>Linux 2.2 穩定版本系列最新的 2.2.18 已經完工，開放下載。在 2.4 核心系列如火如荼發展之際，舊的 2.2 系列仍持續改進當中。
Linux 2.2.18 出版紀事：http://www.linux.org.uk/VERSION/relnotes.2218.html。
Linux 2.2.18 的變革紀錄：
2.2.18pre26
o Last resync of the S/390 tree with IBM (Martin schwidefsky
| s390_daemonize skipped, thats too ugly and co)
o Swat irq leak in sbni driver (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Update urls for Arnaldo (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Small UDP mcast fix (Dave Miller)
o Fix TCP rto estimator for very fast long (Dave Miller)
paths
2.2.18pre25
o Fix tight loop spinning reporting out of free (Marcelo Tosatti)
pages
(previously fixed but missed by me) (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Back out ppa changes causing problems for a (Tim Waugh)
few users
o Set master enable on UHCI USB controllers (Erik Mouw)
o RIO DCD fixes (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o 3c59x.c support for 3c556B (Andrew Morton)
o S390 cleanups for loopsperjiffy etc (Kurt Roeckx)
o Fix acceleport 4 SMP hangs (Al Borchers)
o Fix drivers/char/Makefile buglet (Chip Salzenberg)
o PPC syscall table fix (Chip Salzenberg)
o Move HID sysctl to avoid clash in 2.4 case (Tom Rini)
o Small symbios check condition fix (G廨ard Roudier)
o Fix Makefile module version check (Eric Lammerts)
o Fix DRM build on Sparc (Dave Miller)
o Work around Dallas D4201 PCM8 audio bug (Thomas Sailer)
o Fix USB memory leak (Dan Streetman)
o Fix ioremap fencepost error (Chip Salzenberg)
2.2.18pre24
o Expose put_unused_fd for modules (Andi Kleen)
o Fix the ps/2 mouse probe I hope (me)
o Fix crash in cosa driver (Jan Kasprzak)
o Fix procfs negative seek offset error reporting (HJ Lu)
o Fix ext2 file limit constraints (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix lockf corner cases (Andi Kleen, me)
o Fix NCPfs date limits (Igor Zhbanov)
o Update DRM (Chip Salzenberg)
o Fix missing Alpha includes (Matt Wilson)
o Fix missing symbols on alpha (Matt Wilson)
2.2.18pre23
o Fix alpha compile problem (Herbert Xu)
o Scan DMI bios data to find broken laptops (me)
o Fix megaraid module symbols (Michael Marxmeier)
o Fix visor/OHCI problem (Gerg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix sysctl_jiffies compile bug (Tomasz K這czko)
o Init mic input low to avoid feedback (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix typo in acenic headers (Val Henson)
o David Woodhouse has moved (David Woodhouse)
o Compaq raid driver update (Charles White)
o Fix aha1542 scribbles on errors (Phil Stracchino)
o Update Advansys driver to v3.3D (Bob Frey)
o Fix maestro ioctl locking (Zach Brown)
o Formatting cleanup for setup.c (Dave Jones)
o Fix FAT32 bugs on Alpha (Bill Nottingham)
2.2.18pre22
o Fix HZ assumption in USB hub driver (Oleg Drokin)
o Fix ndisc range check on ipv6 (Dave Miller)
o Clear other fields in qcam VIDIOCGWIN return (Damion de Soto)
o Fix sparc64 includes for socket.h (Solar Designer)
o ELF platform was misset for Pentium IV (Mikael Pettersson)
o ADMTek 985 ident was wrong (Lee Bradshaw)
o Fix filemark status test on scsi tape (Robin Miller)
o Fix file/block when spacing to tape beginning (Kai Maiksara)
o Small ISDN documentation fixes (Kai Germaschewski)
o Resync icn driver with core isdn tree (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix isdn loopback driver (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix small leaks in lockd (Trond Myklebust)
o Add Pentium IV rep nop, ident etc (Various folks,
notably HPA and
Linda Wang)
o Update sparc default config (Dave Miller)
o Hopefully properly fix the megaraid problem (Willy Tarreau, AMI
and others)
o Resync tcp bits with Dave (Dave Miller)
o Make cpqarray provide randomness (Nigel Metheringham)
o Fix wavefront symbols bug (Carlos E. Gorges)
o Fix acenic jumbo handling when flushing ring (Val Henson)
o Fix ace_set_mac_addr for littleendian hosts (Stephen Hack)
o Fix assorted typos in the kernel (Andries Brouwer)
o EEPro100 fixes (Dragan Stancevic)
