Subject: Linux 2.2.15pre7
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 23:40:29 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

This should be all the important stuff now, it shouldnt print weird messages
but it might still lock up if you run it out of both memory and swap. The
driver updates are all done for 2.2.15, this is now just the final cleanup
and debug. This kernel should be rock solid except for the OOM issue.

2.2.15pre7
o	Fix problems with irq loss on Dell PowerEdge's	(Dell)
	| This may help other SMP boxes too
o	Update maintainers				(Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o	Maestro Powermanagement updates			(Zach 'Fufu' Brown)
o	AX.25 returned wrong address in recvmsg		(Tomi Manninen)
o	Kill warning in ipc/shm.c			(Dave Miller)
o	Poll table alloc fixes				(Manfred Spraul)
o	Add another drive to the blacklists		(Yoshihiro Kawabe)
o	Clean up K6/K7 cache reporting			(Catalin Muresan)
o	SCSI tape updates				(Kai Makisara)
o	Clean out the remaining gfp debug		(me)
o	Fix lmc Makefile bug				(Andrew Stanley-Jones)

2.2.15pre6
o	SMC-mca updates					(David Monro)
o	Stallion driver update				(Wayne Meissner)
o	DAC960 updates					(Leonard Zubkoff)
o	CPQ Array updates (adds SA431)			(Charles White)
o	Fix creative joystick crash			
o	Fix bogus RST when fins crossed			(Dave Miller)
o	Gemini serial driver update			(Cort Dougan)
o	Work around some MediaGX DMA bugs		(me)
	- Info thanks to Nat Semi
o	Fix type clashes between irda and Ingo HSM	(Dag Brattli)
o	IDE DMA abort handling fixes			(Andre Hedrick)
o	Cyrix 5530 IDE support				(Mark Lord)
o	3Ware raid controller driver			(Adam Radford)
o	Fix sunrpc queue corruption bug			(Trond Myklebust)
o	Sparc config updates				(Dave Miller)
o	Fix SMP powermac booting			(Paul Mackerras)
o	Fix bonding documentation			(Lennie Besselink)
o	CPIA parallel camera driver			(Peter Pregler)
o	Alternative page allocation hang fixes		(Andrea Arcangeli)
	| Reverted some of the other fixes. This wants
	| sorting nicely for 2.3.x, for 2.2.x Andrea's
	| approach is easier to verify
o	Fix shm/remap bug				(Eric Biederman)

2.2.15pre5

o	Support newer SCSI devices that lack READ6	(Jens Axboe)
	and WRITE6 commands.
o	Fix for the lanmedia bug I added when merging	(Andrew Stanley-Jones)
o	Qnxfs now builds with gcc 2.7.2			(Arjan van de Ven,
							 Anders Larsen)
o	Gemtek radio documentation update		(Jonas Munsin)
o	Sparc 32bit hook fixes				(Jakub Jelinek)
o	Make 1284 probing more reliable			(Tim Waugh)
o	ISDN4linux update				(Karsten Keil)
o	Small irda fixes				(Dag Brattli)
o	Channel bonding					(Thomas Davis)
o	Fix an IDE probing problem with CRW9624's	(Mark Lord)
o	Fix cases where things write to user space
	in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE as well as some other
	odd quirks					(Ben LaHaise et al)
o	Fix problem with Acer 50x drive and Linux ATAPI
	violation					(Mark Lord)
o	Page alloc change + debug traps			(Rik Van Riel)
o	Add 5LUN blacklist for the LASOUND CDX7405	(Brendan Miller)

2.2.15pre4

o	VM algorithm changes				(Rik van Riel)
o	Fix compile bug in qnxfs changes		(Leos Bitto)
o	Sparc32 KRUPS/Javastation fixes			(Peter Zaitcev)
o	Powermac fixes including OOM behaviour		(Paul Mackerras)
o	Fix 3c529 setup					(David Weinehall)
o	Remove the I2O test on Megaraid, doesn't work
	for all cases. Back to vanilla AMI code		(me)
o	Upgraded Davicom driver to v1.28		(Sten Wang)
o	SMC ircc update					(Dag Brattli)
o	Add module initialising debug stuff		(Keith Owens)
o	Fix defconfig 					(Niels Jensen)
o	3c509 PPC and SMC mca fixes			(David Monro)
o	Fixes for RIO driver for older cards		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Add Specialix SX+ support to SX driver		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Add custom divisor support to Specialix IO8+	(Nicolas Mailhot)
o	Clean up gemini PPC, turn on L2 for other cpus	(Cort Dougan)
o	QlogicFC updates				(Chris Loveland)
o	Lan Media T1/T3 card driver			(Lan Media Corp)

