LinuxLists.cc - Linux-2.5.8-pre1

2002-04-04 01:23:36

Subject: Linux-2.5.8-pre1

Ok, there's a largish 2.5.8-pre1 patch out there in testing right now.

It syncs up with various sources over the last two weeks - notably USB,
networking, sparc, net drivers, and the beginning of the -dj tree merge.
Some of the merges are known incomplete (eg some drivers do not compile
etc), but testing is always a good idea.

Changelog appended.

Linus

PS. For people who still haven't noticed - the "I'm leaving Linux and
Transmeta" email was a April fools joke (and not written by me, btw, so
don't credit me for being funny)

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Summary of changes from v2.5.7 to v2.5.8-pre1
============================================

<[email protected]> (02/03/15 1.473.4.15)
acenic net driver update:
* clean up vlan defines to dramatically reduce number of ifdefs
* re-optimize private structure across cache line boundaries
* fix typo(s) in printk/comments

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.538)
USB printer driver

added HP DeskJet 959C to the quirks list

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.539)
USB printer driver

added more printer quirks to the list

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.540)
USB hcd.c, non-HS periodic transfers

This patch adds a missing "break", which prevented low and full
speed periodic transfers from getting through the "hcd" framework
to the driver (OHCI, for now). Sigh... :)

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.541)
USB mem flags nonpoisonous

This patch completely punts on passing SLAB_POISON, I've
gotten burnt by it once too many. Seems like the slab code
changed somewhere. I've got a separate patch to make the
pci_pool code use CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB, which I'll send
around.

Meanwhile, I needed this to get at least EHCI to intialize on
a 2.5.7-pre1 system. Please merge.

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.542)
USB

Comment and documentation cleanups

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.543)
USB

inline cleanup to save a chunk of memory in usb-ohci

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.544)
USB echi and Intel ICH

This updates the Philips tweak so that it also applies
to late-model ICH chips from Intel. (Or so I'm told ... :)
That's at least three EHCI implementations known to
behave on Linux. (And one hopes VIA soon too...)

It also cleans up a few comments relating to 64bit DMA;
recent API spec updates make it look like no games are
needed with the PCI DMA mask -- it doesn't change the
segment used by pci_pool allocations, so it just needs
to get turned on if the overall system does 64bit DMA.

I've a query in to see if those Philips/Intel tweaks are
chip quirks, or just something the EHCI 1.0 spec isn't
at all clear about.

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.537.1.1)
On sparc{,64}, use ptrace_check_attach instead of
verifying things by hand.

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.537.1.2)
In Sparc{,64} signal handling, tsk->p_pptr --> tsk->parent

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.537.2.1)
Fix build error on non-x86.

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.545)
This updates linux/Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt to:

- refer to "usbfs"
- describe the /proc/bus/usb/BBB/DDD files
- more info about the .../drivers and .../devices
- ... generally, gives more information.

This is ever so slightly forward looking in how it describes
bandwidth requirements for high speed periodic transfers,
it's expecting a bugfix patch that's in my queue. (That info
is currently broken/meaningless.)

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.546)
[PATCH] uhci.c 2.4.19-pre3 kmem_cache_alloc flags

My previous patch which cleaned up some of the spinlocks, moved one of
the spinlocks around a call to kmem_cache_alloc. It would sometimes
erroneously call it with GFP_KERNEL.

This patch fixes the problem by always calling it with GFP_ATOMIC.
Thanks to Greg for pointing this out to me.

JE

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.547)
[PATCH] uhci.c 2.4.19-pre3 erroneous completion callback

uhci.c would call the completion callback when the call to submit_urb
failed. This is a rare situation.

This patch only calls the completion handler if the URB successfully
completed immediately (as in the case of talking to the virtual root
hub).

JE

<[email protected]> (02/03/18 1.548)
[PATCH] uhci.c 2.4.19-pre3 interrupt deadlock

Unfortunately, I left out one line from my spinlock cleanup patch
recently.

As a result, using interrupt URB's could cause a deadlock on SMP
kernels.

This should fix the deadlock Greg reported.

JE

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.549)
USB ipaq driver

Don't submit urbs while holding spinlocks. Not strictly required in
2.5.x, but it's always better to do less while holding a spinlock.
Also a good idea to keep 2.{4,5}.x drivers in sync.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.550)
USB usbfs periodic endpoint/bandwidth reporting

This is an updated version of a patch I sent around a
while back. It's against 2.5.7-pre1 (so presumably is
fine on 2.5.7), and addresses feedback against that
earlier patch.

It's bugfixes, mostly for highspeed support, to what
/proc/bus/usb/devices shows:

- Shows isochronous periods correctly (logarithmic
encoding, possibly 1/2/4 microframes if highspeed)
- Likewise for high-speed interrupt periods (similar)
- Makes high bandwidth endpoints look like they
just do bigger packets (up to 3 KBytes/uframe)
- Shows highspeed bandwidth correctlly (80% reserved,
vs 90% reserved for full/low speed).

