Author: JT Smith
Alan Cox posted this update and change log to the kernel mailing list: “Known problem: AIC7xxx doesn’t work with some adaptec controllers still.”
Date: Wed, 7 Feb 2001 20:10:27 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux 2.4.1-ac5
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Known problem: AIC7xxx doesn't work with some adaptec controllers
still
2.4.1-ac5
o Fix zero page corruption (Ben La Haise)
o Elevator corruption fixes (Jens Axboe, Linus)
o Fix fdatasync possible corruption problem (Arjan van de Ven)
o Further KSLI ethernet fixes (Eric Sandeen)
o Merge the correct version of the pm fixes (me)
| noted by Mikael Pettersson
o Account for inode/dcache in free memory (Rik van Riel)
o Add info on how to check reiserfsprogs versions (Steven Cole)
o Disable write combining on serverworks LE chips (Mark Rusk)
o Fix via audio crashes (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix ip accounting rules bug (Rusty Russell)
o Handle USB printers that use device not (Johannes Erdfelt)
interface descriptors
o Fix wheel on graphire usb tablet (Peter Hofmann)
o Clean up maxiradio driver (Francois Romieu)
o Fix visor USB size reporting on buffers (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update USB serial documentation (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix locking on etherworks3 ethernet (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix empeg USB driver problems (Gary Brubaker)
o Generic USB serial driver fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update USB serial configure.help (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add more device support to mct_u232 USB (Cornel Ciocirlan)
o Fix typo in asm-ppc/semaphore.h (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Report reiserfs tools in ver_linux (Steven Cole)
o Fix resource leaks in NCR_53c406, atari_scsi (Rasmus Andersen)
and qlogicisp
o Move pci_enable_device earlier for hamachi (Dave Jones)
o Type 6 drives are apparently floppy 2.88M (Dave Jones)
o Remove duplicate pci_enable_device in ne2kpci (Dave Jones)
2.4.1-ac4
o Fix sk_in use counting in svcsock.c (Neil Brown)
| Not yet a complete and final agreed solution
o Add support for KLSI USB ethernet (Brad Hards,
Stephane Alnet, 'the Zapman', and co)
o Update aic7xxx driver (Doug Ledford)
| Please test this carefully and cc reports to Doug
o Add help for CONFIG_INPUT (Steven Cole)
o 3c523 driver update (Tom Sightler)
o Fix reiserfs Changes entry further (Steven Cole)
o Limit ide scatter gather to 128 blocks (Jens Axboe)
o Merge hppa config.in changes (Matthew Wilcox)
o Fix tx timeout recovery on via rhine (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix stale comments in fs/block_dev.c (Tigran Aivazian)
o Further defxx driver work (Maciej Rozycki)
o winbond 840 reported wrong setting value (Maciej Rozycki)
o Guillemot Maxi radio support (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
o Allow sleeping in pm callbacks but with locking (me)
working
2.4.1-ac3
o Remove ancient dead net/Changes file (Janice Girouard)
o Merge Linus 2.4.2pre1
o Resync xirc2ps with Dave Hinds tree (dilinger)
o Finish sorting out ramfs problems (Mike Galbraith)
o Update AWE32 documentation (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Remove reference to dead PPP documentation (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Make max_map tunable (Werner Almesberger)
o Fix dead references to java support in some (Andre Dahlqvist)
arch/config
o Make shmfs estimate size limits if none set (Christoph Rohland)
o Revert Crusoe hanging pci hanging changes
| Im still chasing something weird in this
| area that some of the pci changes I have fixes...
