Linux 2.2.17pre12

From: Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: Fri Jul 14 2000 - 20:25:23 EDT

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    Ok I'm going for stabilising the oddments 2.2.16 got a bit wrong before
    we move onwards. This even though a pre patch should be somewhat more
    solid than 2.2.16. It contains just the important bug fixes

    James Cloos is making diffs between 2.2.17pre versions are available at
                    <http://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre>
                    <ftp://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre>

    2.2.17pre12
    o Fix PC300 X.21 support (Ivan Passos)
    o Smart2 driver minor fixes, one new card id (Charles White)
    o Fix PS/2 reconnect lockup on SMP (David Nelson)
    o Fix duplicate PCI ids (Tim Waugh)
    o Fix 100Mbit fdx on DEC45x driver (Phil Ezolt, Bill Carr)
    o Cyclades serial fixes (Ivan Passos)
    o Additional scsi blacklist entries (Matt Domsch)
    o Allow ppp deflate to be compiled in (Paul Gortmaker)
    o Fix i2o block multidrive bug I added in pre10 (Boji Kannanthanam)
    o Hopefully fix the scsi error handler/initrd bug (me)
    o Small sparc power handling bugfix (Dave Miller)
    o Directory testing fix if CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH (Wojciech Purczynski)
    o Export exec_usermodehelper, clean up baycom (Thomas Sailer)

    2.2.17pre11
    o Tlan driver update (Torben Mathiasen)
    o Ext2 error message typo (Andreas Dilger)
    o Updated Yamaha PCI audio driver (Daisuke Nagano)
    o Small PPP oops fixes (Paul Fulghum)
    o SMBFS compile fix (Urban Widmark)
    o Small cisco hdlc/lmi fixes (Krzysztof Halasa)
    o Fix hdlc mode switch (Ivan Passos)
    o Fix fbmem driver bug with size checks (Petr Vandrovec)
    o Merge the Emu10K driver (Rui Sousa and co)
    o Synclink driver updates (Paul Fulghum)
    o Appletalk SMP locking fixes (Jens-Uwe Mager)
    o Don't offer Toshiba Laptop for non x86 (Francis Galiegue)
    o Further PPC minor merges (Paul Mackerras)

    2.2.17pre10
    o Fix up the eepro driver further (Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho)
    o Update URL for Japanese Configure.help (Goto Masanori)
    o Remove tty driver sleep race (Andrea Arcangeli)
            | this backs out a fix but a fix we no longer need
    o Tim Waugh moved (Tim Waugh)
    o Urban Widmark becomes new smbfs maintainer (Urban Widmark)
            | Also cleanup debug stuff
    o Fix several cs46xx bugs (Tom Woller, me)
    o Fix INET=n compile failure (Arjan van de Ven)
    o Handle i2o boot volumes sanely (Boji Kannanthanam,
                                                             me)

    2.2.17pre9
    o Fix toshiba driver to work compiled in (me)
    o Fix scsi sg driver panics with some cards (Douglas Gilbert)
    o Fix select() handling bugs in DoubleTalk driver (Jim Van Zandt)
    o Alpha fixes for fbcon. matroxfb and pm2fb (Jay Estabrook)
    o Further TCP fixes (please give these a good
                    beating) (Alexey Kuznetsov)
    o Add some delays to cs46xx to try and fix the (me)
            'only works on 2nd load' bug some people see

    2.2.17pre8
    o Fix sparc64 sym53c8xx breakage (Dave Miller)
    o Further PPC merge updates (Paul Mackerras)
    o Fix the I/O slowdown in 2.2.17pre7 (Marcelo Tosatti)

    2.2.17pre7
    o Fix the rate adaption, default to 48KHz (me)
            Correctly setup VRA bits. Variable speed
            now works on capable codecs (AD1881 etc)
    o Crystal Soundfusion 46xx driver (me)
            | Most of the work actually from the ALSA driver by Jaroslav
    o PC300 driver update (Ivan Passos)
    o Further PPC merges (Olaf Hering)
    o Further 3c59x/3c90x fixes (Andrew Morton)
    o Fix i810 potential oops (Vladimir V. Klenov)
    o Atari partition probe must be last (no magic) (Michael Schmitz)
    o Merge aty128fb driver for PPC (Brad Douglas)
    o Fix the multiple ide directories in proc bug (Shigeo 'Geo' Tanai)
    o Fix zImage build for chrp PPC (Olaf Hering)
    o Toshiba SMM driver for configuration utils (Jonathan Buzzard)
    o Rename cp932 back (Yoshihiro Kajiki)
    o Fix endian bug in cp932 handling (Yoshihiro Kajiki)

