2003-01-26 00:23:57

by J.A. Magallon

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Subject: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

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: [email protected]
- 18-fat-fdmode.bz2
Add mount flags for file (fmode=...) and dir (dmode=...) in vfat fs.
Author: Paul Evans <[email protected]>
- 32-epoll-0.61.bz2
Improved polling interface via sys_epoll call. Faster, lighter and
more scalable.
Author: Davide Libenzi <[email protected]>
- 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 <[email protected]>
- 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 <[email protected]>
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 <[email protected]>
- 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 <[email protected]>
URL: http://bytesex.org/bttv/

Enjoy !!

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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))


2003-01-26 00:31:34

by Davide Libenzi

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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

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 <[email protected]>
> - 33-epoll-smbfs
> Fix for smbfs.

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



- Davide

2003-01-27 22:12:05

by Bill Davidsen

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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

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 <[email protected]>

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

> Enjoy !!

Thanks for the integration.

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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
CTO, TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with little computers since 1979.

2003-01-27 22:44:07

by Dave Jones

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Subject: Re: [PATCHSET] Linux 2.4.21-pre3-jam3

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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