rc4: - Load code did not set personality for binaries without an interpreter: This was breaking static apps on several archs (Tom Gall) rc3: - Fix reiserfs endianess problems (Chris Mason) - Fix PowerMac compilation problem (Pmac team) - Fix some eepro100 ID's which had problems in -ac merge (Jeff Garzik) - Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to not clash with ethtool.h - the clash caused the driver not work correctly (William Lee Irwin) - Add missing netif_carrier_{on,off} to eepro100 (Andrew Morton) - Fix netfilter race (Rusty Russell) - Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg (Alexey Kuznetsov) - Revert tulip changes which were apparently causing slowdowns (Jeff Garzik) - Fix ptrace behaviour (Linus Benedict Torvalds) rc2: - Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas gracefully (Manfred Spraul) - Fix SMP race on PID allocation (Erik A. Hendriks) - Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme (Alexander Viro) - Add missing checks to shmem_file_write (Alan Cox) rc1: - PPC MPC8260 update (Tom Rini) - eepro100 fixes (Jeff Garzik) - Make natsemi hardware workaround a config option (Jeff Garzik) - Add serial board PCI ID (Jeff Garzik) - Add support for another tulip clone (Jeff Garzik) - Fix typo in winbond driver (Jeff Garzik) - Move initialization of tridentfb before the generic drivers (Geert Uytterhoeven) - Reiserfs bugfixes (Oleg Drokin) - More __devexit_p assorted fixes (Andrew Morton) - Merge some -ac bugfixes (Alan Cox) pre9: - Cris update (Bjorn Wesen) - SPARC update (David S. Miller) - Remove duplicate CONFIG_SUNLANCE entry in Config.in (David S. Miller) - Change Netfilter maintainer (David S. Miller) - More SunGEM bugfixes (David S. Miller) - Update md5sums in ISDN's md5sums.asc (Kai Germaschewski) - 3ware driver update (Adam Radford) - Fix cosa compile problem (Adrian Bunk) - Change VIA "disabling write queue" message (Oliver Feiler) - Remove buggy Elan-specific handling code (Robert Schwebel) - Reiserfs bugfixes (Oleg Drokin) - Fix ppp memory leak (Andrew Morton) - Really add devfs fix for removable devices: its on pre8 changelog but not on pre8 patch (me) - Add framebuffer support for trident graphics card (James Simmons) - SCSI tape driver bugfixes (Kai Makisara) - Add support to Ovislink card on 8139too driver (Jeff Garzik) - Add SIOCxMIIxxxx ioctls for better binary compatibility on au1000_eth driver (Jeff Garzik) - Fix initialization of phy on epic100 driver (Jeff Garzik) - Add MODULE_* info to mii.c (Jeff Garzik) - Add new PCI ID to sundance driver (Jeff Garzik) - Merge some -ac3 patches (Alan Cox) - Unify simple_strtol symbol export (Russell King) - Add amount of cached memory to sysreq-m output (Martin Knoblauch) - Do not use SCSI device type to change IO clustering (Jens Axboe) - IRC conntrack update (Harald Welte) - sonypi driver update (Stelian Pop) - Fix one of the PPP deadlocks (Manfred Spraul) pre8: - Add missing netfilter files in pre7 (David S. Miller) - SunGEM driver update (David S. Miller) - Kill get_fast_time (David S. Miller) - Update APIC LVTERR fix to work correctly on old 486/586 APICs (Mikael Pettersson) - Check the return code of copy_{from,to}_user on serial code (Rasmus Andersen) - Mark 2.5 extended attributes system calls as reserved to avoid potential conflicts (Nathan Scott) - Change Christoph Hellwig's email address (Christoph Hellwig) - Make BLKGETSIZE64 return size in bytes not sectors (Eric Sandeen) - Coda dentry revalidation fix (Jan Harkes) - hisax_fcpcipnp driver update (Kai Germaschewski) - i810 sound driver update (Doug Ledford) - Early personality setting in binfmt_elf (Christoph Hellwig) - Fix rename bug in reiserfs (Oleg Drokin) - SCSI documentation update (Douglas Gilbert) - Fix silly typo in megaraid driver (Arjan Van de Ven) - PPC update (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - USB bug fixes (Greg KH) - Fix devfs problems with removable devices (Richard Gooch) - Merge -ac1 fixes (Alan Cox) - VXFS update (Christoph Hellwig) - Add Compaq FC array to the LUN whitelist (Arjan Van de Ven) pre7: - Make ext2/minix/sysvfs actually operate synchronously on directories when using the sync mount option (Andrew Morton) - AFFS update (Roman Zippel) - Fix 3dfx fb crash with high pixelclock (Jurriaan on Alpha) - PATH_MAX POSIX compliance (Rusty Russell) - Really apply AMD Elan patch (me) - Don't drop IP packets with less than 8 bytes of payload (David S. Miller) - Netfilter update (Netfilter team) - Backport 2.5 sb_bread() changes (Alexander Viro) - Fix AF_UNIX fd leak (David S. Miller) - Add Audigy Gameport PCI ID (Daniel Bertrand) - Sync with ia64 arch independant parts (Keith Owens) - APM fixes (Stephen Rothwell) - fs/super.c cleanups (Alexander Viro) pre6: - Removed patch in icmp code: its not needed and causes problems (me) pre5: - Include missing radeonfb defines (Erik Andersen) - Fix fs/buffer.c