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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.26-pre6

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 25, 2004

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Full Changelog

Here goes the last -pre of 2.4.26 series.

It contains an ACPI update, SPARC/m68k/x86-64 (the latter adding
basic support for Intel IA32e), amongst others.

Detailed changelog follows

Summary of changes from v2.4.26-pre5 to v2.4.26-pre6


<davem:nuts.davemloft.net>:

  • [SPARC64]: Update defconfig
  • [SPARC64]: Fix sys32_mount type arg handling

<len.brown:intel.com>:

  • [ACPI] check “maxcpus=N” early — same as NR_CPUS check
  • [ACPI] clean up acpi_disabled use __initdata on IA64 was a bug
    since it is referenced by modules.
  • [ACPI] create disable_acpi()
  • [ACPI] fix interrupt behind yenta cardbus bridge (David Shaohua
    Li) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1564
  • [ACPI] delete POWER_OF_2 array (Pavel Machek)
  • [ACPI] toshiba_acpi 0.18 from John Belmonte add missing
    copyin
  • [ACPI] ACPI SCI shall be level/low unless explicit over-ride
    http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1622
    add “acpi_sci=edge” and “acpi_sci=high” manual over-ride

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

  • Avoid readahead from reading last page of file
  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre6

<mlord:pobox.com>:

  • Fix bogus vmalloc() vm_area_free_pages call

Andi Kleen:

  • x86-64 update: simple support for IA32e/EM64T

Daniel Ritz:

  • yenta pcmcia driver: add some cardbus bridges to override
    lis

Geert Uytterhoeven:

  • Mac baboon warning
  • Amiga Oktagon URL
  • Mac missing include
  • M68k keyboard

Jeff Garzik:

  • [MAINTAINERS] remove defunct linux-via mailing list
  • [scsi] export scsi_finish_command
  • [pci] add a couple of constants

Trond Myklebust:

  • NFS: Make sure that fsync() flushes all pending file data to
    disk. The current call to nfs_wb_file() will fail to flush out
    mmapped() dirty pages.
  • NFS: make sure we revalidate attributes on completing a
    rename(): the server should normally update the ctime…
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