Linux 2.4.8-ac12

Alan Cox
2001-08-26T16:10:21Z

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.4/

Intermediate diffs are available from
http://www.bzimage.org

2.4.8-ac12
o Merge the majority of 2.4.9 except
- min/max mess
- fat/isofs changes
- drm changes (some collisions with other
fixes)
- vm/buffer handling changes
- emu10k1
- vfs directory type changes
- nfs/nfsd/sunrpc
I'm trying to make sure I can keep this testable
as 2.4.9 vanilla isnt being stable on my test sets
This is basically a merge of all the "boring" bits.

o Update usb network fixes (Herbert Xu)
o HID id matching fix (Pete Zaitcev)
o ARM i/o fixes (Russell King)
o ARM alignment trap fixes (Russell King)
o ARM softirq fix (Russell King)
o Miscellaneous arm updates (Russell King)
o Configure.help updates (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz,
Steven Cole)
o lock_kiovec page unwind fix (Velizar B)
o do_swap_page recheck pte before failing (Linus, Jeremy Linton)
o do_swap_page doesn't mkwrite when deleting (Linus)
| From 2.4.9 with extra comments etc (Hugh Dickins)
o Prefetchw macro fix (Andreas Franck)
o Kill another bogus wbinvd macro in ACPI (Dave Jones)
o Switch PnPBIOS to spinlocks and irq off (me)
o Large PPC merge (Paul Mackerras)
o Remove surplus macintosh rtc printks (Paul Mackerras)
o Add modem power features to the mac serial (Paul Mackerras)
o Powerbook trackpad lockup fix (Paul Mackerras)
o Adb updates (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix serial port base offsets (Paul Mackerras)
o PPC sysctl code to use PPC32 not __powerpc__ (Paul Mackerras)
| The latter is both 32 and 64 bit...
o PowerMac pmu updates (Paul Mackerras)
o S/390 3270 driver update (Richard Hitt)
o MIPS docs update (Ralf Baechle)
o Update mips maintainers entry (Ralf Baechle)
o Update mips configure.help (Ralf Baechle)
o Add some mips pci ids (Ralf Baechle)
o DECstation turbochannel update (Maciej W. Rozycki,
Ralf Baechle)
o MIPS64 update (Ralf Baechle)

2.4.8-ac11
o Remove bogus wbinvd macro in ACPI (Dave Jones)
o Fix highmem high page races (Ben LaHaise)
o SCSI generic driver updates (Doug Gilbert)
o Remove unneeded fusion init call (Adam J Richter)
o Fix init/const clashes in pci (Dave Jones)
o Merge newer qlogic fc firmware set (Ricky Beam)
o Add NEC DV5800A to the blacklist for DMA (Matt Domsch)
o Add passive ISDN over USB support (Frode Isaksen,
Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix aha1542 flags type (Andi Kleen)
o Macsonic kmalloc type fixes (Dave Jones)
o lock clear_page_tables versus kswapd (Ben LaHaise)
o Honour PnPBIOS region reservations (Gerd Knorr)
o Made them __init and fixed problems when the (me)
resource declaration spanned 0x100
o Fix a rio serial type warning (me)
o Add another byteswapped Vaio BIOS (Roger Luethi)
o USB serial tidy ups (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix dev->actconfig changing in probe in USB (Michael Stickel)
causing later errors

