (Andy Sloane)
o   1/2Gig selector in Config.in        (Bernd Paysan)
o   3c515 ifconfig accounting       (Patrick)

2.2.9ac2

o   Merge in Linus 2.2.10pre1
o   Merge in Linus 2.2.10pre2
o   Drop EFS (now in 2.3)
o   Drop HPFS (now in 2.3)
o   Drop I2O (now with Linus for 2.3.x)
o   Drop drivers/acorn (for 2.3)
o   Drop the stackable fs changes ( 2.3 issue )

2.2.9ac1

o   NFS update              (Trond)
o   EEPro ISA support for the Alpha     (David Woodhouse)
o   Microphone fix for ES1370       (Thomas Sailer)
o   Updated CMI8330 doc         (Stefan Laudat)
o   IRDA update             (Dag Brattli)
o   Leadtek Winview TV card support     (Jon Tombs)
o   Fix IPv6 crash              (Alexander Lukyanov)
o   Add missing entries for regal cd    (Henning Sauer)
o   Look XOR crash fix          (Paul)
o   Cyclades driver update          (Cyclades)
o   Fix spinlock bug in COSA        (Marcelo Tosatti)
o   IDE tweaks              (Klaus Kudelia)
o   Alpha updates               (Jay Estabrook)

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