2001-11-30 22:28:58

by Marcelo Tosatti

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Subject: Linux 2.4.17-pre2



Ok, here it goes.

Lots of driver changes this time...

Also, I want to know if people feel any difference on interactivity under
heavy IO workloads.

pre2:

- Remove userland header from bonding driver (David S. Miller)
- Create a SLAB for page tables on i386 (Christoph Hellwig)
- Unregister devices at shaper unload time (David S. Miller)
- Remove several unused variables from various
places in the kernel (David S. Miller)
- Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
it may be not valid on some platforms (David S. Miller)
- Fix RTC driver bug (David S. Miller)
- SPARC 32/64 update (David S. Miller)
- W9966 V4L driver update (Jakob Jemi)
- ad1848 driver fixes (Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
- PCMCIA update (David Hinds)
- Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses (Paul Mackerras)
- Correctly free per-process signal struct (Dave McCracken)
- IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup (Nathan Myers)
- ymfpci driver cleanup (Pete Zaitcev)
- Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead
only BSD. (Robert Love)
- Fix serial module use count (Russell King)
- Update sg to 3.1.22 (Douglas Gilbert)
- ieee1394 update (Ben Collins)
- ReiserFS fixes (Nikita Danilov)
- Update ACPI documentantion (Patrick Mochel)
- Smarter atime update (Andrew Morton)
- Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it (Andrew Morton)
- IrDA update (Jean Tourrilhes)
- Count locked buffers at
balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
heavy IO workloads (Andrew Morton)
- USB update (Greg KH)
- ide-scsi locking fix (Christoph Hellwig)

pre1:

- Change USB maintainer (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Speeling fix for rd.c (From Ralf Baechle's tree)
- Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs (Adrian Bunk)
- Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist (Arjan Van de Ven)
- Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list (Arjan Van de Ven)
- Remove crap character from Configure.help (Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
- Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
- Update osst sound driver to 1.65 (Willem Riede)
- Fix i810 sound driver problems (Andris Pavenis)
- Add AF_LLC define in network headers (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers (Erik Andersen)
- Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some (Andreas Krennmair)
modules
- Add ->show_options() to super_ops and
implement NFS method (Alexander Viro)
- Updated i8k driver (Massimo Dal Zoto)
- devfs update (Richard Gooch)



2001-11-30 22:57:38

by Patrick Dijkkamp

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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre2

You forgot again to change the SUBLEVEL and EXTRAVERSION.


Patrick Dijkkamp
[email protected]
Netherlands

>
>
> Ok, here it goes.
>
> Lots of driver changes this time...
>
> Also, I want to know if people feel any difference on interactivity under
> heavy IO workloads.
>
> pre2:
>
> - Remove userland header from bonding driver (David S. Miller)
> - Create a SLAB for page tables on i386 (Christoph Hellwig)
> - Unregister devices at shaper unload time (David S. Miller)
> - Remove several unused variables from various
> places in the kernel (David S. Miller)
> - Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
> it may be not valid on some platforms (David S. Miller)
> - Fix RTC driver bug (David S. Miller)
> - SPARC 32/64 update (David S. Miller)
> - W9966 V4L driver update (Jakob Jemi)
> - ad1848 driver fixes (Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
> - PCMCIA update (David Hinds)
> - Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses (Paul Mackerras)
> - Correctly free per-process signal struct (Dave McCracken)
> - IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup (Nathan Myers)
> - ymfpci driver cleanup (Pete Zaitcev)
> - Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead
> only BSD. (Robert Love)
> - Fix serial module use count (Russell King)
> - Update sg to 3.1.22 (Douglas Gilbert)
> - ieee1394 update (Ben Collins)
> - ReiserFS fixes (Nikita Danilov)
> - Update ACPI documentantion (Patrick Mochel)
> - Smarter atime update (Andrew Morton)
> - Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it (Andrew Morton)
> - IrDA update (Jean Tourrilhes)
> - Count locked buffers at
> balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
> heavy IO workloads (Andrew Morton)
> - USB update (Greg KH)
> - ide-scsi locking fix (Christoph Hellwig)
>