Linux 2.4.20-pre9

Linux 2.4.20-pre9

[Marcelo Tosatti]

The Athlon problems introduced in pre3 should be gone now.

pre9 has some JFS/ext3 fixes, USB fixes and several network drivers fixes.

There are still some pending issues to be solved for 2.4.20 which I hope
get worked out on the next -pre's...


Summary of changes from v2.4.20-pre8 to v2.4.20-pre9
============================================

<alex_williamson@attbi.com>:
  o fs/partitions/sun.c: raid autodetect for sun disk labels

<brihall@pcisys.net>:
  o Update for JMTek USBDrive

<devik@cdi.cz>:
  o net/sched/sch_htb.c: Verify classid and direct_qlen properly

<felipewd@terra.com.br>:
  o Support get-MII-data ioctls in 8139cp net driver

<hch@sgi.com>:
  o fix drm ioctl ABI default

<helgaas@fc.hp.com>:
  o pc_keyb.c: hook for keybd controller detection
  o Configure.help update (1/2)
  o AGPGART 2/5: size AGP mem correctly when memory is
  o ati_pcigart: support 16K and 64K page size
  o Configure.help update (2/2)
  o PCI ID database update

<jes@trained-monkey.org>:
  o acenic net drvr fix: remove '=' typo in intr mask writel()

<marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:
  o Place buffer dirtied in truncate() on inode's  dirty data list (Eric Sandeen)
  o Enable CONFIG_DRM_I810_XFREE_41 so we are compatible with XFree 4.1 as default
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre9

<rgcrettol@datacomm.ch>:
  o USB 2.0 HDD Walker / ST-HW-818SLIM usb-storage fix

<schoenfr@gaaertner.de>:
  o net/ipv4/proc.c: Dont print dummy member of icmp_mib

<sct@redhat.com>:
  o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Bump ext3 version number
  o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: Fix LVM snapshot deadlock
  o 2.4.20-pre4/ext3: jbd commit interval tuning
  o Sanity check for Intermezzo/ext3
  o ext3 commit notification for Intermezzo
  o Fix the order of inodes being marked dirty in a couple of corner cases

<thiel@ksan.de>:
  o Kernel TUN/TAP Documentation rework

<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>:
  o [IPv6]: Verify ND options properly
  o net/ipv6/addrconf.c: Refine IPv6 Address Validation Timer
  o net/ipv6/ndisc.c: Add missing credits
  o net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c: Default route support on router

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>:
  o add "If unsure, say N" to CONFIG_X86_TSC_DISABLE
  o Configure.help entry for the e100 driver (fwd)

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
  o security - various bits in iee1394
  o Fix config.in breakage from mips people
  o resend maestro3 update

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>:
  o Fix disabling of x86 capabilities from command line
  o Fix pageattr with mem=nopentium

Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@kleikamp.austin.ibm.com>:
  o JFS: Fix problems with NFS
  o JFS: detect and fix invalid directory index values
  o JFS: Remove assert(i < MAX_ACTIVE)

David S. Miller <davem@nuts.ninka.net>:
  o net/ipv4/netfilter/ip_conntrack_proto_tcp.c: Include linux/string.h
  o drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c: u64 is not necessarily long long
  o init/do_mounts.c: Protect cramfs stuff with CONFIG_BLK_DEV_RAM too
  o drivers/net/acenic.h: readl is not an lvalue
  o drivers/net/ppp_generic.c:ppp_receive_frame Kill unused local label

Edward Peng <edward_peng@dlink.com.tw>:
  o update sundance driver to support building on older kernel

Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>:
  o USB: added Palm Zire support to the visor driver

Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>:
  o [NETFILTER]: Trivial fixes

James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>:
  o net/ipv4/netfilter/ipchains_core.c: Use GFP_ATOMIC under ip_fw_lock