2.2.15pre3

o	Fix Sangoma stuff if compiled into kernel	(Mario Lorenz)
o	Fix smbfs for sparc64				(Dave Miller)
o	Specialix Rio drivers				(Specialix, Rogier Wolff)
o	Elf extra sanity checks from code audit		(Solar Designer)
o	Megaraid update to 1.07				(Dell/AMI)
o	Fix hang on boot with I2O configured megaraid	(me)
o	Fix small bug in the socket filter code		(??)
o	QNX file system updates				(Anders Larsen)
o	Intel 82559ER support in eepro100 driver	(Cobalt)
o	Workaround for 16C750 emulation bug		(Cobalt)
o	Show "preN" in make menuconfig			(Alan Ford)
o	Adaptec 29xx driver updates			(Doug Ledford)
o	Handle cross CPU TSC differences		(Ingo Molnar)
o	Update IRDA to match the 2.3.x codebase		(Dag Brattli)   

2.2.15pre2

o	Fix RTC build problem with Nautilus		(Michal Jaegermann)
o	Quieten NFS debugging messages			(me)
o	Fix bug in connect/listen handling in TCP	(Dave Miller)
o	Fix missing $(CC) cases				(Pascal DuPuis)
o	Fix SMP tcp hang				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Hopefully fixed PLIP				(me)
o	Fix sigtimedwait bug				(Christophe Blaess)
o	Updated epic100 driver				(Donald Becker)
	| If it works cool, if not we back it off
o	Sparc updates					(Dave Miller)
	| Fixes bugs with >258Mb on sun4d/sun4m
	| si_addr is set in siginfo
	| Fix signal type for FP/div events
	| DP division FPU emulation fixes
	| Fix sparc64 parport locking keyboard
	| ESP can be built as a module
o	Network fix kit					(Dave Miller and co)
	| Nagle improvements, TCP_CORK/FIN fix
	| /proc/net/tcp reports type 4 for timer
	| Fix TIME_WAIT logic
	| Clean up timer performance
	| Handle shutdown() in CLOSE_WAIT right
	| Report state change on tcp_fin after setting
	|	new state
	| Shutdown on close in write_err case 		(Paul Russell)
	
2.2.15pre1

o	Handle crossing X25 restart confirmations	(Guntram Blohm)
o	Large direct block I/O with small readahead
		could fail				(Mikulas Patocka)
o	Remove duplicate asm op				(Chris Noe)
o	IUCV Update for S/390				(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	Fixes to allow Linux/390 to run on P/390	(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	Some PPC configs didnt compile			(W Lewis)
o	Maybe fix TCP delack hang			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Missing task state change			(Natapov Gleb)
o	Fix 82596 false probes				(Richard Hirst)
o	Fix typo in ixj driver				(Tim Waugh)
o	Add AOpen PD-2 DVD to ghost list		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Masquerading site has moved			(Hugh Redelmeier)
o	Fix FAT bug					(Pavel Pisa)
o	Small NFS fixes					(HJ Lu)
o	Update ES1370 to handle rev7 chips		(Tom Sailer)
o	Use amateur radio drivers on Sparc		(Tom Sailer)
o	SCSI generic documentation updates		(Douglas Gilbert)
o	Fix clearing of NT in head.S			(Willy Tareau)
o	Add winchip2 MTRR support			(Bart Hartgers)
o	CREDITS entry for Victor 'RTLinux' Yodaiken	(Victor Yodaiken)
o	Zoltan Boszormenyi has changed address		(Zoltan Boszormenyi)
o	eepro100 updates		                (Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich)
o	Update Davicom driver				(Davicom)