Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:09 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.37pre2
o ACard SCSI driver (ACard)
o Initio SCSI update (Initio)
o Tulip driver update (Don Becker)
o Add new SMC card to PCI (Andrew Pam)
o DVD may have >800Mb files (Ulrich Habel)
o Readv/writev mand lock fix (Jamie Lokier)
o Support for 2Gig/3Gig machines (Ingo/Leonard)
| Im not sure quite if Ingo's patch is based on Leonards or whatever
| Also if you use 2Gig or 3Gig you are shrinking the per process
| address space. So dont do it casually.
o Fix protocol bug in IGMP2 code (Julian Highfield)
o Floppy diver update (Alain Knaff)
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:08 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.37pre1
o Serial supports a couple of PCI cards (Henning Schmiedehausen)
o Tekram (DC390T) update (Kurt Garloff)
o DAC960 beta driver (Leonard Zubkoff)
o Slow A20 gate fix (Leonard Zubkoff)
o Keyboard race fix
o 3c59x updated (Don Becker)
o DEPCA updated (Don Becker)
o EEPro100 updated (Don Becker)
o RTL8139 updated (Don Becker)
o Initio 91XX driver (Initio, arranged by SuSE)
o AIC7xxx update (Doug Ledford)
o ICMP include symbol fix
o Bridge port change fix (Vova Oksman)
o PPTP masquerading
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:06 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre21
o Alain Knaff fix for a new exciting and broken floppy controller
some people are shipping
o ISDN compiles + a couple of last minute glitch fixes from
Karsten & Fritz
o RCPCI45 fix (MODVERSIONS=n breakage) - David Murn
o Shaper divide by zero crash fix - Ditto
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:06 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre-patch 20
o PCI ID for a newer lance chip
o TCP should now handle syn+ack+data frames right again (KA9Q sends them)
o ISDN4linux update - this should fix some stack overruns with Hisax
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:04 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
2.0.36pre18
Fixes from pre17
o 5.1.4 aic7xxx driver (EISA 274x cards now work)
o SMP debug message removed
o TCP performance optimisation from Dave Miller (and I thought he
was on honeymoon 8))
o Makefile fix for modules/versioning bug
o A couple of very minor cleanups
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:03 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre16
This has taken some time in order to get internal testing of the tcp state
machine fix done. Will people stress the following bits particularly in this
pre-patch
Booting on a 1Gig+ machine (I dont have one alas)
TCP
Weird CPUs (Cyrix/TI 486DLC etc)
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:02 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre14
The big highlights of this update are all SCSI
o AIC7xxx revision 5.1 - this is the Adaptec driver that should
support all the new stuff nicely
o Updated ICP vortex driver. This supports all the current models
including the LVD and fibrechannel controllers Im told
o AMI Megaraid controller support
Additional changes
o The tcp oopses a very few people saw on extremely loaded boxes,
or brutal beat up machine tests should be gone
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:01 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre13
This won't be the last. I'm told the final 5.1 revision super save the universe
adaptec driver will be out in a few days. I'm going to do a pre14 when that
occurs. No point having 2.0.36 appear the day before the new adaptec driver
passes its final testing.
Anyway.. the changes
2.0.36pre13 changes
o lxdialog handles differences between Ncurses versions nicely
[Thomas Dickey]
o Bridging might actually compile and work right now [me]
o A quota hanging bug has been killed [c/o DaveM]
o New EEPro10 driver update [Bao]
o SMP deadlock possibility fixed [Leonard]
o SYSV define and shm swap off now work right [me]
o ISDN update [Karsten Keil]
o make xconfig bug fixes [Andrew Veliath]
o Incorrect definition of one of the IP options fixed [ANK]
o paride update [Grant Guenther]
o Ensoniq known in PCI vendor data [Bill Nottingham]
o Alpha returns -ENOSYS not -EPERM for invalid syscalls
o TCP/IP accounting now doesnt account packets with invalid headers
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:12:00 +0000 (15:12 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre12 / Modular sound 2.0.36 test patch 1
2.0.36pre12 fixes the Alpha unknown syscall returning -EPERM bug, adds
Ensoniq to the PCI names and updates the parallel ide devices slightly.
As far as Im concerned that is now it for 2.0.36. Linus please have a look
through it see what you think. I'm guessing you'll want to drop the
fs/nfs changes. If so be careful to leave the nfsroot change as its not
part of the FIFO thing.
Also for modular sound freaks the test modular sound for 2.0.36 patch brings
2.0.36 roughly in line with the current 2.1.122+bits I sent Linus. Unlike
2.1.x it doesnt fix O_NDELAY so it wont break realaudio clients.
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:58 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre8
Bug Fixes
Large Memory
Linux 2.0.36 uses the newer bios calls to automatically size
memory above 64Mbytes, where supported by the BIOS.
Readv/Writev
Processes issuing a readv or writev to a device that did not
have the relevant read/write operation could cause an Oops and
potentially a crash.
