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

2.4.7ac7
o Import safer bits of 2.4.8pre
– skipped vm hackery, buffer hacks
– skipped S/390 (my tree should be newer anyway)
o Fix duplicates in ldm.h (Matthew Gardiner)
o ARM updates (Russell King)
o Remove qlogicfc_asm (license clash question + we (Jes Sorensen, me)
| are shipping qlogic release candidate not final
| firmware. Set card to use firmware in flash
o Example iomem driver + fixes for UML (Greg Lonnon)
o Clean up unique UML machine id code (Henrik Nordstrom)
o Small UML bug fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Fix UML uaccess macro bug (Jeff Dike)
o Don’t refuse unneccessarily on remount with
data= option with ext3 (Petr Vandrovec)
o tdfx driver cleanups (Paul Mundt)
o Replace masq crash fixes with corrected and
“official” versions. (Rusty Russell)
o Fix umsdos symlink bug (Delbert Matlock)

2.4.7ac6
o Switch JFFS to use completions (me)
o Fix wrong unlock in try_to_sync_unused_inodes (Petr Vandrovec)
o Update UML to compile again (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up all drivers with clashing names for
complete, wait_for_completion (me)
o Some gcc 3.0 warning cleanups
o Add SCO AFS awareness (read only)
to sysv (Christoph Hellwig)
o Netfilter crash fixes (Mark Boucher)
o Second batch of superblock race/cleanup work (Al Viro)

Slashdot: “I just saw that the Electronic Frontier Foundation has just posted an Action Alert entitled “What YOU Can Do To Help Set Dmitry Sklyarov Free” … Around 11am on August 6, 2001, at the San Jose Federal Building, Dmitry is set to have another bail hearing in front of Magistrate Judge Edward A. Infante.”

WormyGuy writes “There is a new IIS worm on the loose named Code Red II. It makes use of the same vulnerability as the earlier Code Red worms but the payload is different. This one leaves a number of backdoors in the systems. The best analyses of it are from SecurityFocus and eEye. The SecurityFocus ARIS system has some nice graphs of the worm growth. Discussion about the worm is ongoing in the incidents mailing list.”

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

2.4.7ac6
o Switch JFFS to use completions (me)
o Fix wrong unlock in try_to_sync_unused_inodes (Petr Vandrovec)
o Update UML to compile again (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up all drivers with clashing names for
complete, wait_for_completion (me)
o Some gcc 3.0 warning cleanups
o Add SCO AFS awareness (read only)
to sysv (Christoph Hellwig)
o Netfilter crash fixes (Mark Boucher)
o Second batch of superblock race/cleanup work (Al Viro)

2.4.7ac5
o Resolve ext3 and superblock change incompat (me, Al Viro)
| Fixes hang on journal recovery
o Fix freevxfs leak (Andries Brouwer)
o Add another eepro100 ident (Matt Wilson)
o Further tweakes to make rpm based on
suggestions by Keith Owens (Keith Owens, me)
o Fix ISA dma range check bug in cs89x0 (Paul)
o Fix ISA dma range check on 3c505 (Paul)
o Switch md driver to use completions (Neil Brown)
o Add more sanity checks to the dmi scanner (me)
o Fix hash sign assumptions in reiserfs (Jeff Mahoney)
| IMPORTANT: this makes things consistent, it also means
| that if you have chars > 127 in file names _and_ you are
| running unsigned char little endian default (probably a tiny tiny
| number of mips users only)
you will need to archive and recreate
| those files. X86 users are _NOT_ affected.
o Add the infrastructure for ac97_ops ready for
digital audio etc (me)

Wired:
“FBI Director Robert Mueller has refused to commit to an independent review of the agency’s Carnivore surveillance system. During an appearance before the Senate Judiciary committee on Tuesday, Mueller said he couldn’t promise another look at the controversial technology, which the FBI has renamed DCS1000. The Senate later confirmed Mueller in a 98-0 vote.”

Informationweek.com:
“IBM last week said it will provide hardware and software to the British government as part of a $50 million effort to link high-powered computers used in scientific research to a national British computing grid that will act as a single virtual supercomputer. At the same time, IBM is aggressively looking for ways to push grid technology for use in business computing environments.”

Slashdot:: “Metricom, purveyor of Ricochet wireless networking, died today . I understand that, sans infrastructure, a Ricochet wireless modem can call another Ricochet modem, and that modem-to-modem range is nearly a mile. Is the hardware this company leaves behind a viable solution for a really cool, really cheap wireless LAN?”

IBM: “Computer security experts call Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) the “panacea” for secure, trusted e-business. What exactly is PKI? And who needs it?”

Ian Kluft writes, “The `Linux10` Linux 10th anniversary picnic and BBQ will be held on
Saturday, August 25 from 11AM to 6PM at Sunnyvale Baylands Park in
Sunnyvale, California. Details and directions can be found at
Linux10.org. If you can attend,
please use the RSVP form
so the organizers know how much food and soft drinks to provide
(only provided if you RSVP.)”

“Linux10 is being organized as a family event – bring the kids. In support of that goal, it is also a no-media event. Linux and Open Source enthusiasts who work for the media may attend and participate while off-duty.

“Linux10 will gladly link to other Linux 10th anniversary events. Let us know the URLs for those events.”

Computing.co.uk:
“Users are protesting against Microsoft’s changes in licensing terms – with some vowing to abandon its products for good. The Central Scotland Police is just one of the many organisations angered by changes to Microsoft’s licensing model, which will leave them paying more for software.”