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Re: Linux v2.6.0-test1 (fwd)



lets see how badly this breaks redhat 9 :)

i know steve has tried out the 2.5/6 series, anyone else?

>From: Steven Pritchard <steve@silug.org>
>----- Forwarded message from Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> -----
>
>Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 20:59:07 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
>To: Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
>Subject: Linux v2.6.0-test1
>
>
>Ok,
>  the naming should be familiar - it's the same deal as with 2.4.0.
>
>One difference is that while 2.4.0 took about 7 months from the pre1 to
>the final release, I hope (and believe) that we have fewer issues facing
>us in the current 2.6.0. But very obviously there are going to be a
>few test-releases before the real thing.
>
>The point of the test versions is to make more people realize that they
>need testing and get some straggling developers realizing that it's too
>late to worry about the next big feature. I'm hoping that Linux vendors
>will start offering the test kernels as installation alternatives, and
>do things like make upgrade internal machines, so that when the real
>2.6.0 does happen, we're all set.
>
>		Linus
>
>---
>
>Summary of changes from v2.5.75 to v2.6.0-test1
>============================================
>
><jcchen:icplus.com.tw>:
>   o [netdrvr sundance] increase eeprom read timeout
>
><taowenhwa:intel.com>:
>   o [e100] cu_start: timeout waiting for cu
>   o [e100] misc
>
>Alan Cox:
>   o genrtc sets owner fields so
>   o Remove bogus printk in microcode.c
>   o clean up floppy98 a bit
>   o dtlk comment fix
>   o isurf compile fix
>   o axnet can unload with timers live
>   o ibmtr can unload with timers live
>   o fix up nmclan locking and hang on eject at wrong moment
>   o fix further timer in pcmcia stuff
>   o Fix remaining g_NCR5380 use of check_region
>   o not sure what the author was on
>   o AC97 updates from 2.4
>   o Add the au1000 driver
>   o demo plugin for switching ad1980 ports Dell style
>   o Fix security leaks in btaudio
>   o Add the ALI5455 driver from 2.4
>   o fix security leaks in cmpci
>   o Update cs46xx in 2.5 to the newer 2.4 release
>   o fix the security leak in dmasound
>   o Switch the SB Live! to the new ac97 api
>   o fix security leaks and a crash in es1370
>   o bring es1371 in line with 2.4
>   o fix security leak and crash in esssolo
>   o Add Forte Media OSS driver
>   o update ITE audio
>   o update the i810 audio driver
>   o switch maestro3 to new ac97
>   o fix security leak in maestro.c
>   o fix security leak in msnd_pinnacle.c
>   o Add swarm driver for broadcom boards
>   o update nec driver to new ac97
>   o update trident driver for new ac97 etc
>   o fix wrong printk in nm256 audio
>   o update via audio driver, make it work on esd add new chips
>   o more wrong strlcpy's
>   o update ymfpci for new ac97
>   o Merge AD1889 driver from 2.4
>
>Alan Stern:
>   o USB: Small correction to usb-skeleton.c
>   o USB: Updates for unusual_devs.h
>
>Andi Kleen:
>   o Deprecate numerical sysctl
>   o x86-64 fixes for 2.5.75
>
>Andrew Morton:
>   o fix return of compat_sys_sched_getaffinity
>   o remove proc_mknod()
>   o reiserfs dirty memory accounting fix
>   o fix reiserfs for 64bit arches
>   o wall_to_monotonic initialization fixes for
>   o i_size atomic access: infrastructure
>   o i_size atomic access
>   o kmap() -> kmap_atomic() in fs/exec.c
>   o make CONFIG_KALLSYMS default to "on"
>   o misc fixes
>   o Set umask correctly for nfsd kernel threads
>   o Bug fix in AIO initialization
>   o Fix race condition between aio_complete and
>   o separate locking for vfsmounts
>   o fix for CPU scheduler load distribution
>   o NBD: cosmetic cleanups