thinko introduced in pre4 (Andrew Morton) - USB bugfixes (Greg KH) - Make fat work correctly with gcc-3.0.x (Tom Rini) - Avoid overusage of the vmalloc area by NTFS (Anton Altaparmakov) - atyfb: Decrease clock rate for 3d RAGE XL (David S. Miller) - Sungem driver bugfixes (David S. Miller) - More networking updates (David S. Miller) - More SPARC updates (David S. Miller) - devfs update (Richard Gooch) - Reiserfs expanding truncate fix (Chris Mason) - ext3 update (Andrew Morton/Stephen Tweedie) - Add support to WDIOC_SETTIMEOUT on several watchdog drivers (Joel Becker) - dl2k driver update (Jeff Garzik) - Orinoco driver update (David Gibson) - Radeonfb driver update (Ani Joshi) - Avoid free_swap_and_cache() from leaving freeable pages on the cache (Hugh Dickins) - Add workarounds for AMD Elan processors (Robert Schwebel) - Random pmac driver bugfixing (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - emu10k1 driver update (Rui Sousa) pre4: - Networking updates (David S. Miller) - clgenfb update (Jeff Garzik) - 8139cp: make it faster (Jeff Garzik) - 8139too: fix bugs, add experimental RX reset (Jeff Garzik) - Add MII ethtool interface and change several drivers to support that (Jeff Garzik) - Fix ramdisk corruption problems (Andrea Arcangeli) - Correct in-kernel MS_ASYNC behaviour on msync/fsync() (Andrew Morton) - Fix PLIP problems (Niels Jensen) - Fix problems triggered by the "fsx test" on smbfs (Urban Widmark) - Turn on OOSTORE for IDT winchip (from -ac tree) - Fix iphase crash (from -ac tree) - Fix crash with two mxser cards (from -ac tree) - Fix tty write block bug (from -ac tree) - Add mono/stereo detect to gemtek pci radio (from -ac tree) - Fix sf16fmi crash on load (from -ac tree) - add CP1250 (windows eastern european) translation table (from -ac tree) - cs46xx driver update (from -ac tree) - Fix rare data loss case with RAID-1 (Ingo Molnar) - Add 2.5.x compatibility for the kdev_t changes (me) - SPARC updates (David S. Miller) pre3: - Cris arch merge (Bjorn Wesen) - Finish PPC merge (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - Add Dell PowerEdge 2400 to "use BIOS to reboot" blacklist (Arjan van de Ven) - Avoid potential oops at module unload with cyclades driver (Andrew Morton) - Gracefully handle SCSI initialization failures (Pete Zaitcev) - USB update (Greg KH) - Fix potential oops while ejecting ide cds (Zwane Mwaikambo) - Unify page freeing codepaths (Benjamin LaHaise) - Miata dma corruption workaround (Richard Henderson) - Fix vmalloc corruption problem on machines with virtual dcaches (Ralf Baechle) - Reiserfs fixes (Oleg Drokin) - DiskOnChip driver update (David Woodhouse) - Do not inherit page locking rules across fork/exec (Dave Anderson) - Add DRM 4.0 for XFree 4.0 users convenience (Christoph Hellwig) - Replace .text.lock with .subsection (Keith Owens) - IrDA bugfixes (Jean Tourrilhes) pre2: - APIC LVTERR fixes (Mikael Pettersson) - Fix ppdev ioctl oops and deadlock (Tim Waugh) - parport fixes (Tim Waugh) - orinoco wireless driver update (David Gibson) - Fix oopsable race in binfmt_elf.c (Alexander Viro) - Small sx16 driver bugfix (Heinz-Ado Arnolds) - sbp2 deadlock fix (Andrew Morton) - Fix JFFS2 write error handling (David Woodhouse) - Intermezzo update (Peter J. Braam) - Proper AGP support for Intel 830MP chipsets (Nicolas Aspert) - Alpha fixes (Jay Estabrook) - 53c700 SCSI driver update (James Bottomley) - Fix coredump mmap_sem deadlock on IA64 (David Mosberger) - 3ware driver update (Adam Radford) - Fix elevator insertion point on failed request merge (Jens Axboe) - Remove bogus rpciod_tcp_dispatcher definition (David Woodhouse) - Reiserfs fixes (Oleg Drokin) - de4x5 endianess fixes (Kip Walker) - ISDN CAPI cleanup (Kai Germaschewski) - Make refill_inactive() correctly account progress (me) pre1: - S390 merge (IBM) - SuperH merge (SuperH team) - PPC merge (Benjamin Herrenschmidt) - PCI DMA update (David S. Miller) - radeonfb update (Ani Joshi) - aty128fb update (Ani Joshi) - Add nVidia GeForce3 support to rivafb (Ani Joshi) - Add PM support to opl3sa2 (Zwane Mwaikambo) - Basic ethtool support for 3com, starfire and pcmcia net drivers (Jeff Garzik) - Add MII ethtool interface (Jeff Garzik) - starfire,sundance,dl2k,sis900,8139{too,cp}, natsemi driver updates (Jeff Garzik) - ufs/minix: mark inodes as bad in case of read failure (Christoph Hellwig) - ReiserFS fixes (Oleg Drokin) - sonypi update (Stelian Pop) - n_hdlc update (Paul Fulghum) - Fix compile error on aty_base.c (Tobias Ringstrom) - Document cpu_to_xxxx() on kernel-hacking doc (Rusty Russell) - USB update (Greg KH) - Fix sysctl console loglevel bug on IA64 (and possibly other archs) (Jesper Juhl) - Update Athlon/VIA PCI quirks (Calin A. Culianu) - blkmtd update (Simon Evans) - boot protocol update (makes the highest possible initrd address available to the bootloader) (H. Peter Anvin) - NFS fixes (Trond Myklebust)