o Fix hisax _setup crash case (David Woodhouse)
o Fix small cdrom driver bugs (Jens Axboe)
o Fix remaining vmalloc corner cases (Ben LaHaise)
o Update USB maintainers (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix matroxfb doc bug (Pavel Rabel)
o Fix setscheduler lock inversion (Andrew Morton)
o Fix scsi unload/sg ioctl oops (Paul Clements)
2.2.18pre21
o Environment controller update for sparc (Eric Brower)
o No italian translation for config.help (Andrea Ferraris)
o Fix type error in buz driver (Pete Zaitcev)
o Resnchronize Apple PowerMac codebase (Paul Mackerras & co)
o Merge powermac tree fixes into usb
o Powermac input device handling changes
o Fix console switch fonts
o S/390 merge (IBM S/390 folks)
(Merge grunt work done by Kurt Roeckx)
o Make knfsd TCP an option (me)
o Drop cisco info packets (0x2000) (Ivan Passos)
o Add belkin USB serial cable (William Greathouse)
2.2.18pre20
o Fix ide-probe SMP build error (Ian Morgan)
o Fix appletalk physical layer ioctl handling (Andi Kleen)
o Sparc update (Dave Miller)
o Update Stephen Tweedie's contact info (Stephen Tweedie)
o Fix typo in esp and scsi_obsolete code (Dave Miller)
o Bonding ioctl check fix (Willy Tarreau)
o Fix ipv6 procfs bug (Al Viro)
o Report PIV in proc as family 15 and uname as (me)
model 6 as discussed
o Redo Intel cache decodes as code not tables (me)
and add new ones (based on updates by
Asit Mallick & Andrew Ip)
o Fix CMOS locking in machine_power_off paths (me)
o Create build tree symlinks only if insmod is
new enough not to be confused by it (Keith Owens)
o Fix cmsg handling (Philippe Troin)
o Tiny xpds driver changes (Dan Hollis)
o Fix vmalloc sign bug (Ben LaHaise)
o SMBFS fixes/changes for find_next problems and (Urban Widmark)
to avoid truncate bug in netapps
o Fix ntfs translation bug (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Fix sparc problem with some soundcards and the (Jeff Garzik)
_IOC magic
o Update ppa driver to v2.05 (Tim Waugh)
2.2.18pre19
o Fix transproxy socket lookup (Val Henson)
o Add ICS1893 PHY to the SiS900 driver (Lei-Chun Chang)
o Fix documentation error in matroxfb (Vsevolod Sipakov)
o Update IDE floppy maintainer (Paul Bristow)
o Fix remaining cmos locking (Paul Gortmaker)
o Fix sparc bitfield/compiler bits on sound (Dave Miller)
o Update Pegasus USB driver (Petko Manolov)
o Networking updates - move divert header (Andi Kleen)
o Add ETH_P_ATM* defines (Matti Aarnio)
o Fix one more missing GFP_KERNEL/sk->allocation (Dave Miller)
o Fix ISDN multilink handler bug (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix ymfpci unload cases (Kai Germaschewski)
2.2.18pre18
o Fix off by one in net/ipv4/proc (Dave Miller)
o Move the fpu emu patch that got away (Dave Miller)
o K6 update for MTRR ability (Dave Jones)
o Fix raid1/vm deadlock (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix usb mouse userspace memory accesses (David Woodhouse)
o Fix xpdsl if compiled in (typo) (Arjan van de Ven)
o Rio fixes for modem handling. Fix a small (Patrick van de Lageweg)
generic serial bug
o IBMtr driver fixes for cable pulls, pcmcia (Burt Silverman,
behaviour etc Mike Sullivan)
o Tidy up /dev/microcode messages (Daniel Roesen)
o Add arpfilter (Andi Kleen)
o IDE floppy updates for clik support, cleanups (Paul Bristow)
o Fix irongate handling on Alpha (Soohoon Lee)
o Fix HZ=100 assumption in aha152x.c (me)
o Fix power management handling in i810 audio (me)
(From an ALSA fix by Godmar Back)
o Put the NFS block default back to 4K (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix misleading comment in printk code (Riley Williams)
o Fix fbcon scroll back/paste bug (Herbert Xu)
o Fix rtc_lock for ide-probe, and hd.c (Richard Johnson)
o Backport of 2.4 PR_GET/SET_KEEPCAPS (Brian Brunswick)
(from Chris Evans 2.4 code)
o LRU list corruption fix (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Initial gcc 2.96+ support for kernel building (H J Lu)
| Not a recommended compiler for production kernels...
