Linux 2.5.7-dj3

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Thu, 4 Apr 2002 05:49:23 +0000


Mostly just cleaning up a lot of stuff that was discovered
whilst syncing with Linus. More to come.. 1MB down, 6 to go..

As usual,..
Patch against 2.5.7 vanilla is available from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/

Check http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/Linux-2.5.html before reporting
known bugs that are also in mainline.

-- Davej.

2.5.7-dj3
o Merge 2.5.8-pre1.
o Fix some bogus changes found whilst syncing. (Me)
o Only offer thermal interrupt monitor on P4. (Me)
o Only offer bluesmoke background checker on K7. (Me)

2.5.7-dj2
o Merge bits of 2.4.19pre3 & pre4.
| Dropped quite a bit, 2.5 is really starting to diverge
| in quite a few areas.
o Numerous compile fixups. (Me)
o Various config.help updates. (Steven Cole, ESR)
o AFFS compile fix. (Jarno Paananen)
o Update bttv to use new v4l API. (Jarno Paananen)
o Removal extraneous BUG() from accounting code. (Bob Miller)
o Fix up JFS txnmgr race. (Christoph Hellwig)
o Update documentation index. (Rolf Eike Beer)
o Use seq_file for /proc/partitions. (Randy Dunlap)
o Fix initrd kdev_same thinko. (Al Viro)
o Minor sg update. (Doug Gilbert)
o install .config with 'make install' (Kelly French)
o Add yet another VAIO to the DMI APM blacklist. (Michael Piotrowski)
o Detect get_block errors in block_read_full_page. (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Kill off noquot.c (Al Viro)
o Special case P4/Xeon bluesmoke init. (Jon Hourd)
o Fix up ide-scsi documentation typo. (Bill Jonas)
o Increment tcpPassiveOpens counter. (Dave Miller)
o Fix up some of Linus' criticisms of SEM_UNDO (Dave Olien)
o ibmphp compile fix. (Greg KH)
o Fix up two possible panics in microcode driver. (Tigran Aivazian)
o fcntl return code POSIX compliance. (Christopher Yeoh)
o Lessen debug info from ide-tape. (Alfredo Sanjuán)
o Various ide fixes. (Andre Hedrick)
| pdc4030 bent into shape a little by me, please test carefully.
o EasyDisk USB storage support. (Stanislav Karchebny)
o Flush cache/TLB on MCE. (Me)
o Fix double free in efi partition handling. (Takanori Kawano)
o Correct pci_set_mwi documentation typo. (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix up race in indydog driver. (Dave Hansen)
o 3ware driver update. (Adam Radford)
o Fix mmap bug with drivers that adjust vm_start. (Benjamin LaHaise)
o Register mad16 gameport with input subsystem. (Michael Haardt)
o Remove stale comment. (William Lee Irwin III)
o P4/Xeon Thermal LVT support for MCE. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Various fbdev compilation fixes. (James Simmons)
o Move touchscreen drivers to their own dir. (James Simmons)
o Seperate reiserfs_sb_info from struct super_block (Brian Gerst)

2.5.7-dj1
o Various x86-64 compile fixes. (Me, Andi Kleen)
o Fix up hfs superblock cleanup typo. (Brian Gerst)
o Remove 2.1.x/2.3.x checks from rocket driver. (William Stinson)
o JFS compile fixes. (Dave Kleikamp)
o pci_alloc_consistent ZONE_NORMAL fix. (Badari Pulavarty)
o v4l unregister with open file handles fix. (Gerd Knorr)
o ACPI throttling fixes. (Dominik Brodowski)
o Updated NFS root_server_path patch. (Martin Schwenke)
o Backout problematic sym53c8xx_2 changes. (Douglas Gilbert)
o Fix up one of my MCE SNAFU's. (Douglas Gilbert)
| Also make it AMD only for now, pending further investigation.
o Support for Belkin Wireless card. (Brendan W. McAdams)
o input/gameport makefile & config.in fixes. (Steven Cole)
o UDF write compile fix.

2.5.6-dj2
o machine check background checker SMP improvements. (Me)
o Hush INVALIDATE_AGID noise on Toshiba DVD drives. (Jens Axboe)
o Remove delayed vfree() in ppp_deflate. (David Woodhouse)
o Fix devfs 64-bit portability issues. (Carsten Otte)
o UFS blocksize fix. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Fix proc race on task_struct->sig. (Chris Mason)
o Pull NFS server IP from root_server_path. (Martin Schwenke)
o Fix broken tristate in ALSA config. (Steven Cole)
o Work around mpc_apicid > MAX_APICS problem. (James Cleverdon)
o cs4281 OSS compile fix. (Sebastian Droege)
o Fix locking in ATM device allocation. (Maksim Krasnyanskiy)
o Fix MSDOS filesystem option mistreatment. (Rene Scharfe)
o Increase number of JFS transaction locks. (Steve Best)
o page_to_phys() fix for >4GB pages on x86. (Badari Pulavarty)
o Append kernel config to zImage. (Randy Dunlap)
| See also scripts/extract-ikconfig
o Remove useless check from shmem_link() (Alexander Viro)
o Enable Natsemi MMX extensions. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Superblock cleanups for isofs,udf & bfs. (Brian Gerst)
o request_region() checking for hisax avm_a1 (Dan D Carpenter)
o uninitialise lots of static vars in net/ (William Stinson)
o D-Link DE620 janitor work. (Karol Kasprzak)
o Netfilter conntrack compile fix. (Christopher Barton)

-- 
Dave Jones.                    http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
SuSE Labs.
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