Re: Linux 2.2.1ac4

List (kernel@farm.ecs.umass.edu)
Thu, 4 Feb 1999 10:19:48 -0500 (EST)


Yaaaaah, a -bug report.
NFS fixed between IRIX->Linux . 1000k/s instead of 20k/s
tim...

On Thu, 4 Feb 1999, Alan Cox wrote:

>
> ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2/..
>
> This is primarily for people who want the large file array support. Most of the
> other stuff I intend to submit on to Linus for 2.2.2/2.2.3 -> whenever
>
> If you have a problem in 2.2.1ac4 verify you can duplicate it with 2.2.1
> before posting general bug reports if possible. Make sure it is obvious
> if a bug report is about -ac3 to avoid any confusion.
>
> Definitely let me know if you have any ac4 specific problems. Don't bother
> Linus unless 2.2.1 unpatched also breaks.
>
> Alan
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac3 and 2.2.1ac4
>
> o AIC7xxx updated (Doug Ledford)
> o Make clean fixes (Niels)
> o smbfs ioctl definition (Michael Warfield)
> o Test work to fix DEFxx driver for 2.2 (me)
> o Proc fs documentation fixes (Ulrich Windl)
> o Fix AMD step reporting (me)
> o CODA crash in /proc cure (Andrea)
> o Firewall marks lost on buffer copies (ANK, Rusty)
> o Sound core fixes for ALSA use (Jaroslav)
> o Changes to NFS client flow control (Trond)
> o SyncPPP negotiation fixes (me)
> o Merged in Linus 2.2pre1 diffs so I can
> generate new diffs for Linus
> o Draft "block size query" ioctl (me)
> | This is for comment/testing. Don't assume
> | its going to become a linux api item just yet
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac2 and 2.2.1ac3
>
> o VHX probing should be fixed (me)
> o Zoltrix TV card supported (Artur Skawina)
> o 8K blocks/write cluster NFS (Trond/Olaf Kirch)
> | This is a big patch but based on previously
> | tested code. I've put it in because - well it goes
> | rather fast 8)
> o Renamed bits of the genhd 2048 byte code to keep
> Linus happy (me)
> o Added EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to smc ultra (me)
>
> Differences between 2.2.1ac1 and 2.2.1ac2
>
> o ESS updates (Rolf)
> o IDE probe irq fails fall back to the default IRQ (me)
> o Fixed an annoying use of hex not strings in net/sunrpc (me)
> o Initio A100 scsi support (Initio, Bas)
> o PS/2 mouse compat fixes (Scott Ananian)
> o MegaRAID update (AMI)
> o NFSD fix (Not sure who originated it)
> o Geometry fixes for IDE
> o Error in SCSI error workaround (Daio Ballabio)
>
>
> Differences between 2.2.0ac2 and 2.2.1.ac1
>
> o Merged with Linus 2.2.1
>
> Differences between 2.2.0ac1 and 2.2.0ac2
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> o Ingo's fix for the "execute a core dump" crash
> o IRDA update
> o Endianness & other fbcon fixes
> o GUS setup
> o ESS build on Alpha (unknown symbol in modular build)
> o Baycom driver could lock parallel port
> o MegaRAID update
> o Midi timing fixes
> o Correct permissions on a write only sysctl
>
> Additional Features
>
> o Full (I hope) support for 2048 byte media M/O drives.
>
> Other
>
> o Erik Andersen moved address
>
>
> Differences between 2.2.0 and 2.2.0ac1
>
> Bug Fixes
>
> o Fixed the ESS compile problem
> o Changed the OPL3-SA contact as requested by Hannu
> o Small number of time wrap fixes
> o Xconfig/atyfb config fix
> o AFFS apparently didnt get the flag fixes when the other drivers
> did.
> o /proc/mem locking
>
> Additional Features
>
> o Support for very large numbers of file handles per process
> (> 1024)
> o Better bw-qcam driver
> o NFS client understands pipes on file systems mounted via NFS
> o Symbol name matching between versioned/unversioned modules
>
> Additional Drivers
>
> o Qlogic Fibrechannel
> o Symbios 53c416
>
> Other
>
> o ADFS updated
> o Lots of ARM merges
> o Ted's fsync change to ext2
>
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