Subject: Linux 2.2.18pre9
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
Date: Sat, 16 Sep 2000 13:04:01 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>


Resynchronize the USB stuff and starting bringing the ARM into line

2.2.18pre9
o	Fix usb module load oops			(Thomas Sailer)
o	Bring USB boot drivers in line with 2.4t8	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB print drivers				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB Rio driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB dc2xx driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB mdc800 driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	NFSv3 support and NFS updates			(Trond Myklebust and co)
o	Compaq 64bit/66Mhz PCI Fibrechannel driver	(Amy Vanzant-Hodge)
o	Disable microtouch driver (doesnt work in 2.2	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
	currently)
o	Update ADFS support				(Russell King)
o	Update ARM arch specific code and includes	(Russell King)
o	Update ARM specific drivers 			(Russell King)
o	Use both fast and slow A20 gating on boot	(Kira Brown)
	| if your box doesnt boot I want to know about it...
	| Needed for stuff like the AMD Elan

2.2.18pre8
o	Fix mtrr compile bug				(Peter Blomgren)
o	Alpha PCI boot up fix				(Michal Jaegermann)
o	Fix vt/keyboard dependancy in USB config	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix sound hangs on cs4281			(Tom Woller)
o	Fix Alpha vmlinuz.lds				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND bug, allow root to open	(Jens Axboe)
	the cd door whenver.
o	Update ov511 to match 2.4			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Further devio.c fix				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Update NR_TASKS comment				(Jarkko Kovala)
o	Further sparc64 ioctl translator fixes		(Andi Kleen)

2.2.18pre7
o	Fix the AGP compile in bug			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Revert old incorrect syncppp state change	(Ivan Passos)
o	Fix i810 rng to actually get built in		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Megaraid compile fix, joystick, mkiss fixes	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Kawasaki USB ethernet depends on net		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Compaq cpqarray update				(Charles White)
o	Fix usb problem with no USB unit found		(Oleg Drokin)
o	Driver for the radio on some maestro cards	(Adam Tlalka)
o	Additional shared map support needed for sparc64(Dave Miller)
o	Fix wdt_pci when compiled in			(me, Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix usb missing symbol when non modular		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Identify chip and also handle MTRR for the 	(me)
	Cyrix III
o	Allow binding to all ports multicast		(Andi Kleen)
o	Bring USB docs up to date			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Bring USB devio up to date			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	pci_resource_len null function for non PCI case	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix synchronous write off end of disk bug	(Jari Ruusu)

2.2.18pre6
o	Fix the IDE PCI not compiling bug		(Dag Wieers)
o	Kill an escaped reference to vger.rutgers	(Dave Miller)
o	Small rtl8139 fixups				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Add USB bluetooth driver			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix oops in visor driver			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Remove some unneeded ext2 includes,fix a bug	(Andreas Dilger)
	in the UFS code
o	Fix rtc race between timer and rtc irq		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix slow gettimeofday SMP race			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Check lost_ticks in settimeofday to be more	(Andrea Arcangeli)
	precise

2.2.18pre5
o	Added older VIA ide chipsets to the not to be	(me)
	autotuned list
o	Fix crash on boot problem with __setup stuff	(me)
o	Small acenic fix				(Matt Domsch)
o	Fix hfc_pci isdn driver				(Jens David)
o	Fix smbfs configuration problem			(Urban Widmark)
o	Emu10K wrapper/build fixes			(Rui Sousa)
o	Small cleanups					(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix sparc32 build bug				(Horst von Brand)
o	Fix quota oops					(Martin Diehl)
o	Add i810 random number driver			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Clear suid bits on ext2 truncate as per SuS	(Andi Kleen)
o	Fix illegal use of section attributes		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Documentation for nmi watchdog			(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix uninitialised variable warnings		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Save DR6 condition into the TSS			(Ryan Wallach)
o	Add additional __init's to the kernel	(Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o	Backport 2.4 wdt_pci driver			(JP Nollman, me)
o	AGP i810 fixes					(Chip Salzenberg)
o	UDMA support for ALI1543 & 1543C IDE devices	(ALI)
o	2.4 MSR/CPUID driver backport			(Dave Jones, 
								H Peter Anvin)
o	Fix incorrect use of kernel v user ptr in NCPfs	(Petr Vandrovec)
o	Updated scsi tape driver			(Kai Makisara)

2.2.18pre4
o	Remove the aacraid driver again, having looked	(me)
	at what is needed to make it acceptable and 
	debug it - Im dumping it back on Adaptec
o	DAC960 update					(Leonard Zubkoff)
o	Add setup vmlinuz.lds changes for Sparc		(Arjan van den Ven)
o	Sparc updates for drm, ioctl and other		(Dave Miller)
o	Megaraid driver update				(Peter Jarrett)
o	Add cd volume 0 to the amp power off on the
	crystal cs46xx					(Bill Nottingham)
o	Fix IPV6 fragment and kfree bugs		(Alexey Kuznetsov)
o	Fix emu10k build bug				(me)
o	Emu10K driver upgrade. Adds emu-aps support	(Rui Sousa)
o	Updated IBM serveraid driver to 4.20		(IBM)
o	Ext2 block handling cleanup from 2.4		(Al Viro)
o	Make the ATI128 driver modular			(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix megaraid build bug with gcc 2.7.2		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix some of the dquot races			(Jan Kara)
o	x86 setup code cleanup				(Dave Jones)
o	Implement 2.4 compatible __setup and __initcall	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Tidy up smp_call_function stuff			(Keitaro Yosimura)
o	Remove 2.4 compat glue from cs4281 driver	(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix minor bugs in bluesmoke now someone actually
	has a faulty CPU and logs			(me)
o	Fix definition of IPV6_TLV_ROUTERALERT		(Dave Miller)
o	Fix in6_addr, ip_decrease_ttl, other		(Dave Miller)
	minor bits
o	cp932 fixes					(Kazuki Yasumatsu)
o	Updated gdth driver				(Andreas Koepf)
o	Acenic update					(Jes Sorensen)
o	Update USB serial drivers			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Move pci_resource_len into pci compat		(Marcelo Tosatti)

