Changes from 1.3.56 to 1.3.57
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-1.3.57.gz
These are from mec@treflan.shout.net (Michael Chastain)
[he might not want to answer questions about Linux either :) -russ]
- Documentation/Configure.help: continuing development.
- Documentation/networking/arcnet-hardware.txt: major revision (1588 lines).
- drivers/char/wdt.c: Industrial Computer Source WDT500/501 driver [CymruNET].
- drivers/net/arcnet.c: abandoned support for Linux 1.2; updated cabling/jumpers
documentation; autoprobing works as a module now [Avery Pennarun].
- drivers/net/net_init.c: enable interrupts for device probes.
- drivers/scsi/aha152x.c: some cleanups; moved request_irq behing controller
initialization (to avoid spurious interrupts) [Juergen E. Fischer].
- drivers/scsi/sg.c: back out recent change for detecting send or receive.
- fs/devices.c: added kerneld support [Jacques Gelinas, Bjorn Ekwall].
- fs/exec.c: kerneld support.
- fs/msdos/inode.c: change default dotsOK to 0.
- fs/nfs/sock.c: fixed 'timed out' / 'still trying' messages.
- fs/super.c: added kerneld support [Jacques Gelinas, Bjorn Ekwall].
- include/linux/sysctl.h: general linux system control interface
[Stephen Tweedie].
- ipc/msg.c: kerneld extensions [Bjorn Ekwall].
- kernel/ksyms.c: add 'kerneld_send', 'register_sysctl_table',
'unregister_sysctl_table'.
- kernel/module.c: support autoclean modules.
- kernel/sysctl.c: general linux system control interface [Stephen Tweedie].
- mm/filemap.c: rewrite 'shrink_mmap'.
- mm/{page,swap,vmscan}*.c: swap reorganised; asynchronous swapping (2781 lines)
[Stephen Tweedie].
- net/core/dev.c: added kerneld hack [Bjorn Ekwall].
- net/ipv4/route.c: added kerneld hack for autodialling [Bjorn Ekwall].