Re: Linux-1.3.60
Dr. Werner Fink (werner@suse.de)
Wed, 7 Feb 1996 19:15:42 +0100
> Date: Wed, 7 Feb 1996 15:31:47 +0200
> From: Linus Torvalds <Linus.Torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi>
> Precedence: bulk
>
> Ok, I'm back from the US (but don't start bombarding me with email quite
> yet, I have problems keeping up with old stuff..), and I made a 1.3.60
> kernel available with the patches that have accumulated during my
> absense.
>
> The 1.3.60 patch is a bit larger that I'd have hoped for, but it isn't
> too bad. The changes are:
>
> - minor cross-compilation Makefile changes (defines to make it easier
> to set up the cross-compile environment)
> - "make menuconfig" and "make xconfig" changes
> - various minor SMP fixes (mainly making debugging optional)
> - floppy driver update
> - sbpcd driver update
> - serial driver race condition bugfix
> - various network driver fixes
> - NCR5380 SCSI driver update
> - msdos modularization changes (allow for VFAT filesystem too)
> - inode attribute update fixes ("touch" works over NFS etc)
> - ncpfs bugfix
> - ax25 and other networking fixes
>
> Many of the patches have been available in the unofficial patch-kits put
> out by Alan Cox, and if I have missed any please _do_ contact me,
> because I wouldn't be in the least surprised if I overlooked a mail or
> two (or a hundred of them).
>
> Linus
>
I'm missing the patch on linux/include/asm-i386/string.h for the 486/586
optimized version of the inlined assembler string/mem funtions.
Werner