Changes from 1.2.6 to 1.2.7
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-1.2.7.gz
- These are from Linus:
- SCSI is an acronym; therefore it's all-caps, not just capitalized.
- Potential lockup problem in the buffer cache fix (thanks to Thomas
Zerucha for a very good report on it).
- Varius speling fikses (but he's got more coming :)
- __asm__ fix in kernel/i386/signal.c: newer gcc snapshots's reportedly
did some optimizing of the old one, and as the constraints
weren't quite right..
- IDE-CD bugfix -- work around a problem with reading the TOC in LBA mode
on some drives, notably Creative Labs CD220E, Acer CD525E and Aztech.
- TTY line discipline race condition fix, and a serial hangup fix.
- Paul Gortmaker fixed the ne2000 lockups for good (knock wood).
- *_ENDIAN compilation problem fixed.