Author: JT Smith
The next update to the kernel is available for download, says Alan Cox:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
(Note that the cmsfs port to 2.4 is a work in progress)
2.4.2-ac20
o Add support for the GoHubs GO-COM232 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Remove cobalt remnants (Ralf Baechle)
o First block of mm documentation (Rik van Riel)
o Replace ancient Zoran driver with new one (Serguei Miridonov,
Wolfgang Scherr, Rainer Johanni, Dave Perks)
o Fix Alpha build (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix K7 mtrr breakage (Dave Jones)
o Fix pcnet32 touching resources before enable (Dave Jones)
o Merge with Linus 2.4.3pre4
2.4.2-ac19
o Typo fixes (David Weinehall)
o Merge first block of OHCI non x86 support (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Add Edgeport USB serial support (David Iacovelli,
Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix doorlock on scsi removables (Alex Davies)
o Fix hang when usb storage thread died (me)
o Change watchdog disable setup (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix bluetooth close and error bugs (Narayan Mohanram)
o mpt now has an assigned minor (me)
| Remember to fix your /dev/mptctl if using MPT
o Clean up 3270 ifdefs/printk a little (me)
o Fix NBD deadlocks and update it (Steve Whitehouse)
o Fix sercon printk divide by zero bug (Roger Gammans)
o Remove cosine support from MIPS tree (Ralf Baechle)
o bust_spinlocks for Alpha (Jeff Garzik)
o Hopefully fix the buslogic corruptions (me)
| This is a 'test if they went away' release not a 'its fixed' one.
o Some mips makefile fixes (Ralf Baechle)
| except mips/kernel/Makefile (I got .rej Ralf)
o ARC firmware interface fixes (Harald Koerfgen)
o DECstation console drivers (Michael Engel,
Karsten Merker,
Harald Koerfgen)
o Fix ipx build bug (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Fix ptrace race (Stephen Tweedie)
o Update include/config.h stuff, ver_linux (Niels Jensen)
o Add missing pci_enable_device to cs4281 (Marcus Meissner,
Thomas Woller)
o Fix non PPC build of clgenfb (Andrew Morton)
o Update CPU docs (Dave Jones)
o Add mips atlas/malta reference boards (Carsten Langgaard)
o Add gt91600 ethernet support (SteveL)
o Add philips SAA9730 ethernet (Carsten Langgaard)
o PCnet32 driver fixes (Carsten Langgaard)
o MIPS fpu emulator (Algorithmics, Ralf Baechle, Kevin Kissell,
Carsten Langgaard, Harald Koerfgen, Maciej Rozycki)
o mips network driver updates (Ralf Baechle)
o Fix FC920 workarounds in i2o (me)
o Fix i2o_block hang on exit, 0 event race (me)
o FIx i2o_core thread kill wakeup race (me)
o Backport 2.2 VIA 686a clock reset workaround (Arjan van de Ven)
o Further documentation updates (Matthew Wilcox)
2.4.2-ac18
o Debian has another location for db3 (Marc Volovic)
o Remove duplicated flush_tlb_page export on (Elliot Lee)
Alpha
o Fix SB Live! build on SMP Alpha (Elliot Lee)
o Fix disk corruption on qlogicisp and qlogicpti (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix reporting of >4Gig of swap (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix sign issues in mpt fusion (Andrew Morton)
o CMS minidisk file system (read only) (Rick Troth)
2.4 port (me)
o Disable nmi watchdog by default (Andrew Morton)
o Fix elsa_cs eject problems (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
o Remove duplicate config entries (Steven Cole)
o Fix further wrong license references (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Add nmi watchdog disable for sysrq (Andrew Morton)
o Experimental test for serverworks/intel AGP (me)
comptability
o Fix ipx reference counting for routes (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
2.4.2-ac17
o Make the aic7xxx code handle multiple db3 paths (me)
o Small further via updates (Vojtech Pavlik)
o IDE tape updates for Onstream tape drives (Marcel Mol)
o Remove some bits of module.c that cant get (Keith Owens
executed Andrew Morton)
o Configure.help fixups (Steven Cole)
o Add Cyrix MTRR data (Dave Jones)
o Fix a slight bogon in the i386 Makefile (Dave Jones)
o Kill an escaped modversions.h (Keith Owens)
o Further controlfb fixes (Takashi Oe)
o Fix console driver oops in new locking (Andrew Morton)
o Add 'broken-psr' so you can command line tell (Neale Banks)
APM your BIOS is crap
o Fix serial console (Dave Jones)
o Fix megaraid kernel_version string (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix off by one error in cpia (Andrew Morton)
o Fix lost dmfe typo fix (Torsten Duwe)
o Take kernel_lock for i_truncate method in (Al Viro)
vmtruncate
o Fix i2c sign check bug (Andrew Morton)
2.4.2-ac16
o Uniprocessor APIC fixes for misdetect (Mikael Pettersso)
o Small ymf_pci fixes/updates (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix break support on sx serial (Rogier Wolff)
o Kill another dead config.in entry (Steven Cole)
o Add bust spinlocks logic to S/390 (Neale Ferguson)
o Fix ramdisk buffer only page bug (Philipp Rumpf)
o Mark ips scsi experimental until IBM ship a (Adam Lackorzynski)
proper 2.4 driver
o Update lanstreamer to use module_init and more (Mike Sullivan)
o Switch to the updated irda fixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Vaio kaweth ethernet apparently has its own id (Sven Anders)
o d_validate clean ups (Petr Vandrovec)
o Network further fixes from DaveM and co (Dave Miller
| This might fix the reported masuqerade crashes Alexey Kuznetsov
Werner Almesberger)
o Acenic updates (Jes Sorensen)
2.4.2-ac15
o Add CyrixIII specific kernel configuration (me)
| Note there are CyrixIII problems with some distribution installers
| because -m686 gcc output will not run on a model 6 cpu with no
| cmov.
