Linux 2.4.7-ac3

Date: Mon, 30 Jul 2001 01:21:42 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox 
To: editors@newsforge.com


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

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2.4.7-ac3
o        Add "make rpm" target                           (me)
         | Remember to install not upgrade kernel rpms
         | as you will want to keep old ones around too

o        Fix FPU emulation breakage                      (Brian Gerst)
o        Fix minix subpartition handling                         (Andries Brouwer)
o        Add another odd vaio bios to the apm list       (Robert Dunlop)
o        Further Configure.help updates                  (Steven Cole)
o        Update usb configure and help texts             (Brad Hards)
o        Fix kmem read loop bug                          (Hugh Dickins)
o        Two warning fixes                               (Art Haas)
o        Fix missing icmp errors for udp                         (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o        Fix 3c59x module load problem                   (Hugh Dickins)
o        Update pwc driver                               (Nemosoft Unv)
o        Remove old non kernel code from reiserfs tree   (Nikita Danilov)
o        Remove unneeded reiserfsck code from tree       (Nikita Danilov)
o        Replace checks in CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK with    (Nikita Danilov)
         cleaner macros
o        Add const's correct formatting/typechecking     (Nikita Danilov)
o        Clean up do_reiserfs_warning macro              (Jeff Mahoney)
o        Add Randolph Chung to CREDITS                   (Matthew Wilcox)
o        Merge some pa risc tree Configure.help          (Matthew Wilcox)
o        Update the pa risc tree docs                    (Matthew Wilcox)
o        Add pa-risc keyboard drivers    (Debacker Xavier, Marteau Thomas,
                                         Djoudi Malek, Philipp Rumpf, 
                                         Alex deVries)
o        Update lasi ethernet drivers for pa-risc
o        Correct acenic check for parisc to hppa
o        HPPA port requires pci-setup
o        Add headers for som binary loader               (Matthew Wilcox)