Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org
2.4.5-ac19
o Update Gareth Hughes contact info (Gareth Hughes)
o Make sure NFS atime is handled by server (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix Configure.help glitch (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix nfs readdir EIO and duplicates bug (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix netlink removal of proc directory (Herbert Rosmanith)
o Use skb_purge_queue in net stacks (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| lapb, netrom, econet, rose, ax25, atm, sched,
| socket core, unix
o Fix reference after free in eql driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix reference after free in shaper (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Gameport fixes for Alpha (Jeff Garzik)
o Configure.help updates (Eric Raymond)
o JFFS copyright banner update (David Woodhouse)
o Update docs on binfmt_misc java (Kurt Huwig)
o Fix tty release_mem oops (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Pull nfs data out of inode struct (Al Viro)
o Assorted UML fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Improve missed tick handling on UML (Jeff Dike)
o Fix hdc/hdd reporting on disks in /proc/stat (Martin Wilck)
o Fix sign extension of dirent's in readdir (Trond Myklebust)
o Ensure LVM dropped snapshot is not reactivated (Joe Thornber)
o Change kiovec handling in LVM (Joe Thornber)
2.4.5-ac18
o Issue scsi retries on 'not ready' (Khalid Aziz)
o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and (Masaru Kawashima)
probe for longer on cmd timeout
| Experiment to see what happens
o Prefetch the io_request_lock in the i2o block (me)
irq handler
o Prefetch atomics and locks in the i2o_scsi (me)
driver
o Fix wrong config define in asm-i386/processor.h (Arjan van de Ven)
o Use skb_queue_purge in atmarpd (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix RLIMIT_NPROC accounting and root problem (Rik van Riel)
o Check out of memory case in i2c_parport (Rasmus Andersen)
o Enable internal amp on Targus Xtender and (Frank Aune)
Mebius PC-MJ100V
o X.25 cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Don't try and load parport_serial if it wasnt (Niels Jensen)
built
o interrupt.h needs sched.h for some ports (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix nwflash driver locking problems (Russell King)
o Fix bug ac17 added to the i810 tco driver (Andrey Panin)
o Fix memory pressure accounting bug (Rik van Riel)
o Small syncppp cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix an sg leak on error path (Doug Gilbert)
o Fix comx_proto_fr possible leak (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Update ataraid driver, add hpt raid support (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix highmem leak in nfs when taking signals (Trond Myklebust)
o Update Rik van Riel's credits entry (Rik van Riel)
o via audio updates, midi support, endian fixes (Adrian Cox)
o Further Configure.help merges (Eric Raymond)
o Update AMD756 pci irq routing driver (Jhon Caicedo)
o Make nvram allow the full 128 bytes on newer (Dave Jones)
PC's
o Update the simple boot flag support (Dave Jones)
| User space is now expected to set booted ok, via the
| nvram driver
o Set -fno-common to catch duplicate variable (Arjan van de Ven)
bugs
o Handle out of memory in sr.c get_capapbilities (Rasmus Andersen)
o SIS900 driver warning fix (Dave Miller)
o Update 64bit unclear driver checks (Jeff Garzik)
o Fealnx and sundance driver updates (Dave Miller)
o Small pppo driver cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Handle proc entry create failure in videodev (Rasmus Andersen)
2.4.5-ac17
o Sanity check the BIOS tables for bootflag (me)
o Update multicast support by devices doc (Ralf Baechle)
o Fix iohi=0 option in parport (Tim Waugh)
o First set of ipt_unclean fixes (Rusty Russell)
o Add YUV420P to the pwc driver ('Nemosoft')
| This is the compromise - its simply an unpacking order option
| not RGB/YUV
o Swapfile bugfix (Stephen Tweedie)
