Linux Kernel 2.4.17-RC1

Hi,

I've just copied 2.4.17-rc1 to ftp.kernel.org... Its mirroring yet,


probably.

Well, I want people with the "unfreeable" buffer/cache problem to confirm


with me that 2.4.17-rc1 is working ok.

The same change which should fix that problem also should make 2.4 a bit


less "swap happy".

rc1:

- Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls (Mark Hymers)


- Console race fix (Andrew Morton/Robert Love)


- Configure.help update (Eric S. Raymond)


- Correctly fix Direct IO bug (Linus Benedict Torvalds)


- Turn off aacraid debugging (Alan Cox)


- Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback() (Alexander Viro)


- Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092


pcmcia driver (Keith Owens)


- ns83820 zerocopy bugfix (Benjamin LaHaise)


- Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get freed (me)"