Subject: Linux 2.4test-ac merge status
To:	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Date:	Sun, 31 Dec 2000 02:17:12 +0000 (GMT)
From:	Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>

This is to help give folks an idea of what -ac stuff has been pushed to Linus,
is still in need of work, has been dumped in the bitbucket of bad ideas etc

Most of the important driver stuff is now in the Linus tree. There are a few
I'd like to see sorted before 2.4.0 release still. I'll be working on those
as a priority. Other stuff like the fusion drivers can wait.


2.4.0test13pre7-ac1
o	Merge Linus pre7

2.4.0test13pre6-ac1
o	Merge Linus pre6

2.4.0test13pre5-ac1
o	Merge Linus pre5

2.4.0test13pre4-ac2
o	Merge support for CPU's >2Ghz from 2.2.18
o	Merge core loops_per_jiffy support
o	Merge first batch of driver fixes from 2.2.18
o	Further quota build fix				(Jarno Paananen)
o	Make smp cpu halt synchronous			(Andi Kleen)
o	Fix various combinations that don't build	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Further Fusion driver updates			(Steve Ralston)
o	Alpha makefile fixes				(Dave Gilbert)

2.4.0test13pre4-ac1
o	Merge Linus pre4
o	Fix network register/hotplug/publish problems	(Andrew Morton)
o	Hopefully fix quotaless compile			(me)
o	Help for irda options question			(Steven Cole)

2.4.0test13pre3-ac4
o	Fix frame size on toshoboe			(Christian Gennerat)
o	Quota fixes/updates				(Jan Kara)
o	Fix keyspan usb config				(Hugh Blemings)
o	Fix module handling in usb serial		(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Fix sparc64 build of fusion drivers		(Eddie Dost)
o	Fix eepro module warnings			(Aristeu Filho)
o	Clean up config.h includes			(Niels Jensen)
o	Fix most of the netfilter oops cases		(David Miller)

2.4.0test13pre3-ac3 
o	Fix the patch file. Some stuff got corrupted. 

2.4.0test13pre3-ac2 adds
o	Resync with the powerpc folks			(Cort Dougan)
o	Fix appletalk config entry			(William McGonigle)
o	Parport experimental label fix			(Tim Waugh)
o	Make uhci return the same error code as the 	(David Brownell)
	other USB hub controllers
o	Merge Fusion drivers				(Steve Ralston)
o	Shared memory fixes				(Christoph Rohland)

2.4.0test13pre3-ac1 adds
o	Fix leak in link() syscall			(Christopher Yeoh)
o	Fix ramfs deadlock				(Al Viro)
o	Fix udf deadlock				(Al Viro)
o	Improve parport docs				(Tim Waugh)
o	Document some of the macros			(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix ppa timing issues				(Tim Waugh)
o	Mark the parport fifo code as experimental	(Tim Waugh)
o	Resynch ppa changelog				(Tim Waugh)
	| Tim please double check as I got offsets
o	Add documentation to the PCI api		(Jani Monoses)
o	Fix inode.c documentation			(Jani Monoses)
o	Fix bug in VFAT short name handling		(Nicolas Goutte)
o	Clean up the i810 driver			(Tjeerd Mulder)
o	Fix ext2 modular build				(Jeff Raubitschek)
o	Fix bug in scripts/Configure.in matching	(Matthew Wilcox)
o	Fix ext2 file size limiting for large files	(Andreas Dilger)
o	Clean up misleading indenting in partition code	(JAmes Antill)
o	Update SiS video drivers			(Can-Ru Yeou)
o	Yamaha audio doc fix				(Pavel Roskin)
o	Fix timeout problms with rocktports at 249 days

2.4.0test12-ac1 adds
o	ARM bootup/initd fixes				(Russell King)
o	Fix ymf_sb setup bug				(Pavel Roskin)
o	Correctly print names of md10+			(me)
	[Based on code from Roberto Ragusa]
o	Fix sound crashes in various drivers		(Tjeerd Mulder)
o	Update epic100 to new pci api			(Francois Romieu)
o	Fix IOC/SIOC ioctl problems in ac97 code	(Dick Streefland)

