Re: Linux 2.2.1ac7

Aaron Lehmann (aaronl@vitelus.com)
Mon, 22 Feb 1999 22:45:29 +0000 ( )


On Sun, 21 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2/..
^^^
Why the /..? :) Something tells me that you meant "/pub/linux/alan/2.2/".
>
> This is primarily for people who want the large file array support. Most of the
> other stuff I intend to submit on to Linus for 2.2.1/2.2.2 -> whenever
>
> If you have a problem in 2.2.1ac7 verify you can duplicate it with 2.2.1
> before posting general bug reports if possible. Make sure it is obvious
> if a bug report is about -ac7 to avoid any confusion.
>
> Definitely let me know if you have any ac7 specific problems. Don't bother
> Linus unless 2.2.1 unpatched also breaks.
>
> Alan
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac6 and 2.2.1ac7
>
> o Merge with Linus 2.2pre5 (me)
> o Fixed the timer bug report (me)
> | It was actually ok, but scsi_sleep didnt call
> | init_timer()
> o Shaper fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
> o Test driver for a pair of sealevel wan cards (me)
> o Fix crash case on rpciod being killed by root (Trond)
> o Some warning fixes (Niels Jensen)
> o Autofs security hole fix (Peter Anvin)
> o Allow persistent dma buffers on sound for
> non modular cases (Andrea Chiavazza)
> o Hopefully fix "interrupt from stopped card"
> on ne2k (me)
> o Wavelan update (Jean Tourrilhes)
> o Accept IEE 802.2 ARP on ether (RFC1042) (Volker Dormeyer)
> o ICMP limiting disabled on loopback (Andi Kleen)
> o IPX forwarding on unconfigured iface fix (me)
> o IEE1284 readback timeout increased (Tim Waugh)
> o Zoltrix radio API fix (Carl van Schaik)
> o Hooks for work in progress ESS Maestro driver (me)
> o Legacy 8bit SB mode supported on ESS Maestro (me)
> | Im working on the real stuff.
> o IRDA Update (Dag)
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac5 and 2.2.1ac6
>
> o Merge to Linus 2.2.2pre
> o chgrp security fix (Mark Jefferys)
> o Delete now ignored source route config (Jim Bauer)
> o NTFS out of memory crash fixes (Steve Dodd)
> o HFS corruption fixes (Adrian Sun)
> o IPX NULL pointer oops fix (Daniel Drown)
> o IDE SCSI lun fix (Wolfgang Wander)
> o Fix mkdir clearing setgid bit on dirs (Trond)
> o IP filter security holes fixed (Andi, ANK)
> o VM Improvements (Stephen Tweedie)
> o PPP/VJ panic on Alpha fix (Adrian Sun)
> o TCP timer race, timer bughunter (Ingo Molnar)
> o Typhoon radio support (Henrik Seidel)
> o COSA update (Jan Kasprzak)
> o SMC ultra updated (Don Becker/Tom Rini)
> o SyncPPP keepalive count upped (Jan Kasprzak)
> o ACard PCI fixes (Krzysztof Baranowski)
> o Future Domain MCA compile bug fixed (David Weinehall)
> o IRDA update (Dag Brattli)
> o QlogicFC update (Chris Loveland)
> o Lock inode on fdatasync() (Chris Lawrence)
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac4 and 2.2.1ac5
>
> o Fixed a dumb sound bug introduced in ac4 (me)
> o Last bits of Linus 2.2.2pre1 merged (Niels)
> o Warning cleanups (assorted)
> o drivers/net/Config.in fix (Niels)
> o scripts/ver_linux fix for net tools (Niels)
> o CS89x0 module MODULE_PARMS missing (me)
> o NFS lockd changes (HJ Lu)
> o NFS write clustering fixes (Trond)
> o Merged with Linus 2.2.2pre2
> o EEPro100 IRQ share fixes (Kai Makisara)
> o Fixed the TLAN crashes when out of memory (me)
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac3 and 2.2.1ac4
>
> o AIC7xxx updated (Doug Ledford)
> o Make clean fixes (Niels)
> o smbfs ioctl definition (Michael Warfield)
> o Test work to fix DEFxx driver for 2.2 (me)
> o Proc fs documentation fixes (Ulrich Windl)
> o Fix AMD step reporting (me)
> o CODA crash in /proc cure (Andrea)
> o Firewall marks lost on buffer copies (ANK, Rusty)
> o Sound core fixes for ALSA use (Jaroslav)
> o Changes to NFS client flow control (Trond)
> o SyncPPP negotiation fixes (me)
> o Merged in Linus 2.2pre1 diffs so I can
> generate new diffs for Linus
> o Draft "block size query" ioctl (me)
> | This is for comment/testing. Don't assume
> | its going to become a linux api item just yet
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac2 and 2.2.1ac3
>
> o VHX probing should be fixed (me)
> o Zoltrix TV card supported (Artur Skawina)
> o 8K blocks/write cluster NFS (Trond/Olaf Kirch)
> | This is a big patch but based on previously
> | tested code. I've put it in because - well it goes
> | rather fast 8)
> o Renamed bits of the genhd 2048 byte code to keep
> Linus happy (me)
> o Added EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to smc ultra (me)
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac1 and 2.2.1ac2
>
> o ESS updates (Rolf)
> o IDE probe irq fails fall back to the default IRQ (me)
> o Fixed an annoying use of hex not strings in net/sunrpc (me)
> o Initio A100 scsi support (Initio, Bas)
> o PS/2 mouse compat fixes (Scott Ananian)
> o MegaRAID update (AMI)
> o NFSD fix (Not sure who originated it)
> o Geometry fixes for IDE
> o Error in SCSI error workaround (Daio Ballabio)
>
>
> Differences between 2.2.0ac2 and 2.2.1.ac1
>
> o Merged with Linus 2.2.1
>
> Differences between 2.2.0ac1 and 2.2.0ac2
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> o Ingo's fix for the "execute a core dump" crash
> o IRDA update
> o Endianness & other fbcon fixes
> o GUS setup
> o ESS build on Alpha (unknown symbol in modular build)
> o Baycom driver could lock parallel port
> o MegaRAID update
> o Midi timing fixes
> o Correct permissions on a write only sysctl
>
> Additional Features
>
> o Full (I hope) support for 2048 byte media M/O drives.
>
> Other
>
> o Erik Andersen moved address
>
>
> Differences between 2.2.0 and 2.2.0ac1
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> o Fixed the ESS compile problem
> o Changed the OPL3-SA contact as requested by Hannu
> o Small number of time wrap fixes
> o Xconfig/atyfb config fix
> o AFFS apparently didnt get the flag fixes when the other drivers
> did.
> o /proc/mem locking
>
> Additional Features
>
> o Support for very large numbers of file handles per process
> (> 1024)
> o Better bw-qcam driver
> o NFS client understands pipes on file systems mounted via NFS
> o Symbol name matching between versioned/unversioned modules
>
> Additional Drivers
>
> o Qlogic Fibrechannel
> o Symbios 53c416
>
> Other
>
> o ADFS updated
> o Lots of ARM merges
> o Ted's fsync change to ext2
>
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