2.2.21
o	Add 32/64bit ioctl handling for random driver	(Marco Colombo)

2.2.21rc4
o	SiS900 updates					(Mufasa Yang)
o	Correct kd.h macros				(Andrej Lajovic)
o	sg buffer clean fix				(Douglas Gilbert)

2.2.21rc3
o	Plan B driver updates				(Michel Lanners)
o	3ware raid update				(Adam Radford)
o	Fix PowerMac compile				(Krzysiek Taraszka)
o	Fix nvram/rtc ioctl returns			(Paul Gortmaker)
o	OV511 compile/build fixes			(Toru SAGAMI)
o	Final ppp zlib bits				(Paul Mackerras)

2.2.21rc2
o	Fix Xeon crash on boot 				(Dave Jones)
o	Update keyspan maintainer			(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Fix visor oops add palm m125 support		(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Update whiteheat driver to fix SMP locking	(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Fix head.S asm for cpu type			(Mikael Pettersson)

2.2.21rc1
o	Add farsync driver				(Bob Dunlop)
o	Fix x86 cpu type reporting in some cases	(Barry Nathan)
o	Fix module_license tag compatibility macro	(Keith Owens)
o	Update MAINTAINERS entry			(Mark McClelland)
o	Fix fb.h comment error				(Krzysiek Taraszka)
o	Zlib fix					(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Back out problem mce change

2.2.21pre4
o	Fix FAT breakage in pre3			(Dmitry Levin)
o	Add S/390 LCS driver (IBM opensourced it now)	(DJ Barrow,
							 Frank Pavlic)
o	Update COPYING file to match FSF update		(Dan Quinlann)
	| basically swap 19xx example for this century..
o	Fix a file name comment				(William Stearns)
o	Add realtek phy support to 2.2 sis900 driver	(Allan Jacobsen)
o	Fix MCE address reporting order, fix oops with	(Dave Jones)
	newer gcc due to bad asm constraints
o	Starfire update					(Ion Badulescu)
o	Always victimise the dcache a little when	(John Lash, me)
	short of memory

2.2.21pre3
o	Fix a case where a non blocking tty write could	(Peter Benie)
	get stuck
o	Fix non blocking midi close on es1370, es1371	(me)
	sonicvibes right this time 
o	Fix menu/xconfig warnings			(René Scharfe)
o	Fix non blocking midi close on cmpci, cs4281,	(me)
	esssolo, trident.
o	Add eepro100VE ident				(Hanno Boeck)
o	Fix DRM oops case				(Herbert Xu)
o	Fix an oops causing datagram AF_UNIX race	(Paul Menage)
o	Support newer geodes using new CPUID properly	(Hiroshi Miura)
o	Fix up RTC build for non pmac ppc boxes		(Tom Rini)
o	Fix MCE address reporting			(Pete Wyckoff)
o	Vibra16 docs update				(Neale Banks)
o	Eicon include file fix				(Herbert Xu)
o	ISDN loop and header fixes			(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix eepro100 out of memory during init path	(Neale Banks)
o	Fix BSD partition table handling breakage	(Andries Brouwer)
o	Add WD XD signature to xd driver		(Paul)
o	3Ware driver update				(Adam Radford)
o	S/390 debugging updates				(Carsten Otte)
o	S/390 DASD updates				(Carsten Otte)
o	S/390 CIO updates				(Carsten Otte)
o	Update USB serial, belkin, digi_acceleport,	(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
	empeg, ftdsio, edgeport, keyspan, mctu232,
	omninet, prolific, visor
o	Cyberjack USB driver				(Matthias Bruestle)
o	USB ir dongle driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Support very large FAT file systems		(Vijay Kumar)
o	Backport 2.4 modversions build fix		(Mikael Pettersson)
o	Backport 2.4 es1371 init for new revs		(Julian Anastasov)
o	3c507 driver fixes				(Mark Mackenzie)
o	ext2 obscure group descriptor corruption fix	(Daniel Phillips,
							 Al Viro)
o	Correct a problem where rpciod didnt give up	(Andreas Haumer)
	its current dir

2.2.21pre2
o	Fix non blocking midi close on es1370, es1371	(me)
	sonicvibes
o	Update osst driver				(Willem Riede)
o	Update machine check support in 2.2 to match 2.4(Dave Jones)
o	Additional P4, Rise, Winchip handling for setup	(Dave Jones)
o	Fix extended MMX initialisation on Cyrix MII	(me)
o	Backport a lot of x86 setup (cache size etc)	(Dave Jones)
o	ISDN cleanups					(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Backport eicon driver fixes			(Kai Germaschewski)
o	ISDN ppp fixes					(Andre Beck)
o	Fix timeout handling in eicon driver		(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix null pointer bug in isdnloop		(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Menuconfig refresh fixup			(Willy Tarreau)
o	Modular ati frame buffer build fix		(Krzysztof Taraszka)
o	Backport VIA chipset fixes to 2.2		(me)
o	Make DCD high->low work on SX16 with CLOCAL set	(Ado Arnolds)

2.2.21pre1
o	Fix potential corruption with vmalloc on	(Ralf Baechle)
	virtually cached boxes
o	Small PPC build fixups				(Tom Rini)
o	zImage booting fix				(Kalev Soikonen)
o	EIO on NFS read fixup				(Trond Myklebust)
o	Update 3ware raid driver			(Adam Radford)
o	page_alloc race fix				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Update USB maintainers				(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	bttv clipcount=0 fix				(Solar Designer)
o	Fix multiple eepro driver bugs			(Aris)
o	Sym53c8xx queue handling fix			(Gerard Roudier)
o	Update SubmittingDrivers document		(Michal Svec)
o	8139too performance tune			(Jens David)
o	procfs follow link return fix			(Solar Designer)
o	Backport SEM_UNDO overflow fix from 2.4		(Leonid Igolnik)
o	VM86 fixes					(Manfred Spraul)
o	Fix alpha build					(Kim Heino)

2.2.20pre12
o Update davicom driver to fix oopses (Sten Wang)
o Updated PC300 driver - fix SCA-II DMA bugs
                                        (Daniela P. R. Magri Squassoni)
o Make syn cookies per socket (Andi Kleen)
o Computone driver fixes for fast PC's (Michael Warfield)
        | Follow on devfs patches didnt apply so dropped
o DAC960 update (Leonard Zubkoff)

2.2.20pre11
o Security fixes
        | Details censored in accordance with the US DMCA
o Sparc updates (Dave Miller)
o Add escaped usb hot plug config item (Ryan Maple)
o Fix eepro10 driver problems (Aris)
o Make request_module return match 2.4 (David Woodhouse)
o Update SiS900 driver (Hui-Fen Hsu)
o Update ver_linux to match 2.4 (Steven Cole)
o Final isdn fixups for 2.2 (Kai Germaschewski)
o scsi tape fixes from 2.4 (Kai Mäkisara)
o Update credits entry (Henrik Storner)
o Fix scc driver hang case (Jeroen)
o Update credits entry (Dave Jones)
o Update FAT documentation (Hirokazu Nomoto)
o Small net tweaks (Dave Miller)
o Fix cs89xx abuse of skb->len (Kapr Johnik)

2.2.20pre10
o Update the gdth driver (Achim Leubner)
o Fix prelink elf loading in 2.2 (Jakub Jelinek)
o 2.2 lockd fixes when talking to HP/UX (Trond Myklebust)
o 3ware driver update (Adam Radford)
o hysdn driver update (Kai Germaschewski)
o Backport via rhine fixes (Dennis Bjorklund)
o NFS client fixes (Trond Myklebust, Ion Badulescu,
                                         Jim Castleberry, Crag I Hagan.
                                         Adrian Drzewiecki)
o Blacklist TEAC PD-1 to single lun (Wojtek Pilorz)
o Fix null request_mode return (David Woodhouse)
o Update credits entry (Fernando Fuganti)
o Fix sparc build with newer binutils (Andreas Jaeger)
o Starfire update (Ion Badulescu)
o Remove dead USB files (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix isdn mppp crash case (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix eicon driver (Kai Germaschewski)
o More pci idents (Andreas Tobler)
o Typo fix (Eli Carter)
o Remove ^M's from some data files (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o 64bit cleanups for isdn (Kai Germaschewski)
o Update isdn certificates (Kai Germaschewski)
o Mac update for sysrq (Ben Herrenschmidt)

