From:	 Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	 editor@lwn.net, scoop@freshmeat.net, kernel@linuxtoday.com,
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Subject: Linux 2.4.4-ac3
Date:	 Tue, 1 May 2001 22:28:18 +0100 (BST)


	ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

		Intermediate diffs are available from

			http://www.bzimage.org


2.4.4-ac3
o	Fix hang on boot with SMP			(Andrea Arcangeli)
	| and fixes a few more uglies too
o	freevxfs module name was wrong (should be	(me)
	freevxfs.o)
o	Update alloc_etherdev docs			(Erik Mouw)
o	Remove dead funcs, put back ip_set_manually	(David Miller,
	in the ipconfig code			(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Fix SA_ONSTACK standards violation (for x86)	(Christian Ehrhardt)
	| Other arch maintainers should check..
o	Add another species of SB AWE 32		(Bill Nottingham)
o	SE401 USB camera driver				(Jeroen Vreeken)
o	Correct MAX_HD and make stuff static in ps2esdi	(Hal Duston)
o	Fix inode-nr corruption				(Al Viro)
o	Fix pgd_alloc for user mode linux		(Jeff Dike)
o	Fix UML hostfs for get_hardsect_size		(Jeff Dike)
o	Tidy up APM options setting, add module opts	(Stephen Rothwell)
o	Fix acm open race				(Oliver Neukum)
o	Further bounce buffer fixes			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	ACPI updates					(Andrew Grover)
o	Move pci_enable_device earlier on via audio	(Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.4-ac2
o	Remove some spurious whitespace differences 	(me)
	between trees
o	Make the VIA timer reload check test avoid 	(me)
	tripping on a timer as it rolls back to zero
o	Drop dasdfmt man page changes (dos ^M noise)	(me)
o	Drop experimental iee1284 pnp module loading	(me)
o	Revert pcnet32 chance causing compile errors	(me)
o	Remove wrong __init in sunhme			(Dave Miller)
o	Fix overlarge udely in aironet4500		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Remove non existant parameter from aironet4500	(Keith Owens)
o	Kill duplicate aic7xxx include		(Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Fix pci2220i scsi compile bug			(Matt Domsch)
o	Fix module exception race on Alpha		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Disable broken large vmalloc support on Alpha	(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Remove dead ia64 config entries			(Steven Cole)
o	Add kbuild list info to MAINTAINERS		(Steven Cole)
o	linux appletalk list has moved		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Revert wrong mount changes in 2.4.4		(Andries Brouwer)
o	Revert drivers/scsi/scsi.c change in 2.4.4	(me)
	that subtly broke about 15 drivers
o	Fix typo in slab.h				(Pavel Machek)
o	More correct child favouring fork behaviour	(Peter Österlund)
o	Only apply pci fixups if there is a VIA 686B	(Charl Botha)
o	Fix GDT padding error introduced by PnPBIOS	(Brian Gerst)
	support
o	Fix UML build without CONFIG_PT_PROXY		(Jeff Dike)
o	dmfe wasnt calling dev_alloc_skb		(Tobias Ringstrom)
o	Further Configure.help fixups			(Steven Cole)
o	Move pci_enable_device earlier in trident	(Marcus Meissner)

2.4.4-ac1
o	Merge with Linus 2.4.4
	| This wasnt entirely trivial so this is the only
	| stuff in this patch
	| The following stuff has been switched to the Linus branch
	| in the merge: uhci, dcache atomicity, raw I/O