o Allow readahead to be tuned for big arrays (Craig Hagan)
o Add PIRQ router support for the AMD756 (Jhon Caicedo)
o Fix bootflag bitmasks (Dave Jones)
o Fix lseek limit handling (Martin Frey)
o The joystick/gameport symbol game continued (Keith Owens)
o Update i810 tco driver to know about 815,820 .. (Andrey Panin)
o Fix missing allocation failure checks in
drm, mtd, aironet, skfp, scsi, irda (Chip Turner)
o Further lvm updates (Joe Thornber)
| Fixes VG_CREATE_OLD problem
2.4.5-ac16
o Drop the shmem/removepage changes to see if they(me)
are cuaisng the instabilities in ac15
o Fix bug in pci_init_module causing serial crash (me)
| Figured out by Niels Jensen
o Alpha build fixes for keyboard change (Jay Thorne)
o Tidy up imsttfb driver (Paul Mundt)
o Fix tdfxfb warning (Steven Walter)
o Fix fat fs build on ARM (Russell King)
o Fix catc help text (Brad Hards)
o Fix missing unlock_kernel in fs/locks.c (Andrey Savochkin)
o Minixfs alloc_branch fixes (Al Viro)
o Support bootflag extension (me)
| Experimental
o Add EMC Symmetrix to the sparselun list (Alar Aun)
o Update the ioc3 ethernet (Ralf Baechle)
o Add ataraid to the known root names (Arjan van de Ven)
o Further Sony Pi driver upgrades (Stelian Pop)
o Add geometry queries to the ataraid driver (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add ALi IRDA FIR support (Benjamin Kong)
o Fix gameport compile failures (Keith Owens)
o Fixes IrLMP states stuck in CONN_PEND state (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Small cris config fixes (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix some potential irlan bugs/stack abuse (Ted Unangst)
o Fix OSS API bug in USB audio (Bruce Nesbitt)
o Update the MIPS64 core (Ralf Baechle,
Thiemo Seurer, and others)
o Update the MIPS32 core (Ralf Baechle, Kevin Kissell,
Carsten Langgaard, Justin Carlson,
Jun Sun)
o Add a driver for the AU1000 ethernet (P Popov)
o Fix security problems with i810 and MGA drm (Jeff Hartmann)
o Use a saner computation for maxthreads (Rik van Riel)
o Update matroxfb, support G100 SGRAM (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix hang in scsi generic with cdrdao (Doug Gilbert)
o Correct aha152x abort fix (Jüergen E. Fischer)
2.4.5-ac15
o Enable MMX extensions on Cyrix MII (me)
o Make pid on core dump configurable (Ben LaHaise)
o Random UML fixups, add fcntl64/getdents64 (Jeff Dike)
o Add multicast support to UML (Harland Welte)
o Ensure promise raid driver doesnt look at non (Arjan van de Ven)
disk devices
o Fix IDE chipsets that incorrectly think a 64K (Mark Lord)
DMA is in fact zero size
o Fix generic alpha build trident driver (Michal Jaegermann)
o SHM accounting fixes (Christoph Rohland)
o Update refill_inactive to match Linus tree (Rik van Riel)
o Add Asustek L8400K to the dmi data (me)
o Add kernel mode keyboard rate setup (Sergey Tursanov)
o Alpha compile fix (Richard Henderson)
o Add Ali1533 to the isa dma quirks (Angelo Di Filippo)
o Fix a procfs oops (Al Viro)
o Alpha symbol/warning fixes (Michal Jaegermann)
o Some laptops take a long time for the cs4281 (Rik van Riel)
and codec bus to wake up
o Fix potential flags corruption on error path (me)
in comx-mixcom driver
2.4.5-ac14
o Fix oops on command abort on aha152x (me)
| This so far is only a partial fix
o Switch to unlazy swap cache free up (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Page launder changes (Rik van Riel)
o Remove dead irda irlap compression code (Dag Brattli)
o Fix bug where init/main.c executes freed code (Hans-Peter Nilsson)
o Fix ramfs accounting. truncate/freepage hook (Christoph Rohland)
o Add MTWEOF ioctl to parallel tape (Russ Ingram)
o Add driver for CATC based USB ethernet (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Update cris architecture code (Bjorn Wesen)
o Clean up reiserfs tail->full page convert (Chris Mason)
o Clean up lp init, fix lp= option handling (Tim Waugh)
o Don't panic on out of memory during ps/2 setup (Andrey Panin)
o Initialise vc_cons objects in full (Richard Hirst)
o Futher Configure.help resync (Eric Raymond)
o Fix misdeclaration of xtime (Petr Vandrovec)
