Re: 2.4.2-pre3

Shawn Starr (Shawn.Starr@Home.net)
Fri, 09 Feb 2001 18:48:17 -0500


haha thats funny, I just compiled 2.4.2-pre2 ;-)

oh well...time to patch again.

Linus Torvalds wrote:

> Nothing too radical here..
>
> Linus
>
> ----
> -pre3:
> - Jens: better ordering of requests when unable to merge
> - Neil Brown: make md work as a module again (we cannot autodetect
> in modules, not enough background information)
> - Neil Brown: raid5 SMP locking cleanups
> - Neil Brown: nfsd: handle Irix NFS clients named pipe behavior and
> dentry leak fix
> - maestro3 shutdown fix
> - fix dcache hash calculation that could cause bad hashes under certain
> circumstances (Dean Gaudet)
> - David Miller: networking and sparc updates
> - Jeff Garzik: include file cleanups
> - Andy Grover: ACPI update
> - Coda-fs error return fixes
> - rth: alpha Jensen update
>
> -pre2:
> - driver sync up with Alan
> - Andrew Morton: wakeup cleanup and race fix
> - Paul Mackerras: macintosh driver updates.
> - don't trust "page_count()" on reserved pages!
> - Russell King: fix serious IDE multimode write bug!
> - me, Jens, others: fix elevator problem
> - ARM, MIPS and cris architecture updates
> - alpha updates: better page clear/copy, avoid kernel lock in execve
> - USB and firewire updates
> - ISDN updates
> - Irda updates
>
> -pre1:
> - XMM: don't allow illegal mxcsr values
> - ACPI: handle non-existent battery strings gracefully
> - Compaq Smart Array driver update
> - Kanoj Sarcar: serial console hardware flow control support
> - ide-cs: revert toc-valid cache checking in 2.4.1
> - Vojtech Pavlik: update via82cxxx driver to handle the vt82c686
> - raid5 graceful failure handling fix
> - ne2k-pci: enable device before asking the irq number
> - sis900 driver update
> - riva FB driver update
> - fix silly inode hashing pessimization
> - add SO_ACCEPTCONN for SuS
> - remove modinfo hack workaround, all newer modutils do it correctly
> - datagram socket shutdown fix
> - mark process as running when it takes a page-fault
>
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