Software update: Linux kernel 2.4.10

slashdot reports that the Linux 2.4.10 kernel has just been released. You can refuel the source from kernel.org or via the many well-known mirrors. Below it changelog†

final:

• Andrew Grover: ACPI update
• Al Viro: block devices..
• Andrea Arcangeli: fix list manipulation bogosity
• Trond Myklebust: 64-bit file locking fixes
• Brad Hards: USB CDC Ethernet
• Chris Mason: reiserfs speedup
• Robert Love: re-merge AMD 761 GART support that was lost in -ac merge
• Adam Richter: check pci_module_init() return value

pre15:

• Jan Harkes: make Coda work with arbitrary host filesystems, not just filesystems that use generic_file_read/write
• Al Viro: block device cleanups
• Hugh Dickins: swap device lock fixes
• fix swap readahead race
• me, Andrea: more reference bit cleanups

pre14:

• Richard Gooch: devfs update
• Andrea Arcangeli: clean up/fix ramdisk handling now that it’s in page cache
• Al Viro: follow up the above with initrd cleanups
• Keith Owens: get rid of drivers/scsi/53c700-mem.c file
• Trond Myklebust: RPC over TCP race fix
• Greg KH: USB update (ohci understands USB_ZERO_PACKET)
• me: clean up reference bit handling, fix silly GFP_ATOMIC allocation bug

pre13:

• Manfred Spraul: /proc/pid/maps cleanup (and bugfix for non-x86)
• Al Viro: “block device fs”
• cleanup or page cache handling
• Hugh Dickins: VM/shmem cleanups and swap search speedup
• David Miller: sparc updates, soc driver typo fix, net updates
• Jeff Garzik: network driver updates (dl2k, yellowfin and tulip)
• Neil Brown: knfsd cleanups and fixues
• Ben LaHaise: zap_page_range merge from -ac

pre12:

• Alan Cox: much more merging
• Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci race fixes
• Andrea Arkangeli: VM race fix and OOM tweak.
• Arjan Van de Ven: merge RH kernel fixes
• Andi Kleen: use more readable ‘likely()/unlikely()’ instead of __builtin_expect()
• Keith Owens: fix 64-bit ELF types
• Gerd Knorr: mark more broken PCI bridges, update btaudio driver
• Paul Mackerras: powermac driver update
• me: clean up PTRACE_DETACH to use common infrastructure

pre11:

• Neil Brown: md cleanups/fixes
• Andrew Morton: console locking merge
• Andrea Arkangeli: major VM merge

pre10:

• Alan Cox: continued merging
• Mingming Cao: make msgrcv/shmat check the queue/segment ID’s properly
• Greg KH: USB serial init failure fix, Xircom serial converter driver
• Neil Brown: nsfd/raid/md/lockd cleanups
• Ingo Molnar: multipath RAID personality, raid xor update
• Hugh Dickins/Marcelo Tosatti: swapin read-ahead race fix
• Vojtech Pavlik: fix up some of the infrastructure for x86-64
• Robert Love: AMD 761 AGP GART support
• Jens Axboe: fix SCSI generic queue handling race
• me: be sane about page reference bits

pre9:

• Greg KH: start migration to new “min()/max()”
• Roman Zippel: move affs over to “min()/max()”.
• Vojtech Pavlik: VIA update (make sure not to IRQ-unmask a vt82c576)
• Jan Kara: quota bug fix (don’t decrement quota for non-counted inode)
• Anton Altaparmakov: more NTFS updates
• Al Viro: make nosuid/noexec/nodev be per-mount flags, not per-filesystem
• Alan Cox: merge input/joystick layer differences, driver and alpha merge
• Keith Owens: SCSI Makefile Cleanup
• Trond Myklebust: fix oopsable race in locking code
• Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update

pre8:

• Christoph Hellwig: clean up personality handling a bit
• Robert Love: update sysctl/vm documentation
• make the three-argument (that everybody hates) “min()” be “min_t()”, and introduce a type-anal “min()” that complains about arguments of different types.

