ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/
Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org

**       ::EXPERIMENTAL::
**       Catching up on the backlog a bit.

2.4.9-ac12
o        Yamaha audio wakeup race fix                    (Pete Zaitcev)
o        3c507 ring buffer handling fix                  (Mark Mackenzie)
         | It looks like the same may apply to eexpress and a few
         | others. People may want to check

o        4.4BSD alias syle ioctl bits                    (Matthias Andree)
o        Fix jffs_min compile failure                    (Frank Davies)
o        Fix hid initialisation order                    (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Add sysrq to mconsole                           (James Stevenson)
o        Remove dead 3c515 stuff                                 (Andres Salomon)
o        Fix UML disk space leak                                 (James Stevenson)
o        uml hz_to_std()                                         (Jeff Dike)
o        uml makefile cleanup                            (Jeff Dike)
o        hostfs cleanup - use pread/pwrite               (Jorgen Cederlof)
o        Fix oops in scsi generic                        (Jens Axboe)
o        Fix missing break in riva fbdev.c               (Steve DuChene)
o        Push spin_trylock_bh into the headers   (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        PWC driver update                               ("nemosoft")
o        Fix hz_to_std macro problem                     (Matt)
o        Fix radeon + AMD761 lockup/corruption problem   (Stephen Tweedie)
o        Intermezzo update                               (Peter Braam)
o        USB serial startup fix                          (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o        Makefile cleanups                               (Christoph Hellwig)
o        Code cleanup for eepro100                       (Ben LaHaise)
o        Fix pid handling bug in msg queues              (Mingming Cao)
o        Raid multipathing                               (Ingo Molnar)
o        Correct sys_setid return in md                          (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Clean up isdn sc debug code                     (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        x86_64 random patch                             (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Add x86_64 ifdefs to various places             (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Limit granch asm code to x86 fix setup code     (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Use unsigned long for flags where needed        (Vojtech Pavlik)
o        Fix reiserfs writepage v truncate/mmap race     (Edward Shushkin)
o        Eliminate various bits of reiserfs code and     (Edward Shushkin)
         references to old ext2/minix stuff
o        Support multiple block sizes in reiserfs        (Edward Shushkin)
o        Fix gcc warning building reiserfs               (Edward Shushkin)
o        Fix reiserfs 32bit uid on old format            (Edward Shushkin)
o        Fix yam hamradio driver                                 (Edward Shushkin)
o        Es1888 audio divider change                     (Craig Mahaney)
o        Add a highmem debugging option                  (Christoph Hellwig)
o        Remove crud from lvm.h                          (Joe Thornber)
o        Replace some LVM macros with inlines            (Joe Thornber)
o        Open/Close LVM PV's when using them             (Joe Thornber)
o        Remove lvm_short_version                        (Joe Thornber)
o        Use devfs_register_blkdev etc in LVM
o        Rename fields and consider only active LVM      (Heinz Mauelshagen)
         snapshots [and congratulations on the awar Heinz]
o        Change LVM locking to use rw_semaphores                 (Joe Thornber)
o        Assorted LVM cleanups                   (Joe Thornber and others)
o        IA64 processor prefetch                                 (??)
o        Return the right thing for strnlen_user when    (Andreas Schwab)
         limit = 0
o        More debug info on sysrq                        (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Keyboard compile fix on Alpha                   (Andrea Arcangeli)
o        Shrink dcache before invalidating the inodes    (Andrea Arcangeli)
         on a umount
o        Fix apm disable handling                        (Thomas Krennwallner)
o        CPIA locking fixes                              (David Hansen)
o        zap_inode_mapping function to invalidate all the(Christoph Hellwig)
         maps of an inode
o        Remove accidental leak of console_lock back     (Andrew Morton)
         into -ac
o        Fix implicit declaration warning                (Dave Jones)
o        Add another promise ide ident                   (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Ignore PRQ bit in apic flags when looking for   (Randy Dunlap)
         unknown configs
o        Matrox driver update                            (Petr Vandrovec,
                                                         David Hansen)
o        NULL checks in lock code                        (Francis Galiegue)
o        Remove duplicate bits on fbmem.c                (Paul Mundt)
o        ia64 arch_init_modules fix                      (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Support tabstops >160                           (Petr Vandrovec)
o        "noac" NFS updates                              (Trond Myklebust)
o        Default P5 MCE to off                           (me)
o        Bluesmoke updates                               (Dave Jones)
o        Handle cpu info that goes over a page long      (James Cleverdon)
         | only tested on ia32/ia64 so far

