Linux 2.4.28-pre4

Linux 2.4.28-pre4

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi,

Here goes 2.4.28-pre4...

It contains a number of driver updates (pcnet, e1000, gdth, prism54),
a network update from David, few more gcc3.4 warning fixes.

I'm happy that the number of updates is small, -pre3
has been released more than one month ago.

>From now on can now change only what is necessary and let 
the 2.4 tree in peace :)


Summary of changes from v2.4.28-pre3 to v2.4.28-pre4
============================================

<ajgrothe:yahoo.com>:
  o [CRYPTO]: Whirlpool algorithm updates
  o [CRYPTO]: Add missing tcrypt part of whirlpool updates

<ananth:broadcom.com>:
  o [libata sata_svw] race condition fix, new device support

<joshk:triplehelix.org>:
  o radeonfb: Fix module unload and red/blue typo
  o hotplug: Don't build cpqphp_proc.o if !PROC_FS

<lesanti:sinectis.com.ar>:
  o fix dcache nr_dentry race

<martin.wilck:fujitsu-siemens.com>:
  o [TG3]: Fix pause handling, we had duplicate flags for the same thing

<michael.waychison:sun.com>:
  o [TG3]: Fix thinko in 5704 fibre hw autoneg code

<peter:pantasys.com>:
  o [IPCONFIG]: Verify DHCPACK packets
  o [IPV4]: Fix DHCPACK checking in ipconfig.c

<tkooda-patch-kernel:devsec.org>:
  o [CRYPTO]: xtea_encrypt() should use XTEA_DELTA instead of TEA_DELTA

<vda:port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>:
  o trivial patch for 2.4: always inline __constant_*

Achim Leubner:
  o gdth update

David S. Miller:
  o [NET]: Kill SCM_CONNECT, never used and unreferenced
  o [TCP]: Just silently ignore ICMP Source Quench messages
  o [TG3]: Recognize all onboard Sun variants, not just 5704
  o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
  o [CRYPTO]: Zero out tfm before freeing in crypto_free_tfm()
  o [SPARC64]: Do not log streaming byte hole errors
  o [PKT_SCHED]: sch_netem.c needs linux/init.h
  o [SPARC64]: Disable SBH interrupt properly

David Woodhouse:
  o [NET]: In compat syscall handling, check socket option types correctly

Don Fry:
  o pcnet32: discard oversize rx packets
  o pcnet32: recover after rx hang
  o pcnet32: cleanup IRQ limitation
  o pcnet32: Add HomePNA parameter for 79C978
  o pcnet32: correctly program bcr32

Doug Ledford:
  o RAID1 error handling locking fix

Ganesh Venkatesan:
  o e1000 - ethtool support cleanup
  o e1000 - Enable TSO
  o e1000 - Replace kmalloc with vmalloc for data structures not shared with h/w
  o e1000 - TSO context descriptor setup fixes (in preparation for IPv6 TSO)
  o e1000 - Fix to prevent infinite loop trying to re-establish link while actively communicating
  o e1000 - Condition that determines when to quit polling mode includes work done in Tx path
  o e1000 - Shutdown PHY while bringing the interface down (if WoL not enabled)
  o e1000 - add likely/unlikely to assist branch prediction, other cleanups
  o e1000 - more DPRINTK messages
  o e1000 - suspend/resume fix from alex@zodiac.dasalias.org
  o e1000 - white space corrections
  o e1000 - remove support for advanced TCO features
  o e1000 - Fix MODULE_PARM, module_param and module_param_array usage
  o e1000 - Fix VLAN filter setup errors (while running on PPC)
  o e1000 - Polarity reversal workaround for 10F/10H links
  o e1000 - white space corrections, other cleanups
  o e1000 update - reset default ITR value to 8000

Geert Uytterhoeven:
  o m68k MM off-by-one
  o Atari ST-RAM setup
  o Amiga frame buffer: kill obsolete DMI Resolver code
  o fbdev monochrome lines

Herbert Xu:
  o Backport Via IRQ mask fix

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
  o [IPV6] Fix routing header handling
  o [IPV6] Fix skb allocation size for RST and ACK
  o [IPV6]: Missing ip_rt_put() in SIT error path