2.4.8-ac10
o Fix the USB device timeout problem (Pete Zaitcev)
o rio usb locking fixes (Oliver Neukum)
o Fix vm86 v segment reload part 1 (Andi Kleen)
| Still not all sorted yet
o Airo driver update (Javier Achirica)
o Fix bugs in usb skeleton driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add support for USB clie serial devices (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB config fix for serial debug (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add support for massworks id75 usb (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Rationalise lvm version numbers (A J Lewis)
o LVM locking changes (Joe Thornber)
o Pull pv flush out of lvm ioctls (Heinz Mauelshagen)
o Switch to lv_v5_t structures/types in LVM (Heinz Mauelshagen)
o Defer LVM I/O when moving an extent (Joe Thornber,
Andreas Dilger)
o Fix bmap/blkszget issues in LVM (Andreas Dilger)
o Tidy naming/devfs registrations for LVM (Patrick Caulfield)
o Protect LVM snapshot flag removal, don't
extend or reduce dropped snapshots,
o Handle ELF loader setup arg pages failures (Evgeny Polyakov)
o Add udelays to cmpci to see if it fixes (me)
the problems a few people have
o Put config hooks in to make qlogicfc firmware (me)
optionally loadable for weird hardware
| Needs a suitable firmware file adding ..
o Update pci.ids for a couple of parisc things (Helge Deller)
o Irda warning fixes (Pete Zaitcev)
o Squash smp race in dsbr100 driver (Oliver Neukum)
o Console locking fix on VT_DISALLOCATE race (Jani Jaakkola,
Andrew Morton)
o ipv4 raw socket oops fix (Octavian Cerna)
o Actually use our msr register defines (Dave Jones)
o Correct polish translation info typos (Steven Cole)
o mm compile warning fix (Rik van Riel)
o Updated 3ware driver (Adam Radford)
o Add Sharp PC-RJ/AX to bad apm list (Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.8-ac9
o Possible usb -110 error fix (me)
o Page laundering fix (Rik van Riel)
o Add another vaio to the byteswap list (Martin Mueller)
o Fix typos in ide blacklist (Arjan van de Ven)
o UMSDOS split directory entry handling (Istvan Varadi)
o Update Configure.help further (Steve Cole)
o Fix bogus mtrr warning on dual pentiums (Dave Jones)
o Update scsi tape driver (Kai Mäkisara)
o Change memory probe constants on AWE32/64 (Dave Fennell)
o Tiny endian reiserfs fix (just cosmetic) (Jeff Mahoney)
o Make the md resync delay message informative (Corin Hartland-Swann)
rather than scary
o USB printer fixes (Oliver Neukum)
o Add the SIS735 to the SiS AGP (Adrian)
o Kill bogus export_objs entry in lib/Makefile (Keith Owens)
o VIA rhine fixes (David Woodhouse)
o Next set of superblock changes (Al Viro)
o Don't reissue a pid that has a tgid matching (Dave McCracken)
it still in circulation

2.4.8-ac8
o Fix double mount hang on scsi cdrom, i2o or lvm (Al Viro)
o Fix oops in msdos/umsdos (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Fix qnxfs hang (Serguei Tzukanov)
o Add missing Alpha ksyms (Marc Zyngier)
o USB oops fixes (Pete Zaitcev)
o Apply same fix to kaweth (me)
o Fix off by one in pcigart (Andreas Schwab)
o Fix dasd leak (Al Viro)
o page reactivate correction (Rik van Riel)
o Add the 104K to the byteswapped minutes bug (Daniel Caujolle-Bert)
list
o Missing USB config items (Mike Castle)
o Fix i2o systab send id order (Klaus Beyer)
o VMA merging fixups (Ben LaHaise)
o Update ntfs (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Speed up ext2 readdir/stat (Ted Tso)
o Comment/docbook fixups (Dave Jones)
o Add missing netif_wake_queue calls to USB (Herbert Xu)
network drivers
o Fix cramfs to use kmap (Herbert Xu)
o Fix NFS client atomic_dec_and_lock symbol (Trond Myklebust)
o Make wake_up_interrutible_sync usable in (Jeremy Elson)
modules
o Update PPC for kbd_rate support (Paul Mackerras)
o Next block of Configure.help tidying (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Next block of superblock cleanup (Al Viro)
o Update hp scanner driver for USB (Oliver Neukum)
o Clean up ibm partition code (Al Viro)

