Changes from 1.1.83 to 1.1.84

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 patch84.gz

• Werner Zimmermann added to CREDITS.
• More alpha memory mapper changes.
• Kernel paging code cleaned up with the use of some small inline functions. Maybe some bugs were fixed also -- too hard to tell.
• New documentation for floppy driver (.../drivers/block/README.fd).
• IDE documentation updated (same directory).
• Aztec CDROM driver updated from version 0.72 to 0.8.
• IDE driver updated from 3.8 to 3.10.
  • don't use LBA if lba_capacity looks funny
  • correct the drive capacity calculations
  • fix probing for old Seagates without HD_ALTSTATUS
  • fix byte-ordering for some NEC cdrom drives
  • disable multiple mode by default; was causing trouble
• Changed net_init.c to use an existing "ethN" entry if it exists, rather than generating a new one. This (finally!) allow the LANCE driver to accept the LILO parameters, and avoid a problems with naming two ethercards "eth0".
• Added a DEC 21040 Tulip entry to drivers/net/Makefile.
• Fixed various error recovery bus in the AT1700 driver.
• Modified the SMC Ultra driver to recognize the new EtherEZ.
• Modified the LANCE driver to work with 79c974 and PCI BIOS errata. It now sets the PCI bus master enable bit itself, and avoids clearing the InitDone status bit.
• Added a reset timer to the ATP pocket adapter driver.
• Digital ewrk3 driver updated to version 0.32. Multicast fixed.
• aha152x fixed to use request_region. Save flags and restore them, so we don't accidentally turn on interrupts when they should be off.
• EATA driver cleaned up.
• in2000 driver now has module and biosparam support for larger SCSI hard drives (untested).
• QLogic SCSI support improved.
• mem_mmap code completely rewritten.
• More PCI vendor and device ID's added.
• strcpy, as found in lib/string.c, didn't do a count of zero correctly.
• Extraneous IP firewalling check in the IP code.

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