Changes from 1.3.38 to 1.3.39
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-1.3.39.gz
These are from Linus:
I just made YAKR (Yet Another Kernel Release), this time 1.3.39. This
kernel release tries mainly to fix some of the module problems by doing
further cleanups and removals of "dead" module code in most drivers.
I'm lazy myself and don't use modules (as most of you have probably
guessed by now ;-), but this time the changes have actually been made by
somebody who does use them. Thanks, Björn.
- smbfs _may_ work again. Fingers crossed (Mauro Condarelli).
- various minor alpha patches by David M-T
- mcd driver update (Andrew Kroll), making the "old-style" mcd driver
handle disk changes more gracefully.
- tty driver updates from Ted, including the 256-pty stuff. Old pty's
still work, but in order to get more than 64 pty's you have to delete
the old ones and install new ones with the new major numbers.
- hangup fixes by Ted, and this _may_ break some badly coded getty's.
We'll see.
- updated random driver (now you can do "select()" on it etc to wait
for more random data, and it has a slightly stronger CRC for adding
in the entropy).
- a few sound driver fixes (by David M-T again, to make it work on the
alpha)
- fixed recvmsg for unix domain sockets, which could result in a hang
under some circumstances (me).
- fixed vsize reporting in /proc filesystem (me).
- the graphical "make xconfig" should work again, and look a lot better
too. Thanks to Eric and David.
Ok, that's it. Be excellent to each other,