[ANNOUNCE] [PATCH] Linux-2.5.45-mcp2

Marc-Christian Petersen (m.c.p@wolk-project.de)
Sat, 2 Nov 2002 02:55:05 +0100


Hi there,

point me to/send me the fixes/patches you want to see in here please!

here we go, -mcp2 for 2.5.45 vanilla.

o indicates new add/update
- indicates removed

Changes in 2.5.45-mcp2:
-----------------------
o CPU-Freq updates (latest) for 2.5.45 (Dominik Brodowski)
o ACPI as from 2002-11-01 (ACPI Team)
o net/ipv4/ipmr.c compile error (Adam J. Richter)
o neofb v0.4.1 (Denis Oliver Kropp)
o Filesystem capabilities v0.9 (Olaf Dietsche)
o Real NTFS unresolved symbol (Rusty Russell)
o Allow IDE to compile without DMA (Phil Oester)

Changes in 2.5.45-mcp1:
-----------------------
o 2.5.45-shpte-stuff (Andrew Morton)
o Don't bother us with missing QT headers (Fernando Alencar)
o Ext2/Ext3 Extended Attributes, ACL's (Theodore Ts'o)
o Filesystem capabilities (Olaf Dietsche)
o deadline-ioscheduler-rb-tree-sort (Jens Axboe)
o dcache-RCU / Files-Struct-RCU (Dipankar Sarma)
o Devicemapper Fixes (Joe Thornber)
o ReiserFS v4 (Namesys)
o tv tuner driver update (Gerd Knorr)
o videobuf update (Gerd Knorr)
o v4l2: v4l1 compatibility helper module (Gerd Knorr)
o v4l2: API (Gerd Knorr)
o BTTV Documentation update (Gerd Knorr)
o kmalloc_percpu (Ravikiran G Thirumalai)
o AFS compile error (Jan Marek)
o K-Exec (Eric W. Biederman)
o K-Probes (Rusty Russell)
o Kernel Mode Linux (Toshiyuki Maeda)
o make netfilter's ipt_TCPMSS compile again (Stelian Pop)
o Mobile IPv6 for v2.5.45 (MIPL Team)
o initrd dynamic (Dave Cinege)
o znet updates (Marc Zyngier)
o fix APIC errors on oprofile restore (Philippe Elie)
o Intel Compiler fix (Nakajima, Jun)
o NTFS unresolved symbol (Pawel Kot)
- 2.5.35-lsm1 (making 2.5.45 patches available may be good)
- core file naming (now in mainline)
- Large Block Devices (now in mainline)
- O-Profiling (now in mainline)
- ilookup() (now in mainline)
- ALSA fixes (now in mainline)
- -ac tree (N/A for 2.5.45 right now)
- KDB 2.3 (no 2.5.45 version available)
- AccessFS (no 2.5.45 version available)

Changes in 2.5.40-mcp3:
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o 2.5.40-ac2 (Alan Cox)
o more remove-irqlock (Carlos E Gorges)
o fix apm (module) unresolved symbol (Carlos E Gorges)
- SHM fix for OOM issue with Oracle DB (in -ac2)
- AMD 768 Random Number Generator (RNG) (in -ac2)
- Fix abuse of set_bit in atp (in -ac2)
- Stick tulip back under 10/100 ethernet (in -ac2)
- random fixes (in -ac2)
- vfat corruption fix (in -ac2)
- kbuild fix (in -ac2)

Changes in 2.5.40-mcp2:
-----------------------
o SHM fix for OOM issue with Oracle DB (Hugh Dickins)
o O-Profiling (John Levon)
o trivial video/Config.in fix (John Levon)
o 2nd ALSA update (10/12) (now ALSA v0.9.0rc3) (ALSA Team)
o ALSA fix (ALSA Team)
o vfat corruption fix (Petr Vandrovec)
o kbuild fix (Adrian Bunk)
o KDB v2.3 (SGI)
o Large Block Devices (5/5) (Peter Chubb)
o APIC build fix when APIC is not selected (Carlos E Gorges)
o random fixes (Carlos E Gorges)
o AMD 768 Random Number Generator (RNG) (Alan Cox)
o Fix abuse of set_bit in atp (Alan Cox)
o Stick tulip back under 10/100 ethernet (Alan Cox)
o JFS and CONFIG_PREEMPT fix (David Kleikamp)