o ALI silence clearing fix (Ching-Ling Lee)
o Fix remaining old-style use of copy_strings (Solar Designer)
o Better pci_resource_start macro for 2.2 (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix nbd deadlock (Marcelo Tosatti)
2.2.18pre17
o Move a few escaped m68k headers into the right (me)
directory
o Backport 2.4 AF_UNIX garbage collect speedups (Dave Miller)
o TCP fixes for NFS (Saadia Khan)
o Fix USB audio hangs (David Woodhouse)
o Sparc64 dcache and exec fixes (Dave Miller)
o Fix typing crap in divert.h (Jeff Garzik)
o Use pkt_type in diverter, add maintainer info (Dave Miller)
o Fix obscure NAT problem in FIB code (Dave Miller)
o Fix sk->allocation in TCP sendmsg (Marcelo Tossati)
o Elevator fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Allow broken_suid on NFS root (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix net/ipv6/proc off by one bug (Dave Miller)
o Fix AGP oops on Alpha (Michal Jaegermann)
o MSR/CPUID init call fixes (Arjan van de Ven)
o CS4281 sound hang fixes (Thomas Woller)
o AX.25 comment updates, Joerg has moved email (Joerg Reuter)
2.2.18pre16
o Finally get the m68k tree merged (Andrew McPherson
and a cast of many)
o Bring the sparc back in line, make it build (Anton Blanchard)
o USB Bluetooth fixes/docs (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix auth_null credentials bug (Hai-Pao Fan)
o Update cpu flag names (Dave Jones)
o Console 'quiet' boot option as in 2.4 (Rusty Russell)
o Make the sx serial driver work again (Patrick van de Lageweg)
o Fix negotation on the SYM53C1010 (Gerard Roudier)
o Fix alpha loops per jiffy (Jay Estabrook)
o Fix pegasus to work with 2.2 kernels (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Update plusb driver for 2.2.x (Eric Ayers,
Deti Fliegl)
o Fix ohci to use __init (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o /sbin/hotplug support for USB as in 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Update ksymoops url (Keith Owens)
o Update the changes doc about gcc (Petri Kaukasoina)
o Fix AMD flag naming (Ulrich Windl)
o Restore old block size on devices after a
partition scan (needed for powermac for one) (Michael Schmitz)
o Fix GPL naming in SubmittingDrivers (Mike Harris)
o NFSv3 server patches merge (Dave Higgen)
o CS46xx changes (Nils Faerber)
o Fix sys_nanosleep for >4GHz CPU changes (me)
(Spotted by Ben Herrenschmidt)
o Fix pas rev D mixer (??)
o Fix multiple spelling errors (Andr?Dahlqvist)
o ISDN updates (Kai Germaschewski)
o XSpeed DSL driver (Timothy Lee,
Dan Hollis)
o IDE multi-lun/single-lun handling (Jens Axboe)
o Fix alpha generic trident sound support (Rich Payne)
o Fix PPC for loops per jiffy (Cort Dougan)
2.2.18pre15
o Default msdos behaviour to old (small) letters (me)
| An option 'big' goes with 'small'
o Fix define collision in cpqfc (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix case where scripts/kwhich isnt executable (me)
o Alpha FPU divide fix (Richard Henderson)
o Add ADMtek985 to the tulip list (J Katz)
o Lose excess ymfpci debugging (Rob Landley)
o Fix i2c bus id clash (Russell King)
o Update the ARM vidc driver (Russell King)
o Update the ARM am79c961a driver (Russell King)
o Fix parport_pc build with no PCI (Russell King)
o Fix ARM memzero (Russell King)
o Update ARM for __init and __setup (Russell King)
o Update ARM to loops_per_jiffy (Russell King)
o Remove arm ecard debug messages (Russell King)
o Fix ARM makefiles (Russell King)
o Fix iph5526 driver to use mdelay (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix epca, dtlk, aha152x loops_per_sec bits (Philipp Rumpf)
o Fix smp tlb invalidate and bogomip printing (Philipp Rumpf)
o Fix NLS warnings (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix wavfront conversion to loops_per_jiffies (me)
o Fix an audio problem and a sanyo changer (Jens Axboe)
problem
o Fix include bug with divert (me)
| Alternate fix to Willy Tarreau's
o Fix Alpha for loops_per_jiffy (Willy Tarreau)
2.2.18pre14
o Reorder attributes in drm to work with gcc272 (me)
o GNU cross compilers are foo-bar-gcc (Russell King)
o Add extra strange pcnet32 ident (Willy Tarreau)
o Since no vendor can get which right.. use a (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
shell script instead
| Please nobody tell me this fails in some bash version!
