Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.28-rc1 | Linux Today

Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.28-rc1

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 23, 2004

Kernel.org
Mirrors


Full Changelog

Hi,

Here goes the first release candidate of v2.4.28.

It contains a small number of changes from -pre4, a couple of
libata bugfixes, a PIIX IDE driver DMA bugfix, USB fixes, and some
tmpfs corrections.

Detailed changelog follows.

Summary of changes from v2.4.28-pre4 to v2.4.28-rc1


<chaus:rz.uni-potsdam.de>:

  • Fix bug in PIIX code where DMA could be turned on without
    proper hw configuration (bugzilla bug #3473)

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

  • libata: PCI IDE legacy mode fix
  • [libata] do not memset() SCSI request buf in a get-reference
    style function
  • [libata piix] Fix PATA UDMA masks

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

  • Mikael Pettersson: PowerPC 745x coherency fix

Dave Jones:

  • davej CREDITS update

François Romieu:

  • sata_nv: enable hotplug event on successfull init only
  • sata_nv: wrong failure path and leak
  • sata_nv: housekeeping for goto labels

Herbert Xu:

  • Fix hiddev devfs oops

Hugh Dickins:

  • tmpfs: stop negative dentries
  • tmpfs: fix shmem_file_write return value

Jake Moilanen:

  • PPC64 build break

Jeff Garzik:

  • [libata] add hook, and export functions needed for sata2
    drivers
  • [libata] add sata_uli driver for ULi (formerly ALi) SATA

Jens Axboe:

  • scsi io completion bug

Maciej W. Rozycki:

  • “console=” parameter ignored

Marcelo Tosatti:

  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc1

Margit Schubert-While:

  • Add prism54 to MAINTAINERS

Paul Fulghum:

  • serial send_break duration fix

Pete Zaitcev:

  • Crash with cat /proc/bus/usb/devices and disconnect

Özkan Sezer:

  • e1000 driver, gcc-3.4 inlining fix
Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

Linux Today Logo

LinuxToday is a trusted, contributor-driven news resource supporting all types of Linux users. Our thriving international community engages with us through social media and frequent content contributions aimed at solving problems ranging from personal computing to enterprise-level IT operations. LinuxToday serves as a home for a community that struggles to find comparable information elsewhere on the web.

Property of TechnologyAdvice. © 2026 TechnologyAdvice. All Rights Reserved

Advertiser Disclosure: Some of the products that appear on this site are from companies from which TechnologyAdvice receives compensation. This compensation may impact how and where products appear on this site including, for example, the order in which they appear. TechnologyAdvice does not include all companies or all types of products available in the marketplace.