From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Linux 2.2.3ac3
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com
Date: Thu, 18 Mar 1999 22:07:14 +0000 (GMT)


Ok I've put up a 2.2.3ac3. The distribution site has changed. Its now
on ftp.*.kernel.org thanks to HPA and the guys at Transmeta.

	ftp.*.kernel.org:/pub/linux/kernel/alan/2.2


Differences between 2.2.3ac2 and 2.2.3ac3

o	3c527 packet sending fix		(me)
o	I2O controllers flush cache on reboot	(me)
o	Waveartist driver might work on x86 now (me)
o	Put ppc header additions in the right 
	place (duh)				
o	Misc doc fixes				(various)
o	Fix the flock crash			(Adrian Sun)
o	First set of IP routing fixes		(Alexey Kuznetsov)
	| People seeing the ENOBUFS problem can you
	| see if this fixes it
o	IDE update for flash removables		(Mark Lord)
o	Changes updates				(Chris Ricker)
o	ICMP masquerading			(Keith Owens)
	| This should fix the masquerade/hanging with low MTU
	| problems for the cases where its not the remote site buggy


Differences between 2.2.3ac1 and 2.2.3ac2

o	FIOASYNC corrected			(Godmar Back)
o	Cleaner lp fix				(Tim Waugh)
o	MSR defintion in one place		(Philipp Rumpf)
o	NBD thinko fix				(Andries Brouwer)
o	Don't need to use ls in Makefile	(Zygo Blaxell)
o	Ultrasparc typo fix			(Dave Jones)
o	Creat doesnt need to grab kernel lock	(Tigran A. Aivazian)
o	Amiga partition update			(Hans-Joachim Widmaier)
	| Handles disks that have been attacked by Windows 95
	| Handles media with large block sizes
o	First phase of Sangoma merge		(Sangoma)
	| This is partial - need to sort a couple of items
	| with Sangoma for this.
o	Fixed the signal bug I let in		(me)
o	3Com 3c527/IBM HPerf Lan Adapter driver	(me)
o	Experimental I2O layer			(me)
	| Block & SCSI OSM's only. Tested on the Symbios 40920 only
o	AF_UNIX fixes				(Andrea)
o	Vfork inherited wrong stats		(Andreas Schwab)
o	SMP safe ibmtr driver			(Tim Hockin)
o	Digi EPCA driver update			(Digi)
o	PPC semaphore stuff			(Paul Mackerras)
o	Quota fixes with NFS etc		(Andrea)
o	CDROM Update				(Jens Axboe)
o	2Gig RAM support for Alpha		(Richard Henderson et al)
o	Qlogic FC updates			(Chris Loveland)
o	Roadrunner HIPPI update			(Jes Sorenson)
o	Scsi generic updates			(Douglas Gilbert)
o	SPX module bug fix			(Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o	bw-qcam allow port specification	(Billy Donahue)
o	Midi synth typo fix 			(Joseph H. Buehler)
o	Source route & Syn cookie fix		(Andi Kleen)

Linux 2.2.3ac1 contains

o	ARM updates - working to merge ARM with my tree then eventually I
	hope with Linus - tho that may be a 2.3 job

o	V7 file system tweaks to sys5 1K

o	Improved SCSI generic (still the mark 1 edition) - Douglas
	has some improvements in the pipeline before it goes to Linus

o	The Large file array patch. I still hope to feed this to Linus at
	some point

o	i386 security hole fix for ptrace. Its in the other architectures
	too. It only bites if you use capabilities. The bigger hole in
	/proc is fixed in 2.2.3

o	AMD K6 MSR/MTRR setup. The MSR is ready to go to Linus now, and
	will do so, the MTRR stuff I hope will get merged with Richard
	Gooch stuff once its untangled from devfs

o	ADFS update. Strictly for Acorn fans

o	CDROM updates. Heading Linuswards soon

o	Better bw-qcam driver.

o	Printing fixes. I assume Tim will send these to Linus himself when
	he's finally happy

o	3c509 update - for EISA etc - queued for Linus

o	Wavelan update - queued for Linus

o	cs89x0 module parameters - queued for Linus

o	Sealevel sync driver. Awaiting confirmation it works on the real
	board as well as my test rig

o	SCSI blacklist and AIC7xxx updates

o	Prototype ESS PCI and Yamaha PCI legacy mode drivers. Gus SMP fix

o	NTFS doesnt crash when you run out of memory

o	/proc/mem crash fixes for threaded abuse programs

o	NFS: Im still merging together Linus & Trond's code. Once Trond
	has all the nice stuff finally tuned up with Linus this will all
	become main tree stuff. Im just making sure it gets tested 8)

o	NFSroot argument bug

o	Misc include/time wrap bug fixes