2002-10-15 23:42:21

by Marcelo Tosatti

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Subject: Linux 2.4.20-pre11


Hi,

Here goes -pre11 with a lot of misc fixes.

Users which had problems with pdcraid on 2.4.19, please try this one and
report results.


Summary of changes from v2.4.20-pre10 to v2.4.20-pre11
============================================

<[email protected]>:
o 2.4.20-pre10: make PL-2303 hack work again

<[email protected]>:
o allow nfsroot to mount via TCP

<[email protected]>:
o Fixup PCMCIA thinko introduced by kmalloc failure handling patches

<[email protected]>:
o Fix brlvger driver compilation problem

<[email protected]>:
o Prevent EFAULT errors when checking link status, in bonding net driver

<[email protected]>:
o e1000 net driver minor fixes/cleanups

<[email protected]>:
o Cleanup clustered APIC code to allow others to use it

<[email protected]>:
o Do not state that 2.4 is under active development on "SubmittingDrivers" documentation file
o Fix misuse of types in brlvger
o Do not skip Promise ataraid's: they used to work fine with pdcraid
o Changed EXTRAVERSION to pre11
o Add PCI ID for SiS 646
o Undo DMI updates. Its 2.4.21-pre stuff

<[email protected]>:
o forte sound driver updates

<[email protected]>:
o SH5 support for shwdt

<[email protected]>:
o Fix missed variable rename in stxncpy glibc conversion
o Sync stxncpy with 2.5 changes

<[email protected]>:
o JFS: return code from sb_bread was incorrectly checked

<[email protected]>:
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: sync with 2.5.x
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: add dp83816 support
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: janitorial - whitespace, wrap, and indenting cleanup
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: stop tx/rx and reinit_ring on a PHY reset
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: cleanup version string, fix compile error
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: boost some printk() levels to WARN
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: fix compile error - s/KERN_WARN/KERN_WARNING/

<[email protected]>:
o usbfs race while mounting/umounting

<[email protected]>:
o IBM PCI Hotplug: small patch

<[email protected]>:
o Add ethtool media selection to 3c509 net driver
o Add ethtool media support to smc91c92_cs net driver

Adrian Bunk <[email protected]>:
o Configure.help entry for CONFIG_USB_MIDI
o update address of the emu10k1-devel list

Alan Cox <[email protected]>:
o better code for C3
o small parisc bits
o Update LNZ credits entry
o update kernel params docs
o update submitting drivers
o 2.5 backport for sleep with lock
o watchdog updates
o SIS 646 AGP
o native power management for AMD 76x
o dont set leds until keyboard tasklet is running
o fix out of memory oops in sis_ds
o another watchdog fix
o add ali5451 joystick to config doc
o fix missingchecks in hotplug
o handle hisax init failure right
o fix types in mac apm emu
o fix broken comment, gcc 3.1 warning in video
o atalk bits are ISA
o gcc warning fixes for ethernet
o fix ugly irda hack
o ibm token ring updates
o fix warning in cycx_x25
o fixup Geode slave disconnect
o 82092 missing license tag
o fix oops with AHA2840 card
o dont register missing gameports
o fix maestro3 bug that broken m3 in earlier pre
o more USB size fixes
o update intermezzo
o update ver_linux
o update the SiS framebuffer

Alexey Kuznetsov <[email protected]>:
o [TCP]: Handle passive resets correctly in SYN-RECV

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <[email protected]>:
o hid-input: fix find_next_zero_bit usage

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[email protected]>:
o PPC32: MESH driver SMP fix

[email protected] <[email protected]>:
o Compaq PCI Hotplug bug fix
o Compaq PCI Hotplug bug fix 2

Dave Kleikamp <[email protected]>:
o JFS: change name of get_index() to read_index()

David S. Miller <[email protected]>:
o Fix 2.4.19 mm performance regression due to P4 TLB fix

David Woodhouse <[email protected]>:
o Deal with VFS calling clear_inode() and read_inode() simultaneously for the same inode

Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>:
o IBM PCI Hotplug driver: typo fix for previous patch
o USB: fix ctsrts handling in pl2303 driver

Harald Welte <[email protected]>:
o net/ipv6/netfilter/ip6t_LOG.c: Display ipv4 encapsulation properly
o net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_core.c: Fix ip_conntrack_change_expect locking
o [NETFILTER]: Avoid nesting readlocks in conntrack code
o net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_unclean.c: Source port is allowed to be zero

Jeff Garzik <[email protected]>:
o [netdrvr] Use ADVERTISE_FULL in mii lib, to clean up duplex check
o Merge ewrk3 net driver updates from 2.5.x

Kai Germaschewski <[email protected]>:
o ISDN: fix "IP frame delayed" bug
o ISDN: Update md5sums.asc

Manfred Spraul <[email protected]>:
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: create a function for rx refill
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: combine drain_ring and init_ring
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: OOM handling
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: stop abusing netdev_device_{de,a}ttach
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: write MAC address back to the chip
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: lengthen EEPROM timeout, and always warn about all timeouts
o drivers/net/natsemi.c: comments update

Paul Mackerras <[email protected]>:
o missed drivers/macintosh bits
o add hypervisor console for ppc64
o ppc update for Configure.help
o add Documentation/powerpc/cpu_features.txt

Petr Vandrovec <[email protected]>:
o Missing ncpfs bigendianness fix



2002-10-16 06:48:07

by Adrian Bunk

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Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre11

On Tue, 15 Oct 2002, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

>...
> Summary of changes from v2.4.20-pre10 to v2.4.20-pre11
> ============================================
>...
> Alan Cox <[email protected]>:
>...
> o update the SiS framebuffer
>...

This patch broke the compilation of sis_main.c:

<-- snip -->

...
gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.19-full/include
-Wall -Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing
-fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -nostdinc
-iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=sis_main -c -o sis_main.o
sis_main.c
In file included from sis_main.c:67:
sis_main.h:348: parse error before `sisvga_engine'
sis_main.h:348: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`sisvga_engine'
sis_main.h:348: `UNKNOWN_VGA' undeclared here (not in a function)
sis_main.h:348: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
sis_main.h:363: parse error before `sisfbinfo'
sis_main.h:363: warning: type defaults to `int' in declaration of
`sisfbinfo'
sis_main.h:363: warning: data definition has no type or storage class
...
make[4]: *** [sis_main.o] Error 1
make[4]: Leaving directory `/home/bunk/linux/kernel-2.4/linux-2.4.19-full/drivers/video/sis'

<-- snip -->

line 348 in sis_main.h is:

VGA_ENGINE sisvga_engine = UNKNOWN_VGA;



cu
Adrian

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