Jack Hammer:
  o broken ips update

Jean Delvare:
  o Update Documentation/i2c/writing-clients

Jeff Garzik:
  o [TG3]: Kill all on-chip send BD support code
  o linux/compiler.h: dummy __iomem macro (an sparse annotation)
  o [libata] resync with 2.6.x
  o [libata] remove distinction between MMIO/PIO helper functions
  o [libata] consolidate legacy/native mode init code into helpers
  o [libata] minor comment updates, preparing for iomap merge

Jens Axboe:
  o irq safe gendisk_lock

Linus Torvalds:
  o libata: initial PCI memory annotations

Marcelo Tosatti:
  o Cset exclude: Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com|ChangeSet|20040928105422|00490
  o Mike Miller: cciss typo fix
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4

Margit Schubert-While:
  o prism54 Code cleanup
  o prism54 remove module params
  o prism54 add WE17 support
  o prism54 initial WPA support
  o prism54 fix wpa_supplicant frequency parsing
  o prism54 remove TRACE
  o prism54 Bug in timeout scheduling
  o prism54 print firmware version
  o prism54 bug initialization/mgt_commit

Maximilian Attems:
  o menuconfig fix crash due to infinite recursion

Mikael Pettersson:
  o 53c700 scsi driver gcc-3.4 fixes
  o pcmcia mem_op.h gcc-3.4 fixes
  o ATM drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
  o IBM PCI hotplug controller driver gcc-3.4 fixes
  o ISDN drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
  o MTD drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
  o RIVA driver gcc-3.4 fix
  o E100 driver gcc-3.4 fixes
  o PPC32 PReP residual data gcc-3.4 fix
  o matrox framebuffer driver gcc-3.4 fix

Pete Zaitcev:
  o USB drivers gcc-3.4 fixes

Stephen Hemminger:
  o [TCP]: Store congestion algorithm per socket
  o [TCP]: Add vegas style bandwidth info to 2.4.x tcp diag
  o [TCP]: Backport 2.6.x cleanup of westwood code

Thomas Graf:
  o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix slab corruption in cbq_destroy
  o [PKT_SCHED] Report qdisc parent to userspace

Wensong Zhang:
  o [IPVS] add the MAINTAINERS entry

2.4.28-pre4: e1000_main.c gcc 3.4 compile error

[Adrian Bunk]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:21:35AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
>...
> Summary of changes from v2.4.28-pre3 to v2.4.28-pre4
> ============================================
>...
> Ganesh Venkatesan:
>...
>   o e1000 - white space corrections, other cleanups
>...


The "other cleanups" are moving 
e1000_irq_enable/e1000_irq_disable/e1000_rx_checksum around resulting in 
at least the following compile error with gcc 3.4:


<--  snip  -->

...
gcc-3.4 -D__KERNEL__ 
-I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.28-pre4-full/include -Wall 
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common 
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=athlon 
-fno-unit-at-a-time   -nostdinc -iwithprefix include 
-DKBUILD_BASENAME=e1000_main  -c -o e1000_main.o e1000_main.c
e1000_main.c: In function `e1000_up':
e1000_main.c:132: sorry, unimplemented: inlining failed in call to 
'e1000_irq_enable': function body not available
e1000_main.c:277: sorry, unimplemented: called from here
make[4]: *** [e1000_main.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory 
`/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.28-pre4-full/drivers/net/e1000'

<--  snip  -->


Please drop this changeset.


cu
Adrian

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Re: Linux 2.4.28-pre4

[mdew .]

no chance of including IMQ?

