Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.25-rc3 | Linux Today

Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.25-rc3

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Feb 16, 2004

Kernel.org
Mirrors


Full Changelog

Hi,

Here goes the third 2.4.25 release candidate.

This release includes a few important net fixes, amongst
others.

Detailed changelog below

Summary of changes from v2.4.25-rc2 to v2.4.25-rc3


:

  • [NET]: Fix ethtool oops if device support get but not set
    ringparam

:

  • MPT Fusion: fix IOCTL interface on ia64/x86-64

:

  • [NET]: Do not send negative 2nd arg to skb_put()

:

  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc3
  • Cset exclude:
    sri@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20040213195328|09088
  • Cset exclude:
    sri@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20040213011231|09074
  • Cset exclude:
    sri@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20040213005510|09081
  • Cset exclude:
    sri@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20040213003759|09793
  • revert 2.6 sctp sync, readd sla1.h, sla1.c, hashdriver.c,
    adler32.c

:

  • [NET_SCHED]: Fix slot leakage in SFQ scheduler

:

  • Warn if negative size is passed to [v]snprintf

Chas Williams:

  • [ATM]: prevent userspace compilation errors with
    glibc-kernheaders
  • [ATM]: [he] unconditionalize extra pci reads to flush posted
    writes

Herbert Xu:

  • off-by-one kmalloc in ntfs
Web Webster

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