Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:00:53 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:00:44 -0500 Received: from perninha.conectiva.com.br ([200.250.58.156]:48647 "HELO perninha.conectiva.com.br") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Thu, 13 Dec 2001 17:00:26 -0500 Date: Thu, 13 Dec 2001 18:44:16 -0200 (BRST) From: Marcelo Tosatti To: lkml Cc: Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Ken Brownfield Subject: Linux 2.4.17-rc1 Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet, probably. Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok. The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit less "swap happy". rc1: - Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls (Mark Hymers) - Console race fix (Andrew Morton/Robert Love) - Configure.help update (Eric S. Raymond) - Correctly fix Direct IO bug (Linus Benedict Torvalds) - Turn off aacraid debugging (Alan Cox) - Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback() (Alexander Viro) - Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092 pcmcia driver (Keith Owens) - ns83820 zerocopy bugfix (Benjamin LaHaise) - Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get freed (me) pre8: - ext3 quota fix (Neil Brown) - Add __devexit_p() to ISDN driver (Kai Germaschewski) - Declare missing function on fdomain.h (Eyal Lebedinsky) - Add Sony Vaio PCG-Z600NE to broken APM reporting blacklist (Kai Germaschewski) - ns83820 driver update (Benjamin LaHaise) - pas16 driver cleanup (Alan Cox) - disable console flush on secondary CPUs on IA64 (Andrew Morton) - fix typo on parport's ChangeLog (Tim Waugh) - fix use count for multiple queued requests on closed fd (Douglas Gilbert) - Check return value of get_user() on set_vesa_blanking (Jeff Garzik) - Remove asm/segment.h include from nbd (Jeff Garzik) - Guard sysrq.h against multiple inclusion (Jeff Garzik) - Minor PCI skeleton changes (Jeff Garzik) - Add via rhine MMIO to Configure.help (Jeff Garzik) - Jeff Garzik is not the via82cxxx driver maintainer anymore: "No time, no hardware". (Jeff Garzik) - Remove old tulip documentation (Jeff Garzik) - Avoid direct IO's "misunderstanding" of which block device it should use (Masanori Goto) - Remove mcheck_init() call from processor dependant code and put it in unified codepath (Dave Jones) - Netfilter bugfixes (Harald Welte) pre7: - More USB updates (Greg KH) - Add missing checks on shmat() (Christoph Rohland) - ymfpci update (Pete Zaitcev) - Add aacraid driver (Alan Cox) - Actually apply some of the Alan's changes which were on pre6 changelog. (silly me) - Clean up t128 SCSI driver (Alan Cox) - Clean up dtc SCSI driver (Alan Cox) - Undo lcall patch from -pre6 (me) - More ISDN updates (Kai Germaschewski) pre6: - ISDN fixes (Kai Germaschewski) - Eicon driver updates (Kai Germaschewski) - ymfpci update (Pete Zaitcev) - Fix multithread coredump deadlock (Manfred Spraul) - Support /dev/kmem access to vmalloc space (Marc Boucher) - ext3 fixes/enhancements (Andrew Morton) - Add IT8172G driver to Config.in/Makefile (Giacomo Catenazzi) - Configure.help update (Eric S. Raymond) - Create __devexit_p() function and use that on drivers which need it to make it possible to use newer binutils (Keith Owens) - Make PCMCIA compile without PCI support (Paul Mackerras) - Use copy_user_highpage instead copy_highpage on COW path. (David S. Miller) - Cacheline align some more performance critical spinlocks (Anton Blanchard) - sonypi driver update (Michael C.B. Ashley/Bob Donnelly) - direct render for some SiS cards (Torsten Duwe/Alan Cox) - full handling of the NFSv3 'jukebox' feature (Trond Myklebust) - NFS performance improvements (Trond Myklebust) - More parport fixes (Tim Waugh) - Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs (Alan Cox) - NCR5380/PAS driver update (Alan Cox) - Add aacraid to the SCSI list (Alan Cox) - fdomain driver fixes (Alan Cox) pre5: - 8139too fixes (Andreas Dilger) - sym53c8xx_2 update (Gerard Roudier) - loopback deadlock bugfix (Jan Kara) - Yet another devfs update (Richard Gooch) - Enable K7 SSE (John Clemens) - Make grab_cache_page return NULL instead ERR_PTR: callers expect NULL on failure (Christoph Hellwig) - Make ide-{disk-floppy} compile without PROCFS support (Robert Love) - Another ymfpci update (Pete Zaitcev) - indent NCR5380.{c,h}, g_NCR5380.{c,h}, plus NCR5380 fix (Alan Cox) - SPARC32/64 update (David S. Miller) - Fix atyfb warnings (David S. Miller) - Make bootmem init code correctly align bootmem data (David S. Miller) - Networking updates (David S. Miller) - Fix scanning luns > 7 on SCSI-3 devices (Michael Clark) - Add sparse lun hint for Chaparral G8324 Fibre-SCSI controller (Michael Clark) - Really apply sg changes (me) - Parport updates (Tim Waugh) - ReiserFS updates (Vladimir V. Saveliev) - Make AGP code scan all kinds of devices: they are not always video ones (Alan Cox) - EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS in floppy.c (Alan Cox) - Pentium IV Hyperthreading support (Alan Cox) pre4: - Added missing tcp_diag.c and tcp_diag.h (me) pre3: - Enable ppro errata workaround (Dave Jones) - Update tmpfs documentation (Christoph Rohland) - Fritz!PCIv2 ISDN card support (Kai Germaschewski) - Really apply ymfpci changes (Pete Zaitcev) - USB update (Greg KH) - Adds detection of more eepro100 cards (Troy A. Griffitts) - Make ftruncate64() compliant with SuS (Andrew Morton) - ATI64 fb driver update (Geert Uytterhoeven) - Coda fixes (Jan Harkes) - devfs update (Richard Gooch) - Fix ad1848 breakage in -pre2 (Alan Cox) - Network updates (David S. Miller) - Add cramfs locking (Christoph Hellwig) - Move locking of page_table_lock on expand_stack before accessing any vma field (Manfred Spraul) - Make time monotonous with gettimeofday (Andi Kleen) - Add MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to ide-tape.c (Mikael Pettersson) - Minor cs46xx ioctl fix (Thomas Woller) 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) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/