2003-08-29 17:04:30

by Martin Schwidefsky

[permalink] [raw]
Subject: [PATCH] s390 2.6.0-test4: Descriptions.

Hi Linus,
I have 8 patches for you. 7 are s390 related, one is a bug fix for sysfs.
I'll put Pat on CC for this one but I am very confident that it is correct.

Short descriptions:
1) The usual arch bug fix collection for s390.
2) Kconfig update. Arnd added a condition to BLK_DEV_FD in
drivers/block/Kconfig so that we can use it in the s390 config.
In addition the s390 block device configs now reside in
drivers/s390/block/Kconfig where they belong and VLAN_8021Q=m
&& QETH=y not works.

3) The sysfs memory leak fix. On s390 we have a stress test that
sets a disk online and offline all the time. Without this patch
we are out of memory after a few minutes because dead dcache
entries are not freed. With the patch the test runs fine.

4) Make use of module_param in s390 drivers.
5) Some fixes for the common i/o layer.
6) Minimal bug fix for the dasd driver.
7) s390 network driver update.
8) s390 docu update.

blue skies,
Martin.