> Where does the kernel's ChangeLog live? > > I want to know what was fixed/changed from 2.2.16 to 2.2.17. > > -- > Bob Tanner <tanner at real-time.com> | Phone : (612)943-8700 > http://www.mn-linux.org | Fax : (612)943-8500 > Key fingerprint = 6C E9 51 4F D5 3E 4C 66 62 A9 10 E5 35 85 39 D9 ----- Forwarded message from Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> ----- Subject: Linux 2.2.17 To: linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org Date: Mon, 4 Sep 2000 19:53:14 +0100 (BST) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Alan Cox <alan at lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Ok Linux 2.2.17 official is now out. This is the same as 2.2.17pre20 without the -pre20 id string This is the version waiting Linus. Its in the queue for holy penguin pee so either it will get peed on or I will get abuse from Linus depending whether he likes it or not 8) In the mean time I'm taking a break rescuing a rather buggy but otherwise neat user space app. I'll start 2.2.18 in a couple of weeks. James Cloos is making diffs between 2.2.17pre versions are available at <http://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre> <ftp://jhcloos.com/pub/linux-2.2.17-pre> 2.2.17pre20 o Fix EIP/ESP printk thinko (Willy Tarreau) o Final small DAC960 adjustments for 2.2.17 (Leonard Zubkoff) o Improve AARP handling (Alistair Riddell) o Fix bug in the appletalk code (Marcelo Tosatti) o Last minute fix to the CS4281 (Tom Woller) o Mention CS4280 and use __initdata for data (me) o Turn on the EAPD bit on the AD1885 (me) o Don't honour the status bit for audio on a (Marcus Sundberg) 440MX - it appears it doesnt work o Fix high cpu usage on i810 audio (Marcus Sundberg) o Apply the same fix to the cs46xx (Bill Nottingham) o Change the power/CD algorithm on the 46xx (me) 2.2.17pre19 o Add Marcelo Tosatti to the credits (Marcelo Tosatti) o Fix a couple of kfree and follow the pointer bugs in the i810 audio driver (Bob Frey) o Vger is now vger.kernel.org everywhere (Daniel Roesen) o Further 3c59x fixups (Andrew Morton) o Disable record on cs46xx for this release (me) 2.2.17pre18 o Fix a race in the NFS code (Andi Kleen) o Fix a pair of arcnet resource leaks on error (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) o Fix PPC601 booting, bitops bug and oddments (Paul Mackerras) o Fix resource leaks on error in several drivers (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) o Add SCR-2430 to cdroms we limit xfer sizes on (Ron) o Fix a small error in the vfb driver (Geert Uytterhoeven) o Fix further bonding driver bug (John Newbigin) o Irda should compile again o Fix irda parameter parser (Russell King) o Hold the external amp on the Voyetra card active while CD is an input (me) o HDLC driver fixes (Krzysztof Halasa) o Ksyms for external stuck task tracker module (Andi Kleen) o Fix spurious setting of err in sockets (Dave Miller) o Fix net_bh race from skb_dequeue (??) o Fix cs46xx record bug (me) o Fix ac97 init wait error (doh..) (me) 2.2.17pre17 o Added midi/dmfm support for the ALi sound (me) | from code by Ching Ling Lee | blame me if it doesnt work o CS4281 experimental sound driver (GW Boynton, Tom Woller) | cleaned up and maybe broken by yours truely o Fix bonding crash (John Newbigin) o Fix find_next_zero bit on Alpha (Jay Estabrook) o Fix find_next_zero_bit on Sparc (Dave Miller) o Qlogicfc fixes (Chris Loveland) o Fix bttv norm setting in old driver (Daniel Perez) o Start ESS solo with mic turned down to avoid (me) feedback. 