Linux 2.2.17pre12

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 19:25:23 EST


Ok I'm going for stabilising the oddments 2.2.16 got a bit wrong before
we move onwards. This even though a pre patch should be somewhat more
solid than 2.2.16. It contains just the important bug fixes

James Cloos is making diffs between 2.2.17pre versions are available at
                <http://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre>
                <ftp://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre>

2.2.17pre12
o Fix PC300 X.21 support (Ivan Passos)
o Smart2 driver minor fixes, one new card id (Charles White)
o Fix PS/2 reconnect lockup on SMP (David Nelson)
o Fix duplicate PCI ids (Tim Waugh)
o Fix 100Mbit fdx on DEC45x driver (Phil Ezolt, Bill Carr)
o Cyclades serial fixes (Ivan Passos)
o Additional scsi blacklist entries (Matt Domsch)
o Allow ppp deflate to be compiled in (Paul Gortmaker)
o Fix i2o block multidrive bug I added in pre10 (Boji Kannanthanam)
o Hopefully fix the scsi error handler/initrd bug (me)
o Small sparc power handling bugfix (Dave Miller)
o Directory testing fix if CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH (Wojciech Purczynski)
o Export exec_usermodehelper, clean up baycom (Thomas Sailer)

2.2.17pre11
o Tlan driver update (Torben Mathiasen)
o Ext2 error message typo (Andreas Dilger)
o Updated Yamaha PCI audio driver (Daisuke Nagano)
o Small PPP oops fixes (Paul Fulghum)
o SMBFS compile fix (Urban Widmark)
o Small cisco hdlc/lmi fixes (Krzysztof Halasa)
o Fix hdlc mode switch (Ivan Passos)
o Fix fbmem driver bug with size checks (Petr Vandrovec)
o Merge the Emu10K driver (Rui Sousa and co)
o Synclink driver updates (Paul Fulghum)
o Appletalk SMP locking fixes (Jens-Uwe Mager)
o Don't offer Toshiba Laptop for non x86 (Francis Galiegue)
o Further PPC minor merges (Paul Mackerras)

2.2.17pre10
o Fix up the eepro driver further (Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho)
o Update URL for Japanese Configure.help (Goto Masanori)
o Remove tty driver sleep race (Andrea Arcangeli)
        | this backs out a fix but a fix we no longer need
o Tim Waugh moved (Tim Waugh)
o Urban Widmark becomes new smbfs maintainer (Urban Widmark)
        | Also cleanup debug stuff
o Fix several cs46xx bugs (Tom Woller, me)
o Fix INET=n compile failure (Arjan van de Ven)
o Handle i2o boot volumes sanely (Boji Kannanthanam,
                                                         me)

2.2.17pre9
o Fix toshiba driver to work compiled in (me)
o Fix scsi sg driver panics with some cards (Douglas Gilbert)
o Fix select() handling bugs in DoubleTalk driver (Jim Van Zandt)
o Alpha fixes for fbcon. matroxfb and pm2fb (Jay Estabrook)
o Further TCP fixes (please give these a good
                beating) (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Add some delays to cs46xx to try and fix the (me)
        'only works on 2nd load' bug some people see

2.2.17pre8
o Fix sparc64 sym53c8xx breakage (Dave Miller)
o Further PPC merge updates (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix the I/O slowdown in 2.2.17pre7 (Marcelo Tosatti)

2.2.17pre7
o Fix the rate adaption, default to 48KHz (me)
        Correctly setup VRA bits. Variable speed
        now works on capable codecs (AD1881 etc)
o Crystal Soundfusion 46xx driver (me)
        | Most of the work actually from the ALSA driver by Jaroslav
o PC300 driver update (Ivan Passos)
o Further PPC merges (Olaf Hering)
o Further 3c59x/3c90x fixes (Andrew Morton)
o Fix i810 potential oops (Vladimir V. Klenov)
o Atari partition probe must be last (no magic) (Michael Schmitz)
o Merge aty128fb driver for PPC (Brad Douglas)
o Fix the multiple ide directories in proc bug (Shigeo 'Geo' Tanai)
o Fix zImage build for chrp PPC (Olaf Hering)
o Toshiba SMM driver for configuration utils (Jonathan Buzzard)
o Rename cp932 back (Yoshihiro Kajiki)
o Fix endian bug in cp932 handling (Yoshihiro Kajiki)

