Linux 2.4.18-rc2

Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Well hopefully have a 2.4.18 pretty soon..

rc2: 
- Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas
  gracefully					(Manfred Spraul)
- Fix SMP race on PID allocation		(Erik A. Hendriks)
- Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme		(Alexander Viro)
- Add missing checks to shmem_file_write	(Alan Cox)

rc1: 
- PPC MPC8260 update				(Tom Rini)
- eepro100 fixes				(Jeff Garzik)
- Make natsemi hardware workaround a config 
  option					(Jeff Garzik)
- Add serial board PCI ID			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add support for another tulip clone		(Jeff Garzik)
- Fix typo in winbond driver			(Jeff Garzik)
- Move initialization of tridentfb before 
  the generic drivers				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Reiserfs bugfixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- More __devexit_p assorted fixes		(Andrew Morton)
- Merge some -ac bugfixes			(Alan Cox)

pre9:

- Cris update					(Bjorn Wesen)
- SPARC update					(David S. Miller)
- Remove duplicate CONFIG_SUNLANCE entry in 
  Config.in					(David S. Miller)
- Change Netfilter maintainer 			(David S. Miller)
- More SunGEM bugfixes				(David S. Miller)
- Update md5sums in ISDN's md5sums.asc		(Kai Germaschewski)
- 3ware driver update				(Adam Radford)
- Fix cosa compile problem			(Adrian Bunk)
- Change VIA "disabling write queue" message	(Oliver Feiler)
- Remove buggy Elan-specific handling code	(Robert Schwebel)
- Reiserfs bugfixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- Fix ppp memory leak				(Andrew Morton)
- Really add devfs fix for removable devices: 
  its on pre8 changelog but not on pre8 patch	(me)
- Add framebuffer support for trident graphics
  card						(James Simmons)
- SCSI tape driver bugfixes			(Kai Makisara)
- Add support to Ovislink card on 8139too
  driver					(Jeff Garzik)
- Add SIOCxMIIxxxx ioctls for better binary 
  compatibility on au1000_eth driver		(Jeff Garzik)
- Fix initialization of phy on epic100 driver	(Jeff Garzik)
- Add MODULE_* info to mii.c 			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add new PCI ID to sundance driver		(Jeff Garzik)
- Merge some -ac3 patches			(Alan Cox)
- Unify simple_strtol symbol export		(Russell King)
- Add amount of cached memory to sysreq-m 
  output					(Martin Knoblauch)
- Do not use SCSI device type to change
  IO clustering					(Jens Axboe)
- IRC conntrack update				(Harald Welte)
- sonypi driver update				(Stelian Pop)
- Fix one of the PPP deadlocks			(Manfred Spraul)

pre8: 

- Add missing netfilter files in pre7 		(David S. Miller)
- SunGEM driver update				(David S. Miller)
- Kill get_fast_time				(David S. Miller)
- Update APIC LVTERR fix to work correctly on 
  old 486/586 APICs				(Mikael Pettersson)
- Check the return code of copy_{from,to}_user
  on serial code				(Rasmus Andersen)
- Mark 2.5 extended attributes system calls as 
  reserved to avoid potential conflicts		(Nathan Scott)
- Change Christoph Hellwig's email address	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Make BLKGETSIZE64 return size in bytes not 
  sectors					(Eric Sandeen)
- Coda dentry revalidation fix			(Jan Harkes)
- hisax_fcpcipnp driver update			(Kai Germaschewski)
- i810 sound driver update			(Doug Ledford)
- Early personality setting in binfmt_elf	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Fix rename bug in reiserfs			(Oleg Drokin)
- SCSI documentation update			(Douglas Gilbert)
- Fix silly typo in megaraid driver 		(Arjan Van de Ven)
- PPC update					(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- USB bug fixes					(Greg KH)
- Fix devfs problems with removable devices	(Richard Gooch)
- Merge -ac1 fixes				(Alan Cox)
- VXFS update					(Christoph Hellwig)
- Add Compaq FC array to the LUN whitelist	(Arjan Van de Ven) 

pre7:

