Linux 2.5.6-dj2

Dave Jones
2002-03-18T02:20:30Z

This patch clears out most of my pending queue (leaving just the bits that
need hand-patching, or some more thinking about).

As usual,..
Patch against 2.5.6 vanilla is available from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/

Merged patch archive: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/patches/merged/

Check http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/Linux-2.5.html before reporting
known bugs that are also in mainline.

-- Davej.

2.5.6-dj2
o machine check background checker SMP improvements. (Me)
o Hush INVALIDATE_AGID noise on Toshiba DVD drives. (Jens Axboe)
o Remove delayed vfree() in ppp_deflate. (David Woodhouse)
o Fix devfs 64-bit portability issues. (Carsten Otte)
o UFS blocksize fix. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Fix proc race on task_struct->sig. (Chris Mason)
o Pull NFS server IP from root_server_path. (Martin Schwenke)
o Fix broken tristate in ALSA config. (Steven Cole)
o Work around mpc_apicid > MAX_APICS problem. (James Cleverdon)
o cs4281 OSS compile fix. (Sebastian Droege)
o Fix locking in ATM device allocation. (Maksim Krasnyanskiy)
o Fix MSDOS filesystem option mistreatment. (Rene Scharfe)
o Increase number of JFS transaction locks. (Steve Best)
o page_to_phys() fix for >4GB pages on x86. (Badari Pulavarty)
o Append kernel config to zImage. (Randy Dunlap)
| See also scripts/extract-ikconfig
o Remove useless check from shmem_link() (Alexander Viro)
o Enable Natsemi MMX extensions. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Superblock cleanups for isofs,udf & bfs. (Brian Gerst)
o request_region() checking for hisax avm_a1 (Dan D Carpenter)
o uninitialise lots of static vars in net/ (William Stinson)
o D-Link DE620 janitor work. (Karol Kasprzak)
o Netfilter conntrack compile fix. (Christopher Barton)

2.5.6-dj1
o Sync against 2.5.6
| Take my last_rx changes for hamradio over mainline.
o Merge 2.5.7pre2
o Initialise Machine check bank 0 on AMD systems. (Me)
o background checking for non-fatal machine checks. (Me)
o Fix ALSA config.in so xconfig works again. (William Stinson)
o ITE8330G IRQ router support. (Tobias Diedrich)
o Fix reiserfs oops on mount. (Oleg Drokin)
o Don't offer various MIPS drivers on !MIPS arches. (Me)
o Remove double REPORT_LUNS from cpqfcTSstructs.h (Me)
o Fix up potential oops in udp short packet logging (Me)
| doesn't affect mainline.
o sysrq updates. (James Simmons)
o Replace fbcon-cfb with software accels. (James Simmons)
o Allow ACPI configuration on x86-64 (Me)
o Drop the radix pagecache stuff.
(Was an ancient version, and a pita to maintain)
o nfs3 compile fix. (Al Viro)
o pnpbios updates. (Thomas Hood)

2.5.5-dj3
o Merge 2.5.6pre2
o Merge 2.4.19pre2
| Drop various arch bits. (See above)
| Drop LVM bits.
| Drop some SIS bits that rejected -- James please take a look.
| Fix some obvious sillies as per 2.4.19pre2ac1
o Add missing struct initialiser to nls_cp850 (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o natsemi rx/tx ring buffer confusion fixup. (Jeff Garzik)
o Backout bogus isofs makefile changes. (Me)
o Fix sys_shmdt return code. (Andreas Schwab)
o Numerous net driver last_rx = jiffies fixes. (Me, Celso Gonzalez)
o msync/mprotect POSIX fixes. (Thorsten Kukuk)
o Small SCSI generic updates. (Douglas Gilbert)
o Allow short commands in SCSI debug driver. (Douglas Gilbert)
o Update helptext for Machine Check. (Paul Gortmaker)
o Updated email address. (Thomas Molina)
o Fix potential oops in swapfile code. (Andries Brouwer)
o Reset/Reservation handling fixes. (James Bottomley)
o Various console fixes. (James Simmons)
o Update numerous fb drivers to new api. (James Simmons)
o Twin inquiry mode for SCSI LUN scanning. (Patrick Mansfield,
Douglas Gilbert)
o Update DMI / local APIC fixes. (Mikael Pettersson)
o Emu10k1 OSS highmem dma fixes. (Daniel Bertrand)
o Export dparent_lock (Petr Vandrovec)
o Clean up struct page shrinkage. (Rik van Riel, Dave Miller)
o More Config.help updates. (Steven Cole)
o Make highmem pte a boolean. (Steven Cole)
o opl3sa2 modular compile fix. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o es18xx compile fix. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o nfsd modular compile fix. (Stelian Pop)
o Use list heads for task list. (Brian Gerst)
o Fix up various compilation warnings. (Roberto Nibali)
o Power management for 3c509. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Small kbuild cleanup. (John Levon)

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