2.2.20pre9
o Document ip_always_defrag in proc.txt (Brett Eldrige)
o Update S/390 asm for newer gcc (Ulrich Weigand
o Update S/390 documentation Carsten Otte
o Update s390 dump too and co)
o Update s/390 dasd to match 2.4
o Backport s/390 tape driver from 2.4
o FDDI bits for s/390
o Updates for newer pmac laptops (Tom Rini)
o AMD760MP support (Johannes Erdfelt)
o Fix PPC oops on media change (Tom Rini)
o Fix some weird but valid input combinations (Tom Rini)
        on PPC
o Add additional checks to irc dcc masquerade (Juanjo Ciarlante,
                                                         Michal Zalewski)
o Update 2.2 ISDN maintainer (Kai Germaschewski)
o Fix 3c505 with > 16Mb of RAM (Paul)
o Bring USB into sync with 2.4.7 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)

2.2.20pre8
o Merge DRM fixes from 2.4.7 tree (me)
o Merge sbpcd fixes from 2.4.7 tree
o Merge moxa buffer length check
o Merge bttv clip length check
o Merge aha2920 shared irq from 2.4.7 tree
o Merge MTWEOF fix from 2.4.6 tree
o Merge serverworks AGP from 2.4.6 tree
o Merge sbc60xxx watchdog fixes from 2.4.6
o Merge lapbether fixes from 2.4.6
o Merge bpqether fixes from 2.4.6
o Merge scc fixes from 2.4.6
o Merge lmc memory leak fixes from 2.4.6
o Merge sm_wss fixes from 2.4.6
o Resync AGP support with 2.4.6
o Merge epca fixes from 2.4.5
o Merge riscom8 fixes from 2.4.5
o Merge softdog fixes from 2.4.5
o Merge specialix fixes from 2.4.5
o Merge wdt/wdt_pci fixes from 2.4.5
o ISDN cisco hdlc fixes (Kai Germaschewski)
o ISDN timer fixes (Kai Germaschewski)
o isdn minor control change backport (Kai Germaschewski)
o Backport ELCR MP 1.1 config/PCI routing stuff (John William)
o Backport isdn ppp fixes from 2.4 (Kai Germaschewski)
o Backport isdn_tty fixes from 2.4 (Kai Germaschewski)
o eicon cleanups (Armin Schindler)
        | Armin can you double check the clashes were ok
o Fix an ntfs oops (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Fix arp null neighbour buglet (Dave Miller)
o Update sparc version strings, pci fixups (Dave Miller)
o Define CONFIG_X86 in 2.2 as well as 2.4 (Herbert Xu)
o Configure.help cleanups (Steven Cole)
o Add MODE_SELECT_10 to qlogic fc table (Jeff Andre)
o Remove dead oldproc variable (Dave Miller)
o Update starfire driver for 2.2 (Ion Badulescu)
o 8139too driver update (Jens David)
o Assorted race fixes for binfmt loaders (Al Viro)
o Update Alpha support for older boxes (Jay Estabrook)
o ISDN bsdcomp/ppp compression fixes (Kai Germaschewski)

2.2.20pre7
o Merge rose buffer management fixes (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
o Configure.help updates (Steven Cole)
o Add Steven Cole to credits (Steven Cole)
o Update kbuild list info (Michael Chastain)
o Fix slab.c doc typo (Piotr Kasprzyk)
o Lengthen parport probe timeout (Jean-Luc Coulon)
o Fix vm86 cleanup (Stas Sergeev)
o Fix 8139too build bug (Jürgen Zimmermann)
o Fix slow 8139too performance (Oleg Makarenko)
o Sparc64 exec fixes (Solar Designer)

2.2.20pre6
o Merge all the pending ISDN updates (Kai Germaschewski)
        | These are sizable changes and want a good testing
o Fix sg deadlock bug as per 2.4 (Douglas Gilbert)
o Count socket/pipe in quota inode use (Paul Menage)
o Fix some missing configuration help texts (Steven Cole)
o Fix Rik van Riel's credits entry (Rik van Riel)
o Mark xtime as volatile in extern definition (various people)
o Fix open error return checks (Andries Brouwer)

2.2.20pre5
o Fix a patch generation error, replaces 2.2.20pre4 which is
        wrong on ad1848

2.2.20pre4
o Fix small corruption bug in 82596 (Andries Brouwer)
o Fix usb printer probing (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix swapon/procfs race (Paul Menage)
o Handle ide dma bug in the CS5530 (Mark Lord)
o Backport 2.4 ipv6 neighbour discovery changes (Dave Miller)
o FIx sock_wmalloc error handling (Dave Miller)
o Enter quickack mode for out of window TCP data (Andi Kleen)
o Fix Established v SYN-ACK TCP state error (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Sparc updates, ptrace changes etc (Dave Miller)
o Fix wrong printk in vdolive masq (Keitaro Yosimura)
o Fix core dump handling bugs in 2.2 (Al Viro)
o Update hdlc and synclink drivers (Paul Fulghum)
o Update netlink help texts (Magnus Damm)
o Fix rtl8139 keeping files open (Andrew Morton)
o Further sk98 driver updates. fix wrong license (Mirko Lindner)
        text in files
o Jonathan Woithe has moved (Jonathan Woithe)
o Update cpqarray driver (Charles White)
o Update cciss driver (Charles White)
o Don't delete directories on an fs that reports (Ingo Oeser)
        then 0 size when doing distclean
o Add support for the 2.4 boot extensions to 2.2 (H Peter Anvin)
o Fix nfs cache locking corruption on SMP (Craig Hagan)
o Add missing check to cdrom readaudio ioctl (Jani Jaakkola)
o Fix refclock build with newer gcc (Jari Ruusu)
o koi8-r fixes (Andy Rysin)
o Spelling fixes for documentation (Andries Brouwer)

2.2.20pre3
o FPU/ptrace corruption fixes (Victor Zandy)
o Resync belkin usb serial with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Resync digiport usb serial with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Rsync empeg usb serial with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Resync ftdi_sio against 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring keyscan usb back into line with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Resync keyspan_pda usb with 2.4 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Resync omninet usb with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Resync usb-serial driver with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Resync visor usb driver with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Rsync whiteheat driver with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add edgeport USB serial (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Add mct_u232 USB serial (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update usb storage device list (Stas Bekman, Kaz Sasayma)
o Bring usb acm driver into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring bluetooth driver into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring dabusb driver into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring usb dc2xx driver into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring mdc800 usb driver into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring rio driver into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Bring USB scanner drivers into line with 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update ov511 driver to match 2.4.5 (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Update PCIIOC ioctls (esp for sparc) (Dave Miller)
o General sparc bugfixes (Dave Miller)
o Fix possible oops in fbmem ioctls (Dave Miller)
o Fix reboot/halt bug on "Alcor" Alpha boxes (Tom Vier)
o Update osst driver (Willem Riede)
o Fix syncppp negotiation bug (Bob Dunlop)
o SMBfs bug fixes from 2.4 series (Urban Widmark)
o 3ware IDE raid driver updates (Adam Radford)
o Fix incorrect use of bitops on non long types (Dave Miller)
o Fix reboot/halt bug on 'Miata' Alpha boxes (Tom Vier)
o Update Tim Waugh's contact info (Tim Waugh)
o Add TIOCGSERIAL to sun serial on PCI sparc32 (Lars Kellogg-Stedman)
o ov511 check user data more carefully (Marc McClelland)
o Fix netif_wake_queue compatibility macro (Andi Kleen)

2.2.20pre2
o Fix ip_decrease_ttl as per 2.4 (Dave Miller)
o Fix tcp retransmit state bug (Alexey Kuznetsov)
o Fix a few obscure sparc tree bugs (Dave Miller)
o Fix fb /proc bug and OF fb name size bug (Segher Boessenkool)
o Fix complie with CONFIG_INTEL_RNG=y (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Fix rio driver when HZ!=100 (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Stop 3c509 grabbing other EISA boards (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Remove surplus defines for root= names (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz)
o Revert pre1 APIC change

2.2.20pre1
o Fix SMP deadlock in NFS (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix missing printk in bluesmoke handler (me)
o Fix sparc64 nfs (Dave Miller)
o Update io_apic code to avoid breaking dual (Johannes Erdfelt)
        Athlon 760MP
o Fix includes bugs in toshiba driver (Justin Keene,
                                                         Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix wanpipe cross compile (Phil Blundell)
o AGPGART copy_from_user fix (Dawson Engler)
o Fix alpha resource setup error (Allan Frank)
o Eicon driver updates (Armind Schindler)
o PC300 driver update (Daniela Squassoni)
o Show lock owner on flocks (Jim Mintha)
o Update cciss driver to 1.0.3 (Charles White)
o Backport cciss/cpqarray security fixes (me)
o Update i810 random number generator (Jeff Garzik)
o Update sk98 driver (Mirko Lindner)
o Update sis900 ethernet driver (Hui-Fen Hsu)
o Fix checklist glitch in make menuconfig (Moritz Schulte)
o Update synclink driver (Paul Fulghum)
o Update advansys scsi driver (Bob Frey)
o Ver_linux fixes for 2.2 (Steven Cole)
o Bring 2.2 back into line with the master ISDN (Kai Germaschewski)
o Whiteheat usb driver update (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Fix via_rhine byte counters (Adam Lackorzynski)
o Fix modem control on rio serial (Rogier Wolff)
o Add more Iomega Zip to the usb storage list (Wim Coekaerts)
o Add ZF Micro watchdog (Fernando Fuganti)

The master copy of this file is at http://www.linux.org.uk. Check there for
updates and errata



  Linux 2.2.19 Release Notes
  
   Platforms:Alpha, M68K, PowerPC, S/390, Sparc, X86
   
   Introduction
   Linux 2.2.19 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of
   the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, S/390, Sparc and X86 platforms.
   MIPS and ARM are mostly merged but you should obtain the platform
   specific tree.
   