To merge
o	Fix Ruffian Alpha boot				(Ivan Kokshaysky)
o	Bridge handling patches needed for Alpha	(Ivan Kokshaysky /
							Richard Henderson)
o	Acenic update
o	Epic100 update
o	Support mixed pnp and legacy sb cards
o	Hopefully fix the bugs in the FAT and HPFS file systems that
	caused fs corruption
o	Fix cramfs vanishing data bug
o	Power management locking fixes
o	filemap posix compliance fix
o	Fix pte handling race
o	Remove unneeded inits to 0 in ide code	  (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o	IDE documentation fixes			  (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)

Submitted to Linus
o	CCISS root= table				(Charles White)
o	Add the powermac extras to the input and	(Franz Sirl)
	keyboard drivers
	scripts in 2.4test
o	Fix kd_mksound declaration			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	SMC token ring driver update			(Jay Schulist)
o	Support kgcc autodetect
o	Rusty's fixes/review of unsafe set_bit usage
	(A few left to go)
o	Update USB documentation			(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	RCPCI45 PCI cleanup fixes (mark 2)		(Rasmus Andersen)
o	Fix 8139too signal handling and task scribble	(Andrew Morton)
o	Fix signal handling for usermode helper		(Shuu Yamaguchi)
o	Fix tty DoS bug					(Andrew Morton)
o	Wireless include update				(Jean Tourrilhes)
o	Resync mac ethernet drivers			(Cort Dougan)
o	Remove bogus asserts in 8139too driver		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Cleanup ramdisk namespace			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Ramdisk missing blkdev_put
 
