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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Subject: Linux 2.2.10ac5
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
Date: Tue, 29 Jun 1999 07:19:25 -0400 (EDT)


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2.2.10ac5
o	Problems with new epic100 - backed out
o	Further small MIPS merges		(Ralf Baechle)
o	Fix sysctl for sysrq			(Willy Tarreau)
o	Wait longer on bootup for keyboard	(priikone)
o	FAT16/FAT28 update 			(Al Viro)
o	Removable media disk change bug fix	(Giuliano Pochini)
o	Allow Masq to handle extended irc CTCP	(Scottie Shore)
o	Fix shared IRQ handling in serial.c	(David Hinds)
o	Fix "doubly enqueued task"		(Trond Myklebust)
o	Sysctl doc update			(Peter Breitenloher)
o	DEPCA oversize packet fix		(Alexey Kuznetsov)


2.2.10ac4 
o	Merge with all the MIPS tree		(Ralf Baechle and co)
o	Trix sound driver takes "joystick=1"	(me)
o	Updated EPIC100 driver			(Don Becker)
o	Updated NE2K PCI driver			(Don Becker)
o	Updated RTL8139 driver			(Don Becker)
o	Updated Tulip driver			(Don Becker)
o	Updated VIA Rhine driver		(Don Becker)


2.2.10ac3
o	SCSI cmd_len fix			(?? off linux-kernel)
o	IN2000 SCSI fixes for newer binutils	(Alan Modra)
o	SMP scsi fixes				(Marcelo Tosatti/me)
o	Tulip fix				(Keith Owens)
o	Never oom init				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix eepro100 ring alignment		(Jes Sorensen)
o	Make sysrq runtime configurable		(me)
o	Quota race fix updates			(Jan Kara)
o	ARP crash fix				(Alexey Kuznetsov)
o	Drop the problematic sangoma stuff	(me)
o	Fix an NFS rpc out of memory handler	(James Yarbrough)
o	Fix cadet data corruption bug		(Fredrick Gleason)
o	Large nbd size fix			(??)
o	Shaper device stats			(Jordi Murgo)

2.2.10ac2
o	LVM support				(Heinz Mauelshagen)
o	Fix scsi and bttv symbol problems	(me)
o	SCSI sleep handling bug fix		(Chris Loveland)
o	Qlogic update				(Chris Loveland)
o	Now assume all ZIP IDE floppy firmware is
	funny. Testing seems to imply it is	(me)
o	Fix alpha compile bug			(Daniel Frasnelli)

2.2.10ac1
o	BTTV support for ultrasparc		(DaveM)
o	Tridge is smbfs maintainers		(Andy Tridgell)
o	Fix Coda includes			(Arvind Sankar)
o	Fix mknod over knfsd			(Pavel Krauz)


What is different between 2.2.10 and 2.2.10ac (main items)

o	System 5 file system supports V7 disk format
o	2Gig support or some alphas
o	Choose 1 or 2Gig support for X86
o	APM update
o	Large file arrays
o	Sparc 64 bttv TV card support
o	Mappable DMA memory driver for the G200 3D project
o	WDT watchdog configure options (command line yet to do)
o	IBM PCI token ring driver
o	ARLAN driver
o	Sealevel systems 4021 driver
o	SEEQ 8005 driver can be a module
o	SCSI-2 names known by the scsi loggers
o	Better handling of out of memory during scsi load/unload
o	SCSI error handler doesn't stop initrd unloads
o	Experimental sb mode enablers for ESS Maestro-1
o	Misc small sound fixes
o	ESS sound fixes (WIP)
o	VGA16 console support
o	Quota race fixes
o	Faster NFS client layer
o	Updated knfsd
o	Updated Sangoma drivers (seem to have bugs)
o	gethere trick for better network code generation
o	drop kernel lock on some performance critical user access paths
o	Multipath routing
o	Updated ksymoops package