2.4.3-ac14
o	Merge read-only vxfs reading support		(Christoph Hellwig)
o	Fix missing return in broken_apm_power		(Alex Riesen)
o	Remove bogus rwsem hacks from usbdevice_fs.h	(Alex Riesen)
o	Fix umount/sync_inodes race			(Al Viro)
o	Make new xircom driver report when promisc used	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix acenic PCI flag set up			(Phil Copeland)
o	Make nfs smart about passing max file sizes	(Trond Myklebust)
o	Add initrd support to User Mode Linux		(Jeff Dike)
o	Fix timer irq race in User Mode Linux		(Jeff Dike)
o	Fix UML for semaphore changes			(Jeff Dike)
o	Update thw W9966 parallel port camera driver	(Jakob Kemi)
o	Further dmfe SMP fixups				(Tobias Ringstrom)
o	Kernel manual pages in man9			(Tim Waugh)
o	Work around BIOSes that implement E801 sizing
	but don't implement the CX/DX values part	(Michael Miller)
o	Fix atp driver build				(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix irda poll handling				(Dag Brattli)
o	Remove unused buggy pdc202xx code		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Clean up iphase ATM				(Arnaldo Carvalho
								de Melo)
o	Setup slave PDC20265 controller on fasttrak	(Arjan van de Ven)
	as normal IDE
o	Add __init/__initdata to most net driver   (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
	version info
o	SDDR09 config entry was missing			(Phil Stracchino)
o	Configure.help NFS updates		   (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Netfilter updates				(Rusty Russell and co)
o	Update 2.4 ipconfig to support dhcp		(Eric Biederman)
o	es1371 setup updates/error check/pci bits	(Marcus Meissner)
o	Fix buzzing ymfpci				(Nick Brown)
o	Update nm256 audio driver			(Marcus Meissner)
o	Blacklist updates				(Arjan van de Ven)

2.4.3-ac13
o	Switch to NOVERS symbols for rwsem		(me)
	| Called from asm blocks so they can't be versioned
o	Fix gcc 2.95 building on rwsem			(Niels Jensen)
o	Fix cmsfs build				    (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Fix rio build/HZ setup			    (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o	Fix PPP filtering dependancy in config      (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)

2.4.3-ac12
o	Rewrite the i2o post handling code to fix 	(me)
	DMA memory scribbles
o	Handle IOP constipation in the i2o_block layer	(me)
o	Fix bugs in the i2o table query causing reboots	(me)
	in i2o_proc on the DPT card
o	Add quirks for i2o cards that handle large I/O	(me)
	queues badly [Promise supertrak100]
o	Add cache heuristics to the I2O block driver	(me)
	| We don't cache large writes (assume seq)
	| We writeback small writes (random, metadata)
o	Disable use of writeback caching if there is	(me)
	no battery backup
o	Merge Linus 2.4.4pre6
o	Further semaphore fixes				(David Howells)
o	Correct 'void main' to 'int main' in rtc doc	(Jesper Juhl)
o	Hopefully fix bugtraq reported netfilter ftp
	flaw
o	Fix unistd.h for ARM				(Russell King)
o	Fix pre-emption of rt tasks			(Nigel Gamble)
o	Fix revalidation bugs in cciss/cpqarray		(Charles White)
	when rereading partitions
o	Acenic updates					(Jes Sorensen)
o	Fix MAINTAINERS sort order			(David Woodhouse)
o	Restore DVDRAM fix with cdrom init fix too	(Jens Axboe)
o	Fix irda disconnect timeout bug			(Dag Brattli)
o	Experimentally reap dead swap harder		(Dave Miller)
o	Remove dead low mtu checks from drivers		(Arnaldo Carvalho de
							 Melo)
o	Add missing sk_chk_filter export		(Byeong-ryeol Kim)
o	Quieten pci printks, send them to log		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Hopefully fix fastrak oops			(me)

2.4.3-ac11
o	Merge Linus 2.4.4pre5
o	Back out problem dvdram changes
o	Make reiserfs use daemonize			(Chris Mason)
o	Fix lvm map buglet				(Jens Axboe)
o	tms380 driver fixes				(Adam Fritzler)
o	Fix up duplicate configs and other glitches	(Steven Cole)
o	Fix pcnet32 printk format bug			(me)
o	ISDN driver further small update/fixes		(me)
o	Fix bounce buffer deadlock on bh allocs		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix fbmem merge glitch				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Version string cleanups on net devices		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Update ext2 documentation			(Andreas Dilger)
o	Add MCE support for AMD Athlon/Duron		(Dave Jones)
o	Further SDLA tidying				(me)
o	Update Configure.help maintainers		(Steven Cole, Eric
							 Raymond)
o	Tulip update					(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix sound config to use right symnames		(Eric Raymond)
o	Further dmfe fixes				(Tobias Ringstrom,
							 Frank Davis
							 Jeff Garzik)
o	Parport probe cleanups				(Tim Waugh)
o	Fix a few configure items			(Eric Raymond)
o	Fix cmsfs nonbuild				(me)


