Date:	Fri, 5 Feb 1999 10:51:51 -0800 (PST)
From:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
To:	MOLNAR Ingo <mingo@chiara.csoma.elte.hu>
Subject: Linux-2.2.2-pre2..


There's a new pre-2 on ftp.kernel.org in testing: this one contains
various small documentation updates and updates to xconfig, but the
important parts (and the smallest part of the actual patch) are:

 - shared file lockup fix by Stephen Tweedie
 - my fix for the TCP bug that Ingo found
 - Ingo's io-apic setup fixes, which should finally get rid of the
   spurious apic interrupts with some motherboards and the ExtINT setup.
 - inode leak thing
 - SMP scheduler potential race condition fix
 - sound driver updates
 - partition and disk fixes (2kB blocksize media and some IDE disk
   geometry and irq detection issues).

None of the fixes are critical to most people, but all of them _can_ be
critical to people who have seen vulnerabilities in the area. As such, if
you're happy with 2.2.1 there is no pressing reason to test this patch
out, but I hope to have the pre-patches so that the final 2.2.2 can be
left around for a while (CD-ROM manufacturers etc would certainly prefer
to not see lots of releases).

		Linus


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