http://www.linuximq.net/

On Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:21:35 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti
<marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> Here goes 2.4.28-pre4...
> 
> It contains a number of driver updates (pcnet, e1000, gdth, prism54),
> a network update from David, few more gcc3.4 warning fixes.
> 
> I'm happy that the number of updates is small, -pre3
> has been released more than one month ago.
> 
> From now on can now change only what is necessary and let
> the 2.4 tree in peace :)
> 
> Summary of changes from v2.4.28-pre3 to v2.4.28-pre4
> ============================================
> 
> <ajgrothe:yahoo.com>:
>   o [CRYPTO]: Whirlpool algorithm updates
>   o [CRYPTO]: Add missing tcrypt part of whirlpool updates
> 
> <ananth:broadcom.com>:
>   o [libata sata_svw] race condition fix, new device support
> 
> <joshk:triplehelix.org>:
>   o radeonfb: Fix module unload and red/blue typo
>   o hotplug: Don't build cpqphp_proc.o if !PROC_FS
> 
> <lesanti:sinectis.com.ar>:
>   o fix dcache nr_dentry race
> 
> <martin.wilck:fujitsu-siemens.com>:
>   o [TG3]: Fix pause handling, we had duplicate flags for the same thing
> 
> <michael.waychison:sun.com>:
>   o [TG3]: Fix thinko in 5704 fibre hw autoneg code
> 
> <peter:pantasys.com>:
>   o [IPCONFIG]: Verify DHCPACK packets
>   o [IPV4]: Fix DHCPACK checking in ipconfig.c
> 
> <tkooda-patch-kernel:devsec.org>:
>   o [CRYPTO]: xtea_encrypt() should use XTEA_DELTA instead of TEA_DELTA
> 
> <vda:port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>:
>   o trivial patch for 2.4: always inline __constant_*
> 
> Achim Leubner:
>   o gdth update
> 
> David S. Miller:
>   o [NET]: Kill SCM_CONNECT, never used and unreferenced
>   o [TCP]: Just silently ignore ICMP Source Quench messages
>   o [TG3]: Recognize all onboard Sun variants, not just 5704
>   o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
>   o [CRYPTO]: Zero out tfm before freeing in crypto_free_tfm()
>   o [SPARC64]: Do not log streaming byte hole errors
>   o [PKT_SCHED]: sch_netem.c needs linux/init.h
>   o [SPARC64]: Disable SBH interrupt properly
> 
> David Woodhouse:
>   o [NET]: In compat syscall handling, check socket option types correctly
> 
> Don Fry:
>   o pcnet32: discard oversize rx packets
>   o pcnet32: recover after rx hang
>   o pcnet32: cleanup IRQ limitation
>   o pcnet32: Add HomePNA parameter for 79C978
>   o pcnet32: correctly program bcr32
> 
> Doug Ledford:
>   o RAID1 error handling locking fix
> 
> Ganesh Venkatesan:
>   o e1000 - ethtool support cleanup
>   o e1000 - Enable TSO
>   o e1000 - Replace kmalloc with vmalloc for data structures not shared with h/w
>   o e1000 - TSO context descriptor setup fixes (in preparation for IPv6 TSO)
>   o e1000 - Fix to prevent infinite loop trying to re-establish link while actively communicating
>   o e1000 - Condition that determines when to quit polling mode includes work done in Tx path
>   o e1000 - Shutdown PHY while bringing the interface down (if WoL not enabled)
>   o e1000 - add likely/unlikely to assist branch prediction, other cleanups
>   o e1000 - more DPRINTK messages
>   o e1000 - suspend/resume fix from alex@zodiac.dasalias.org
>   o e1000 - white space corrections
>   o e1000 - remove support for advanced TCO features
>   o e1000 - Fix MODULE_PARM, module_param and module_param_array usage
>   o e1000 - Fix VLAN filter setup errors (while running on PPC)
>   o e1000 - Polarity reversal workaround for 10F/10H links
>   o e1000 - white space corrections, other cleanups
>   o e1000 update - reset default ITR value to 8000
> 
> Geert Uytterhoeven:
>   o m68k MM off-by-one
>   o Atari ST-RAM setup
>   o Amiga frame buffer: kill obsolete DMI Resolver code
>   o fbdev monochrome lines
> 
> Herbert Xu:
>   o Backport Via IRQ mask fix
> 
> Hideaki Yoshifuji:
>   o [IPV6] Fix routing header handling
>   o [IPV6] Fix skb allocation size for RST and ACK
>   o [IPV6]: Missing ip_rt_put() in SIT error path
> 
> Jack Hammer:
>   o broken ips update
> 
> Jean Delvare:
>   o Update Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
> 
> Jeff Garzik:
>   o [TG3]: Kill all on-chip send BD support code
>   o linux/compiler.h: dummy __iomem macro (an sparse annotation)
>   o [libata] resync with 2.6.x
>   o [libata] remove distinction between MMIO/PIO helper functions
>   o [libata] consolidate legacy/native mode init code into helpers
>   o [libata] minor comment updates, preparing for iomap merge
> 
> Jens Axboe:
>   o irq safe gendisk_lock
> 
> Linus Torvalds:
>   o libata: initial PCI memory annotations
> 
> Marcelo Tosatti:
>   o Cset exclude: Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com|ChangeSet|20040928105422|00490
>   o Mike Miller: cciss typo fix
>   o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4
> 
> Margit Schubert-While:
>   o prism54 Code cleanup
>   o prism54 remove module params
>   o prism54 add WE17 support
>   o prism54 initial WPA support
>   o prism54 fix wpa_supplicant frequency parsing
>   o prism54 remove TRACE
>   o prism54 Bug in timeout scheduling
>   o prism54 print firmware version
>   o prism54 bug initialization/mgt_commit
> 
> Maximilian Attems:
>   o menuconfig fix crash due to infinite recursion
> 
> Mikael Pettersson:
>   o 53c700 scsi driver gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o pcmcia mem_op.h gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o ATM drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o IBM PCI hotplug controller driver gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o ISDN drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o MTD drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o RIVA driver gcc-3.4 fix
>   o E100 driver gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o PPC32 PReP residual data gcc-3.4 fix
>   o matrox framebuffer driver gcc-3.4 fix
> 
> Pete Zaitcev:
>   o USB drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
> 
> Stephen Hemminger:
>   o [TCP]: Store congestion algorithm per socket
>   o [TCP]: Add vegas style bandwidth info to 2.4.x tcp diag
>   o [TCP]: Backport 2.6.x cleanup of westwood code
> 
> Thomas Graf:
>   o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix slab corruption in cbq_destroy
>   o [PKT_SCHED] Report qdisc parent to userspace
> 
> Wensong Zhang:
>   o [IPVS] add the MAINTAINERS entry
> 
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Re: Linux 2.4.28-pre4

