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Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1 (fwd)
lets see how badly this breaks redhat 9 :)
i know steve has tried out the 2.5/6 series, anyone else?
>From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
>----- Forwarded message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> -----
>
>Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
>To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>Subject: Linux v2.6.0-test1
>
>
>Ok,
> the naming should be familiar - it's the same deal as with 2.4.0.
>
>One difference is that while 2.4.0 took about 7 months from the pre1 to
>the final release, I hope (and believe) that we have fewer issues facing
>us in the current 2.6.0. But very obviously there are going to be a
>few test-releases before the real thing.
>
>The point of the test versions is to make more people realize that they
>need testing and get some straggling developers realizing that it's too
>late to worry about the next big feature. I'm hoping that Linux vendors
>will start offering the test kernels as installation alternatives, and
>do things like make upgrade internal machines, so that when the real
>2.6.0 does happen, we're all set.
>
> Linus
>
>---
>
>Summary of changes from v2.5.75 to v2.6.0-test1
>============================================
>
><jcchen:icplus.com.tw>:
> o [netdrvr sundance] increase eeprom read timeout
>
><taowenhwa:intel.com>:
> o [e100] cu_start: timeout waiting for cu
> o [e100] misc
>
>Alan Cox:
> o genrtc sets owner fields so
> o Remove bogus printk in microcode.c
> o clean up floppy98 a bit
> o dtlk comment fix
> o isurf compile fix
> o axnet can unload with timers live
> o ibmtr can unload with timers live
> o fix up nmclan locking and hang on eject at wrong moment
> o fix further timer in pcmcia stuff
> o Fix remaining g_NCR5380 use of check_region
> o not sure what the author was on
> o AC97 updates from 2.4
> o Add the au1000 driver
> o demo plugin for switching ad1980 ports Dell style
> o Fix security leaks in btaudio
> o Add the ALI5455 driver from 2.4
> o fix security leaks in cmpci
> o Update cs46xx in 2.5 to the newer 2.4 release
> o fix the security leak in dmasound
> o Switch the SB Live! to the new ac97 api
> o fix security leaks and a crash in es1370
> o bring es1371 in line with 2.4
> o fix security leak and crash in esssolo
> o Add Forte Media OSS driver
> o update ITE audio
> o update the i810 audio driver
> o switch maestro3 to new ac97
> o fix security leak in maestro.c
> o fix security leak in msnd_pinnacle.c
> o Add swarm driver for broadcom boards
> o update nec driver to new ac97
> o update trident driver for new ac97 etc
> o fix wrong printk in nm256 audio
> o update via audio driver, make it work on esd add new chips
> o more wrong strlcpy's
> o update ymfpci for new ac97
> o Merge AD1889 driver from 2.4
>
>Alan Stern:
> o USB: Small correction to usb-skeleton.c
> o USB: Updates for unusual_devs.h
>
>Andi Kleen:
> o Deprecate numerical sysctl
> o x86-64 fixes for 2.5.75
>
>Andrew Morton:
> o fix return of compat_sys_sched_getaffinity
> o remove proc_mknod()
> o reiserfs dirty memory accounting fix
> o fix reiserfs for 64bit arches
> o wall_to_monotonic initialization fixes for
> o i_size atomic access: infrastructure
> o i_size atomic access
> o kmap() -> kmap_atomic() in fs/exec.c
> o make CONFIG_KALLSYMS default to "on"
> o misc fixes
> o Set umask correctly for nfsd kernel threads
> o Bug fix in AIO initialization
> o Fix race condition between aio_complete and
> o separate locking for vfsmounts
> o fix for CPU scheduler load distribution