o Add yet more sb variants (Andrey Panin)
o Fix bogus VIA warning triggers (I hope) (me)
o Fix 3c509 symbols when building nonpnp (Keith Owens)
2.4.5-ac13
o Fix i2o_block to use invalidate_device (me)
o Fix viodasd to use invalidate_device (me)
o Fix missing ipc alloc check (Manfred Spraul)
o Use skb_purge_queue in isdn (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix epic100 printk error (Francois Romieu)
o Resync with master Configure.help (Eric Raymond)
o Avoid oops when reading swap proc during swapon (Paul Menage)
o Sony pi driver update (Stelian Pop)
o Sony motioneye camera driver (Stelian Pop,
Andrew Tridgell)
o Fix eepro100 access by user to some registers (Andrey Savochkin)
o Small APM real mode reboot clean ups (Stephen Rothwell)
o Fix isofs buffer leak on invalid iocharset (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Fix default encoding on pwc videocam (Mark Cooke)
o Clean up FAT further, fix endian bug, and times (OGAWA Hirofumi)
before 1/1/1980
o Support combo parallel/serial PCI cards (Tim Waugh)
o CS46xx mmap oops fix (me)
2.4.5-ac12
o Report apic timer vector in hex too (Philip Pokorny)
| With 0x in front so we can tell on reports..
o Report card services differently if kernel (Jeff Garzik)
o Don't terminate init on sysrq (Adam Slattery)
unless forced
o Add more pci wrappers when PCI is off (Jeff Garzik)
o Remove 4K object from the stack in emu10k1 (me)
o Remove 3.5K object from the i2o_proc stack (me)
o Remove 3K object from the ewrk3 ioctl stack (me)
o Fix bugs in the es1371 locking (me)
o Fix ohci iso alignments (Roman Weissgaerber)
o Updated megaraid driver (Atul Mukker)
| In paticular this now uses the new PCI api
2.4.5-ac11
o Fix the megaraid driver ioctl check (me)
o Fix the moxa ioctl checks (me)
o Fix the i810 dri length check (me)
o Fix array check in se401.c (me)
o Fix scc irq array problems (me)
o Fix sign check on zr36120 (me)
o Fix sign check in raw driver (me)
o Fix zr36067 array size check (me)
| All the above from the Stanford checker
o Fix an irq order assumption in the i810 audio (Doug Ledford)
o Make real mode poweroff configurable and also (Arjan van de Ven)
add DMI entries for it
o Clean up Alpha oops reporting (Will Woods)
o Fix ia64 build bug from mmap change (Bill Nottingham)
o Fix sysinfo padding so m68k comes out right (Jes Sorensen)
o Update pci ids related to ide devices (Andre Hedrick)
o Update ide registers/ioctl numbers/info (Andre Hedrick)
o Fix speed detection on slc90e66 (Andre Hedrick)
o Update promise IDE driver (Andre Hedrick)
o osb4 becomes generic serverworks ide driver (Andre Hedrick)
o Use new inits on ide_tape, add a reinit (Andre Hedrick)
o Use new inits on ide_floppy add a reinit (Andre Hedrick)
o Add amd74xx ide driver (Andre Hedrick)
o Tidy up ide disk init/reinit. Add feature (Andre Hedrick)
register clear
o Additional ide updates (Andre Hedrick)
2.4.5-ac10
o Fix xircom cardbus filter setup (Ion Badulescu)
o Dave Jones has moved (Dave Jones)
o Further Configure.help cleanup (Eric Raymond)
o Switch usb serial driver locking (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update IRDA Irnet protocol code (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Update ide-tape and osst drivers (Willem Riede)
o Add ethtool support to ne2k-pci (Jeff Garzik)
o Misc small network driver tweaks/cleanup (Jeff Garzik)
o Module description strings for net drivers (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix thread/unload race in reiserfs (Nikita Danilov)
o Fix a race in reiserfs_writepage (Chris Mason)
o Add prolific 2203 USB serial support (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update isdn maintainers (Kai Germaschewski)
o Add another USS720 device entry (Steve Tell)
o Reap dead swap cache pages (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix USB sign handling error (Jochen Pernsteiner)
o Update input driver docs (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix locking bug in hysdn (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix hid parsing bug with feature reports (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix ataraid config.in bug (Jim Wright)