   Compilers
   This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. gcc
   2.95.2 and Red Hat gcc 2.96-79 are believed to build the tree
   correctly. As yet we have no detailed information on gcc 2.95.3 but it
   seems to build the tree correctly.
   
   Binary Compatibility
   Linux 2.2.19 should on the whole be fully binary compatible with old
   modules. In general you should not assume binary compatibility between
   kernel object modules in Linux.
   
   Security Notes
   
   Linux 2.2.19 contains significant security fixes as a result of third
   party testing and auditing. We are very grateful to those who
   contributed work and reports to this effort, in particular to OpenWall
   and to Chris Evans.
   
   Architecture Updates
   
   Alpha
          
          + Remove a bogus printk in the OSF syscall error path.
          + Fix ASN reuse races on Alpha SMP
          + Fix read_unlock races on Alpha SMP
          + Show registers across CPU's on SMP Alpha oops
          + Fix bottom half races on Alpha SMP
          + Use our own IRQ routing table for Ruffian boards
          + Remove bogus printk from Alpha exception tables
            
   ARM
          The ARM tree has been partially synchronized with the ARM
          working tree for 2.2
          
          + Fix ptrace races on ARM
          + Miscellaneous ARM updates
          + Fix NFS alignment problems with ARM
            
   i386
          
          + Fix CyrixIII panic on boot in some cases
          + Walk the top 8K not the top 4K of the stack on error dumps
          + Fix further CMOS locking
          + Correct microcode driver feature checking
          + Use E820 memory sizing
          + Handle E820 problems when run with IBM thinkpad
          + Speed up irq/fault paths by avoiding xchg()
          + Tighten up K6 bug check
          + The DMI check for APM could end up running after APM started
          + Updated A20 handler to 2.4 code. Fixes hangs on some obscure
            kit.
          + Watch for timers being reset to 18Hz by firmware bugs
            
   PowerPC
          
          + Fix power off during IDE pmac init
          + Update atyfb128 and serial for pmac
          + Add workarounds for firmware bugs on early iMac
          + Fix oops on resume on some pmac machines
          + Fix problems in the Macintosh HID driver and input driver
          + Fix the pci syscall on the PowerMac machines
            
   S/390
          
          + General fix ups for S/390 problems
          + Add keventd to S/390 for drivers
          + Update DASD driver
          + Add support for over 4K of partitions in procfs
          + Update S/390 to support new official ELF id
          + Update hwc, ctc and iucv
          + Fix a problem in the FPU emulator
            
   Sparc
          
          + Add support for quad sbus sunhme
          + Update NFS compatibility syscalls
          + Add watchdog driver support
          + Update sparc64 syscall tables
          + Fix NETCTL_GETFD on sparc64
            
   Security Updates
   
   binfmt_misc
          binfmt_misc touched user pages directly and could be exploited.
          
   CPIA driver
          An off by one buffer check in the CPIA driver allowed users to
          scribble into kernel memory
          
   CPUID and MSR drivers
          Unloading and reloading these could cause a crash due to
          missing unregister calls. Normally not exploitable but if set
          to autoload and unload they could be abused.
          
   Classifier
          Fix a possible hang in the classifier code.
          
   get/setsockopt
          Mishandling of sign bits in setsockopt and getsockopt allowed
          local DoS and other attacks.
          
   Ptrace/exec race
          Ptrace and exec as well as ptrace/suid races existed that could
          give a local user privileges.
          
   Sockfilter
          Boundary cases in sockfilter could be abused. It is not clear
          if these are actually exploitable
          
   strnlen_user
          Several problems with the implementation have been cured.
          
   SYS5 shared memory
          A code path existed where the shm code would scribble on very
          recently freed memory. It is not clear that this was actually
          exploitable.
          
   sysctl
          Mishandling of sign bits in sysctl allowed local users to
          scribble on kernel memory.
          
   Tighten packet length checks
          The masquerading code checks were a little lax in some cases.
          None of these are believed actually exploitable however.
          
   User access asm bug on x86
          Certain obscure constant copies came out copying the wrong
          number of bytes. No known exploit or actual problem case is
          known but it potentially existed.
          
   UDP Deadlock
          A local user could deadlock the kernel due to bugs in UDP port
          allocation.
          
   Core Updates
   
   Core Dump
          Write out core dumps as sparse files
          
   Dcache aging
          Do aging on the dcache to improve behaviour under load
          
   Hash functions
          Improve the inode and dcache hash functions
          
   Misc device layer
          Reuse of the same minor number is now errored
          
   Page cache coherency
          A problem existed on machines with ambiguous user/kernel
          addresses (the S/390) that could cause the page and buffer
          cache to lose coherency
          
   Page fault
          Ensure a task always handles page faults in run state
          
   Signal delivery
          Queued I/O completion delivery from interrupt context was
          unreliable
          
   Virtual memory
          Revamp the core VM handling to remove a long standing deadlock.
          
   Driver Updates
   
   3c527
          Update the 3c527 driver significantly
          
   3c59x
          Significantly updated
          
   8139too
          Updated with some of the fixes from 2.4
          
   Advantech Watchdog
          Add support for the Advantech watchdog
          
   AGP
          Added support for the Intel i815
          
   ALi 5451
          Fix hang on boot when the midi IRQ is shared
          
   CMPCI
          Initialize driver if compiled into the kernel
          
   COSA
          Fix a wrong memory free
          
   CS46xx
          Fix a problem where the driver failed on the eMachines 400
          
   CS89x0
          Fix media selection
          
   DAC960
          Updated to authors latest version
          
   DRM
          Remove the 'unused' AGP autoload hack from the DRM modules.
          
   DVD
          Fix a problem with reading physical blocks from DVD
          
   EEpro100
          Fix posted write/delay problem.
          
   EMU10K
          Fix problems when the emu10k was compiled built in
          
   ES1370/1371/Solo1
          Fix bugs shown up by some application ioctl sequences
          
   ESS Maestro 3
          Support for this chip has been added
          
   I2O
          Update the i2o block driver.
          
   i810 watchdog
          Added support for the watchdog on the i810 series chipsets
          
   IDE
          Add support for the onstream SC-x0 series tape drives
          
   Intel 'Panther' ethernet
          Driver for the onboard ethernet on this old Intel 486 board.
          
   ISDN
          Extensively updated, new drivers for eicon, hsydn and other
          boards.
          
   Lance
          Fix a dereference to freed memory
          
   Lanstreamer
          Fix crashes on SMP boxes
          
   LP driver
          Remove incorrect message
          
   MDA console
          This driver has been cleaned up
          
   Metricom
          Support new metricom units with longer serial numbers.
          
   Microcode driver
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   NE2000 PCI
          Added support for full duplex capable cards
          
   SCC driver
          Fix a problem with the SCC driver would hang on multiple missed
          interrupts
          
   SiS900
          Add support for the ICS1893 PHY
          
   SonicVibes
          Fix bugs shown up by some application ioctl sequences
          
   Starfire
          New driver.
          
   SX serial
          This driver failed to handle break events correctly
          
   Synclink
          Updated and several bugs fixed
          
   TGA frame buffer
          This driver can now be built as a module
          
   Tulip
          Add basic support for the AMDtek Comet chip
          
   USB ACM
          Loosen up end point rules to allow slightly non conforming
          hardware to work
          
   USB audio
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB Bluetooth driver
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB DC2xx driver
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB Empeg driver
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB HID
          Updated to match 2.4. Fix endian problems and locking.
          
   USB hub
          Fix locking on USB hub code
          
   USB FTDI serial
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB Keyspan serial
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB printer
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB Rio
          Updated to match 2.4
          
   USB scanner
          Add further ids for new scanners (eg Epson 1240)
          
   USB Serial
          Fix name reporting in procfs. Update core code to match 2.4
          
   USB visor
          Update the driver to match 2.4
          
   USBdevfs
          Fix missing unlock_kernel
          
   VIA Rhine
          Added support for the VT6102
          
   Yamaha PCI audio
          Add support to setup the legacy devices. Remove old legacy mode
          driver.
          