    2.2.17pre6
    o Fix some NTFS bugs, stop it touching win2K (Anton Altaparmakov)
    o Wait for dirty buffers to sync sometimes (Marcelo Tosatti)
    o AIC7xxx update (hopefully its happy now) (Doug Ledford)
    o Put #!/bin/sh on the scripts from Menuconfig (Wolfgang Sourdeau)
    o 2.2 elevator wasnt coalescing enough (Jens Axboe)
    o Fix ppc build problem (Andreas Tobler)
    o PPC video updates (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
    o List extra Athlon flags as in 2.3.* (me)
    o Handle AMD Athlon L2 cache reporting errata (me)

    2.2.17pre5
    o Fix alpha compile problems on lmc and dmfe (me)
    o Fix sparc32 lockd translation (Dave Miller)
    o Fix HDLC problems with packet lengths (Ivan Passos)
    o PMAC updates - should now build (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
            video update rejected as too risky
    o Removed unused trashing var (Andrea Arcangeli)
    o Proper fix for the TCP crash case (Andi Kleen)
    o Further small vm fixups (Rik van Riel)
    o Fix SCSI tape bugs (Kai Makisara)
    o Lanmedia driver fixes (Andrew Stanley-Jones)
    o ES1370/1371 GETOSPACE fixes (Thomas Sailer)
    o FAT CD fix (Jens Axboe)
    o Further small shared irq 3c59x fix (Andrew Morton)
    o Fix scripts/Configure comment handler (Jun Hamano)

    2.2.17pre4
    o Winchip C6 has buggy TSC (Dave Jones)
    o TCP crash workaround for the problem seen by
            auctionwatch (Alexey Kuznetsov)
    o VM improvements (mm-fix-3) (Andrea Arcangeli)
    o Revert parport change in pre2 for now (me)

    2.2.17pre3
    o Fix possible hang in TCP code under high net/ (Mark Hemment)
            disk load
            | Im very interested to know if this fixes some of the
            | reported high load box totally hangs cases
    o Fix a sparc64 problem with SABRE
    o Bring the PPC port back into line (Cort Dougan, Paul Mackerras,
                                    Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Henry Worth
            | Lots of PPC fixes, DMA sound suspend fix, GMAC ethernet,
            | PPC changes to de4x5 for new apple stuff, core99 fixes
            | adb, rth, macserial and media bay work
    o Require root for keymap reloading (Stephen Thorne)
    o Fix a reported CD-ROM oops (Jens Axboe)
    o Give BSD behaviour for iovec overruns (Ivan Kokshaysky)
            | Also should fix OSF emulation
    o Set file type on sockets in ext2 (Andreas Dilger)

    2.2.17pre2
    o Fix memory leak in appletalk drivers (Hu Chengjun)
    o Fix bridge + rtl8139 bug (Jeff Garzik)
    o ICH audio hack for slow to reset codecs (Vladimir V. Klenov)
    o One liner fix to the kswapd logic (Rik van Riel)
    o Fix dtr on close bug in the SX serial driver (Patrick van de Lageweg)
    o Fix saving of db6 on debug traps (James Cownie)
    o Teach setup code about transmeta processors (H Peter Anvin)
    o Fix some SMP races in parport (Tim Waugh)
    o Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND, rpc2 region info query (Jens Axboe)
    o Small AFFS fixes (Dave Jones)
    o Test fsuid before DAC_OVERRIDE in procfs (Solar Designer)
    o Add Cyclades PC300 driver (Ivan Passos)
    o List Andries as partitioning maintainer (Andries Brouwer)
    o Remove __LIBRARY__ from unistd.h syscall tests (Erik Troan)
    o Resync 2.2 and 2.4 i810 drivers (me)
    o Upgrade aic7xxx driver to 5.1.30. This should (Doug Ledford)
            fix the problems with EISA/VLB cards
    o Resync the ixj telephony driver with Quicknet (me)
            | Word of warning: Stuff built against the 2.2 ixj
            | driver is back compatible. Stuff built against their
            | release we merged with is not as they clashed with
            | ioctls already allocated for other uses.

    2.2.17pre1

    o Fix the md failure to work (me)
    o Fix the Irix 6.x FIN foodfight bug (Andi Kleen)
            | Someone needs to fix IRIX too
    o Fix the Alpha debugging printk (me)
    o Fix the 2.2.16 problem with some cdroms (Jens Axboe)
    o Fix the i2o scsi crash on boot (me)
    o Fix yamaha audio when compiled in (me)
    o Fix es1371 rev 8 cards (Thomas Sailer)
    o Don't listen for TCP on lockd port (Trond Myklebust)
    o Fix sparc32 signal handling (Eddie d'Ost)
    o Fix sym53xxx sparc stuff (Dave Miller)
    o Fix crashes on unload/remove of initio scsi (Thomas Graichen)
    o FIX eepro100 on sparc (Dave Miller)
    o Remove Alessandro from the maintainers (Alessandro Rubini)
    o Fix erroneous cp932 code page data (C Huang)

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