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.551)
USB proc_usb_info.txt

documented the fact that the interval is not always reported in ms.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.1.3)
Update sparc64 defconfig.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.2)
Netfilter enhancement from Harald Welte and Netfilter team.
Add destroy callback to ip_conntrack_helper, to be used by L4
protocol trackers.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.552)
USB hpusbscsi driver

Port changes from 2.4:
We do request_sense ourselves to comply with
the scanner command set

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.3)
Remove obsolete confusing instructions on tcp_max_syn_backlog
from IPv4 sysctl documentation.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.4)
Make pkt_sched.h:PSCHED_TDIFF_SAFE behave sane when measuring
large time intervals.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.5)
Remove unused field from TCP struct open_request.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.6)
Do not fail creating _new_ NOARP entry with EPERM.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.7)
Old bug in skbuff.c, found by someone, but was lost.
In __pskb_pull_tail, pskb_expand_head return value test
was inverted.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.8)
IPv4 FIB routing fixes:
- fix device leakage in multipath
- fix oops due to race by adding spinlock

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.9)
In IPv4 ICMP:
pskb_pull really may reallocate packet after the check
for 8 bytes was removed from ip_input, so set icmp
header pointer after pskb_pull call not before.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.10)
Fix for ipv4 tunnel devices:
- do not make path mtu discovery, when it is disabled :-)

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.11)
IP input fixes:
- no need to check for pskb_may_pull() in ip_local_deliver_finish, header
is guaranteed to be at right place here.
- remove cleaing ip_summed with IP options, it was required due to
broken eth_copy_and_csum, but we do not use it any more
and it happens to break loopback

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.12)
Terrible bug in ipv4/route.c, mis-sized ip_rt_acct leads to
complete memory corruption.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.13)
TCP Input fixes:
1) Two bugs noticed by Pasi:
- Wrong rtt update interval
- Forgot to clear retrans_stamp when entering established
state
2) Missing LAST_ACK case of processing segment text (step 7) in
tcp_rcv_state_process.
3) Remove "final cut" code, purism is good not all the times. :-)

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.14)
UDP fixes:
- respect multicast interface when connecting

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.15)
IPV6 addrconf exploit fix:
- stop external DoS attack feeding lots of IPv6 prefixes

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.16)
IPv6 neighbour discovery fixes:
- Answer to neighbour solicitations on SIT, otherwise
freebsd does not want to talk to us.
- Fix wrong structure nd_msg and... use it :-)

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.17)
TCP ipv6 fixes:
- Fix open_request lookup bug that was already fixed in ipv4

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.18)
Port of 2.2.x AF_PACKET bug fix.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.19)
Fix bug in sch_prio.c where wrong handle was
being dumped.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.20)
In sch_sfq.c, allow to descrease length of queue

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.21)
Add new sysctl, medium_id, to devinet.
It is used to differentiate the devices by the medium
they are attached to. It is used to change proxy_arp behavior:
the proxy arp feature is enabled for packets forwarded between
two devices attached to different media.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.22)
Allow to bind to an already in use local port
during connect when the connection will still have a unique
identity. Fixes port space exhaustion, especially in web
caches.

Initial work done by Andi Kleen.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.23)
Fix mis-merge of TCP_LAST_ACK fix.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.24)
Update port-allocation changes to coincide with struct sock
splitup.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.25)
Update port-allocation changes to coincide with struct sock
splitup.

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.2.26)
Kill unused local var in af_inet.c:inet_stream_connect

<[email protected]> (02/03/19 1.537.1.4)
Move VPTE_BASE_foo definitions to common
header instead of scattered all over assembly files.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.2)
e100 net driver update:

1) This patch provides fix for "wake on arp" and "wake on unicast"
functionality when card is suspended by power management. When e100_suspend
was called for the device that is in netif_running state the load filter
command was executed in the asynchronic mode and the order of actions
required to put device into wake up enabled mode was broken.

The fix enables to execute WOL configure and load filter commands in the
synchronic mode despite of fact that device is in netif_running state. The
exec_non_cu_command uses the driver_isolated flag to identify this
situation.

2) add EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS (yay Intel, you have come so far... :))

3) bump version to 2.0.25-pre1

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.3)
Merge ethtool initiate-nic-self-test ioctl, and support for it in e100 net drvr.

Contributed by Eli Kupermann @ Intel, modified by me.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.4.1)
Add three scripts for BK users, to Documentation/BK-usage:
bzsend: good for users who want to send reviewable BK patches
bz64wrap, unbz64wrap: bzip2 uuencoding wrappers for encapulating BK patches

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.4.2)
Remove silly overdependency on Perl 5.6.1 in BK helper scripts.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.4)
Add support file e100_test to e100 net driver. Missed in earlier merge.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.5)
Merge dl2k gigabit ethernet driver update vendor:
* add rio_timer to watch rx condition
* move poll initiation to rx refill loop
* use del_timer_sync to avoid race (me)
* CodingStyle cleanups (me)

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.6)
Merge orinoco_plx wireless driver pci ids from 2.4.x.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.4.3)
Update rocketport serial driver:
* remove linux 2.1.x backwards compat code (William Stinson)
* remove ENABLE_PCI define, use CONFIG_PCI instead
* no need to enclose MODULE_xxx in ifdef MODULE

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.4.4)
Add two AC97 codec ids to old OSS ac97_codec driver.

Contributed by Peter Christy.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.7)
de620 net driver janitor fixes:
* free_irq on error
* check request_region error value

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.4.5)
Update munish WAN driver to not kfree memory multiple times.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.4.6)
Fix DocBook documentation for ALSA merge,
basically s#drivers/sound#sound/oss#

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.3.8)
Revert epic100 net driver power sequence "fix", it broke some boards.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.2.27)
Fix reverse logic in checking sock_writeable return
in UDP case. I note in passing that the TCP case is
wrong because TCP does not use sock_writeable()s

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.1.5)
In sparc64/ebus, handle machines with both RIO and
non-RIO EBUSes correctly.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.551.1.1)
USB hub

changed the interval for checking if the device is connected yet or not.
Thanks to Itai Nahshon <[email protected]> for the information.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.1.6)
On sparc64 Schizo PCI controllers, there is no inofixup
to apply during IRQ building.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.1.7)
On sparc64, handle assigning ROM and non-standard resources
properly.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.1.8)
In Sun GEM/HME drivers, if OpenBoot firmware is not
available (e.g. i386) fetch the ethernet MAC address
from the vital-product data contained in the PCI
ROM of the card.