o Fix aic Makefile for older gnu make (Keith Owens)
o Assorted i2o updates/partition handling fixes (Boji Kannanthanam)
o Fix dcache problems with ncpfs (Petr Vandrovec)
o Update via drivers to 3.22 (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Account for packet bytes on lmc driver (Ernst Lehmann)
o Atyfb rearrange (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix sedlbauer_cs build bug add elsa_cs (Than Ngo)
| elsa_cs driver by (Klaus Lichtenwalder)
o Add support for the Fuji FinePix 1400Zoon (Nate)
o EISA initialisation changes for 3c59x (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Assorted small net protocol updates (Dave Miller)
o Fix dvd physical read bug (Jens Axboe)
o Fix ATM hang on SMP (Mike Westall)
| more work left to do on atm_ioctl for someone
o Changed get_addr and friends to atm_get_addr (me)
o Merge Linus 2.4.3pre3
o Fix do_BUG for both cases this time (me)
o Fix prefetch for Athlon build
o Fix an lvm oops case (Pete Zaitcev)
o Remove dead config.in entry (Steven Cole)
o Update reiserfs recommended tool revision (Steven Cole)
o Kill a few warnings (Keith Owens)
2.4.2-ac14
o Fix the non build problem with do_BUG (Andrew Morton)
o Fix interface autocreation bug in ipx (Arnaldo Carvalho
Also fix pprop routing bugs, tctrl handling de Melo)
Fix wrong comments, fix ipx sysctl handling
clean up code
o Updated i810_audio.c (Doug Ledford)
o Fix up printer status readback (Tim Waugh)
o Add support for "ide=nodma" on command line (Arjan van de Ven)
o More spelling fixes (Dag Wieers)
o Add pci vendor table to lanstreamer (Mike Sullivan)
o Do extra sanity checks on ext2 mount (Andreas Dilger)
o Multithreaded core dump handling (Don Dugger)
| This is fairly experimental so the more eyes
| the better but it does sort out a very annoying weakness
o Prefetch on lists for parisc and x86 (Arjan Van de Ven,
| Work about 4% on scheduler performance on PIII Matthew Wilcox)
o Natsemi power management changes (Tjeerd Mulder)
o Fix assorted smb bugs (Urban Widmark)
o Fix a sisfb build problem (Andrew Morton)
2.4.2-ac13
o Clean up mad16 detection stuff (Pavel Rabel)
o Fix epca unload (Andrey Panin)
o Change null apic handling (Maciej Rozycki)
o aicasm now uses db3 (Sergey Kubushin)
o Fix aic7xxx cross compile (Cort Dougan)
o Merge small net driver fixups/config fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Update symbios drivers (Gérard Roudier)
o Rusty has moved (Rusty Russell)
o 3c509/3c515 compile fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Console locking updates - should fix vesafb (Andrew Morton)
clock problems
o Merge the serial.c 5.0.5 update (Jeff Garzik,
Ted Ts'o)
o Merge SiS framebuffer updates (Can-Ru Yeou)
o Update ctrlfb (Takashi Oe,
Michel Lanners)
o Add epson 640U scanner to the usb scanner list (Patrick Dreker)
2.4.2-ac12
o Move the pci_enable_device for cardbus (David Hinds)
o Add Sony MSC-U01N to the unusual devices (Marcel Holtmann)
o Final smc-mca fixups - should now work (James Bottomley)
o Document kernel string/mem* functions (Matthew Wilcox)
| and I added a memcpy warning
o Update VIA IDE driver to 3.21 (Vojtech Pavlik)
|No UDMA66 on 82c686, fix /proc and udma on
|686b, fix dma disables
o Allow sleeping in ctrl-alt-del callbacks (Andrew Morton)
|Fix i2o, dac960, watchdog, gdth hangs on exit
o Fix binfmt_misc (and make the proc handling (Al Viro)
|a filesystem -
|mount -t binfmt_misc none /proc/sys/fs/binfmt_misc
