Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:27:25 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:27:16 -0500 Received: from vger.timpanogas.org ([207.109.151.240]:35340 "EHLO vger.timpanogas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Thu, 9 Nov 2000 21:27:07 -0500 Message-ID: <3A0B5C0F.D7C23116@timpanogas.org> Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2000 19:23:11 -0700 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" Organization: TRG, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (WinNT; I) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: test11-pre2 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Nothing stands out as affecting most people here. Security fix for /proc, > and various cleanups. Alpha and sparc fixes. If you use RAID or ramdisk, > upgrade. > > Linus > Only four level I's. Pretty good. PCMCIA problems fixed too..... Jeff > ----- > > - pre2: > - Stephen Rothwell: directory notify could return with the lock held Level I > - Richard Henderson: CLOCKS_PER_SEC on alpha. > - Jeff Garzik: ramfs and highmem: kmap() the page to clear it > - Asit Mallick: enable the APIC in the official order Level I > - Neil Brown: avoid rd deadlock on io_request_lock by using a > private rd-request function. This also avoids unnecessary > request merging at this level. Level I > - Ben LaHaise: vmalloc threadign and overflow fix Level I > - Randy Dunlap: USB updates (plusb driver). PCI cacheline size. > - Neil Brown: fix a raid1 on top of lvm bug that crept in in pre1 > - Alan Cox: various (Athlon mmx copy, NULL ptr checks for > scsi_register etc). > - Al Viro: fix /proc permission check security hole. > - Can-Ru Yeou: SiS301 fbcon driver > - Andrew Morton: NMI oopser and kernel page fault punch through > both console_lock and timerlist_lock to make sure it prints out.. > - Jeff Garzik: clean up "kmap()" return type (it returns a kernel > virtual address, ie a "void *"). > - Jeff Garzik: network driver docs, various one-liners. > - David Miller: add generic "special" flag to page flags, to be > used by architectures as they see fit. Like keeping track of > cache coherency issues. > - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again > - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly Spell "David Miller" correctly. 8). > - David Miller: networking - fix some bridge issues, and correct > IPv6 sysctl entries. > - Dan Aloni: make fork.c use proper macro rather than doing > get_exec_domain() by hand. > > - pre1: > - me: make PCMCIA work even in the absense of PCI irq's > - me: add irq mapping capabilities for Cyrix southbridges > - me: make IBMMCA compile right as a module > - me: uhhuh. Major atomic-PTE SMP race boo-boo. Fixed. > - Andrea Arkangeli: don't allow people to set security-conscious > bits in mxcsr through ptrace SETFPXREGS. > - J?rgen Fischer: aha152x update > - Andrew Morton, Trond Myklebust: file locking fixes > - me: TLB invalidate race with highmem > - Paul Fulghum: synclink/n_hdlc driver updates > - David Miller: export sysctl_jiffies, and have the proper no-sysctl > version handy > - Neil Brown: RAID driver deadlock and nsfd read access to > execute-only files fix > - Keith Owens: clean up module information passing, remove > "get_module_symbol()". > - Jeff Garzik: network (and other) driver fixes and cleanups > - Andrea Arkangeli: scheduler cleanup. > - Ching-Ling Li: fix ALi sound driver memory leak > - Anton Altaparmakov: upcase fix for NTFS > - Thomas Woller: CS4281 audio update > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/