Author: JT Smith
Dave wrote in to let us know that Linux kernel prepatch 2.4.14-pre7 had been released. Download from your preferred mirror site and check out the changelog, posted below.
Changelog: pre7: - me: reinstate "delete swap cache on low swap" code - David Miller: ksoftirqd startup race fix - Hugh Dickins: make tmpfs free swap cache entries proactively pre6: - me: remember to bump the version number ;) - Hugh Dickins: export "free_lru_page()" for modules - Jeff Garzik: don't change nopage arguments, just make the last a dummy one - David Miller: sparc and net updates (netfilter, VLAN etc) - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs cleanups - Jan Kara: quota initialization race - Tigran Aivazian: make the x86 microcode update driver happy about hyperthreaded P4's - me: shrink dcache/icache more aggressively - me: fix up oom-killer so that it actually works pre5: - Andrew Morton: remove stale UnlockPage - me: swap cache page locking update pre4: - Mikael Pettersson: fix P4 boot with APIC enabled - me: fix device queuing thinko, clean up VM locking pre3: - René Scharfe: random bugfix - me: block device queuing low-water-marks, VM mapped tweaking. pre2: - Alan Cox: more merging - Alexander Viro: block device module race fixes - Richard Henderson: mmap for 32-bit alpha personality - Jeff Garzik: 8139 and natsemi update pre1: - Michael Warfield: computone serial driver update - Alexander Viro: cdrom module race fixes - David Miller: Acenic driver fix - Andrew Grover: ACPI update - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update - Tim Waugh: parport update - David Woodhouse: JFFS garbage collect sleep http://www.kernel.org/mirrors/
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