> -----Original Message----- > From: Linus Torvalds [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Sunday, December 31, 2000 12:25 PM > To: Kernel Mailing List > Subject: Happy new year^H^H^H^Hkernel.. > > > > Ok. I didn't make 2.4.0 in 2000. Tough. I tried, but we had some > last-minute stuff that needed fixing (ie the dirty page lists > etc), and > the best I can do is make a prerelease. > > There's a 2.4.0-prerelease out there, and this is basically it. I want > people to test it for a while, and I want to give other > architectures the > chance to catch up with some of the changes, but read my lips: no more > recounts. There is no "prerelease1", to become "prerelease2" > and so on. > > One thing other architectures will want to catch up with is > the changes to > handle 2GHz+ machines, which due to overflow issues caused > "loops_per_sec" > to become "loops_per_jiffy". And some architectures have not had much > chance to synchronize with me due to other fires to put out. > > Give it your worst. After you recover from being hung-over, of course. > > Linus > > ----- > prerelease: > - Alan Cox: more synchronizations > - Manfred Spraul: ptrace/suid-exec race fix > > - pre7: > - x86 LDT handling fixes: revert some cleanups (the LDT really > doesn't act like a TLB context) > - Richard Henderson: alpha update (working memmove() from Ivan > Kokshaysky etc) > - Manfred: winbond-840.c net driver update (fix oops on > module unload etc) > - Alan Cox: more synchronizations (with some fixes from > Andrew Morton) > > - pre6: > - Marc Joosen: BIOS int15/e820 memory query: don't assume %edx > unchanged by the BIOS. Fixes at least some IBM ThinkPads. > - Alan Cox: synchronize > - Marcelo Tosatti & me: properly sync dirty pages > - Andreas Dilger: proper ext2 compat flag checking > > - pre5: > - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update > - Geert Uytterhoeven: m68k update > - David Miller: TCP RTO calc fix, UDP multicast fix etc > - Duncan Laurie: ServerWorks PIRQ routing definition. > - mm PageDirty cleanups, added sanity checks, and don't > lose the bit. > > - pre4: > - Christoph Rohland: shmfs cleanup > - Nicolas Pitre: don't forget loop.c flags > - Geert Uytterhoeven: new-style m68k Makefiles > - Neil Brown: knfsd cleanups, raid5 re-org > - Andrea Arkangeli: update to LVM-0.9 > - LC Chang: sis900 driver doc update > - David Miller: netfilter oops fix > - Andrew Grover: acpi update > > - pre3: > - Christian Jullien: smc9194: proper dev_kfree_skb_irq > - Cort Dougan: new-style PowerPC Makefiles > - Andrew Morton, Petr Vandrovec: fix run_task_queue > - Christoph Rohland: shmfs for shared memory handling > > - pre2: > - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update (including Makefiles) > - Jens Axboe: cdrom updates > - Petr Vandrovec; Matrox G450 support > - Bill Nottingham: fix FAT32 filesystems on 64-bit platforms > - David Miller: sparc (and other) Makefile fixup > - Andrea Arkangeli: alpha SMP TLB context fix (and cleanups) > - Niels Kristian Bech Jensen: checkconfig, USB warnings > - Andrew Grover: large ACPI update > > - pre1: > - me: drop support for old-style Makefiles entirely. Big. > - me: check b_end_io at the IO submission path > - me: fix "ptep_mkdirty()" (so that swapoff() works correctly) > - fix fault case in copy_from_user() with a constant size, where > ((size & 3) == 3) > > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe > linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