2.4.5-ac9
o Fix gameport link problems (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix an oops in the sg driver (Tachino Nobuhiro)
o Fix brlock indexing bug (Takanori Kawano)
o Add parport_pc_unregister_port (Tim Waugh)
o Configure.help updates (Eric Raymond)
o Fix xircom_cb problems with some cisco kit (Ion Badulescu)
o Fix tdfxfb cursor rendering bug (Franz Melchior)
o Add driver for the sony vaio i/o controller (Stelian Pop,
Junchi Morita, Takaya Kinjo, Andrew Tridgell)
o Orinoco updates for symbol, intel, 3com cards (Jean Tourrihles)
o Use list_del_init in uhci driver (Herbert Xu)
o Fix a uhci SMP deadlock (Herbert Xu)
o Allow faster freeing of reisefs metadata (Chris Mason)
o Fix error path leaks in reiserfs (Chris Mason,
Vladimir Saveliev)
o Fix NFS problems triggered by 2.4.5 mmap change (Trond Myklebust)
o Resynchronize with m68k tree (Jes Sorensen)
o Add es1371 sound driver locking (Frank Davis)
o Fix a small error in the trident locking (Frank Davis)
2.4.5-ac8
o Fix sign handling bug in random sysctl (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Add more idents to the NS558 driver (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix oops on some HID descriptor sets (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix reuse bug in UML net code + clean up (Jeff Dike)
o ES1370 driver locking (Frank Davis)
o Update init/main.c patch for umask (Andrew Tridgell)
o Fix uml fault race, and looping fault on (Jeff Dike)
protection error
o Update devices.txt (H Peter Anvin)
o Update the airo driver (fix pci pm oops. (Jeff Garzik)
spinlock abuse, delete after kfree, unchecked
copies)
o Remove old UML umn driver (Jeff Dike)
o Fix resource leaks and printk levels in isapnp (Mike Borrelli)
o Add new procfs programming documentation (Erik Mouw)
o Fix usb xconfig breakage (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Replace accidentaly lost UP_APIC help (Mikael Pettersson)
o Olypmic driver update (Mike Phillips)
o Clean up LVM spelling, debug macros (Andreas Dilger)
o Make various bits of LVM static (Andreas Dilger)
o Make lvm_snapshot_use_rate its own function (Andreas Dilger)
o Make lvm_do_lv_create loop the right amount
o Fix lvm stamping on a semaphore causing an oops
o Fix lvm hardware block size handling (Andrea Arcangeli)
2.4.5-ac7
o UML cleanups (Jeff Dike)
o Trap invalid addresses in UML ethernet driver (Jeff Dike)
o Reimplment UML user space access (Jeff Dike)
o Add device node support to hostfs (Jorgen Cederlof)
o Fix hang if the UML net helper fails to run (Jeff Dike)
o Support setting time in UML kernels (Livio Baldini Soares)
o Move more non portable code out of UML core (Jeff Dike)
o Merge most of remaining UML ppc changes (Chris Emerson)
o Printk cleanups, remove one non portable (James Stevenson)
o Add speaker mixer support to the cmpci mixer (Carlos Gorges)
o Fix inittdata ordering in i2c docs (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Add usb skeleton driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix ns558 unload (Marcus Meissner)
o Further cs46xx fixing (Frank Davies)
o S/390 updates from the IBM folks (Martin Schwidefsky)
o CS46xx pop/crackle fixes on IBM T20 (Thomas Woller)
o Make USB require PCI (me)
o Tulip driver update (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix slip/slhc missing symbols problem (Michael Guntsche)
o IRDA updates (Dag Brattli)
o Add cs4232 isapnp probing (Marcus Meissner)
o Merge airo_cs driver (Benjamin Reed, Javier Achirica,
Jean Tourrilhes)
o VIA workarounds for APIC IRQ routing (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix bootmem.c comment cut&paste accident (Richard Urena)
o Update LVM with new VG_CREATE ioctl (and (Joe Thornber)
VG_CREATE_OLD for back compatibility)
o Fix pv_t/lv_t confusion in lv_status_bydev_req (Joe Thornber)
o Lots of update/fixes for _lv_status_by* code (Joe Thornber)
o Add support for I2O IOP's requiring private (me)
resource spaces