2.4.3-ac10
o	Merge Linus 2.4.4pre4
o	Apply the i960 quirk to the DPT I2O controllers	(me)
o	Etrax100 updates				(Bjorn Wesen)
o	Fix skge memory leak				(Jes Sorensen)
o	Handle reiserfs log overflow error		(Chris Mason)
o	Merge JFFS2 (compressing log flash file system)	(David Woodhouse)
o	Merge contributed help texts for options	(Eric Raymond,
							 Steven Cole)
o	Further screen blanking fixes			(Mikael Pettersson)
o	Further binfmt elf DLINFO fixes/alignment      (Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o	Fix reboot notifier unregister in aic7xxx	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix orinoco_cs build on powerpc			(David Gibson)
o	Neomagic audio didn't call pci_enable_device	(Marcus Meissner)
o	Remove superblock file size setting for 2Gb	(Al Viro)
	default size file systems
o	Merge UML gprof support				(Jeff Dike)
o	Clean up UML slip code				(Jeff Dike)
o	Allow UML attach to already running debuggers	(Jeff Dike)
o	Reorder frame buffer probes			(Geert Uytterhoeven)
o	Add __init calls to bluesmoke.c			(Dave Jones)
o	Add missing pci_enable_device to toshoboe	(Marcus Meissner)
o	Updated AFFS file system			(Roman Zippel)
o	DVD-RAM fixes					(Jens Axboe)
o	Further sundance driver fixes			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix qlogicfc warning				(Dave Miller)
o	Fix sign handling error in scsi_ioctl		(me)
	| Found by the Stanford validator
o	Fix sign handling error in af_decnet		(me)
	| Found by the Stanford validator
o	Fixed I2O posts to be uninterruptible		(me)
o	Stop IDE layer eating Supertrak slave PDC20265	(me)
o	Work around the DPT I2O controller exploding 
	when asked to quiesce.				(me)


2.4.3-ac9
o	Fix ac8 pnpbios build bug			(me)
o	Fix ac8 sysrq build bug				(me)
o	Fix uml for new semaphores			(Jeff Dike)
o	Attempt to flush low memory buffers when short
	of bounce space on highmem machines		(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Kill old filesystem_setup function		(Al Viro)
o	Small pnp bios tidy up				(me)

2.4.3-ac8
o	Restore wan router features backed out by the	(me)
	sangoma stuff Linus merged
o	Clean up #ifdefs in Sangoma code a bit		(me)
o	Fix missing kmalloc return checks in Sangoma 	(me)
o	Fix d_flags bit setting in knfsd		(Mikael Pettersson)
o	Turn on winchip MCE				(Dave Jones)
o	IRDA USB driver fixups				(Dag Brattli, 
					Philipp Rumpf, Jean Tourrilhes)
o	Tidy up cpu capability mask reporting		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Refix icmp gcc warnings			(Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o	Remove 2.0 ioremap hacks from ISDN layer	(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix request_region ranges on hisax/bkm_a8	(Roland Klabunde)
o	Add rx fifo overlfow handling to pci hisax	(Werner Cornelius)
o	Hysdn driver updates				(Ulrich Albrecht)
o	Rewrite cisco hdlc keepalive code		(Bjoern Zeeb,
							 Kai Germaschewski)
o	Document CONFIG_TMSISA				(Jochen Friedrich)
o	Fix emu10k memory leak				(Hugh Dickins)
o	Fix i810 audio SMP lockups			(Doug Ledford)
o	Merge binfmt_elf changes for PPC	(Benjamin Herrenschmidt)
o	Make sysrq keybindings a clean API		(Crutcher Dunvant)
	| I think I caught all the sysrq updates from after
	| the patch was written and got them right - please check
o	Merge PnP bios enumeration and PnP BIOS		(Christian Schmidt,
	parport support			(Tom Lees, David Hinds, Gunther Mayer)
o	Bit more experimental work on fixing bounce	(Marcelo Tosatti, me)
	buffers

