From: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk (Alan Cox)
Subject: Linux 2.2.5ac6
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com
Date: Thu, 8 Apr 1999 04:43:50 +0100 (BST)


Linux 2.2.5ac5 is now up on ftp.*.kernel.org

		Alan

Differences between Linux 2.2.5ac5 and Linux 2.2.5ac6

o	Fix the ramdisk/floppy compile bug (me bad)	(me)
o	NFS readlink didnt follow the spec		(Shunji Tanaka)
o	NFS verification failure fix			(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix sound poll() for full duplex I hope		(me)
o	Document the M/O disk 2K block issue		(Daniel Kobras)
o	Clean up includes/export symbols needed to
	do lofs and the like 				(Erez Zadok)
o	Fix PS/2 ESDI driver makefile entry		(David Weinehalle)

Differences between Linux 2.2.5ac4 and Linux 2.2.5ac5

o	Support dual ramdisk boot as 2.0 does		(me)
o	Appletalk timer race fix			(Adrian Sun)
o	Enhanced PCnet32 driver				(Thomas Bogendoerfer)
o	Updated ICP vortex driver. SMP fixes etc	(ICP)
o	Writeable HPFS					(Mikulas Patocka)
o	Alpha fix for ES1371				(Ivan N. Kokshaysky)
o	FSINFO fix					(Max Cohan)
o	Sangoma merge done				(me from Sangoma
							code)
	| There are some to be resolved questions about the Sangoma
	| streaing Bisync and HDLC API's. If you need those get the original
	| kit from the Sangoma web site, not the in kernel set.
o	AHA152x driver doesn't jam the machine up like 	me
	it does now.

Differences between Linux 2.2.5ac3 and Linux 2.2.5ac4

o	I2O proc fs support and fixes			(Deepak Saxena)
o	I2O locking fixes				(Philip Rumpf)
o	SJCD block sizing fixes				(Anthony Barbachan)
o	Pixelview support for bttv driver		(ProLink)
o	Report SB revisions in Creative Labs format	(Sebastian Kienzl)
o	CS4235 doesn't have a timer so don't try and
	use it						(Lorinczy Zsigmond)
o	Fix access() problem with capability setting	(J. Anastasov)
o	Fix a PCI oldproc ordering bug			(Helge Deller)

Differences between Linux 2.2.5ac2 and Linux 2.2.5ac3

o	I2O block handles multiple devices		(Steve Ralston)
o	I2O scsi multidevice and scatter/gather fixes	(Steve Ralston)
o	Alpha timex patch				(Wieger Opmeer)
o	ADS Cadet radio driver				(Fred Gleason)
o	TLan renegotiation bug fixed			(me)
o	Updated PSI drivers				(Perceptive Solutions)
o	O_DIRECTORY fix					(Jamie Lokier)
o	RCPCI45 VPN driver updated			(Red Creek)
o	Arlan driver					(Elmer.Joandi/
							 Cullen Jennings)

Differences between Linux 2.2.5ac1 and Linux 2.2.5ac2

o	Fixed the uid cache race again 			(me)
o	DaveM's tcp fix					(DaveM)
o	EFS partition endian fixes			(Al Smith)
o	SMP fixes for old EISA boxes			(James Bottomley)
o	Ksymoops updates - please test on non x86	(Keith Owens)
o	Non blocking tty fix				(Tobias Ringstrom)
o	SCSI generic updates				(Douglas Gillbert)
o	Config updates					(Axel Boldt)
o	IPv4 traffic equaliser				(Guus Sliepen)
o	Soundscape Vivo fix				(Walter Hunt)

Differences between Linux 2.2.5 and Linux 2.2.5ac1

o	Large file arrays
o	AIC7xxx driver updated.
o	NFS client does write clustering and handles >4K page servers well
o	PCI2000/PSI2200 compile fixed.
o	QlogicFC driver pdated.
o	V7 file system support in the SYS5 fs
o	Updated Sangoma drivers (in progress)
o	2Gig memory support on the Alpha
o	ARM arch & driver updates
o	I2O SCSI and Block OSM (experimental)
o	MCA updates
o	K6-II/III MTRR registers
o	Cleaned up MSR/TSC handling
o	MCD parameters settable in make config 
o	IRDA updates - IRDA sockets
o	Roadrunner/HIPPI updates
o	Sealevel Wan card driver (experimental)
o	Sound fixes for mulaw
o	Experimental sound drivers for ESS Maestro PCI
o	4bit VGA fbcon driver
o	Inode versioning
o	Lockd, NFSD updates
o	NTFS doesnt crash the machine on out of memory
o	Procfs readlink fix
o	Improved scsi generic
o	Misc small changes