o Should be using bash not bash2 (escaped debug) (Petri Kaukasoina)
o spin_unlock_irq wrong debug mode printk (Willy Tarreau)
o Fix pcxx for the loops changes (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix ov511/via-rhine name clash (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix bridge compile with loops_per_sec change (Mitch Adair)
o 8139too driver added (Jeff Garzik)
2.2.18pre13
o Change udelay to use loops_per tick (Philipp Rumpf)
| Otherwise we bomb out at 2GHz which isnt far enough
| away with 1.4/1.6GHz stuff due out RSN
o Fix drivers using big delays to use mdelay (me)
o Fix drivers that used loops_per_sec (Philipp Rumpf, me)
o Fix yamaha PCI sound SMP bug (Arjan van de Ven)
o Change to preferred USB init fix (David Rees)
o Fix rio fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Catch the VT but no mouse case in init/main.c (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix the 'which' compiler stuff (Horst von Brand,
Peter Samuelson)
| Can someone verify for me this works on Slackware and
| on Caldera ?
o Add devfs include. Devfs wont be going into 2.2 (Richard Gooch)
but this again makes it easier to do 2.2/2.4
drivers.
2.2.18pre12
o Fix cyrix MTRR handling bug (IIZUKA Daisuke)
o Fix ymfpci poll (me, Arjan)
o Update radio-maestro, add Configure.help (Adam Tla/lka>
o Fix rio/generic serial build bug (Marcelo Tossati)
o USB build bug fix (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix missing ac97_codec.c return value (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix several warnings (Arjan van de Ven)
o Made the PS/2 reconnect behaviour optional (me)
| Its now 'psaux-reconnect' on the boot line
o Allow for newer Hauppauge with 4 ports (Krischan Jodies)
o Switch sound drivers from library to object (Arjan van de Ven)
o Kill the not working ac97 lock on the 810 (me)
o Automatically select older compilers for kernel
builds on Debian and RH (Arjan van de Ven)
o Start volumes higher on ac97, teach the driver (Rui Sousa)
about 5bit and 6bit codec precision and use
the mute bit.
2.2.18pre11
o Kill bogus codec_id assignment (Linus Torvalds)
o Update codec init code to handle id right (me)
o Fix dead/clashing define for NFS (Trond Myklebust)
o Remove the find_vga crap from bttv (me)
o Fix return on probe failure for cadet (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add missing configure.help stuff from 2.4test (Alan Ford)
o Fix inia100/megaraid define clash (Arjan van de Ven)
o __xchg marked as taking volatiles (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix vwsnd warning in sound core (Arjan van de Ven)
o wdt_pci driver should return -EIO on error (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix init_adfs_fs warning (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix the joystick driver option parsing (Arjan van de Ven)
o Update mkdep to handle // commenting (Mike Klar)
o Thunderlan driver typo fixes (Torben Mathiasen)
o Add KX133/KT133 stuff to the AGP/DRM (Jeff Nguyen)
o FIx multiple card bug in eepro driver (Aristeu Filho)
o Initial YMF PCI native driver (Pete Zaitcev)
| Based on Jaroslav's ALSA driver and I've tweaked it
| a bit and maybe broken it 8)
o Fix procfs unlink bugs (Willy Tarreau)
o X.25 bugfix backport (Henner Eisen)
o Fix incorrect free_dma on DMAless boxes (Boria)
o Fix via audio driver merge (Nick Lamb)
o Update plusb driver to 2.4 one (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Put description info in wacom driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Update both UHCI drivers to match 2.4test (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Masquerade cleanup/warning fixes (Horst von Brand)
2.2.18pre10
o Add printk level to partition printk messages (me)
o Fix bluesmoke address report/serialize (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Add 2.4pre CPUID/MSR docs to 2.2.18pre (Adrian Bunk)
o Update to the 2.4pre via audio driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix small SMP race in set_current_state (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix __KERNEL__ checks in sparc headers (Dave Miller)
o Fix ADFS root directory bug added in pre9 (Russell King)
o Trap incorrect swap partition sizes (Andries Brouwer)
o Fix nfsroot bootp/dhcp on sparc64 (Dave Miller)
o Tidy up tcp opt parsing (Dave Miller)
o Check range on port range sysctl (Dave Miller)
o Back out erroneous i2c.h change (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix trident hangs due to over zealous addition (Eric Brombaugh)
of midi support
o Fix big endian/macro bug in ext2fs (Andi Kleen)
o Bring dabusb driver into line with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Bring event drivers into line with 2.4 (Franz Sirl,
Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix usb help texts (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Generic frame diverter (Benoit Locher)
o Bring USB serial back into line with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix DVD driver rpc state bug (Jens Axboe)
o Fix extra sunrpc printk (Tim Mann)
o USB init tidy up (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Allow PlanB video on generic PPC (Michel Lanners)
o Doc fixes/trim cvs logs on isdn drivers (Kai Germaschewski)
o USB hid, hub, ibmcam, dsbr100 devices updates (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Return EAFNOSUPPORT for out of range families
o Fix SMP locking on floppy driver (Jonathan Corbet)
o Add module author info to acm.c (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Update CREDITS to reflect all the USB guys (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o ipfw wrong allocation flag fix (Rusty Russell)
o Implement Sun style lockf/nfs cache barriers (Trond Myklebust)
o Updated ISI serial driver (Multitech)
| You may well need their newer firmware set/loader for the
| later cards too
2.2.18pre9
o Fix usb module load oops (Thomas Sailer)
o Bring USB boot drivers in line with 2.4t8 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o And USB print drivers (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o And USB Rio driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o And USB dc2xx driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o And USB mdc800 driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o NFSv3 support and NFS updates (Trond Myklebust and co)
o Compaq 64bit/66Mhz PCI Fibrechannel driver (Amy Vanzant-Hodge)
o Disable microtouch driver (doesnt work in 2.2 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
currently)
o Update ADFS support (Russell King)
o Update ARM arch specific code and includes (Russell King)
o Update ARM specific drivers (Russell King)
o Use both fast and slow A20 gating on boot (Kira Brown)
| if your box doesnt boot I want to know about it...
| Needed for stuff like the AMD Elan
2.2.18pre8
o Fix mtrr compile bug (Peter Blomgren)
o Alpha PCI boot up fix (Michal Jaegermann)
o Fix vt/keyboard dependancy in USB config (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix sound hangs on cs4281 (Tom Woller)
o Fix Alpha vmlinuz.lds (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND bug, allow root to open (Jens Axboe)
the cd door whenver.
