Linux 2.2 Kernel Patches

About the Kernel Patch Summaries

These summaries are written after each kernel release by examining the chunks of each patch file and figuring out what has changed. Occasionally, they are supplemented by notes that Linus (and others) posted to the linux-kernel mailing list.

The summaries from 2.2.0 onwards were put together by Myrdraal@deathsdoor.com -- originally appearing on the Cutting Edge Linux website.

Also, remember to check Richard Gooch's Kernel Newsflash page for last-minute notes.

Linux 2.2.12 patch - patch-2.2.12.gz (25-Aug-99)
    [Patch Browser]

• FIXME: kernel change summary (from Myrdraal's Cutting Edge Linux site)

Linux 2.2.11 patch - patch-2.2.11.gz (09-Aug-99)
    [Patch Browser]

• FIXME: kernel change summary (from Myrdraal's Cutting Edge Linux site)

Linux 2.2.10 patch - patch-2.2.10.gz (14-Jun-99)
    [Patch Browser]

Note: This change summary was written by Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> (because Myrdraal was moving)

2.2.10 Documentation and Miscellanea

• New consolidated list of kernel parameters (Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt)
• CREDIT, MAINTAINERS, Configure.help updates
• Several video4linux/bttv doc updates
• Various spelling and e-mail address corrections
• Other doc updates
• SCSI subsystem updates
• Video subsystem missing symbol replaced
• TCP keepalive time decreased
• Signal delivery update
• New rlimits input data check
• Fix swap out SMP race
• Networking fixes, updates

2.2.10 Filesystems

• SMB FS:
      SMB FS Win95 bug work-around automatically handled now
      SMP fixes
• ADFS, AutoFS: new inode checks
• Coda FS: small bugfix
• Ext2 FS: synchronization and other fixes
• HFS: update internal inode handling
• Netware client FS: many updates
• NFS: error handling synchronization fix
• SysV FS updates
• ELF binary format header length fix
• Block device driver fix
• exec() support update
• select() support update
• Superblock support update

2.2.10 Port changes

• Alpha:
      Much improved SMP support
      defconfig updated
      Clock accuracy improvement
• i386:
      Special case missing-keyboard buffer problem
      MCA bus init crit section cleanup, code cleanup
      Centaur C6 processor support
      Intel Mobile Pentium II detection fix
      checksum.S typo fix
      Better workaround for Cyrix processor coma bug
• PowerPC:
      Processors:
        New 630/Power3(64-Bit) support
        New 860/821 support
      SMP updates
      Booting updates
      Workaround IBM 150 firmware bug
      ptrace permissions update
      Several other updates
• Sparc:
      Kernel locking fix
      UP Spinlock typo fix
      Adding support for missing SIOCGIFNAME 32-bit ioctl
• Sparc64:
      Kernel locking fix
      UP Spinlock typo fix
      32-bit syscall updates
      Fixes to fs-related Solaris syscall emulation

2.2.10 New drivers

• SKnet MCA ethernet driver
• Aurora Multiboard 1600se multiport serial SBus driver

2.2.10 Updated drivers

• Floppy: warning fix
• IDE:
      Support HAGIWARA HPC flash mem card
      Workaround rare drives that violate spec
      ns87415 chipset update
      Other updates
• Loop: add check for null key size
• Bt848 frame grabber driver (bttv):
      New Leadtek WinView 601 support (PT2254A chipset)
      New AVEC Intercapture support (TEA6230 chipset)
• Cyclades multiport serial driver:
      New support for Cobalt Qube2 systems
      New support for shared IRQs on PCI systems
      TTY and init code updates
• HDLC line discipline driver: new ioctl TIOCOUTQ
• ADS Cadet AM/FM Radio Card: probing fix
• SyncLink serial driver
• I2C TV/radio tuner: new support for Alps HSBH1
• Parallel port subsystem
• 3com 3c515: transmit/receive statistics updating
• SRP/Cosa sync serial cards: deadlock fix
• EtherExpress: Alpha fix
• IBM Token Ring: better mem bsae calculation, PCMCIA support
• Infrared port (IrDA) subsystem: several updates
• ni6510 (am7990 'lance' chip) driver: support /proc/net/dev byte count
• SMC Ultra: small fix
• AIX7xxx SCSI driver:
  Adds support for AHA 2920C/2930/2930U/2930U2
  Large updates to sequencer code
  Many other updates
• SCSI blacklist update
• SCSI-3 support updates
• SCSI generic driver: many updates
• Symbios 53c8xx SCSI driver: alpha fix
• ES1370 sound driver: support IMIX call, electret mic for SB PCI64
• CGsix video driver
• MDA console: off-by-one bugfix

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