o Update the ACI support for sound/radio stuff (Robert Siemer)
o Add RDS support to miroRadio (Robert Siemer)
o Remove serverworks handling. The BIOS is our (me)
best (and right now only) hope for that chip
o Tune the vm behavioru a bit more (Mike Galbraith)
o Update PAS16 documentation (Thomas Molina)
o Reiserfs tools recommended are now 0d not 0b (Steven Cole)
o Wan driver small fixes (Jeff Garzik)
o Net driver fixes for 3c503, 3c509, 3c515, (Jeff Garzik)
8139too, de4x5, defxx, dgrs, dmfe, eth16i,
ewrk3, natsemi, ni5010, pci-skeleton, rcpci45,
sis900, sk_g16, smc-ultra, sundance, tlan,
via-rhine, winbond-840, yellowfin, wavelan_cs
tms380tr
o Trim 3K off the aha1542 driver size (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Trim 1K off qlogicfas (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix openfirmware/mm boot on ppc (Cort Dougan)
o Fix topdir handling in Makefile (Keith Owens)
o Minor fusion driver updates (Steve Ralston)
o Merge Etrax cris updates (Bjorn Wesen)
o Clgen fb copyright update (Jeff Garzik)
o AGP linkage fix (Jeff Garzik)
o Update visor driver to work with minijam (Arnim Laeuger)
o Fix a usb devio return code (Dan Streetman)
o Resync a few other net device changes with the
submits Jeff sent to Linus (Jeff Garzik)
o Add missing md export symbol (Mohammad Haque)
2.4.2-ac11
o Fix NLS Config.in (David Weinehall)
o Sort out one escaped revert from the megaraid (me)
update
o Resync with Linux 2.4.3pre1
| Except tulip the network driver changes have
| been used to replace the existing ones
o Fix parport case where a reader could get stuck (Tim Waugh)
o Add ALi15x3 to the list of isa dma hangs (Angelo Di Filippo)
o Fix nasty bug in IPX routing of netbios frames (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Misc code cleanups (Keith Owens)
o Updated 3c527 driver (Richard Proctor)
o Further tulip updates (Jeff Garzik)
o i810_rng fixes (FIPS test, regions) (Jeff Garzik)
o Further cs89x0 cleanups (Andrew Morton)
o Further USB hub updates (Dave Brownell)
o Mall USB resource cleanup (Jeff Garzik)
o Resync hp100 changes from Jeff Garzik (Jeff Garzik)
o PCI documentation update (Tim Waugh)
o Fix irda crash (Jean Tourrilhes)
o PPC updates (Cort Dougan)
o Resync dmfe, hamachi, pci-skeleton and winbond (Jeff Garzik)
2.4.2-ac10
o Add ZF-Logic watchdog driver (Fernando Fuganti)
o Add devfs support to USB printers (Mark McClelland)
o Fix baud rate handling on keyspan (Paul Mackerras)
o USB documentation update (Dave Brownell)
o Fix disconnect leak (Randy Dunlap)
o ARM constants/fixes (Russell King)
o Includes for integrator ARM architecture (Russell King)
o Update NLS descriptions to be clearer (Pablo Saratxaga)
o Add iso-8859-13 (latvian/lithuanian) (Pablo Saratxaga)
iso-8859-4, cp1251 (windows cyrillic), cp1255
(windows hebrew), and some alises
o Merge 1.14 Megaraid driver (Venkatesh Ramamurthy)
o Reapply other fixes this version dropped (me)
o Reformat and clean up ifdefs in 1.14 Megaraid (me)
o I/O apic locking fixes (Maciej Rozycki)
o Print ioapic id to help debugging (Maciej Rozycki)
o Make the tpqic driver work (Hugh Dickins)
o USB scanner updates (David Nelson)
o Fix usbdevfs multimount (Al Viro)
o Fix wrong calculation of path buffer size (Hugh Dickins)
o cs89x0 allocated far too much memory (Hugh Dickins)
2.4.2-ac9
o misc device fix (ps/2 and drm are now back) (Tachino Nobuhiro)
| Believe it or not my main test box used no misc
| device files..
