Changes from 1.3.14 to 1.3.15
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-1.3.15.gz
These are straight from Linus's description.
Only some of these are new to 1.3.15:
- ppp bugfix that fixes problems when hangup occurs at bad moments
- block devices >= 4GB could get spurious read errors under some
circumstances
- hpfs memory leak
- too long NFS server timeouts
- /proc/ uid's updated for some processes that use them
- lots of "const char *" stuff: eventually linux might be compiled
cleanly even when adding "-Wcast-qual" and "-Wwrite-strings".
Not yet, though.
- some timer fixes ("alarm(-1)" works reasonably, itimers check for
overflow)
- cdu31a cdrom driver update (_now_ it should work)
- hp100 net driver update
- aic7xxx SCSI driver update (aha2940)
- various minor networking updates (RFC1122 checks etc)