Linux 2.4.17-pre2

Linux 2.4.17-pre2

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Ok, here it goes.

Lots of driver changes this time... 

Also, I want to know if people feel any difference on interactivity under
heavy IO workloads.

pre2:

- Remove userland header from bonding driver	(David S. Miller)
- Create a SLAB for page tables on i386		(Christoph Hellwig)
- Unregister devices at shaper unload time	(David S. Miller)
- Remove several unused variables from various
  places in the kernel				(David S. Miller)
- Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
  it may be not valid on some platforms		(David S. Miller)
- Fix RTC driver bug				(David S. Miller)
- SPARC 32/64 update				(David S. Miller)
- W9966 V4L driver update			(Jakob Jemi)
- ad1848 driver fixes				(Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
- PCMCIA update					(David Hinds)
- Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses 	(Paul Mackerras)
- Correctly free per-process signal struct	(Dave McCracken)
- IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup		(Nathan Myers)
- ymfpci driver cleanup 			(Pete Zaitcev)
- Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
  only BSD.					(Robert Love)
- Fix serial module use count			(Russell King)
- Update sg to 3.1.22				(Douglas Gilbert)
- ieee1394 update				(Ben Collins)
- ReiserFS fixes				(Nikita Danilov)
- Update ACPI documentantion			(Patrick Mochel)
- Smarter atime update				(Andrew Morton)
- Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it	(Andrew Morton) 
- IrDA update					(Jean Tourrilhes)
- Count locked buffers at
  balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
  heavy IO workloads				(Andrew Morton)
- USB update					(Greg KH)
- ide-scsi locking fix				(Christoph Hellwig)

pre1:

- Change USB maintainer 			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Speeling fix for rd.c				(From Ralf Baechle's tree)
- Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
- Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist 	(Arjan Van de Ven)
- Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list	(Arjan Van de Ven)
- Remove crap character from Configure.help	(Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
- Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
- Update osst sound driver to 1.65		(Willem Riede)
- Fix i810 sound driver problems		(Andris Pavenis)
- Add AF_LLC define in network headers		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers	(Erik Andersen)
- Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
  modules
- Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
  implement NFS method				(Alexander Viro)
- Updated i8k driver				(Massimo Dal Zoto)
- devfs update  				(Richard Gooch)

Re: Linux 2.4.17-pre2

[Patrick Dijkkamp]

You forgot again to change the SUBLEVEL and EXTRAVERSION.


Patrick Dijkkamp
list@mortal.servicez.org
Netherlands

> 
> 
> Ok, here it goes.
> 
> Lots of driver changes this time... 
> 
> Also, I want to know if people feel any difference on interactivity under
> heavy IO workloads.
> 
> pre2:
> 
> - Remove userland header from bonding driver (David S. Miller)
> - Create a SLAB for page tables on i386 (Christoph Hellwig)
> - Unregister devices at shaper unload time (David S. Miller)
> - Remove several unused variables from various
>   places in the kernel (David S. Miller)
> - Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
>   it may be not valid on some platforms (David S. Miller)
> - Fix RTC driver bug (David S. Miller)
> - SPARC 32/64 update (David S. Miller)
> - W9966 V4L driver update (Jakob Jemi)
> - ad1848 driver fixes (Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
> - PCMCIA update (David Hinds)
> - Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses (Paul Mackerras)
> - Correctly free per-process signal struct (Dave McCracken)
> - IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup (Nathan Myers)
> - ymfpci driver cleanup (Pete Zaitcev)
> - Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
>   only BSD. (Robert Love)
> - Fix serial module use count (Russell King)
> - Update sg to 3.1.22 (Douglas Gilbert)
> - ieee1394 update (Ben Collins)
> - ReiserFS fixes (Nikita Danilov)
> - Update ACPI documentantion (Patrick Mochel)
> - Smarter atime update (Andrew Morton)
> - Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it (Andrew Morton) 
> - IrDA update (Jean Tourrilhes)
> - Count locked buffers at
>   balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
>   heavy IO workloads (Andrew Morton)
> - USB update (Greg KH)
> - ide-scsi locking fix (Christoph Hellwig)
>