o Radeon build without 8bit (Cha Young-Ho)
o Fix oops in scc driver (Andrew Morton)
o Add __setup for ISAPnP, update docs (Jaroslav Kysela)
o Update E820 table sanitizer (Brian Moyle)
o i810 audio updates/mmap fixes (Doug Ledford)
o Be paranoid about VIA chipset configurations (Arjan van de Ven)
| Fixing VIA disk corruption bugs take 2
o Fix PPC request_irq problems, some fpu emu (Cort Dougan)
and timers
o Allow scsi drivers to limit request sizes (Jens Axboe,
(and fixed by Tim) Tim Waugh)
o Configure.help cleanups (Steve Cole)
o Loop device fix of the day (Jens Axboe)
o CDROM fixes (Jens Axboe)
o Reiserfs crash on fsync of dir fix (Alexander Zarochentcev)
2.4.2-ac8
o Fix loop over loop crash (Jens Axboe)
o Fix radeon build problems (ISHIKAWA Mutsumi)
o Stop two people claiming the same misc dev id (Philipp Rumpf)
o capable not suser on sx.c (Rob Radez)
o Fix an ixj build combination bug (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Add integrator to ARM machines (Russell King)
o ARM include/constant cleanups (Russell King)
o Update ARM vmlinuz.in (Russell King)
o ARM i2c fixes (Russell King)
o ARM scsi updates (Russell King)
o ARM header updates (Russell King)
o Handle E820 bios returns with overlaps (Brian Moyle)
o Fix a sparc64 include build bug (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Loop race fix (Jens Axboe)
o s_maxbytes wasnt set for old style compat (Chris Dukes)
mounts in reiserfs
o Fix the fact we dont see all busses on some (Don Dupuis)
Compaq machines
o Fix missing watchdog configure.help (Jakob Ostergaard)
o Fix oom deadlock (hopefully) (Rik van Riel)
o Fix binfmt_aout sign handling bug (Andrew Morton)
2.4.2-ac7
o Fusion driver updates (Steve Ralston)
o Olympic fix (Andrew Morton)
o Work around hardware bug in older Rage128 (Gareth Hughes)
o Handle broken PIV MP tables with a NULL ioapic
o Use capable in esp serial driver (Rob Radez)
o Use capable not suser in console (Rob Radez)
o Small networking fixups (Dave Miller)
o Fix make menuconfig breakage (Keith Owens)
o Enable cmpxchg8 on Rise P6 (Dave Jones)
o Fix wakeup losses on cpu_allowed using tasks (Manfred Spraul)
o Maestro3 now works with > 256Mb of ram (Zach Brown)
o Opl3sa2 isapnp=0 handling was wrong (Jérôme Augé)
| I've fixed it a little differently however
o Turn off slow kmem chain check if not doing (Ingo Molnar, me)
slab debugging
o Fix cpu speed checking code (Mikael Pettersson)
o Make bus computation more accurate (me)
o Advantech watchdog driver (Marek Michalkiewicz)
o dz.c serial clean up (Rob Radez)
o Fix MSG_TRUNC for OOB TCP (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix oops on unconfigured loop (Arjan van de Ven)
o Drop nbd ll_rw_blk change (Linus has spoken ;))
o pci resource api (Jeff Garzik)
o Further Natsemi updates (Don Becker,
Jeff Garzik)
o Switch aurora serial to capable() (Rob Radez)
o Radeon frame buffer (Ani Joshi)
2.4.2-ac6
o Remove incorrect modules doc changes (Keith Owens)
o Fix elf.h defines (Keith Owens)
o Add 0x2B mtrr decode for intel/cyrix III (me)
o Make bigmem balancing somewhat saner (Mark Hemment)
o Update irda (Dag Brattli)
o New FIR dongle support (Dag Brattli)
o 3ware driver updates (Adam Radford)
o Further reiserfs tail conversion fixes (Chris Mason)
o Fix tpqic02 to use capable (Rob Radez)
o Set last_rx on comtrol hostess driver (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Raid Oops fix (Neil Brown)
o Fix last_rx/skb refs on cyc_x25 (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Fix last_rx/skb refs on 3c589 (Arnaldo Carvalho
de Melo)
o Highmem fixes for deadlock (Andrea Arcangeli,
Ingo Molnar)
o Another minor tulip fix (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix hinote and maybe other ps/aux hangs (me, Mark Clegg)