> o NBD: cosmetic cleanups
> o nbd: enhanced diagnostics support
> o nbd: remove unneeded blksize_bits field
> o nbd: initialise the embedded kobject
> o nbd: cleanup PARANOIA usage & code
> o NBD documentation update
> o nbd: remove unneeded nbd_open/nbd_release and refcnt
> o nbd: make nbd and block layer agree about device and
> o JBD: checkpointing optimisations
> o JBD: transaction buffer accounting fix
> o ext3: sync_fs() fix
> o oom killer fixes
> o yenta-socket initialisation fix
> o Fix yenta-socket oops
> o devfs oops fix
> o devfs deadlock fix
> o epoll-per-fd fix
>
>Andries E. Brouwer:
> o cryptoloop
>
>Bernardo Innocenti:
> o asm-generic/div64.h breakage
>
>Brian Gerst:
> o c99 initializers for init/version.c
>
>Daniel Ritz:
> o more net driver timer fixes
> o net/pcmcia fix fast_poll timers (HZ > 100)
>
>Dave Jones:
> o [AGPGART] Remove unneeded assignment
> o [AGPGART] Use defines for register bits in AMD K8 GART driver
> o [AGPGART] K8 GART driver doesn't need masks
> o [AGPGART] Ignore multiple K8 GARTS on UP
> o [AGPGART] Optimise PCI searching in K8 GART driver
> o [AGPGART] K8 Device 0x1103 is always at PCI_FUNC 3
> o [AGPGART] K8 North bridge bus position is no longer relevant
> o [AGPGART] HP AGP update
> o [AGPGART] Sort SiS device IDs
> o [AGPGART] SiS 746 support This (and a few other SiS chipsets) are
> AGP 3 compliant. AFAIK, none of these have been tested in AGP3
> mode, but they should work just fine in AGP2.x mode at least.
> o [AGPGART] SiS 648 support
> o [AGPGART] Make frontend sparse clean
>
>David Brownell:
> o USB: usb_get_string(), don't use bogus ids
> o USB: usbnet, don't NET_XMIT_DROP
>
>David S. Miller:
> o [SPARC]: SEMTIMEDOP for both Sparc ports
> o [SPARC64]: Port over IPC msg{snd,rcv} compat32 fixes from ia64
> o [TCP]: When in SYN-SENT, initialize metrics after move to
> established state
> o [NET]: Ok, sunhme is VLAN challenged after all
> o [IPV6]: Build and send redirect packet using "buff" not "skb",
> fixes OOPS
> o [IPV6]: Fix dst reference counting in ndisc_send_redirect()
> o [NET,COMPAT]: Delete bogus icmpv6 filter translation code
> o [IPV6]: Fix leaks of ndisc DST entries
> o [SPARC64]: Ditch local KALLSYMS from Kconfig, update defconfig
> o [SPARC64]: Implement force_successful_syscall()
> o [SPARC64]: Use mm->free_area_cache
> o [IPV4]: Do not redefine config macros in net/ip_vs.h
> o [IPV4]: Always use Jenkins hash in ipvs conn table, use
> get_random_bytes() to init key
> o [IPV4]: Kill slow timers from IPVS, they are superfluous and
> inefficient these days
>
>David Stevens:
> o [IPV4]: Do not sent IGMP leave messages unless IFF_UP
>
>Dominik Brodowski:
> o [PCMCIA] don't hide calls to socket drivers
> o [PCMCIA] rename ss_entry to ops
>
>Fran?ois Romieu:
> o Fix AD1889 driver 2.4 merge
> o Fix error path in AD1889 driver
>
>Greg Kroah-Hartman:
> o USB: fix up my USB Bluetooth entry to help prevent confusion in the
> future
> o USB: remove pointless warning about using usbdevfs
>
>Herbert Xu:
> o [IPSEC]: Missing reqid check in xfrm_state_ok
>
>Hideaki Yoshifuji:
> o [IPV6]: Fix offset of payload with extension header
>
>Ian Abbott:
> o USB: ftdi_sio update
>
>James Morris:
> o [NETLINK]: Just drop packets for kernel netlink socket with no
> data_ready handler
>
>Jean Tourrilhes:
> o [IrDA] include cleanup
> o [IrDA] struct check
> o [IrDA] irtty leaks
> o [IrDA] irnet cast
> o [IrDA] IrCOMM devfs
> o [IrDA] setup dma fix
> o [IrDA] irda-usb endian
> o [IrDA] nsc 39x support
>
>Jeff Garzik:
> o [netdrvr tg3] more ULL suffixes to make gcc 3.3 happy
> o [netdrvr] fix compiler warnings in 3c359, proteon, skisa tokenring
> drivers.
