"Ok, újra itt vagyunk. Köszönjük Nathan-nak, a heroikus küzdelmét, amelyet a kernel.org hardverével vív." - ezzel a bevezetővel adta ki Alan mester a következő foltját a 2.4-pre kernelhez.
Letölthető patch-2.4.21-pre4-ac3.bz2
Alan levele, changelog:Ok here we go again. Thanks should go to Nathan for his heroic battle with failing kernel.org hardware.
Linux 2.4.21pre4-ac3
o ALi FIFO setup channel fix (Al Viro)
| This needs careful testing. Treat -ac3 with a lot of care
| on ALi platforms and report how it goes
o Fix the dma waiting overflow (Ben Herrenschmidt)
o Fix ATAPI devices on VIA8235 (Vojtech Pavlik)
o Add ndelay for Alpha (Ivan kokshaysky)
o Give ndelay sensible argument names (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix pcnet32 big endian filtering (Marcus Meissner)
o Fix ordering problem with PCI radeon causing (Chris Ison)
DRI hangs
o Fix C3 gcc compiler flags for newer gcc (Jeff Garzik)
o Replace nvidia and amd IDE drivers with new (Vojtech Pavlik)
driver
o Fix missing ; in aicasm_gram.y (Thibaut VARENE)
o NCR5380 trivial fix (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Make constants in maxiradio static (Arnd Bergmann)
o Fix typos of 'available' (Alfredo Sanjuan)
o Fix wrong checks in bttv ioctl code (Alexandre Pereira Nunes)
o Fix i2c_ack cris extra ";"
o Fix JSIOCSBTNMAP extra ";"
o Fix VIDIOCGTUNER on w9966
o Fix amd8111e_read_regs
o Fix smctr_load_node_addr
o Fix sym53c8xxx extra ";"
o Fix sym53c8xxx_2 extra ";"
o Fix cs46xx download area clear
o Fix hysdn bootup error handling
o Fix mtd mount error checks
o Fix dpt_i2o reset error paths
o Fix a jffs error path handler
o Fix es1371 error path on register
o Fix sscape operator precedence
o Fix copy counting in vrc5477 audio
o Fix cdu31a oops with data cd (Mauricio Martinez)
o Fix ide taskfile if ";" errors (Oleg Drokin)
o Add 3com 3c460 to kaweth (Oliver Neukum)
o Kaweth length/dhcp fix (Oliver Neukum)
o ISD-200 requires IDE (Olaf Hering)
Linux 2.4.21pre4-ac2
o Turn on use of ide_execute_command everywhere (Ross Biro, me)
o First cut at settings locking for IDE (me)
o Add driver for CS5530 Kahlua audio (me)
o Fix wrong semicolons in system.h (Mikael Pettersson)
o Support root=nbd (Ben LaHaise)
o x86 byte order swapping optimisations (Andi Kleen)
o PMAC ide updates (Ben Herrenschmidt)
o Fix mishandling of nfsroot port= option (Eric Lammerts)
o Fix ALi audio on systems with > 2Gb RAM (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Enable generic rtc on PPC boxes (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Fix ide build with gcc 3.3 snapshot (Olaf Hering)
o Merge EHCI updates (qh state machine fix etc) (David Brownell)
o Fix radio-cadet SMP build (Adrian Bunk)
o Starfire updates (Ion Badulescu)
o Backport seq_file fix to 2.4 (Eric Sandeen)
o Fix ext3 crash deleting a single non sparse (Stephen Tweedie)
file exceeding 1Tb
Linux 2.4.21pre4-ac1
o Restore the mmap corner case fix (Raul)
o Add sendfile64 to 2.4.x (Christoph Hellwig)
o NLM garbage collection hang fix (Daniel Forrest)
o Enable kernel side pcigart for radeon (Michael Danzer)
| Requires recent XFree and ForcePCIMode
o Don't bash legacy floppy on x86_64 bootup (Mikael Petersson)
o Forward sony joygdial input to input layer (Stelian Pop)
o TCP session stall fix (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Ian Nelson has moved (Ian Nelson)
o Add unplugged iops ready for hotplug IDE support(me)
o Add an OUTBSYNC iop for the IDE layer (Ben Herrenschmidt)
o Finish the ide_execute_command code (me)
o Switch ide-cd to ide_execute_command (me)
| Always good to test stuff on read only devices first 8)
o Fix IDE masking logic error (Ross Biro)
o Fix IDE mishandling of IRQ 0 devices (me)
o Fix printk levels on promise drivers (me)
o Clean up duplicate mmio ops/printk in siimage (me)
o Always set interrupt line with VIA northbridge (me)
| Should fix apic mode problems with USB/audio/net on VIA boards
o Add Diamond technology dt0893 codec (Thomas Davis)
o Add IBM 'Ruthless' platform string to summit
o Don't warn about IRQ when enabling a pure (me)
legacy mode IDE class device
o Clean up radio_cadet locking and other bugs (me)
o Fix jiffies mishandling in eata drivers (Tim Schmielau)
o Quieten confusing DMA disabled messages (Tomas Szepe)
o i830 DRM update port over (Arjan van de Ven)
Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac5
o Fix erratic oopsing on 2.4.21pre3-ac* (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix an incorrect check in raw.c (Artur Frycze)
o Fix highmem IDE DMA (Jens Axboe)
o Fix the size of the EDD area (Kevin Lawton)
o Remove incorrect ACPI blacklist entry (Pavel Machek)
o SCSI memory leak fix (Justin Gibbs)
o Fix mmap of vmalloc area in kmem giving wrong (Tony Dziedzic)
results
o Fix date in the microcode driver (Jonah Sherman)
o Fix incorrect smc9194 handling of skb_padto (David McCullough)
o Fix use of old check_regio function in umc8672 (William Stinson)
o Remove unused variable in sc1200 (Bob Miller)
o Perform ide_cs unregister in task context (Paul Mackerras)
| This doesn't fix all the bugs yet...