UDMA Drives
Report Bad CRC (cable errors) as a cable error. Handling of
such errors was correct.
pipe syscall error
The pipe call could return ENFILE not -1 and errno= -ENFILE.
Fixed.
AIC7xxx
The 2.0.36 kernel contains the 5.0.20 release of the AIC7xxx
driver. This should cure most of the remaining problems with
the older chipsets. Users with the latest AIC7xxx devices will
have to wait for the next driver version to become available or
try the beta test driver.
Procfs permissions fix
A process with root file rights can now read all /proc files.
Daylight Savings in SMB
The SMB file system honours daylight savings time.
EATA SCSI/Ultrastor 14f/34f
Reverse scan order support and configurable extended geometry.
Increased the busy timeout.
Build fixes
Use relative paths for sound, remove trampoline.hex on a make
clean, support the newer versioned symbols as part of a multi
object file module.
Oops handling
A small fencepost error in Oops handling on syscall return has
been cured.
TLan 1.0
The Thunderlan driver has been updated to the 1.0 release.
Delay loops
The delay loop code has been modified to eliminate most of the
remaining cache/branch prediction and other variants to its
performance.
5.25" floppy
An incorrect floppy table entry has been altered, and a
potential crash on unload fixed.
Iomega ZIP driver
Handle 23.D firmware funnies.
Cyclades Serial
Upgraded driver from vendor, with assorted bugs fixed.
Printer Driver
The correction in the printer handling upset the Epson Stylus
800. The driver know has a LPSTRICT option that can be set for
printers that need absolute strict NBUSY handling.
Beeper gets stuck
The case where the beeper decides to beep forever has been
cured.
3c509 ethernet
Upgraded to v1.16. Fixes ID port clash with sound cards,
waiting for discard messages and recovers faster from transmit
errors.
3c59x driver
Updated 3c59x ethernet driver. This should cure the skb_push
panics some people saw with 3c59x/3c90x drivers under load.
Lance driver
Module unload bugs in the lance driver have been fixed.
Plip driver
Messages without severity levels now have appropriate levels.
AHA1542
Allow the use of DMA 0 on newer motherboards.
SHM swap off
A case where the machine might crash when turning swapping off
has been fixed.
MMAP security
Linux did not allow a writable mmap of an append only file. It
did however allow a readonly mmap of such a file then an
mprotect. Fixed.
NAKAMICH MJ-5.16S
This SCSI device has been added to the blacklist.
Single lun blacklisting
A bug in the single lun blacklisting has been fixed.
SCSI CAM division by zero
A corrupt geometry could cause the kernel to divide by zero and
crash.
Sound blaster
Don't report a DMA channel 0 for the MPU
Sequencer
If there are no synths or midi devices do not lock the
sequencer busy forever.
Autofs
Fix a small glitch in the directory hash.
ISOfs
Fix a fencepost error in the iso fs size checks.
Vfat fs
Disallow periods at the end of names.
NFS file system
Support FIFO's over NFS. Handle kill of nfsiod for module
unload.
NFS root
IFF_MULTICAST could be incorrectly not set.
Non modular soundmodem/baycom
These devices only worked as modules. They now work compiled
in.
Memory leak in networking
A very obscure leak in the networking code has been fixed.
TCP select
TCP select for urgent data now has correct semantics.
Previously it could do the wrong thing.
TCP SIGIO
SIGIO on an incoming connection is now correctly issued on the
completion of the three way handshake.
Enhancements
ISDN
The Isdn4linux layer is signifcantly upgraded. The new driver
set adds support for the Teles 16.3c, Teles PCI, Teles S0Box,
Creatix S0Box, Compaq ISDN S0 ISA, ELSA Quickstep 1000PCI, Elsa
Quickstep 3000, Elsa Quickstep 3000PCI, Eicon.Diehl Diva 2.0
ISA/PCI (not Pro), Eicon.Diehl Diva Piccola, AsusCom ISDNLink
128K, Dynalink IS64PH, HFC-2BS0 based cards, Sedlbauer Speed
Card(Speed win, teledat 100), Sedlbauer Speed Star PCMCIA, USR
Sportster Internal TA, ITH MIC 16 ISA, Traverse NETjet PCI,
Niccy PnP/PCI
Shaper
The shaper device provides a simple traffic limiting driver for
Linux 2.0.x. For full traffic shaping watch for Linux 2.2
coming soon..
Tulip
The tulip driver has been upgraded to 0.89H which should also
support the clone PNIC and MXIC tulip devices.
Extended CPUID/Chip identification
The Cyrix/AMD extended CPUID mode is supported. Cyrix
processors are identified even when CPUID is not available. The
Intel Celeron Mendicino is recognized. K6's with the random
oops bug are normally now detected. The K6 cpu deadlock problem
isn't detected as we know no way to check for it except to try
it.
Multi-Tech driver
Driver for multi-tech 4/8 port modem and serial
cards.(Experimental).
