Linux 2.4.20-pre4

Marcelo Tosatti
2002-08-19T23:31:52Z

So here goes -pre4, with JFS merged.

Also, if you got bootup lockups or some unexpected weird error try
-pre4 ;)

Summary of changes from v2.4.20-pre3 to v2.4.20-pre4
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<gone@us.ibm.com>:
o setup_arch() cleanups
o (2/4) discontigmem support for i386 against 2.4.20pre3

<green@angband.namesys.com>:
o Fix a problem that when doing online resizing, resizer code forgot to update bitmap usage counters
o Fix a problem where bitmap usage counters were possibly incorrectly updated on bigendian and 64 bit boxes

<hch@lst.de>:
o VM docs from -ac
o fix current BK tree compilation with devfs enabled

<johnstul@us.ibm.com>:
o 686-notsc_A0
o [PATCH] notsc-warning_A0

<oliver@oenone.homelinux.org>:
o USB: hpusbscsi driver updates

<roland@topspin.com>:
o USB storage: get rid of DMA to stack

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>:
o Fix ftape build problems

Christoph Hellwig <hch@sb.bsdonline.org>:
o JFS: Initial import of version 1.0.18 for Linux 2.4

Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>:
o JFS: Fix structure alignment problem on 64-bit machines
o JFS: Add hch's copyright
o JFS: sanitize ->clear_inode, remove ->put-inode
o Fix races in JFS threads
o JFS: Yet another truncation fix
o JFS does not need to set i_version. It is never used
o JFS: fix fsync
o procfs entries should be created when CONFIG_JFS_STATISTICS is set
o JFS: set s_maxbytes to 1 byte lower
o Rework JFS's inode locking
o JFS: Dynamically allocate metapage structures
o Remove d_delete calls from jfs_rmdir & jfs_unlink
o JFS: Fix handling of commit_sem
o Add resize function to JFS
o fix typo in fs/jfs/resize.c
o JFS: Replace depreciated initializer syntax with C99 style
o JFS: Trivial fixes

Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>:
o Fix compile warning in init/do_mounts.c

Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>:
o USB: serial Config.in cleanups
o USB: ftdi_sio driver update
o USB: ipaq driver updates
o USB: pl2303 driver update
o USB: serial driver minor fixes
o USB: ir-usb driver minor fixes
o USB: add usb-storage sddr-55 driver
o USB: bluetooth driver fixes
o USB: scanner driver update and maintainer change

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@plucky.distro.conectiva>:
o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4
o Added arch/i386/kernel/time.o to exportobj list

Niels Kristian Bech Jensen <nkbj@image.dk>:
o Avoiding implicit declaration in net/netsyms.c
o Fixing a compiler warning in drivers/block/genhd.c

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>:
o fix bug in yield()

Richard Gooch <rgooch@atnf.csiro.au>:
o Switched to ISO C structure field initialisers
o base.c

Simon Evans <spse@secret.org.uk>:
o 2.4.19 - add support for f5u011 to catc.c

Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>:
o 2.4.20-pre2 add module text for 58 options

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>:
o Add round trip timing to RPC over UDP client [1/3]
o Add round trip timing to RPC over UDP client [2/3]
o Add round trip timing to RPC over UDP client [3/3]
o Improve RPC request ordering
o Improve network congestion code [1/3]
o Improve network congestion code [2/3]
o Improve network congestion code [3/3]
o Fix RPC write_space() code
o Increase UDP socket buffer size

V. Ganesh <ganesh@vxindia.veritas.com>:
o typo in usb/serial/ipaq.h