2.4.8-ac7
o Further small DRI/AGP updates (Jeff Hartmann)
o Update master makefile to force offset.h/ (Andi Kleen)
version.h/depend order (needed for x86-64)
o Merge x86-64 architecture port code (Andi Kleen and co)
o Merge ixj update (Craig Southern)
o Further ixj cleanup/merge tweaks (me)
| Ie don't blame him ;)
o Grand config file cleanup (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz,
Steven Cole)
o Add another byteswap vaio (Ray Lee)
o Correct partition check oops fix (Kevin Flemming)
o via82cxx IDE DMA updates (Vojtech Pavlik)
| Enable 8231/8233 support, handle slightly
| out of spec PCI from 1.3GHz/12.5x Athlon
o Rip min/max use entirely out of isdn (Kai Germaschewski)
| To handle 2.4.9 compat disaster
o Update K6 bug url (André Dahlqvist)
o Possible fix for trix ad1848 fail (me)
o Add pci quirk warning for AMD766 errata 22 (me)
| Based on multiple "yes noapic fixed my
| dual athlon" reports.

2.4.8-ac6
o Pull Linus buffer.c/mem fixes into 2.4.8-ac (Rik van Riel)
o Make writeout smoother on zone specific (Marcelo Tosatti)
shortages
o Fix an md oops (Neil Brown)
o AD1848 isapnp handling (Miguel Freitas)
o sr_ioctl capacity reporting fix (Jens Axboe)
o Starfire update (Ion Badulescu)
o cmpci update (Carlos Gorges)
o UDF update, fix delete BUG() trap (Ben Fennema)
o Move nmi defines so asm/irq.h isnt required (Russell King)
o Add experimental requirement to intermezzo (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix missing include (Tom Rini)
o Small eepro100 test updates (Arjan van de Ven)
o Reiserfs transaction tracking update (Chris Mason)
| Speeds up O_SYNC and fsync
o Update vfs_permission, handle root exec (Christoph Hellwig)
weirdness
o First piece of the CyberPro 5050 audio merge (Peter Wächtler)
o Tidy i810_audio cornercases of OSS compliance (Laurent Pinchart)
o IDE cdrom blacklist updates for DMA (Matt Domsch)
o Merge some i810 updates (Doug Ledford)
o Fix bug in i810 device removal (me)
| fortunately nobody yet has multiple ICH audio in one box 8)
o Natsemi gige driver (Ben LaHaise)
o Allow more I/O addresses on msnd_pinnacle (Steve Sycamore)
o Correct sys_tz definition (Andi Kleen)
o Remove unused prototypes from md (Andi Kleen)
o Fix flags wrong types in usb (Andi Kleen)
o Fix assorted wrong flags, add x86_64 defines (Andi Kleen)
o Fix flags types in i2o (Jes Sorensen)
o Add another vaio byteswap case (Stelian Pop)
o Add devfs support to usb scanner (Yves Duret)
o Fix an ess solo warning (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix flags types in 3ware driver (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix generic serial warnings (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix flag types in firewire drivers (Jes Sorensen)
o Fix flag types in dz serial (Jes Sorensen)
o Extend short name handling in fat based fs's (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Fix flag types in n_r3964 (Jes Sorensen)
o x86_64 ifdef hooks for raid and fbcon (Andi Kleen)

2.4.8-ac5
o Next batch of IDE driver updates (Andre Hedrick)
| qd6580 driver becomes a qd65xx driver
| 80pin cable detect for serverworks on Dell
| Mode5 on SIS chipsets
o Handle ARM mmap were FIRST_USER_PGD_NR is not (Russell King)
zero
o Make the sl82c105.c code common between ARM (Paul Mackerras)
and PPC
o Update cisco hdlc handling in the isdn layer (Bjoern Zeeb)
o Add called party number to isdn tty emulation (Jan Oberlaender,
Kai Germaschewski)
o Eicon warning fix (Kai Germaschewski)
o Tiny agp cleanup in severworks code (Mike Harris)
o Switch to 2.4.8 nr_free_buffer_pages (Rik van Riel)
o Change bootmem bitmap setup (Rik van Riel)
o Unlazy the queue movement when we touch
inactive cache pages (VM balance assumed this) (Rik van Riel)
o Update the orinoco drivers (David Gibson)
o Update natsemi driver (experimentally anyway) (Tim Hockin)
o Update hpt366 blacklists (Kevin Fleming)
o Reclaim buffer cache into inactive list when (Rik van Riel)
it is too large
o Documentation tidy ups (Steven Cole)
o Switch map_user_kiobuf to use down_read (Ben LaHaise)