>   o nbd: enhanced diagnostics support
>   o nbd: remove unneeded blksize_bits field
>   o nbd: initialise the embedded kobject
>   o nbd: cleanup PARANOIA usage & code
>   o NBD documentation update
>   o nbd: remove unneeded nbd_open/nbd_release and refcnt
>   o nbd: make nbd and block layer agree about device and
>   o JBD: checkpointing optimisations
>   o JBD: transaction buffer accounting fix
>   o ext3: sync_fs() fix
>   o oom killer fixes
>   o yenta-socket initialisation fix
>   o Fix yenta-socket oops
>   o devfs oops fix
>   o devfs deadlock fix
>   o epoll-per-fd fix
>
>Andries E. Brouwer:
>   o cryptoloop
>
>Bernardo Innocenti:
>   o asm-generic/div64.h breakage
>
>Brian Gerst:
>   o c99 initializers for init/version.c
>
>Daniel Ritz:
>   o more net driver timer fixes
>   o net/pcmcia fix fast_poll timers (HZ > 100)
>
>Dave Jones:
>   o [AGPGART] Remove unneeded assignment
>   o [AGPGART] Use defines for register bits in AMD K8 GART driver
>   o [AGPGART] K8 GART driver doesn't need masks
>   o [AGPGART] Ignore multiple K8 GARTS on UP
>   o [AGPGART] Optimise PCI searching in K8 GART driver
>   o [AGPGART] K8 Device 0x1103 is always at PCI_FUNC 3
>   o [AGPGART] K8 North bridge bus position is no longer relevant
>   o [AGPGART] HP AGP update
>   o [AGPGART] Sort SiS device IDs
>   o [AGPGART] SiS 746 support This (and a few other SiS chipsets) are
>     AGP 3 compliant. AFAIK, none of these have been tested in AGP3
>     mode, but they should work just fine in AGP2.x mode at least.
>   o [AGPGART] SiS 648 support
>   o [AGPGART] Make frontend sparse clean
>
>David Brownell:
>   o USB: usb_get_string(), don't use bogus ids
>   o USB: usbnet, don't NET_XMIT_DROP
>
>David S. Miller:
>   o [SPARC]: SEMTIMEDOP for both Sparc ports
>   o [SPARC64]: Port over IPC msg{snd,rcv} compat32 fixes from ia64
>   o [TCP]: When in SYN-SENT, initialize metrics after move to
>     established state
>   o [NET]: Ok, sunhme is VLAN challenged after all
>   o [IPV6]: Build and send redirect packet using "buff" not "skb",
>     fixes OOPS
>   o [IPV6]: Fix dst reference counting in ndisc_send_redirect()
>   o [NET,COMPAT]: Delete bogus icmpv6 filter translation code
>   o [IPV6]: Fix leaks of ndisc DST entries
>   o [SPARC64]: Ditch local KALLSYMS from Kconfig, update defconfig
>   o [SPARC64]: Implement force_successful_syscall()
>   o [SPARC64]: Use mm->free_area_cache
>   o [IPV4]: Do not redefine config macros in net/ip_vs.h
>   o [IPV4]: Always use Jenkins hash in ipvs conn table, use
>     get_random_bytes() to init key
>   o [IPV4]: Kill slow timers from IPVS, they are superfluous and
>     inefficient these days
>
>David Stevens:
>   o [IPV4]: Do not sent IGMP leave messages unless IFF_UP
>
>Dominik Brodowski:
>   o [PCMCIA] don't hide calls to socket drivers
>   o [PCMCIA] rename ss_entry to ops
>
>Fran?ois Romieu:
>   o Fix AD1889 driver 2.4 merge
>   o Fix error path in AD1889 driver
>
>Greg Kroah-Hartman:
>   o USB: fix up my USB Bluetooth entry to help prevent confusion in the
>     future
>   o USB: remove pointless warning about using usbdevfs
>
>Herbert Xu:
>   o [IPSEC]: Missing reqid check in xfrm_state_ok
>
>Hideaki Yoshifuji:
>   o [IPV6]: Fix offset of payload with extension header
>
>Ian Abbott:
>   o USB: ftdi_sio update
>
>James Morris:
>   o [NETLINK]: Just drop packets for kernel netlink socket with no
>     data_ready handler
>
>Jean Tourrilhes:
>   o [IrDA] include cleanup
>   o [IrDA] struct check
>   o [IrDA] irtty leaks
>   o [IrDA] irnet cast
>   o [IrDA] IrCOMM devfs
>   o [IrDA] setup dma fix
>   o [IrDA] irda-usb endian
>   o [IrDA] nsc 39x support
>
>Jeff Garzik:
>   o [netdrvr tg3] more ULL suffixes to make gcc 3.3 happy
>   o [netdrvr] fix compiler warnings in 3c359, proteon, skisa tokenring
>     drivers.
