Subject: Linux 2.2.15pre3
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
	kernel@linuxfr.org, rob@linuxberg.com, chris@linuxdev.net,
	kernel@linuxhq.com, kernel@linuxcare.com
Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 01:57:59 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox 


Some driver updates, further bug fixing. I plan to do just bug fixing from
now on, or very small driver changes. The other driver stuff will get held
over (eg parallel port CPIA camera driver). Give this a good hard beating
the focus is entirely on bug zapping for a 2.2.15.

2.2.15pre3

o	Fix Sangoma stuff if compiled into kernel	(Mario Lorenz)
o	Fix smbfs for sparc64				(Dave Miller)
o	Specialix Rio drivers				(Specialix, Rogier Wolff)
o	Elf extra sanity checks from code audit		(Solar Designer)
o	Megaraid update to 1.07				(Dell/AMI)
o	Fix hang on boot with I2O configured megaraid	(me)
o	Fix small bug in the socket filter code		(??)
o	QNX file system updates				(Anders Larsen)
o	Intel 82559ER support in eepro100 driver	(Cobalt)
o	Workaround for 16C750 emulation bug		(Cobalt)
o	Show "preN" in make menuconfig			(Alan Ford)
o	Adaptec 29xx driver updates			(Doug Ledford)
o	Handle cross CPU TSC differences		(Ingo Molnar)
o	Update IRDA to match the 2.3.x codebase		(Dag Brattli)   

2.2.15pre2

o	Fix RTC build problem with Nautilus		(Michal Jaegermann)
o	Quieten NFS debugging messages			(me)
o	Fix bug in connect/listen handling in TCP	(Dave Miller)
o	Fix missing $(CC) cases				(Pascal DuPuis)
o	Fix SMP tcp hang				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Hopefully fixed PLIP				(me)
o	Fix sigtimedwait bug				(Christophe Blaess)
o	Updated epic100 driver				(Donald Becker)
	| If it works cool, if not we back it off
o	Sparc updates					(Dave Miller)
	| Fixes bugs with >258Mb on sun4d/sun4m
	| si_addr is set in siginfo
	| Fix signal type for FP/div events
	| DP division FPU emulation fixes
	| Fix sparc64 parport locking keyboard
	| ESP can be built as a module
o	Network fix kit					(Dave Miller and co)
	| Nagle improvements, TCP_CORK/FIN fix
	| /proc/net/tcp reports type 4 for timer
	| Fix TIME_WAIT logic
	| Clean up timer performance
	| Handle shutdown() in CLOSE_WAIT right
	| Report state change on tcp_fin after setting
	|	new state
	| Shutdown on close in write_err case 		(Paul Russell)
	
2.2.15pre1

o	Handle crossing X25 restart confirmations	(Guntram Blohm)
o	Large direct block I/O with small readahead
		could fail				(Mikulas Patocka)
o	Remove duplicate asm op				(Chris Noe)
o	IUCV Update for S/390				(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	Fixes to allow Linux/390 to run on P/390	(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	Some PPC configs didnt compile			(W Lewis)
o	Maybe fix TCP delack hang			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Missing task state change			(Natapov Gleb)
o	Fix 82596 false probes				(Richard Hirst)
o	Fix typo in ixj driver				(Tim Waugh)
o	Add AOpen PD-2 DVD to ghost list		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Masquerading site has moved			(Hugh Redelmeier)
o	Fix FAT bug					(Pavel Pisa)
o	Small NFS fixes					(HJ Lu)
o	Update ES1370 to handle rev7 chips		(Tom Sailer)
o	Use amateur radio drivers on Sparc		(Tom Sailer)
o	SCSI generic documentation updates		(Douglas Gilbert)
o	Fix clearing of NT in head.S			(Willy Tareau)
o	Add winchip2 MTRR support			(Bart Hartgers)
o	CREDITS entry for Victor 'RTLinux' Yodaiken	(Victor Yodaiken)
o	Zoltan Boszormenyi has changed address		(Zoltan Boszormenyi)
o	eepro100 updates		                (Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich)
o	Update Davicom driver				(Davicom)