-------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fedora Update Notification FEDORA-2009-10048 2009-09-29 13:45:30 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Name : kernel Product : Fedora 11 Version : 2.6.30.8 Release : 64.fc11 URL : http://www.kernel.org/ Summary : The Linux kernel Description : The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any Linux operating system. The kernel handles the basic functions of the operating system: memory allocation, process allocation, device input and output, etc. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Update Information: Update to kernel 2.6.30.8. Upstream change logs: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.6 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.7 http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.30.8 Enhancements: - Disk I/O performance fixes taken from the 2.6.32 kernel. - LIRC driver updates. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- ChangeLog: * Fri Sep 25 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.8-64 - Fix serious CFQ performance regression. * Fri Sep 25 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.8-63 - Disable the GEM graphics manager on i686 PAE kernels (fixes modesetting on Intel graphics.) * Fri Sep 25 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.8-62 - Fix breakage in hostap driver (#522269) * Thu Sep 24 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.8-61 - Backport the cpuidle-faster-io fix from Fedora 12 to fix I/O performance problems when reading/writing multiple disks. * Thu Sep 24 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.8-60 - Linux 2.6.30.8 * Thu Sep 24 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.7-59 - Disable sound powersave by default; it still pops when playing sounds. (#523836) * Wed Sep 16 2009 Justin M. Forbes <jfor...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.7-58 - Revert virtio_blk to rotational mode. (#509383) * Tue Sep 15 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.7-57 - Linux 2.6.30.7 * Tue Sep 15 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.7-56.rc1 - Fix CIFS security flags mask broken in 2.6.30 (#523173) * Tue Sep 15 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.7-55.rc1 - Fix cpufreq lockdep warnings (#522685) * Sat Sep 12 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.7-54.rc1 - 2.6.30.7-rc1 - Drop patches merged in -stable: linux-2.6-slub-fix-destroy-by-rcu.patch * Thu Sep 10 2009 Dennis Gilmore <den...@ausil.us> 2.6.30.6-53 - kgdb only works on sparc64 smp kernels so disable on the up one and enable on the smp one - update to 256 cpus supported on sparc64 smp * Wed Sep 9 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.6-52 - Add linux-2.6-slub-fix-destroy-by-rcu.patch (fixes bug in 2.6.30.4) * Wed Sep 9 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.6-51 - 2.6.30.6 - Drop patches merged in -stable: do_sigaltstack-avoid-copying-stack_t-as-a-structure-to-userspace.patch linux-2.6-x86-dont-send-ipi-to-empty-set-cpus.patch linux-2.6-bitmap-make-ops-return-result.patch linux-2.6-x86-dont-call-send-ipi-mask-with-empty-mask.patch linux-2.6-clone-fix-race-between-copy-process-and-de-thread.patch linux-2.6-kthreads-fix-kthread-create-vs-kthread-stop.patch linux-2.6-xen-x86-dont-probe-if-apics-are-disabled.patch * Tue Sep 8 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-50 - Disable Amiga One support to fix powerpc coherency bug (#521703) * Fri Sep 4 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-49 - Fix build system getting confused during firmware install. * Fri Sep 4 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-48 - Added additional fixes needed for #514787: linux-2.6-ppc64-vs-broadcom-lmb-no-init-*.patch - Fix up lirc patch context so it applies. * Wed Sep 2 2009 Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> - Make it possible to rmmod lirc_zilog w/o it hanging indefinitely - Add transmit support (via port 2 only) on 1st-gen mceusb transceiver * Tue Sep 1 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-46 - Fix yet another Xen boot crash (#520517) * Tue Sep 1 2009 Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-45 - Refresh lirc patches, add new lirc_ene0100 driver - Fix up hdpvr driver for use with modular i2c so that lirc_zilog can actually bind to it - Make lirc_zilog IR transmit and receive work on the hdpvr - Fix audio on PVR-500 when used in same system as HVR-1800 (#480728) * Fri Aug 28 2009 David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com> - Enable Solos DSL driver * Thu Aug 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-43 - Don't load the floppy driver automatically: linux-2.6-defaults-die-floppy-die.patch * Thu Aug 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-42 - Fix stackprotector problems with Xen on x86_64. - Disable stackprotector on i386 until 32-bit Xen gets fixed. * Thu Aug 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-41 - linux-2.6-kthreads-fix-kthread-create-vs-kthread-stop.patch: fix race in kthreads. * Thu Aug 27 2009 Justin M. Forbes <jfor...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-40 - xen: Fix guest crash when trying to debug. (#458385) * Thu Aug 27 2009 John W. Linville <linvi...