2003-09-21 20:35:18

by Marcelo Tosatti

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Subject: Linux 2.4.23-pre5


Hi,

Here goes -pre5. It contains a bunch of important ACPI fixes, adds a very
important missing hunk from -aa VM merge, amongst others.

Detailed changelog below


Summary of changes from v2.4.23-pre4 to v2.4.23-pre5
============================================

<achirica:telefonica.net>:
o [wireless airo] Fix MIC support using CryptoAPI

<amir.noam:intel.com>:
o [bonding 2.4] Get rid of MOD_*_USE_COUNT, and use C99 initializers
o [bonding 2.4] Backport free_netdev()
o [bonding 2.4] Backport PDE()
o [bonding] Convert /proc to seq_file

<bjorn.helgaas:hp.com>:
o IA64 config help update
o IA64 460GX gart support
o IA64 ZX1 gart support

<daniel:deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>:
o Patch: Fix reported Atyfb problem on Sparc

<len.brown:intel.com>:
o Extended IRQ resource type for nForce (Andrew de Quincey) Handle BIOS with _CRS that fails (Jun Nakajima)
o Fix ACPI oops on ThinkPad T32/T40 (Shaohua David Li)
o support non ACPI compliant SCI over-ride specs (Jun Nakajima)
o remove ASUS A7V BIOS version 1011 from blacklist (Eric Valette)
o fix off-by-one error in ioremap() fixes kernel crash in acpi mode: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1085
o ACPI_CA_VERSION 0x20030916
o tables.c.diff
o from 2.6 acpi_pci_link_get_irq() returns 0 on error, not -ENODEV. (Christophe Saout)
o exclude acpitable.[ch] from the CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY build
o [ACPI] delete acpitable.[ch], which used to be just for CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY
o [ACPI] Fix SCI storm on out of spec boards like Tyan http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774
o [ACPI] acpi_disabled is used after __initdata is freed
o [ACPI] fix IO-APIC mode SCI storm due to sharing with PCI device (David Shaohua Li) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165

<liam.girdwood:wolfsonmicro.com>:
o 2.4.23-pre3 WM97xx touchscreen documentation

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:
o Liam Girdwood: eliminates pop noises when doing a PM suspend/resume with the WM9712 AC97 codec.
o Fix ide-scsi initialization lockup (kudos to Alan)
o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre5
o Fix Andrea VM merge error

<stuart_hayes:dell.com>:
o Fix ide-tape lock up

Adrian Bunk:
o add CONFIG_AGP_ATI Configure.help entry

Andi Kleen:
o Fix x86-64 compatilation for pre4

Andrea Arcangeli:
o Fix nr_free_buffer_pages()
o Remove unused code from balance_classzone()

Geert Uytterhoeven:
o Fixup atyfb changes in -pre4

Harald Welte:
o [NETFILTER]: Use u16 for port numbers

Jeff Garzik:
o fix ifdown+ifup
o [sound i810_audio] sync with 2.5

Jens Axboe:
o ide-cd capacity "bug"

Marc-Christian Petersen:
o Fix wrong slash/backslash in ACPI
o Fix 'head.S:116: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive'
o Missing 'Hermes in TMD7160/NCP130 based PCI adaptor support' config option
o Fwd: [PATCH 2.4.23-pre1] Menu fixes

Martin K. Petersen:
o forte sound driver update

Mikael Pettersson:
o repair mpparse for default MP systems

Neil Brown:
o Revert broken knfsd change

Oleg Drokin:
o Update reiserfs configure help

Paul Mackerras:
o Fix IDE compile on PPC in 2.4.23-pre4
o PPC32: Fix compile for "Walnut" board. Patch from David Gibson
o PPC32: Use nap mode in the idle loop on the PPC970
o PPC32: Change the ucontext to move the sigmask back where it was

Tom Rini:
o PPC32: Fix udelay in the PPC boot code for non-16.6 MHz timebases
o PPC32: Fix another incorrect asm statement
o PPC32: Fix a rounding error in the bootwrapper udelay




2003-09-22 08:36:15

by Geert Uytterhoeven

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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.23-pre5

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Here goes -pre5. It contains a bunch of important ACPI fixes, adds a very
> important missing hunk from -aa VM merge, amongst others.

A small fix from the m68k warning police (out is no longer used):

--- linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c.orig Mon Sep 22 08:43:17 2003
+++ linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c Mon Sep 22 10:26:35 2003
@@ -317,7 +317,6 @@
}
current->nr_local_pages = 0;
}
- out:
*freed = __freed;
return page;
}

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected]

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
-- Linus Torvalds

2003-09-22 09:09:56

by Marcelo Tosatti

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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.23-pre5



On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Here goes -pre5. It contains a bunch of important ACPI fixes, adds a very
> > important missing hunk from -aa VM merge, amongst others.
>
> A small fix from the m68k warning police (out is no longer used):
>
> --- linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c.orig Mon Sep 22 08:43:17 2003
> +++ linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c Mon Sep 22 10:26:35 2003
> @@ -317,7 +317,6 @@
> }
> current->nr_local_pages = 0;
> }
> - out:
> *freed = __freed;
> return page;
> }

Applied

Thanks Geert.