2.4.8-ac4
o ADFS date/time computation fix (Russell King)
o Add ALS120 ident to ns558 joystick (Filip Van Raemdonck)
o Make Reiserfs endian and alignment safe (Jeff Mahoney)
| Fixes IA64 indirect alignment, S390 alignment
| Big endian
| Update inode generator
o Enable input drivers on ARM (Russell K
o Add intermezzo file system kernel side (Peter Braam and co)
o First blocks of ppc64 merge (Paul Mackerras, Anton Blanchard,
Tom Gall and the IBM PPC 64 team)
o Fix return value bug in mac nvram driver
o Make oom killer kill all threads of a set (Eric Lammerts)

2.4.8-ac3
o Update ISDN cvs idents (Kai Germaschewski)
o Update isdn experimental idents (Kai Germaschewski)
o Add Compaq Phoenix 4.06 to irqsafe APM (Arjan van de Ven)
o Remove rockridge printk generating too much (Mikael Pettersson)
debug output
o Add a needed include of delay.h (Arjan van de Ven)
o Revert access DAC change (me)
| Breaks in some cases
o ARM documentation, credits, maintainer updates (Russell King)
o Atyfb build fixups (Stelian Pop)
o Configure.help merges (Steven Cole)
o Initial merge of dpt_i2o.c (Deanna Bonds, Bob Pasteur,
Karen White, Mark Salyzyn)
o Teach i2o_core to skip dpt cards (me)
o Sony Pi driver update (Stelian Pop)

2.4.8-ac2
o Fix suspend/resume bugs in eepro100 (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix missing spec required delays in PCI PM (me)
o Disable PM on eepro100, it breaks even with (me)
those fixed
o Resynchronize Configure.help (Steven Cole)
o Further superblock handling updates (Al Viro)
o Fix various GPL misreferences (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Updated A20 gate switching code to handle (Peter Anvin)
odd (Olivetti etc) and no legacy boxes
o Fix expand_stack race (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix a malloc failure path in ipc (Manfred Spraul)
o Revert 2.4.8 scsi_lib change (hangs ide-scsi (Arjan van de Ven)
on some drives)
o Fix binfmt elf strlen->strnlen_user (me)
o Add additional checking to binfmt_elf (me)
| Last two based on Solar Designers 2.2 work
o Make pnp_bios dock thread exit when it finds (me)
docking isnt supported
o Ext3 file system updates (Andrew Morton,
Stephen Tweedie)
o Merge common components of uhci drivers (Brad Hards)
o Remove crud from media Makefile (Keith Owens)
o Fix build on Alpha (David Gilbert)
o DRM warning/oops fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix i810 audio return funny (Laurent Pinchart)
o Fix ldm partition checking (Richard Russon)
o Agpgart typo fix (Mike Harris)
o Revert emu10k changes in 2.4.8, wait until the (me)
maintainers actually have debugged code and
want an update
o Fix a compile fail case for the 53c700 driver (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o ARM core and video updates (Russell King)

2.4.8-ac1
o Merge Linus 2.4.8
- Skip VM changes for now
o Fix sblive build problems (Rui Sousa)
o Add Fernando Fuganti to credits (Fernando Fuganti)
O Revert printk return change (Andrew Morton)
o Add drm-4.0 to mod_subdirs (Brian Dushaw)
o Bluez bluetooth updates (Maksim Krasnyanskiy)
o Fix serverworks AGP memory leak (Hugh Dickins)
o Update DRM 4.1 for Alpha AGPGart support (Jay Estabrook,
Jeff Hartmann)
o Fix depca crash on unload (Peter Denison)