<[email protected]> (02/03/20 1.537.1.9)
Model Sparc64 pci_assign_resource more closely to the
implementation in drivers/pci/setup-res.c to make it
easier to track bugs.

Fix calculation of mem_space end on Sparc64 Schizo PCI controllers.
The decode register is set up for the whole 4GB even though the
top 2GB is reserved for DMA to/from main memory (ie. IOMMU translated)

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.1.10)
Merge 2.4.x Sun GEM/HME net driver fixes.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.1.11)
Remove debugging printk while probing MAC address.
Unregister netdev on shutdown before iounmapping registers.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.1.12)
Sun HME/GEM driver probing cleanups.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.554)
USB visor driver

Added support for the Palm m130 device, thanks to Udo Eisenbarth
<[email protected]> for the information.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.555)
USB serial driver core

- Moved all manipulation of port->open_count into the core. Now the
individual driver's open and close functions are called only when the
first open() and last close() is called. Making the drivers a bit
smaller and simpler.
- Fixed a bug if a driver didn't have the owner field set.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.556)
USB serial drivers

changes due to open_count being handled by the usb-serial core code.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.557)
USB kaweth driver

added optus@home uep1045a driver to the list of supported devices.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.2.28)
Add missing KERN_foo printk specifiers to networking.
Based upon a patch from Denis Vlasenko.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.1.13)
Merge 2.4.x VGER sparc32 changes into 2.5.x

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.2.29)
Add configure Configure.help message and
respective config option for CONFIG_IP_NF_NAT_LOCAL

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.1.14)
Remove explicit initialization of static vars to zero
in Sparc ports.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.2.30)
Make sure outgoing ICMP and TCP resets
use the most uptodate value of ip_default_ttl sysctl.

<[email protected]> (02/03/21 1.537.1.15)
Move bootstr_valid/bootstr_buf back into .data section.
Add comment explaining that why these must not be moved into the
.bss section.

<[email protected]> (02/03/22 1.537.2.31)
Code (and commentary) in SYN-RECEIVED processing
assumes that it cannot be reached in the crossed SYN case.
This is wrong if the original SYNs came from a malicious packet
generator third party. This can result in a 4 minute ACK
fight if the sequence numbers are correct.

The fix is the verify the ACK before we do anything else, which
should cover all cases.

This bug was discovered by Casper Dik.

<petkan@mastika.> (02/03/22 1.558)
USB pegasus driver

fix problem which cause hotplug/unplug crash the kernel

<petkan@mastika.> (02/03/22 1.559)
USB

added rtl8150 usb ethernet driver

<[email protected]> (02/03/22 1.537.2.32)
Bump TcpPassiveOpens when tcp_create_openreq_child succeeds.
We have not been bumping this since we create openreqs in TCP,
ie. some 6 years ago. :-)

<[email protected]> (02/03/22 1.560)
[PATCH] Re: [PATCH] hiddev code and docs cleanup

I took some time to clean up the code a little, and to add the new
calls to the documentation. See patch below.

--
Paul

<[email protected]> (02/03/23 1.561)
USB visor driver

added support for the Palm i705 device.
thanks to Thomas Riemer for the information.

<[email protected]> (02/03/25 1.562)
[PATCH] 2.4.19-pre3 uhci.c zero packet

Don't know if you saw this on the list or not. Here's a patch which
fixes zero packet support for uhci.c

- Setup the TD correctly, we weren't shifting the null data size
- Only add the zero packet if the transfer was a multiple of the
endpoint of the size

JE

<[email protected]> (02/03/25 1.537.1.16)
Merge 2.4.x sparc64 PCI IRQ routing fixes into 2.5

<[email protected]> (02/03/25 1.537.1.17)
Sparc32 cleanups.

<[email protected]> (02/03/26 1.563)
USB ohci-hcd update

It updates the "ohci-hcd" driver to address two issues, one
of which could potentially have caused oopses. First, it takes
out calls to usb_dec_dev_use() on the submit error path; that's
already done elsewhere. (Noted by Georg Acher.) Second,
it removes some pointless diagnostics. One is for schedule
overrun interrupts, the other is for accessing the frame counter.

<[email protected]> (02/03/26 1.564)
USB pegasus driver

semaphore cleanup and proper link detection

<[email protected]> (02/03/26 1.537.1.18)
Do the slot mapping adjustment to PROM interrupt
property in pci_intmap_match even if pbm->num_pbm_intmap is
zero.

<[email protected]> (02/03/26 1.537.2.33)
Fix device list locking.
Based upon a patch from Maxim Krasnyansky.

<[email protected]> (02/03/26 1.537.2.34)
Big netfilter newnat patch for 2.5.7:
- support for multiple expected connections
(necessary for protocols like H.323, SIP, PPTP)
- helper-definable limit of unconfirmed expectations
- timeouts for expectations
- full graph of connection relations, even after expectation confirmed
- various changes in the API towards conntrack and NAT helper
- automatic conntrack helper loading when at helper is loaded
- NAT mangling of TCP SACK in case of sequence number alteration
(no need to delete SACKPERM anymore, I hope Alexey is happy now)

<[email protected]> (02/03/26 1.537.1.19)
SunHME driver updates:
- Fix SMP locking throughout
- Deal with hw bug involving lost writes to rxring base address
- Disable Never Give Up mode on transmitter, set TX attempts
limit to 16 (the default). This deals with a possible hang
when the TX deadlocks with the PHY when a jabber occurs.
- Delete some dead code.

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.565)
[PATCH] USB uhci bugfix

The issue was that the poisoning would posing the data *before* it gave
it to us as well, but I didn't clear out a pointer (qh->urbp) and later
dereferenced it.

Thanks for the report again and for the pci_pool patch so I could
troubleshoot it.