o Hopefully fix hid jerkiness (Michael)
2.4.5-ac6
o Fix the cs46xx right this time (me)
o Further FATfs cleanup (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o ISDN PPP code cleanup, cvs tag update (Kai Germaschewski)
o Large amount of UFS file system cleanup (Al Viro)
o Fix endianness problems in FATfs (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix -ac quota crashes (Jan Kara)
o Fix bluetooth out of memory handling (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix freevxfs readdir (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix freevxfs sign/unsigned issues (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix doctypos, other freevxfs cleanup (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix flush_dirty_buffers warning (J A Magallon)
o Add Carlos Gorges to credits (Carlos Gorges)
o Further atm cleanup fixes (kmalloc/signedness) (Mitchell Blank)
o Fix hotplug variable in matroxfb (Petr Vandrovec)
o Fix ns558 crash (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Revert to Pete Zaitcev's khub locking (Pete Zaitcev)
| It works for me, Johannes changes don't seem to
o Fix usb Config.in breakage for input devices (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Add another 3c509 ISAPnP id (Marcus Meissner)
o Fix oopses and null checks on iphase (Mitchell Blank)
o CS46xx update (Thomas Woller)
o Fix mmap cornercase (Maciej Rozycki)
o Tidy up aironet and saa9730 delay abuse (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Force initial umask to be sane for broken (Andrew Tridgell)
init programs
o Teach CML1 to strip out <file: > from the (Eric Raymond)
Configure.help
o Resync with Eric's master Configure.help (Eric Raymond)
o Revert FIOQSIZE
o Fix missing copy_*_user in cosa driver (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix missing copy_*_user in eicon (me)
+ clean up ioctls a bit more
| From Stanford tools
o Fix use after free in lpbether (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix missing return in rose_dev (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix use after free in bpqether (me)
| From Stanford tools
2.4.5-ac5
o Fix bug introduced in cs46xx/trident locking (me)
o Fix reiserfs unload/exit locking race (Paul Mundt)
o Miscellaneous small UML updates (Jeff Dike)
o Further FAT cleanups (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Fix ext2fs oops following disk error (Andreas Dilger)
o Optimise segment reloads, syscall path (Andi Kleen)
o Clean up .byte abuse where asm is now known (Brian Gerst)
by required tools
o Fix eepro100 on 64bit machine bitops bug (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Move the pagecache and pagemap_lru_lock to (Andrea Arcangeli)
different cache lines
o Clean up .byte abuse where asm is now known (Brian Gerst)
by required tools
o Fix user space dereference in bluetooth (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix user space dereference in sbc60wdt (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix user space dereference in mdc800 (me)
| From Stanford tools
o Fix a rather wrong memset in nubus.c (Chris Peterson)
o Remove fpu references from dmfe (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix spelling of Portuguese (Nerijus Baliunas)
2.4.5-ac4
o APIC parsing updates (Ingo Molnar)
o Retry rather than losing I/O on an IDE DMA (Jens Axboe)
timeout.
o Add missing locking to cs46xx (Frank Davis)
o Clean up sym53c416 and add PnP support (me)
o Tidy up changelog in apm.c (Stephen Rothwell)
o Update jffs2, remove abuse of kdev_t (David Woodhouse)
o Fix oops on unplugging bluetooth (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Move stuff into bss on aironet4500 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix up alpha oops output (George France)
o Update SysKonnect PCI id list (Mirko Lindner)
o Update SysKonnect GigE driver (Mirko Lindner)
o Add ATM DS3/OC12 definitions to atmdev.h (Mitchell Blank)
o Clean up atm drivers, fixed up user space (Mitchell Blank,
access with irqs off, kmalloc and use after John Levon)
free.