2.2.17pre16 o Thinkpad hacks and external amp support for (Bill Nottingham, me CS46xx, also fix mono David Kaiser) o Actually fix i810 audio hangs and other stuff (me) o Dave Jones addr change (Dave Jones) o Fix long standing vm hang bug (Marcelo Tosatti) o Fix irda memory leak (Pontus Fuchs) o Minor further PPC fixes (Paul Mackerras) o Fix PCI id ordering (Paul Mackerras) o 3Ware corrected update (Adam Radford Joel Jacobson) o Fix stale documentation in proc.txt (Paonia Ezrine) o Fix the TCP/vm bug nicely (Andi Kleen) o Add 3c556 support to the 3c59x driver (Andrew Morton) o Switch eepro100 to I/O mode pending investigation (Andrey Savochkin) o Fix 'Donald Duck impressions' in ES1879 audio (Bruce Forsberg) o CODA fs fixes for 2.2.17pre (Jan Harkes) o RIO serial driver update (Patrick van de Lageweg) o Minimal version of the at1700 fix (Brian S. Julin) [From Hiroaki Nagoya's original stuff] o Typo fix in sysctl vm docs (Dave Jones) o DAC960 update to rev 2.2.7 (Leonard Zubkoff) 2.2.17pre15 o Pull the 3ware update - causes oopses ? (me) o Fix emu10k build error with no PCI (Arjan van de Ven) o display7 LED driver (Eric Brower) o TLB multi-match bugs in sparc64 (Dave Miller) o Fix CPP string concatenation in sparc ksyms (Dave Miller) o Fix lost copyright credit to ALi in the trident.c driver (me) o Add alternate ALi ID to the trident driver (me) o ATI video fixes for PPC (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) o Further HDLC fixes (Krzysztof Halasa) o Fix sign handling bugs (Andrew Morton, me) o Fix wrong comment in fs/exec.c (Robert Love) 2.2.17pre14 o Hopefully fix esd and other i810 audio hangs (me) o Further fixes for the Alpha tree (Jay Estabrook) o Further bond cleanup/init fix (Daniel Roesen) o Fix initio redefine warnings (Arjan van de Ven) o Fix warnings due to printk types (Arjan van de Ven) o Fix warnings due to missing prototypes (Arjan van de Ven) o Fix i2o warnings, code cleanup (Arjan van de Ven, me) o Fix warnings from missed includes (Arjan van de Ven) o Fix ip2serial config ioctl bug (Arjan van de Ven) o Update ipmasqadm tool locations (Rob Hudson) o Fix yamaha build problems (me) o Change varesearch -> valinux in the kernel (H J Lu) o Add /lib/modules/foo/build link as per l/k (Ted Ts'o) o Bring the SX rio and generic_serial in line (Patrick) with 2.4.test o 3ware controller fixes/updates (Adam Radford Joel Jacobson) o Fix appletalk kmalloc warnings (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) o Fix imm/ppa handling with PCI ports (Gunther Mayer) o Fix 16bit handling bug in NCPfs (Petr Vandrovec) o Fix isofs offset by one error (Mikael Pettersson) o Add byte counters to ewrk3 (Nathan Hand) o SMBFS clean ups, fix OS/2 rename (Urban Widmark) o HDLC driver bug backout (Krzysztof Halasa) o Powermac pmu and gmac fixes (Paul Mackerras) o Fix i2o block scan for multi drives (Boji Kannanthanam) o Fix frag handling oddity on ipchains (Jan Echternach) o Fix emu10k as non module (Mikael Pettersson) o Scsi command raw requires RAWIO cap (Oliver Xymoron) o IDE command raw or hwif add requires RAWIO (various) o Fix isofs 2048 byte alignment bug (Go Taniguchi) o Fix most remaining UMSDOS flaws (Matija Nalis) 2.2.17pre13 o Fix compile errors on userhelper (Several people) o Small Alpha update/fixes (Jay Estabrook) o Add bootup documentation (H Peter Anvin) o S/390 partial merge of updates (Martin Schwidefsky) o Bonding driver fixes (Andreas Steinmetz) o Geert changed address (Geert Uytterhoeven) 2.2.17pre12 o Fix PC300 X.21 support (Ivan Passos) o Smart2 driver minor fixes, one new card id (Charles White) o Fix PS/2 reconnect lockup on SMP (David Nelson) o Fix duplicate PCI ids (Tim Waugh) o Fix 100Mbit fdx on DEC45x driver (Phil Ezolt, Bill Carr) o Cyclades