o Fix resource handling on 53c7xxx (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix scsi_register failure handling on AMD scsi (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling on aha1740 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling on blz1230 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling for dec_esp driver (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix resource handling for fastlane scsi (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix scsi_register failure on qlogic_fas (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix scsi_register failure on qlogicfc (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix irq alloc failure leak on sun3x_esp (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix wd7000 init failures (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix nbd device (Steve Whitehouse)
o Fix try_atomic_semop (Manfred Spraul)
o Parport fixes (Tim Waugh)
o Starfire start/stop if fix (Ion Badulescu)
o Fix raw.c off by one bug (Tigran Aivazian)
o USB hub kmalloc wrong size corruption fix (Peter Zaitcev)
2.4.2-ac5
o Add Epson 1240U scanners to usb scanner (Joel Becker)
o Fix eth= compatibility (Andrew Morton)
| Should fix 3c509 problems for one
o Add Pnp table to opl3sa2 (Bill Nottingham)
o Update loop driver fixes (Jens Axboe, Andrea
Arcangeli, Al Viro)
o Fix busy loop in usb storage (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add cardbus support to olympic (Mike Phillips)
o Make BUG() configurable to save space (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add configurability to most kernel debugging (various people)
functions on x86
o Richard Günther/binfmt_misc page move (Richard Günther)
o Fix de4x5 crash (Nikita Schmidt)
o Hopefully fix the smc-mca driver (me)
o Don't run the disk queue if we didnt launder (Marcelo Tosatti)
any pages
o ALi 6 channel audio and sp/dif updates (Matt Wu)
o Fix USB thread wakeup scheduling (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix alignment problems with uni16_to_x8 (Ivan Kokshaysky)
2.4.2-ac4
o Fix Make xconfig failure (J Magallon)
o Fix a typo in the ISDN docs (Jim Freeman)
o Fix the 3ware driver a bit more (Ben LaHaise)
| should now be usable
o Update Dave Jones contact info (Dave Jones)
o Revert wavelan inline->macro change (Jean Tourillhes)
| CVS gcc and 2.96-74 don't accidentally unline it now
o Zerocopy TCP/IP patches (Dave Miller,
Alexey Kuznetsov,
and many more)
o Fix up command line options to old ncr driver (Martin Storsjö)
o NFS locking should call fs layer locking if (Brian Dixon)
present
o Fix cs46xx wakeup/poll problem (David Huggins-Daines)
o Add some missing MTD config help texts (Steven Cole,
David Woodhouse)
o Fix Alpha build bug (Sven Koch)
o Final i386/ptrace bit
o Finish off the vmalloc/WP fixup (me)
o Include file config.h fixes (Niels Jensen)
o More dscc4 updates (Francois Romieu)
2.4.2-ac3
o Add documentation for the fb interfaces (Brad Douglas)
o Work around apic disable_irq hardware bugs (Maciej Rozycki)
o Rage128 not "Rage 128" (Brad Douglas)
o Make ioremap debugging conditional (J Magallon)
o Merge Ninja pcmcia scsi driver (YOKOTA Hiroshi)
o Update 8139too docs (Jeff Garzik)
o Tulip updates, merge bits from 0.92 (Jeff Garzik,
Don Becker)
o Epic100 update (Jeff Garzik)
o Clean up Ariadne driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove dead wavelan prototype (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove unused arlan variable (Jeff Garzik)
o Clean up lance public symbols (Jeff Garzik)
o Switch fmv18x to spinlocks, fix other bits (Jeff Garzik)
o Clean up acenic global symbols (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix IDE blocking kmalloc with irqs off (Arjan van de Ven)
| I've redone the code a bit so it might be wrong again 8)
2.4.2-ac2
o Merge the loop device fixes (Jens Axboe)
o Fix af_unix SYSCTL=n build failure (Russell King)
o Adjust the throttling point for write (Jens Axboe)
throttles
o Fix sunhme ioremap (Andrey Panin)
o Fix disk change handling with removable sd (Alex Davis)
o Update/fix irq docs (Matthew Wilcox)
o Update PPC gmac and ncr885e drivers (Cort Dougan)
| bmac patch dropped as it loses other fixes
o Kai Petzke has moved (Kai Petzke)
o Fix starfire driver so pump doesnt kill it (Ion Badulescu)
2.4.2-ac1
o Merge Linus 2.4.2 tree
| We now have disagreeing ymfpci fixes. I've kept the ones
| I tested for now.