JE

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.566)
USB ohci-hcd driver update

- bugfix: control endpoints can't stall
- bugfix: remove bogus intr unlink optimization,
by sharing intr/iso code
- bugfix: iso submit uses urb->interval
- removed iso urb->next ring logic
(belongs in hcd layer if anywhere)
- simplify/shorten/correct completion handling
- in debug, labels setup packets as such
- bring CVS ids back up to date

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.567)
USB core sanity check

Periodically folk have run into problems where usb-ohci oopses
due to device refcount bugs ...

This is a minor patch to move the sanity check out of usb-ohci
into the generic bits of usbcore. There are comments that
suggest a path for a more comprehensive approach too.

Applies cleanly against 2.5.7 and I've been testing with it
for a while. I can't think of any reason it shouldn't also go
into 2.4, beyond the patch not applying cleanly there ... :)

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.537.2.35)
Tigon3 net driver fixes:
- Make use of pci_unmap_xxx storage optimization.
- In tg3_get_invariants, fix cacheline_sz_reg shifts.
On 5703 chips, if latency timer is less than 64, set
it to 64.
- In tg3_test_dma, only run the actual test on 5700/5701
chips. Aparently 5702/5703 revs have some problems.

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.537.1.20)
In SBUS probing, handle empty SBUS correctly.

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.568)
USB serial console support added

<[email protected]> (02/03/27 1.537.2.36)
Tigon3 net driver bug fix:
- ETHTOOL_GLINK handling forgets to return on success

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.569)
USB serial config.in changes

- make serial console only selectable if the code is not a module.
- removed lots of CONFIG_EXPERMENTAL dependancies as the drivers have been stable for some time now.

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.570)
USB uhci bug fix.

use proper GFP flag setting for submitting a urb.

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.571)
USB io_edgeport driver update

fixes to let io_edgeport work properly as a usb serial console

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.572)
USB serial core

Module count of a serial converter driver is currently not
decremented if a disconnect happens while the tty is held open.
The fix is to close the device in usb_serial_disconnect() so that
module refcounts are properly updated.

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.573)
USB audio driver

- Makes "audio" set the urb->interval in its periodic URBs,
so it can submit through the hcd framework.

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.574)
USB hcd driver updates

- Nitpickey bugfix to root hub config descriptors ... can't use
the same one for high and full speed, since the encoding
is different (255 ms FS == 0xff, 256 ms HS == 0x12).
- Related, force period to 1/4 second rather than doing
any sanity checking for the roothub timer (from Georg)
- Don't "giveback" urbs on submit path errors (from Georg)
... means they don't get completion callbacks
- Additional error checks on URB data (from Georg)
- Uses <linux/completion.h> for unlink synchronization
- The "already unlinking" error case is reported like other
unlinking errors (not as success)
- Ripped out urb->next handling ... it wasn't compatible
with the ISO loop model, and at this point I believe it
should be completely replaced with queuing urbs inside
of the HCDs. (Every HCD handles it for ISO, UHCI needs
a magic flag to enable it for bulk ...)

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.575)
USB hiddev interface

updated the version number due the previous changes

<[email protected]> (02/03/28 1.537.1.21)
Sparc SBUS fix: Make for_all_sbusdev work with an empty SBUS.

<[email protected]> (02/03/30 1.537.2.37)
net/core/sock.c needs linux/tcp.h to get at TCP state macros.

<[email protected]> (02/04/01 1.576)
[PATCH] Update to konicawc driver

This patch against 2.5.7 fixes an oops and a memleak in the konicawc driver
and also adds an option to set the FPS.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.1)
[PATCH] initrd issue

Fix initrd problem that appeared back in 2.5.2-pre6 when kdev_t type
changed and comparison function was incorrectly converted..

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.2)
[PATCH] 2.5.7 IDE 23

- Support for additional Promise controller id's (PDC20276).

- Remove code duplication between do_rw_taskfile and do_taskfile.
This will evolve into a more reasonable ata_command() function
finally. The ata_taskfile function has far too many arguments, but
I favour this over having two different code paths for getting
actual data to the drive.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.3)
[PATCH] 2.5.7 IDE 24

- Push BAD_DMA_DRIVE and GOOD_DMA_DRIVE to the ide-pmac.c file, since this is
the only place where those get used.

- Kill unused fields from the ide_task_s structure. In esp. we pass a task
attached to a request and not the other way around!

- Rename hwif field to channel in struct ide_drive_s.

- Move the request queue to the level where proper serialization has to happen
anyway - the channel structure.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.4)
[PATCH] 2.5.7 IDE 25

- Replace the task_io_reg_t with the simple u8. There is no need to obfuscate
the code more then necessary.

- kill some unnecessary type definitions out from hdreg.h.

- Add proper attributes to register files in hdreg.h.

- Don't use raw arrays for tfRegister and hobRegister in ide_task_s. Use out
nice global structures describing the fields in them. This allows to kill
the following defines:

IDE_DATA_OFFSET
IDE_FEATURE_OFFSET
IDE_NSECTOR_OFFSET
IDE_SECTOR_OFFSET
IDE_LCYL_OFFSET
IDE_HCYL_OFFSET
IDE_SELECT_OFFSET
IDE_COMMAND_OFFSET

and many many others.

- Please have a look at the following in pdc4030.c. It couldn't have worked!
This has been fixed in one go with the above change:

memcpy(args.hobRegister, NULL, sizeof(struct hd_drive_hob_hdr));

- Kill the redundant *_REG_HOB definitions. They don't help readability in any
way.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.5)
[PATCH] 2.5.7 IDE 26

- Mark all members of structures, which get jiffies assigned or involved in
ugly timeout calculations with the prefix PADAM_ for easy spotting. This is
Polish for "I'm falling down" or "This brings me to the knees" or slag
comment for "What a sh..". Please be assured that it doesn't sound vulgar.

Please grep for it to see immediately why this nomenclature is justified.

