Subject: Linux 2.2.15pre5
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2000 17:16:08 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>


Primary change: Rik's trap for incorrect allocation when in the wrong
task state. This will catch cases that are wrong and in very rare cases
could cause problems with older kernels. The messages it produces for you
if any will help people back trace the guilty parties if any are left. The
kernel also takes evasive action so the messages are harmless. In fact its
more reliable with them and the trap than before. The next goal is to catch
all the offenders.

This time it is mostly bug fixes. The lmc driver should now work. The
glitches in the IRDA are sorted and then newer SCSI dvd/cdrom rom drives
that lack the old command set should also behave. A couple of IDE
compatibility issues have been squashed.

The updates are for ISDN with yet more cards, and the channel bonding
driver.

2.2.15pre5

o	Support newer SCSI devices that lack READ6	(Jens Axboe)
	and WRITE6 commands.
o	Fix for the lanmedia bug I added when merging	(Andrew Stanley-Jones)
o	Qnxfs now builds with gcc 2.7.2			(Arjan van de Ven,
							 Anders Larsen)
o	Gemtek radio documentation update		(Jonas Munsin)
o	Sparc 32bit hook fixes				(Jakub Jelinek)
o	Make 1284 probing more reliable			(Tim Waugh)
o	ISDN4linux update				(Karsten Keil)
o	Small irda fixes				(Dag Brattli)
o	Channel bonding					(Thomas Davis)
o	Fix an IDE probing problem with CRW9624's	(Mark Lord)
o	Fix cases where things write to user space
	in TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE as well as some other
	odd quirks					(Ben LaHaise et al)
o	Fix problem with Acer 50x drive and Linux ATAPI
	violation					(Mark Lord)
o	Page alloc change + debug traps			(Rik Van Riel)
o	Add 5LUN blacklist for the LASOUND CDX7405	(Brendan Miller)

2.2.15pre4

o	VM algorithm changes				(Rik van Riel)
o	Fix compile bug in qnxfs changes		(Leos Bitto)
o	Sparc32 KRUPS/Javastation fixes			(Peter Zaitcev)
o	Powermac fixes including OOM behaviour		(Paul Mackerras)
o	Fix 3c529 setup					(David Weinehall)
o	Remove the I2O test on Megaraid, doesn't work
	for all cases. Back to vanilla AMI code		(me)
o	Upgraded Davicom driver to v1.28		(Sten Wang)
o	SMC ircc update					(Dag Brattli)
o	Add module initialising debug stuff		(Keith Owens)
o	Fix defconfig 					(Niels Jensen)
o	3c509 PPC and SMC mca fixes			(David Monro)
o	Fixes for RIO driver for older cards		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Add Specialix SX+ support to SX driver		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Add custom divisor support to Specialix IO8+	(Nicolas Mailhot)
o	Clean up gemini PPC, turn on L2 for other cpus	(Cort Dougan)
o	QlogicFC updates				(Chris Loveland)
o	Lan Media T1/T3 card driver			(Lan Media Corp)

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)