Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:31:15 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:30:56 -0400 Received: from vger.timpanogas.org ([207.109.151.240]:60164 "EHLO vger.timpanogas.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 27 Oct 2000 04:30:54 -0400 Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2000 02:27:34 -0600 From: "Jeff V. Merkey" To: Linus Torvalds Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: test10-pre6 Message-ID: <20001027022734.A3000@vger.timpanogas.org> In-Reply-To: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: ; from torvalds@transmeta.com on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:58:03PM -0700 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 11:58:03PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Thanks to everybody who has been testing. > > pre6 has tons of small fixes, the most noticeable of which are > > (a) the new compiler requirements (sorry, but it turned out that 2.7.2.3 > really is too subtly broken with named structure initializers that > are very heavily used these days inside the kernel) > > Suggested stable compiler: gcc-2.91.66, aka egcs-1.1.2, which is the > one most vendors have been shipping for a long time, and while sure > to be buggy too has not been found to be seriously so at least yet. > > Other modern gcc versions may well work too. > > (b) various PCI fixes that used to make 2.4.0 completely unboot/usable on > certain machines (ALI chipsets with certain PIRQ routing tables and > laptops with some docking bridges. Oh, and PIIX4 chipsets with USB > enabled and certain other magic things going on). > > Let's hope that there aren't too many more of these. The ALI one in > particular was "interesting" to chase down. More interesting than I > personally need in my old age. > > The rest of the changes should be mostly unnoticeable. > > Still known: the same old "page->mapping = NULL" thing that has not seen > an acceptable fix yet. If it wasn't for that, I'd have called this test10 Almost ready to ship. I have not seen this bug show up here in any 2.4 kernel I have tested. Wonder if it's specific to certain hardware (Paging or stale TLB bug?). > already and be done with it. Super-Al to the rescue (and no, that was not > a reference to the current sad state of US politics). (not meant to offend) Al Gore's definition of a family unit in America is the same as Clinton's -- a family can be defined as a man and a goat. There's some web sites showing that in 1988 and 1989, Al Gore was an extreme right wing conservative. Things have sure changed .... :-) Jeff > > Linus > > ----- > > - pre6: > - Jeremy Fitzhardinge: autofs4 expiry fix > - David Miller: sparc driver updates, networking updates > - Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer: buffer overflow in sg_proc_dressz_write > - Ingo Molnar: wakeup race fix (admittedly the window was basically > non-existent, but still..) > - Rasmus Andersen: notice that "this_slice" is no longer used for > scheduling - delete the code that calculates it. > - ALI pirq routing update. It's even uglier than we initially thought.. > - Dimitrios Michailidis: fix ipip locking bugs > - Various: face it - gcc-2.7.2.3 miscompiles structure initializers. > - Paul Cassella: locking comments on dev_base > - Trond Myklebust: NFS locking atomicity. refresh inode properly. > - Andre Hedrick: Serverworks Chipset driver, IDE-tape fix > - Paul Gortmaker: kill unused code from 8390 support. > - Andrea Arcangeli: fix nfsv3d wrong truncates over 4G > - Maciej W. Rozycki: PIIX4 needs the same USB quirk handling as PIIX3. > - me: if we cannot figure out the PCI bridge windows, just "inherit" > the window from the parent. Better than not booting. > - Ching-Ling Lee: ALI 5451 Audio core support update > > - pre5: > - Mikael Pettersson: more Pentium IV cleanup. > - David Miller: non-x86 platforms missed "pte_same()". > - Russell King: NFS invalidate_inode_pages() can do bad things! > - Randy Dunlap: usb-core.c is gone - module fix > - Ben LaHaise: swapcache fixups for the new atomic pte update code > - Oleg Drokin: fix nm256_audio memory region confusion > - Randy Dunlap: USB printer fixes > - David Miller: sparc updates > - David Miller: off-by-one error in /proc socket dumper > - David Miller: restore non-local bind() behaviour. > - David Miller: wakeups on socket shutdown() > - Jeff Garzik: DEPCA net drvr fixes and CodingStyle > - Jeff Garzik: netsemi net drvr fix > - Jeff Garzik & Andrea Arkangeli: keyboard cleanup > - Jeff Garzik: VIA audio update > - Andrea Arkangeli: mxcsr initialization cleanup and fix > - Gabriel Paubert: better twd_i387_to_fxsr() emulation > - Andries Brouwer: proper error return in ext2 mkdir() > > - pre4: > - disable writing to /proc/xxx/mem. Sure, it works now, but it's still > a security risk. > - IDE driver update (Victroy66 SouthBridge support) > - i810 rng driver cleanup > - fix sbus Makefile > - named initializers in module.. > - ppoe: remove explicit