This is an automated email announcing the release of genpatches-4.8-1
CHANGES ----------------------- Rename gcc optimization patch for more clarity. (Mike Pagano) Update gentoo kconfig patch to remove DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES. See kernel upstream commit: eedf265aa003b4781de24cfed40a655a664457e6. (Mike Pagano) Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults. Patch to add support for namespace user.pax.* on tmpfs. Patch to enable link security restrictions by default. Patch to ensure that /dev/root doesn't appear in /proc/mounts when bootint without an initramfs. Patch to enable control of the unaligned access control policy from sysctl (Mike Pagano) Select SYSVIPC when GENTOO_LINUX_PORTAGE is selected. Dependency of IPC_NS. See bug #587736. (Mike Pagano) Fix readme (Mike Pagano) Clean up master (Mike Pagano) Add check to saved_root_name for supported filesystem path naming. (Mike Pagano) Linux patch 4.0.5 (Mike Pagano) Linux patch 4.0.4 (Mike Pagano) Linux patch 4.0.3 (Mike Pagano) Fix linux patch 4.0.2 (Mike Pagano) Linux patch 4.0.2 (Mike Pagano) Fix for lz4 compression. Thanks to Christian Xia. See bug #546422. (Mike Pagano) BFQ patchset for 4.0, v7r7. (Mike Pagano) Linux patch 4.0.1 (Mike Pagano) Patch to select REGMAP_IRQ for rt5033 mfd driver. See bug #546938. (Mike Pagano) Update gcc >= 4.9 optimization patch. See bug #544028. (Mike Pagano) Update the distro kernel patch to add an option to the Gentoo menu that enables CGROUPS for cgroup, IPC_NS for ipc-sandbox, and NET_NS for network-sandbox. (Mike Pagano) Patch to enable link security restrictions by default. Patch to disable Windows 8 compatibility for some Lenovo ThinkPads. Patch to ensure that /dev/root doesn't appear in /proc/mounts when bootint without an initramfs. Path to not not lock when UMH is waiting on current thread spawned by linuxrc. (bug #481344) fbcondecor bootsplash patch. Add Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults. Kernel patch that enables gcc < v4.9 optimizations for additional CPUs. Kernel patch enables gcc >= v4.9 optimizations for additional CPUs. (Mike Pagano) Add patch to support namespace user.pax.* on tmpfs, bug #470644 (Anthony G. Basile) Adding generic patches for all versions (Mike Pagano) ABOUT GENPATCHES ---------------- genpatches is the patchset applied to some kernels available in Portage. For more information, see the genpatches homepage: http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches For a simple example of how to use genpatches in your kernel ebuild, look at a recent gentoo-sources ebuild.
