Changes from 1.1.85 to 1.1.86

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 patch86.gz

• Hamish Macdonald added to CREDITS
• README updated.
• Dummy net driver support turned on by default in i386/config.in.
• DE425, DE434, DE435 support added to i386/config.in.
• Changes to MIPS port.
• Fix IDE driver mis-identification of old WD disks as cdroms
• Console now has ability to display control characters as visual glyphs.
• PPP bug fixed, in setting the new MRU.
• Z-Note Ethernet driver was calling the wrong kernel free().
• EATA-DMA debugging output improved.
• Unfortunately the Toshiba CD-ROM XM-3401TA doesn't understand the vendor specific mode select/sense commands which are used by the photo cd routines in sr.c.
• SCSI CD-ROM driver brought up to date, couple of minor bugs fixed.
• File open, pipe creation, and forking are subject to resource limits.
• Appletalk slots, ip_masquerade, and ipx_interface added to proc fs.
• Oops, umsdos fs would set the access time even on a read-only inode.
• Add IOCTL to umsdos fs to rename a file or directory (allows umssync to rename a mangled filename before syncing it back in the EMD).
• Limit the length of mangled names.
• More mangled name fixes.
• IGMP.h moved from .../net/inet to .../include/linux.
• Shared memory code cleaned up (possible NULL dereference removed).
• Don't let them set the file resource limit higher than the hard-compiled limit.
• Bug fixed in the swapper code.
• ARP: Only reply for the real device address or when it's in our proxy tables.
• Help with MTU discovery by replying with the MTU of the failed hop (or 0 if it didn't fail because of an MTU problem.)
• ICMP redirects in icmp_send() fixed.
• Lots of IPX improvements.
• IPX improvements improved the IEEE 802.2 code -- the length of a packet was three bytes too big.
• SNAP data link layer support added.
• Bring TCP code closer to the spec (mostly related to closings).

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