   File System Updates
   
   FAT
          Updated to handle pre 1980 dates properly
          
   ISO9660
          Fix several bugs shown up by more odd CD-ROMS
          
   Minix subpartitions
          We now support minix subpartitions
          
   NFS caching
          Fix a nasty bug in the NFS caching
          
   NFS Client
          Various small fixes
          
   SMBfs
          Updated to handle pre 1980 dates properly
          
   Miscellaneous Updates
   
   Belorussia NLS table
          Belorussia/Ukraine NLS table (koi8-ru)
          
   Credits
          Update credits and maintainers files to reflect several moves
          
   Parport
          Fix documentation
          
   Ver_linux
          Update the ver_linux reporting script
          
   Network Updates
   
   Accept
          Add wake_one semantics to accept
          
   AX.25
          Fix a missing skb->protocol init
          
   IRDA
          Backport the 2.4 IRDA oops fix. Document options.
          
   Masquerading
          Update the core masquerading code. Fix problems with realaudio
          masquerading
          
   QoS
          Remove experimental tag on QoS features
          
   SLHC
          Fix endian problems in the VJ compression code
          
   SunRPC
          Updated and RPC ping congestion check added
          
   TCP/IP
          Fix problems in the TCP layer
          
   Wireless
          Updated wireless headers
          
   SCSI Updates
   
   3Ware
          Update driver, add 7000 series support
          
   AHA1542/AHA1740
          Remove a bugs sense buffer size check
          
   AIC7xxx
          Update AIC7xxx to v5.1.33
          
   ATP870U
          Fix problems with disconnect
          
   CpqFC
          Update Compaq fibrechannel driver
          
   DC390
          Small driver updates
          
   ICP Vortex
          Driver updates from ICP
          
   PPA scsi
          Fix panic on timeout. Update driver
          
   Scsi_malloc
          Clean up out of memory paths

Linux 2.2.18 Release Notes

Platforms:Alpha, M68K, PowerPC, S/390, Sparc, X86

Introduction
Linux 2.2.18 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, Sparc and X86 platforms. MIPS
and ARM are mostly merged but you should obtain the platform specific tree. 

Compilers
This x86 code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other
compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought. 

For other platforms check with the platform maintainers. Most of them recommend or require the use of gcc 2.95. 

Binary Compatibility
Linux 2.2.18 should on the whole be fully binary compatible with old modules. There are no API changes, although 2.4 back compatibility
API's are also introduced in this release. In general you should not assume binary compatibility between kernel object modules in Linux. 

Security Notes

Linux 2.2.18 contains additional 2.4test ABI calls for controlling how capabilities are handled when using setuid calls. 

Architecture Updates

Alpha 
            Fixed a problem where csum_partial_copy could cause spurious EFAULT returns 
            Fixed a problem with FPU division 


ARM 
      The ARM tree has been partially synchronized with the ARM working tree for 2.2 
i386 
      The major thrust has been support for processors running in excess of 2GHz, support for the CyrixIII processor and also basic
      support for the Pentium IV. Unfortunately Intel chose to ignore all precedent in model numbering via cpuid and report a family of '15'.
      This sudden jump broke assumptions in the kernel tree without any warning. Intel have failed to provide good reasons for their
      change. We have chosen to continue to report the Pentium IV as a '686' class processor. The full family data is provided via cpuinfo. 

      In addition the early Pentium IV chips appear to have some problems. You should be using stepping 7 or higher processors with the
      latest shipping microcode update if you wish to run Linux on a Pentium IV processor. 

            Added a DMI scanner to handle broken Dell laptop APM 
            Added microcode update support from the 2.4test tree 
            Added msr/cpuid driver backport from 2.4test 
            Added support for processors running at over 2GHz 
            Experimental Cyrix III support 
            Fixed slight abuse of gcc inline asm in maths emulator 
            Fixed some minor bugs in the CPU failure reporting 
            Fixed db6 handling when doing ptrace 
            Intel Pentium IV support 
            Support both keyboard and 'fast' A20 gating 
            Updated MTRR support to handle the K6 mobile 

M68K 
      Merge with the forked off M68K stable kernel tree 
PowerPC 
      Merge with the PPC maintainers. Fix a problem with the syscall table 
S/390 
      The S/390 tree has been brought back into sync with IBM 
Sparc 
            Updates for DRM and other ioctl changes 
            Fix dcache and exec problems 

Core Updates

Asynchronous I/O 
      Report failed fasync setup attempts rather than ignoring them. 
Block sizes 
      Restore block sizes on devices after a partition scan 
Capabilities 
      Added PR_GET/SET_KEEPCAPS from 2.4test 
Elevator 
      Changed elevator algorithm to give better performance 
ioremap 
      Fix a fencepost error in ioremap 
Low level I/O 
      Fix a problem when a synchronous write occurred raw to a block device that went off the end of the disk. 
LRU corruption 
      Fix potential LRU list corruption 
Memory Leaks 
      Fixed memory handling on obscure error paths in the following - bttv, buz, qpmouse, ipddp, sdla, softoss, ixj, ax25 
Partitions 
      Quietened down the partition table messages 
RAID 
      Fix a raid1/vm deadlock 
set_current_state 
      Fixed potential SMP race 
set_scheduler 
      Fix lock inversion 
Timekeeping 
      Fix locking between timers and rtc as well as CMOS locking 
tq_scheduler 
      It was possible for tq_scheduler to sometimes run its tasks with interrupts disabled. 
Virtual Memory 
      Fix a problem where the box could get stuck when it ran out of pages 
vmalloc 
      Fix corner case that could cause crashes allocating large amount of vmalloc space on large machines 

Driver Updates

3c59x 
      Add support for the 3c556B 
8139too 
      Add an improved new driver for the RTL8139 chips as an alternative to the dual 8129/8139 driver 
AC97 codecs 
      Fixed several bugs in the AC97 support. Start MIC input off to avoid feedback 
Acenic 
      Driver updates to fix a potential oops when using dhcp 
Acenic 
      Fix problems when flushing jumbo ring. Fix setting the MAC address 
AGP 
      The AGP bus drivers from Linux 2.4test are now included 
BTTV BT848/BT878 driver 
      The bttv driver now supports subwindow clipping 
Compaq CISS 
      A driver for the SA5300 CISS card has been added 
Compaq PCI Fibrechannel 
      Added support for the Compaq 64bit/66Mhz fibrechannel adapter 
COSA 
      Fix a potential crash 
CPQArray 
      Fixed a case where the cpq array driver could cause a kernel oops 
Crystal CS4281 
      Fixed hangs when playing sound on the cs4281 
Crystal 46xx driver 
      Added more intelligence to the amplifier power control 
DAC960 
      This driver has been updated 
DRM 
      The 3D direct rendering manager is now included in 2.2 kernels 
EEPro 
      Fix a bug when handling multiple cards 
EEPro100 
      More PCI identifiers have been added 
ESS Maestro 
      Added support for the radio interface on some Maestro cards 
Floppy driver 
      Fix SMP locking problems 
Framebuffer console 
      Fix a race in scroll back/paste 
IBM token ring 
      Fix support for cable pulls/pcmcia problems 
IDE 
      Avoid tuning older VIA chipsets that take offence 
IDE 
      Added UDMA support for ALI1543 and 1543C devices 
IDE CDROM 
      Fix a problem with CDROMPLAYTRKIND. Allow root to open the CDROM door at all times. Fix a problem with Sanyo changers 
IDE DVD 
      Fix a bug in the RPC state handling 
IDE Floppy 
      Fix problems with IDE floppy on the Alpha 
IDE multi-lun 
      Attempt to intelligently decide of an IDE ATAPI device has LUN support 
ISDN 
      Numerous small fixes 
ISI Serial 
      Updated to support more cards 
Joystick 
      Fix an option parsing bug 
NBD 
      Fix a potential deadlock swapping over nbd 
OV511 cameras 
      Updated to match the 2.4test tree 
PAS audio 
      Fix a problem with the revision 'D' mixer support 
Pinnacle audio 
      This driver now supports the Compaq Alpha platform 
PS/2 mouse 
      Made reconnect parsing optional 
Random number generator 
      Add support for the Intel i810 random number generator 
RTL8139 
      This driver has been updated 
SIS 900 ethernet 
      Add support for a new PHY 
SK fddi 
      Support for the SK FDDI PCI adapters has been added 
SMC9194 driver 
      A buffer handling bug has been fixed 
SX audio 
      Updated and fixed 
SyncLink 
      This driver has been updated 
Thunderlan 
      Fix typos in the thunderlan driver 
Toshiba Floppies 
      Handle odd interrupt returns seen on some Toshiba floppy drives 
Trident audio 
      Added suport for onboard trident on Alpha machines 
Trident audio 
      Fix hangs caused by attempts to initialise the midi on non Ali devices 
UART401 
      Fixed a harmless free memory misuse in the uart401 driver 
USB 
      A port of the core USB code from Linux 2.4 and most of the USB drivers is included. 
VIA audio 
      Updated support for the VIA audio drivers 
WDT Watchdog 
      Added support for the PCI card 
XSpeed DSL 
      Added support for the XSpeed DSL card 
Yamaha PCI audio 
      Add an initial native mode driver 

