From: Alan Cox <alan@terrorserver.swansea.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Linux 2.2.0ac2
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, editor@linuxtoday.com
Date: Wed, 27 Jan 1999 21:32:01 +0000 (GMT)


	ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2/..

This is primarily for people who want the large file array support. Most of the
other stuff I intend to submit on to Linus for 2.2.1/2.2.2 -> whenever

If you have a problem in 2.2.0ac2 verify you can duplicate it with 2.2.0
before posting general bug reports if possible. Make sure it is obvious
if a bug report is about -ac2 to avoid any confusion.

Definitely let me know if you have any ac2 specific problems. Don't bother
Linus unless 2.2.0 unpatched also breaks.

Alan

Differences between 2.2.0ac1 and 2.2.0ac2

Bug Fixes

o	Ingo's fix for the "execute a core dump" crash
o	IRDA update
o	Endianness & other fbcon fixes
o	GUS setup
o	ESS build on Alpha (unknown symbol in modular build)
o	Baycom driver could lock parallel port
o	MegaRAID update
o	Midi timing fixes
o	Correct permissions on a write only sysctl

Other

o	Erik Andersen moved address


Differences between 2.2.0 and 2.2.0ac1

Bug Fixes

o	Fixed the ESS compile problem
o	Changed the OPL3-SA contact as requested by Hannu
o	Small number of time wrap fixes
o	Xconfig/atyfb config fix
o	AFFS apparently didnt get the flag fixes when the other drivers
	did.
o	/proc/mem locking

Additional Features

o	Support for very large numbers of file handles per process
	(> 1024)
o	Better bw-qcam driver
o	NFS client understands pipes on file systems mounted via NFS
o	Symbol name matching between versioned/unversioned modules

Additional Drivers

o	Qlogic Fibrechannel 
o	Symbios 53c416

Other

o	ADFS updated
o	Lots of ARM merges
o	Ted's fsync change to ext2