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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.26-rc1

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Mar 28, 2004

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Finally, -rc1.

The first -rc contains an ACPI update, networking fixes, amongst
others.

Please test!

Summary of changes from v2.4.26-pre6 to v2.4.26-rc1


Chas Williams:

  • [ATM]: [lec] lec_push() races with vcc->proto_data
  • [ATM]: [nicstar] use kernel min/max (by Randy.Dunlap
    <rddunlap@osdl.org>)

David S. Miller:

  • [IGMP]: Do nothing in ip_mc_down() if ip_mc_up() was not called
    previously
  • [SPARC64]: Update defconfig

Dmitry Torokhov:

  • [NET_SCHED]: Fix class reporting in TBF qdisc
  • [NET_SCHED]: Trailing whitespace cleanup in TBF scheduler

Jon Oberheide:

  • [CRYPTO]: Remove confusing TODO comment in arc4.c

Julian Anastasov:

  • [IPVS] Fix to update the skb->h.raw after skb reallocation
    in tunnel_xmit
  • [IPVS] Fix connection rehashing with new cport

Len Brown:

Marcel Holtmann:

  • [Bluetooth] Add support for AVM BlueFRITZ! USB v2.0
  • [Bluetooth] Remove non-blocking socket fix

Marcelo Tosatti:

  • Trond: Avoid refile_inode() from putting locked inodes on the
    dirty list
  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc1

Martin Devera:

  • [NET_SCHED]: HTB scheduler updates

Patrick McHardy:

  • [NET_SCHED]: Fix broken indentation in HFSC scheduler
  • [NET_SCHED]: Fix requeueing in HFSC scheduler
  • [NET_SCHED]: Use queue limit of 1 when tx_queue_len is
    zero

Sridhar Samudrala:

  • [SCTP] Don’t do any ppid byte-order conversions as it is opaque
    to SCTP
  • [SCTP] Avoid the use of hacking CONFIG_IPV6_SCTP__ option

Stephen Hemminger:

  • [NET_SCHED]: Add packet delay scheduler

Wensong Zhang:

  • [IPVS]: Fix to hold the lock before updating a service
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