Javier Achirica <achirica@ttd.net>:
  o sync airo wireless driver with 2.5
  o airo wireless: use ETH_ALEN constant where appropriate
  o airo wireless: disable access to card while prom flashing in progress [note: more work needs to be done here, but this is better than nothing -jgarzik]
  o airo wireless: more verbose MAC-enable errors
  o airo wireless: power down on if down. add local 'ai' to fix build
  o airo wireless: fix "non-probe mode" setup
  o airo wireless: Fixes signal level retrieval in SPY mode (releases memory block after read out)
  o airo wireless net drvr: add Cisco MIC support Conditionally enabled when out-of-tree, but open source, crypto lib is present.

Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>:
  o irtty MODEM_BITS additional fix

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>:
  o Update eepro100 net driver's mdio_{read,write} functions to take 'struct net_device *' not 'long' as their first argument.  This makes eepro100 compatible with the standard MII ethtool API, preparing it for that support.
  o update eepro100 net driver to use standard MII phy API/lib, when implementing ethtool media ioctls.
  o Add new MII lib functions mii_check_link, mii_check_media
  o sundance net drvr: fix reset_tx logic (contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link, cleaned up by me)
  o sundance net drvr: fix DFE-580TX packet drop issue, further reset_tx fixes (contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link)
  o sundance net drvr: bump version to LK1.05
  o [net drivers] fix MII lib force-media ethtool path (contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link)
  o sis900 net driver update
  o [net drivers] MII lib update
  o [net drivers] Rename MII lib API member, s/duplex_lock/force_media/, and update all drivers that reference this struct member.
  o Add MII lib helper func generic_mii_ioctl, use it in 8139cp net drvr
  o Use new MII lib helper generic_mii_ioctl in several net drivers
  o [net drivers] Remove 'dev' argument from generic_mii_ioctl helper
  o [net drivers] add optional duplex-changed arg to generic_mii_ioctl helper

Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>:
  o USB: update of hpusbscsi
  o USB: fixes for kaweth

Petr Vandrovec <vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>:
  o [NCPFS]: 32->64bit sparc64 conversions

Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>:
  o alpha strncpy fix

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>:
  o Remove list_head typedef

Tim Schmielau <tim@physik3.uni-rostock.de>:
  o Fix sb1000 jiffies usage: kill float constant, use time_after_eq()
  o fix compares of jiffies

DFE-580TX packet drop persist (Re: Linux 2.4.20-pre9)

[Marcus Sundberg]

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> writes:

> Summary of changes from v2.4.20-pre8 to v2.4.20-pre9
> ============================================

>   o sundance net drvr: fix DFE-580TX packet drop issue, further reset_tx fixes (contributed by Edward Peng @ D-Link)

Hi,

I'm sorry to say that the packet drop issue is still not solved
with a DF580-TX using four of these chips:
        Class 0200: 1186:1002 (rev 12)
        Subsystem: 1186:1012

Sending bi-directional streams of UDP-packets with 200-byte payload
through the machine I get zero packet loss and 15% CPU usage with
either eepro100 or tulip-based cards. Using the DFE-580TX I get
15% packet loss and 25% CPU usage. Ifconfig also shows packets
being dropped:

eth1      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:5D:E6:14:BE  
          inet addr:10.230.0.1  Bcast:10.230.0.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2439797 errors:0 dropped:287381 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2461746 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:18 Base address:0xa400 

eth2      Link encap:Ethernet  HWaddr 00:05:5D:E6:14:BF  
          inet addr:10.230.1.1  Bcast:10.230.1.255  Mask:255.255.255.0
          UP BROADCAST RUNNING MULTICAST  MTU:1500  Metric:1
          RX packets:2463601 errors:0 dropped:286106 overruns:0 frame:0
          TX packets:2437637 errors:0 dropped:0 overruns:0 carrier:0
          collisions:0 txqueuelen:100 
          Interrupt:19 Base address:0xa000 

//Marcus
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