- Rename hwifs_s to ata_channel and eliminate ide_hwifs_t as well as the HWIF
macro. OK this step makes this patch rather big.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.6)
[PATCH] 2.5.7 IDE 27

- Make for less terse error messages in ide-tape.c.

- Replaced all timecomparisions done by hand with all the proper timer_after()
commands.

- Remove the drive niec1 mechanisms alltogether. There are several reasons for
this:

1. The code implementing it is nonintelliglible and therefore propably
broken.

2. If we have to invent somethig about sceduling drive IO, it should be done
on the BIO level.

3. We may in fact interleave with the IO sceduling on the upper layers and
the results of two overlapping signal filters overlapped with each other can
be disasterous to the overall throughput. (In fact they *are* most of the
time.)

4. It was not working if you had intermixed modes on different drives
DMA versus PIO.

5. Our goal is to have a driver which is able to share the badwidth
properly and shouldn't needing this kind of "tuning".

- Remove unused nice2 from disk struct.

- Rename channel member of ata_channel to unit and device to dev to
just prevent wrong interpretations. This prevents constructs like
channel->channel...

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.7)
[PATCH] 2.5.7 IDE 28a

- Apply Pavel Macheks suspend resume double resume fix.

- Finally remove the busy field for ata_operations and replace it with
MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT.

- Fix ali15xx chipset support by removing initialization differences,
apparently caused by mislead interpretation of the specs or a mismatch
between the specification and reality.

- Guard calls to ide_set_handler with checks to see whatever the previously
installed IRQ handler already served it's purpose.

- Convert timeout checks on poll_timeout to the time_before() interface.

- Consolidate the two different IRQ handlers for multi mode PIO writes into
one. The problems remain the same but at least now we will only have to
tangle one single problem.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.5.8)
[PATCH] ext2_fill_super breakage

In 2.5.7 there is a thinko in the allocation and initialisation
of the fs-private superblock for ext2. It's passing the wrong type
to the sizeof operator (which of course gives the wrong size)
when allocating and clearing the memory.

Lesson for the day: this is one of the reasons why this idiom:

some_type *p;

p = malloc(sizeof(*p));
...
memset(p, 0, sizeof(*p));

is preferable to

some_type *p;

p = malloc(sizeof(some_type));
...
memset(p, 0, sizeof(some_type));

I checked the other filesystems. They're OK (but idiomatically
impure). I've added a couple of defensive memsets where
they were missing.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.24)
[PATCH] romfs inode allocation

Obvious romfs fix.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.25)
[PATCH] conditional system call cleanup

This version of sys_nfsservctl() fix hadn't made DaveM complain.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.26)
[PATCH] minixfs cleanups (1/4)

Move minix-private stuff to fs/minix/minix.h.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.27)
[PATCH] minixfs cleanups (2/4)

Clean up the write_super-related code in minixfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.28)
[PATCH] minixfs cleanups (3/4)

Kill BKL in minix/itree* (similar to ext2 patches)

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.29)
[PATCH] minixfs cleanups (4/4)

Clean up minix/bitmap.c

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.30)
[PATCH] set_blocksize() in JFS

Use sb_set_blocksize() in JFS instead of trying to do it by hand.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.31)
[PATCH] hfs compile fix

Fix typo

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.32)
[PATCH] restoring block size upon umount

get_sb_bdev() stores original block size in ->s_old_blocksize and
kill_block_super() restores it.

This kills 99% of crap with "oh, I've mounted/umounted that device and
its behaviour had changed" (remaining 1% can be dealt in pretty similar
ways; ideally I'd like to see ioctls that get/set block size dead and
gone).

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.33)
[PATCH] fsync_bdev() conversion

Bunch of places converted from fsync_dev/invalidate_buffers to
fsync_bdev/invalidate_bdev.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.34)
[PATCH] brw_kiovec() converted to struct block_device *

brw_kiovec() and ll_rw_kiovec() switched to struct block_device *.

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.1.35)
update version and defconfig

<[email protected]> (02/04/02 1.537.2.38)
In tcp_v4_send_reset, use inet_sk to get at
ttl of tcp_socket.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.37)
[PATCH] BKL reduction in do_exit

Push BKL down to the (few) routines that actually need it,
remove it from the do_exit() path.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.38)
[PATCH] Hyperthreading binfmt.

Another from 2.4, see comments for details

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.39)
[PATCH] fix broken asm constraint

Simple compile fix.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.40)
[PATCH] small fix for mpparse.c

Here's a very tiny bugfix for arch/i386/kernel/mpparse.c in the
2.4.19-pre2 kernel. It fixes the problem if there is an error in the
MP_processor_info() function where the mpc_apicid value is greater than
MAX_APICS, then we need to decrement the number of valid processors
before we return (the number was just incremented before the check.)

The patch was written by James Cleverdon.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.41)
[PATCH] AGPGART capability handling cleanup

Clean up capability handling in AGPGart.
This came forward from 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.42)
[PATCH] EFI GUID partition table support.

EFI GUID partition table support from Matt Domsch

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.43)
[PATCH] about locations of various sound files.

introduction of ALSA moved some files around.
This updates various references.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.44)
[PATCH] Support for ITE interrupt router

Support for an extra interrupt router.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.45)
[PATCH] 3ware driver update for 2.5.8-pre1

Self explanatory driver update from vendor.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.46)
[PATCH] watchdog API documentation.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.47)
[PATCH] eicon driver was sleeping with lock held.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.48)
[PATCH] extra codepage support.

Another forward port from 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.49)
[PATCH] AMD ELAN support.

Add support for AMD Elan.
(More ELAN patches to follow which rely on CONFIG_MELAN)

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.50)
[PATCH] Cyrix irq router tweak

Another small change from 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.51)
[PATCH] Cyclades driver region cleanup

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.52)
[PATCH] Various completion users.

