Re: Andrea's pending 2.2.x patches

Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Mon, 11 Oct 1999 15:35:36 +0100 (BST)


> o mknod-unixsock-nosymlink -> Avoid mknod and bind on
> unix sockets to follow symlinks
> (obviously right one liner).
> Probably you just did that
> in your tree as I seen
> you said Linux will do that too.

That one I havent done yet I'll add it

> o clear-backlog-2 -> fix a SMP race in the common
> device backlog (where the irq
> queue packets that will be
> processed from net_bh()).

Network fixes go via DaveM.

> o xtime-lock-alpha -> allow alpha to compile
> kernel/time.c (you just know
> about that, my due, sorry).

In already

> o endbase-2.2.10 -> use the EDBA to know the
> endbase address, but this patch

This isnt going in. Once we have a bit more test data on the E820 patch
we can use that. Technically using the EBDA isnt enough for some power
management.

I'll go over the others

Alan

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