Merged by Linus from -ac or direct
o	Add clocking option to maestro (broken laptop	(me)
	stuff again)
o	Put back the module locking in soundcore	(David Schleef)
	that someone disabled
o	Abyss driver cleanup				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix most of the tq changes			(Mohammad A. Haque)
o	DOC1000 driver fixes				(David Woodhouse)
o	Switch tvaudio and msp3400 to use up_and_exit	(David Woodhouse)
o	usb-uhci was using constants not flags for	(Jeff Garzik)
	pci interface
o	Small fix for kdoc				(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix nubus build					(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	atari/sun3lance update				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Amiga gayle pcmcia fixups			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fixes for amiga scsi drivers			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Simplify amiga irq handling code		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Amiga sound/fb driver update			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Amiga/Mac/Atari keyboard driver changes		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Integrate atari stram with bootmem 		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Restore atafb_fix that someone deleted		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	m68k include updates for 64bit structs		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Add driver for MVME147 onboard scsi		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Enable Q40 ide interface			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Replace init with initdata in places on m68k	(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	MMU code changes for m68k			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	dma_addr_t and other minor updates for m68k	(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	m68k ptrace update 				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix pmc551 when used without bugfix enabled	(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix endianness on ftl layer			(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix atm build					(Markus Kossmann)
o	Update 8139too driver				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix readdir returns on procfs			(Matt Kraai)
o	Make SET_MODULE_OWNER macro safer		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Hisax needed __init				(Jeff Garzik)
o	APM updates, fix the Dell 5000e check for APM=m	(Stephen Rothwell)
o	Fix module initialization oops 			(Keith Owens)
o	Clean up Abyss driver				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix raid linking order				(Neil Brown)
o	Cleanup console_verbose() duplication
o	Radio driver cleanups
o	BTTV radio config option
o	Fix qcam VIDIOCGWIN bugs
o	8390 seperate tx timeout path
o	Tulip crash fix on weird eeproms
o	ISAPnP hang on boot port fix
o	Maestro pci_enable fix
o	Fix function prototype in wacom drivr
o	Fix SCSI / PCI dependancies			(Jeff Garzik)
o	m68k config fixes				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix dquot overflow/recovery			(Jan Kara)
o	Make uid16 macros safer				(Andreas Schwab)
o	Fix missing Config doc and sound doc error	(Thierry Vignaud)
o	APM update 					(Stephen Rothwell)
o	Fix SMP build on x86				(Steven Cole)
o	Maestro ioctl locking fix			(Zach Brown)
o	Make console_* static inline not extern		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Work arounds for broken Dell laptop APM		(me)
o	Fix aha1542 memory scribbles			(Phil Stracchino)
o	Fix ide scsi printk				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Update EATA driver and Ultrastor driver		(Dario Ballabio)
o	Clean up printk formatting in a few drivers	(me)
o	Documentation for CONFIG_TOSHIBA
o	Updated version of Rusty's kernel-hacking doc
o	Updated SubmittingDrivers
o	Added SubmittingPatches
o	Updated procfs docs
o	Updated initrd docs
o	Tidy network drivers module locking		(Jeff Garzik)
	(Some in, a few to go)
o	Alpha PCI fixes (update resource not __init,	(Ivan Kokshaysky)
	off by one on check)
o	Fix warning in rclan driver			(Rasmus Andersen)
o	Clean up rcpci driver (new style pci etc)	(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix generic bitops bugs
o	Fix pcnet32 printk problems			(Vojtech Pavlik)
o	Network driver check/request region fixes
o	MDAcon cleanup					(Pavel Rabel)
o	Tidy up mad16 driver				(Pavel Rabel)
o	ACPI updates					(Andrew Grover)
o	Fix FPU emulation compile			(Adam Richter)
o	M68K/PPC makefile fixes				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Work around a funny in the Solaris NFS client	(Neil Brown)
o	Fix building of network modules			(Peter Samuelson)
o	Fix media makefiles				(me)
o	FPU emulator source set for m68k 		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix m68k build with rmw disabled		(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Fix sun3 scsi, mmu and includes			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	M68k setup update				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Revert accidental amifb change			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Remove obsolete bits for q40			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Tidy m68k includes				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	I2C bus driver updates				(Frodo Looijaard)
o	Fix reference counting in ATM		     (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	Update Changes to give correct modutils rev	(Steven Cole)
o	Fix NLS config.in bug for SMB
o	Fix xconfig/menuconfig problems with config  (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Add firestream ATM driver		     (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	Rename block_til_ready in generic_serial      (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	Fix i810 tco locking				(me)
o	Tidy riscom8 and sx namespace			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix pcmcia ordering on socket remove		(David Woodhouse)
o	Merge aha152x delay fixes
o	Fix warning in sim710 driver			(Pavel Rabel)
o	Improve the ALSxxx sound driver documentation	(Jonathan Woithe)
o	Tidy the tachyon 5526 driver			(Rasmus Andersen)
o	Clean old old compile time config stuff from	(Pavel Rabel)
	mad16 driver
o	Push Davicom support into the main tulip driver	(Tobias Ringstrom)
o	Merge bttv 0.7.50				(Gerd Knorr)
o	Clean it up to use pci_pci_quirks properly	(me)
o	OSST scsi driver for Onstream drives		(Willem Riede)
o	Merge typo/doc fixes from 2.2.18
o	Further NetROM tidies				(Hans Grobler)
o	Further rose fixes				(Hans Grobler)
o	Documentation/script fixes			(Tim Waugh)
o	BPQ ethernet tidy				(Hans Grobler)
o	Updated AX.25 tidy				(Hans Grobler)
o	Update credits to add Hans Grobler		(Hans Grobler)
o	Handle TLB flush reruns caused by APIC rexmit	(me)
o	Fix Yam driver for Linux 2.4test		(Hans Grobler)
o	Fix AF_ROSE sockets for 2.4			(Hans Grobler)
o	Fix AF_NETROM sockets for 2.4			(Hans Grobler)
o	Tidy AF_AX25 sockets for 2.4			(Hans Grobler)
o	Teach kernel-doc about const			(Jani Monoses)
o	First block of mkiss driver fixes		(Hans Grobler)
o	Update acenic patches				(Jes Sorensen)

Superceded by other fixes
o	Features is back to flags for compatibility	(me)
o	MTRR updates (36bit etc)
o	Dont crash on boot with a dual cpu board holding a non intel cpu
o	CS46xx update
o	NFS atomic fixes				(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix O_SYNC for ext2fs				(Stephen Tweedie)
	[ I believe so anyway ]
o	Disable PMC511 driver - its obviously broken	(me)
o	kbuild documentation improvements		(Neil Brown)
o	Fix ppa and imm hangs on io_request_lock	(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix pport reverse/forward logic error		(Tim Waugh)
o	ACPI updates					(Andrew Grover)
o	E820 handling fixup				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix missing memory barrier in bootp/dhcp code	(Cort Dougan)
o	Fix ACPI driver wakeup races			(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix drm makefiles				(Peter Samuelson)
o	Link correctly with ACPI on ACPI_INTERPRETER off

Other

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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Red Hat Kernel Hacker
& Linux 2.2 Maintainer                        Brainbench MVP for TCP/IP
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