Download Linux Kernel 2.4.15

Equator writes: “After a long wait, the new kernel from the 2.4 series is a fact. Kernel version 2.4.15 is out. The most important change is probably the Extended 3 filesystem (Ext3). Also a start has been made on the next development ( Unstable) kernel tree 2.5. Below the changelog”:

final:

– Jan Kara: fix quota SMP races with BKL

pre9:

– David Brownell: usbnet update

– Greg KH: USB and PCI hotplug update

– Ingo/me: fix SCHED_FIFO for UP/SMP for good (flw).

– Add back direct_IO now that it works again.

pre8:

– Richard Henderson: alpha update

– Andrew Morton: fix ext3/minix/sysv fsync behavior.

pre7:

– Jeff Garzik: network driver updates

– Christoph Hellwig: UFS filesystem byte order cleanups

– me: modified Andrea VM page allocator tuning

pre6:

– Russell King: /proc/cpuinfo for ARM

– Paul Mackerras: PPC update (cpu info etc)

– Nicolas Aspert: fix Intel 8xx agptlb flush

– Marko Myllynen: “Lindent” doesn’t really need bash

– Alexander Viro: /proc/cpuinfo for s390/s390x/sh, /proc/pci cleanup

– Alexander Viro: make lseek work on seqfiles

pre5:

– Greg KH: enable hotplug driver support

– Andrea Arcangeli: remove bogus sanity check

– David Mosberger: /proc/cpuinfo and scsi scatter-gather for ia64

– David Hinds: 16-bit pcmcia network driver updates/cleanups

– Hugh Dickins: remove some stale code from VM

– David Miller: /proc/cpuinfo for sparc, sparc fork bug fix, network

fixes, warning fixes

– Peter Braam: intermezzo update

– Greg KH: USB updates

– Ivan Kokshaysky: /proc/cpuinfo for alpha

– David Woodhouse: jffs2 – remove dead code, remove gcc3 warning

– Hugh Dickins: fix kiobuf page allocation/deallocation

pre4:

– Mikael Pettersson: make proc_misc happy without modules

– Arjan van de Ven: clean up acpitable implementation (“micro-acpi”)

– Anton Altaparmakov: LDM partition code update

– Alan Cox: final (yeah, sure) small missing pieces

– Andrey Savochkin/Andrew Morton: eepro100 config space save/restore over suspend

– Arjan van de Ven: remove power from pcmcia socket on card remove

– Greg KH: USB updates

– Neil Brown: multipath updates

– Martin Dalecki: fix up some “asmlinkage” routine markings

pre3:

– Alan Cox: more driver merging

– Al Viro: make ext2 group allocation more readable

pre2:

– Ivan Kokshaysky: fix alpha dec_and_lock with modules, for alpha config entry

– Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates

– Jeff Garzik: network driver updates, sysv fs update

– Kai Mäkisara: SCSI tape update

– Alan Cox: large drivers merge

– Nikita Danilov: reiserfs procfs information

– Andrew Morton: ext3 merge

– Christoph Hellwig: vxfs livelock fix

– Trond Myklebust: NFS updates

– Jens Axboe: cpqarray + cciss dequeue fix

– Tim Waugh: parport_serial base_baud setting

– Matthew Dharm: usb storage Freecom driver fixes

– Dave McCracken: wait4() thread group race fix

pre1:

– me: fix page flags race condition Andrea found

– David Miller: sparc and network updates

– various: fix loop driver that thought it was part of the VM system

– me: teach DRM about VM_RESERVED

– Alan Cox: More Merging