Software Update: Linux Kernel 2.4.18

By admin On Feb 26, 2002

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Thanks to Anonymous: 30372 we know that a new stable kernel of linux is out. This is kernel 2.4.18. It changelog is again very large. What is very striking is that a lot has been tinkered with the support of ReiserFS. Also, as usual, bugs have been fixed and support for various motorola processors has been improved.

Below is a portion from the changelog†

final:

No changes have been made between -final and -rc4.

rc4:

Load code did not set personality for binaries without an interpreter: This was breaking static apps on several archs (Tom Gall)

rc3:

Fix reiserfs endianess problems (Chris Mason)

Fix PowerMac compilation problem (Pmac team)

Fix some eepro100 IDs which had problems in -ac merge (Jeff Garzik)

Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to not clash with ethtool.h – the clash caused the driver not work correctly (William Lee Irwin)

Add missing netif_carrier_” rel=”external”>on,off to eepro100 (Andrew Morton)

Fix net filter race (Rusty Russell)

Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg (Alexey Kuznetsov)

Revert tulip changes which were apparently causing slowdowns (Jeff Garzik)

Fix ptrace behavior (Linus Benedict Torvalds)

rc2:

Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas gracefully (Manfred Spraul)

Fix SMP race on PID allocation (Erik A. Hendriks)

Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme (Alexander Viro)

Add missing checks to shmem_file_write (Alan Cox)

kernel [Stable]

Version number	2.4.18
Operating systems	Linux
Website	Freshmeat
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