o Update input device/joystick/gameport drivers (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Update USB hid drivers (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Fix out of memory oops in hysdn (Rasmus Andersen)
o Belarussian should be Belarusian according to (Nerijus Baliunas)
the standards
o Support booting off old 720K floppies (Niels Jensen,
Chris Noe)
2.4.5-ac3
o Ignore console writes from an IRQ handler (me)
o Make SIGBUS/SIGILL visible to UML debugger (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up UML syscalls add missing items (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up non portable UML code (Jeff Dike)
o Fix off by one and other oddments in hostfs (Henrik Nordstrom)
o Update UML to use CONFIG_SMP not __SMP__ (Jeff Dike)
o Fix UML crash if console is typed at too early (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up UML host transports (Lennert Buytenhek,
Jim Leu)
o Resynchronize UML/ppc (Chris Emerson)
o Fix UML crash if it had an address space hole (Jeff Dike)
between text and data
o Fix rd_ioctl crash with initrd (Go Taniguchi)
o Fix IRQ ack path on Alpha rawhide (Richard Henderson)
o Drop back to older 8139too driver from 2.4.3
| Seems the new one causes lockups
o Experimental promise fastrak raid driver (Arjan van de Ven)
2.4.5-ac2
o Restore lock_kernel on umount (Al Viro)
| Should cure Reiserfs crash in 2.4.5
o Fix additional scsi_ioctl leak (John Martin)
o Clean up scsi_ioctl error handling (me)
o Configure.help typo fixes (Nerijus Baliunas)
o Fix hgafb problems with logos (Ferenc Bakonyi)
o Fix lock problems in the rio driver (Rasmus Andersen)
o Make new cmpci SMP safe (Carlos E Gorges)
o Fix missing restore flags in soundmodem (Rasmus Andersen)
o Set max sectors in ps2esdi (Paul Gortmaker)
o Fix interrupt restore problems in mixcom (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix alpha compile on dp264/generic (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix irda irport locking restores (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix failed kmalloc handling in hisax (Kai Germaschewski)
o Add missing memory barrier in qlogicisp (?)
o Fix missing restore_flags in eata_dma (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix procfs locking in irttp (Rasmus Andersen)
o Winbond updates (Manfred Spraul)
o Stop network eating PF_MEMALLOC ram (Manfred Spraul)
o Drop fs/buffer.c low mem flush changes (me)
o Drop changes to mm/highmem.c (me)
| I don't think the Linus one is quite right but its easier
| for everyone to be working off one base
o Revert GFP_FAIL and some other alloc bits (me)
o Hopefully fix initrd problem (me)
o Fix kmalloc check in ide-tape (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix irda irtty locking (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix missing irq restore in qla1280 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix proc/pid/mem cross exec behaviour (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix direct user space derefs in eicon (me)
| From Stanford checker
o Fix direct user space derefs in ipddp (me)
| From Stanford checker
o Fix direct user space derefs in ixj (me)
| From Stanford checker
o Fix direct user space derefs in decnet (me)
| From Stanford checker
2.4.5-ac1
o Merge Linus 2.4.5 tree
Summary of changes for Linux 2.4.5-ac versus Linus 2.4.5
o Fix memory leak in wanrouter
o Fix memory leak in wanmain
o Use non atomic memory for linearising NFS buffers as they are
done in task context
o Fix dereference of freed memory in NetROM drivers
o Fix writing to freed memory in ax25_ip
o Support debugging of slab pools
o NinjaSCSI pcmcia scsi driver
o Raw HID device for USB peripheral buttons/controllers
o Updated NTFS
o RAMfs with resource limits
o NMI watchdog available on uniprocessor x86
o Update CMPCI drivers (not yet SMP safe)
o Configurable max_map_count
o Dynamic sysctl key registration
o SE401 USB camera driver
