Hello LUGies,
Thought of sharing this interesting mail with you all. Here is Linus
Torvalds, informing the kernel update on the sidelines of 'Talk like a
pirate day'. Hope most of you would have read this one, but I got this
one the LKML and thought of sharing with you all :)
---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Sep 20, 2006 10:03 AM
Subject: Arrr! Linux 2.6.18
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Ahoy!
She's good to go, hoist anchor!
Here's some real booty for all you land-lubbers.
There's not too many changes, with t'bulk of the patch bein' defconfig
updates, but the shortlog at the aft of this here email describes the
details if you care, you scurvy dogs.
Header cleanups, various one-liners, and random other fixes.
Linus "but you can call me Cap'n"
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Adrian Bunk:
Ahoy! Make fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:jffs2_obsolete_node_frag() static
fs/jffs2/xattr.c: maroon dead code
Al "Bilge rat" Viro:
[IPV4] fib_trie: missin' ntohl() when callin' fib_semantic_match()
Alexey Dobriyan:
headers_check: improve #include regexp
headers_check: clarify error message
Alexey Korolev:
[MTD] Fixes of performance and stability issues in CFI driver. Arrr!
Cap'n Andrew Morton:
Blimey! hvc_console suspend fix
Andy Walker:
[SPARC]: Fix mutimous regression in sys_getdomainname()
Arnaud Patard:
IPMI: Fix oops on ipmi_msghandler removal for non ipmi systems. Gar!
Artem B. Bityutskiy:
[MTD] NAND: keelhaul marooned URL in Kconfig
Aubrey Lee:
[MTD] DEVICES: Fill more device IDs in t'structure of m25p80
Auke Kok:
e1000: fix bilge-sucking TX timout hang regression for 82542rev3
Ben Dooks:
[ARM] 3784/1: S3C2413: keelhaul config for MACH_S3C2413/MACH_SMDK2413
[ARM] 3785/1: S3C2412: Fix idle code as default uses wrong clocks
[ARM] 3793/1: S3C2412: fix barnacles in wrong serial info struct
[ARM] 3794/1: S3C24XX: do not defined set_irq_wake when no CONFIG_PM
Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
[POWERPC] Fix G5 DART (IOMMU) race causin' occasional data corruption
Benjamin LaHaise:
i386/x86-64: Add core 2 to oprofile
Chas Williams:
[ATM]: [he] when transmit fails, unmap t'dma regions right smartly
[ATM]: [he] don't hold t'device lock when upcalling
Chuck Ebbert:
Kconfig: move CONFIG_EMBEDDED options to submenu. Gar!
Corey Minyard:
IPMI: keelhaul handlin' of OEM flags
Dale Farnsworth:
mv643xx_eth: Unmap DMA buffers in receive path
Dan Williams:
[ARM] 3780/1: Fix iop321 cpuid
Dave Kleikamp:
[Shiver me timbers] EXT2: Remove superblock lock contention in
ext2_statfs
David S. Miller:
[OPENPROMIO]: Handle current_node bein' NULL correctly. Arrr!
David Woodhouse:
[MTD NAND] Fix lookup error in nand_get_flash_type()
[POWERPC] Implement PowerPC futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(). Arrr!
headers_check: reduce user-visible noise in <linux/nfs_fs.h>
headers_check: remove <asm/timex.h> from user export
headers_check: move inclusion of <linux/linkage.h> in
<asm-i386/signal.h>
headers_check: move kernel-only #includes within <asm-i386/elf.h>
headers_check: don't expose PFN stuff to userspace in
<asm-i386/setup.h>
headers_check: keelhaul userspace build of asm-mips/page.h
Fix scurvy 'make headers_check' on biarch architectures
Fix 'make headers_check' on s390
Fix 'make headers_check' on ia64
Fix 'make headers_check' on i386
Fix 'make headers_check' on x86_64
Fix 'make headers_check' for Alpha
headers_check: use a different default directory
Add headers_check' target to output of 'make help'
Davy Jones:
Didn't do anything, the scurvy lad. Ahoy!
Eli Cohen:
IPoIB: Retry failed send-only multicast group joins. Gar!
Frank Pavlic:
s390: minor s390 network driver fixes
s390: netiucv driver fixes
s390: Makefile cleanup
s390: qeth driver fixes [1/6]
s390: qeth driver fixes [2/6]
s390: qeth driver fixes [3/6]
s390: qeth driver fixes [4/6]
s390: qeth driver fixes [5/6]
s390: qeth driver fixes [6/6]
Geert Uytterhoeven:
Well blow me down, if he didn't fix 'make headers_check' on ia64
Greg KH:
We can not allow anonymous contributions to t'kernel
Haavard Skinnemoen:
MTD: Convert Atmel PRI information to AMD format
MTD: Add lock/unlock operations for Atmel AT49BV6416
Havasi Ferenc:
[JFFS2][SUMMARY] Fix a bilge-suckin' summary collectin' bug. Arrr!
