Linux 2.6.9-ac1

Linux 2.6.9-ac1

[Alan Cox]

For those who need the various patches and bits I've been doing. Also if
people have small, clearly correct fixes to real problems in 2.6.9 that
ought to go into a production 2.6.9 series kernel please mail me a copy
and I'll merge those so we don't get the 2.6.8.1 audio ripping mess
again. 

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/

2.6.9-ac1

Security Fixes
o	Set VM_IO on areas that are temporarily		(Alan Cox)
	marked PageReserved (Serious bug)
o	Lock ide-proc against driver unload		(Alan Cox)
	(very low severity)

Bug Fixes
o	Working IDE locking				(Alan Cox)
	| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o	Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws	(Alan Cox)
	
Functionality
o	Allow booting with "irqpoll" or "irqfixup"	(Alan Cox)
	on systems with broken IRQ tables.
o	Support for setuid core dumping in some		(Alan Cox)
	environments (off by default)
o	Support for drives that don't report geometry
o	IT8212 support (raid and passthrough)		(Alan Cox)
o	Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE	(Alan Cox)
	devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o	Restore PWC driver				(Luc Saillard)

Other
o	Small pending tty clean-up to moxa		(Alan Cox)
o	Put VIA Velocity (tm) adapters under gigabit	(VIA)

[patch] 2.6.9-ac1: invalid SUBLEVEL

[Adrian Bunk]

<--  snip  -->

$ make
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
expr: non-numeric argument
make[1]: `arch/i386/kernel/asm-offsets.s' is up to date.
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  CC      kernel/power/swsusp.o
kernel/power/swsusp.c: In function `init_header':
kernel/power/swsusp.c:327: parse error before `;'
kernel/power/swsusp.c: In function `sanity_check':
kernel/power/swsusp.c:1074: parse error before `)'
make[2]: *** [kernel/power/swsusp.o] Error 1
make[1]: *** [kernel/power] Error 2
make: *** [kernel] Error 2
$ cat 
include/linux/version.h 
#define UTS_RELEASE "2.6.9-ac1"
#define LINUX_VERSION_CODE
#define KERNEL_VERSION(a,b,c) (((a) << 16) + ((b) << 8) + (c))
$ 

<--  snip  -->


Proposed fix:


Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

--- linux-2.6.9-ac1-full/Makefile.old	2004-10-21 14:48:07.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.6.9-ac1-full/Makefile	2004-10-21 14:48:30.000000000 +0200
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 VERSION = 2
 PATCHLEVEL = 6
-SUBLEVEL = 9-ac1
-EXTRAVERSION =
+SUBLEVEL = 9
+EXTRAVERSION = -ac1
 NAME=AC 1
 
 # *DOCUMENTATION*

Re: [patch] 2.6.9-ac1: invalid SUBLEVEL

[Alan Cox]

On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 13:49, Adrian Bunk wrote:
>  VERSION = 2
>  PATCHLEVEL = 6
> -SUBLEVEL = 9-ac1
> -EXTRAVERSION =
> +SUBLEVEL = 9
> +EXTRAVERSION = -ac1
>  NAME=AC 1

Doh I'm -amazed- that worked for me. Fixed in my tree, I'll go and hide
in a corner for a bit.

Re: [patch] 2.6.9-ac1: invalid SUBLEVEL

[Han Boetes]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 13:49, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> >  VERSION = 2
> >  PATCHLEVEL = 6
> > -SUBLEVEL = 9-ac1
> > -EXTRAVERSION =
> > +SUBLEVEL = 9
> > +EXTRAVERSION = -ac1
> >  NAME=AC 1
>
> Doh I'm -amazed- that worked for me. Fixed in my tree

Here is some old shell-code I wrote for my kernel updating script: It
was especially written because you tend to forget this.

test_version () {
    # Sometimes Alan forgets to update the EXTRAVERSION in the Makefile;
    # then you destroy the previous version and the script fails :S
    cd $pwd/linux-$latest_stable
    # if EXTRAVERSION is for mm but not the current one.
    if [ -z "$(grep "EXTRAVERSION = -$mm_rest" Makefile)" \
        -a -z "$(grep "EXTRAVERSION = .*mm" Makefile)" ]; then
        warning 'Warning: I had to edit the versionnumber in the Makefile!'
        grep "EXTRAVERSION =" Makefile
        perl -pi -e "s#^EXTRAVERSION.*\n#EXTRAVERSION = -$mm_rest\n#" \
            Makefile || error
        grep "EXTRAVERSION =" Makefile
    fi
}

> I'll go and hide in a corner for a bit.

I think it is a better idea you add some checks to the script you use to
generate that patch.



# Han

Re: [patch] 2.6.9-ac1: invalid SUBLEVEL

[Dave Jones]

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 02:31:47PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
 > On Iau, 2004-10-21 at 13:49, Adrian Bunk wrote:
 > >  VERSION = 2
 > >  PATCHLEVEL = 6
 > > -SUBLEVEL = 9-ac1
 > > -EXTRAVERSION =
 > > +SUBLEVEL = 9
 > > +EXTRAVERSION = -ac1
 > >  NAME=AC 1
 > 
 > Doh I'm -amazed- that worked for me. Fixed in my tree, I'll go and hide
 > in a corner for a bit.
 
I think we can forgive you Alan, clearly you're out of practise 8-)

		Dave