Re: test11-pre6

From: Jeff V. Merkey (jmerkey@vger.timpanogas.org)
Date: Thu Nov 16 2000 - 22:45:10 EST


On Thu, Nov 16, 2000 at 06:33:11PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> The log-file says it all..
>
> Linus
>
> -----
>
> - pre6:
> - Intel: start to add Pentium IV specific stuff (128-byte cacheline
> etc)
> - David Miller: search-and-destroy places that forget to mark us
> running after removing us from a wait-queue.
Level I
> - me: NFS client write-back ref-counting SMP instability.
> - me: fix up non-exclusive waiters
> - Trond Myklebust: Be more careful about SMP in NFS and RPC code
> - Trond Myklebust: inode attribute update race fix
> - Charles White: don't do unaligned accesses in cpqarray driver.
> - Jeff Garzik: continued driver cleanup and fixes
> - Peter Anvin: integrate more of the Intel patches.
> - Robert Love: add i815 signature to the intel AGP support
> - Rik Faith: DRM update to make it easier to sync up 2.2.x
> - David Woodhouse: make old 16-bit pcmcia controllers work
> again (ie i82365 and TCIC)
Level I

The list is getting shorter.

Jeff

>
> - pre5:
> - Rasmus Andersen: add proper "<linux/init.h>" for sound drivers
> - David Miller: sparc64 and networking updates
> - David Trcka: MOXA numbering starts from 0, not 1.
> - Jeff Garzik: sysctl.h standalone
> - Dag Brattli: IrDA finishing touches
> - Randy Dunlap: USB fixes
> - Gerd Knorr: big bttv update
> - Peter Anvin: x86 capabilities cleanup
> - Stephen Rothwell: apm initcall fix - smp poweroff should work
> - Andrew Morton: setscheduler() spinlock ordering fix
> - Stephen Rothwell: directory notification documentation
> - Petr Vandrovec: ncpfs capabilities check cleanup
> - David Woodhouse: fix jffs to use generic isxxxx() library
> - Chris Swiedler: oom_kill selection fix
> - Jens Axboe: re-merge after sleeping in ll_rw_block.
> - Randy Dunlap: USB updates (pegasus and ftdi_sio)
> - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN ppp header compression fixed
>
> - pre4:
> - Andrea Arcangeli: SMP scheduler memory barrier fixup
> - Richard Henderson: fix alpha semaphores and spinlock bugs.
> - Richard Henderson: clean up the file from hell: "xor.c"
>
> - pre3:
> - James Simmons: vgacon "printk()" deadlock with global irq lock.
> - don't poke blanked console on console output
> - Ching-Ling: get channels right on ALI audio driver
> - Dag Brattli and Jean Tourrilhes: big IrDA update
> - Paul Mackerras: PPC updates
> - Randy Dunlap: USB ID table support, LEDs with usbkbd, belkin
> serial converter.
> - Jeff Garzik: pcnet32 and lance net driver fix/cleanup
> - Mikael Pettersson: clean up x86 ELF_PLATFORM
> - Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz: sound and drm driver init fixes and
> cleanups
> - Al Viro: Jeff missed some kmap()'s. sysctl cleanup
> - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
> - Alan Cox: SCSI driver NULL ptr checks
> - David Miller: networking updates, exclusive waitqueues nest properly,
> SMP i_shared_lock/page_table_lock lock order fix.
>
> - pre2:
> - Stephen Rothwell: directory notify could return with the lock held
> - Richard Henderson: CLOCKS_PER_SEC on alpha.
> - Jeff Garzik: ramfs and highmem: kmap() the page to clear it
> - Asit Mallick: enable the APIC in the official order
> - Neil Brown: avoid rd deadlock on io_request_lock by using a
> private rd-request function. This also avoids unnecessary
> request merging at this level.
> - Ben LaHaise: vmalloc threadign and overflow fix
> - Randy Dunlap: USB updates (plusb driver). PCI cacheline size.
> - Neil Brown: fix a raid1 on top of lvm bug that crept in in pre1
> - Alan Cox: various (Athlon mmx copy, NULL ptr checks for
> scsi_register etc).
> - Al Viro: fix /proc permission check security hole.
> - Can-Ru Yeou: SiS301 fbcon driver
> - Andrew Morton: NMI oopser and kernel page fault punch through
> both console_lock and timerlist_lock to make sure it prints out..
> - Jeff Garzik: clean up "kmap()" return type (it returns a kernel
> virtual address, ie a "void *").
> - Jeff Garzik: network driver docs, various one-liners.
> - David Miller: add generic "special" flag to page flags, to be
> used by architectures as they see fit. Like keeping track of
> cache coherency issues.
> - David Miller: sparc64 updates, make sparc32 boot again
> - Davdi Millner: spel "synchronous" correctly
> - David Miller: networking - fix some bridge issues, and correct
> IPv6 sysctl entries.
> - Dan Aloni: make fork.c use proper macro rather than doing
> get_exec_domain() by hand.
>
> - pre1:
> - me: make PCMCIA work even in the absense of PCI irq's
> - me: add irq mapping capabilities for Cyrix southbridges
> - me: make IBMMCA compile right as a module
> - me: uhhuh. Major atomic-PTE SMP race boo-boo. Fixed.
> - Andrea Arkangeli: don't allow people to set security-conscious
> bits in mxcsr through ptrace SETFPXREGS.
> - Jürgen Fischer: aha152x update
> - Andrew Morton, Trond Myklebust: file locking fixes
> - me: TLB invalidate race with highmem
> - Paul Fulghum: synclink/n_hdlc driver updates
> - David Miller: export sysctl_jiffies, and have the proper no-sysctl
> version handy
> - Neil Brown: RAID driver deadlock and nsfd read access to
> execute-only files fix
> - Keith Owens: clean up module information passing, remove
> "get_module_symbol()".
> - Jeff Garzik: network (and other) driver fixes and cleanups
> - Andrea Arkangeli: scheduler cleanup.
> - Ching-Ling Li: fix ALi sound driver memory leak
> - Anton Altaparmakov: upcase fix for NTFS
> - Thomas Woller: CS4281 audio update
>
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