Re: Linux 2.4.15-pre4 - merge with Alan

[Matthew Dharm <mdharm-kernel@one-eyed-alien.net>]

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Just as a heads-up for interested people... this kernel does contain the
final fixes for the Freecom adaptor, even tho it's not listed.

Matt

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:01:56AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> Ok, this kernel hopefully contains all the high-priority merges with Alan,
> which means that as far as that is concerned, I'm done with 2.4.x and
> ready to pass it on to Marcelo.
> 
> Which means that I'd also like people to double-check that there are no
> embarrassing missing pieces due to the merge (or other patches).
> 
> Known issue: Al Viro fixed the nasty overflow with /proc/cpuinfo and
> multiple CPU's, but only for x86. So other architectures need to convert
> from the old "get_cpuinfo()" to the seq-file-based "show_cpuinfo()". The
> conversion should be pretty mindless and straightforward.. (ie use
> "seq_printf()"  instead of "sprintf()" etc - see arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
> for the example code).
> 
> Changelog appeded,
> 
> 		Linus
> 
> -----
> pre4:
>  - Mikael Pettersson: make proc_misc happy without modules
>  - Arjan van de Ven: clean up acpitable implementation ("micro-acpi")
>  - Anton Altaparmakov: LDM partition code update
>  - Alan Cox: final (yeah, sure) small missing pieces
>  - Andrey Savochkin/Andrew Morton: eepro100 config space save/restore over suspend
>  - Arjan van de Ven: remove power from pcmcia socket on card remove
>  - Greg KH: USB updates
>  - Neil Brown: multipath updates
>  - Martin Dalecki: fix up some "asmlinkage" routine markings
> 
> pre3:
>  - Alan Cox: more driver merging
>  - Al Viro: make ext2 group allocation more readable
> 
> pre2:
>  - Ivan Kokshaysky: fix alpha dec_and_lock with modules, for alpha config entry
>  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
>  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates, sysv fs update
>  - Kai Mäkisara: SCSI tape update
>  - Alan Cox: large drivers merge
>  - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs procfs information
>  - Andrew Morton: ext3 merge
>  - Christoph Hellwig: vxfs livelock fix
>  - Trond Myklebust: NFS updates
>  - Jens Axboe: cpqarray + cciss dequeue fix
>  - Tim Waugh: parport_serial base_baud setting
>  - Matthew Dharm: usb-storage Freecom driver fixes
>  - Dave McCracken: wait4() thread group race fix
> 
> pre1:
>  - me: fix page flags race condition Andrea found
>  - David Miller: sparc and network updates
>  - various: fix loop driver that thought it was part of the VM system
>  - me: teach DRM about VM_RESERVED
>  - Alan Cox: more merging
> 
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