[Brian Lazara]

At some point, can we get forcedeth.c updated in 2.4.x? We've taken the
latest from 2.6.8 and posted a patch against 2.4.27, but it isn't
getting picked up. See 
http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.1/1523.html

Regards,
Brian


On Fri, 2004-10-08 at 04:21, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here goes 2.4.28-pre4...
> 
> It contains a number of driver updates (pcnet, e1000, gdth, prism54),
> a network update from David, few more gcc3.4 warning fixes.
> 
> I'm happy that the number of updates is small, -pre3
> has been released more than one month ago.
> 
> >From now on can now change only what is necessary and let
> the 2.4 tree in peace :)
> 
> 
> Summary of changes from v2.4.28-pre3 to v2.4.28-pre4
> ============================================
> 
> <ajgrothe:yahoo.com>:
>   o [CRYPTO]: Whirlpool algorithm updates
>   o [CRYPTO]: Add missing tcrypt part of whirlpool updates
> 
> <ananth:broadcom.com>:
>   o [libata sata_svw] race condition fix, new device support
> 
> <joshk:triplehelix.org>:
>   o radeonfb: Fix module unload and red/blue typo
>   o hotplug: Don't build cpqphp_proc.o if !PROC_FS
> 
> <lesanti:sinectis.com.ar>:
>   o fix dcache nr_dentry race
> 
> <martin.wilck:fujitsu-siemens.com>:
>   o [TG3]: Fix pause handling, we had duplicate flags for the same
> thing
> 
> <michael.waychison:sun.com>:
>   o [TG3]: Fix thinko in 5704 fibre hw autoneg code
> 
> <peter:pantasys.com>:
>   o [IPCONFIG]: Verify DHCPACK packets
>   o [IPV4]: Fix DHCPACK checking in ipconfig.c
> 
> <tkooda-patch-kernel:devsec.org>:
>   o [CRYPTO]: xtea_encrypt() should use XTEA_DELTA instead of
> TEA_DELTA
> 
> <vda:port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>:
>   o trivial patch for 2.4: always inline __constant_*
> 
> Achim Leubner:
>   o gdth update
> 
> David S. Miller:
>   o [NET]: Kill SCM_CONNECT, never used and unreferenced
>   o [TCP]: Just silently ignore ICMP Source Quench messages
>   o [TG3]: Recognize all onboard Sun variants, not just 5704
>   o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
>   o [CRYPTO]: Zero out tfm before freeing in crypto_free_tfm()
>   o [SPARC64]: Do not log streaming byte hole errors
>   o [PKT_SCHED]: sch_netem.c needs linux/init.h
>   o [SPARC64]: Disable SBH interrupt properly
> 
> David Woodhouse:
>   o [NET]: In compat syscall handling, check socket option types
> correctly
> 
> Don Fry:
>   o pcnet32: discard oversize rx packets
>   o pcnet32: recover after rx hang
>   o pcnet32: cleanup IRQ limitation
>   o pcnet32: Add HomePNA parameter for 79C978
>   o pcnet32: correctly program bcr32
> 
> Doug Ledford:
>   o RAID1 error handling locking fix
> 
> Ganesh Venkatesan:
>   o e1000 - ethtool support cleanup
>   o e1000 - Enable TSO
>   o e1000 - Replace kmalloc with vmalloc for data structures not
> shared with h/w
>   o e1000 - TSO context descriptor setup fixes (in preparation for
> IPv6 TSO)
>   o e1000 - Fix to prevent infinite loop trying to re-establish link
> while actively communicating
>   o e1000 - Condition that determines when to quit polling mode
> includes work done in Tx path
>   o e1000 - Shutdown PHY while bringing the interface down (if WoL not
> enabled)
>   o e1000 - add likely/unlikely to assist branch prediction, other