Herbert Xu:
[NET]: Drop tx lock in dev_watchdog_up
H?vard Skinnemoen:
MTD: Fix bug in fixup_convert_atmel_pri
Imre Deak:
genirq: Fix the typo in IRQ resend smartly, cabin boy!
Ingo Molnar:
lockdep: double the number of stack-trace entries
genirq core: keelhaul handle_level_irq()
Ishai Rabinovitz:
IB/srp: Don't schedule reconnect from srp
James Morris:
[NETFILTER]: Add secmark headers to header-y
Jeremy Fitzhardinge:
x86: reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen
Jon Loeliger:
[POWERPC] Add new, missin' argument to of_irq_map_raw() for 86xx.
Arrr!
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek:
[MTD] Use SEEK_{SET,CUR,END} instead of hardcoded values in
mtdchar lseek()
Josh Triplett:
Add preprocessed files (*.i) to .gitignore
Add mixed source and assembly listings (*.lst) to .gitignore
Add symbol type files (*.symtypes) to .gitignore
Kenneth Lee:
bug fix for bilge-suckin' in kernel/kmod.c
Kirill Korotaev:
[NEIGH]: neigh_table_clear() doesn't free stats
Linus "Cap'n" Torvalds:
x86: save/restore eflags in context switch
Avast! Belay those mmiocfg heuristics and blacklist changes
Linux v2.6.18. Arrr!
Matthew Wilcox:
headers_check: Clean up asm-parisc/page.h for user headers
Michael De Backer:
alim15x3.c: M5229 (rev c8) support for DMA cd-writer
Michael S. Tsirkin:
RDMA/cma: Increase t'IB CM retry count in CMA
Mike Miller:
cciss: version update, new hw
Mohan Kumar M:
[POWERPC] Fix interrupt clearin' in kdump shutdown sequence
NeilBrown:
knfsd: Have ext2 reject file handles with bad inode numbers early
knfsd: Make ext3 reject filehandles referrin' to invalid inode number
Olaf Hering:
[POWERPC] update prep_defconfig
Oleg Nesterov:
rcu_do_batch: make ->qlen decrement irq safe
Patrick McHardy:
[PACKET]: Don't truncate non-linear skbs with mmaped IO
[NETFILTER]: xt_quota: add missin' module aliases
Paul "Peg leg" Mackerras:
[POWERPC] Update defconfigs
[POWERPC] Fix MMIO ops to provide expected barrier behaviour
Ralph Siemsen:
[ARM] 3815/1: headers_install support for ARM
Remi Denis-Courmont:
[IPV6]: Accept -1 for IPV6_TCLASS
Richard Purdie:
MTD: [NAND] Fix t'sharpsl driver after breakage from a core
conversion
Roland Dreier:
[ATM]: linux-atm-general mailin' list is subscribers only
Rolf Eike Beer:
remove #error on !PCI from pmc551.c
Ross Biro:
Add a missin' space that prevents buildin' modules that require
host programs
Sachin P. Sant:
[POWERPC] kdump: Support kernels havin' 64k page size. Arrr!
Simon Horman:
[IPVS]: Document t'ports option to ip_vs_ftp in kernel-parameters.txt
[IPVS]: auto-help for ip_vs_ftp
[IPVS]: Make sure ip_vs_ftp ports are valid
[IPVS]: remove the debug option go ip_vs_ftp
Stefan Richter:
SCSI: lockdep annotation in scsi_send_eh_cmnd
Stephen Hemminger:
[TCP]: Turn ABC off. Arrr!
[BRIDGE]: random extra bytes on STP TCN packet
[NET]: Mark frame diverter for future removal. Arrr!
Suparna Bhattacharya:
ext3 sequential read regression fix
Takashi YOSHI:
MTD: Add Macronix MX29F040 to JEDEC
Takashi YOSHII:
[MTD] Maps: Add dependency on alternate probe methods to physmap
Tejun Heo:
libata: ignore CFA signature while sanity-checkin' an ATAPI device
Trond Myklebust:
NFS: Fix Oopsable condition in nfs_readpage_sync()
NFSv4: Fix incorrect semaphore release in _nfs4_do_open()
NFS: Fix nfs_page use after free issues in fs/nfs/write.c
Ulrich Kunitz:
zd1211rw: Fix of signal strength and quality measurement
Ville Herva:
block2mtd.c: Make kernel boot command line arguments work (try 4)
Vitaly Wool:
[MTD] NAND: OOB buffer offset fixups
[ARM] 3786/1: pnx4008: update defconfig
MTD NAND: OOB buffer offset fixups
Wong Hoi Sing Edison:
[TCP] tcp-lp: bug fix for oops in 2.6.18-rc6
[TCP] tcp-lp: update information to MAINTAINERS
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki:
[IPV6]: Fix tclass settin' for raw sockets.
[ATM] CLIP: Do not refer freed skbuff in clip_mkip(). Arrr!
Zoltan Sogor:
JFFS2: SUMMARY: keelhaul a summary collectin' bug
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With Regards
Parthan.S.R.
Research/Project Engineer, NRCFOSS
A Proud Ubuntero and Linuxian
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