o Update ov511 to match 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Further devio.c fix (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Update NR_TASKS comment (Jarkko Kovala)
o Further sparc64 ioctl translator fixes (Andi Kleen)
2.2.18pre7
o Fix the AGP compile in bug (Arjan van de Ven)
o Revert old incorrect syncppp state change (Ivan Passos)
o Fix i810 rng to actually get built in (Arjan van de Ven)
o Megaraid compile fix, joystick, mkiss fixes (Arjan van de Ven)
o Kawasaki USB ethernet depends on net (Arjan van de Ven)
o Compaq cpqarray update (Charles White)
o Fix usb problem with no USB unit found (Oleg Drokin)
o Driver for the radio on some maestro cards (Adam Tlalka)
o Additional shared map support needed for sparc64(Dave Miller)
o Fix wdt_pci when compiled in (me, Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix usb missing symbol when non modular (Arjan van de Ven)
o Identify chip and also handle MTRR for the (me)
Cyrix III
o Allow binding to all ports multicast (Andi Kleen)
o Bring USB docs up to date (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Bring USB devio up to date (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o pci_resource_len null function for non PCI case (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix synchronous write off end of disk bug (Jari Ruusu)
2.2.18pre6
o Fix the IDE PCI not compiling bug (Dag Wieers)
o Kill an escaped reference to vger.rutgers (Dave Miller)
o Small rtl8139 fixups (Jeff Garzik)
o Add USB bluetooth driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Fix oops in visor driver (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Remove some unneeded ext2 includes,fix a bug (Andreas Dilger)
in the UFS code
o Fix rtc race between timer and rtc irq (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Fix slow gettimeofday SMP race (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Check lost_ticks in settimeofday to be more (Andrea Arcangeli)
precise
2.2.18pre5
o Added older VIA ide chipsets to the not to be (me)
autotuned list
o Fix crash on boot problem with __setup stuff (me)
o Small acenic fix (Matt Domsch)
o Fix hfc_pci isdn driver (Jens David)
o Fix smbfs configuration problem (Urban Widmark)
o Emu10K wrapper/build fixes (Rui Sousa)
o Small cleanups (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix sparc32 build bug (Horst von Brand)
o Fix quota oops (Martin Diehl)
o Add i810 random number driver (Jeff Garzik)
o Clear suid bits on ext2 truncate as per SuS (Andi Kleen)
o Fix illegal use of section attributes (Arjan van de Ven)
o Documentation for nmi watchdog (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix uninitialised variable warnings (Arjan van de Ven)
o Save DR6 condition into the TSS (Ryan Wallach)
o Add additional __init's to the kernel (Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o Backport 2.4 wdt_pci driver (JP Nollman, me)
o AGP i810 fixes (Chip Salzenberg)
o UDMA support for ALI1543 & 1543C IDE devices (ALI)
o 2.4 MSR/CPUID driver backport (Dave Jones,
H Peter Anvin)
o Fix incorrect use of kernel v user ptr in NCPfs (Petr Vandrovec)
o Updated scsi tape driver (Kai Makisara)
2.2.18pre4
o Remove the aacraid driver again, having looked (me)
at what is needed to make it acceptable and