serial fixes (Ivan Passos) o Additional scsi blacklist entries (Matt Domsch) o Allow ppp deflate to be compiled in (Paul Gortmaker) o Fix i2o block multidrive bug I added in pre10 (Boji Kannanthanam) o Hopefully fix the scsi error handler/initrd bug (me) o Small sparc power handling bugfix (Dave Miller) o Directory testing fix if CAP_DAC_READ_SEARCH (Wojciech Purczynski) o Export exec_usermodehelper, clean up baycom (Thomas Sailer) 2.2.17pre11 o Tlan driver update (Torben Mathiasen) o Ext2 error message typo (Andreas Dilger) o Updated Yamaha PCI audio driver (Daisuke Nagano) o Small PPP oops fixes (Paul Fulghum) o SMBFS compile fix (Urban Widmark) o Small cisco hdlc/lmi fixes (Krzysztof Halasa) o Fix hdlc mode switch (Ivan Passos) o Fix fbmem driver bug with size checks (Petr Vandrovec) o Merge the Emu10K driver (Rui Sousa and co) o Synclink driver updates (Paul Fulghum) o Appletalk SMP locking fixes (Jens-Uwe Mager) o Don't offer Toshiba Laptop for non x86 (Francis Galiegue) o Further PPC minor merges (Paul Mackerras) 2.2.17pre10 o Fix up the eepro driver further (Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho) o Update URL for Japanese Configure.help (Goto Masanori) o Remove tty driver sleep race (Andrea Arcangeli) | this backs out a fix but a fix we no longer need o Tim Waugh moved (Tim Waugh) o Urban Widmark becomes new smbfs maintainer (Urban Widmark) | Also cleanup debug stuff o Fix several cs46xx bugs (Tom Woller, me) o Fix INET=n compile failure (Arjan van de Ven) o Handle i2o boot volumes sanely (Boji Kannanthanam, me) 2.2.17pre9 o Fix toshiba driver to work compiled in (me) o Fix scsi sg driver panics with some cards (Douglas Gilbert) o Fix select() handling bugs in DoubleTalk driver (Jim Van Zandt) o Alpha fixes for fbcon. matroxfb and pm2fb (Jay Estabrook) o Further TCP fixes (please give these a good beating) (Alexey Kuznetsov) o Add some delays to cs46xx to try and fix the (me) 'only works on 2nd load' bug some people see 2.2.17pre8 o Fix sparc64 sym53c8xx breakage (Dave Miller) o Further PPC merge updates (Paul Mackerras) o Fix the I/O slowdown in 2.2.17pre7 (Marcelo Tosatti) 2.2.17pre7 o Fix the rate adaption, default to 48KHz (me) Correctly setup VRA bits. Variable speed now works on capable codecs (AD1881 etc) o Crystal Soundfusion 46xx driver (me) | Most of the work actually from the ALSA driver by Jaroslav o PC300 driver update (Ivan Passos) o Further PPC merges (Olaf Hering) o Further 3c59x/3c90x fixes (Andrew Morton) o Fix i810 potential oops (Vladimir V. Klenov) o Atari partition probe must be last (no magic) (Michael Schmitz) o Merge aty128fb driver for PPC (Brad Douglas) o Fix the multiple ide directories in proc bug (Shigeo 'Geo' Tanai) o Fix zImage build for chrp PPC (Olaf Hering) o Toshiba SMM driver for configuration utils (Jonathan Buzzard) o Rename cp932 back (Yoshihiro Kajiki) o Fix endian bug in cp932 handling (Yoshihiro Kajiki) 2.2.17pre6 o Fix some NTFS bugs, stop it touching win2K (Anton Altaparmakov) o Wait for dirty buffers to sync sometimes (Marcelo Tosatti) o AIC7xxx update (hopefully its happy now) (Doug Ledford) o Put #!/bin/sh on the scripts from Menuconfig (Wolfgang Sourdeau) o 2.2 elevator wasnt coalescing enough (Jens Axboe) o Fix ppc build problem (Andreas Tobler) o PPC video updates (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) o List extra Athlon flags as in 2.3.