Software Update: Linux Kernel 2.4.6

rene_404 was the first to tell us that a new stable linux kernel has appeared on kernel.org. The change log:

-final:

-pre9:

– make sure “sync()” doesn’t effectively lock up the machine by

overloading all the IO resources

– fix up some network memory allocations that don’t want to wait on IO.

– merge with Alan (including MIPS update)

– Jeff Garzik: network driver updates.

– Al Viro: System V FS update (write capability, page cache, mondo cleanups)

– Kai Germaschewski: ISDN cleanups, TURBOPAM driver by Stelian Pop

– Ben Fennema: UDF update (time handling, i_blocks fix)

– Neil Brown: md error handling improvements, knfsd file handle compatibility

– Paul Mackerras: PPC update

– Jakub Jelinek: fix up kernel linker scripts to accept .rodata better

– Patrick Mochel: fix PME handling in pci_enable_wake()

– Chris Mason: reiserfs PF_MEMALLOC handling

-pre8:

– me: fix GFB_BUFFER thinkos. Make buffer syncing more efficient.

Make sure we don’t leave buffers on the LOCKED list forever

– David Miller: networking and sparc updates

-pre7:

– Patrick Mochel: PCI documentation, and PM cleanups

– mtd: export nand ECC functions

– Jes Sorenson: acenic driver update

– Alan Cox: fix vxfs merge boo-boo

– me: undo page_launder() LRU changes, they have nasty side effects

– wanrouter: fix error code

-pre6:

– Jeff Garzik: net driver updates, PCI PM induced cleanups

– Me: do ACPI first, so that it doesn’t mess up existing device driver

configurations. Notably it used to completely destroy PCMCIA on some

Sony VAIOs.

– Paul Mackerras: powermac drivers and MAINTAINERS update

– NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH Update

– Johannes Erdfelt: USB driver updates

– Russell King: ARM Update

– Alan Cox: merging, merging, merging

-pre5:

– Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (bluetooth and serial)

– Andrew Grover: ACPI update for _real_ this time.

– Neil Brown: md update

– Keith Owens: kbuild script fix, do_softirq versioning fix

– David Miller: sparc and portability updates

-pre4:

– Chris Mason: ReiserFS pre-allocation locking bug fix

– David Miller: fix bitops users (requires “long” alignment)

– Andrey Savochkin: file locking failure case SMP lock fix

– Urban Widmark: smbfs update (avoid unnecessary flushing, make NetApp

work)

– Andrew Grover: ACPI update

– Jeff Garzik: network driver updates

– Maciej Rozycki: IO-APIC level trigger problem workaround

– Rusty Russell: ipt_unclean fix

– Richard Gooch: devfs update

-pre3:

– remember to increment the version number

– Chris Mason: reiserfs mark_journal_new and bra leak fix

– Richard Gooch: devfs update

– Alexander Viro: further FS cleanup (superblock list)

– David Woodhouse: MTD update

– Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update (stanford checker fixes etc)

– Rich Baum: gcc-3.0 warning fixes

– Jeff Garzik: network driver updates

– Geert Uytterhoeven: m68k fbdev logo merge glitch fix

– Andrea Arcangeli: fix signal return path

– David Miller: Sparc updates

– Johannes Erdfelt: USB update

– Carsten Otte, Andries Brouwer: don’t clear blk_size unconditionally

on partition check

– Martin Frey: alpha Sable irq fix

– Paul Mackerras: PPC softirq update

– Patrick Mochel: PCI power management infrastructure

– Robert Siemer: miroSOUND driver update

– Neil Brown: knfsd updates, including ability to export ReiserFS filesystems

– Trond Myklebust: NFS readdir fixup, don’t update atime on client

– Andrew Morton: truncate_inode_pages speedup

– Paul Menage: make inode quota count all inodes..

-pre2:

– Takanori Kawano: brlock indexing bug fix

– Ingo Molnar, Jeff Garzik: softirq updates and fixes

– Al Viro: rampage of superblock cleanups.

– Jean Tourrilhes: Orinoco driver update v6, IrNET update

– Trond Myklebust: NFS brown paper bag thing

– Tim Waugh: parport update

– David Miller: networking and sparc updates

– Jes Sorensen: m68k update.

– Ben Fennema: UDF update

– Geert Uytterhoeven: fbdev logo updates

– Willem Riede: osst driver updates

– Paul Mackerras: PPC update

– Marcelo Tosatti: unlazy swap cache

– Mikulas Patocka: hpfs update

-pre1:

– Andreas Dilger: make ext2fs react more gracefully to inode disk

errors

– Andrea Arkangeli: fix up alpha compile issues

– Ingo Molnar: io-apic MP table parsing update and softirq latency

update

– Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates

– Richard Henderson: alpha rawhide irq handling fixes

– Marcelo, Andrea, Rik: more VM issues

– Al Viro: fix various ext2 directory handling checks by biting the

bullet and using the page cache.