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