2.4.7-ac11
o Fix dumb bug in the bootflag handling code (Randy Dunlap)
o Compaq FC update (makefile clean too) (Charles White)
o Add Matt Domsch to the credits (Matt Domsch)
o Update Randy Dunlap's contact info (Randy Dunlap)
o SA1100 updates (Russell King)
o Add PnP support to sf16i (Ladislav Michl)
o Acorn drivers update (Russell King)
o Fix clashing 'cams' symbol (Keith Owens)
o Fix AGP memory leak on serverworks (Jeff Hartmann)
o Fix an off by one in shmem.c (Hugh Dickins)
o Revert incorrect ATM change (Mike Westall)
o DRM makefile fixes (Keith Owens)
o Next batch of superblock work (Al Viro)
o Fix in2k oopses (Francois Romieu)
o Add reboot by SMP reset (Matt Domsch)
o Add pm support for laptops that resume the (Matt Domsch)
mouse port even if was disabled before..
o Add DMI quirks for all modern dell systems (Matt Domsch)
o Inspiron 4000 needs irqs on for APM (Arjan van de Ven)
o YMFPCI fixes, big endian fixes (Pete Zaitcev)
o Add winbond W83971D ac_97 codec to tables (Andrey Panin)
o pcnet32 oops fix and leak fix (Paul Gortmaker)
o Use static inline in sound drivers (me)
o Fix DRM build/makefile bugs from merge (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Avoid lp module being pinned down if console (Tim Waugh)
enabled

2.4.7-ac10
o Fix up USB merge mess (Pete Zaitcev)
| Fixes a possible USB deadlock
o IRDA update (Dag Brattli)
o Merge DRM for XFree 4.1.x (XFree86 and others)
o Update freevxfs idents (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix a bug in access() checks on X_OK with (Christoph Hellwig)
DAC ovveride
o Add another intel bios ident with bad $PIR (Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.7-ac9
o Print warnings about buggy 440GX $PIR tables (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update ARM softirq code (Russell King)
o Compaq FC controller update (Charles White)
o Update ARM integrator platform (Russell King)
o Miscellaneous ARM fixes (Russell King)
o ARM io function updates (Russell King)
o Remove duplicate Configure.help items (Steven Cole)
o Update ARM shark platform (Russell King)
o ARM anakin platform (Russell King)
o Allow swap < 2*ram (Rik van Riel)
o Set page format bit for scsi-2 tape (Kai Makisara)
o Fix compile with shmfs disabled (Christoph Rohland)
o RME Hamerfall audio driver (Guenter Geiger)
o Further UML fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Syncppp fix (Bob Dunlop)
o Farsync update (Bob Dunlop)
o UML network driver update (Jeff Dike)
o Revert aic7xxx makefile changes (Keith Owens)
o DaveJ has received enough Rise cpu reports (Dave Jones)
o Clean up building without procfs (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Riscom compile fix (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)

2.4.7-ac8
o Kill accidental bit of S/390 merge I meant (Bill Nottingham)
to skip (hotplug should be working again now)
o Fix host_info_lock namespace on ieee1394 (Keith Owens)
o Fix duplicate rio serial init (Keith Owens)
o Fix dead init_zoran_cards symbol (Keith Owens)
o Don't define EXPORT_SYMTAB in cmpci (Keith Owens)
o Don't define EXPORT_SYMTABL in sisfb (Keith Owens)
o Fix warnings in ess_solo1 (me)
o Fix deadlock in moxa mxser driver (Christophe Barbé)
o First of many needed devfs race fixes (Al Viro)
o Windows 2000 vfat name mapping fix (Wolfram Pienkoss)
o Clean up ubd, CONFIG_IOMEM->CONFIG_MAPPER (Jeff Dike)
o Fix a UML crash, make uml devices pluggable (Jeff Dike)
o Use page cache in hostfs, fix UML stat64 bits (Jeff Dike)
o Complete UML ppc support merge (Chris Emerson)
o Complete UML Configure.help (Bill Stearns)
o Add rep nop so the poor old Pentium IV doesnt
go thermal slowdown every long mdelay (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix various invalid Config script items (Christoph Hellwig)
o SYS5fs BSD style symlink support (SCO etc) (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix PnPBIOS reporting on io v mem (Andrey Panin)
o Fix atyfb compilation problems with vaio bits (Keith Owens)
o Make HP support in AMI Megaraid run time (Michael Johnson)
o Fix an ext3 buffer credit accounting bug (Andrew Morton)
o Add hardware volume control support to ALi (Matt Wu)
o Clean up the above a little for non ALi, fix (me)
rmmod crash
o Adaptec scsi update (6.2.1) (Justin Gibbs)
| + gcc 3.0 fixes
o Handle broken PIV SMP tables (Maciej Rozycki)
o Switch to static inline on ARM subtree (Russell King)
o SHMfs updates, race fix (Christoph Rohland)