CNET News.com (via MSNC reports: “A poll in the United States has found widespread support for a ban on “uncrackable” encryption products, following proposals in Congress to tighten restrictions on software that scrambles electronic data. The survey found that 72 percent of Americans believe that anti-encryption laws would be “somewhat” or “very” helpful in preventing a repeat of last week’s terrorist attacks on New York’s World Trade Center and the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.”

Reported at PC World: “In an effort to bring more features to cell phones, Sprint is calling on Java. The company will add support for the popular programming language in all of its next-generation cellular phones due out in mid-2002, Sprint announced Tuesday.

The move comes after Sprint last week launched a Java developers program in conjunction with Sun Microsystems, which aims to build support around a compact version of the language called J2ME (Java 2 Micro Edition).

Sprint now joins fellow U.S. carrier Nextel Communications, which made a similar announcement earlier this year, as a Java proponent. Both companies are hoping Java will allow them to offer users more complex media functions and software choices on cellular phones.”

From BSD Today: “We started to organize our things last summer, when Julian Elischer (who spent some months here several times) gave us a lesson on FreeBSD kernel debugging. Our BSD.hu portal started that time. The association was founded in November. Since then, the membership of the local freebsd mailing list has been doubled (~200-250), linux portals have started to carry BSD-specific news and articles, hundreds of BSD CDs have been burnt. Several Hungarian guys appeared in the GNATS database (filling send-pr) or in the ports tree (submitting new ports). Not a big thing in itself, but we’re happy to see them.”

IDG reports: “Hewlett-Packard Co. Tuesday took the wraps off a new 16-way, midrange server built around the company’s own flavor of the Unix operating system.

The HP Server rp8400 can use up to 16 of the company’s PA-RISC processors, making it a significantly more powerful server than the company’s current eight-way rp7400 — formerly called the N-class server. HP will make its 650MHz and 750MHz PA-RISC 8700 chips available on the new server. The rp8400 will run version 11i of the company’s HP-UX operating system.”

Posted at Help Net Security: “We’ve all just been hit by a VERY aggressive worm/virus.

Quick analysis indicates that it propagates itself in a number of different ways:

Through use of IIS UNICODE direcory traversal coupled with the recent IIS .dll privilege escalation attack. It uses SMB/CIFS and TFTP to get the worm payload.

Through MAPI mails (probably to all of addressbook).”

Posted at Help Net Security: “The Oracle 9i Application Server uses the Apache web server for HTTP service. However, if a request is made for a non-existent .jsp file, the complete path is shown.”

Check out the latest offering from American Megatrends: StorTrends NAS software, a new, custom version of FreeBSD designed to be used with American Megatrends’ StorTrends and ServTrends data storage products. Read the complete press release posted at Yahoo.

A new essay from Eben Moglen: “Microsoft’s anti-GPL offensive this summer has sparked renewed speculation about whether the GPL is “enforceable.” This particular example of “FUD” (fear, uncertainty and doubt) is always a little amusing to me. I’m the only lawyer on earth who can say this, I suppose, but it makes me wonder what everyone’s wondering about: Enforcing the GPL is something that I do all the time.” Posted at the GNU Project/Free Software Foundation home page.

Slashdotter Stephanie Black reviewsManaging Open Source Projects a new John Willey & Sons title on putting the principles and advantes of Open Source programming to work in a business environment. Bottom line from Black: “…before you grumble about paying nearly 30 bucks for something that’s less than 200 pages, you might want to look at the concept of quality. It’s worth every blessed dime, plus taxes (if applicable).”