o Fix bugs in the gx power management code (Hiroshi Miura)
o Fix the sl82c105 driver for the new IDE code (Benjamin Herrenschmidt,
Russell King)
o Remove cacheflush debug printk (me)
o Fix IDE paths in docs for new layout (Karl-Heinz Eischer)
o Generic RTC driver backport (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o HDLC driver updates (Krzysztof Halasa)
o AMD8111 random number generator support (Andi Kleen)
o Fix crashes on e2100 driver (me)
Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac4
o Finish verifying PIIX/ICH drivers versus errata (me)
o Fix handling of DMA0 MWDMA on early ICH (me)
o Fix compile in kernel for Aurora SIO16 (Adrian Bunk)
o Clean up various Configure.help bits (Adrian Bunk)
o Disallow write combining on 450NX (me)
o Ensure rev C0 450NX has restreaming off (me)
o Don't do IDE DMA on rev B0 450NX or later (me)
450NX without BIOS workarounds for the hang
o Update Configure.help for HPT IDE (Adrian Bunk)
o Fix harmless code error in sb_mixer (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix ethernet padding on via-rhine (Roger Luethi)
o Add ndelay functionality for x86 (me)
| Based on Ross Biro's code
o Add ide_execute_command (me)
| Again based on Ross Biro's changed. Not yet used
| This will be the new correct way to kick off an
| IDE command from non IRQ context
o Matroxfb compile fix for one option combination (Petr Vandrovec)
Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac3
o Address comments on wcache value/issuing (me)
cache flush requests
o Update credits entry for Stelian Pop (Stelian Pop)
o Backport some sonypi improvements from 2.5 (Kunihiko IMAI)
o Fix pdcraid/silraid symbol clash (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix ehci build with older gcc (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix via 8233/5 hang (me)
o Fix non SMP cpufreq build (Eyal Lebidinsky)
o Fix sbp2 build with some config options (Eyal Lebidinsky)
o Fix ATM build bugs (Francois Romieu)
o Fix an ipc/sem.c race (Bernhard Kaindl)
o Fix toshiba keyboard double release (Unknown)
o CPUFreq updaes/fixes (Dominik Brodowski)
o Natsemi Geode/Cyrix MediaGX cpufreq support (Hiroshi Miura,
Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Add frequency table helpers to CPUfreq (Dominik Brodowski)
Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac2
o Fix the dumb bug in skb_pad (Dave Miller)
o Confirm some sparc bits are wrong and drop them (Dave Miller)
o Remove a wrong additional copyright comment (Dave Miller)
o Upgrade IPMI driver to v16 (Corey Minyard)
o Fix 3c523 compile (Francois Romieu)
o Handle newer rpm where -ta is rpmbuild not rpm (me)
o Driver for Aurora Sio16 PCI adapter series (Joachim Martillo)
(SIO8000P, 16000P, and CPCI)
| Initial merge
o Backport Hammer 32bit mtrr/nmi changes (Andi Kleen)
o Add the fast IRQ path to via 8233/5 audio (me)
Linux 2.4.21pre3-ac1
+ Handle battery quirk on the Vaio Z600-RE (Paul Mitcheson)
* EHCI USB updates (David Brownell)
+ IDE Raid support for AMI/SI 'Medley' IDE Raid (Arjan van de Ven)
+ NVIDIA nForce2 IDE PCI identifiers (Johannes Deisenhofer,
Tim Krieglstein)
* CPU bitmask truncation fix (Bjorn Helgaas)
o HP100 cleanup (Pavel Machek)
o Fix initial capslock handling on USB keyboard (Pete Zaitcev)
+ Update dscc4 driver for new wan (Francois Romieu)
+ Fix boot on Chaintech 4BEA/4BEA-R and (Alexander Achenbach)
Gigabyte 9EJL by handing wacky E820 memory
reporting
o SysKonnect driver updates (Mirko Lindner)
o Fix memory leak in n_hdlc (Paul Fulghum)
o Fix missing mtd dependancy (Herbert Xu)
+ Clean up ide-tape printk stuff (Pete Zaitcev)
+ IDE tape fixes (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix size reporting of large disks in scsi (Andries Brouwer)
+ Fix excessive stack usage in NMI handlers (Mikael Pettersson)
+ Add support for Epson 785EPX USB printer pcmcia (Khalid Aziz)
* Quirk handler to sort out IDE compatibility (Ivan Kokshaysky)
mishandling
+ Model 1 is valid for PIV in MP table (Egenera)
+ Ethernet padding fixes for various drivers (me)
o Allow trident codec setup to time out (Ian Soboroff)
This can happen with non PM codecs
o Fix broken documentation link (Henning Meier-Geinitz)
o Update video4linux docbook (William Stimson)
o Correct kmalloc check in dpt_i2o (Pablo Menichini)
o Shrink kmap area to required space only (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix irq balancing (Ben LaHaise)
o CPUfreq updates (Dominik Brodowski)
o Fix typo in pmagb fb (John Bradford)
o EDD backport (Matt Domsch)
REMOVED FOR NOW
- RMAP
REMOVED FOR GOOD
- LLC (See 2.5)
- VaryIO (Never accepted mainstream)