> cleanups
>   o e1000 - more DPRINTK messages
>   o e1000 - suspend/resume fix from alex@zodiac.dasalias.org
>   o e1000 - white space corrections
>   o e1000 - remove support for advanced TCO features
>   o e1000 - Fix MODULE_PARM, module_param and module_param_array usage
>   o e1000 - Fix VLAN filter setup errors (while running on PPC)
>   o e1000 - Polarity reversal workaround for 10F/10H links
>   o e1000 - white space corrections, other cleanups
>   o e1000 update - reset default ITR value to 8000
> 
> Geert Uytterhoeven:
>   o m68k MM off-by-one
>   o Atari ST-RAM setup
>   o Amiga frame buffer: kill obsolete DMI Resolver code
>   o fbdev monochrome lines
> 
> Herbert Xu:
>   o Backport Via IRQ mask fix
> 
> Hideaki Yoshifuji:
>   o [IPV6] Fix routing header handling
>   o [IPV6] Fix skb allocation size for RST and ACK
>   o [IPV6]: Missing ip_rt_put() in SIT error path
> 
> Jack Hammer:
>   o broken ips update
> 
> Jean Delvare:
>   o Update Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
> 
> Jeff Garzik:
>   o [TG3]: Kill all on-chip send BD support code
>   o linux/compiler.h: dummy __iomem macro (an sparse annotation)
>   o [libata] resync with 2.6.x
>   o [libata] remove distinction between MMIO/PIO helper functions
>   o [libata] consolidate legacy/native mode init code into helpers
>   o [libata] minor comment updates, preparing for iomap merge
> 
> Jens Axboe:
>   o irq safe gendisk_lock
> 
> Linus Torvalds:
>   o libata: initial PCI memory annotations
> 
> Marcelo Tosatti:
>   o Cset exclude:
> Achim_Leubner@adaptec.com|ChangeSet|20040928105422|00490
>   o Mike Miller: cciss typo fix
>   o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4
> 
> Margit Schubert-While:
>   o prism54 Code cleanup
>   o prism54 remove module params
>   o prism54 add WE17 support
>   o prism54 initial WPA support
>   o prism54 fix wpa_supplicant frequency parsing
>   o prism54 remove TRACE
>   o prism54 Bug in timeout scheduling
>   o prism54 print firmware version
>   o prism54 bug initialization/mgt_commit
> 
> Maximilian Attems:
>   o menuconfig fix crash due to infinite recursion
> 
> Mikael Pettersson:
>   o 53c700 scsi driver gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o pcmcia mem_op.h gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o ATM drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o IBM PCI hotplug controller driver gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o ISDN drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o MTD drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o RIVA driver gcc-3.4 fix
>   o E100 driver gcc-3.4 fixes
>   o PPC32 PReP residual data gcc-3.4 fix
>   o matrox framebuffer driver gcc-3.4 fix
> 
> Pete Zaitcev:
>   o USB drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
> 
> Stephen Hemminger:
>   o [TCP]: Store congestion algorithm per socket
>   o [TCP]: Add vegas style bandwidth info to 2.4.x tcp diag
>   o [TCP]: Backport 2.6.x cleanup of westwood code
> 
> Thomas Graf:
>   o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix slab corruption in cbq_destroy
>   o [PKT_SCHED] Report qdisc parent to userspace
> 
> Wensong Zhang:
>   o [IPVS] add the MAINTAINERS entry
> 
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Re: Linux 2.4.28-pre4