o Back out sr.c change (me)
o Fix moxa smartio driver (Tom Mraz)
o Hugh Blemings change of address (Hugh Blemings)
o Allow more i2o config time for slow calls
o Aty128fb updates (Brad Douglas,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
Michel Danzer,
Andreas Hundt)
o Add "loop" name to the root dev names (Barry Nathan)
o Further spelling cleanups (Dag Wieers)
o Remove bogus warning emissions from aha1740 (Nick Holloway)
o Remove surplus assignment in vmalloc (Francis Galiegue)
o Remove unneeded ifdef in i386/kernel/irq.c (Francis Galiegue)
o Add door locking ioctl to ide-floppy (Francis Galiegue)
o Allow scsi disk opening O_NDELAY for removables (me)
o Fix cosa compile warnings (me)
o Clean up dumpable/setuid write ordering (me)
o Hopefully fix the 3ware crashes (me)
2.4.1-ac20
o Update fusion drivers (Steve Ralston)
o Further VM page launder balancing (Rik van Riel)
o Hopefully fix ext2 block size checking (Andries Brouwer)
o Update the i810 random number generator (Jeff Garzik)
o Hopefully fix the bonding crash on down/reboot (Dave Miller)
o Tulip update (add accton comets, clean up pm) (Jeff Garzik)
o Merge wavelan_cs, pcnet_cs and fmvj18x_cs (Jeff Garzik)
changes from Dave Hinds tree
o Make awe32 behave in 2.4 like 2.2 if given an (Bill Nottingham)
io
o Fix alpha build problems in stallion, c101 (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
synclink and wavfront drivers
o Add isa_check_signature and missing ioctl ids (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
for hayesesp
o Fix math emulation bug (Martin Schwidefsky)
o Disable APIC during APM to avoid suspend/resume (Mikael Pettersson)
problems.
o SMP kernel on UP hardware APIC fixes (Maciej Rozycki)
o Code cleanups in nmi, reduce NMI rate to 1Hz (Mikael Pettersson)
2.4.1-ac19
o Fix second module/exception table race (me)
| I hope ;)
o Additional CPIA usb ident (Adam J Richter)
o Add SA1100 udc and also stall recovery to (Oleg Drokin)
usbnet
o Limit smbfs to 2Gig/file (Urban Widmark)
o Config/doc update for the eicon driver (Armin Schindler)
o Update PMS driver to new request_region (Andrey Panin)
o sys_semop bug check is overcareful (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix ipc off by one on checks in ipc (Hugh Dickins)
o Allow exceptions during module init (Philipp Rumpf)
o Driver namespace cleanup (Jeff Garzik)
o Network driver cleanups (Jeff Garzik,
o PPC irq updates (Paul Mackerras)
o SMP fixes for PPC boxes (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix tmpfs block size reporting (Christoph Rohland)
o Update maintainers to add missing YAM maintainer(Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o Add hooks for /proc/rtas (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix wrong bogomip reporting on SMP ppc (Paul Mackerras)
o Remove unused dbcf inline function on PPC (Paul Mackerras)
o Update Cort Dougans email/urls (Paul Mackerras)
o Dont assume bit settings on pcnet/pci chips (Paul Mackerras)
o Add mac ppc serial console hooks (Paul Mackerras)
o Frame buffer driver updates for ppc (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix devfs names for ppc serial (Paul Mackerras)
o Move some symbols out of net where they didnt
belong, and into right export locations (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Tidy and fix up syncppp drivers (Krzysztof Halasa)
2.4.1-ac18
o Fix SO_SNDTIMEO bugs (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix tmpfs fsync (Lennert Buytenhek)
o PPC now uses generic pci bus setup (Paul Mackerras)
o Remove PPC boot argument printing (Paul Mackerras)
o Jeff Tranter has moved (Jeff Tranter)
o ymf_pci driver cleanups (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix USB 2.0 compliance in hub.c (Brad Hards)
o Fix usb hub device claim race (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix some bugs in mac_hid driver (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix more typos (Dag Wieers)
o PPC compile warnings/symbol export fixes (Paul Mackerras)
2.4.1-ac17
o Fix pegasus for bigendian (Roman Weissgaerber)
o Further smbfs fixes (Urban Widmark)
o Update ISDN version tags (Kai Germaschewski)
o Finish ISDN move to new style module_init (Kai Germaschewski)
o Small Eicon driver updates/fix license bug (Armin Schindler)
o Fix reiserfs tail packing problem (Alexander Zarochentcev
Chris Mason)
o Export aci symbols from drivers/sound/aci.c (Alexandr Kanevskiy)
o Merge Linus 2.4.2pre4
o Starfire update (Ionu Badulescu)
o Fix 3270 merge (Richard Hitt)
2.4.1-ac16
