From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <008901be73b2$0f1bb6c0$499672cf@sunshinecomputing.com> From: "Brian Macy" To: , Subject: Fw: Linux 2.2.3ac4 Date: Sun, 21 Mar 1999 07:46:59 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Sender: owner-linuxppc-dev@lists.linuxppc.org List-Id: I didn't see this on the list already... figured you guys might like the fact that Alan expects this one to compile out of the box. Brian Macy ----- Original Message ----- From: Alan Cox To: Sent: Saturday, March 20, 1999 7:20 PM Subject: Linux 2.2.3ac4 > > Ok I've put up a 2.2.3ac4. The distribution site has changed. Its now > on ftp.*.kernel.org thanks to HPA and the guys at Transmeta. > > ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2 > > ac4 is a big diff, but most of it shared with the Linus pre4, so the > actual scale of difference isnt as dramatic as it looks - its mostly the > long awaited Linus/DaveM/etc merge of sparc/sparc64/ppc > > Differences between 2.2.3ac3 and 2.2.3ac4 > > o msr definition cleaned up (Philipp Rumpf) > o Merged with Linus current pre4 > | This should mean sparc and ppc work out of the box > o Another IP DoS fix (John McDonald) > | Hopefully with this an ANK's routing fixes 2.2.3ac* contains > | all the fixes to the DoS problems in 2.2.x (x<=3) > o NFSD flushes cached handles (G. Allen Morris III) > o NTFS fixes (Al Viro) > o Make "nolock" mean "lock on client only"(Matthew Grant) > | We now match 2.0 behaviour > o Merged the remaining NFS error changes > from 2.2.3 > > > Differences between 2.2.3ac2 and 2.2.3ac3 > > o 3c527 packet sending fix (me) > o I2O controllers flush cache on reboot (me) > o Waveartist driver might work on x86 now (me) > o Put ppc header additions in the right > place (duh) > o Misc doc fixes (various) > o Fix the flock crash (Adrian Sun) > o First set of IP routing fixes (Alexey Kuznetsov) > | People seeing the ENOBUFS problem can you > | see if this fixes it > o IDE update for flash removables (Mark Lord) > o Changes updates (Chris Ricker) > o ICMP masquerading (Keith Owens) > | This should fix the masquerade/hanging with low MTU > | problems for the cases where its not the remote site buggy > > > Differences between 2.2.3ac1 and 2.2.3ac2 > > o FIOASYNC corrected (Godmar Back) > o Cleaner lp fix (Tim Waugh) > o MSR defintion in one place (Philipp Rumpf) > o NBD thinko fix (Andries Brouwer) > o Don't need to use ls in Makefile (Zygo Blaxell) > o Ultrasparc typo fix (Dave Jones) > o Creat doesnt need to grab kernel lock (Tigran A. Aivazian) > o Amiga partition update (Hans-Joachim Widmaier) > | Handles disks that have been attacked by Windows 95 > | Handles media with large block sizes > o First phase of Sangoma merge (Sangoma) > | This is partial - need to sort a couple of items > | with Sangoma for this. > o Fixed the signal bug I let in (me) > o 3Com 3c527/IBM HPerf Lan Adapter driver (me) > o Experimental I2O layer (me) > | Block & SCSI OSM's only. Tested on the Symbios 40920 only > o AF_UNIX fixes (Andrea) > o Vfork inherited wrong stats (Andreas Schwab) > o SMP safe ibmtr driver (Tim Hockin) > o Digi EPCA driver update (Digi) > o PPC semaphore stuff (Paul Mackerras) > o Quota fixes with NFS etc (Andrea) > o CDROM Update (Jens Axboe) > o 2Gig RAM support for Alpha (Richard Henderson et al) > o Qlogic FC updates (Chris Loveland) > o Roadrunner HIPPI update (Jes Sorenson) > o Scsi generic updates (Douglas Gilbert) > o SPX module bug fix (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz) > o bw-qcam allow port specification (Billy Donahue) > o Midi synth typo fix (Joseph H. Buehler) > o Source route & Syn cookie fix (Andi Kleen) > > Linux 2.2.3ac1 contains > > o ARM updates - working to merge ARM with my tree then eventually I > hope with Linus - tho that may be a 2.3 job > > o V7 file system tweaks to sys5 1K > > o Improved SCSI generic (still the mark 1 edition) - Douglas > has some improvements in the pipeline before it goes to Linus > > o The Large file array patch. I still hope to feed this to Linus at > some point > > o i386 security hole fix for ptrace. Its in the other architectures > too. It only bites if you use capabilities. The bigger hole in > /proc is fixed in 2.2.3 > > o AMD K6 MSR/MTRR setup. The MSR is ready to go to Linus now, and > will do so, the MTRR stuff I hope will get merged with Richard > Gooch stuff once its untangled from devfs > > o ADFS update. Strictly for Acorn fans > > o CDROM updates. Heading Linuswards soon > > o Better bw-qcam driver. > > o Printing fixes. I assume Tim will send these to Linus himself when > he's finally happy > > o 3c509 update - for EISA etc - queued for Linus > > o Wavelan update - queued for Linus > > o cs89x0 module parameters - queued for Linus > > o Sealevel sync driver. Awaiting confirmation it works on the real > board as well as my test rig > > o SCSI blacklist and AIC7xxx updates > > o Prototype ESS PCI and Yamaha PCI legacy mode drivers. Gus SMP fix > > o NTFS doesnt crash when you run out of memory > > o /proc/mem crash fixes for threaded abuse programs > > o NFS: Im still merging together Linus & Trond's code. Once Trond > has all the nice stuff finally tuned up with Linus this will all > become main tree stuff. Im just making sure it gets tested 8) > > o NFSroot argument bug > > o Misc include/time wrap bug fixes > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > [[ This message was sent via the linuxppc-dev mailing list. Replies are ]] [[ not forced back to the list, so be sure to Cc linuxppc-dev if your ]] [[ reply is of general interest. Please check http://lists.linuxppc.org/ ]] [[ and http://www.linuxppc.org/ for useful information before posting. ]]