2.4.3-ac7
o	Updated VIA quirk handling for the chipset	(Andre Hedrick,
	flaws						 George Breese)
	| Experimental version removed
	| VIA users should check this kernel -carefully-!!!!
o	Remove KT7 dma kill				(me)
	| See above note
o	Merge Linus 2.4.4pre3
o	Fix winchip1 oops in mtrr from previous change	(me)
o	Add winchip3 support to mtrr/oostore		(me)
o	Fix the Zoran driver build			(me)
	| This is still not up to date with the master copy
	| that is intentional - first things first.
o	Fix CONFIG_WINCHIP kernel crash on cpu with	(me)
	fxsave
o	Fix UML options help bug			(Jeff Dike)
o	Fix pte corruption in user mode linux		(Jeff Dike)
o	Fix gdb and terminal initialisation in UML	(Jeff Dike)
o	UML code cleanup				(Jeff Dike)
o	Fix saved register corruption in UML		(Jeff Dike)
o	Add pci_disable_device				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix a slight bug in the parport help		(Tim Waugh)
o	Hopefully fix the sb1000 driver irq support	(James Anderson)
o	Fix missing signal lock in keventd		(Manfred Spraul)
o	Fix module build with io debugging on		(Markus Kossmann)
o	Fix dcache flag atomicty			(Al Viro)
o	Make cs4281 use pci_set_dma_mask, clean up 	(Jeff Garzik)
	wrappers
o	Use pci_set_dma_mask on maestro3		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix 3270 driver build bug 			(Dick Hitt)
o	Fix accidental sb driver bug revert		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Clean up PCI dependancies in sound drivers	(Jeff Garzik)
o	Update synclink driver				(Paul Fulghum)
o	rtl8139 driver update				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Update ps/2 esdi fixes to correct DMA access	(Hal Duston)
o	More aha1542 code marked __init			(Matthias Hanisch)
o	More random.c code marked __init		(Matthias Hanisch)

2.4.3-ac6
o	Remove tables.h include from fatfs_syms		(OGAWA Hirofumi)
o	Update UML					(Jeff Dike)
o	Protect more __KERNEL__ only stuff from 	(Phil Copeland)
	asm-alpha/io.h
o	Fix sound/Config.in bug with ARM		(Russell King)
o	Update network drivers for ARM bits		(Russell King)
	| 8390, pcnet_cs, tulip
o	Fix umount cleanups				(Al Viro)
o	Merge aic7xxx driver 6.11			(Justin Gibbs)
o	Added support for the pentium machine check	(me)
	| Also including thermal check
o	Add support for the winchip machine check	(me)
o	Fix mtrr support of the WinChip2		(me)
	| Existing code set uncachable not write gathering on winchip2
o	Support weak ordering mode on winchip cpus	(me)

2.4.3-ac5
o	Merge Linus 2.4.4pre1
o	New rwsem implementation			(David Howells)
o	Fix rwsem compile problem			(me)
o	Fix bust_spinlocks build fail if !CONFIG_VT	(me)
o	Merge Linus 2.4.4pre2 except for ipv6
o	Fix the corner case non zeroing bug in 		(me)
	copy_from_user for x86