2.2.17pre6
o Fix some NTFS bugs, stop it touching win2K (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Wait for dirty buffers to sync sometimes (Marcelo Tosatti)
o AIC7xxx update (hopefully its happy now) (Doug Ledford)
o Put #!/bin/sh on the scripts from Menuconfig (Wolfgang Sourdeau)
o 2.2 elevator wasnt coalescing enough (Jens Axboe)
o Fix ppc build problem (Andreas Tobler)
o PPC video updates (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o List extra Athlon flags as in 2.3.* (me)
o Handle AMD Athlon L2 cache reporting errata (me)

2.2.17pre5
o Fix alpha compile problems on lmc and dmfe (me)
o Fix sparc32 lockd translation (Dave Miller)
o Fix HDLC problems with packet lengths (Ivan Passos)
o PMAC updates - should now build (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
        video update rejected as too risky
o Removed unused trashing var (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Proper fix for the TCP crash case (Andi Kleen)
o Further small vm fixups (Rik van Riel)
o Fix SCSI tape bugs (Kai Makisara)
o Lanmedia driver fixes (Andrew Stanley-Jones)
o ES1370/1371 GETOSPACE fixes (Thomas Sailer)
o FAT CD fix (Jens Axboe)
o Further small shared irq 3c59x fix (Andrew Morton)
o Fix scripts/Configure comment handler (Jun Hamano)

2.2.17pre4
o Winchip C6 has buggy TSC (Dave Jones)
o TCP crash workaround for the problem seen by
        auctionwatch (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o VM improvements (mm-fix-3) (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Revert parport change in pre2 for now (me)

2.2.17pre3
o Fix possible hang in TCP code under high net/ (Mark Hemment)
        disk load
        | Im very interested to know if this fixes some of the
        | reported high load box totally hangs cases
o Fix a sparc64 problem with SABRE
o Bring the PPC port back into line (Cort Dougan, Paul Mackerras,
                                Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Henry Worth
        | Lots of PPC fixes, DMA sound suspend fix, GMAC ethernet,
        | PPC changes to de4x5 for new apple stuff, core99 fixes
        | adb, rth, macserial and media bay work
o Require root for keymap reloading (Stephen Thorne)
o Fix a reported CD-ROM oops (Jens Axboe)
o Give BSD behaviour for iovec overruns (Ivan Kokshaysky)
        | Also should fix OSF emulation
o Set file type on sockets in ext2 (Andreas Dilger)

2.2.17pre2
o Fix memory leak in appletalk drivers (Hu Chengjun)
o Fix bridge + rtl8139 bug (Jeff Garzik)
o ICH audio hack for slow to reset codecs (Vladimir V. Klenov)
o One liner fix to the kswapd logic (Rik van Riel)
o Fix dtr on close bug in the SX serial driver (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o Fix saving of db6 on debug traps (James Cownie)
o Teach setup code about transmeta processors (H Peter Anvin)
o Fix some SMP races in parport (Tim Waugh)
o Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND, rpc2 region info query (Jens Axboe)
o Small AFFS fixes (Dave Jones)
o Test fsuid before DAC_OVERRIDE in procfs (Solar Designer)
o Add Cyclades PC300 driver (Ivan Passos)
o List Andries as partitioning maintainer (Andries Brouwer)
o Remove __LIBRARY__ from unistd.h syscall tests (Erik Troan)
o Resync 2.2 and 2.4 i810 drivers (me)
o Upgrade aic7xxx driver to 5.1.30. This should (Doug Ledford)
        fix the problems with EISA/VLB cards
o Resync the ixj telephony driver with Quicknet (me)
        | Word of warning: Stuff built against the 2.2 ixj
        | driver is back compatible. Stuff built against their
        | release we merged with is not as they clashed with
        | ioctls already allocated for other uses.

2.2.17pre1

o Fix the md failure to work (me)
o Fix the Irix 6.x FIN foodfight bug (Andi Kleen)
        | Someone needs to fix IRIX too
o Fix the Alpha debugging printk (me)
o Fix the 2.2.16 problem with some cdroms (Jens Axboe)
o Fix the i2o scsi crash on boot (me)
o Fix yamaha audio when compiled in (me)
o Fix es1371 rev 8 cards (Thomas Sailer)
o Don't listen for TCP on lockd port (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix sparc32 signal handling (Eddie d'Ost)
o Fix sym53xxx sparc stuff (Dave Miller)
o Fix crashes on unload/remove of initio scsi (Thomas Graichen)
o FIX eepro100 on sparc (Dave Miller)
o Remove Alessandro from the maintainers (Alessandro Rubini)
o Fix erroneous cp932 code page data (C Huang)

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