o Updated Zoran ZR3606x driver (replaces buz)
o w9966 parallel port camera driver (partially merged with Linus)
o Include headers in etags
o Don't delete empty directories on make distclean
o Fix halt/reboot handling on Alcor Alpha
o IDE driver support for Etrax E100
o IDE infrastructure support for IDE using non standard data transfers
o Run ~/bin/installkernel if present
o Support for out of order stores on x86 with this mode (IDT Winchip)
- worth 20% performance on them
o Configure level debugging menu
o Make BUG() default to an oops only - saves 70K
o Power management help for UP-APIC
o Work around 440BX APIC hang (eg the ne2000 SMP hang)
o Run time configurable APM behaviour (interrupts, psr etc)
o Smarter DMI parser - handles multiple use of names
o DMI layer has blacklist tables fixing Dell Inspiron 5000e crashes,
PowerEdge reboot problems , and IBM laptop APM problems
o PNPBios support
o Fix atomicity of IRQ error count
o Handle PCI/ISA boxes that don't list edge levels but have an ELCR
o Don't erroneously mangle settings on all VIA bridges - cures the
horrible performance problem in 2.4.5 vanilla with VIA
o Fix bootmem corruption on x86 boot
o Scan and retrieve multipliers for processors (not yet used to handle
the SMP cases where we need to disable tsc use)
o Support machine check on Athlon and Pentium
o Fix SUS violation with signal stacks
o Handle boxes where firmware resets the timer to 18Hz (this should
now not show false positives)
o Better OOPS formatting on x86
o Fix nasty problems with interrupts being disabled for long periods
in frame buffer drivers
o PAE mode alignment assumption fixes
o 32bit UID clean quota
o Fix quota deadlocks
o Fix TLB shootdown races
o Experimental merge of usermode Linux
o Fix memory leaks and othe rproblems with the iphase driver
o IBM AS/400 iSeries virtual drivers
o DAC960 null pointer checks
o CCISS driver leak fixes
o MPT fusion drivers for scsi and networking
o Handle out of memory allocating request queue entries and avoid oops
o Free the initial ramdisk correctly
o Small CD-ROM layer updates
o AGP power management hooks
o First basic applicom driver fixes
o Fix copy_from_user with interrupts off in cyclades driver
o Fix out of memory handling in DRM
o Clean up dsp56K driver
o Update generic serial driver with break support
o Clean up h8 driver namespace
o Fix keymap changing problems in console drivers
o Fix locking in machzwd
o Updated rio serial driver
o A2232 driver
o Fix serial driver mangling of some clone uarts
o Handle xircom serial port setup delay bug
o Updated sx driver for newer generic_serial
o W83877F watchdog driver
o ITE8172 IDE driver support
o Q40/Q60 IDE support
o Fix nodma handling bug in alim15x3
o hpt366 DMA blacklist
o IDE-CD updates
o Updated IDE DMA blacklist
o OOPS catch for sg reuse in IDE driver
o Support formatting of IDE floppies
o Support PIIX4U4 (851EM)
o Enable second port on promise pseudo raid
o Support nodma on pmac
o Support more PCI irq sharing on IDE
o IDE tape updates - DI-50 support,
o Much updated VIA IDE support
o video1394 updated to newer module API
o Support write on the input event driver
o Quieten mouse and keyboard input drivers
o Fix compile problem with pc110pad
o Fix memory leak in isdnppp
o LVM updates
o Fix plan b locking
o Fix saa5249 locking
o Fix stradis locking
o Acenic driver updates
o aironet4500 cleanups, probe tables
o Ariadne updated to newer API
o Don't limit mtu to 68+ in arlan drivers
o Updated eepro100 driver
o Fix potential crash on downing a bpqether port
o Updated nsc-ircc driver
o Updated toshoboe driver
o Intel Panther LP486e ethernet driver
o Remove erroneous check in eth_change_mtu
o Alternative xircom_cb driver
o Avoid ibm tr being rebuilt each make
o Updated ibm token ring drivers
o Add 'static' to bits of ppp code
o Add pci probe table to roadrunner
o Fix memory leak in sk_ge
o sk_g16 updates
o sk_mca updates
o Add tools to generate starfire firmware
