Changes from 1.3.52 to 1.3.53
These changes are archived on ftp.crynwr.com:pub/kchanges
and http://www.crynwr.com/kchanges.
I cannot answer questions about Linux -- I merely summarize the kernel
patches after reading them. I try to make them useful to everyone,
but kernel hackers should take them with a grain of salt and read the
patches themselves. The patch file is patch-1.3.53.gz
These are from mec@treflan.shout.net (Michael Chastain)
[he might not want to answer questions about Linux either :) -russ]
- Documentation/CodingStyle: new document.
- Documentation/Configure.help: continuing development.
- arch/ppc/*: continuing development (1048 lines) [Cort Dougan].
- drivers/block/rd.c: loadable module support [Tom Dyas].
- drivers/net/depca.c: allow command line mem/name assignments;
add new multicasting code [Dave Davies].
- drivers/net/ewrk3.c: fix recognition bug; rationalise MODULE and autoprobe
code; rewrite for portability; ALPHA support; added verify_area calls
in depca_ioctl(); add new multicasting code [Dave Davies].
- drivers/net/skeleton.c: reformatted comments.
- drivers/scsi/scsi.c: cleaned up page size stuff.
- drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c: changed 'not ready' and 'disc change' messages
to KERN_INFO priority.
- fs/ext2/file.c: new 'readpage' implementation.
- fs/inode.c: 'grow_inodes' can return an error; 'inode_init' changes policy
for calls to 'grow_inodes'.
- fs/ncpfs/*: new NCP file system (3511 lines) [Paal-Kr. Engstad,
Volker Lendecke]
- fs/proc/array.c: report page cache size.
- fs/read_write.c: 'sys_writev' uses inode semaphore while writing.
- mm/filemap.c: use page ages.