[Manfred Spraul]

Brian Lazara wrote:

>At some point, can we get forcedeth.c updated in 2.4.x? We've taken the
>latest from 2.6.8
>
The driver in 2.6.8 contains a critical bug that prevents the operation 
on the non-GB board with a modularized driver.
See
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=128292

It's now fixed, I've written a backport of the 0.29 driver, it's at

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=109439014812433&w=2

But that backport was stopped due to an oddity in your original backport:

>From http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.1/1523.html:

> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCE3 0x00d1
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NFORCE3_IDE 0x00d5
> +#define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_NVENET_3 0x00d5
> #define PCI_DEVICE_ID_NVIDIA_MCP3_AUDIO 0x00da


NVENET_3 can't have the id 0x00d5. I've asked Jane Liu a month ago to 
double check the values and I'm still waiting for a reply.

For me, that's the only open point that prevents merging. What I'm 
missing is a positive test report from a non-GB board, but that's not 
mandatory - IMHO the code receives enough testing in 2.6.

--
    Manfred

Re: Linux 2.4.28-pre4

[Jeff Garzik]

Brian Lazara wrote:
> At some point, can we get forcedeth.c updated in 2.4.x? We've taken the
> latest from 2.6.8 and posted a patch against 2.4.27, but it isn't
> getting picked up. See 
> http://www.uwsg.indiana.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0408.1/1523.html

Nobody has submitted a forcedeth update to me for 2.4.

These things don't just happen by magic ;-)

	Jeff

Re: Linux 2.4.28-pre4

[Barry K. Nathan]

On Fri, Oct 08, 2004 at 08:21:35AM -0300, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> From now on can now change only what is necessary and let 
> the 2.4 tree in peace :)

Is it still possible to add this patch to 2.4 (i.e. 2.4.28 or 2.4.29),
or is it too late/too invasive?

[PATCH] fix ELF exec with huge bss
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@3ff112802L-9-rs0BbkozDnTnpch9w

AFAIK, this patch has been in 2.6 for several months and has been in Red
Hat Enterprise Linux 3 kernels for a long while too. The reason I'd like
to see it in a future 2.4 kernel is that it fixes some crashes that some
of my users are seeing (e.g. with a Fortran 77 program that has a BSS
larger than 2GB).


BTW, if the above patch is added to 2.4, maybe this patch is also needed
to handle a corner case (like the previous patch, it's been in 2.6 for
several months and RHEL 3 for a long time):

[PATCH] binfmt_elf.c fix for 32-bit apps with large bss
http://linux.bkbits.net:8080/linux-2.5/cset@407afc8e4kEZSl4pklf3Ptrl2ZzkeA

-Barry K. Nathan <barryn@pobox.com>