Linux 2.6.10-ac2

From: Alan Cox
Date: Thu Dec 30 2004 - 19:48:05 EST


Arjan van de Ven is now building RPMS of the kernel and those can be found
in the RPM subdirectory and should be yum-able. Expect the RPMS to lag the
diff a little as the RPM builds and tests do take time.


Key: o - only in -ac
* - already fixed upstream
X - discarded later as wrong
+ - ac specific (fix not relevant to non -ac)

2.6.10-ac2
o Fix printk fixes for geometry free drives (Alan Cox)
| Found by Bartlomiej
o Bartlomiej's requested cleanups for IT8212 (Alan Cox)
X Drop unneeded i810 audio patch
X Drop useless kmalloc size patch
+ Fix proposed ide ISA v PIO change to work (Alan Cox)
| Bug noted by .. everyone
* Backport mxser compile fix (Al Viro)
* Backport via acpi irq routing fixes (Len Brown, Shaohua Li)
| Replaces the old -ac fix
* Backport further aacraid chipset support (Mark Haverkamp)
* ULi 5281 support (Peer Chen)
* Backport several libata fixes notably problems (Albert Lee)
with PDC20275
o FW_LOADER is needed by several dvb devices (Michal Feix)
o Add IT8211 PCI identifiers to IT8212 and (Alan Cox)
rename driver and functions it iT821x
| Thanks to Philipp Imhof for the IT8211 idents
o Clean up and merge LAN M526X support (Clear Zhang)
| 2.6 port/slight tidy done on the original

2.6.10-ac1
o Revert AX.25 protocol breakage (Alan Cox)
o Remove bogus obsolete option junk from 2.6.10 (Alan Cox)
ide changes
| Options are often useful, so should be kept.
| Especially stuff like serialize
o Fix bogus dma_ naming in the 2.6.10 patch (Alan Cox)
o Initial CS5520 fixups for VDMA and 2.6.10
| Must set vdma flag before command issue
| ?? could we just set it at boot and leave it - probably (check)

Forward ported from 2.6.9-ac
o Smbfs improved parsing fixes (Chuck Ebbert)
o Fix several IDE drivers that assumed > 0 was (Alan Cox)
also an error return for pci probe functions
o Fix sys5 semaphore wakeups (Manfred Spraul)
o Suggest irqpoll when we get screaming irqs (Alan Cox)
o Fix reset problems with older 3c59x/3c90x (John Linville)
o Configurable 100/1Khz clock for x86 (James Bottomley)
| 100Hz is great for battery life
o Delkin cardbus IDE support (Mark Lord)
o IT8212 IDE support (Alan Cox)
X Add more AC97 table data
o Token ring locking fix
o Fix URL for lanana (Alexander Stohr)
X Add a 1620 byte slab cache for ethernet frames (Arjan van de Ven)
o EDD boot options (Matt Domsch)
o Don't probe legacy ISA ide2,3,4,5 on PCI boxes (Alan Cox)
o Restore PWC driver (Luc Saillard)
| Please port away from remap_page_range
o Fix AT2701FX AMD PCnet32 on fibre (Guido Guenther)
o Fix build of CS461x gameport (Adrian Bunk)
o Fix crash with aacraid double complete (Mark Salyzyn, Tom Coughlan,
Alan Cox)
o Fix getblk_slow hang (Chris Mason)
+ Fix SMP hang with IDE unregister (Mark Lord)
o Working IDE locking (Alan Cox)
| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE (Alan Cox)
devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o More ATI IDE PCI identifiers (Enrico Scholza)
o Initial patch for ide_abort hang (Alan Cox)
o Fix serveral ide timing violations on reset (Alan Cox)
o Support CSB6-R Serverworks raid (Alan Cox)
o Teach ide-cd to use sense data for file system (Alan Cox)
requests
- This means you get better diagonstics on CD errors
- It means a partial I/O failure will get you back the ok sectors
- It may fix the problem some users have with ISO copying and ide-cd
o Lock ide-proc against driver unload (Alan Cox)
(very low severity)
o Fix ide /proc and legacy devices problem (Alan Cox)
* Watchdog support for early cobalt ALi hardware (Mike Waychison)
o Make sx8 naming follow LANANA (Jeremy Katz)
* Don't warn on scsi ioctl kmalloc fail (Arjan van de Ven)
* Fix Paul Laufer's email address (Paul Laufer)
* Fix misleading microcode message (Arjan van de Ven)
o Allow cross compile of x86_32 kernel on x86_64 (Arjan van de Ven)
o Kill "open failed" cdrom message. (Alan Cox)
| This is a natural event from code poking around
| doing CD detection etc
o Minor typo fix in cdrom driver (efalk@google)
* Add support for newer ALi AGP (Clear Zhang)
o Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws (Alan Cox)

Cleanups in porting
o Drop ->taskfile hooks in the IDE layer (Alan Cox)
(->fixup replaces)
o Fix up IT8212 for 2.6.10 ide_use_dma cleanups (Alan Cox)
and other 2.6.10 cleaning

Dropped for now
o VIA extra quirk
o HP Cardbus routing fixup

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