These files use completion, but don't include header.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.53)
[PATCH] Document an errata workaround in apic code.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.54)
[PATCH] faster update_atime.

Another 2.4 forward port, original from Andrew Morton.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.55)
[PATCH] DMI scanner update.

Various quirks from 2.4 and other sources.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.56)
[PATCH] AMD Elan uses slightly different clock freq

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.57)
[PATCH] export rbtree routines for modules.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.58)
[PATCH] Detect get_block() errors in block_read_full_page()

Originally from Anton Altaparmakov..

This causes errors from get_block() in block_read_full_page() to be
detected and handled properly (by setting page error flag). Without the
patch the page (or parts of the page) will contain random data on
get_block() failing without any form of error being signalled which can
be catastrophic for filesystems using block_read_full_page() for
accessing their metadata. And for normal data it would mean the user
would see random data instead of what they expected.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.59)
[PATCH] add AMD Elan resources.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.60)
[PATCH] Extra cards support for MOXA driver

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.61)
[PATCH] faster kiobuf init.

Originally from Intel, has been around various vendor trees for a while.
Aparently worth a noticable speed up in some applications.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.62)
[PATCH] Fix up broken do while macros.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.63)
[PATCH] document new address space operations.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.64)
[PATCH] fix up broken comment delimiters.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.65)
[PATCH] proc race on task_struct->sig

Originally from Chris Mason <[email protected]>..

collect_sigign_sigcatch can race against exit_sighand. I haven't been
able to reproduce it, but I think it causes the oops reported in the
'Kernel Hangs 2.4.16 on heavy io Oracle Tivolie TSM' thread.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.66)
[PATCH] silence DVD_INVALIDATE_AGID output.

Ancient patch from Jens to hush certain drives which generate a lot of
printk noise when playing DVDs.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.67)
[PATCH] Simple boot flag specification support.

Originally by Alan. It was in the 2.4-ac tree for ages, much tweaked
by myself and Thomas Hood. Its main purpose is for skipping the full
memory test and other time-wasting diagnostics on reboot.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.68)
[PATCH] sonypi driver update from 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.69)
[PATCH] group #include's together in x86 ioremap.c

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.70)
[PATCH] Gameport patch for drivers/sound/mad16.c

From: Michael Haardt <[email protected]> for 2.4, munged by me.

the MAD16 driver is able to enable/disable its gameport, but it does
not register it in the input subsystem. The appended patch against
2.4.19-pre4 fixes that and also allows to enable to gameport via kernel
command line, not only when loaded as module.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.71)
[PATCH] CREDITS updates

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.72)
[PATCH] Various typo fixes.

Mostly harmless but 1-2 break compilation.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.73)
[PATCH] region handling cleanups for tpqic02

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.74)
[PATCH] UDF write support problem in 2.5.7

From Peter Osterlund <[email protected]>

I can't get UDF write support to work in kernel 2.5.7 or 2.5.7-pre2.
The problem is that linux/config.h is not included, so CONFIG_UDF_RW
is undefined and the driver is compiled without write support. This
patch fixes my problem:

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.75)
[PATCH] unnecessary includes.

A few follow ups to the cleanup done circa 2.5.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.76)
[PATCH] Update file list in INDEX

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.77)
[PATCH] PCI IDS update.

Mostly from 2.4. Adds some new ones, and removes some dupes.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.78)
[PATCH] Update bigphysarea URL

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.79)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for i810-tco

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.80)
[PATCH] videodev fixups / generic usercopy helper

Originally from Gerd...

I've just noticed that a hole left in the recent changes which should
allow the usb v4l drivers to unregister with open file handles. The
drivers itself handle it just fine, but video_generic_ioctl() will barf
when called on unregistered devices. Oops.

One way to fix this is to expect drivers call the helper function and
pass a pointer for the function doing the actual work, i.e. handle it
this way:

driver_ioctl(inode,file,cmd,userptr)
-> video_usercopy(inode,file,cmd,userptr,func)
copy_from_user(...)
-> func(inode,file,cmd,kernelptr);
copy_to_user(...)

Patch against 2.5.7-pre2 below. It updates videodev.[ch] and adapts
usbvideo.c to show how the driver changes will look like.

Note that this change makes the usercopy helper function a very generic
one, it probably could be used for other drivers to (as long as the API
has sane magic numbers based on _IO*(...) defines) as there is no
video4linux-related stuff in there any more. So we might think of
renaming it an moving it to some more central place (fs/ioctl.c maybe).

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.81)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for acquirewdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.82)
[PATCH] printk levels for vme_scc driver

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.83)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for eurotechwdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.84)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for ib700wdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.85)
[PATCH] more then enough typos.

s/more then/more than/

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.86)
[PATCH] remove dead comment

Original from William Lee Irwin III <[email protected]>

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.87)
[PATCH] __init/__exit does nothing in prototypes

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.88)
[PATCH] reiserfs tools update.

Recommended version bump.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.89)
[PATCH] Remove guess from bttv docs.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.90)
[PATCH] More verbosity in VIA tweak

From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.91)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for advantechwdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.92)
[PATCH] updated documentation for w9966 driver.

From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.93)
[PATCH] extra sanity checks for mempool

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.94)
[PATCH] khttpd logs wrong debug message on leaving function.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.95)
[PATCH] nbd compile fix.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.96)
[PATCH] strtok -> strsep in adfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.97)
[PATCH] remove workaround for old binutils.

Modern binutils spits out a warning, fixing this broke older binutils.
I guess we can do this in 2.5 ?

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.98)
[PATCH] remove bogus return from mtrr driver.

