Changes from 1.1.15 to 1.1.16

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 patch16.gz

• sbpcd drive structure renamed
• Fixed a few problems in QIC02 driver mostly related to debugging output.
• tty driver changes:
  • properly wakes up processes when it gets a newline.
  • no need to wake anyone else up if we've recieved canonical data.
  • Drop RTS when we drop DTR (and don't generate interrupts either).
  • if line discipline open returns positive value, return it.
  • panic only if it was negative.
• 3c501 and plip added to modular code.
• added Makefile entries for DE650 and 3c589 (PCMCIA Ethernet)
• Change PPP memory allocation to GFP_ATOMIC.
• Added /proc/net/snmp.
• The device driver now sets the type of the packet.
• If the packet was not sent to us, don't IP forward it, and don't accept it for our reception.
• Rebuild the TCP header when forwarding it.
• If you remove the IPX device, that will remove IPX routes via it.
• Added Hedrick's TCP changes to avoid taking back window allocations.
• Missed a test for SUBNETSARELOCAL (should be CONFIG_INET_SNARL)
• Scavenge memory for the kernel boot image uncompressor from the already-read compressed data
• Stripped out some unused code from the uncompressor.

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