2.4.7-ac7
o Import safer bits of 2.4.8pre
- skipped vm hackery, buffer hacks
- skipped S/390 (my tree should be newer anyway)
o Fix duplicates in ldm.h (Matthew Gardiner)
o ARM updates (Russell King)
o Remove qlogicfc_asm (license clash question + we(Jes Sorensen, me)
| are shipping qlogic release candidate not final
| firmware. Set card to use firmware in flash
o Example iomem driver + fixes for UML (Greg Lonnon)
o Clean up unique UML machine id code (Henrik Nordstrom)
o Small UML bug fixes (Jeff Dike)
o Fix UML uaccess macro bug (Jeff Dike)
o Don't refuse unneccessarily on remount with (Petr Vandrovec)
data= option with ext3
o tdfx driver cleanups (Paul Mundt)
o Replace masq crash fixes with corrected and (Rusty Russell)
"official" versions.
o Fix umsdos symlink bug (Delbert Matlock)

2.4.7-ac6
o Switch JFFS to use completions (me)
o Fix wrong unlock in try_to_sync_unused_inodes (Petr Vandrovec)
o Update UML to compile again (Jeff Dike)
o Clean up all drivers with clashing names for (me)
complete, wait_for_completion
o Some gcc 3.0 warning cleanups
o Add SCO AFS awareness (read only) to sysv (Christoph Hellwig)
o Netfilter crash fixes (Mark Boucher)
o Second batch of superblock race/cleanup work (Al Viro)

2.4.7-ac5
o Resolve ext3 and superblock change incompat (me, Al Viro)
| Fixes hang on journal recovery
o Fix freevxfs leak (Andries Brouwer)
o Add another eepro100 ident (Matt Wilson)
o Further tweakes to make rpm based on
suggestions by Keith Owens (Keith Owens, me)
o Fix ISA dma range check bug in cs89x0 (Paul)
o Fix ISA dma range check on 3c505 (Paul)
o Switch md driver to use completions (Neil Brown)
o Add more sanity checks to the dmi scanner (me)
o Fix hash sign assumptions in reiserfs (Jeff Mahoney)
| IMPORTANT: this makes things consistent, it also means
| that if you have chars > 127 in file names _and_ you are
| running unsigned char little endian default (probably a tiny tiny
| number of mips users only) you will need to archive and recreate
| those files. X86 users are _NOT_ affected.
o Add the infrastructure for ac97_ops ready for (me)
digital audio etc

