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Date: Fri, 21 Dec 2001 12:15:18 -0700
From: Steven Spence <kwijibo@zianet.com>
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To: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
CC: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.4.17
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My bad, I had a wrong sym link. Doh.  It works.

Steven

Marcelo Tosatti wrote:

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> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Subject:
>
> Linux 2.4.17
> From:
>
> Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br>
> Date:
>
> Fri, 21 Dec 2001 14:45:52 -0200 (BRST)
> To:
>
> lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>
> To:
>
> lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> CC:
>
> Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
>
>
>Well, 
>
>Here it is... 
>
>
>final:
>
>- Fix more loopback deadlocks			(Andrea Arcangeli)
>- Make Alpha with Nautilus chipset and
>  Irongate chipset configuration compile
>  correctly					(Michal Jaegermann)
>
>rc2: 
>
>- Fix potential oops with via-rhine		(Andrew Morton)
>- sysvfs: mark inodes as bad in case of read 
>  failure					(Christoph Hellwig)
>- NTFS bugfixes					(Anton Altaparmakov)
>- Fix Netfilter oops				(Edward Killips)
>- Direct IO error handling fix			(Masaroni Goto)
>- Fix loop device deadlock			(Andrea Arcangeli)
>- Make some erroneously global spinlocks 
>  static					(David C. Hansen)
>- Avoid i810 driver from oopsing with 830ME	(Robert Love)
>- Reiserfs fixes				(Oleg Drokin/Chris Mason)
>- Fix VM "not-swapping" issue with lowmem 
>  machines					(Rik van Riel)
>- Make kernel try a bit harder to shrink caches
>  instead swapping out	 			(me)
>- Make NCR5380 compile builtin			(Erik Andersen)
>- More __devexit_p fixes			(Daniel T. Chen)
>- devfs bugfixes				(Richard Gooch)
>
>
>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)
>
>
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