This kernel is the code-freeze kernel for the upcoming "Bachelor"
release of linux (aka 2.0). Bill Gates, eat your heart out ;-)
I don't expect 1.3.58 to be bug-free, but I _do_ hope that people will
look into it and use it and report bugs to the mailing lists. As I've
asked to be removed from the mailing lists while I'm away, you should
also Cc any reports to me, but _please_ do that only after having
submitted to the mailing list and the mailing list being baffled too. I
won't be able to do anything about it for a few weeks anyway, so it's no
use filling up my mailbox.
And, as everybody knows "code-freeze" doesn't actually mean that the
code won't change: it is more of a "feature freeze", and bugs will be
fixed. But any patches I receive that aren't obvious bug-fixes will be
rejected.
Ok, enough administratrivia, here is the list of new stuff in 1.3.58:
- "endmenu" in the config scripts to make it easier to parse. Things
that haven't needed it before can just ignore it.
- module symbol cleanups: many symbols are removed from ksyms.c, and
are instead made available from the places that actually define them
(like SCSI, msdos etc). Better modularity for modules..
- updated IDE driver (cmd640 support is better separated etc)
- updated mcdx and optcd drivers
- updated SPM bios code
- slight keyboard handling changes
- PCI support for ne cards (sick)
- new advansys SCSI driver
- updated sound driver. This will result in some warnings at "make
dep" time, due to the incomplete integration of the kernel config
stuff, but it's moving in that direction..
- read-ahead code for the page cache.
- ncpfs updates
Sunny California, here I come,
Linus