2.4.7-ac4
o Fix inode cache shrinkage problems in 2.4.7 (Al Viro)
| This should cure the problem where it gets
| really slow over time. Its not the final fix
o Make aironet compile again (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix an incredibly stupid i2o_scsi bug causing (me)
crashes with the adaptec 2100 and other stuff
o Fix memory corruption if using gcc 3 and serial (Thomas Hood)
probing fails
o Fix out of memory handling with raid (Neil Brown)
o Fix a raid mishandling bug on errors (Neil Brown)
o Add promise 20268 software raid card idents (me)
o Fix leaktek winview601 problems (Leandro Lucarella)
o Merge ntfs 1.1.16 (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Avoid panic when reiserfs attempts to mount (Nikita Danilov)
invalid superblock
o Error rather than panic on journal replay I/O (Chris Mason)
error in reiserfs
o Update atp870u driver (Wittman Lee)
o First batch of superblock handling cleanup (Al Viro)
o Restore module oops dumping (Kai Germaschewski)
o NFSD update (Neil Brown)
o Fix ieee1394 sleep with spinlock held (Andi Kleen)
o Add AMD 760-MP to the Agp table (me)
o Rip out zillions of duplicated -ESPIPE (Christoph Hellwig)
llseek methods for a common one
o Fix qlogic direction flag handling in 2.4 (Jeff Andre)
o Clear inode->i-blocks on deletion in reisefs (Nikita Danilov)
o Merge rest of S/390 tty driver fixes (Ulrich Weigand)
o Finish adapting S/390 to new softirq code (Ulrich Weigand)
o Remove accidental duplicate block in Makefile (Ulrich Weigand)
o Update DASD drivers (Ulrich Weigand)
o Further pnpbios fixes (Andrey Panin)
o Switch pnp to use slab not malloc.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Switch parport_cs to slab not malloc.h (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Further config cleanups (Steven Cole)
o Fix make spec with no .version (Keith Owens)
o Further ipchains fixes (Rusty Russell)
o Add procfs info option for reiserfs stats (Nikita Danilov)
o Remove dead code from the reiserfs tree (Jeff Mahoney)
o Quota updates (Jan Kara)
o FreeVxFS leak fixes, allow block sizes != 1024 (Christoph Hellwig)
o Improve serial_cs reporting (Jonathan Corbet)
o Add v7 fs sanity checks to the sys5 fs code (Linus Torvalds,
Christoph Hellwig, Al Viro, Andries Brouwer)

2.4.7-ac3
o Add "make rpm" target (me)
| Remember to install not upgrade kernel rpms
| as you will want to keep old ones around too
o Fix FPU emulation breakage (Brian Gerst)
o Fix minix subpartition handling (Andries Brouwer)
o Add another odd vaio bios to the apm list (Robert Dunlop)
o Further Configure.help updates (Steven Cole)
o Update usb configure and help texts (Brad Hards)
o Fix kmem read loop bug (Hugh Dickins)
o Two warning fixes (Art Haas)
o Fix missing icmp errors for udp (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix 3c59x module load problem (Hugh Dickins)
o Update pwc driver (Nemosoft Unv)
o Remove old non kernel code from reiserfs tree (Nikita Danilov)
o Remove unneeded reiserfsck code from tree (Nikita Danilov)
o Replace checks in CONFIG_REISERFS_CHECK with (Nikita Danilov)
cleaner macros
o Add const's correct formatting/typechecking (Nikita Danilov)
o Clean up do_reiserfs_warning macro (Jeff Mahoney)
o Add Randolph Chung to CREDITS (Matthew Wilcox)
o Merge some pa risc tree Configure.help (Matthew Wilcox)
o Update the pa risc tree docs (Matthew Wilcox)
o Add pa-risc keyboard drivers (Debacker Xavier, Marteau Thomas,
Djoudi Malek, Philipp Rumpf,
Alex deVries)
o Update lasi ethernet drivers for pa-risc
o Correct acenic check for parisc to hppa
o HPPA port requires pci-setup
o Add headers for som binary loader (Matthew Wilcox)

2.4.7-ac2
o Update motion eye driver, fix stack and hang (Hugh Dickins)
problems
o Fix sigsuspend bug on Alpha (Richard Henderson)
o CRIS port updates (Bjorn Wesen)
o Add support for Win2K dynamic disk partitions (Richard Russon,
Anton Altaparmakov)
o ISDN multilink fix (Karsten Keil)
o HFC PCI support is now ITU approved (Werner Cornelius)
o Update sonypi driver (Stelian Pop)
o Fix sleep with irq disabled bug in act2000 (Kai Germaschewski)
o Farsync driver cleanups (Bob Dunlop)
o Remove surplus tty==NULL checks in isdn tty (Rob Radez,
Kai Germaschewski)
o Remove sleep with irq disabled in icn driver (Kai Germaschewski)
o Remove sleep with irq disabled bug in isdnloop (Kai Germaschewski)
o Remove bcopy and duplicate snprintf from eicon (me)
driver
o Remove bzero from eicon driver, use skb_purge (Armin Schindler)
o Updated NinjaScsi driver (YOKOTA Hiroshi)
o Fix a jffs2 memory leak (David Woodhouse)
o Updated bttv driver. Corruption on close fixes (Gerd Knorr)
o Audio driver for bt878 tv chip onboard audio (Gerd Knorr)
o Correct nvram byte range limit (Aaron Rendahl)
o Include linux/smp_lock in shmem (Clemens)
o Add DMI/apm support for broken bioses reporting (Marc Boucher)
battery life wrong endian
o Fix dumb bug in the sbf code (me)
o Fix pnp shutdown oops (me)