debug it - Im dumping it back on Adaptec
o DAC960 update (Leonard Zubkoff)
o Add setup vmlinuz.lds changes for Sparc (Arjan van den Ven)
o Sparc updates for drm, ioctl and other (Dave Miller)
o Megaraid driver update (Peter Jarrett)
o Add cd volume 0 to the amp power off on the
crystal cs46xx (Bill Nottingham)
o Fix IPV6 fragment and kfree bugs (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix emu10k build bug (me)
o Emu10K driver upgrade. Adds emu-aps support (Rui Sousa)
o Updated IBM serveraid driver to 4.20 (IBM)
o Ext2 block handling cleanup from 2.4 (Al Viro)
o Make the ATI128 driver modular (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix megaraid build bug with gcc 2.7.2 (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix some of the dquot races (Jan Kara)
o x86 setup code cleanup (Dave Jones)
o Implement 2.4 compatible __setup and __initcall (Arjan van de Ven)
o Tidy up smp_call_function stuff (Keitaro Yosimura)
o Remove 2.4 compat glue from cs4281 driver (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Fix minor bugs in bluesmoke now someone actually
has a faulty CPU and logs (me)
o Fix definition of IPV6_TLV_ROUTERALERT (Dave Miller)
o Fix in6_addr, ip_decrease_ttl, other (Dave Miller)
minor bits
o cp932 fixes (Kazuki Yasumatsu)
o Updated gdth driver (Andreas Koepf)
o Acenic update (Jes Sorensen)
o Update USB serial drivers (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o Move pci_resource_len into pci compat (Marcelo Tosatti)
2.2.18pre3 (versus 2.2.17pre20)
o Clean up most of the compatibility macros (me)
that various people use. I've systematically
moved the 100% correct ones to the headers
used in 2.4
o Fix newly introduced bug in kmem_cache_shrink (Daniel Roesen)
o Further updates to symbios drivers (Gerhard Roudier)
o Remove emu10K warning and mtrr warning (Daniel Roesen)
o Fix symbol clash between cs4281 and esssolo1 (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix acenic non modular/module build issues (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix bug in alpha csum_partial_copy that could (Herbert Xu)
cause spurious EFAULTs
o Yet another eepro100 variant sighted (Torben Mathiasen)
o Minor microcode.c final tweak (Daniel Roesen)
o Document that ATIFB is now modular (Marcelo Tosatti)
o Parport update (Tim Waugh)
o First set of ext2 updates/fixes (Al Viro)
o Bring smbfs back into line with 2.2 (Urban Widmark)
| This should make OS/2 work again
o Fix S/390 _stext (still doesnt build dasd) (Kurt Roeckx)
o Remove unused vars in arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c (Daniel Roesen)
o Update the DHCP initrd support (Chip Salzenberg)
o Allow opening empty scsi removables like IDE
with O_NONBLOCK (needed for some ioctls) (Chip Salzenberg)
o Back out vibra mixer change
o Fix error returns in sbni driver (Dawson Engler)
o Initial merge of the aacraid driver (Adaptec)
| Much deuglification left to be done here
o Report megaraid: on obscure megaraid error (Daniel Deimert)
strings
o Add another CS4299 id string (Mulder Tjeerd)
2.2.18pre2 (versus 2.2.17pre20)
o Fix the compile problems with microcode.c (Dave Jones,
Daniel Roesen)
o GDTH driver update (Achim Leubner)
o Fix mathsemu miuse of casting with asm (??)
