Re: test11-pre2

["Jeff V. Merkey" <jmerkey@timpanogas.org>]

Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Nothing stands out as affecting most people here. Security fix for /proc,
> and various cleanups. Alpha and sparc fixes. If you use RAID or ramdisk,
> upgrade.
> 
>                 Linus
> 

Only four level I's.  Pretty good.  PCMCIA problems fixed too.....

Jeff

> -----
> 
>  - pre2:
>     - Stephen Rothwell: directory notify could return with the lock held
Level I
>     - Richard Henderson: CLOCKS_PER_SEC on alpha.
>     - Jeff Garzik: ramfs and highmem: kmap() the page to clear it
>     - Asit Mallick: enable the APIC in the official order
Level I

>     - Neil Brown: avoid rd deadlock on io_request_lock by using a
>       private rd-request function. This also avoids unnecessary
>       request merging at this level.
Level I

>     - Ben LaHaise: vmalloc threadign and overflow fix
Level I

>     - Randy Dunlap: USB updates (plusb driver). PCI cacheline size.
>     - Neil Brown: fix a raid1 on top of lvm bug that crept in in pre1
>     - Alan Cox: various (Athlon mmx copy, NULL ptr checks for
>       scsi_register etc).
>     - Al Viro: fix /proc permission check security hole.
>     - Can-Ru Yeou: SiS301 fbcon driver
>     - Andrew Morton: NMI oopser and kernel page fault punch through
>       both console_lock and timerlist_lock to make sure it prints out..
>     - Jeff Garzik: clean up "kmap()" return type (it returns a kernel
>       virtual address, ie a "void *").
>     - Jeff Garzik: network driver docs, various one-liners.
>     - David Miller: add generic "special" flag to page flags, to be
>       used by architectures as they see fit. Like keeping track of
>       cache coherency issues.
>     - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again
>     - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly
Spell "David Miller" correctly.  8).

>     - David Miller: networking - fix some bridge issues, and correct
>       IPv6 sysctl entries.
>     - Dan Aloni: make fork.c use proper macro rather than doing
>       get_exec_domain() by hand.
> 
>  - pre1:
>     - me: make PCMCIA work even in the absense of PCI irq's
>     - me: add irq mapping capabilities for Cyrix southbridges
>     - me: make IBMMCA compile right as a module
>     - me: uhhuh. Major atomic-PTE SMP race boo-boo. Fixed.
>     - Andrea Arkangeli: don't allow people to set security-conscious
>       bits in mxcsr through ptrace SETFPXREGS.
>     - Jürgen Fischer: aha152x update
>     - Andrew Morton, Trond Myklebust: file locking fixes
>     - me: TLB invalidate race with highmem
>     - Paul Fulghum: synclink/n_hdlc driver updates
>     - David Miller: export sysctl_jiffies, and have the proper no-sysctl
>       version handy
>     - Neil Brown: RAID driver deadlock and nsfd read access to
>       execute-only files fix
>     - Keith Owens: clean up module information passing, remove
>       "get_module_symbol()".
>     - Jeff Garzik: network (and other) driver fixes and cleanups
>     - Andrea Arkangeli: scheduler cleanup.
>     - Ching-Ling Li: fix ALi sound driver memory leak
>     - Anton Altaparmakov: upcase fix for NTFS
>     - Thomas Woller: CS4281 audio update
> 
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