EtherExpress
The Compaq LTE should now be recognized (experimental)
Intel 440GX
The 440GX chipset is known to the PCI data tables.
Nvidia
NVidia/SGS Thomson is known to the PCI data tables.
SCSI medium changers
These are no long reported as unknown device types.
ROSE networking
The ROSE network layer has been updated.
Other
Bigger system call table
To support add ons that use syscalls in the new range.
Hooks for dumping
Kernel hooks for optional threaded core dump module.
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:57 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre7
This doesn't fix the icmp or threaded socket handling stuff that does eventually
need curing. It does however fix all sorts of other fun things. With this
release the Cyclades should be happy and the Cyrix detect/AMD detect shoul
work properly, including the old AMD bug detect.
Consider this your last chance to scream about 2.0.36 bugs
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:56 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
2.0.36prepatch 6
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/2.0.36pre/
Changes this release
o Cyclades bug fix (Cyclades Corp)
o 440GX device ids (Leonard Zubkoff)
o BusLogic update (Leonard Zubkoff)
o New version of the ROSE protocol layers (F6FBB)
o TCP works with SO_BINDTODEVICE (Phil Gladstone)
o TCP select error
o Hooks for multithreaded ELF core dumps (Alan Cox)
(Phil Gladstone maintains the ELF mt core dump stuff and gdb patch)
I was going to integrate this patch but I got some slightly odd results
that looked like a double kfree and the patch didnt seem quite perfect yet.
Anyway - you shouldnt need to hack anything to use it now
Stuff I know I have left to worry about:
o Andre - can you check there is nothing in your jumbo patches I
should have (I dont want to put the UDMA/new timer stuff into a
2.0.x kernel). I couldnt see any easy way to seperate the MHz
computation from it
o Try and get the mt core dumps working
o Two crash reports from AF_UNIX sockets that look like a long
standing race.
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:55 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre4
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/...
This one updates the tulip and 3c509 drivers, so give those a beating. The
mdelay/udelay problem with the aic7xxx update is fixed. A small root
permissions bug in /proc is fixed and a few other minor things.
Modular sound isnt in this one. Its about 60/40 in favour but I decided
the 40% were right. It changes expected behaviour for people which isnt
good for 2.0
The main thing left to sort now is the final CPU detection. Im still getting
some reports of misdetections
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:54 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre3
[ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/alan/...]
Ok this took a bit longer than I intended. Im releasing 2.0.36pre3 now for
two reasons
1. Its got the 5.0.20 AIC7xxx driver in it - this should help
the adaptec afflicted
2. It has modular sound in it
Now for the modular sound Im unsure if its a good idea or bad to switch
to it for a 2.0.x kernel. Its always going to be available as an add on
and I suspect be something most vendors will ship (bearing in mind the target
markets are often not keen to recompile kernels). So I'd appreciate feedback
on both if modular sound behaves for you (it should 8)) and also opinions
on whether it should become a standard item.
Apart from that all I have queued to do now are a few small bug fixes and
to wait for the final version of the isdn updates. Those are pretty important
as they should include code thats been certified with telco approval in some
of the weird parts of the world (most of the EEC to start with) where code
certification for the ISDN 'D' channel protocol is required for each card.
If you have a new feature you desperately want for 2.0.36, then probably
too late. If there are bug fixes floating around notin 2.0.36pre3 you think
matter please send me them - I'd rather get duplicates than miss stuff.
Finally - treat pre3 with a bit of care - its not as tested as the pre patches
tend to be.
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:53 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre2
ftp://ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/linux/alan/..
This is a bit bigger than pre patch 1 but most of the bulk is the isdn driver
updates to reflect what everyone is actually using.
I don't have ISDN here - thats a hint to the ISDN using people to test this ok ;)
Lesser items:
o Tlan 1.0 driver
o >64Mb memory recognition
o Full cyrix and other CPU recognition (should fix the TI problems)
o Syscall return trap fix
o Delay slightly more stable
o IDE floppy knows about Iomega zip firmware 23.D
o Cyclades update
o Traffic Shaper
o Etherexpress should now handle Compaq LTE base stations
o EATA update
o SCSI blacklist update
o SCSI medium changers recognized
o Ultrastor 14f/34f update
o MPU401 DMA reporting
o Sequencer busy fix
o ISOfs boundary case fix
o NFS unload fix
o SMBfs time saving fix
o mmap append only file fix
o Socket leak fix
Alan Cox [Fri, 23 Nov 2007 20:11:53 +0000 (15:11 -0500)]
Linux 2.0.36pre1
I've put Linux 2.0.36 pre-patch-1 on ftp.uk.linux.org:/pub/linux/alan
This contains the following changes
o The minicom beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep bug fix
o non atomic kmalloc from IRQ in the lance error handler
o 3c59x update
o Thunderlan update
o The lp slowdown should be gone I hope
o Amateur radio non module inits fix
o vfat ... bug fix
o obscure memory leak fix
and if you thought the last one was too big then you'll like this one. Its
4939 bytes compressed