It’s at tp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/. Intermediate diffs are available from http://www.bzimage.org.

Writes Alan Cox: “In terms of going through the code audit almost all the sound drivers
still
need fixing to lock against format changes during a read/write. Poll
creating
and starting a buffer as write does and also mmap during write, write
during
an mmap.”

2.4.5-ac7
o UML cleanups (Jeff Dike)
o Trap invalid addresses in UML ethernet driver (Jeff Dike)
o Reimplment UML user space access (Jeff Dike)
o Add device node support to hostfs (Jorgen Cederlof)
o Fix hang if the UML net helper fails to run (Jeff Dike)
o Support setting time in UML kernels (Livio Baldini Soares)
o Move more non portable code out of UML core (Jeff Dike)
o Merge most of remaining UML ppc changes (Chris Emerson)
o Printk cleanups, remove one non portable (James Stevenson)
o Add speaker mixer support to the cmpci mixer (Carlos Gorges)
o Fix inittdata ordering in i2c docs (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Add usb skeleton driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix ns558 unload (Marcus Meissner)
o Further cs46xx fixing (Frank Davies)
o S/390 updates from the IBM folks (Martin Schwidefsky)
o CS46xx pop/crackle fixes on IBM T20 (Thomas Woller)
o Make USB require PCI (me)
o Tulip driver update (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix slip/slhc missing symbols problem (Michael Guntsche)
o IRDA updates (Dag Brattli)
o Add cs4232 isapnp probing (Marcus Meissner)
o Merge airo_cs driver (Benjamin Reed, Javier Achirica,
Jean Tourrilhes)
o VIA workarounds for APIC IRQ routing (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix bootmem.c comment cut&paste accident (Richard Urena)
o Update LVM with new VG_CREATE ioctl (and (Joe Thornber)
VG_CREATE_OLD for back compatibility)
o Fix pv_t/lv_t confusion in lv_status_bydev_req (Joe Thornber)
o Lots of update/fixes for _lv_status_by* code (Joe Thornber)
o Add support for I2O IOP’s requiring private
resource spaces (me)
o Hopefully fix hid jerkiness (Michael)

2.4.5-ac6
o Fix the cs46xx right this time (me)
o Further FATfs cleanup (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o ISDN PPP code cleanup, cvs tag update (Kai Germaschewski)
o Large amount of UFS file system cleanup (Al Viro)
o Fix endianness problems in FATfs (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix -ac quota crashes (Jan Kara)
o Fix bluetooth out of memory handling (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix freevxfs readdir (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix freevxfs sign/unsigned issues (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix doctypos, other freevxfs cleanup (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix flush_dirty_buffers warning (J A Magallon)
o Add Carlos Gorges to credits (Carlos Gorges)
o Further atm cleanup fixes (kmalloc/signedness)
(Mitchell Blank)
o Fix hotplug variable in matroxfb (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix ns558 crash (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Revert to Pete Zaitcev’s khub locking (Pete Zaitcev)
| It works for me, Johannes changes don’t seem to
o Fix usb Config.in breakage for input devices (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Add another 3c509 ISAPnP id (Marcus Meissner)
o Fix oopses and null checks on iphase (Mitchell Blank)
o CS46xx update (Thomas Woller)
o Fix mmap cornercase (Maciej Rozycki)
o Tidy up aironet and saa9730 delay abuse (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Force initial umask to be sane for broken
init programs (Andrew Tridgell)
o Teach CML1 to strip out from the
Configure.help (Eric Raymond)
o Resync with Eric’s master Configure.help (Eric Raymond)
o Revert FIOQSIZE
o Fix missing copy_*_user in cosa driver (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix missing copy_*_user in eicon
+ clean up ioctls a bit more
| From Stanford tools (me)
o Fix use after free in lpbether (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix missing return in rose_dev (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix use after free in bpqether (me)
| From Stanford tools

GUI config tools for Matrox video cards in Linux have been released (thanks to Slashdot). They enable you to control all the extra features of the Matrox card, such as the flat panel support and dual head config.

The Register has a report on the recent split between ICANN and the ccTLDs (the peope behing all the country code root servers). “This dramatic gesture could be construed as a step towards complete withdrawal, but while the ccTLDs remain inside the tent, pissing out, it can also been equally seen as a bid for increased status within ICANN.“

As reported by LinuxPR, both Lineo and RTLinux are running courses for RT developers this June.

“Lineo, Inc. announces availability of training on real-time Linux development. The course will be taught June 19-21 at the Lineo Embedded System Center in San Mateo, CA.“

“FSMLabs has announced the availability of training courses on embedded Linux, RTLinux and MiniRTLinux. These two-day, hands-on, on-site classes will begin in June 2001 and are designed for groups of five or more.“

Peoples’ Daily: “The People’s Procuratorate of Beijing HaidianDistrict arrested Lu Chun, a suspect of Beijing’s first hacker case on May 29.”

Slashdot: “While looking for something else I came across this embedded system at Web
Techniques, which looks a lot like a paperweight I have on my desk. Good golly … Intrinsyc
included 10BaseT, serial, and USB ports on it and it comes in Windows CE or LINUX flavors.
When can I get a system in the shape of Snoopy-sleeping-on-his-doghouse desk lamp for
my kid?”

KDE Dot News: “Why does KDE work so well? Benjamin Meyer thinks he knows why, and he explains his
thoughts in this Tribute to KDE. Benjamin is the lead developer of Kaim (screenshots), and has
been working hard at porting this application from being Qt-only to a fully-fledged KDE
application. In doing so, he has come in contact with the KDE development community and
processes. Benjamin’s experiences have led him to conclude that KDE’s CVS culture, release strategy, and
focus on consistency lead to polished, mature applications.”

MozillaQuest: “With some 20 to 30 bugs still targeted to it, the upcoming Mozilla Milestone 0.9.1 edition was
branched from the main development-tree trunk today. Mozilla 0.9.1 should have been branched
from the main Mozilla development-tree trunk Friday, 25 May 2001. This is the second time in as
many months that a Mozilla Milestone release has not been branched on schedule.”

A short item at Ananova states that an arrest has been made in connection with a security breach of Belgium’s domain name registry Web site. Police have arrested 26-year old Frans Devaere, a.ka. ‘Redattack’ and suspect him in the recent cracks of two other Web sites.

Network Associates is now part of the OpenPGP Alliance. Yesterday, The Register reported that NAI had chosen not to participate in the effort to promote interoperability between encryption packages. Today, The Register received an e-mail message from PGP creator Phil Zimmermann saying “Your article seems to have alerted NAI that they should get moving…” to join the Alliance. After yesterday’s article, NAI suddenly cut through its own bureacratic “clearance” process and joined the new organization.