[ UPDATE: This release has been rather rapidly supplanted by
2.4.18-pre6. ]
From: Marcelo Tosatti
Subject: Linux 2.4.18-pre5
Date: 22 Jan 2002 15:20:24 -0200
Hi,
I was waiting for the icmp overflow problem to be fixed to release this
kernel, but it only exists only on 2.2.
Well, here goes pre5.
pre5:
- Include missing radeonfb defines (Erik Andersen)
- Fix fs/buffer.c thinko introduced in pre4 (Andrew Morton)
- USB bugfixes (Greg KH)
- Make fat work correctly with gcc-3.0.x (Tom Rini)
- Avoid overusage of the vmalloc area by
NTFS (Anton Altaparmakov)
- atyfb: Decrease clock rate for 3d RAGE XL (David S. Miller)
- Sungem driver bugfixes (David S. Miller)
- More networking updates (David S. Miller)
- More SPARC updates (David S. Miller)
- devfs update (Richard Gooch)
- Reiserfs expanding truncate fix (Chris Mason)
- ext3 update (Andrew Morton/Stephen Tweedie)
- Add support to WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT on several
watchdog drivers (Joel Becker)
- dl2k driver update (Jeff Garzik)
- Orinoco driver update (David Gibson)
- Radeonfb driver update (Ani Joshi)
- Avoid free_swap_and_cache() from leaving
freeable pages on the cache (Hugh Dickins)
- Add workarounds for AMD Elan processors (Robert Schwebel)
- Random pmac driver bugfixing (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- emu10k1 driver update (Rui Sousa)
pre4:
- Networking updates (David S. Miller)
- clgenfb update (Jeff Garzik)
- 8139cp: make it faster (Jeff Garzik)
- 8139too: fix bugs, add experimental RX reset (Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface and change
several drivers to support that (Jeff Garzik)
- Fix ramdisk corruption problems (Andrea Arcangeli)
- Correct in-kernel MS_ASYNC behaviour
on msync/fsync() (Andrew Morton)
- Fix PLIP problems (Niels Jensen)
- Fix problems triggered by the "fsx test"
on smbfs (Urban Widmark)
- Turn on OOSTORE for IDT winchip (from -ac tree)
- Fix iphase crash (from -ac tree)
- Fix crash with two mxser cards (from -ac tree)
- Fix tty write block bug (from -ac tree)
- Add mono/stereo detect to gemtek pci radio (from -ac tree)
- Fix sf16fmi crash on load (from -ac tree)
- add CP1250 (windows eastern european)
translation table (from -ac tree)
- cs46xx driver update (from -ac tree)
- Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1 (Ingo Molnar)
- Add 2.5.x compatibility for the kdev_t
changes (me)
- SPARC updat
es (David S. Miller)
pre3:
- Cris arch merge (Bjorn Wesen)
- Finish PPC merge (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- Add Dell PowerEdge 2400 to
"use BIOS to reboot" blacklist (Arjan van de Ven)
- Avoid potential oops at module unload with
cyclades driver (Andrew Morton)
- Gracefully handle SCSI initialization
failures (Pete Zaitcev)
- USB update (Greg KH)
- Fix potential oops while ejecting ide cds (Zwane Mwaikambo)
- Unify page freeing codepaths (Benjamin LaHaise)
- Miata dma corruption workaround (Richard Henderson)
- Fix vmalloc corruption problem on machines
with virtual dcaches (Ralf Baechle)
- Reiserfs fixes (Oleg Drokin)
- DiskOnChip driver update (David Woodhouse)
- Do not inherit page locking rules across
fork/exec (Dave Anderson)
- Add DRM 4.0 for XFree 4.0 users convenience (Christoph Hellwig)
- Replace .text.lock with .subsection (Keith Owens)
- IrDA bugfixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
pre2:
- APIC LVTERR fixes (Mikael Pettersson)
- Fix ppdev ioctl oops and deadlock (Tim Waugh)
- parport fixes (Tim Waugh)
- orinoco wireless driver update (David Gibson)
- Fix oopsable race in binfmt_elf.c (Alexander Viro)
- Small sx16 driver bugfix (Heinz-Ado Arnolds)
- sbp2 deadlock fix (Andrew Morton)
- Fix JFFS2 write error handling (David Woodhouse)
- Intermezzo update (Peter J. Braam)
- Proper AGP support for Intel 830MP chipsets (Nicolas Aspert)
- Alpha fixes (Jay Estabrook)
- 53c700 SCSI driver update (James Bottomley)
- Fix coredump mmap_sem deadlock on IA64 (David Mosberger)
- 3ware driver update (Adam Radford)
- Fix elevator insertion point on failed
request merge (Jens Axboe)
- Remove bogus rpciod_tcp_dispatcher definition (David Woodhouse)
- Reiserfs fixes (Oleg Drokin)
- de4x5 endianess fixes (Kip Walker)
- ISDN CAPI cleanup (Kai Germaschewski)
- Make refill_inactive() correctly account
progress (me)
pre1:
- S390 merge (IBM)
- SuperH merge (SuperH team)
- PPC merge (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- PCI DMA update (David S. Miller)
- radeonfb update (Ani Joshi)
- aty128fb update (Ani Joshi)
- Add nVidia GeForce3 support to rivafb (Ani Joshi)
- Add PM support to opl3sa2 (Zwane Mwaikambo)
- Basic ethtool support for 3com, starfire
and pcmcia net drivers (Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface (Jeff Garzik)
- starfire,sundance,dl2k,sis900,8139{too,cp},
natsemi driver updates (Jeff Garzik)
- ufs/minix: mark inodes as bad in case of read
failure (Christoph Hellwig)
- ReiserFS fixes (Oleg Drokin)
- sonypi update (Stelian Pop)
- n_hdlc update (Paul Fulghum)
- Fix compile error on aty_base.c (Tobias Ringstrom)
- Document cpu_to_xxxx() on kernel-hacking doc (Rusty Russell)
- USB update (Greg KH)
- Fix sysctl console loglevel bug on
IA64 (and possibly other archs) (Jesper Juhl)
- Update Athlon/VIA PCI quirks (Calin A. Culianu)
- blkmtd update (Simon Evans)
- boot protocol update (makes the highest
possible initrd address available to the
bootloader) (H. Peter Anvin)
- NFS fixes (Trond Myklebust)
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