File System Updates

ADFS 
      Updated to resync with the ARM tree 
'Cache Locked' Error 
      Fix 'cache locked' messages from NFS layer 
Ext2 fs 
      Fixed some potential races in the file system 
Ext2 fs 
      Clear suid bit on truncate as per SuSv2 
FAT FS 
      Fix FAT32 to work on Alpha 
NCPfs 
      Fix incorrect handling of kernel/user copies in NCP file system 
NFS 
      Added NFSv3 support and fixed multiple NFS problems 
NFS locking 
      Implement sun style NFS cache/lockf barriers 
NFS over TCP 
      Added experimental support for NFS over TCP 
NTFS 
      Fix translation bug 
Procfs 
      Fix unlink bugs 
Quota 
      Fixed some potential races in the quota handling 
SMB file system 
      Fixes for OS/2 problems and other updates. Work around truncate problems with NetApp filers 
Swap 
      Catch and report mis-sized swap partitions 
Windows VFAT naming 
      We now use the same rules that windows appears to for generating VFAT names. 

Miscellaneous Updates

Code Pages 
      Fixed problems with Code Page cp932 
Compiler 
      Automatically chose gcc272 or kgcc if present 
Console 
      Added 'quiet' option as in 2.4test 

Network Updates

Appletalk 
      Fix ioctl handler for physical layer ioctls issued via appletalk sockets 
Arpfilter 
      Arpfilter from 2.4test has been merged 
Cisco HDLC 
      Quietly drop the newer Cisco 0x2000 info frames 
Control messsages 
      Fix some corner cases in control message handling 
Generic Frame Diverter 
      Added support for frame diversion when bridging 
IPfw 
      Fix incorrect allocation flag 
IPv4 proc 
      Fixed an off by one error 
IPv6 
      Fixed memory handling bugs 
IPv6 
      Fixed IPV6_TLV_ROUTERALERT, in6_addr, ip_decrease_ttl and mior bits 
IPv6 proc 
      Fixed an off by one error 
Masquerading 
      Allow binding to all multicast ports when masquerading 
Masquerading 
      Update the irc masquerade to handle newer irc clients that support the DCC resume feature. 
NAT 
      Fix obscure forwarding table bug with NAT 
Port sysctl 
      Check range being set so that root cannot cause a crash by accidentally misconfiguring 
Standards 
      Return correct error code for an uknown socket family 
SunRPC 
      Fix a problem handling null credentials in kernel 
TCP 
      Fix a problem with round trip estimation on very long fast links 
TCP Options 
      Tidy up parsing and building. Fix a failure to honour sk->allocation. 
Transparent Proxy 
      Fix a problem with the socket lookup in one case 
Unix domain sockets 
      Backport 2.4test garbage collector speedups 
X.25 
      Backport 2.4test fixes 

SCSI Updates

Advansys 
      Driver updated 
Adaptec 1542 
      Fix memory scribbles when handling resets 
AMI Megaraid 
      This driver has been updated 
ATP870U 
      This driver has been updated and now supports more cards. 
Emu10K driver 
      Added support for the EMU-APS 
GDTH 
      This driver has been updated 
IBM MCA SCSI 
      This driver has been updated 
IBM Serveraid 
      Updated to version 4.20 
Lun Scanning 
      Ignore LUNs that are reported as connectable but not currently connected. 
Lun Scanning 
      Added the Digital HSG80 and the Compaq 'logical volume' identifiers to the multilun list 
Removable Devices 
      Added support for opening empty removable devices 
SCSI generic 
      Fix unload oops 
Segate Driver 
      Remove broke bios parameter guessing code from the seagate driver 
Symbios/NCR driver 
      This has been updated to the latest official release 
Tape driver 
      Updated to fix several bugs. Fix filemark status test. Fix spacing to beginning 

From Alan's notes

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)
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)
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)
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.  
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
o       Fix up the eepro driver further         (Aristeu Sergio Rozanski Filho)
o       Tlan driver update                              (Torben Mathiasen)
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)
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
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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)
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.                                          
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
 

Platforms:Alpha, PowerPC, S/390, Sparc, X86

Introduction
Linux 2.2.16 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, S/390, Sparc and X86 platforms. MIPS is mostly merged but you should obtain the platform specific tree. ARM and M680x0 users should get their platform specific tree.

Errata

Software Raid Failure

Apply this with patch -R

Alpha reports exception handling

Apply this with patch -R

Compilers
This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.

Binary Compatibility
Linux 2.2.16 changes a few internal system structures. You may need to rebuild a few third party modules such as pcmcia-cs when upgrading from older kernels to this one.

Security Notes

Linux 2.2.16 is primarily a security release. It includes fixes for both local and network related bugs. Upgrading is strongly recommended.

Security Updates

Architecture Updates

Alpha

• Fix SRM handling
• Export symbols needed for modular tv card support
• Fix SMP rescheduling with lock held
• Handle early Monet boards

i386

• Handle IBM thinkpad APM bios again
• Attempt to work around broken BIOS MP1.4 tables
• Interrupt controller hanging changed to handle possible buggy chipsets
• In a few cases IRQ probing was fooled by longstanding pending IRQs
• Detect and report Intel 'Cascades' series processors
• Support processors over 4.3GHz in speed

MIPS

PowerPC

S/390

Resynchronized with the IBM code base. Multiple fixes.
IBM S/390 partition formats.

Sparc

• Sparc64 OBP fixup fixes
  Envctrl driver updates

  Fix mishandling of some unaligned exceptions

  Fix tlb flushing bug

  Sbus audio fixes for poll()

  Report correct errors on sunmouse errors

Elevator algorithm changes

The disk scheduling algorithm is now fair over short as well as long terms

Kmod

The module loader spots loops and acts sensibly if they occur

VM fixes

Improve the virtual memory subsystem behaviour

Adaptec 152x

Recognize the AIC6370Q cards

ATI frame buffer

Fix PCI address handling errors

CDROM

Generic CD-ROM layer enhancements akin to 2.4test

CMPCI audio (CMPCI 83x8)

The SP/DIF output is now supported and a DMA bug fixed

Computone Serial

Updated to rev 1.2.9

Console

A memory scribble in the console driver has been cured.

CPiA Camera

Driver updates and fixes

Cyclades Serial

Report physical addresses, PLX9050 bug workaround, improved performance for TX on Cyclom-Y

Girbil dongle

A timing problem with some devices has been fixed

I2O Block

Support added for dynamic volume creation/deletion

I2O core

Fix several bugs in the core

IDE-CD

Remove the ghost DVD hack. DVD-RAM is now writable directly.

IDE-CD

Unified audio ioctls, packet interfaces using MMC2. Fix possible OOPS

IDE-CD

Add DVD ioctls needed for DVD movie players

IDE Disk

Handle drives jumpered for 4092 cylinders

IDE Disk

Avoid automatic DMA enables on the 450NX

IDE Probing

Fix a bug that sometimes caused CD-ROM or LS-120 probe errors

IDE

Recognize Simple Tech ATA Flash disks.

INI9100U

Handle shared IRQs

Intel ICH audio

A minimal driver for the i810 audio is now included.

ISDN

Fix multilink PPP problems

Keyboard

Handle PS/2 style reconnect code sequences.

Lp

Added more checks to careful mode

Maestro audio

Poll bugs have been fixed and a potential crash on unload.

MDA console

Fix cursor bugs

Parallel IDE

This now tries to autoload a protocol module

Parport

Add TIMEDIA 1889 support

PSS Audio

Joystick support sorted out, cleaned up code and more

RAM disk size limit

This is now configurable

Random driver

Remove key repeat codes from random entry pool - they are too predictable

SBC-60XX

A driver for the watchdog on this board has been added

SCSI CD-ROM

Removed the GHOST hack. SCSI DVD-RAM are now writable directly.

SCSI Disk Driver

Correct handling of disks with 4K block sizes

SCSI Generic

Updated to the current revision

Seagate SCSI

Recognize the IBM F1 V1.20 card

ServeRAID

Updated to the 4.0 driver

SyncLink

Updated to handle Synchronous PPP and Cisco HDLC

Trident 4DWave driver

New sound driver added. Also supports the SiS 7018 and ALI5451

TTY Layer

Return -EFAULT rather than ignoring invalid I/O requests.

VGA console

Disable the IRQ on the vga frame buffer

VIA 82cxxx

The driver now supports native mode audio.