o Merge HPPA hackers into CREDITS (Mathew Wilcox)
o Merge some of the HPPA updates (Mathew Wilcox)
o Add Reiserfs tools to changes (Steven Cole)
o Fix i2o Configure.help typo (YOSHIMURA Keitaro)
o SuperH HD64465 host bridge support (Greg Banks)
o Fix modversion.h includes (Keith Owens)
o Tlan driver probing updates (Jeff Garzik)
o Change media drivers to use new style module (me)
locking
| Janitorial job - fix the last ones that
| don't use module_*() and dump the init code
2.4.2-ac2
o Fix matrox G450 framebuffer support (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix description of DMA-mapping.txt (Dave Miller)
o Fix accidental revert of classifier bug (Dave Miller)
o Fix accidental revert of isdn change
o Fix datagram hang on shutdown (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix 64bit build of clntproc (Michal Jaegermann)
| wants a tidier solution yet
o Fix ide toc caching bug introduced in 2.4.0 (Fredrik Vraalsen)
| this should fix the DVD playback problems
o Swapfs renaming and final bits (Christoph Rohland)
o Further APIC/NMI updates (Mikael Pettersson)
o Add further kernel doc contributions (John Levon)
o ACPI battery tweaks (Pavel Machek)
o Further ramfs fixes (Ingo Oeser)
o ROMFS fixes (Mike Galbraith)
o CS4281 fixes (Thomas Woller)
o Shift to authors official fixes for acenic (Jes Sorensen)
o Update the usb hosthost network drivers (David Brownell)
| Experimental but he wanted feedback so if you
| have one beat it up a bit
2.4.1-ac1
o Resync with Linus 2.4.1
o Fix recursive make_request crash (Ingo Molnar)
o Updated VIA IDE driver (Vojtech Pavlik)
| Please exercise due care and caution testing this
| bit...
o Fix case where threaded apps might write to (Ben LaHaise)
freed kernel memory
o Fix ACPI oopses on tecra (apparently bios bugs) (Pavel Machek)
o AHA152x fixes from maintainer (Juergen Fischer)
o Fix case where scsi could hang on boot waiting (Rogier Wolff)
for a disk spinup
o Further maestro3 pm work (Zach Brown)
o Further NTFS fixes (Yuri Per)
o Add GNU make to the list of URLs in Changes (Steven Cole)
o Make dmx3191d enable device before touching it (Rasmus Andersen)
o Make the sbpcd driver actually useful in 2.4 (Paul Gortmaker)
o Make buslogic enable device before touching it (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix tty module locking mishandling (Maciej Rozycki)
o Workaround code for APIC problems with ne2k (Maciej Rozycki)
| this will break original 82489DX devices for now
| ie _very_ early dual pentium boards
o Fix iptos netfilter bug (Rusty Russell)
o Fix get/set_fpu_mxcsr to check xmm ont fxsr (Doug Ledford)
o Fix name_to_kdev_t symbol (Adam J Richter)
o Update magic sysrq docs (Jeremy Dolan)
o Support for ETinc PCIsync boards (Francois Romieu)
o Mass duplicated word spelling fixes (Dave Jones)
o Update sb driver to use spinlocks (Chris Rankin)
o Fix leak in bmac driver (Hans Grobler)
o Fix kmalloc check in atm/common (Hans Grobler)
o Fix buffer leak in defxx (Hans Grobler)
o Fix kmalloc check in netrom driver (Hans Grobler)
|BTW side exercise - how about using vmalloc here ?
o Ditto for rose (Hans Grobler)
|Ditto for comment ;)
o Fix lockd 64bit handling (H J Lu)
o Tidy pci_match_device ifdefs (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix qla1280 handling of registration failure (Rasmus Andersen
Rakesh Rakesh)
o Config include fixes (Niels Jensen)
o MatroxFB updates (Petr Vandrovec)
o Tidy fat_read_super to use get_hardsect_size (Tigran Aivazian)
o Fix m68k bitops ffs() (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix ip_nat_standalone ksyms stuff (Rusty Russell)
o Fix copy_from_user mishandling in ip_fw_compat (Rusty Russell)
o Fix romfs for 2.4ac maxbytes (Mike Galbraith)
o filemap/aging updates (Rik van Riel)
o Enable device before reading irq in ne2k-pci (Martin Diehl)
o Remove surplus nr_ioapics definition (Rasmus Andersen)
o S/390 build fixes (Florian Laroche)
o Advansys driver fixes/portability (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix out of message handling error in i2o_block (Jason Lai)
o Fix bit granularity of 32 in ACPI driver (Adam J Richter)
o Fix unsafe casting for ARM on NFS root mount (Russell King)
o Fix mxcsr masking on pentium IV (Doug Ledford)
o Update u14/eata drivers to 6.03 (Dario Ballabio)
o Fix signed/unsigned mess in sysctl handlers (me)
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Alan Cox alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
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