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From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Linux-2.2.2ac7
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com
Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 04:07:14 +0000 (GMT)
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.2/..
If you have a problem in 2.2.2ac7 verify you can duplicate it with 2.2.2
before posting general bug reports if possible. Make sure it is obvious
if a bug report is about -ac7 to avoid any confusion.
Definitely let me know if you have any ac7 specific problems. Don't bother
Linus unless 2.2.2 unpatched also breaks.
Alan
Differences between 2.2.2ac6 and 2.2.2ac7
o Fix the MTRR compile bug in SMP mode (me)
o CMI8330 soundpro mixer support (Ionut Badulescu)
o Bridging crash fixes, allow STP disable (Heikki Vatiainen)
o Allow renaming of busy NFS files (Trond)
o CDROM update (Jens Axboe)
o First part of the ARM sync with Russell (Russell King)
Differences between 2.2.2ac5 and 2.2.2ac6
o Still trying to catch all the 3c509 fun (me)
o SCSI generic scatter gather + fixes (Douglas Gilbert)
o V7 file system support in SYS5fs (Jon Naylor)
o Use constant names in the apic code (Jan Willamowius)
when it hacks page tables
o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford)
o AF_UNIX queue bug fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
(Im waiting for the gc argument to settle before
adding that bit)
o Lockd authentication fix (G Allen Morris III)
o Duplicate include tidy (John Bley)
o VFAT panic fix (Alexander Viro)
o Keyboard loop has a sanity timer (me)
o Dquot check (me)
o Possibly fixed the sk_g16 driver (me)
o Revert the MCA patch
Differences between 2.2.2ac4 and 2.2.2ac5
o The Maestro code should work from a cold boot (me)
| modprobe sb support=1 ; insmod ess_pci
o Test code for the Yamaha PCI cards in SB mode (me)
| Note "test" - build it module only , I dont have the
| cards, you may need to add your PCI ident etc
| modprobe sb support=1; insmod pci_legacy
o Set the write gathering of RAM on the AMD K6 (me, based on others)
| Needs testing. Please report. Someone ought to do the K5 too
o AWE32 crash fixes (Takashi Iwai)
o Small warning fixes (Various)
o 3c509 compile fix (me)
Differences between 2.2.2ac3 and 2.2.2ac4
o CMI 8330 documentation (Stefan Laudat)
o Remove spare linux/config.h from Megaraid (Niels)
o Silly bug in the bttv fix removed (Linus)
o Aims lab update (Russell Kroll)
o Alpha fixes (Richard Henderson)
o PCM-4823 ne2k clone support (Jari Malinen)
o PLIP works on more than 3 ports (Kai Schulte)
o MCA and 3c529 update (David Weinehall)
o Old unused NET_ALIAS config entry removed (Mathew Wilcox)
o VM deadlock fix (Andrea Acangeli)
Differences between 2.2.2ac2 and 2.2.2ac3
o CDROM compile fixes (Jens Axboe)
o Alpha timer jitter fixes (Bruce Elliott)
| No ac3 still doesn't compile on an Alpha
o NFS write tweak (Trond)
o Ptrace thread race fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Fork pid reuse fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Minor config cleanups (David Weinehall)
o VGA detection test improved (Russell King)
o Report mono/stereo on Aims lab cards (Wee Liang)
o Ksymoops speedup (Massimiliano Ghilardi)
o Stop swapping on a link to the same swapfile (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o Hopefully fixed the bttv capture bug (me)
Differences between 2.2.2ac1 and 2.2.2ac2
o Config documentation error (Tim Waugh)
o NFS client updates (Trond)
o Fix nfsd kernel memory to network leak (Russell King)
o CDROM driver update (Jens Axboe)
o AMI Megaraid driver 0.96 (Jeffrey Jones, AMI)
o Fixed an embarrassingly stupid sb bug (me)
| 16bit should work again now
o Accept root server from command like in nfsroot (Gero Kuhlmann)
o Don't send bridge config frames when bridge is
compiled in and disabled (Tomasz Motylewski)
Differences between 2.2.2 and 2.2.2ac1
New Features
o Large file array support (>1024 handles allowed)
o Support querying actual block size of media
o Typhoon radio driver
o Test driver for Sealevel wan cards
o Acard ATP870U SCSI driver
o Initio A100 SCSI driver
o QlogicFC fibrechannel driver
o Symbios 53c416 driver
o Support type 6 ARP on ethernet
Updates
o BW Qcam driver updated
o 3c509 driver updated to match 2.0
o COSA wan driver updated
o Major IRDA updates
o SMC ultra updated to match 2.0 driver
o Wavelan update, including newer card support
o AIC7xxx updated
o Updated MegaRAID driver
o ESS Maestro test driver
Major Fixes
o CS8900 driver module options fixed. Original is unusable
o Shaper doesnt crash SMP boxes
o SCSI error doesnt crash the machine at random
o Persistent DMA buffers on sound
o RPC improvements
o Faster NFS client
o NTFS doesnt crash when it runs out of memory
o /proc/mem locking fixes
Minor Fixes
o Remove obsolete/misleading "Drop Source Route" Config item
o Configure.help fixes
o Dcache documentation
o Sparc maintainers entries up to date
o make clean removes everything it should
o genksyms version problems are reported
o Misbracketing in hd.c fixed
o Zoltrix fixes
o ADFS updated
o 8390 fix for "interrupt when stopped" message off ne2000
o GDTH driver has missing version.h check fixed
o Fixes to the SCSI blacklist
o Future Domain MCA driver works non modular
o Various frame buffer updates
o chgrp handling fixed
o Route cache flush proc entry is write only
Other
o Some ARM merging
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--- drivers/net/3c509.c~ Fri Feb 26 01:55:06 1999
+++ drivers/net/3c509.c Fri Feb 26 13:50:58 1999
@@ -917,12 +917,12 @@
cleanup_module(void)
{
struct device *next_dev;
- struct el3_private *lp = (struct el3_private *)dev->priv;
/* No need to check MOD_IN_USE, as sys_delete_module() checks. */
while (el3_root_dev) {
+ struct el3_private *lp = (struct el3_private *)el3_root_dev->priv;
mca_mark_as_unused(lp->mca_slot);
- next_dev = ((struct el3_private *)el3_root_dev->priv)->next_dev;
+ next_dev = lp->next_dev;
unregister_netdev(el3_root_dev);
release_region(el3_root_dev->base_addr, EL3_IO_EXTENT);
kfree(el3_root_dev);