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Linux kernel 2.2.9ac6 released

Alan Cox writes:

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

        Just merging some more stuff together for testing. If it complains
        about 'PAGE_OFFSET_RAW' being unknown type "make oldconfig"


2.2.9ac6
o       Made Seeq8005 driver modular            (me)
o       SMB page cache fix                      (Steven Hirsch/Trond)
o       Fix (I hope) initrd bug by making scsi_eh
        exit_fs properly (figured out by Villy) (me)
o       Fix the scsi oopses on out of memory    (Doug Gilbert)
o       Fixed IRDA smp build bug                (me)
o       Sound Galaxy build bug                  (Artur Skawina)
o       Sound OPL3SA2 non modular fixes         (David Luyer)
o       Quota hang fix                          (Jan Kara)
o       PPC include tweaks                      (Andreas Bogk)
o       IBM-tr PCMCIA fix                       (Mike Phillips)
o       Fix DoS bug in exec*() functions        (Andi Kleen)
o       Fix memory check missing on ELF loader  (Andi Kleen)

2.2.9ac5

o       Merged 2.2.10pre3
o       Added generic AGC/3DSE ioctls to OSS    (Stanislav V. Voronyi)
o       IBM PCI tr driver (olympic chipsets)    (Peter de Shrivjer, 
                                         Mike Phillips)
o       SMBfs lockup fix                        (Trond Myklebust)
o       ni65 byte counters                      (Harald Koenig)
o       Some more smp kernel lock drops         (Stephen/DaveM)

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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