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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.18

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From: Marcelo Tosatti 
Date: Mon, February 25, 2002 10:37
Subject: Linux 2.4.18

Hi, 

Finally, 2.4.18. No changes between it and -rc4.


final:

- No changes have been made between -final 
  and -rc4.

rc4:

- Load code did not set personality for
  binaries without an interpreter: This was 
  breaking static apps on several archs                (Tom Gall)

rc3: 

- Fix reiserfs endianess problems                (Chris Mason) 
- Fix PowerMac compilation problem                 (Pmac team)
- Fix some eepro100 ID's which had problems 
  in -ac merge                                        (Jeff Garzik)
- Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to
  not clash with ethtool.h - the clash caused 
  the driver not work correctly                        (William Lee Irwin)
- Add missing netif_carrier_{on,off} to
  eepro100                                        (Andrew Morton)
- Fix netfilter race                                (Rusty Russell)
- Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg                (Alexey Kuznetsov)
- Revert tulip changes which were apparently
  causing slowdowns                                (Jeff Garzik) 
- Fix ptrace behaviour                                (Linus Benedict Torvalds)

rc2: 

- Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas
  gracefully                                        (Manfred Spraul)
- Fix SMP race on PID allocation                (Erik A. Hendriks)
- Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme                (Alexander Viro)
- Add missing checks to shmem_file_write        (Alan Cox)

rc1: 
- PPC MPC8260 update                                (Tom Rini)
- eepro100 fixes                                (Jeff Garzik)
- Make natsemi hardware workaround a config 
  option                                        (Jeff Garzik)
- Add serial board PCI ID                        (Jeff Garzik)
- Add support for another tulip clone                (Jeff Garzik)
- Fix typo in winbond driver                        (Jeff Garzik)
- Move initialization of tridentfb before 
  the generic drivers                                (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Reiserfs bugfixes                                (Oleg Drokin)
- More __devexit_p assorted fixes                (Andrew Morton)
- Merge some -ac bugfixes                        (Alan Cox)

pre9:

- Cris update                                        (Bjorn Wesen)
- SPARC update                                        (David S. Miller)
- Remove duplicate CONFIG_SUNLANCE entry in 
  Config.in                                        (David S. Miller)
- Change Netfilter maintainer                         (David S. Miller)
- More SunGEM bugfixes                                (David S. Miller)
- Update md5sums in ISDN's md5sums.asc                (Kai Germaschewski)
- 3ware driver update                                (Adam Radford)
- Fix cosa compile problem                        (Adrian Bunk)
- Change VIA "disabling write queue" message        (Oliver Feiler)
- Remove buggy Elan-specific handling code        (Robert Schwebel)
- Reiserfs bugfixes                                (Oleg Drokin)
- Fix ppp memory leak                                (Andrew Morton)
- Really add devfs fix for removable devices: 
  its on pre8 changelog but not on pre8 patch        (me)
- Add framebuffer support for trident graphics
  card                                                (James Simmons)
- SCSI tape driver bugfixes                        (Kai Makisara)
- Add support to Ovislink card on 8139too
  driver                                        (Jeff Garzik)
- Add SIOCxMIIxxxx ioctls for better binary 
  compatibility on au1000_eth driver                (Jeff Garzik)
- Fix initialization of phy on epic100 driver        (Jeff Garzik)
- Add MODULE_* info to mii.c                         (Jeff Garzik)
- Add new PCI ID to sundance driver                (Jeff Garzik)
- Merge some -ac3 patches                        (Alan Cox)
- Unify simple_strtol symbol export                (Russell King)
- Add amount of cached memory to sysreq-m 
  output                                        (Martin Knoblauch)
- Do not use SCSI device type to change
  IO clustering                                        (Jens Axboe)
- IRC conntrack update                                (Harald Welte)
- sonypi driver update                                (Stelian Pop)
- Fix one of the PPP deadlocks                        (Manfred Spraul)

pre8: 

- Add missing netfilter files in pre7                 (David S. Miller)
- SunGEM driver update                                (David S. Miller)
- Kill get_fast_time                                (David S. Miller)
- Update APIC LVTERR fix to work correctly on 
  old 486/586 APICs                                (Mikael Pettersson)
- Check the return code of copy_{from,to}_user
  on serial code                                (Rasmus Andersen)
- Mark 2.5 extended attributes system calls as 
  reserved to avoid potential conflicts                (Nathan Scott)
- Change Christoph Hellwig's email address        (Christoph Hellwig)
- Make BLKGETSIZE64 return size in bytes not 
  sectors                                        (Eric Sandeen)
- Coda dentry revalidation fix                        (Jan Harkes)
- hisax_fcpcipnp driver update                        (Kai Germaschewski)
- i810 sound driver update                        (Doug Ledford)
- Early personality setting in binfmt_elf        (Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix rename bug in reiserfs                        (Oleg Drokin)
- SCSI documentation update                        (Douglas Gilbert)
- Fix silly typo in megaraid driver                 (Arjan Van de Ven)
- PPC update                                        (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- USB bug fixes                                        (Greg KH)
- Fix devfs problems with removable devices        (Richard Gooch)
- Merge -ac1 fixes                                (Alan Cox)
- VXFS update                                        (Christoph Hellwig)
- Add Compaq FC array to the LUN whitelist        (Arjan Van de Ven) 

pre7:

- Make ext2/minix/sysvfs actually operate
  synchronously on directories when using
  the sync mount option                                (Andrew Morton)
- AFFS update                                        (Roman Zippel)
- Fix 3dfx fb crash with high pixelclock         (Jurriaan on Alpha)
- PATH_MAX POSIX compliance                        (Rusty Russell)
- Really apply AMD Elan patch                        (me)
- Don't drop IP packets with less than 8 bytes 
  of payload                                         (David S. Miller)
- Netfilter update                                 (Netfilter team)
- Backport 2.5 sb_bread() changes                (Alexander Viro)
- Fix AF_UNIX fd leak                                (David S. Miller)
- Add Audigy Gameport PCI ID                         (Daniel Bertrand)
- Sync with ia64 arch independant parts                (Keith Owens)
- APM fixes                                        (Stephen Rothwell)
- fs/super.c cleanups                                (Alexander Viro)

pre6:

- Removed patch in icmp code: its
  not needed and causes problems                (me)

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 updates                                        (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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