[Announcement] pre-patch-2.0.39-7

From: David Weinehall (tao@acc.umu.se)
Date: Sat Sep 02 2000 - 05:52:58 EDT

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    This is probably the last 2.0.39 pre-patch, unless someone comes up
    with something horrible. Still, I'm not impossible to convince,
    should there be something one of you out the consider pressing.
    Test and enjoy!

    2.0.39pre7

     o Fix a bug where some Windows9x (Michael Deutschmann, me)
            network-activities would make the
            kernel go kabloom!
     o Fixed a bug that caused the kernel (Michael Deutschmann, me)
            to panic when mounting filesystems
            with different blocksizes

    2.0.39pre6

    o Somewhat more complete fix for (Wolfram Gloger)
            the bug in Paride
    o Fix the annoying build-prohibiting (Gael Queri)
            bug in drivers/block/ide.c

    2.0.39pre5

    o IDE-patches (Andre Hedrick)
    o Move memory-offset for dynamic (Michael Deutschsmann)
            executables
    o Fixes to the Cyclades-driver (Ivan Passos)
    o Fix for a bug in ext2 (Stephen C. Tweedie)
    o Added marketing-names for 3Com (Yann Dirson, me)
            NICs in drivers/net/Config.in
    o Added fix to smbfs (Rick Bressier)

    2.0.39pre4

    o Large-disk fixes (Andries Brouwer)
    o Wavelan-driver cleanup & bugfixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
    o Security-fixes (Solar Designer)
    o Quota-fixes (Jan Kara)
    o Fixed GPF using IPsec Masquerade (Rudolf Lippan)
    o (s)size_t-patch for fs/proc/mem.c (Me)
            reverted

    2.0.39pre3

    o Fixed Config.in bugs in (Marc Martinez)
            drivers/net and drivers/isdn
    o int to (s)size_t in fs/proc/mem.c (Michal Jaegermann)
    o Added IPX-routing of NetBIOS packages (Jan Rafaj)

    2.0.39pre2

    o Fix for a bug in paride (Wolfram Gloger)
    o Fix an erroneous printk in ip_fw.c (Todd Sabin)
    o Fix for IP multicast on WAN-adapters (Matthew Grant)
    o Big updates to MAINTAINERS (me)
    o Big updates to CREDITS (me)
    o Various updates in Documentation/* (me)
    o Styled up all Configuration-files (me)
            in a similar manner to newer
            v2.3 kernels
    o Updated CodingStyle to the one used (me)
            in recent v2.3 kernels
    o Backported nls_8859-14 (me)
    o Added support for sparse superblocks (Theodore T'so)

    2.0.39pre1

    o Fix for the ping -s 65468 exploit (Andrea Arcangeli + others)
    o Small updates to MAINTAINERS (me)
    o Small updates to CREDITS (me)
    o Update Documentation/Changes (me)
            to mirror the needed binutils version

    /David
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