[Announcement] patch-2.0.40-rc4

[Announcement] patch-2.0.40-rc4

[David Weinehall]

I'm releasing another -rc with this change, just to stick to my
promise that the last pre-patch will be identical with the final
release.

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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Re: [Announcement] patch-2.0.40-rc4

[Alan Cox]

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

Erm.. why ?? It seems to be correctly complaining for a reason

Re: [Announcement] patch-2.0.40-rc4

[David Weinehall]

On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:24:57PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > o	Commented out a printk in fs/buffer.c   (Michael Deutschmann)
> > 	that complains about mismatching
> > 	blocksizes
> 
> Erm.. why ?? It seems to be correctly complaining for a reason

According to Michael Deutschmann, who still uses v2.0 actively (and gets
this message a lot), the code seems to do the right thing despite the
complaint; hence the message seemed unnecessary.


Regards: David Weinehall
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Re: [Announcement] patch-2.0.40-rc4

[Paul Gortmaker]

David Weinehall wrote:
> 
> On Sun, Mar 17, 2002 at 05:24:57PM +0000, Alan Cox wrote:
> > > o   Commented out a printk in fs/buffer.c   (Michael Deutschmann)
> > >     that complains about mismatching
> > >     blocksizes
> >
> > Erm.. why ?? It seems to be correctly complaining for a reason
> 
> According to Michael Deutschmann, who still uses v2.0 actively (and gets
> this message a lot), the code seems to do the right thing despite the
> complaint; hence the message seemed unnecessary.

Assuming the message is meaningful, rate limit the number of
times the user sees it.  Or rate limit on time, which ever seems 
more appropriate.

Paul.

Re: [Announcement] patch-2.0.40-rc4

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

David Weinehall wrote:
> 
> I'm releasing another -rc with this change, just to stick to my
> promise that the last pre-patch will be identical with the final
> release.
> 
> 2.0.40-rc4

I am trying to build on Debian, which is on gcc 2.95.4. I get some
asm errrors regarding illegal registers.

I did apply a patch linux-2.0.x.patch to fix some other errors.

Is there a patch to fix this or do I have to use an older gcc?

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