initializer - it's done with initcalls. > - x86 WP bit detection: do it cleanly with exception handling > - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: memory leaks in drivers/media/video > - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: video init functions get __init > - David Miller: get rid of net/protocols.c - they get to initialize themselves > - David Miller: get rid of dev_mc_lock - we hold dev->xmit_lock anyway. > - Geert Uytterhoeven: Zorro (Amiga) bus support update > - David Miller: work around gcc-2.7.2 bug > - Geert Uytterhoeven: mark struct consw's "const". > - Jeff Garzik: network driver cleanups, ns558 joystick driver oops fix > - Tigran Aivazian: clean up __alloc_pages(), kill_super() and > notify_change() > - Tigran Aivazian: move stuff from .data to .bss > - Jeff Garzik: divert.h typename cleanups > - James Simmons: mdacon using spinlocks > - Tigran Aivazian: fix BFS free block calculation > - David Miller: sparc32 works again > - Bernd Schmidt: fix undefined C code (set/use without a sequence point) > - Mikael Pettersson: nicer Pentium IV setup handling. > - Georg Acher: usb-uhci cpia oops fix > - Kanoj Sarcar: more node_data cleanups for [non]NUMA. > - Richard Henderson: alpha update to new vmalloc setup > - Ben LaHaise: atomic pte updates (don't lose dirty bit) > - David Brownell: ohci memory debugging (== use separate slabs for allocation) > > - pre3: > - update email address of Joerg Reuter > - Andries Brouwer: spelling fixes, missing atari brelse(), breada() fix > - Geert Uytterhoeven: used named initializers for "struct console". > - Carsten Paeth: ISDN capifs - iput() only once. > - Petr Vandrovec: VFAT short name generation fix > - Jeff Garzik: i810_rng cleanup, and i815 chipset added. > - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: clean up some remaining old-style Makefiles > - Dave Jones: x86 setup fixes (recognize Pentium IV etc). > - x86: do the "fast A20" setup too in setup.S > - NIIBE Yutaka: update SuperH for the global page table (vmalloc) change. > - David Miller: sparc updates (vmalloc stuff still pending) > - David Miller: CodaFS warnings and 64-bit warnings in pci_size() > - David Miller: pcnet32 - correct NULL test > - David Miller: vmlist lock -> page_table_lock clarification > - Trond Myklebust: Ouch. rpcauth_lookup_credcache() memory corruption bug > - Matthew Wilcox: file locking cleanups > - David Woodhouse: USB audio spinlock fixes > - Torben Mathiasen: tlan driver cleanups > - Randy Dunlap: Yenta: CACHE_LINE_SIZE is in dwords, not bytes. > - Randy Dunlap: more USB updates > - Kanoj Sarcar: clean up the NUMA interfaces (pg_data instead of nodes) > - "save_fpu()" was broken. Need to clear pending errors: save_init_fpu(). > > - pre2: > - remember to change the kernel version ;) > - isapnp.txt bugfix > - ia64 update > - sparc update > - networking update (pppoe init, frame diverter, fix tcp_sendmsg, > fix udp_recvmsg). > - Compile for WinChip must _not_ use "-march=i686". It's a i586. > - Randy Dunlap: more USB updates > - clarify the Firewire AIC-5800 situation. It's not supported yet. > - PCI-space decode size fix. This is needed for some (broken?) hardware > - /proc/self/maps off-by-one error > - 3c501, 3c507, cs89x0 network drivers drop unnecessary check_region > - Asahi Kasei AK4540: new codec ID. Yamaha: new PCI ID's. > - ne2k-pci net driver documentation update > - Paul Gortmaker: delete paranoia check in rtc_exit > - scsi_merge: memset the right amount of memory. > - sun3fb: old __initfunc() not supported any more. > - synclink: remove unnecessary task state games > - xd.c: proper casting for 64-bit architectures > - vmalloc: page table update race condition. > > - pre1: > - Roger Larsson: ">=" instead of ">" to make the VM not get stuck. > - Gideon Glass: brw_kiovec() failure case oops fix > - Rik van Riel: better memory balancing and OOM killer > - Ivan Kokshaysky: alpha compile fixes > - Vojtech Pavlik: forgotten ENOUGH macro in via82cxxx ide driver > - Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo: acpi resource leak fix > - Brian Gerst: use mov's instead of xchg in kernel trap entry > - Torben Mathiasen: tlan timer being added twice bug > - Andrzej Krzysztofowicz: config file fixes > - Jean Tourrilhes: Wavelan lockup on SMP fix > - Roman Zippel: initdata must be initialized (even if it is to zero: > gcc is strange) > - Jean Tourrilhes: hp100 driver lockup at startup on SMP > - Russell King: fix silly minixfs uninitialized error bug > - (various): fix uid hashing to use "uid_t" instead of "unsigned short" > - Jaroslav Kysela: isapnp timeout fix. NULL ptr dereference fix. > - Alain Knaff: fdformat should work again. > - Randy Dunlap: USB - fix bluetooth, acm, printer, serial to work > with urb->dev changes. > - Randy Dunlap: USB whiteheat serial driver firmware update. > - Randy Dunlap: USB hub memory corruption and pegasus driver update > - Andre Hedrick: IDE Makefile cleanup > > - > 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/