2.4.7-ac1
o Alpha fixes and updates (Jay Estabrook)
- ioremap fixes for AGP on Alpha
- pci_iommu support for AGP on Alpha
- AGP arch support code for Alpha UP1x00
- Fix instruction fault bug with old Jensen/UDB
PALcode
o Further alpha pci iommu cleanups/fixes (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Fix DAC960 for completion change (Jens Axboe)
o Fix data corruption on ide tape while reading (Pete Zaitcev)
near EOF
o Switch up_and_exit to complete_and_exit (David Woodhouse)
o Fix crash on scsi request alloc failure in sd (Rasmus Andersen)
o Handle scsi register failure in ultrastor (Rasmus Andersen)
o Clean up ioremap as u32 stuff in ibmtr (me)
o Fix max_sector cleanup in paride (Andrea Arcangeli)
o
o Bring IDE floppy up to date with maintainer (Gunther Mayer)
o Remove escaped junk from Makefiles (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix cs46xx checks on ioctl calls (Simon Horman)
o Update cpqfc driver (Charles White)
o NTFS fixes (Anton Altaparmakov, Rasmus Andersen)
o Further FATfs updates (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o S/390 network driver updates (Ulrich Weigand + )
o Core S/390 changes to get it building again (Martin Schwidefsky)
o Fix S/390 tree asm blocks to compile with their ( and
newest gcc set
o Update S/390 documentation (other IBM folks)
o Update S/390 tape driver ( " )
o Update S/390 console driver ( " )
o Don't do net hotplug during booting ( " )
o Remove tools stuff from S/390 tree ( " )
o Update S/390 irq/softirq handling ( " )
o Add shared kerne support for S/390 VM ( " )
o Update cpqarray driver (Charles White)
o Add missing barrier() calls in serial drivers (me)
o Fix menuconfig return code on small screen (Herbert Xu)
o Small UML fixups (Jeff Dike)
o Add COW support to UML block driver (Jeff Dike)
o USB network driver updates/fixes (David Brownell)
o PnP parsing bug fix (Andrey Panin)
o Fix UFS checking of NULL error cases (Andreas Dilger)
o Further shmem bits (Christoph Rohland)
o Update the mmap changes to handle OSF emulation (Maciej Rozycki)
o Fix failed register handling in g_NCR5380 (Rasmus Andersen)
o Correct errors in devices.txt examples (Andreas Dilger)
o Synclink driver update (Paul Fulghum)
o Fix scc region requests for latches (Rob Turk)
o Fix FB_ACTIVATE_NOW/VBL handling on aty128fb (Andreas Hundt)
o Correct CRTC_OFFSET_CNTL on aty128fb (Andreas Hundt)
o Add Devfs support to rio500 (Gregory Norris
Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o 3c59x driver updates (Andrew Morton,
Donald Becker)
o Fix ircomm handling with some mobile phones (Andrea Arcangeli,
Dag Brattli)
o Clean up resource handling in ibmtr driver (Rasmus Andersen)
o Handle out of memory for device alloc in gdth (Rasmus Andersen)
o Fix mixer leak in sb driver (Mike Galbraith)
o Make printk use vsnprintf (Andrew Morton)
o Fix bug in atm_do_connect_dev (bogus EINVALs) (Germán González)
o Add Sony DSC-575 to unusual devices usb list (Denis Benoit)
o Add gemtek pci radio card driver (Vladimir Shebordaev)

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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
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