[PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

[PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

[J.A. Magallon]

Hi all.

Just to announce a new release, with some updates and novelties
(important ones, aic and epoll...)
As usual:

http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.21-pre3-jam3.tar.bz2
http://giga.cps.unizar.es/~magallon/linux/kernel/2.4.21-pre3-jam3/

NOTE: there is anew version of bproc, but I could not update it 'cause
the tarball in bproc.sf.net is corrupted...

Changelog:
- aa updated to -pre3-aa1
- highpage_init integrated in -aa
- killed cd-read-audio-dma, because it was giving too much oopses...
- 08-e100-hw-init.bz2
    Fix hard reset of controller in some boards.
    Author: scott.feldman@intel.com 
- 18-fat-fdmode.bz2
    Add mount flags for file (fmode=...) and dir (dmode=...) in vfat fs.
    Author: Paul Evans <nerd@freeuk.com>
- 32-epoll-0.61.bz2
    Improved polling interface via sys_epoll call. Faster, lighter and
    more scalable.
    Author: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
- 33-epoll-smbfs
    Fix for smbfs.
- 37-ext3-scheduling-storm.bz2
    Fixes an inefficiency and potential system lockup in ext3 filesystem.
    Anyone who is using tasks which have realtime scheduling policy on ext3
    systems should apply this change.
    Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
- 50-aic-20030122.bz2
    AIC 7xxx (upto U160,update) and 79xx (U320,new) scsi drivers.
    Versions: aic7xxx-6.2.28, aic79xx-1.3.0
    Author: Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@scsiguy.com> 
    URL: http://people.freebsd.org/~gibbs/linux
- 55-ide-readahead.bz2
    Fix file_readahead setting in ide-cd and ide-floppy which
    assumed read-ahead values are kept as bytes.
    Author: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>
- 75-bttv-0.7.102.bz2
  76-bttv-0.7.102-doc.bz2
  77-bttv-0.7.102-tuner.bz2
  78-bttv-0.7.100-bt832.bz2
  79-bttv-0.7.102-i2c.bz2
    BTTV updates.
    Author: Gerd Knorr <kraxel@bytesex.org>
    URL: http://bytesex.org/bttv/

Enjoy !!

-- 
J.A. Magallon <jamagallon@able.es>      \                 Software is like sex:
werewolf.able.es                         \           It's better when it's free
Mandrake Linux release 9.1 (Cooker) for i586
Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3 (gcc 3.2.1 (Mandrake Linux 9.1 3.2.1-4mdk))

Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

[Davide Libenzi]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> - 32-epoll-0.61.bz2
>     Improved polling interface via sys_epoll call. Faster, lighter and
>     more scalable.
>     Author: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
> - 33-epoll-smbfs
>     Fix for smbfs.

I just found the same error on ncpfs. Same fix though. I'll post the patch
asap.



- Davide

Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

[Bill Davidsen]

On Sun, 26 Jan 2003, J.A. Magallon wrote:

> Changelog:
> - aa updated to -pre3-aa1
> - highpage_init integrated in -aa
> - killed cd-read-audio-dma, because it was giving too much oopses...

Is someone working on this (assuming it will eventually get into 2.6)? It
seems to make a worthwhile improvement when ripping CDs. Not as worthwhile
as stability, obviously ;-)

> - 37-ext3-scheduling-storm.bz2
>     Fixes an inefficiency and potential system lockup in ext3 filesystem.
>     Anyone who is using tasks which have realtime scheduling policy on ext3
>     systems should apply this change.
>     Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>

Hum, I believe that means cdrecord, although I've never seen a problem.

> Enjoy !!

Thanks for the integration.

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
  CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

[Dave Jones]

On Mon, Jan 27, 2003 at 05:18:35PM -0500, Bill Davidsen wrote:

 > > - killed cd-read-audio-dma, because it was giving too much oopses...
 > Is someone working on this (assuming it will eventually get into 2.6)? It
 > seems to make a worthwhile improvement when ripping CDs. Not as worthwhile
 > as stability, obviously ;-)

Went in a while back. See http://lwn.net/Articles/13538/ & http://lwn.net/Articles/13160/
for more info.

		Dave

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