[PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.20-pre8-jam1

[J.A. Magallon]

Hi all...

New release of this patchset. Some overview of updates:

- new base on Andrea's -pre8-aa1
- ext3-0.9.19
- netdrv-8
- bproc-3.2.1

and the usual ton of bugfixes collected from LKML.

Get it at:

http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.20-pre8-jam1.tar.gz
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.20-pre8-jam1/

and enjoy !!.

Full contents:

10-highpage-init.bz2
	Cleanup one_highpage_init() as in 2.5.
	Author: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>

11-memparam.bz2
	Fix mem=XXX kernel parameter when user gives a size bigger than what
	kernel autodetected (kill a previous change)
	Author: Adrian Bunk <[e-mail]>,
			Leonardo Gomes Figueira <[e-mail]>

12-clone-detached.bz2
	Fix a crash that can be caused by a CLONE_DETACHED thread.
	Author: Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]>

13-self_exec_id.bz2
	Fix bad signaling between threads when ancestor dies.
	Author: Zeuner, Axel <[e-mail]>

14-nfs-resend.bz2
	Fix NFS stalls.
	Author: Trond Myklebust <[e-mail]>

15-module-size-checks.bz2
	Fixes two minor bugs in kernel/module.c related with module size checks.
	Author: Peter Oberparleiter <[e-mail]>

16-handle2dentry.bz2
	Factor out duplicated code for handle2dentry conversation.
	Author: Christoph Hellwig <[e-mail]>

17-cache-detection.bz2
	Fix cache detection (trace cache) in P3s.
	Author: Dave Jones <[e-mail]>

18-scsi-error-tmout.bz2
	Prevent endless loop in SCSI error handling.
	Author: Borzenkov Andrey <[e-mail]>

19-per-cpu-stats.bz2
	Kill some per-cpu stats, not so often used.
	Author: William Lee Irwin III <[e-mail]>

20-x86-split-group.bz2
	Group common options under just one config option, and make them a bit
	hierarchic.
	Split PII from PPro in processor selection.

21-mem-barriers.bz2
	Use specific machine level instructions for mb() for new
	processors (P3,P4,Athlon).
	Author: Zwane Mwaikambo <[e-mail]>

22-gcc3-march.bz2
	Add support for gcc3 code generation flags for specific processors

23-config-nr_cpus.bz2
	Configure the max number of cpus at compile time (default was 32).
	Saves memory footprint for kernel (around 240Kb in 32->2).
	Author: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>, Robert Love <[e-mail]>

30-smptimers-A0.bz2
	Scalable timer implementation. Lock per-CPU instead of global.
	Author: Ingo Molnar <[e-mail]>
	URL: http://redhat.com/~mingo/scalable-timers-patches/

31-ext3-0.9.19.bz2
	ext3 fs update.
	Author: Stephen Tweedie <[e-mail]>

32-netdrv-8.bz2
	Network driver subsystem update.
	Author: Jeff Garzik <[e-mail]>

33-task_cpu.bz2
	Implement "task_cpu()" and "set_task_cpu()" as wrappers for reading and
	writing task->cpu. Optmize to dummy versions in UP.
	Additional changes for Andrea's tree.
	Author: Robert Love <[e-mail]>

34-sched-misc.bz2
	O1 scheduler miscellaneous updates.
	Author: Robert Love <[e-mail]>

40-sched-hints.bz2
	Hint-based scheduling on top of O1 scheduler.
	Author: Robert Love <[e-mail]>

41-corefile-name.bz2
	This patch will allow you to configure the way core files are named through
	the /proc filesystem.
	Author: Jes Rahbek Klinke <[e-mail]>

50-ide-10-partial.bz2
	IDE update, version convert.10. Partial because Promise driver is not
	merged and is probably not functional.
	Author: Andre Hedrick <[e-mail]>
	URL: http://www.linuxdiskcert.org/

51-severworks-ide.bz2
	Attempt to fix the ServerWorks problem sit certain disks and DMA.
	Author: Martin Wilck <[e-mail]>

52-ide-cd-dma-3.bz2
	Make reading audio from IDE CDROMs use DMA.
	Author: Andrew Morton <[e-mail]>

70-i2c-2.6.6-cvs.bz2
71-sensors-2.6.6-cvs.bz2
	LM-Sensors update to 2.6.5-cvs tree.
	URL: http://secure.netroedge.com/~lm78/

72-i2c-build.bz2
	Add dmi_scan.o to export-objs.

75-bttv-0.7.97.bz2
76-bttv-doc-0.7.97.bz2
	BTTV updates.
	Author: Gerd Knorr <[e-mail]>
	URL: http://bytesex.org/bttv/

80-bproc-3.2.1.bz2
	Beowulf bproc SSI patches.
	Author: Erik Arjan Hendriks <[e-mail]>
	URL: http://sourceforge.net/projects/bproc

81-export-task_nice.bz2
	Export task_nice() function for bproc.

90-make.bz2
	Makes INSTALL_PATH=/boot and default VGA mode = 6.

-- 
J.A. Magallon <[e-mail]>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
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