o Fix the exception table/unload race (me)
o Further tulip fixup (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix USB oops on traverse/delete race (Randy Dunlap)
o Set max_sectors to 255 for hd/xd drivers (Paul Gortmaker)
| This should make them work again
o Fix typo in USB makefile (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix accidental change to scsi_scan (Steve Ralston)
o Hid rollover/endian fixes (Paul Mackerras)
o Drop via pci fixup (me)
o Further hp5300 fixups (Arjan van de Ven)
o PCnet 32 init changes for non SEPROM cards (Eli Carter)
o Fix acpi idle reporting on SMP (Philipp Hahn)
o Add non PCI pci device list walk macro (me)
| pointed out by Mikael Pettersson
o IBM S/390 3270 drivers (Richard Hitt)
2.4.1-ac15
o Fix the non booting winchip/cyrix problem (me)
| Nasty interaction with the vmalloc fix
| wants a cleaner solution. This one is a hack
| to get people up and running again
o Fix typo in vfat changes (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Update scsi blacklist table (Karsten Hopp)
o dscc4 wan driver update (Francois Romieu)
o Fix clgenfb warning (Bryan Headley)
2.4.1-ac14
o Fix tulip problems introduced by in ac13 (Manfred Spraul)
o S/390x build fixes (Ulrich Weigand)
o Fix off by one error in octagon driver (David Woodhouse)
o Fix dasd driver for new queues (Holger Smolinksi)
o Networking standards compliance fixes
o Fix binary layout assumptions in sym53c416 (Arjan van de Ven)
o tmpfs timestamps (Christoph Rohland)
o Further mkdep changes (Keith Owens)
o Fix 16bit vfat handling (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o JIS nls fixes (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Handle more than 8 luns (Eric Youngdale,
Doug Gilbert)
o Minor scsi clean ups (Eric Youngdale)
2.4.1-ac13
o Fix pnic tulip problems (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix USB printer read and poll problems (Johannes Erdfelt)
o Fix parport pci list corrupt bug (Tim Waugh)
o Fix sbpcd driver crashes (Paul Gortmaker)
o Clarify the locking doc (Rusty Russell)
o i810 audio doesnt need OSS (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix vmalloc fault race (Mark Hemment)
o Makedep fixes (Keith Owens)
o Fix missing unlock_kernel on usb hub (Paul Mundt)
o Fix smbfs+bigmem, buffer and listing bugs (Urban Widmark)
o Merge tms380 isa token ring support (Jochen Friedrich)
o Sigmatel change didnt help, removed (Jeff Garzik)
2.4.1-ac12
o Make tmpfs use link counts of 2 on directories (Christoph Rohland)
o Update Documentation/sound/Introductions (Wade Hampton)
o Fix bug in new tlb shootdown code (Ben LaHaise)
o Add isa_* api to the Alpha (Richard Henderson)
o Export down_trylock on Alpha (Richard Henderson)
o Fix maestro3 build on ia64 (Bill Nottingham)
2.4.1-ac11
o Hack the setup code to do the right thing for (me)
Cyrix processors. Cpuid on cyrix should now work
o Change sigmatel codec inits (Jeff Garzik)
o Revised TLB shootdown patch (Ben LaHaise)
o Use pci quirks to handle the nonstandard irq (Andrey Panin)
setup for VIA ACPI
o If a user sets an io on the opl3sa2 assume they (me)
mean it even if isapnp isnt turned off
o Fix xmms cpu burn on i810 audio (Marcus Sundberg)
o Fix pnic problems with tulip driver (Manfred Spraul)
o Add pci skeleton driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix vfat mishandling of 16bit characters (Kazuki Yasumatsu)
o Fix syntax things found by his source code (Jean-Luc Leger)
analyser
o Fix pcmcia ixj build bug (Florian)
o Remove dead via sound docs (Jeff Garzik)
o add __dev_alloc_skb for drivers needing to force(Jeff Garzik)
allocation types
o Fix arcnet initializers (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix various warnings (Keith Owens)
o Further MPT fusion updates (Steve Ralston)
o sock_alloc_send_skb fix (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix signed/unsigned handling on 8139too (Jeff Garzik)
o Document problem with old powertweak (Dave Jones)
o s/controler/controller/ spelling fixes
o S/390 build fixes (Neale Ferguson)
2.4.1-ac10
o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre3
o More net driver clean up (Jeff Garzik)
o Further maxiradio fix (Francois Romieu)
o Lock reclaiming fixes (MCL)
o Update ver_linux (Steven Cole)
o Add support for the Socket LP-E CF+ ethernet (Nicolas Pitre)
o Fix microtek scanner abort handling (Oliver Neukum)
o Fix very dumb bug in my dma.c changes that (me)
Linus noticed
o Clean up AGP alloc/destroy a little (me)
| Again a Linus request
o Remove dead 8129 config help (Dave Jones)
