[ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] Linux-2.5.38-mcp2

Marc-Christian Petersen (m.c.p@wolk-project.de)
Mon, 23 Sep 2002 12:36:46 +0200


Hi there,

first: anything that _should_ be merged into 2.5 devel tree and is _not_
merged so far for some good reason (f.e. needs testing, further development,
etc.), please send me those patches and I'll integrate them into the -mcp
tree! :) ... (if not already done) ... thnx!

here we go, -mcp2 for 2.5.38 vanilla.
(2.5.37-mcp1 due to missing -mm1 for a long time)
(2.5.38-mcp1 was stopped cause it didn't boot)

o indicates new add/update
- indicates removed

Changes in 2.5.38-mcp2:
-----------------------
o 2.5.38-mm2 (Andrew Morton)
o AccessFS 2.5.34-0.4 (Olaf Dietsche)
o export find_task_by_pid fix (Hiroshi Takekawa)
o make bzImage fails on 2.5.38 (Hiroshi Takekawa)
o xtime to do_gettimeofday() in drivers/atm/*c (Francois Romieu)
o drivers/char/sx.c __FUNCTION__ breakage fix (Adrian Bunk)
o drivers/char/generic_serial.c __FUNCTION__ fix (Adrian Bunk)
o UP_APIC linkage problem fix (Mikael Pettersson)
o CPU-Frequency scaling for 2.5.38 (Dominik Brodowski)
o 2.5.38 floppy build problem fix (Philipp M. Hahn)
o 2.5.38 EBTables breakage fix (Bert Hubert)
o sound/oss cli() fixup all in one fix (Peter Waechtler)
o oopses at boot in ide_toggle_bounce fix (Jens Axboe)
o IDE oopses on vmware fix (Jens Axboe)
- schedule in_atomic() check (now in 2.5.38)
- recognize MAP_LOCKED in mmap() call (in 2.5.38)
- clean up RPC over TCP transport (now in 2.5.38)
- RCU (Read-Copy Update) 2.5.36 (now in -mmX)

Changes in 2.5.36-mcp2:
-----------------------
o RCU (Read-Copy Update) for 2.5.36 + Fix (Dipankar Sarma)
o real preempt <-> mmX fix (not a workaround :) (Robert Love)
thnx to Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>
for pointing me to the real fix :)
o recognize MAP_LOCKED in mmap() call (Hubertus Franke)
o core file naming (Jes Rahbek Klinke)
This is in the WOLK series for a long time now
and I really like this feature and want to see
this in 2.5.xx mainline! :)
o clean up RPC over TCP transport socket connect (Chuck Lever)
o CPU-Frequency scaling for 2.5.36 (Dominik Brodowski)

Changes in 2.5.36-mcp1:
-----------------------
o 2.5.36-mm1 (Andrew Morton)
o 2.5.35-lsm1 (Linux Security Module) (LSM Team)
o 2.5.36 i2c core drivers module_init/exit cleanup (Albert Cranford)
o 2.5.36 i2c new adapter id's (Albert Cranford)
o 2.5.36 i2c new adapter i2c-pport driver (Albert Cranford)
- XFS (now in 2.5.36, finally :))
- thread-exec-fix-2.5.35-A5 (now in 2.5.36)
- ebtables - Ethernet bridge tables (now in 2.5.36)
- NTFS unresolved symbol fix (now in 2.5.36)

Changes in 2.5.35-mcp1:
-----------------------
o 2.5.35-mm1 (Andrew Morton)
o ebtables - Ethernet bridge tables, for 2.5.35 (Bart De Schuymer)
o XFS DMAPI compile fix (Thunder f. the hill)
o ptrace breakage fix (2nd try :) (Ogawa Hirofumi)
o thread-exec-fix-2.5.35-A5 (Ingo Molnar)
o NTFS - module build - unresolved symbol fix (me)
- INPUT Fixes (7/7) (for now in 2.5.35)

Changes in 2.5.34-mcp4:
-----------------------
o 2.5.34-mm4 (Andrew Morton)
o ALSA v0.9.0rc3 (ALSA Team)
thanks to Martin Loschwitz for re-integrating this
o INPUT Fixes (7/7) (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Preempt <-> -mmX workaround (Steven Cole)

Changes in 2.5.34-mcp3:
-----------------------
o 2.5.34-mm3 (Andrew Morton)

Changes in 2.5.34-mcp2:
-----------------------
o 2.5.34-mm2 (Andrew Morton)
o Low level fb console driver for VGA text mode (Petr Vandrovec)
o Entropy Fixes (11/11) (Oliver Xymoron)
o Preempt - no more spurious warnings at reboot/halt (Robert Love)
o IRQ-stack 4kb (Dave Hansen)
- ftape damage fix (for now in -mm2)
- floppy driver init/exit fixes (for now in -mm2)
- devfs fix (for now in -mm2)
- do_syslog__down_try lock lockup (for now in -mm2)
- ALSA v0.9.0rc3
causes non-compilable sound module with devfs

Changes in 2.5.34-mcp1:
-----------------------
o 2.5.34-mm1 (Andrew Morton)
o ftape damage fix (Mikael Pettersson)
o floppy driver init/exit fixes (Mikael Pettersson)
o ALSA v0.9.0rc3 (ALSA Team)
o XFS + KDB (2.5.33-20020908-cvs) (XFS Team)
o aty128 Framebuffer fixes (Paul Mackerras)
o devfs fix (Alexander Viro)
o do_syslog__down_try lock lockup (Ingo Molnar)
o pcibios_fixup_irqs-static (Adam J. Richter)
o ext3 version information fix (me)
o some tuning (me)
- OPEN_MAX 1024
- NR_FILE 65536
- NR_RESERVED_FILES 128
- TCP_KEEPALIVE_TIME (5*60*HZ)
- int sysctl_local_port_range[2] = { 1024, 9999 };

If anyone is interrested in seperated patches of each above I'll
make a patch SET also available!

md5sums:
--------
3b835215dee30811e427b6b4951fc046 *linux-2.5.38-mcp2.patch.bz2
0bcbd919275ab905e995596059aee95c *linux-2.5.38-mcp2.patch.gz

URL:
----
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wolk/linux-2.5.38-mcp2.patch.bz2?download
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wolk/linux-2.5.38-mcp2.patch.gz?download

Builds, boots, works. (even X, thnx Linus :-)

Thanks goes out to all the great developers who made this possible !!

Feedback welcome :) ... Have fun!

-- 
Kind regards
        Marc-Christian Petersen

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk

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