Yamaha PCI Audio

A legacy mode driver has been added. An ALSA native mode driver is in progress.

Ext2fs

Fix a long standing but never observed bitmap handling bug

FAT

Clean up multibyte encoding handlers

ISOfs

Handthe older ee10 boards (82595FX etherexpress 10)

EEpro100

Workaround FCB interrupt lockups, clean up 82559ER support. Honour PortReset timing.

Hamachi

Driver for the Packet Engines GNIC-II added

IBM TR

The windowed shared ram is now supported in full

IP Masquerade

A memory scribble in the masquerade code has been fixed

IPX

Fix a memory leak in the IPX layer

IRDA

Fix for automatic bandwidth setting

Olympic TR

The IBM PCI adapters now work on LinuxPPC

Riscom N2

Support for the RISCom/N2 added. (not the integrated CSU/DSU)

SBE WanXL

Support for this has been added.

SMC9194

Fix board memory allocation bug.

SyncPPP

Added ioctls for changing flags

TCP

Fix a crash on certain unusual TCP retransmit patterns

Unix sockets

Provide credentials on socketpair()

Introduction
Linux 2.2.15 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, S/390, Sparc and X86 platforms. MIPS is mostly merged but you should obtain the platform specific tree. ARM and M680x0 users should get their platform specific tree.

Errata

Compilers
This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.

Binary Compatibility
Linux 2.2.15 changes a few internal system structures. You may need to rebuild a few third party modules such as pcmcia-cs when upgrading from older kernels to this one.

Security Notes
2.2.15 fixes an NFS exploit which depends on being allowed access to the NFS server over the network. A patch is available to fix just this problem if you do not wish to upgrade. If you use masquerading for security purposes you should upgrade.

2.2.15 fixes several local security issues. Several of these are publically known. Systems with untrusted local users should consider an upgrade.

Architecture Updates

Alpha

• Fixed problems with floppy wakeup on some Alpha boxes
• Fixed icache corruption problems on SMP Alpha machines
• Added PCI configuration ioctls needed for the new X server
• Add SRM support for Nautilus
• Panic on the SRM Alphas doesn't clear the screen
• Fixed EEPro100 problems on Alpha
• FPU emulation fixes

i386

• Cyrix DMA emulation bug workarounds.
• Fixed a bug in the AMD K6 write allocate cache setup
• Fixed a bug in AMD Athlon cache reporting
• Delay loops now try to use the TSC. Needed for Intel SpeedStep processors
• Added IDT WinChip2 MTRR support
• APM updates and fixes
• Support for RCC LE North Bridge chips in the PCI scanning
• Allow ptrace to do syscall redirection (needed for usermode Linux)
• Setup IO-APICs from the ROM table - fixes some Dell problems
• Synchronize the TSC's on a multiprocessor box. We still dont support two different CPU speeds together.

MIPS

PowerPC

Fixed various atomicity issues on the bit operations. Also small ADB and Gemini changes.

S/390

Added P/390 support and support for re-IPLing. Various other small fixes.

Sparc

• Sparc32 PCI support updates.
• Support IIep platforms
• Swift MMU problem workarounds
• Sparc64 Blackbird errata workarounds
• Sparc64 Spitfire errata workarounds
• Added SMB ioctls to the 32bit interface
• Signal handling and exception updates
• PC type keyboard handling updates

Fixed drivers that misused poll entry points internally.

This is a subtle API change but not one we can avoid. This should only affect serial drivers not distributed with the kernel.

IPC portability

Shared memory handling assumed no remaps and also that it could zero page tables.

IPC problems

System 5 semaphores had both a race and a memory leakage problem.

Improved PCI bus scanning

Further support for scanning child busses and removing duplicates.

Memory and I/O

Some of the paging and I/O algorithms have been updated

SMP races in the terminal driver

These could cause dropped or repeated data and have now been fixed.

Poll could hang

Fixed problems in the handling of poll tables.

Aztech pre-IDE CDROM

Fix delay loops

BTTV

Fix a grabbing race

CMPCI

CMPCI sound driver updatyed to version 2.41

Colour Qcam

Added configuration options to allow forced detection of the cameras

Compaq SMART2 Raid

Updated to v1.0.6. Added support for the Smart Array 431

Console driver

Fix an obscure colour handling bug when using 16 colour backgrounds.

CPiA parallel cameras

Added support for the parallel port webcams (2.3.x supports the USB ones too)

Creative Joystick

Fixed crash in the joystick driver.

Cyclades Serial

Upgraded the driver. Fixed CRTSCTS bug and a problem with the SMP locking on the Cyclom-Y boards.

DAC960 Raid

The driver has been updated to rev 2.2.5

Ensoniq 1370/1371

Driver updates from author.

ESS Maestro

Added power management handling to the driver.

ESS Solo

Driver updates from author.

I2O Support

Basic support for I2O block and scsi devices has been added.

IDE CD

The driver has been made much less verbose and fixes have been added to sort problems with Linux and the Acer 50x CD-ROM drive.

IDE Driver

UDMA drivers for the Cyrix MediaGX 5530 chipset.

IDE Driver

Error handling now tries to preserve the DMA status

IDE Driver

Fix some geometry handling bugs with very large disks.

IDE Probing

Delay 50ms between selections when probing to handle some annoying devices.

Iomega Buz

Fix problems with detecting the card because we did the setup wrong.

ISDN

Various ISDN drivers have been updated and new drivers have been added.

Mixcom Watchdog

Support added for the newer boards

Parallel Probe

The parallel port probe now tries harder to get data from the device.

S3 Sonic Vibes

Driver updates from author.

Specialix RIO

Added support for the RIO series cards. Updated IO8+ driver.

Stallion Multiport

Driver updated to version 5.6.0

Telephony

The Linejack/Phonejack driver now supports the extra ioctls that have been added and two small bugs have been fixed.

Telephony

A bug in handling requests for a specific unit has been zapped.

Ext2

An obscure race when seeking on a directory has been fixed.

FAT

Some minor bugs in the FAT file system handling have been fixed.

ISOFS

The gid option is now properly honoured.

NCPfs

Numerous small updates.

NFS

Fail attempts to do an NFSv3 mount. Fix cache coherency issues.

NFS daemon

Fix the 'bad export' bug. Also fix the hang on handle allocate bug.

QNX

Extensive updates and further write support.

ROMfs

Fix cache coherency issue.

RAID

Fix some potential out of memory crashes.

SMBfs

Fix cache coherency issue. Fix callbacks being done in the wrong context.

UMSDOS

Small updates.

3c509 driver

Fixed a window handling bug on the 3c529 driver. Fix a lock setup bug.

3c527 driver

Considerable fixing. This driver is now far more stable.

82596 driver

The Apricot driver had some ifdef bugs.

Appletalk

The appletalk driver corrupted packets as seen by a sniffer or bridge on the same host.

Arlan

The Arlan drivers have been updated.

Asynchronous signals

When a socket ceased to have asynchronous events on it there was a tiny race condition if data arrived.

AX.25

Return the right thing on a recvmsg()

Bonding

A channel bonding/trunking driver has been added.

Bridging

Increase the multicast limit to cope with appletalk.

COMX drivers

Fixes for multiple boards, hardware/firmware problems and locking

DGRS driver

Fixed problems that show up compiling with gcc 2.95

DMFE

The latest vendor update has been merged.

EEpro

Fix hang when an eepro card is specified but not found.

EEPro100

Considerable updating including fixes for hang problems older drivers sometimes showed under load.

EExpress

Fixes for a bug in command issuing.

EPIC100

Updated to Donald's 1.07h driver version

EQL

Fixed a small memory leak

Filter

Fix an erroneous check on the socket filter.

IRDA

Several drivers have been updated. Drivers added for the older belkin dongles.

Lance

Fixes for memory leaks and misbehaviours in error conditions

Lanstreamer PCI

IBM donated driver added.

LanMedia 1000,1200,5200,5245 driver

Drivers for the tulip based Lan Media WAN (T1/DS3 etc) cards added.

Olympic Token Ring

Added full duplex support. Cleaned up for SMP.

PLIP

Fix problems with PLIP and interworking with some PLIP versions that don't provide valid source/destination MAC addresses.

PPP

Fixed SMP races and locking.

RTL8139

Fix the handling of a FIFO overrun on the 8139 devices.

SK98 GigE

General driver updates for the SK98 drivers.

SKTR

Added the Compact TR PCI and Proteon 1392/1392+ adapters. Speed detection fixes.

SK-MCA

Numerous fixes to the MCA driver

SyncPPP

Send user frames with the unicast header byte in Cisco HDLC mode. Make debug a module parameter.

TCP

Fix some proc locking, and connection exit handling.

ThunderLan

Fixes for statistics, timers and a bug where the driver could jam if no cable was present.