- Make ext2/minix/sysvfs actually operate
  synchronously on directories when using
  the sync mount option				(Andrew Morton)
- AFFS update					(Roman Zippel)
- Fix 3dfx fb crash with high pixelclock 	(Jurriaan on Alpha)
- PATH_MAX POSIX compliance			(Rusty Russell)
- Really apply AMD Elan patch			(me)
- Don't drop IP packets with less than 8 bytes 
  of payload 					(David S. Miller)
- Netfilter update 				(Netfilter team)
- Backport 2.5 sb_bread() changes		(Alexander Viro)
- Fix AF_UNIX fd leak				(David S. Miller)
- Add Audigy Gameport PCI ID	 		(Daniel Bertrand)
- Sync with ia64 arch independant parts		(Keith Owens)
- APM fixes					(Stephen Rothwell)
- fs/super.c cleanups				(Alexander Viro)

pre6:

- Removed patch in icmp code: its
  not needed and causes problems                (me)

pre5:

- Include missing radeonfb defines		(Erik Andersen)
- Fix fs/buffer.c thinko introduced in pre4	(Andrew Morton)
- USB bugfixes					(Greg KH)
- Make fat work correctly with gcc-3.0.x 	(Tom Rini)
- Avoid overusage of the vmalloc area by 
  NTFS						(Anton Altaparmakov)
- atyfb: Decrease clock rate for 3d RAGE XL 	(David S. Miller)
- Sungem driver bugfixes			(David S. Miller)
- More networking updates			(David S. Miller)
- More SPARC updates				(David S. Miller)
- devfs update 					(Richard Gooch)
- Reiserfs expanding truncate fix		(Chris Mason)
- ext3 update					(Andrew Morton/Stephen Tweedie)
- Add support to WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT on several
  watchdog drivers				(Joel Becker)
- dl2k driver update				(Jeff Garzik)
- Orinoco driver update				(David Gibson)
- Radeonfb driver update			(Ani Joshi)
- Avoid free_swap_and_cache() from leaving 
  freeable pages on the cache			(Hugh Dickins)
- Add workarounds for AMD Elan processors	(Robert Schwebel)
- Random pmac driver bugfixing			(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- emu10k1 driver update				(Rui Sousa)

pre4:

- Networking updates				(David S. Miller)
- clgenfb update				(Jeff Garzik)
- 8139cp: make it faster			(Jeff Garzik)
- 8139too: fix bugs, add experimental RX reset	(Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface and change 
  several drivers to support that		(Jeff Garzik)
- Fix ramdisk corruption problems		(Andrea Arcangeli) 	
- Correct in-kernel MS_ASYNC behaviour 
  on msync/fsync()				(Andrew Morton)
- Fix PLIP problems 				(Niels Jensen)
- Fix problems triggered by the "fsx test" 
  on smbfs					(Urban Widmark)
- Turn on OOSTORE for IDT winchip		(from -ac tree)
- Fix iphase crash				(from -ac tree)
- Fix crash with two mxser cards		(from -ac tree)
- Fix tty write block bug			(from -ac tree)
- Add mono/stereo detect to gemtek pci radio	(from -ac tree)
- Fix sf16fmi crash on load			(from -ac tree)
- add CP1250 (windows eastern european) 
  translation table				(from -ac tree)
- cs46xx driver update				(from -ac tree)
- Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1		(Ingo Molnar)
- Add 2.5.x compatibility for the kdev_t
  changes					(me)
- SPARC updates					(David S. Miller)

pre3:

