Changes from 1.1.14 to 1.1.15

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 patch15.gz

• Add Buslogic SCSI configuration to config.in
• Add Always IN2000 line to config.in (but commented out).
• Add SCSI debugging line to config.in (but commented out).
• Add CONFIG_SCSI_IN2000 to scsi Makefile
• Add more result codes to SCSI abort and reset functions.
• Changes to aha1542 scsi driver:
  • reset interrupts in case another card's probe triggered one.
  • If that happens, print a message and restart the card.
  • If the card needs restarting because we reset it, do it.
• When SCSI drivers are set up, their irq is initialized to zero.
• Buslogic needs to use clustering, so it's added as a flag.
• Changed timeout code in scsi.c
• No longer panics if SCSI bus times out.
• Avoid races between queuing commands, and handling the end of command intrpt.
• Move code that maps signals to a different place.
• Ext fs didn't implement euids properly in rmdir code.
• Ext2 fs failed to extend a file if zero bytes were written past the end of the file.
• Ext2 fs didn't implement euids properly in rmdir code.
• Ext2 fs didn't work with block sizes other than 1024.
• Minix fs failed to extend a file if zero bytes were written past the end of the file.
• Minix fs now protects the file size updating when multiple processes are writing.
• Minix fs didn't implement euids properly in rmdir code.
• Xia fs didn't implement euids properly in rmdir code.
• IBCS lcall 7,xxx handler is a work in progress.
• A few in-line assembly string routines were optimized.
• IP forwarding only forwarded broadcast packets (check was backward).

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