It's amazing what you spot when you Lindent things.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.99)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in hpfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.100)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in hfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.101)
[PATCH] typo in pci_set_mwi header

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.102)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in autofs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.103)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in shmem

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.104)
[PATCH] i2c-proc wasn't checking kmalloc result

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.105)
[PATCH] compile fix for gemtek-pci radio card

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.106)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep for autofs4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.107)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep isofs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.108)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in usb

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.109)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in jfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.110)
[PATCH] Only offer ARM PCMCIA on ARM machines.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.111)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in ntfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.112)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep for reiserfs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.113)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in isdn avmb1 capifs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.114)
[PATCH] apply KERNELRELEASE regexp globally in makefile

Handles things like 2.5.7-dj2-extra-foo-voon in Kernelversion.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.115)
[PATCH] more kbuild cleanup.

Define KBUILD_BASENAME for init/do_mounts

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.116)
[PATCH] Define KBUILD_BASENAME for .i * .s

originally from John Levon <[email protected]>

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.117)
[PATCH] MP1.4 SPEC compliance.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.118)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in affs

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.119)
[PATCH] Small fix to pci_alloc_consistent()

Original from Badari Pulavarty <[email protected]>:

pci_alloc_consistent() is returning zone DMA memory to highmem
enabled drivers when it really should have been returning zone NORMAL.

Found this while testing qlogicfc driver for > 4GB support.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.120)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in atari config

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.121)
[PATCH] wrong return codes in ipc shm

We always returned success even when we had no ->vm_ops

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.122)
[PATCH] devexit fix for i82092

In light of the 'lets use this for shutdowns' this will eventually
be ripped out, but for now it makes sense to include it so that we
can build it again on modern binutils

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.123)
[PATCH] Fix race in JFS

From Christoph Hellwig

http://oss.software.ibm.com/pipermail/jfs-patches/2002-March/000045.html

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.124)
[PATCH] malloc.h -> slab.h

malloc.h is no more.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.125)
[PATCH] add EISA port to /proc/ioports

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.126)
[PATCH] Fix reiserfs oops with seperate journal dev

From Oleg@namesys.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.127)
[PATCH] strtok->strsep in alpha setup

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.128)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for sbc60xxwdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.129)
[PATCH] Remove address member from scatterlist docs.

The element is dead, so update the docs to reflect reality.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.130)
[PATCH] extra PIIX entries for IRQ routers.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.131)
[PATCH] Allow use of 256 loop devices

Because 256 is rounder than 255 I guess 8-)

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.132)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for shwdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.133)
[PATCH] updates for make rpm

- install .config in /boot
- provide kernel-drm package if drm is compiled
- handle extra '-' marks so that linux-2.5.8-dj3-voon works.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.134)
[PATCH] DMI entries for HP Pavillion laptops.

These things have USB IRQ routing problems we can work around..

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.135)
[PATCH] Clean up CONFIG_HIGHMEM & HIGHPTE options.

Makes CONFIG_HIGHPTE an option instead of derived.
Original from Steven Cole.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.136)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for machzwd

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.137)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for softdog

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.138)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for wdt_pci

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.139)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for wdt

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.140)
[PATCH] missing includes.

There still seem to be some casualties since the include file shakeup a
few revisions back, this adds quite a few missing ones, more to come.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.141)
[PATCH] Christoph Hellwig contact update

From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.142)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for mixcomwd

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.143)
[PATCH] seq_file for /proc/partitions (take 2)

Original from Randy Dunlap <[email protected]>...

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.144)
[PATCH] document <asm-i386/io.h> functions.

The second hunk also contains a fix from Badari Pulavarty to make
page_to_phys() work on pages >4GB. Without this, we truncate the
physical address to 32bit

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.145)
[PATCH] kdev_t fixes.

The usual search and replace type operations from various people
to various drivers..

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.146)
[PATCH] x86 microcode driver update

From Tigran via 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.147)
[PATCH] Pentium 4 NMI watchdog support

From Mikael via 2.4.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.148)
[PATCH] jiffies wrap fixes.

Some from 2.4, some from the kernel janitor team,..

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.149)
[PATCH] Add missing MODULE_LICENSE tags

Still a few out there.. Most of these from 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.150)
[PATCH] Add support for National Semiconductor x86's.

These are mostly Cyrix-alike, but for some quirks we work around.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.151)
[PATCH] watchdog nowayout for wdt977

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.152)
[PATCH] PPP documentation.

From Paul via 2.4

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.153)
[PATCH] x86 bluesmoke update.

o Make MCE compile time optional (Paul Gortmaker)
o P4 thermal trip monitoring. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Non-fatal MCE logging. (Me)

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.154)
[PATCH] pnpbios driver update.

Update from Thomas..

Here are the additional bits from the -ac tree, diffed
against 2.5.6 + 2.5.5-dj3 patch. The changes include:

- Improve some comments
- Postpone starting the kernel thread (Alan Cox)
- Call kernel thread 'kpnpbiosd' instead of 'kpnpbios'
- Consolidate printing of error messages to save space
- Add __init and __exit tags and return appropriate error codes
- Print slightly more consistent messages
- Get closer to supporting build-as-module

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.155)
[PATCH] Remove last remaining bits of strtok.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.156)
update for i386 config.in changes

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.2)
e1000 net drvr update 1/13:
License update, the "GNU General Public License" was incorrectly
referred to as the "GNU Public License".

