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From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Linux 2.2.1ac6
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, editor@linuxtoday.com
Date: Tue, 16 Feb 1999 22:08:42 +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 2.2.1ac6 verify you can duplicate it with 2.2.1
before posting general bug reports if possible. Make sure it is obvious
if a bug report is about -ac6 to avoid any confusion.

Definitely let me know if you have any ac6 specific problems. Don't bother
Linus unless 2.2.1 unpatched also breaks.

Alan

Differences between 2.2.1ac5 and 2.2.1ac6

o	Merge to Linus 2.2.2pre4
o	chgrp security fix				(Mark Jefferys)
o	Delete now ignored source route config		(Jim Bauer)
o	NTFS out of memory crash fixes			(Steve Dodd)
o	HFS corruption fixes				(Adrian Sun)
o	IPX NULL pointer oops fix			(Daniel Drown)
o	IDE SCSI lun fix				(Wolfgang Wander)
o	Fix mkdir clearing setgid bit on dirs		(Trond)
o	IP filter security holes fixed			(Andi, ANK)
o	VM Improvements					(Stephen Tweedie)
o	PPP/VJ panic on Alpha fix			(Adrian Sun)
o	TCP timer race, timer bughunter			(Ingo Molnar)
o	Typhoon radio support				(Henrik Seidel)
o	COSA update					(Jan Kasprzak)
o	SMC ultra updated				(Don Becker/Tom Rini)
o	SyncPPP keepalive count upped			(Jan Kasprzak)
o	ACard PCI fixes					(Krzysztof Baranowski)
o	Future Domain MCA compile bug fixed		(David Weinehall)
o	IRDA update					(Dag Brattli)
o	QlogicFC update					(Chris Loveland)
o	Lock inode on fdatasync()			(Chris Lawrence)

Differences between 2.2.1ac4 and 2.2.1ac5

o	Fixed a dumb sound bug introduced in ac4	(me)
o	Last bits of Linus 2.2.2pre1 merged		(Niels)
o	Warning cleanups				(assorted)
o	drivers/net/Config.in fix			(Niels)
o	scripts/ver_linux fix for net tools		(Niels)
o	CS89x0 module MODULE_PARMS missing		(me)
o	NFS lockd changes				(HJ Lu)	
o	NFS write clustering fixes			(Trond)
o	Merged with Linus 2.2.2pre2
o	EEPro100 IRQ share fixes			(Kai Makisara)
o	Fixed the TLAN crashes when out of memory	(me)

Differences between 2.2.1ac3 and 2.2.1ac4

o	AIC7xxx updated					(Doug Ledford)
o	Make clean fixes				(Niels)
o	smbfs ioctl definition				(Michael Warfield)
o	Test work to fix DEFxx driver for 2.2		(me)
o	Proc fs documentation fixes			(Ulrich Windl)
o	Fix AMD step reporting				(me)
o	CODA crash in /proc cure			(Andrea)
o	Firewall marks lost on buffer copies		(ANK, Rusty)
o	Sound core fixes for ALSA use			(Jaroslav)
o	Changes to NFS client flow control		(Trond)
o	SyncPPP negotiation fixes			(me)
o	Merged in Linus 2.2pre1 diffs so I can
	generate new diffs for Linus
o	Draft "block size query" ioctl			(me)
	| This is for comment/testing. Don't assume
	| its going to become a linux api item just yet

Differences between 2.2.1ac2 and 2.2.1ac3

o	VHX probing should be fixed			(me)
o	Zoltrix TV card supported			(Artur Skawina)
o	8K blocks/write cluster NFS			(Trond/Olaf Kirch)
	| This is a big patch but based on previously 
	| tested code. I've put it in because - well it goes
	| rather fast 8)
o	Renamed bits of the genhd 2048 byte code to keep
	Linus happy					(me)
o	Added EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS to smc ultra		(me)

Differences between 2.2.1ac1 and 2.2.1ac2

o	ESS updates (Rolf)
o	IDE probe irq fails fall back to the default IRQ (me)
o	Fixed an annoying use of hex not strings in net/sunrpc (me)
o	Initio A100 scsi support (Initio, Bas)
o	PS/2 mouse compat fixes (Scott Ananian)
o	MegaRAID update (AMI)
o	NFSD fix (Not sure who originated it)
o	Geometry fixes for IDE
o	Error in SCSI error workaround (Daio Ballabio)


Differences between 2.2.0ac2 and 2.2.1.ac1

o	Merged with Linus 2.2.1

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

Additional Features

o	Full (I hope) support for 2048 byte media M/O drives.

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