o Make msnd_pinnacle driver build on Alpha
o Acenic 0.45 fixes (Chip Salzenberg)
o Compaq CISS driver (SA 5300) (Charles White,
+ cleanups me)
+ gcc 2.95 fixup
o Modularise pm2fb and atyfb
o Upgrade AMI Megaraid driver to 1.09 (AMI)
o Add DEC HSG80 and COMPAQ 'logical volume' to
scsi multilun list
o SK PCI FDDI driver support (Schneider & Koch)
o Linux 2.2 USB backport (Vojtech Pavlik)
backport 3 + further fixes from the USB list
+ mm/slab.c fix for cache destroy
o AGP driver backport (XFree86, Precision
DRM driver backport Insight, XiG, HJ Lu,
VA Linux,
and others)
2.2.18pre1 (versus 2.2.17pre20)
o Update symbios/ncr driver to 1.7.0/3.4.0 (Gerhard Roudier)
o Updated ATP870U driver (ACard)
o Avoid running tq_scheduler stuff sometimes with (Andrea Arcangeli)
interrupts off
o Futher cpu setup updates (me)
o IBM MCA scsi driver updates (Michael Lang)
o Fix incorrect out of memory handling in bttv (Dawson Engler)
o Fix incorrect out of memory handling in buz (Dawson Engler)
o Fix incorrect out of memory handling in qpmouse (Dawson Engler)
o Fix error handling memory leak in ipddp (Dawson Engler)
o Fix error handling memory leak in sdla (Dawson Engler)
o Fix error handling memory leak in softoss (Dawson Engler)
o Fix error handling memory leak in ixj (Dawson Engler)
o Fix error handling memory leak in ax25 (Dawson Engler)
o Merge the microcode driver from 2.4 into 2.2 (Tigran Aivazian)
o Fix skbuff handling bug in the smc9194 driver (Arnaldo Melo)
o Make vfat use the same generation rules as (H. Kawaguchi,
in windows 9x Chip Salzenberg)
o Fix oops in the CPQ array driver (Arnaldo Melo)
o Fix ac97 codec not setting the id field (Bill Nottingham)
o Further work on the cs46xx/CD power bits (me)
o Synclink updates (Paul Fulgham)
o Synclink init bug fix (Arnaldo Melo)
o Handle odd interrupts from toshiba floppies (Alain Knaff)
o Fix trident driver build on nautilus Alpha (Peter Petrakis)
o Add later sb16 imix support tot he sb driver (Massimo Dal Zotto)
o Ignore luns that report can be connected, but (Matt Domsch)
not currently
o Fix dereference after kfree in uart401.c (Dawson Engler)
o Return correct SuS error code for an unknown (Herbert Xu)
socket family
o Add sub window clipping to the bttv driver (Thomas Jacob)
o Fix nfs cache locked messages (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix the modutils misdocumentation (Martin Douda)
o Remove bogus biosparm code from seagate.c (Andries Brouwer)
o Return correct error code on failed fasync set (Chip Salzenberg)
o Handle dcc resume with newer irc clients when (Scottie Shore)
doing an irq masq
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