Re: Linux 2.4.18-pre9

Till Immanuel Patzschke
2002-02-08T09:16:03Z

Hi Marcelo,

is there any chance for including the latest PPP patch from Paul (2.4.2 -
20020205) and Michael's pppoe patch 0.6.10 -- only those "two" patches eliminate
the PPP deadlocks! Might be worth putting these into 2.4.18 final ? :-)
Thanks,

Immanuel
Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> So here it goes.
>
> pre9:
>
> - Cris update (Bjorn Wesen)
> - SPARC update (David S. Miller)
> - Remove duplicate CONFIG_SUNLANCE entry in
> Config.in (David S. Miller)
> - Change Netfilter maintainer (David S. Miller)
> - More SunGEM bugfixes (David S. Miller)
> - Update md5sums in ISDN's md5sums.asc (Kai Germaschewski)
> - 3ware driver update (Adam Radford)
> - Fix cosa compile problem (Adrian Bunk)
> - Change VIA "disabling write queue" message (Oliver Feiler)
> - Remove buggy Elan-specific handling code (Robert Schwebel)
> - Reiserfs bugfixes (Oleg Drokin)
> - Fix ppp memory leak (Andrew Morton)
> - Really add devfs fix for removable devices:
> its on pre8 changelog but not on pre8 patch (me)
> - Add framebuffer support for trident graphics
> card (James Simmons)
> - SCSI tape driver bugfixes (Kai Makisara)
> - Add support to Ovislink card on 8139too
> driver (Jeff Garzik)
> - Add SIOCxMIIxxxx ioctls for better binary
> compatibility on au1000_eth driver (Jeff Garzik)
> - Fix initialization of phy on epic100 driver (Jeff Garzik)
> - Add MODULE_* info to mii.c (Jeff Garzik)
> - Add new PCI ID to sundance driver (Jeff Garzik)
> - Merge some -ac3 patches (Alan Cox)
> - Unify simple_strtol symbol export (Russell King)
> - Add amount of cached memory to sysreq-m
> output (Martin Knoblauch)
> - Do not use SCSI device type to change
> IO clustering (Jens Axboe)
> - IRC conntrack update (Harald Welte)
> - sonypi driver update (Stelian Pop)
> - Fix one of the PPP deadlocks (Manfred Spraul)