>   o [netdrvr wavelan] remove check_region usage
>   o [netdrvr atmel_cs] kill compiler warning (jumping to "empty" label)
>
>Jens Axboe:
>   o disk stats accounting fix
>   o Fix IDE-CD command failure re-play
>   o fs accounting, part 2
>
>Kay Sievers:
>   o usblp: usb_buffer_free() not called Here is the blind flight :-)
>     === drivers/usb/class/usblp.c usblp->dev was set to NULL to
>     indicate a device disconnect but we need this value for
>     usb_buffer_free() when device is still opened and cleanup is
>     delayed until usblp_release().
>
>Linus Torvalds:
>   o Avoid mmap() overflow case if TASK_SIZE is the full range of an
>     "unsigned long" (sparc64).
>   o Merge comment updates from DRI CVS tree
>   o Update i810 DRI driver from CVS to add page flipping
>   o Update r128 driver from DRI CVS: add support for ycbcr textures
>   o Update radeon driver from DRI CVS: add more commands
>   o Merge from DRI CVS tree: avoid zero DRI "handles"
>   o Merge with DRI CVS tree - which added a reminder to the DRI people
>     not to remove the HAVE_KERNEL_CTX_SWITCH support that the sparc
>     drivers require.
>   o Fix signedness tests in vsnprintf by making it explicit
>   o Mark Bartlomiej as the IDE maintainer, about 3 months late ;)
>   o Disable TI cardbus PCI IRQ routing code that was forward-ported
>     from 2.4-ac - it seems to cause hangs for people.
>
>Matthew Dharm:
>   o USB: fix usb-storage initializers
>   o USB: fix datafab and freecom to use I/O buffer
>
>Matthew Wilcox:
>   o parisc updates
>   o Makefile update for parisc
>   o eisa Kconfig update for parisc
>   o Add two sysctls for PA-RISC
>   o Remove warning from binfmt_elf.c for upwards growing stack
>   o gsc-ps2 update
>
>Miles Bader:
>   o Use <asm-generic/statsfs.h> on v850
>   o More irqreturn_t changes for v850
>   o show_stack changes for v850
>
>Nivedita Singhvi:
>   o [NET]: Fix typo in net-sysfs.c copyright
>
>Pete Zaitcev:
>   o [SPARC]: Clean secondary System.map
>   o [SPARC]: defconfig for willy's scsi
>   o [SPARC]: hch's cond_syscall() for PCI syscalls, Alpha/PPC/etc. can
>     use this too
>   o [SPARC]: Redo show_stack()
>   o [SPARC]: Trap table alignment for Hyperspace (Keith Weselowsky)
>
>Petr Sebor:
>   o via-agp.c - agp_try_unsupported typo
>
>Petr Vandrovec:
>   o new sysctl checking accesses userspace directly
>
>Ralf B?chle:
>   o mkiss
>
>Richard Henderson:
>   o [ALPHA] Add tgkill syscall
>   o [ALPHA] Set correct CLOCK_TICK_RATE for the RTC
>   o [ALPHA] Remove SBUS & MCA from alpha Kconfig
>
>Robert Zwerus:
>   o Documentation/CodingStyle spelling fixes
>
>Russell King:
>   o [PCMCIA] Prevent PCMCIA oops during socket driver initialisation
>   o [PCMCIA] Fix hangs when PCMCIA modules loaded
>
>Samuel Thibault:
>   o [2.5] maestro volume tuning
>
>Stephen Hemminger:
>   o convert plip to alloc_netdev
>   o [netdrvr dgrs] convert to using alloc_etherdev
>
>Steve French:
>   o NTLMv2 password support and NTLMSSP signing part 1
>   o ntlmssp signing
>   o More NTLMv2
>   o Open / Create lookup intents part one
>   o Add mknod support
>   o fix cifs distributed caching - send oplock release immediately
>     after flush of writebehind data on oplock break from server
>
>Thomas Graf:
>   o [NET]: Return EDESTADDRREQ as appropriate in sendmsg
>     implementations
>
>Ulrich Drepper:
>   o Re: utimes/futimes/lutimes syscalls
>
>Wensong Zhang:
>   o [NET]: Merge in IPVS layer
>
>
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