2.4.3-ac4
o	Fix corruption case in ext2 inode handling	(Ingo Molnar, Al Viro)
o	Merge user mode linux port			(Jeff Dike)
o	Remove some surplus ifdefs from init/main.c	(me)
o	Update nwfpe					(Russell King)
o	Fix ps2esdi driver				(Hal Duston)
o	Update ARM documentation			(Russell King)
o	Update Symbios 53c8xx driver			(Gérard Roudier)
o	ARM frame buffer update				(Russell King)
o	Update ARM bootstrap code			(Russell King)
o	Eicon driver fix				(Armin Schindler)
o	Update S/390 Documentation			(Utz Bacher, Carsten
o	Update S/390 math emulation			 Otte, Holger Smolinski
o	S/390 tape driver				 Martin Schwidefsky
o	PAGEX support for Linux/390 under VM		 and probably others)
o	General S/390 fixes
o	Update S/390 tty drivers
o	Update S/390 irq handling
o	Update S/390 channel driver
o	Update S/390 include files
o	Update S/390 networking drivers
o	Update S/390 DASD drivers
o	Update S/390 mm to match generic mm changes
o	Update S/390 makefiles
o	Catch another subspecies of misidentifying CD	(Bob Mende Pie)
o	Fix bluesmoke formatting			(Solar Designer)
o	Fix rx error handling in rtl8139		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Update paths to e2fsprogs			(Steven Cole)
o	Fix proc alloc map locking			(Tom Leete)
o	Console blanking fix (continued..)		(Mikael Pettersson)
o	ARM tools update				(Russell King)
o	Update ARM includes				(Russell King)
o	Update ARM sound drivers			(Russell King)
o	Update the shark ARM support			(Alexander Schulz)
o	Update SA1100 support				(Russell King,
							 Nicolas Pitre)
o	Update ARM make and config files		(Russell King)
o	Update ARM mm/fault handling			(Russell King)
o	Update ARM network driver config		(Russell King)
o	Misc ARM updates				(Russell King)
o	Update ARM footbridge code			(Russell King)
o	EBSA ISA bus fixups				(Russell King)
o	Fix agp copy_from_user bug			(Dawson Engler)
o	Correct devfs docs on /dev/sg			(Herbert Xu)
o	/dev/sg doc update 				(Douglas Gilbert)

2.4.3-ac3
o	Fix console unblank from suspend bug		(Mikael Pettersson)
o	Fix unmap_buffer() race				(Al Viro)
o	Add a proper dmi blacklist			(me)
o	Fix alpha build for new mm changes		(Ivan Kokshaysky)
o	Resync setup-bus.c to pick up Alpha Noritake	(Ivan Kokshaysky)
	fixes
o	Fix swap accounting for major faults		(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Add some bigendian support and voodoo5 support	(Ani Joshi)
	to tdfxfb
o	Fix failing build with CONFIG_VT=n		(Jason McMullan)
o	Fix some corner cases in iso9660 support	(Andreas Eckleder)
	for symlinks and XA attriubtes
o	Fix NTFS and quota sparc build problems on -ac	(Steve Ralston)
o	Resync to the Linus serial.c + B9600 fix	(me)
o	Avoid nasties with OHCI controller gets no IRQ	(Arjan van de Ven)
	assigned
o	Pull problem lance change			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix SMP lockup in usbdevfs			(Tony Hoyle)
o	Firestream atm update			(Patrick van de Lageweg)

2.4.3-ac2
o	Add the VIA C3 to the mtrr/setup code		(Dave Jones)
o	Report PAE mode oopses better			(Ingo Molnar)
o	Fix zap_low_mappings on PAE			(Hugh Dickins)
o	Tidy up parport resource handling, fix bug	(Tim Waugh)
o	Add series 6 backpack driver support		(Tim Waugh)
o	Make lockd use daemonize()			(Paul Mundt)
o	Fix aicasm to specify -I flags needed on some	(Mads Jřrgensen)
	distributions
o	Add docbook manual on bus independant I/O	(Matthew Wilcox)
	| + a few additional notes I added
o	Make the VIA superIO driver honour the		(Tim Waugh)
	irq/dma settings passed
o	Update mpt fusion drivers			(Steve Ralston)
o	Add reiserfs maintainer entries			(Steven Cole)
o	Experimental driver for communcation class USB	(Brad Hards)
	| eg Broadcom and Ericsson USB cable modems
o	I2O updates, report SMART errors on i2o_block	(Boji Kannanthanam)
o	Fix shm locking, races on swapping, accounting	(Stephen Tweedie)
	and swapout of already mapped pages
o	Clean up REPORTING-BUGS				(Steven Cole)
o	Fix ACM handling of CLOCAL			(Vojtech Pavlik)
o	Fix sparc64 module_map/vfree bug		(Hugh Dickins)
o	Fix scsi race on requeued requests		(Mark Hemment)
o	Tulip driver update				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Update bmac and gmac driver			(Cort Dougan)
o	Winbond w9966cf webcam parport driver		(Jakob Kemi)

2.4.3-ac1
o	Merge Linus 2.4.3 final, diff versus 2.4.3	(me)

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