* (me) o Handle AMD Athlon L2 cache reporting errata (me) 2.2.17pre5 o Fix alpha compile problems on lmc and dmfe (me) o Fix sparc32 lockd translation (Dave Miller) o Fix HDLC problems with packet lengths (Ivan Passos) o PMAC updates - should now build (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) video update rejected as too risky o Removed unused trashing var (Andrea Arcangeli) o Proper fix for the TCP crash case (Andi Kleen) o Further small vm fixups (Rik van Riel) o Fix SCSI tape bugs (Kai Makisara) o Lanmedia driver fixes (Andrew Stanley-Jones) o ES1370/1371 GETOSPACE fixes (Thomas Sailer) o FAT CD fix (Jens Axboe) o Further small shared irq 3c59x fix (Andrew Morton) o Fix scripts/Configure comment handler (Jun Hamano) 2.2.17pre4 o Winchip C6 has buggy TSC (Dave Jones) o TCP crash workaround for the problem seen by auctionwatch (Alexey Kuznetsov) o VM improvements (mm-fix-3) (Andrea Arcangeli) o Revert parport change in pre2 for now (me) 2.2.17pre3 o Fix possible hang in TCP code under high net/ (Mark Hemment) disk load | Im very interested to know if this fixes some of the | reported high load box totally hangs cases o Fix a sparc64 problem with SABRE o Bring the PPC port back into line (Cort Dougan, Paul Mackerras, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Henry Worth | Lots of PPC fixes, DMA sound suspend fix, GMAC ethernet, | PPC changes to de4x5 for new apple stuff, core99 fixes | adb, rth, macserial and media bay work o Require root for keymap reloading (Stephen Thorne) o Fix a reported CD-ROM oops (Jens Axboe) o Give BSD behaviour for iovec overruns (Ivan Kokshaysky) | Also should fix OSF emulation o Set file type on sockets in ext2 (Andreas Dilger) 2.2.17pre2 o Fix memory leak in appletalk drivers (Hu Chengjun) o Fix bridge + rtl8139 bug (Jeff Garzik) o ICH audio hack for slow to reset codecs (Vladimir V. Klenov) o One liner fix to the kswapd logic (Rik van Riel) o Fix dtr on close bug in the SX serial driver (Patrick van de Lageweg) o Fix saving of db6 on debug traps (James Cownie) o Teach setup code about transmeta processors (H Peter Anvin) o Fix some SMP races in parport (Tim Waugh) o Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND, rpc2 region info query (Jens Axboe) o Small AFFS fixes (Dave Jones) o Test fsuid before DAC_OVERRIDE in procfs (Solar Designer) o Add Cyclades PC300 driver (Ivan Passos) o List Andries as partitioning maintainer (Andries Brouwer) o Remove __LIBRARY__ from unistd.h syscall tests (Erik Troan) o Resync 2.2 and 2.4 i810 drivers (me) o Upgrade aic7xxx driver to 5.1.30. This should (Doug Ledford) fix the problems with EISA/VLB cards o Resync the ixj telephony driver with Quicknet (me) | Word of warning: Stuff built against the 2.2 ixj | driver is back compatible. Stuff built against their | release we merged with is not as they clashed with | ioctls already allocated for other uses. 2.2.17pre1 o Fix the md failure to work (me) o Fix the Irix 6.x FIN foodfight bug (Andi Kleen) | Someone needs to fix IRIX too o Fix the Alpha debugging printk (me) o Fix the 2.2.16 problem with some cdroms (Jens Axboe) o Fix the i2o scsi crash on boot (me) o Fix yamaha audio when compiled in (me) o Fix es1371 rev 8 cards (Thomas Sailer) o Don't listen for TCP on lockd port (Trond Myklebust) o Fix sparc32 signal handling (Eddie d'Ost) o Fix sym53xxx sparc stuff (Dave Miller) o Fix crashes on unload/remove of initio scsi (Thomas Graichen) o FIX eepro100 on sparc (Dave Miller) o Remove Alessandro from the maintainers (Alessandro Rubini) o Fix erroneous cp932 code page data (C Huang) - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo at vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ----- End forwarded message ----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: tclug-list-unsubscribe at mn-linux.org For additional commands, e-mail: tclug-list-help at mn-linux.org