There are a few changes in 1.3.38:
- the "make depend" awk script has been updated to do CONFIG_XX usage
checking, and it will now make rude noises if you use CONFIG_XXX
without actually including <linux/config.h> (or alternatively if you
include the config file without actually using it). This showed
quite a few errors in this area (usually resulting in unnecessarily
recompiling some files).
- the SMP option is no longer a configuration option: it's an
"architecture" option (make more sense, imho, and also means that we
don't need to include the config file just to check for SMP). Like
the x86/alpha/sparc etc thing, you actually need to edit the makefile
for this (and like the arch changes you have to "make clean"
afterwards).
- the <linux/module.h> file got changed: the idea is that all modules
include this unconditionally (whether they are compiled as a module
or not) to get the appropriate definitions of MOD_INC_COUNT etc. I
suspect I broke quite a few modules with this, but it should be
trivial to fix in most cases.
- Alan cleaned up the networking layer. Sockets no longer have
read/write/send/sendto/recv/recvfrom, and instead all of this is done
with sendmsg/recvmsg. This broke smbfs, as far as I know. Shouldn't
be too hard to fix, but I didn't quite have the stamina.
- some memory management fixes to fix the buffer cache handling. It
should work now, but I'll have to clean it up a bit more still..
- Linux/axp updates: TGA support by Jay Estabrook and various patches
by David M-T (and a few cleanups by yours truly to fix the memcpy
stuff, for example). The TGA/VGA console handling probably needs to
be cleaned up a bit still..
- sound driver update. The new one should hopefully work on the alpha
too (but I have not really been able to test, and I've had to edit
some of the patches from Hannu without being able to actually test my
changes).
I'd hope developers at least take a look at this, espacially with regard
to modules and the smbfs..
Linus