o Clean up extra unneeded check in setup.c (Dave Jones)
o Improve mkdep, remove acpi special case (Keith Owens)
o Fix bogus dead comment in fs.h (Jens Axboe)
o Clean up config.in syntax errors (Christoph Hellwig)
o Offer Duron in CPU option list for clarity (Terje Rosten)
o New binutils need --oformat, old ones handle it (Andreas Jaeger)
o Move bitops include in fs.h inside __KERNEL__ (Herbert Xu)
o Fix misspellings of weird (Felix Odenkirchen)
o Fix typos of 'valid' while we are at it (Luuk van der Duim)
2.4.1-ac9
o Merge with Linus 2.4.2pre2
o Highmem bounce fixes (Ingo Molnar)
o Fix cosa driver kfree (Jan Kasprzak)
o Clean up pdoc202xx driver sleeps (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Final bits of NFS file handle changes (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix usbnet driver (David Brownell)
o ATM includes fixes (Werner Almesberger)
o Remove unneeded vm_enough_memory check (Werner Almesberger)
o Fix free_dma prototype case (Bill Nottingham)
o Fix build bugs from pci_match_device fix (me)
o HP5300 USB scanner driver (Oliver Neukum,
John Fremlin,
Jeremy Hall)
o DSP_SETFRAGMENT fixes for ymfpci (Pavel Roskin)
o Fix codafs error returns (Rob Radez)
o Fix 48 misspellings of interrupt (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 20 misspellings of successful (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 11 misspellings of suppress (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 46 misspellings of address (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 26 misspellings of receive (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 7 misspellings of acquire (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 4 misspellings of unneccessary (André Dahlqvist)
o Fix 13 misspellings of until (André Dahlqvist)
2.4.1-ac8
o Fix irlap speed changes and kfrees (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Further NTFS updates (Anton Altaparmakov,
Yuri Per, Rob Radez)
o Fix buglets in config.in for aic7xxx (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Cleanup irda QoS code (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Fix mca documentations (Rob Radez)
o Fix irlan device attach problems (Dag Brattli)
o Fix irda dongle crash case (Dag Brattli)
o Change Kaweth firmware loading, add DU-E10 (Eric Sandeen)
o pci_enable cleanups for networking (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix rcpci45 probing (Jeff Garzik)
o Use SET_MODULE_OWNER() in lanstreamer (Jeff Garzik)
o Use pcmcia defines as per seperate pcmcia net (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix people calling netif_start_queue from a (Jeff Garzik)
timeout
o Remove 8129 driver (use 8139too) (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove dead malloc.h from net drivers (Jeff Garzik)
o Update eata driver to 6.04 (Dario Ballabio)
o Add DE320 support to ne2.c (Alfred Arnold)
o Kernel hacking doc updates (John Levon)
o Fix CPU detection offsets in head.S (Mikael Pettersson)
o Fix apic init/cpu detect problems (Mikael Pettersson)
2.4.1-ac7
o Rebalance the 2.4.1 VM (Rik van Riel)
| This should make things feel a lot faster especially
| on small boxes .. feedback to Rik
o Silence osf syscall error printk (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Don't trust ARC irq routing on ruffian (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Report the right module on 3c59x for pcmcia (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update i82365 driver to add locks, delays, and (Arjan van de Ven)
'bouncing' on the card detect
o Get the name right on ide-cs (v ide_cs) and do (Arjan van de Ven)
resource claims
o Merge parport_cs (David Hinds)
o Merge sedlbauer_cs (Marcus Niemann)
o Fix a bug in the Cyrix pirq routing (me)
2.4.1-ac6
o Fix eepro100 reporting on lockup fix (Ion Badulescu)
o Clean up i810 error message (me)
o Fix S390 build bug (me)
o Update version id on cpqarray driver (Charles White)
o Further aic7xxx fixes (Doug Ledford)
| again please report aic7xxx stuff to Doug
o Further maxiradio cleanups (Dimitromanolakis Apostolos)
o Change ide to use mdelay cleanly (Petr Vandrovec)
| Still broken for PROMISE if no IDE_CS
o Fix duplicated ncpfs fix (Petr Vandrovec)
o Improve inode hash function (Dave Miller)
o Correct 62 misspellings of transferred (Andre Dahlqvist)
o Update AC97 codec setup and tables (Jeff Garzik)
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
2.4.1-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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