Tulip

Teach the tulip driver to skip the LMC wan cards. Correct the csr13 values to make the 21041 work.

UDP

Zero the sin_zero unused part of the sockaddr_in.

X.25

Make handling more POSIX compliant using MSG_EOR records. X.25 restart handling fixes.

3Ware Storage Controller

Added support for the 3ware SCSI->ATAPI raid board.

Adaptec AIC7xxx

Driver updated to version 5.1.28

AMI MegaRAID

Upgraded to version 1.07b of the driver. This driver does not work with firmware rev 3.0 or 3.01. Force all luns to be scanned on this controller.

ATP 870U

Fix handling of shared IRQ lines

Blacklist

Added the Quantum FireballST4.3S rev 0F0C to the NOLUN blacklist along with several Yamaha and Mitsumi CD-R devices and a Microtek Scanner

Blacklist

Added the LASound CDX7405 to the 5 lun device list.

PCI2000,2220i

Driver update from vendor

QlogicFC

Updated supplied firmware to 1.17.30/2.00.40. Enable fabric support.

Scsi Disk

Try and use 10 byte commands by default. Some devices no longer support 6byte.

SCSI Tape

Updates from author.

Sun ESP

Allow the driver to be built modular

Elf Loader

The ELF loader now does more sanity checks and requires the ld.so is readable.

Masquerading

You can now run with tighter UDP forwarding if you are running masquerade for security purposes.

Network drivers

More configuration ioctls now require priviledges

NFSD

Fix sign handling bug.

Unix domain sockets

Fix denial of service problem.

Introduction
Linux 2.2.14 is the latest update to the Linux kernel tree. The out of the box tree supports the Alpha, PPC, S/390, Sparc and X86 platforms. MIPS is mostly merged but you should obtain the platform specific tree. ARM and M680x0 users should get their platform specific tree. Errata

• Compilers
  This code is intended to build with gcc 2.7.2 and egcs 1.1.2. Patches for building with gcc 2.95 are merged but less tested than other compilers. Caution is recommended when using gcc 2.95 and feedback is sought.
• Binary Compatibility
  Linux 2.2.14 changes a few internal system structures. You may need to rebuild a few third party modules such as pcmcia-cs when upgrading from older kernels to this one.
• Security Notes
  2.2.14 fixes several local security issues. Most of these were not publically known and exploited. Nevertheless anyone with untrusted local users should upgrade.

• Alpha
  The "Eiger" and "Nautilus" boards have been added. AMD-751 (Irongate) chipset support for the Naultilus is now included. Additional fixes have been made to several Alpha bugs. The maths emulator has been updated.
• i386
  The decompressor heap at boot time has been increased. This should fix the "Out of memory" at boot time reports. Multiple APIC's are now supported on SMP systems. Out of memory handling bug have been fixed. The L2 cache size of the 'Coppermine' series of Intel processors is now reported. The FPU emulator now builds correctly with gcc 2.95.
• MIPS
  
  • PowerPC
    Numerous PowerPC updates have been applied. These include boot and SMP fixes.
  • S/390
    An initial port for the IBM S/390 series systems has been donated by IBM. This does not yet support the P/390 but people have successfully bootstrapped it on other systems. Glibc, binutils, gcc and gdb patches are available from the IBM web site.
  • Sparc
    Both Sparc32 and Sparc64 trees have been updated and are now in synchronization with the Sparc CVS tree.

• A.out Loader
  Limit warnings about old style offsets.
• Block I/O
  Fix potential corruption cases when doing raw block I/O and when doing file I/O and flushing the cache simultaneously.
• Dcache Scaling
  The dcache hash is scaled by memory size.
• Dcache corruption
  A specific very rare case of dcache corruption has been fixed.
• DMA
  The kernel core supports platforms that have no DMA channels (S/390)
• Fdset expansion bugs
  Small fence post errors in the fdset expansion code have been squashed.
• IDE Subsystem
  Problems with SMP locking have been fixed. Geometry mishandling problems with very large disks have been fixed. Endian problems with the IDE tape drivers have been fixed.
• Kmod
  The module loader it dir a change of directory would also change init's directory causing possible confusion.
• Page Cache Hash
  This is now dynamically sized at boot.
• Signal Handling
  Small races in the signal/exit handling have been fixed. These could lead to hung processes on SMP machines.
• System5 IPC
  Races in the message handling have been fixed.
• Telephony
  Added the Linux telephony subsystem.
• Virtual Memory
  Missing TLB/Cacheflushes in some obscure cases have been fixed. Low memory handling has been improved.

• Acquire Watchdog
  The reboot handler for this board was not installed previously. It now is.
• BTTV TV card driver
  A symbol clash has been fixed.
• BusMouse
  When a large number of events occured the bus mouse driver could report no events pending when there was in fact data to read.
• CD-ROM
  It is no longer possible to eject a busy CD-ROM by unlocking the door explicitly.
• ES1370
  Workarounds added for hardware 'phantom write' bug. Mixer fixes. Midi race fixed.
• ES1371
  S/PDIF supported for revision 4 and higher cards. Added ES1373 support. Handle bugs in some ES137x codecs. Fix midi races.
• ESS 16xx/18xx
  Clean up intialisation. Handle cases where the BIOS has not set the card up.
• ESS Maestro
  Support has been added for the ESS Maestro, Maestro2 and Maestro 2E cards.
• ESS Solo
  Fix initialisation problems, fix midi wakeup race.
• HFModem
  This driver has been made gcc 2.95 friendly.
• ISDN4Linux
  This has been updated to match the latest fixes in the ISDN CVS tree. A driver has been added for the T1-PCI card.
• Joystick
  The joystick driver set has been upgraded. Support for the Creative Labs Blaster gamepad family, the Magellan and Space Mouse 6dof controllers, the SpaceTec SpaceBall 4000 FLX, the SpaceBall SpaceOrb360, the Spaceball Avenger and the Logitech Wingman Warrior have been added. The gameports on the Aureal Vortex and Trident 4Dwave are now also supported. Note that the Aureal Vortex sound is not supported under Linux.
• Macintosh Serial
  The powermac serial ports now use DMA for receive.
• Moxa Serial Boards
  Support has been added for the Moxa Intellio and SmartIO family of cards.
• MixCom
  The Mixcom watchdog port is now supported.
• NM256
  Updated the NeoMagic 256 audio driver.
• Parallel Port
  The line printer module now unloads automatically if no ports are found. PCI cards are now supported.
• Quicknet XJack card support
  Quicknet provided drivers for the telephony layer and their LineJack and PhoneJack cards.
• SonicVibes
  Fix midi races.
• Soundblaster
  Fix frequency rounding bugs
• Soundscape PnP
  This card is now supported by the Soundscape driver and ad184x code.
• SyncLink
  An SMP issue has been fixed in the Microgate SyncLink ISA/PCI driver.

• Autofs
  A deadlock with the autofs system and NFS has been cured.
• Extfs
  Fix obscure bitmap and block corruption cases under very high load.
• FAT
  A buffer leak in the FAT file system has been sorted out.
• NCPFS
  Time stamps are now updated.
• NFS
  Negative revalidation is now handled rapidly. Stale handle handling is done more cleanly.
• NFSD
  KNFSD has been significantly updated. It now pretty much reflects the updated versions that most vendors already shipped.
• NTFS
  A problem with maping has been sorted.
• Quota
  A quota writing deadlock has been dealt with.
• SMBfs
  The SMB directory scanning now uses info level 260.
• UMSDOS
  The latest UMSDOS updates have been applied.
• VFAT
  UTF8/Co
  de page conversion could yield erroneous EINVAL errors.

• Devices.txt
  An up to date device major/minor index table is now shipped.

• Arlan Driver
  Several bug fixes have been made.
• ARP
  ARP supports "hidden" interfaces. The Kernel will not reply for these interfaces on another port.
• AX.25
  A memory leak has been exterminated. The "protocol foo is buggy" message should also be dead and buried.
• Bridge
  A new bridge layer has been added. You will need to update your 'brcfg' bridge configuration tool. For the pain however you get massively improved bridge behaviour.
• COMX
  Drivers for the COMX synchronous cards have been added. A simple frame relay layer has been added to the kernel.
• IPV6
  Small bug fixes.
• IRDA
  The litelink dongle is now initialised if compiled in. A couple of minor glitches have been sorted.
• Lance
  A problem with crashes on unloading of the module has been fixed.
• Masquerading
  Small masquerading fixes to the originating IP address have been made.
• NCR 53C885
  Support for the Ethernet side of the NCR 53C885 has been added.
• PCnet32
  SMP enhancements and optimisations to reduce TxFIFO underflows on the later chips.
• PLIP
  Fix an obscure crash case in the plip driver.
• Sangoma Synchronous Cards
  A newer set of drivers has been merged with the kernel. This adds support for Cisco HDLC.
• SiS 900 SunRPC
  SMP and other races have been fixed.
• SYN Cookies
  A problem with a memory leak when using syn cookies has been dealt with.
• SyncPPP
  This now maintains link up/down status information in a private field.
• SysKonnect SK98
  Support for this Gigabit card has been added.
• TCP
  TCP hash tables are dynamically sized based on system memory.
• Tulip
  A newer tulip driver based on Donald Becker's 0.91g release with additional fixed has been added. This works better for almost all users. The previous (0.89H release) is available in the new kernel as 'old_tulip'.
• Wavelan
  The Wavelan driver has been updated.
• Z8530
  DCD checking is now optional and can be a different flag for oddly wired boards.