pre7:

• Alan Cox: big driver/mips sync
• Andries Brouwer, Christoph Hellwig: more gendisk fixups
• Tobias Ringstrom: tulip driver workaround for DC21143 erratum

pre6:

• Jens Axboe: remove trivially dead io_request_lock usage
• Andrea Arcangeli: softirq cleanup and ARM fixes. Slab cleanups
• Christoph Hellwig: gendisk handling helper functions/cleanups
• Nikita Danilov: reiserfs dead code pruning
• Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update to 1.1.18
• firestream network driver: patch reverted on authors request
• NIIBE Yutaka: SH architecture update
• Paul Mackerras: PPC cleanups, PPC8xx update.
• me: reverse broken bootdata allocation patch that went into pre5

pre5:

• Merge with Alan
• Trond Myklebust: NFS fixes
• kmap and root inode special case
• Al Viro: more superblock cleanups, inode leak in rd.c, minix directories in page cache
• Paul Mackerras: clean up rubbish from sl82c105.c
• Neil Brown: md/raid cleanups, NFS file handles
• Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (usb-2.0 support, visor fix, Clie fix, pl2303 driver update)
• David Miller: sparc and net update
• Eric Biederman: simplify and correct boot data allocation
• don’t overwrite ramdisks
• Tim Waugh: support multiple SuperIO devices, parport doc updates

pre4:

• Hugh Dickins: swap-off cleanups and speedups
• Matthew Dharm: USB storage update
• Keith Owens: Makefile fixes
• Tom Rini: MPC8xx build fix
• Nikita Danilov: reiserfs update
• Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader fix for ET_DYN
• Andrew Morton: reparent_to_init() for kernel threads
• Christoph Hellwig: VxFS and SysV updates, vfs_permission fix

pre3:

• Johannes Erdfelt, Oliver Neukum: USB printer driver race fix
• John Byrne: fix stupid i386-SMP irq stack layout bug
• Andreas Bombe, me: yenta IO window fix
• Neil Brown: raid1 buffer state fix
• David Miller, Paul Mackerras: fix up sparc and ppc respectively for kmap/kbd_rate
• Matija Nalis: umsdos fixes, and make it possible to boot up with umsdos
• Francois Romieu: fix bugs in dscc4 driver
• Andy Grover: new PCI config space access functions (eventually for ACPI)
• Albert Cranford: fix incorrect e2fsprog data from ver_linux script
• Dave Jones: re-sync x86 setup code, fix macsonic kmalloc use
• Johannes Erdfelt: remove obsolete plusb USB driver
• Andries Brouwer: fix USB compact flash version info, add blksize ioctls

pre2:

• Al Viro: block device cleanups
• Marcelo Tosatti: make bounce buffer allocations more robust (it’s ok for them to do IO, just not cause recursive bounce IO. So allow them)
• Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update (1.1.17)
• Paul Mackerras: PPC update (big re-org)
• Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver fixes
• David Miller: networking and sparc updates
• Trond Myklebust: Export atomic_dec_and_lock
• OGAWA Hirofumi: find and fix umsdos “filldir” users that were broken by the 64-bit-cleanups. Fix msdos warnings.
• Al Viro: superblock handling cleanups and race fixes
• Johannes Erdfelt++: USB updates

pre1:

• Jeff Hartmann: DRM AGP/alpha cleanups
• Ben LaHaise: highmem user pagecopy/clear optimization
• Vojtech Pavlik: VIA IDE driver update
• Herbert Xu: make cramfs work with HIGHMEM pages
• David Fennell: awe32 ram size detection improvement
• Istvan Varadi: umsdos EMD filename bug fix
• Keith Owens: make min/max work for pointers too
• Jan Kara: quota initialization fix
• Brad Hards: Kaweth USB driver update (enable, and fix endianness)
• Ralf Baechle: MIPS updates
• David Gibson: airport driver update
• Rogier Wolff: firestream ATM driver multi-phy support
• Daniel Phillips: swap read page referenced set
• avoid swap thrashing