Changes in 2.5.40-mcp1:
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o 2.5.40-mm1 (Andrew Morton)
o Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) v1.2.0 (IBM)
fix drivers/block/genhd.c before using!
o Fix menuconfig error for ALSA (me)
o ilookup() for searching for inodes in icache (2/2) (Anton Altaparmakov)
- ALSA Updates 10/10 (now in 2.5.40)
- i8xx series chipsets patches (3/3) (now in 2.5.40)
- CPU-Frequency scaling fix (now in 2.5.40)
- sg.c and USER_HZ (now in 2.5.40)
- xtime to do_gettimeofday() (now in 2.5.40)
- net/Config.in (IPX, Appletalk) (now in 2.5.40)
- SMB fixes (3/3) (now in 2.5.40)
- remove fat_search_long() in vfat_add_entry() (now in 2.5.40)
- use fff/ffff/fffffff instead
of ff8/fff8/ffffff8 for EOF of FAT (now in 2.5.40)
- sigfix-2.5.39-D0 (now in 2.5.40)
- RCU fixes for 2.5.39-mm1 (now in 2.5.40-mm1)

Changes in 2.5.39-mcp1:
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o 2.5.39-mm1 (Andrew Morton)
o RCU fixes for 2.5.39-mm1 (Dipankar Sarma)
o ReiserFS temporary fix for 2.5.39-mm1 (Andrew Morton)
o CPU-Frequency scaling fix 2.5.39 (Dominik Brodowski)
o ALSA Updates 10/10 (Jaroslav Kysela)
o ALSA Update fix (Arador)
o i8xx series chipsets patches (3/3) (Wim Van Sebroeck)
o sg.c and USER_HZ, kernel 2.5.39 (Rolf Fokkens)
o timer.c negative shift, kernel 2.5.39 (Rolf Fokkens)
o net/Config.in (IPX, Appletalk) (Andries Brouwer)
o SMB fixes (3/3) (Urban Widmark)
o use fff/ffff/fffffff instead
of ff8/fff8/ffffff8 for EOF of FAT (Ogawa Hirofumi)
o remove fat_search_long() in vfat_add_entry() (Ogawa Hirofumi)
o sigfix-2.5.39-D0 (Ingo Molnar)
- ReiserFS fix (now in 2.5.39)

Changes in 2.5.38-mcp3:
-----------------------
o 2.5.38-mm3 (Andrew Morton)
o ReiserFS fix (Hans Reiser)
o include missing in drivers/usb/host/ohci-hcd.c (Luc Van Oostenryck)
o AccessFS 2.5.35[8]-0.5 (Olaf Dietsche)
o files_struct_rcu patch for 2.5.38 (Dipankar Sarma)
o Rename "Second extended fs" to
"Ext2 file system support" (me)
o Moved every Journalling Filesystem in
an extra menu option (me)
- UP_APIC linkage problem fix (now in -mmX)
- 2.5.38 EBTables breakage fix (now in -mmX)
- 2.5.38 floppy build problem fix (now in -mmX)
- oops at boot in ide_toggle_bounce fix (now in -mmX)

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:
--------
80ac41fcef35caf16c7b8d018f2f01d3 *linux-2.5.45-mcp2.patch.bz2
803b705389f783f44a350f34a81459b2 *linux-2.5.45-mcp2.patch.gz

URL:
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http://prdownloads.sf.net/wolk/linux-2.5.45-mcp2.patch.bz2?download
http://prdownloads.sf.net/wolk/linux-2.5.45-mcp2.patch.gz?download

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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