Changes from 1.2.3 to 1.2.4

These changes are archived on ftp.crynwr.com:pub/kchanges and http://www.crynwr.com/kchanges. I cannot answer questions about Linux -- I merely summarize the kernel patches after reading them. I try to make them useful to everyone, but kernel hackers should take them with a grain of salt and read the patches themselves. The patch file is patch-1.2.4.gz

• Oops, the asm include directory should be called asm, not asm-i386.
• Trap zero-length dma transfers in the floppy driver.
• Change the code that reads a track with bad sectors in it.
• Trap hd_open calls with out-of-range device numbers.
• Unthrottle block devices before sleeping on them.
• Take out the DMA terminating address check from 8390-using drivers.
• Oops, mis-stated one of the SCSI tape sleep protections.
• In hpfs driver, code page info is better explained but still not used. Upcasing of filenames is simplified.
• mknod allowed for socket-type files also.
• Track the number of processes running for the scheduler.
• Add the number of processes running and the number of tasks to /proc/loadavg.
• Add a few more PCI device/vendor IDs.
• Return 32 instead of 8 bytes of header in an ICMP message.
• Only send ICMP_REDIRECT if src/dest are the same net.
• Fix an IPX bug or two.

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