• Advansys
  The driver has been updated from 3.2F to 3.2M. Support has been added for the ABP3950U2W. Verified on the Alph aplatform.
• AHA1542
  Fixed a memory mishandling in sense error handling.
• AIC7xxx
  Minor updates.
• AMI MegaRAID
  Fixed spinlocking, un-needed aborts and other minor problems.
• AT870U
  Upgrade to version 2 of the driver. This now works, works modular and handles multi-lun devices properly.
• GDTH Raid
  Now supports 255 logical and 100 physical drives. Cluster host drive support added.
• IBM ServeRAID
  Allow up to 128 commands queued with new 3.60 firmware. Minor fixes.
• IN2000
  Compile time fixes for gcc 2.95.
• NCR5380
  The driver used memcpy not memcpy_fromio for I/O operations. This caused problems if combined with the KNI memcpy patches, although it was happy in the standard kernel.
• NCR53c8xx
  Minor sparc updates.
• Qlogic FC
  Portability fixes for non x86 machines.
• Seagate
  The seagate driver now takes module options. It has also been updated for gcc 2.95.
• SCSI malloc
  Locking bugs in the SCSI core that could panic a machine with scsi pool corruptions have been cleaned up.
• SCSI end request
  An obscure race that might very occasionally fail to complete part of an I/O has been fixed.
• SCSI generic
  Small improvements have been made to the generic scsi interface.

• IP Header
  Certain packet constructs could allow the kernel to read data beyond packet end. We don't believe this is exploitable in any way. It is fixed as a matter of correctness.
• Traffic Shaper
  Any user could reconfigure the traffic shaper device ("shaper" or "shaper0"). This has been cured.

ISDN updates. Several amateur radio protocol updates. TCP sequence guessing fix. IPX packet handling fix. Some IP Masquerade fixes. Added drivers for Davicom DM9102 (vendor provided). Driver fixes for EEpro100 (fixed IRQ sharing machine lockup at boot and added multiple eepro card support), sktr, 3c527, WaveLAN, SiS900, SMC Ultra, ATP ethernet (delay loop fix), and ARCNet. The 8390, ne2k-pci and rtl8139 have been updated to be 64 bit clean.

Driver updates for ESS Solo1, MultiSound, MediaGX audio, and ARM sound. Support added for Neomagic 256AV and 256ZX audio, VIA82Cxxx audio, C-Media CMI 8338 PCI audio.

Driver updates for Cyclades Cyclom-Y multiport serial board, and SX. An SMP/IDE hang, and SMP scheduler boot up race fixed. PCWD Watchdog bug fix. BTTV ADS data, BTTV schedule on irq, and BTTV tuner breakages updates. i2c tuner update. Updates occured for the Ext2, /proc, ISOfs, NFS, QNX and Amiga RDSK filesystems.

Fixed a Yamaha CDRW bug. IDE CD bug fix and CD-ROM updates.

Driver updates/fixes for Acard ATP870-U, Advansys SCSI, NCR5380, AIC7xxx, Qlogic fiberchannel and Qlogic ISP, AHA1542, and EATA (now supports Alpha). IBM ServeRAID driver added. Symbios 1510D SCSI added to sym driver. Generic NCR53c710 driver added.

Alpha: Fixed xtime lock, dummycom bug, SMP thread fixes. Sparc: video locking patch, misc updates (ATIfb, ISP2100), and syncs. PPC: Updates and syncs.

Documentation updates for Soundpro, SB1000 Cable modem, and SCSI Generic.

The HiSax driver now passes certification with some ELSA cards. Small changes to the Alteon AceNIC, RTL8139, SB1000, and SiS900 drivers. Added support for Interphase 5526.

Added an experimental driver for the ESS Solo PCI sound card. Changes to MAD16, and Soundblaster drivers. SGI visual workstation on board audio is now supported.

Added driver for Computone Intelliport 2, Zoran ZR36067 capture card. Updates for Mylex DAC-960 raid controller, SGI visual workstation onboard video driver.

Symbios 53C876 revision 32 is now supported. PAS-16 changes.

Alpha: Further changes to the maths emulation support. i386: Added optimizations for IDT Winchip, now identifies and reports the AMD Athlon. Sparc: viking MMU fix. Small Sparc64 kernel_thread change. Mips: Minor updates.

Documentation updates for Mylex DAC960/DAC1100 PCI RAID Controller, Computone Intelliport 2, HiSax, ISDN diversion services, m68k command line kernel options, Visual Workstation sound, video4linux.

Major updates for HiSax ISDN support. Added ISDN diversion services support. Changes to the ISDN subsystems. Driver updates for IBM ISDN-S0 Active 2000 cards, AVM B1 cards, Eicon.Diehl active ISDN-Cards, Comtrol Hostess SV-11, Alteon AceNIC Gigabit Ethernet cards, ARCnet hardware, Cosa, YAM FPGA radio modem, Sonic ethernet controller, IBM Olympic chipset PCI adapter, Aironet Arlan 655 & IC2200 DS, PCnet32 and PCnetPCI based ethernet cards, RealTek RTL8129/8139 Fast Ethernet cards, General Instruments SB1000, Sealevel Systems 4021, Seeq8003 ethernet controller, SiS 900 PCI Fast Ethernet, VIA Rhine family of ethernet cards, & WaveLAN. Fixed a routing bug, socket hashing bug, and a less than 68 byte MTU crashing bug in the IP layer.

Minor changes to the sound subsystem. Allocation bug fixes for ES1370/ES1371 and SonicVibes drivers. Newer ES1371 chips now support S/PDIF output. Driver updates for OPL3/SA2, ESS Sound devices, SoundBlaster, Opti C924.

Added Sealevel Systems 4021 support. Minor framebuffer code changes. Updated support for IRIX's EFS filesystem. Added a linux driver for the Compaq SMART2 Intelligent Disk Array controllers, and Mylex DAC-960 raid controller. Updated the following: DAC1100 PCI RAID Controllers, BTTV TV capture, Cyclades multiport serial boards, DZ chipset serial port, ADS Cadet AM/FM Radio Card, GemTek Radio Card (I/O address now recognized), SX/SI multiport serial cards. Updates for SGI character, audio, serial, and graphics devices. The ATI, VGA16 & TGA framebuffer drivers were updated. Added native EGA/VGA 16 color console to the frame buffer console support. Driver updates for Newport & PowerMac "platinum" display adapters. Minor changes were made to the coda (now supports pipe devices), EFS (supported read-only), ext2 (fixed "Too large" error handling errors), FAT (now caches by starting cluster, knows FAT32 is only 28 bit, and generates inode numbers differently), MSDOS, NCP, NFS, /proc, QNX, UFS (added support for NextStep CD-ROM format), UMSDOS, and VFAT filesystems.

IDE CD, tape (SMP race condition fixed), and floppy changes (ZIP disk corruption fixed).

Minor changes to the SCSI subsystem. Updates for SYM53C8xx & NCR53C9x, AHA152x & AHA154x, AIC7xxx, ATP870U, AMI MegaRAID, EATA & EATA-DMA, QLogic ISP2x00, sym53c416 & sym53c8xx, wd33c93 & wd7000 SCSI controllers. Fixed a few bug when using IDE-SCSI and SCSI Generic.

Alpha: Extensive updates, including changes to the maths emulation support. i386: Added 2GB of RAM support, better SMP support via interrupt handling, and an SMP race fix. Mips: Most of the Mips port has been merged with the main tree, although not quite finished yet. PowerPC: Some changes have been merged with the main tree. Sparc: Fixed problem with the Sun4m SMP, support for TV capture cards has been added to Sparc64, and a race condition on core dumping has been fixed.

Documentation updated for Compaq SMART2 IDA controllers, DECChip 21030 based graphics framebuffer cards, HiSax ISDN cards, active AVM controller driver, Eicon.Diehl active ISDN cards, X.25 support, SB1000 cable modems, ARCnet hardware, IBM PCI Pit/Pit-Phy/Olympic chipset based token ring cards, Sound drivers, SX/SI multiport serial drivers,