Changes from 1.3.67 to 1.3.68
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-1.3.68.gz
These are from mec@treflan.shout.net (Michael Chastain)
[he might not want to answer questions about Linux either :) -russ]
- Documentation/Configure.help: reformatting; CONFIG_BLK_DEV_LOOP,
CONFIG_DESKSTATION_RPC44, CONFIG_MIPS_MAGNUM_3000, CONFIG_MIPS_MAGNUM_4000,
CONFIG_OLIVETTI_M700, CONFIG_DESKSTATION_TYNE, CONFIG_ACER_PICA_61,
CONFIG_DECSTATION, CONFIG_CPU_R3000, CONFIG_ELF_KERNEL,
CONFIG_EXTRA_ELF_COMPILER, CONFIG_CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN, CONFIG_SCSI_ADVANSYS,
CONFIG_SCSI_GENERIC_NCR53C400, CONFIG_SCSI_G_NCR5380_PORT,
CONFIG_SCSI_NCR53C406A, CONFIG_SCSI_AM53C974, CONFIG_VORTEX,
CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT, CONFIG_WDT, CONFIG_WDT_501, CONFIG_WDT_501_FAN,
CONFIG_SOFT_WATCHDOG (1067 lines).
- Documentation/filesystems/ncpfs.txt: new file.
- MAINTAINERS: maintainers and source submission procedures [Alan Cox].
- drivers/block/loop.c: loopback driver [Theodor Ts'o, Werner Almsberger,
Mitch Dsouza, Andries Brouwer].
- drivers/net/new_tunnel.c: new IP tunneling [Sam Latinga, Alan Cox].
- drivers/pci/pci.c: add SGS_2000, SGS_1764, AMCC_MYRINET, RP80CTA,
RP8INTF, RP16INTF, RP32INTF, PCI_VENDOR_ID_RP.
- drivers/scsi/scsi.c: blacklist "RENO CD-ROMX2A"/"2.03", "ST1581"/"6538".
- fs/fat/inode.c: boot-time 'showexec' option for 'x' flag on EXE,COM,BAT.
- fs/proc/array.c: tagged format for /proc/meminfo (after existing lines);
new PROC_PID_STATUS.
- kernel/ksyms.c: add invalidate_inode_pages, __wait_on_page.
- net/ax25/ax25_route.c: added routing for IP datagram packets [Jonathan(G4KLX)].
- net/ax25/ax25_timer.c: added DAMA support [Joerg(DL1BKE)].
- net/core/dev.c: SIOCGIFCONF fix if space for under 1 device [Craig Metz].
- net/core/net_alias.c: kerneld support [Andreas Schultz].
- net/ipv4/igmp.c: igmp_heard_report now only calls igmp_timer_expire if
tm->running is true [Christian Daudt].
- net/ipv4/route.c: tunnel devices can route to gateways we can't reach.
- net/unix/af_unix.c: fixed a bug in connect when interrupted [Alan Cox].