Changes from 1.3.73 to 1.3.74
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-1.3.74.gz
These are from mec@treflan.shout.net (Michael Chastain)
[he might not want to answer questions about Linux either :) -russ]
- Documentation/Configure.help: add CONFIG_SCSI_PPA [Axel Boldt].
- arch/i386/mm/init.c: disallow dma on memory over 16 megabytes.
- drivers/block/ide.c: link new disks at head instead of tail.
- drivers/char/ftape/*: support for modules is now correct for newer kernels;
fixed params to request_irq() and free_irq() [Marcin Dalecki].
- drivers/char/lp.c: 'lp=' command line parameters [Grant Guenther].
- drivers/net/fmv18x.c: driver for the Fujitsu FMV-181/182 [Yutaka Tamiya].
- drivers/scsi/README.ppa: documentation for PPA3 [Grant Guenther].
- drivers/scsi/ppa.{c,h}: driver for the IOMEGA PPA3 parallel port
SCSI host adapter [Grant Guenther].
- drivers/sound/*: bug fixing; improved handling of playback underrun
situations; no longer beta software (1726 lines) [Hannu Savolainen].
- kernel/sys.c: fix string corruption in sys_acct.