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.3)
e1000 net drvr update 2/13:
Update to low level hardware code. Adds support for the new
82540 device. Replaces e1000_mac.c e1000_mac.h e1000_phy.c and
e1000_phy.h with e1000_hw.c and e1000_hw.c. Changes to the
makefile, header includes, and some minor function syntax
changes to get the driver working with the new code.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.4)
e1000 net drvr update 3/13:
Search and replace of adapter->shared with adapter->hw
throughout the driver. This matches the naming used in
e1000_hw.c and is more correct.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.5)
e1000 net drvr update 4/13:
Updated transmit path. Breaks the transmit path up to make it
more understandable. Aggressively reclaim resources by checking
for completed transmits before queuing each new frame to avoid
stalling the driver by delaying interrupts to long.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.6)
e1000 net drvr update 5/13:
VLAN hardware offload.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.7)
e1000 net drvr update 6/13:
Replace LIST_LEN macro use with the standard ARRAY_SIZE.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.8)
e1000 net drvr update 7/13:
Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing to reduce collisions and improve
half duplex transmit performance.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.9)
e1000 net drvr updates 8/13:
Minor receive cleanup, queue empty buffers to the hardware in
groups of 16 to reduce unneeded fetches and improve PCI
efficiency.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.10)
e1000 net drvr update 9/13:
change_mtu cleanup. Allows frame sizes up to 2k on the 82542
instead of limiting the MTU to 1500, so that the 82542 can be
used with software 802.1q VLANs.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.11)
e1000 net drvr updates 10/13:
ProcFS code updates, check for page boundaries.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.12)
e1000 net drvr updates 11/13:
Bump version to 4.2.8-k1, use EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS, minor changes
to ensure that reported link information is always correct,
remove magic numbers in calls to memset.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.13)
e1000 net drvr update 12/13:
Update a few stale comments

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.14)
e1000 net drvr update 13/13:
Whitespace cleanup

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.15)
Small net driver fixes/cleanups related to setting
dev->last_rx equal to jiffies.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.6.16)
net driver janitor fixes:
* region resource handling
* do-while macro definitions
* error cleanup

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.157)
Fix missing include due to do_exit() BKL movement

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.158)
strtok -> strsep fixes

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.159)
Fix compile without EISA support

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.160)
Header file cleanup fixes

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.161)
vmalloc_to_page() should be usable for everybody (see discussion
on kernel mailing list)

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.2)
s/extern inline/static inline/ for net drivers:
aironet4500, arlan, e2100, baycom, soundmodem

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.3)
These net drivers init dev->rmem_start/end but do not use these at all
(probably as a result of copying skeleton or similar). Removed this as
a step in the goal to remove rmem_start/end from netdev struct entirely.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.4)
drivers/net/sb1000.c does not use any ISA memory for I/O but does (ab)use
the rmem_end field to store an I/O port address in. As rmem_end is going
away, this does a s/rmem_end/mem_start/g since mem_start is otherwise
unused in sb1000.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.5)
The struct netdev rmem_start and rmem_end entries are specific to 8390
based net cards and hence these should be moved into the dev->priv
for these cards.

This patch adds rmem_start and rmem_end to dev->priv in 8390.h, and does:

s/dev->rmem_/ei_local.rmem_/g on all 8390 shared mem drivers.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.6)
Enable multiple ISA ethernet probes at boot (old behaviour was to quit
once eth0 was found) - it is long since anyone shipped or built kernels
with all the ISA drivers compiled in.

This change will eliminate the need for adding "ether=...." at the boot
prompt for a lot of users who build their own kernels and have multiple
ISA ethercards at standard (i.e. probed) I/O addresses.

Also got sick of counting zeros, so did a struct init cleanup,
i.e. {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,9} -> {one:1, nine:9}

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.7)
finally, remove rmem_{start,end} from struct net_device.
one more step closer to killing off ether=

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.8)
Remove old 2.2.x wait queue compat code from cosa wan driver.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.9)
Merge new tc35815 net driver from 2.4.x.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.10)
jiffies wrap fixes for net drivers atp, yam, and sb1000.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.11)
Merge new sun3 82586 net driver from 2.4.x.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.8.12)
Merge SIByte SB1250 net driver from 2.4.x.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.164)
Remove unused, and now deprecated, references to
dev->rmem_{start,end} in skfp and smctr drivers.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.165)
Clean up tg3 net drver PCI DMA mapping, and in the process
fix the build on ia32.

Author: Dave Miller

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.577)
USB HID driver

removed CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV #ifdefs in the driver.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.578)
USB rtl8150 driver

fix the "small packet" problem and debug messages cleanup

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.579)
USB UHCI driver

The patch ensures that uhci.c doesn't use urb->status after the
completion callback if it doesn't need to.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.580)
USB tiusb

added tiusb driver
some tweaks to the driver done by [email protected]

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.581)
USB 64bit fixes

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.582)
USB safe_serial

added safe_serial driver
tweaks to the driver done by [email protected] to get things to work on 2.5

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.583)
USB ohci driver fixes

- An oopsable bug affecting unlink of interrupt
transfers. Fix mirrors one done ages ago for ISO.
(Original patch by Matt Hughes)
- Better cleanup on init failure (Matthew Frederickson)
- fixes the problem Stuart reported, where interrupt urbs
couldn't be unlinked from their completion handlers, and it
also makes OHCI return the correct status code for async
unlink requests (-EINPROGRESS not zero).

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.584)
USB

Updated the CREDITS, Config.help, Config.in, and Makefile to be up to date
with the last round of USB changes.

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.166)
Get rid of duplicated EISA_bus variable

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.167)
oops, lost end parenthesis

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.168)
[PATCH] The last? strtok fixes.

Hopefully this is all of them..

<[email protected]> (02/04/03 1.537.1.169)
[PATCH] simple preemption debug check

This simple check was first suggested by Andrew Morton. Pretty basic -
whines if a task exits with a nonzero preempt_count value.

I put an identical check in the 2.4 preempt-kernel patch and - sure
enough - it was found that XFS essentially disables preemption as it
destroys data structures containing locks without first unlocking. The
SGI folks are working on that.

Anyhow, its a quick and clean solution to debugging potential problems.
Patch is against 2.5.7, please apply.

Robert Love

2002-04-04 03:47:23

by Larry McVoy

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