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Subject: Linux 2.2.10ac9
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
Date: Wed, 7 Jul 1999 18:10:23 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>


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2.2.10ac9
o	Squashed several of the memory check	(me)
	bugs reported on l/k
o	Fix IDE tape bugs			(Gadi Oxman)
o	Fix memchr generic code			(me)
o	Cleanup procfs warnings			(Zack Weinberg)
o	Clean up copy_*_user in network devs	(Augusto Cesar Radtke)
o	Fix Zoltrix mute			(Artur Skawina)
o	Compaq array driver			(Charles White, Compaq)
	| I've hacked it about a little to fix some
	| obvious minor things. I may have broken it - AC
o	Fix memory bug in AVM isdn driver	(Lars Heete)
o	FAT fix					(Al Viro)
o	IRQ optimisation			(Andrea, Chuck ?)
o	Alpha clone() fixes			(Richard Henderson)
o	Allow IRQ5 on Opti 924 PnP		(Torsten Duwe)
o	loop fixes				(Andi Kleen)
o	Fix recvfrom 0 bytes address set	(Assar Westerlund)
o	MIPS ipc fix				(Ralf Baechle)
o	Panasonic DVD ident			(Nathan Laredo)


2.2.10ac8
o	Speed up QlogicFC driver		(Chris Loveland)
o	Update GemTek radio driver		(Jonas Munsin)
o	Fixed fork race				(Kanoj Sarcar)
o	SMP irq detection fix for com90xx	(Andrew Kroll)
o	Maui fixes				(Andrew Kroll)
o	Alpha keyboard include fix		(Jeff Garzik)
o	memchr() for generic case		(Matthew Wilcox)
o	ioctl/immutable fix			(Chris Evans)

2.2.10ac7
o	Turn slab poisoning on properly		(Stephen Tweedie)
o	AIC7xxx update				(Doug Ledford)
o	Fix Masquerading bits			(Dave Miller)
o	Fix security hole in AX.25 stack	(Tomi Manninen)
o	Sparc patches				(Dave Miller)
o	MSDOS lookup optimisations		(Al Viro)
o	Small net fixes				(Eddie Dost)
o	Fix Null interface oops in Appletalk	(Adrian Sun)
o	Fix FIBMAP ioctl to require RAWIO cap	(Chris Evans)
o	Allow >8Gig disks on Qlogic controllers (Andries Brouwer)
o	Masquerade update			(Juan Jose Ciarlante)
o	KNFSD updated				(HJ Lu, David Woodhouse)
o	Sound documentation intro update	(Wade Hampton)
o	Fix ioremap to top of memory case	(Linus, backport from 2.3)

2.2.10ac6
o	Handle corrupt EFS superblocks		(Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o	Cyclades driver update			(Ivan Passos)
o	Z85230 driver fixes			(Daniel Marmier)
o	Merge 2.2.11pre1
o	Bounding set sysctl			(Matthew Kirkwood)
o	Fix lvm + !proc compile case		(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix radiotrack2 compiled in case	(Jeremy Boulton)
o	Fix socket/glibc clash			(David Woodhouse)
o	SPARC resync				(Dave Miller)
o	Hash bucket fixes for TCP etc		(Dave Miller)
o	Enable SLAB poisoning so we can try 
	and get more clues on the disk problem
	a few folks see				(me)
o	Merge a slightly cleaned up Buz driver	(Rainer Johanni, Dave Perks)
	| I 'cleaned' this a bit so mail me bugs first not them

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