- Cris arch merge				(Bjorn Wesen)
- Finish PPC merge				(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- Add Dell PowerEdge 2400 to 
  "use BIOS to reboot" blacklist		(Arjan van de Ven)
- Avoid potential oops at module unload with 
  cyclades driver				(Andrew Morton)
- Gracefully handle SCSI initialization 
  failures					(Pete Zaitcev)
- USB update					(Greg KH)
- Fix potential oops while ejecting ide cds 	(Zwane Mwaikambo)
- Unify page freeing codepaths 			(Benjamin LaHaise)
- Miata dma corruption workaround 		(Richard Henderson)
- Fix vmalloc corruption problem on machines 
  with virtual dcaches				(Ralf Baechle)
- Reiserfs fixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- DiskOnChip driver update			(David Woodhouse)
- Do not inherit page locking rules across 
  fork/exec					(Dave Anderson)
- Add DRM 4.0 for XFree 4.0 users convenience	(Christoph Hellwig)
- Replace .text.lock with .subsection 		(Keith Owens)
- IrDA bugfixes					(Jean Tourrilhes)

pre2: 

- APIC LVTERR fixes				(Mikael Pettersson)
- Fix ppdev ioctl oops and deadlock		(Tim Waugh)
- parport fixes					(Tim Waugh)
- orinoco wireless driver update		(David Gibson)
- Fix oopsable race in binfmt_elf.c 		(Alexander Viro)
- Small sx16 driver bugfix			(Heinz-Ado Arnolds)
- sbp2 deadlock fix 				(Andrew Morton)
- Fix JFFS2 write error handling		(David Woodhouse)
- Intermezzo update				(Peter J. Braam)
- Proper AGP support for Intel 830MP chipsets	(Nicolas Aspert)
- Alpha fixes					(Jay Estabrook)
- 53c700 SCSI driver update			(James Bottomley)
- Fix coredump mmap_sem deadlock on IA64	(David Mosberger)
- 3ware driver update				(Adam Radford)
- Fix elevator insertion point on failed 
  request merge					(Jens Axboe)
- Remove bogus rpciod_tcp_dispatcher definition (David Woodhouse)
- Reiserfs fixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- de4x5 endianess fixes				(Kip Walker)
- ISDN CAPI cleanup				(Kai Germaschewski)
- Make refill_inactive() correctly account 
  progress					(me)

pre1:

- S390 merge					(IBM)
- SuperH merge					(SuperH team)
- PPC merge					(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
- PCI DMA update				(David S. Miller)
- radeonfb update 				(Ani Joshi)
- aty128fb update				(Ani Joshi)
- Add nVidia GeForce3 support to rivafb		(Ani Joshi)
- Add PM support to opl3sa2			(Zwane Mwaikambo)
- Basic ethtool support for 3com, starfire
  and pcmcia net drivers			(Jeff Garzik)
- Add MII ethtool interface			(Jeff Garzik)
- starfire,sundance,dl2k,sis900,8139{too,cp},
  natsemi driver updates			(Jeff Garzik)
- ufs/minix: mark inodes as bad in case of read
  failure					(Christoph Hellwig)
- ReiserFS fixes				(Oleg Drokin)
- sonypi update					(Stelian Pop)
- n_hdlc update					(Paul Fulghum)
- Fix compile error on aty_base.c		(Tobias Ringstrom)
- Document cpu_to_xxxx() on kernel-hacking doc  (Rusty Russell)
- USB update					(Greg KH)
- Fix sysctl console loglevel bug on 
  IA64 (and possibly other archs)		(Jesper Juhl) 
- Update Athlon/VIA PCI quirks			(Calin A. Culianu)
- blkmtd update					(Simon Evans)
- boot protocol update (makes the highest 
  possible initrd address available to the 
  bootloader)					(H. Peter Anvin)
- NFS fixes					(Trond Myklebust)

Re: Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Rik van Riel]

On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

> Well hopefully have a 2.4.18 pretty soon..
>
> rc2:
> - Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas
>   gracefully					(Manfred Spraul)
> - Fix SMP race on PID allocation		(Erik A. Hendriks)
> - Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme		(Alexander Viro)
> - Add missing checks to shmem_file_write	(Alan Cox)

I've just pushed this patch into my linux-2.4-vanilla
bitkeeper tree, which is available from:

	bk://linuxvm.bkbits.net/linux-2.4-vanilla/

Of course the changes are also browsable online, just
point your browser to the url using http ;)

regards,

Rik
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Re: Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Paul Mackerras]

Marcelo Tosatti writes:

> Well hopefully have a 2.4.18 pretty soon..