2.2.18pre3  (versus 2.2.17pre20)
o	Clean up most of the compatibility macros	(me)
	that various people use. I've systematically
	moved the 100% correct ones to the headers
	used in 2.4
o	Fix newly introduced bug in kmem_cache_shrink	(Daniel Roesen)
o	Further updates to symbios drivers		(Gerhard Roudier)
o	Remove emu10K warning and mtrr warning		(Daniel Roesen)
o	Fix symbol clash between cs4281 and esssolo1	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix acenic non modular/module build issues	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix bug in alpha csum_partial_copy that could	(Herbert Xu)
	cause spurious EFAULTs
o	Yet another eepro100 variant sighted		(Torben Mathiasen)
o	Minor microcode.c final tweak			(Daniel Roesen)
o	Document that ATIFB is now modular		(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Parport update					(Tim Waugh)
o	First set of ext2 updates/fixes			(Al Viro)
o	Bring smbfs back into line with 2.2		(Urban Widmark)
	| This should make OS/2 work again
o	Fix S/390 _stext (still doesnt build dasd)	(Kurt Roeckx)
o	Remove unused vars in arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c	(Daniel Roesen)
o	Update the DHCP initrd support			(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Allow opening empty scsi removables like IDE
	with O_NONBLOCK (needed for some ioctls)	(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Back out vibra mixer change
o	Fix error returns in sbni driver		(Dawson Engler)
o	Initial merge of the aacraid driver		(Adaptec)
	| Much deuglification left to be done here
o	Report megaraid: on obscure megaraid error	(Daniel Deimert)
	strings
o	Add another CS4299 id string			(Mulder Tjeerd)

2.2.18pre2  (versus 2.2.17pre20)

o	Fix the compile problems with microcode.c	(Dave Jones, 
							 Daniel Roesen)
o	GDTH driver update 				(Achim Leubner)
o	Fix mathsemu miuse of casting with asm		(??)
o	Make msnd_pinnacle driver build on Alpha
o	Acenic 0.45 fixes				(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Compaq CISS driver (SA 5300)			(Charles White, 
	+ cleanups					 me)
	+ gcc 2.95 fixup
o	Modularise pm2fb and atyfb
o	Upgrade AMI Megaraid driver to 1.09		(AMI)
o	Add DEC HSG80 and COMPAQ 'logical volume' to
	scsi multilun list
o	SK PCI FDDI driver support			(Schneider & Koch)
o	Linux 2.2 USB backport				(Vojtech Pavlik)
	backport 3 + further fixes from the USB list
	+ mm/slab.c fix for cache destroy
o	AGP driver backport				(XFree86, Precision
	DRM driver backport				 Insight, XiG, HJ Lu, 
							 VA Linux, 
							 and others)

2.2.18pre1  (versus 2.2.17pre20)

o	Update symbios/ncr driver to 1.7.0/3.4.0	(Gerhard Roudier)
o	Updated ATP870U driver				(ACard)
o	Avoid running tq_scheduler stuff sometimes with	(Andrea Arcangeli)
	interrupts off
o	Futher cpu setup updates			(me)
o	IBM MCA scsi driver updates			(Michael Lang)
o	Fix incorrect out of memory handling in bttv	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix incorrect out of memory handling in buz	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix incorrect out of memory handling in qpmouse	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in ipddp		(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in sdla		(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in softoss	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in ixj 		(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in ax25		(Dawson Engler)
o	Merge the microcode driver from 2.4 into 2.2	(Tigran Aivazian)
o	Fix skbuff handling bug in the smc9194 driver	(Arnaldo Melo)
o	Fix problems with SIS900 driver on some 630E	(Lei-Chun Chang)
	boards
o	Make vfat use the same generation rules as	(H. Kawaguchi,
	in windows 9x					 Chip Salzenberg)
o	Fix oops in the CPQ array driver		(Arnaldo Melo)
o	Fix ac97 codec not setting the id field		(Bill Nottingham)
o	Further work on the cs46xx/CD power bits	(me)
o	Synclink updates 				(Paul Fulgham)
o	Synclink init bug fix				(Arnaldo Melo)
o	Handle odd interrupts from toshiba floppies	(Alain Knaff)
o	Fix trident driver build on nautilus Alpha	(Peter Petrakis)
o	Add later sb16 imix support tot he sb driver	(Massimo Dal Zotto)
o	Ignore luns that report can be connected, but	(Matt Domsch)
	not currently
o	Fix dereference after kfree in uart401.c	(Dawson Engler)
o	Return correct SuS error code for an unknown	(Herbert Xu)
	socket family
o	Add sub window clipping to the bttv driver	(Thomas Jacob)
o	Fix nfs cache locked messages			(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix the modutils misdocumentation		(Martin Douda)
o	Remove bogus biosparm code from seagate.c	(Andries Brouwer)
o	Return correct error code on failed fasync set	(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Handle dcc resume with newer irc clients when	(Scottie Shore)
	doing an irq masq