> o [netdrvr wavelan] remove check_region usage
> o [netdrvr atmel_cs] kill compiler warning (jumping to "empty" label)
>
>Jens Axboe:
> o disk stats accounting fix
> o Fix IDE-CD command failure re-play
> o fs accounting, part 2
>
>Kay Sievers:
> o usblp: usb_buffer_free() not called Here is the blind flight :-)
> === drivers/usb/class/usblp.c usblp->dev was set to NULL to
> indicate a device disconnect but we need this value for
> usb_buffer_free() when device is still opened and cleanup is
> delayed until usblp_release().
>
>Linus Torvalds:
> o Avoid mmap() overflow case if TASK_SIZE is the full range of an
> "unsigned long" (sparc64).
> o Merge comment updates from DRI CVS tree
> o Update i810 DRI driver from CVS to add page flipping
> o Update r128 driver from DRI CVS: add support for ycbcr textures
> o Update radeon driver from DRI CVS: add more commands
> o Merge from DRI CVS tree: avoid zero DRI "handles"
> o Merge with DRI CVS tree - which added a reminder to the DRI people
> not to remove the HAVE_KERNEL_CTX_SWITCH support that the sparc
> drivers require.
> o Fix signedness tests in vsnprintf by making it explicit
> o Mark Bartlomiej as the IDE maintainer, about 3 months late ;)
> o Disable TI cardbus PCI IRQ routing code that was forward-ported
> from 2.4-ac - it seems to cause hangs for people.
>
>Matthew Dharm:
> o USB: fix usb-storage initializers
> o USB: fix datafab and freecom to use I/O buffer
>
>Matthew Wilcox:
> o parisc updates
> o Makefile update for parisc
> o eisa Kconfig update for parisc
> o Add two sysctls for PA-RISC
> o Remove warning from binfmt_elf.c for upwards growing stack
> o gsc-ps2 update
>
>Miles Bader:
> o Use <asm-generic/statsfs.h> on v850
> o More irqreturn_t changes for v850
> o show_stack changes for v850
>
>Nivedita Singhvi:
> o [NET]: Fix typo in net-sysfs.c copyright
>
>Pete Zaitcev:
> o [SPARC]: Clean secondary System.map
> o [SPARC]: defconfig for willy's scsi
> o [SPARC]: hch's cond_syscall() for PCI syscalls, Alpha/PPC/etc. can
> use this too
> o [SPARC]: Redo show_stack()
> o [SPARC]: Trap table alignment for Hyperspace (Keith Weselowsky)
>
>Petr Sebor:
> o via-agp.c - agp_try_unsupported typo
>
>Petr Vandrovec:
> o new sysctl checking accesses userspace directly
>
>Ralf B?chle:
> o mkiss
>
>Richard Henderson:
> o [ALPHA] Add tgkill syscall
> o [ALPHA] Set correct CLOCK_TICK_RATE for the RTC
> o [ALPHA] Remove SBUS & MCA from alpha Kconfig
>
>Robert Zwerus:
> o Documentation/CodingStyle spelling fixes
>
>Russell King:
> o [PCMCIA] Prevent PCMCIA oops during socket driver initialisation
> o [PCMCIA] Fix hangs when PCMCIA modules loaded
>
>Samuel Thibault:
> o [2.5] maestro volume tuning
>
>Stephen Hemminger:
> o convert plip to alloc_netdev
> o [netdrvr dgrs] convert to using alloc_etherdev
>
>Steve French:
> o NTLMv2 password support and NTLMSSP signing part 1
> o ntlmssp signing
> o More NTLMv2
> o Open / Create lookup intents part one
> o Add mknod support
> o fix cifs distributed caching - send oplock release immediately
> after flush of writebehind data on oplock break from server
>
>Thomas Graf:
> o [NET]: Return EDESTADDRREQ as appropriate in sendmsg
> implementations
>
>Ulrich Drepper:
> o Re: utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls
>
>Wensong Zhang:
> o [NET]: Merge in IPVS layer
>
>
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