Download Linux Kernel 2.4.9

LuCarD was the first to inform us of the news that the Linux 2.4.9 kernel has just been released. Version 2.4.9 follows less than a week after the 2.4.8 kernel, which was released on Saturday. It changelog announces the following changes:

final:

• David Miller: sparc updates, FAT fs fixes, btaudio build fix
• David Gibson: Orinoco driver update
• Kevin Fleming: more disks the HPT controller doesn’t like
• David Miller: “min()/max()” cleanups. Understands signs and sizes.
• Ben LaHaise: make vma merging more generous, help Mozilla /proc/<>/maps
• Jens Axboe: CD updates
• Trond Myklebust: save away NFS credentials in inode, so that mmap can writeout.
• Mark Hemment: HIGHMEM ops cleanups
• Jes Sorensen: use “unsigned long” for flags in various drivers

pre4:

• Tim Hockin: NatSemi Ethernet Update
• Kurt Garloff: make PS/2 mouse reconnect adjustable like 2.2.x
• Daniel Phillips: unlazy use once
• David Miller: undo poll() limit brain damage
• me: make return value from do_try_to_free_pages() meaningful

pre3:

• Patrick Mochel: fix PCI : PCI bridge 64-bit memory type detection
• me: more forgotten nfsd off_t -> loff_t
• Alan Cox: ide driver merge
• Eric Lammerts, Rik van Riel: when uncle, kill all threads.
• Ben LaHaise: use down_read, not down_write() in map_user_kiobuf. We don’t change the mappings, we just read them.
• Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
• Roland Fehrenbacher: sparse lun check
• Tim Waugh: handle awkward Titan parallel/serial port cards
• Stephen Rothwell: APM Updates
• Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS updates

pre2:

• me: fix forgotten nfsd usage of filldir off_t -> loff_t change
• Alan Cox: more driver merges

pre1:

• Rui Sousa: emu10k1 module fixes, remove joystick part.
• Alan Cox: driver merges
• Andrea Arkangeli: alpha updates
• David Woodhouse: up_and_exit -> complete_and_exit
• David Miller: sparc and network update
• Andrew Morton: 3c59x driver update
• Neil Brown: NFS export VFAT, knfsd cleanups, raid fixes
• Ben Collins: ieee1394 updates
• Paul Mackerras: PPC update
• me: make sure we don’t lose position bits in “filldir()”