[ANNOUNCEMENT] Linux-kernel v2.0.40-rc6

David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Tue, 25 Jun 2002 21:08:27 +0200


Another SuS compliance fix, this time by Stephen Rothwell.

2.0.40-rc6

o Make sys_utime and sys_utimes (Stephen Rothwell, me)
perform the same permission checking
| Again, I did some whitespace changes
| while at it; Stephen's innocent.
o Remy Card no longer maintains ext2 (me)

2.0.40-rc5

o Ignore SIGURG in SIG_DFL, as per SUSv3 (Christopher Yeoh, me)
o Fix ipc/sem.c SuS/LSB compliance (Christopher Yeoh)
| Both these fixes contains whitespace
| changes. Don't blame poor Chris for
| this; I made them.
o Changes to MAINTAINERS (Riley Williams, me)
| Added Riley Williams
| Various tidying
| Updated the address to the
| Appletalk mailing-list
| Updated Christoph Lameter's
| e-mail address
| Updated Andre Hedrick's entry
| Updated Thomas Bogendörfer's entry
| Updated Martin Mares' e-mail address

2.0.40-rc4

o Commented out a printk in fs/buffer.c (Michael Deutschmann)
that complains about mismatching
blocksizes

2.0.40-rc3

o Fix memory-leak in af_unix (Jon Nelson, Alan Cox, me)

2.0.40-rc2

o Fix ICMP bug (David S. Miller)
o Add autodetection for wd1002s-wx2 (Paul, who appears to
in the xd-driver have no last name =])
o Fix path MTU discovery for (Kirk Petersen)
transparent TCP sockets
o Revert array-size change in (me, on advise from
include/linux/module.h Jari Ruusu)
o Remove workaround for gcc-2.4.5 (Adrian Bunk)
| This is basically a whitespace-
| change, since it removes code
| inside an #ifdef #endif clause

2.0.40-rc1

o Fix possible vmalloc bug for (Ralf Baechle)
architectures with virtually
indexed caches
o Micro-optimization in vmalloc (Ralf Baechle)
o Fix group descriptor corruption (Daniel Phillips,
in ext2fs Ville Herva,
Samuli Kärkkäinen)
o Fix some missing includes (me)
o Change array-size from 0 to 1 for (me)
two arrays in the symbol-table
in include/linux/module.h
o Fix type of struct timeval xtime in (me)
include/linux/sched.h
o Fix warnings in include/linux/skbuff.h (me)
o Fix a few typos in Configure.help (me)
o Various small whitespace changes (me)
and fixes of strange indentation
| I know some of you won't like this
| and I don't give a damn ;-)

2.0.40-pre3

o Fix typo in sched.c (Tim Sutherland)
| this time for real; I applied this
| patch to the wrong kernel-tree last
| time, hence the reject
o IDE probe patch for some ATAPI drives (Geert Van der Plas)

2.0.40-pre2

o Make pci2000 compile (Joseph Martin)
o Use KERNELRELEASE in module (me)
installpath as well
o Removed unused variable in (me)
ext2/super.c
o Fixed warning in ext2/dir.c (me)
o Fix a blunder of my own in (me)
arch/kernel/i386/traps.c
o Fix typo in sched.c (Tim Sutherland)
o Fix bug in mkdep.c (Tim Sutherland)
o Fix bug in autoirq.c (Michael Deutschmann)
o Add allocation debugging code (Michael Deutschmann)
o Fix bugs in the math-emu code (Bill Metzenthen,
Michael Deutschmann)

2.0.40-pre1

o Fixed the ordering of (Philipp Rumpf)
watchdog initialising, to make sure
hardware watchdogs takes precedence
over the softdog driver
o Fix the CREDITS-entry for (Kai Petzke)
Kai Petzke
o Updated the MAINTAINERS-file a little (me)
o Fix "dumpable"-race (Solar Designer)
o Fix theoretical exploit in printk (Solar Designer)
o Backported checkconfig.pl, (me)
checkhelp.pl and checkincludes.pl
from v2.4
o Backported support for tags and (me)
TAGS
o Added an extra-version entry to (me)
the version#, to keep track of
the prepatches etc.
o Fix all occurences of (me)
#endif BLABLA type; don't forget
that it should be /* BLABLA */ !!!

/David Weinehall
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