Subject: Kernel change summary 1.1.36 -> 1.1.37
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development

IDE Performance Enhancements	Version 2.1
	-- Support added for E-IDE BIOSs, for systems with IDE drives
	that "have more than 16 logical heads" (according the BIOS).
	-- the HDIO_SETUNMASKINTR and HDIO_SETMULTCOUNT now permit
	only the superuser to change settings, and no longer permit
	minor device numbers to be used.
More changes to memory management.  Removed some overly enthusiastic
	merges of vm areas.
Changed the AHA1542 driver to delay a little bit before sending commands.
Changed the SCSI driver so that it keeps a linked list of SCSI
	devices, in preparation for hot swapping.
Added a two-level directory cache.  The idea is that new additions
	(from readdir(), for example) will not flush the cache of
	entries that have really been used.
ext2 directory caching is gone.
If the rock ridge driver can't read a continuation record, it detects
	that now.
SysV filesystem driver is now version beta 2, and includes memory mapping.
A few new fields initialized in the elf binary format handler.
New swapping is now standard.
Scheduler is a little less enthusiastic about switching to new tasks.
Optimize the uid testing in doing system calls.
Missed a test for allowing suid execution to make a syscall.