Subject: Linux 2.2.16pre8
To: editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
Date: Mon, 5 Jun 2000 18:14:07 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

Ok this is the target for the 2.2.16 final release. If its got problems now
would be a good time to find them. There should be nothing that works
worse than 2.2.15, and hopefully a lot that works rather better.

Two open problem reports one with the VM one with the MD driver. Otherwise
so far so good.

Alan

2.2.16pre8
o	Update old rustcorp urls		(Paul Russell)
o	Fix random driver typo			(James Cloos)
o	Update credits entry			(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix tcp retransmit crash		(Alexey Kuznetsov)
o	Fix dhcp boot bug			(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Fix hamachi and via rhine sym clash	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix VCD problems and BLIST_GHOST stuff	(Jens Axboe)
o	Disable autodma on a 450NX		(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Trident driver backport			(Eric M. Brombaugh)
o	Fix acenic build problem		(Arjan van de Ven) 
o	Fix random driver typo			(James Cloos)
o	Update yamaha PCI driver		(Daisuke Nagano)
o	Force umask of kmod			(Keith Owens)

2.2.16pre7
o	Fix masq_mod compile breakage		(me)
o	readv/writev didnt error oversized	(Chris Evans, Dave Miller)
	requests properly.
o	Report SMBUS nicely in pci		(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Acenic 0.44				(Jes Sorensen)
o	Fixes for Acenic 0.44 + dhcp		(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Add DHCP to the ip autoconfig stuff	(Chip Salzenberg)
	| Yes this all belongs in user space. No not for 2.2/4
	| Someones 2.5 mission is to get rarp/bootp/dhcp all working via 
	| initrd!
o	EEpro100 driver v1.20.2.4		(Andrey Savochkin)
o	Fix cmpci compile problem		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix i810 audio compile problem		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix build problem with no TCP/IP	(Arjan van de Ven)

2.2.16pre6
o	VM fixes				(Rik van Riel)
o	TCP and other net fixes			(Dave Miller)
o	Identify Intel cascade cpus		(Dragan Stancevic)
o	Sparc and sparc driver cleanness fixes	(Dave Miller)
o	Kill unused slhc_init stuff		(Paul Gortmaker)
o	Backport modprobe fixes from 2.3.x	(Keith Owens)
o	cmpci fixes (midi out, spdif)		(Daisuke Nagano)
o	Legacy mode Yamaha PCI audio driver	(Daisuke Nagano)
o	French translation has moved		(Pierre Tane)
o	Fix memory scribble in ip_masq		(Andi Kleen)
o	Mention iso8859-14 in docs		(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Fix string handling in xconfig		(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Updated 3c59x driver			(Andrew Morton)
o	Fix make xconfig and old tk		(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Olympic driver fixes for PPC		(Mike Phillips)
o	Bring capabilities closer to POSIX spec	(Andrew Morgan)
	| Note. This subtly changes cap_bset behaviour

2.2.16pre5
o	Work around the cmpci DMA buf bug	(me)
o	Fix a couple of headers 		(Andrew Morgan)
o	2.2 backport of Jeff's via audio code	(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix the infamous 8K 3c590 stall bug	(Anders Pedersen, Don Becker)
	| Yay and it only took 3 years to find ;)
o	ATAPI probe fix				(Geert Van der Plas)
o	Fix n_tty.c invalid copyuser		(Andrew Morton)
o	NLS init cleanups/config docs		(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	EEpro support for old ISA cards		(Aristeu Filho)
o	Export disk_name for other users	(me)
o	Add blkdev.h to sparc64 ioctl32 	(Fredrick Koehler)
o	Handle thinkpad APM bios bugs		(Stephen Rothwell
						under threat from Rusty ;))
o	FPU, CTC and other bug fixes for S/390	(IBM)
o	Fix signal alt stack on exec		(Bruno Haible)
o	SCSI generic update			(Doug Gilbert)
	| Roman your sg race patch clashed - can you sort with Doug
o	Add TIMEDIA cards to parport		(Tim Waugh)


2.2.16pre4
o	Computone driver update			(Doug McNash)
o	MPP fixes for ISDN			(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix gcc 2.7.2 compile problem		(Jarno Paananen)
o	Packet Engines GNIC-II driver		(Don Becker, Keith Underwood)
o	Fix disk stats for Compaq Smart2	(Rolf Fokkens)
o	Fix missing brace on ppc		(Andreas Tobler)
o	Riscom/N2, Moxa C101, SBE WanXL drivers	(Krzysztof Halasa)
o	RCC became Serverworks			(Matt Domsch)
o	Fix 3c515/59x halt on 2^32 packets	(Andrew Morton)
o	PSS driver update			(Anthony Barbachan)
o	NFS inode/shrink dcache race fix	(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix access_ok when len is a short	(Thomas Sailer)
o	Support syncppp/hdlc on Synclink card	(Paul Fulgham)
o	Fix 3c59x reporting of new cards	(I Lee Hetherington)
o	XConfig enhancements			(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Increase timeouts on girbil		(Michael McConnell)
o	Configurable ramdisk size (also tides	(Alex Beregszaszi, me)
	away an S/390 ifdef)		