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-39 - zd1211rw: adding 083a:e503 as a ZD1211B device (#518538) * Thu Aug 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-38 - Fix string overflows found by stackprotector: hda-check-strcpy-length.patch linux-2.6-v4l-dvb-af9015-fix-stack-corruption.patch * Thu Aug 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-37 - Fix race in clone() syscall. * Thu Aug 27 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-36 - Fix hangs on older x86 systems with 440*X chipsets. * Fri Aug 21 2009 David Woodhouse <david.woodho...@intel.com> - Fix b43 on iMac G5 (#514787) * Tue Aug 18 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - Backport several upstream commits 52dec22e739eec8f3a0154f768a599f5489048bd to improve mmap_min_addr. - CVE-2009-2847: do_sigaltstack: avoid copying 'stack_t' as a structure to user space * Mon Aug 17 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-32 - Change config options: CONFIG_SCSI_DEBUG=m CONFIG_PCI_MSI_DEFAULT_ON=y * Mon Aug 17 2009 Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-31 - Fix flub in prior lirc patch update that resulted in no lirc drivers getting built * Sun Aug 16 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-29 - Linux 2.6.30.5 * Fri Aug 14 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> 2.6.30.5-28.rc2 - Linux 2.6.30.5-rc2 - Dropped drm-intel-tv-fix.patch, merged in -stable now. * Wed Aug 12 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - drm-no-gem-on-i8xx.patch: fix misspelled IS_8XX & IS_I845G, sigh. * Wed Aug 12 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - DRM patch sync-up with F-11-2.6.29.y, ABI probably isn't right yet though... - drm-modesetting-radeon.patch - drm-nouveau.patch - drm-no-gem-on-i8xx.patch - drm-i915-resume-force-mode.patch - drm-intel-big-hammer.patch - drm-intel-gen3-fb-hack.patch - drm-intel-hdmi-edid-fix.patch - drm-modesetting-radeon-fixes.patch - drm-radeon-new-pciids.patch - drm-dont-frob-i2c.patch - drm-intel-tv-fix.patch - drm-radeon-cs-oops-fix.patch - drm-pnp-add-resource-range-checker.patch - drm-i915-enable-mchbar.patch - The rest were merged upstream. * Wed Aug 12 2009 John W. Linville <linvi...@redhat.com> - iwlwifi: fix TX queue race * Mon Aug 10 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - Patch sync-up with F-11-2.6.29.y: - linux-2.6-x86-delay-tsc-barrier.patch - linux-2.6-fs-cifs-fix-port-numbers.patch - linux-2.6-kvm-skip-pit-check.patch - linux-2.6.29-xen-disable-gbpages.patch - linux-2.6-virtio_blk-dont-bounce-highmem-requests.patch - linux-2.6-drivers-char-low-latency-removal.patch - linux-2.6-serial-add-txen-test-param.patch - linux-2.6-input-wacom-bluetooth.patch - linux-2.6-defaults-saner-vm-settings.patch - linux-2.6-mm-lru-evict-streaming-io-pages-first.patch - linux-2.6-mm-lru-report-vm-flags-in-page-referenced.patch - linux-2.6-mm-lru-dont-evict-mapped-executable-pages.patch - linux-2.6-utrace.patch - linux-2.6-utrace-ftrace.patch - linux-2.6-tracehook.patch * Mon Aug 10 2009 Jarod Wilson <ja...@redhat.com> - Add tunable pad threshold support to lirc_imon - Blacklist all iMON devices in usbhid driver so lirc_imon can bind - Add new device ID to lirc_mceusb (#512483) - Enable IR transceiver on the HD PVR * Wed Aug 5 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - Update to released 2.6.30.4. - Drop now-unneeded upstream reverts. * Wed Jul 29 2009 Chuck Ebbert <cebb...@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.30.4-rc1 * Mon Jul 27 2009 Neil Horman <nhor...@redhat.com> - Backport xfrm gc_thresh export code (bz 503124) * Fri Jul 24 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - CONFIG_DEFAULT_MMAP_MIN_ADDR=65536 [i386 x86_64], 4096 elsewhere, as per defconfigs. - Blat patches from other tag, now to rebase fixes, splat in the changelog, and tag it for building. * Fri Jul 24 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - Copy over release configs from devel-2.6.30 tag. - Fix up some spec deviations. * Fri Jul 24 2009 Kyle McMartin <k...@redhat.com> - Linux 2.6.30.3 rebase for Fedora 11. - Fedora 11 2.6.29 branch is on tag private-fedora-11-2_6_29_6. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- References: [ 1 ] Bug #521574 - X Failed to Start with kernel-PAE-2.6.30.5-43.fc11.i686 during Boot https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521574 [ 2 ] Bug #522269 - [PATCH] Mistake while converting hostap driver to net_device_ops causes hostapd to fail https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522269 [ 3 ] Bug #523836 - loud crack when starting sound https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523836 [ 4 ] Bug #509383 - mkfs.ext2 much slower with virtio-backed disks than with IDE-backed disks (NOT sparseness issue) https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=509383 [ 5 ] Bug #523173 - Setting lower samba security for CIFS does not work anymore https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=523173 [ 6 ] Bug #522685 - cpuspeed - possible circular locking dependency detected https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=522685 [ 7 ] Bug #521703 - kernel panic: powerpc coherency mismatch: 2.6.30.5-43 setup-common.c:653 https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=521703 [ 8 ] Bug #520517 - 2.6.30.5-43.fc11.x86_64 fails to boot on CentOS 5.2 host machine https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=520517 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This update can be installed with the "yum" update program. 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