Note that the 1.3.36 diffs are rather large: this is mostly due to some
re-organizations of the source tree, and "diff" doesn't handle that too
gracefully. I've moved all CD-ROM-only drivers (ie not SCSI or ATAPI
cdroms) to a directory of their own.
I've also changed the configuration process a bit: it's a more
"distributed" configuration now, with the config files scattered around
to the places that they actually configure. Thus the IP configuration
info can be found in linux/net/ipv4/Config.in etc.
The actual configuration process is the same, though, so don't worry, it
won't be too confusing. The re-organization _did_ break the "xconfig"
config, so you'll have to make do with the boring text configuration
until xconfig has been updated to the new setup.
Changes in 1.3.36:
- cdrom drivers moved
- Config files decentralized
- IDE driver updated (some people had problems with 1.3.35, that should
be fixed now).
- floppy driver portability changes
- EQL driver fixed (used "current", which is now a define and a no-no)
- msdos shouldn't panic (same problem as EQL) any more
- PPP symtab registering fix
- SCSI tape driver update
- sound driver updated to 3.5-alpha3
- truncate() and mapped files problems bugfix (this one was potentially
very serious).
- minor NFS client update
- Calculations of "nice" and "priority" values changed
- readv()/writev() should do the RightThing(tm) when it comes to
sockets.
- Various network updates (mondo cleanups)
NOTE!! The priority calculation changes change some user-level issues.
In particular, linux used to do some very strange things with "nice"
values, and have a range of -20..+14 for nice values rather than a more
normal range. I changed that to do a better nice value calculation
(incidentally making it work correctly on the alpha too, I hope), and
old binaries of "top" will as a result indicate that normal processes
are running with a -5 nice value. Oh, well..
Also, the Linux libraries might some day be changed to use the native
"readv/writev" system calls, instead of doing a re-packaging on the user
stack etc overhead to emulate them in user space. This might help X
performance a bit.
Linus