Alan Cox ismét elemében van. Ma két -ac patchet is kiadott. A 2.4.20-pre5-ac5 és -ac6 ismét az IDE kód rendberakásának jegyében született meg. Mostantól az IDE drivereket betölthetjük akár boot időben, vagy modulként. Egyre azonban figyeljünk: NE próbáljuk meg kiszedni (unload) a betöltött modulakat még.
Letölthető patch-2.4.20-pre5-ac5.gz, patch-2.4.20-pre5-ac6.gz
Változások: [+ indicates stuff that went to Marcelo, o stuff that has not,
* indicates stuff that is merged in mainstream now, X stuff that proved bad and was dropped out, - indicates stuff not relevant to the main tree]
** Next stage IDE cleanup. This still has the simplex breakage. We know
** why I'm looking into fixes currently.
**
** You can now load ide pci drivers at boot time or as modules.
** Don't try unloading the modules yet.
**
Linux 2.4.20-pre5-ac6
o Fix ide BUG() with cdrom stuff (Jens Axboe)
o Inode kernel data leak fix (Ben LaHaise)
o Fix spinlock workaround to keep sparc people (Dave Miller)
happy
o Transparent pci-pci bridge fixes (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Backport sched_yield O(1) fixes from 2.5 (Robert Love)
o Comments for scheduler code (Ingo Molnar)
o Implement 2.5 compatible task_cpu wrappers (Robert Love)
o Backport minor scheduler fixes for O(1) from 2.5(Robert Love)
o Add configure.help for new USB bits (Adrian Bunk)
o OHCI takeover fix (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Add ALI1541 gameport support (Pascal Schmidt)
o Make rs_read_proc static (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o cpufreq updates (Dominik Brodowski)
o Radeonfb fixups for mobility P/M (H Peter Anvin)
o synclink MP link fix (Andrian Bunk)
o Fix mad16 gameport unload (Greg Alexander)
o Indent cpqfc so I can actually read it (me)
| No code changes
Linux 2.4.20-pre5-ac5
o Fix ALi OOPS on RLX blades (Dan Eaton)
o Finish up ide pci register code (me)
o Switch IDE PCI drivers to use new register code (me)
o Fix scribble over constant data in hpt34x (me)