2.2.16pre3
o	Fix stupid SMP bug in the i810 audio	(me)
	|And yes I can call it stupid, its my
	|bug !!
o	Cyclades Update				(Ivan Passos)
o	Autoload paride	protocol		(Tim Waugh)
o	Upgrade IBM ServeRAID to 4.0		(IBM)
o	Back out ARM fix			(Russell King)
o	AF_UNIX peer credentials on socketpair	(Malcolm Beattie)
o	Use all onboard memory patch for IBM tr (Mike Phillips)
o	Handle WPI CDS-32X			(Jens Axboe)
o	Fix CD-ROM ioctls			(Jens Axboe)
o	Add AFVALAB and TIMEDIA parallel ports	(Tim Waugh)
o	Switch to 2.3.x format for invalid
	EIP/ESP reports				(Keith Owens)
o	Add v1.20 to seagate bios matches	(Matthias Heidbrink)
o	Fix initio scsi shared irq free		(Thomas Graichen)
o	Possible sign mishandling issues fixed	(Solar Designer)
o	EEPro 10 ISA support			(Aristeu Filho)
o	Update megaraid firmware URL		(Dell)
o	Export inet as well as net notifier	(Pekka Riikonen)
o	Fix smc 9194 memory handling bug	(Heiko Pruessing)
o	Export init_mm for Alpha		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Avoid scheduling while waiting for someone
	else to send an IPI (alpha)		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	move ll_rw_blk data into BSS		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Elevator starvation fix			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Safer IRQ probe				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	refill deadlock fix			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix set_blocksize			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Stop deadlock if timer reinserts itself
	too fast				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix swap_blockmap deadlock		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Change syncppp API to match 2.3.x and	(Ivan Passos)
	remove some limits
o	Bring S/390 port into line with latest
	IBM patch set				(IBM) 
o	Fix HDLC driver bits			(Paul Fulghum)

2.2.16pre2
o	IRDA updates				(Dag Brattli)
o	I2O fixes for bugs found in Intel tests	(Boji Tony Kannanthanam)
o	SunRPC security fix			(Chris Evans)
o	Fix memory handling bug in console 	(Russell King)
o	3c59x cleanups/fixes/etc		(Andrew Morton)
o	DVD ioctls				(Jens Axboe)
o	Fix dcache typo				(Nimrod Zimmerman)
o	Linux gcc checks assumed no gcc 3.x	(Graham Stoney)
o	CPIA update				(Peter Pregler)
o	Add another AHA152x signature		(Jarl Friis)
o	SBC-60xx watchdog			(Jakob Oestergaard)
o	Fix 4096 byte block scsi diskd evices	(sara@procsys.com, me)
o	Fix dumb IPX arcnet/ethernet routing bug(Alexandr S. Agranovsky)
o	Remove bogus dmfe warnings		(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix problem with i810 driver and
		dumber codecs			(me)
o	Geometry fix for misjumpered disks	(Andries Brouwer)
o	Further procfs fixes			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Small ext2 fix				(Stephen Tweedie)
o	Quota oops fix				(Andi Kleen)
o	Fix debug spinlocks and !SMP		(Alan Modra)
o	Fix appletalk device locking bug	(Avery Pennarun)

2.2.16pre1

o	Intel 810 audio driver			(lots of people)
o	EEpro100 updates			(Andrey Savochkin)
o	S390 ksyms fixes			(Dougie Lawson)
o	Procfs fixes				(H J Lu)
o	MDA console driver fixes		(Edward Betts)
o	Kernel doc pointer updates		(Juan-Mariano de Goyeneche)
o	16bit code page translation support	('Cosmos')
o	Remove 4.3GHz CPU speed limit		(Wayne Scott)
o	Handle mouse reconnect event		(Brent Verner)
o	make Xconfig update			(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Remove key repeats from random input	(Kevin Buhr)
o	Fix maestro unload on irq failure	(Willy Tarreau)
o	Fix a fencepost error in fatfs 		(Dan Yefimov)
o	Switch 8259 handling to match spec	(Manfred Spraul)
o	Autodetect unscaled M/O partitions
	and read them anyway			(Gregory Hosler)
o	Add XEN-II support to Apricot.c		(Richard Hirst)
o	SMBfs updates				(Andrew Tridgell)
o	I2O updates				(Boji Tony Kannanthanam)
o	W6692 isdn fixes			(ISDN cvs)