Linux 2.4.30-rc1

Linux 2.4.30-rc1

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. 

It contains a small number of fixes, including a fix for 
recently discovered ppp DoS (CAN-2005-0384).


Summary of changes from v2.4.30-pre3 to v2.4.30-rc1
============================================

<crn:netunix.com>:
  o [SPARC32]: Fix build dependencies for vmlinux.o
  o [SPARC32]: Fix sun4d sbus and current handling
  o [SPARC32]: sun4d needs ZS_WSYNC() zilog reg flushing too

<davem:northbeach.davemloft.net.davemloft.net>:
  o [SPARC64]: Fix semtimedop compat ipc code

<jacques_basson:myrealbox.com>:
  o Fix softdog no reboot on unexpected close

Alan Hourihane:
  o agpgart Intel i915GM ID's and tweaks

Andrea Arcangeli:
  o Write throttling should not take free highmem into account

Chris Wedgwood:
  o early boot code references check_acpi_pci()

Linus Torvalds:
  o Workaround possible pty line discipline race

Marcelo Tosatti:
  o Andrea Arcangeli: get_user_pages() shall not grab PG_reserved pages
  o Paul Mackerras: Remote Linux DoS on ppp servers (CAN-2005-0384)
  o Change VERSION to 2.4.30-rc1

Roland McGrath:
  o i386/x86_64 fpu: fix x87 tag word simulation using fxsave

Solar Designer:
  o Enable gcc warnings for vsprintf/vsnprintf with "format" attribute

Stephen Hemminger:
  o TCP BIC not binary searching correctly

Willy Tarreau:
  o acpi.h needs <linux/init.h>

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

[Willy Tarreau]

Hi Marcelo,

2.4.30-rc1 works fine here on athlon-SMP and sparc64-smp. BTW, the athlon
uses the e1000 driver (which has been updated since 2.4.29) with no trouble
at all.

I'll post a 2.4.29-hf5 in a few hours, just the time to put the thing online,
it already builds on the same machines.

Cheers,
Willy

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

[Grant Coady]

Hi Marcelo,

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:13 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
>
>
>Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. 

drivers/pci/pci.ids is lagging http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
by a fair amount, >6300 lines diff 

I don't know policy on this reference, just tracked a change in kernel 
didn't reflect in lspci and discovered kernel and pciutils have their 
own copies of pci.ids file.

Grant.

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Wed, Mar 23, 2005 at 11:30:13AM +1100, Grant Coady wrote:
> Hi Marcelo,
> 
> On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:13 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30. 
> 
> drivers/pci/pci.ids is lagging http://pciids.sourceforge.net/pci.ids
> by a fair amount, >6300 lines diff 
> 
> I don't know policy on this reference, just tracked a change in kernel 
> didn't reflect in lspci and discovered kernel and pciutils have their 
> own copies of pci.ids file.

Martin Mares used to maintain pci.ids list in v2.4, last update was long ago: 

ChangeSet@1.555.44.112, 2002-08-14 18:34:28-03:00, mj@ucw.cz
  [PATCH] pci.ids for 2.4.20-pre2

  Hi Marcelo,

  After a long sleep, I'm sending another batch of PCI ID's. These include
  entries accumulated sent to me in past few months and also ID's having
  appeared in 2.5.x.


I dont have a problem with pci.ids additions given there is a demand 
for it.

Re: Linux 2.4.30-rc1

[Magnus Damm]

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Hello,

On Fri, 18 Mar 2005 18:55:13 -0300, Marcelo Tosatti
<marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Here goes the first release candidate for v2.4.30.

I'm a bit late, but here's a patch that fixes a module parameter
description typo in eepro100. The problem was located in the 2.6
source and a fix should be in 2.6-mm soon.

Thanks.

/ magnus

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--- linux-2.4.30-rc1/drivers/net/eepro100.c	2003-08-25 13:44:42.000000000 +0200
+++ linux-2.4.30-rc1-autoparam/drivers/net/eepro100.c	2005-03-24 22:13:46.563710568 +0100
@@ -153,8 +153,8 @@
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(congenb, "Enable congestion control (1)");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(txfifo, "Tx FIFO threshold in 4 byte units, (0-15)");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(rxfifo, "Rx FIFO threshold in 4 byte units, (0-15)");
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(txdmaccount, "Tx DMA burst length; 128 - disable (0-128)");
-MODULE_PARM_DESC(rxdmaccount, "Rx DMA burst length; 128 - disable (0-128)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(txdmacount, "Tx DMA burst length; 128 - disable (0-128)");
+MODULE_PARM_DESC(rxdmacount, "Rx DMA burst length; 128 - disable (0-128)");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(rx_copybreak, "copy breakpoint for copy-only-tiny-frames");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(max_interrupt_work, "maximum events handled per interrupt");
 MODULE_PARM_DESC(multicast_filter_limit, "maximum number of filtered multicast addresses");