o Synclink driver can be compiled in
o Fix possible oops in lapbether
o Fix memory leak in lanmedia driver
o Fix SDLA_X25 warnings
o Fix syncppp negotiation loop bug
o GSC parallel port support
o PCMCIA parallel port support
o Support PnPBIOS probing for PC parallel ports
o Fix leak in PCMCIA bulkmem driver
o Fix leak in PCMCIA ds driver
o Add more cards to the ti list for the yenta pcmcia
o Updated 3ware scsi driver
o NCR 53c700 and 53c700/66 driver core
o Fix pci_enable/resource read order on buslogic
o Updated NCR53c8xx driver
o Updated SYM53c8xx driver
o Fix NCR53c406 warnings
o NCR dual MCA driver
o AIC7xxx pci probe table for hotplug
o Updated aic7xxx_old
o Fix resource leaks in dec esp driver
o Fix printk levels in dmx3191 driver
o Allow per device max sector counts. (2.4 workaround until 2.5 does
this in the block layer per device)
o Support SCSI2/SCSI3 extended LUN numbering
o Limit qlogicisp and qlogicpti to 64 sectors/write
o Fix missing EFAULT return in scsi proc
o Fix locking of scsi_unregister_host
o Fix leaks in scsi_ioctl
o Fix potential lost requests in scsi merges
o Fix leak on write when scsi driver has no proc write op
o Extend the scsi black/whitelist
o Fix locking/eject/rescan on removable scsi disk media
o Updated scsi generic driver
o Updated scsi cdrom driver
o Correct ac97 handling on sparc
o Fix use after kfree in cs4281
o Update ess solo to new PCI style and PM
o Update maestro to new PCI style and PM
o Add docking station support to maestro
o Update sonicvies to new PCI api
o Fix trident locking problems
o Fix buzzing on ymfpci
o Power management for ymfpci
o Fix leak/missized copy on xjack driver
o CDCEther driver
o ACM driver with fixed CLOCAL
o Updated USB audio drivers
o Fix locking/reporting in USB device list
o Allow dsbr100 to take a radio_nr option
o HP5300 series USB scanner driver
o Updated IBM cam driver
o Fix USB inode locking
o Driver for Kawasaki based USB ethernet
o Small ov511 fixes
o Updated USB storage drivers
o Entries for Sony MSC-U01N memory stick, Fujifilm FinePix 1400Zoom,
Casio QV Digial Camera
o USB Ultracam driver
o Fix derefence of freed memory in the USB code
o Generic USB host->host drivers for anchorchip 2270, ipaq, netchip
1080, and Prolific PL-2301/2
o Updated ATI frame buffer drivers
o Updated clgen and control frame buffer drivers
o Updated cyber2000 driver
o Documentation for fbcon driver
o Additional modes for titanium powerbook (1152x768)
o Updated matrxofb drivers
o Support __setup in mdacon
o Radeon console driver
o Handle out of memory on sun3 fb
o Updated tga/vesa fb
o CMS file system (basic R/O)
o JFFS journalling flash file system with compression
o Updated AFFS file system
o Threaded core dumps
o Fix security holes in binfmt_misc
o Allow flushing of low buffers only when we need bounce buffers
o Use brelse in cramfs
o Fix memory leaks in freevxfs
o Updated isofs
o Small lockd updates (experimental)
o Fix nfs alignment funnies
o Report correct SuS errors on some opens
o Add generic_file_open to get 64bit stuff right
o Locking on make_inode_number for procfs
o Report shmem size in shared memory proc field
o Fail lseek outside of allowed range for filesystem
o Fix select race with fdset growth
o Kernel message levels and handle oom on superblock/mount ops
o Updated frame buffer logos
o Prefetch support for AMD Athlon
o Support out of order stores in spinlocks on x86
o m68k bitop compile fixes
o Add truncatepage op to address operations
o shmem filesystem cleanups and updates
o Fix off by one on real time pre-emption in scheduler
o Use prefetches in scheduler and wakeups
o Support GFP_FAIL to avoid highmem deadlocks
--- Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Red Hat Kernel Hacker & Linux 2.2 Maintainer Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP http://www.linux.org.uk/diary http://www.brainbench.com - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/