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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.21-rc3

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Web Webster
Web Webster
May 23, 2003

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Hi,

Here goes the third release candidate of 2.4.21.

Summary of changes from v2.4.21-rc2 to v2.4.21-rc3


<bk@suse.de>:

  • fix unresolved symbol rtnetlink_rcv_skb with gcc-3.3

<riel@redhat.com>:

  • mm/mmap.c address overflow fix

<viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk>:

  • TIOCCONS fix

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>:

  • fix sound/kahlua.c .text.exit error
  • fix ips.c .text.exit error
  • Configure.help updates from -ac

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

  • fix ipmi screwup
  • IDE config fixes
  • allow rw_disk in IDE to be hooked
  • clean up the pdc4030 to use the new hooks not ifdefs
  • fix modular ide build and other makefile bug
  • correct ALi doc
  • hpt37x
  • add Intel ICH5 Serial ATA
  • fix wrong clocking selection on CMD680/SII3112
  • ensure we dont turn DMA on by accident on early sl82c05
  • fix missing wakeup on hisax pci (breaks v.110)
  • mpt fusion assorted small fixes
  • fix config error
  • resync lasi id (somehow out of sync)
  • vrify_area fix
  • pci id table update
  • add a quirk for the serverworks irq
  • pass the right object to presto
  • merge the kerneldoc for uaccess
  • parisc headers
  • parisc headers 2
  • update IDE headers to match IDE changes
  • extra PCI Ident
  • export fc_type_trans
  • add a hold field to reserve ide slots (needed for PPC)

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@suse.de>:

  • Fix race between remove_inode_page and prune_icache

Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>:

  • ioperm fix

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:

  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc3
  • Cset exclude:
    alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk|ChangeSet|20030522194932|46894 (wolfson
    codec upd)

Nicolas Pitre <nico@cam.org>:

  • set_task_state() UP memory barriers

Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>:

  • 2.4.21-rc2 syntax error in toplevel Makefile

Oleg Drokin <green@angband.namesys.com>:

  • Fix reiserfs options parser, return error if given incorrect
    options on remount
  • reiserfs: One of the O_DIRECT fixes disabled tail packing by
    mistake. Enable it again
  • reiserfs: Fix another O_DIRECT vs tails problem. Mostly by
    Chris Mason
  • reiserfs: Refuse to mount/remount if “alloc=” option had
    incorect parameter
  • reiserfs: iget4() race fix

Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>:

  • [2.4] export balance_dirty

Stephen C. Tweedie <sct@redhat.com>:

  • Fix mmap+IO potential dangling IO in ext3

Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:

  • PPC32: Fix ‘make znetboot’. From Cort Dougan
  • PPC32: Important fixes in the MPC8xx enet driver
  • PPC32: Allow for the RTC IRQ to be board-defined

Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz>:

  • Fix incorrect enablebits for all AMD IDE chips
Web Webster

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