The fix to drivers/sound/dmasound/tas3001c.c, to export
tumbler_enter_sleep and tumbler_leave_sleep, is still not included.
Could we have that one in before 2.4.18 final is released, please?
Otherwise compiling a kernel for a powermac will fail.

Regards,
Paul.

diff -urN linux-2.4.18-rc2/drivers/sound/dmasound/tas3001c.c pmac/drivers/sound/dmasound/tas3001c.c
--- linux-2.4.18-rc2/drivers/sound/dmasound/tas3001c.c	Tue Feb 19 12:37:37 2002
+++ pmac/drivers/sound/dmasound/tas3001c.c	Thu Jan 24 15:12:10 2002
@@ -67,8 +67,8 @@
 
 static struct i2c_client * tumbler_client = NULL;
 
-static int tumbler_enter_sleep(void);
-static int tumbler_leave_sleep(void);
+int tumbler_enter_sleep(void);
+int tumbler_leave_sleep(void);
 
 static int tas_attach_adapter(struct i2c_adapter *adapter);
 static int tas_detect_client(struct i2c_adapter *adapter, int address);
@@ -298,7 +298,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int
+int
 tumbler_leave_sleep(void)
 {
 	/* Stub for now, but I have the details on low-power mode */
@@ -308,7 +308,7 @@
 	return 0;
 }
 
-static int
+int
 tumbler_enter_sleep(void)
 {
 	/* Stub for now, but I have the details on low-power mode */

Re: Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Adrian Bunk]

Hi Marcelo,

as discussed in the thread of your 2.4.18-rc1 announcement (see [1] and
[2]) 2.4.18 adds CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT but the code doesn't compile.  It's
IMHO not a good a idea to add a new option that doesn't compile to a
stable kernel. Please apply the patch below that disables this option as a
workaround to 2.4.18:


--- drivers/video/Config.in.old	Thu Feb 21 00:18:54 2002
+++ drivers/video/Config.in	Thu Feb 21 00:20:02 2002
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@
 	 fi
 	 tristate '  3Dfx Banshee/Voodoo3 display support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_3DFX
 	 tristate '  3Dfx Voodoo Graphics (sst1) support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_VOODOO1
-	 tristate '  Trident support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT
+#	 tristate '  Trident support (EXPERIMENTAL)' CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT
       fi
    fi
    if [ "$ARCH" = "sparc" -o "$ARCH" = "sparc64" ]; then


TIA
Adrian

[1] http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-06/0985.html
[2] http://www.lib.uaa.alaska.edu/linux-kernel/archive/2002-Week-06/0988.html

Re: Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Jeff Garzik]

Adrian Bunk wrote:
> as discussed in the thread of your 2.4.18-rc1 announcement (see [1] and
> [2]) 2.4.18 adds CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT but the code doesn't compile.  It's
> IMHO not a good a idea to add a new option that doesn't compile to a
> stable kernel. Please apply the patch below that disables this option as a
> workaround to 2.4.18:

No -- it's already marked with CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.

Thus if you are compiling this software, you do so at your own risk...

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Re: Linux 2.4.18-rc2

[Juan Quintela]

>>>>> "jeff" == Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com> writes:

jeff> Adrian Bunk wrote:
>> as discussed in the thread of your 2.4.18-rc1 announcement (see [1] and
>> [2]) 2.4.18 adds CONFIG_FB_TRIDENT but the code doesn't compile.  It's
>> IMHO not a good a idea to add a new option that doesn't compile to a
>> stable kernel. Please apply the patch below that disables this option as a
>> workaround to 2.4.18:

jeff> No -- it's already marked with CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL.

jeff> Thus if you are compiling this software, you do so at your own risk...

Then remove the:
#error blah blah

from the source file.

Later, Juan.

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