Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.development
Subject: Kernel change summary 1.1.24 -> 1.1.25

Put bootable kernel into /boot instead of /.
Added support for Sound FX as host for Sony CD-ROM.
Apparently, there is a bug in the floppy FIFO that requires you to
	force the FIFO to accept a byte even though it insists it
	isn't ready.
Even though the dates are old, these changes are apparently new to 1.1.25:
	October 1993 Bernd Huebner and Ruediger Helsch, Unifix Software GmbH,
	Braunschweig, Germany: Total rework to speed up data read operation.
	Also enabled definition of irq and address from bootstrap, using the
	environment. linux/init/main.c must be patched to export the env.
	November 93 added code for FX001 S,D (single & double speed).
	February 94 added code for broken M 5/6 series of 16-bit single speed.
ramdisk load code moved into its own subroutine, so that we can
	gram(sic) the floppy IRQ/DMA.
3c505 driver changes: renamed to elplus, hard reset needed on a warm
	reset from DOS after running some drivers, autodetect/autoirq
	added
HP LANcard+ drivers added to autoprobe list.
ac32000 driver renamed to ac3200.
Added Schneider & Koch G16 Ethernet driver.
SLIP and CSLIP fixes for memory leaks.
znote.c renamed to znet.c

SCSI change notes from Eric Youngdale
* sd.c, sr.c: Use new check_media_change and revalidate
	file_operations fields.
* st.c, st.h: Add changes from Kai Makisara, dated Jun 22.
* hosts.h: Change SG_ALL back to 0xff.  Apparently soft error in
	/dev/brain resulted in having this bumped up.  Change first
	parameter in bios_param function to be Disk * instead of index
	into rscsi_disks.
* sd_ioctl.c: Pass pointer to rscsi_disks element instead of index to
	array.
* sd.h: Add struct name "scsi_disk" to typedef for Scsi_Disk.
* scsi.c: Remove redundant Maxtor XT8760S from blacklist.  In
	scsi_reset, add printk when DEBUG defined.
* All low level drivers: Modify definitions of bios_param in
	appropriate way.

When flushing filesystem buffers, reset b_req also.
Finish adding media_change calls.
Allow locking on non-regular files.
If they were trying to unlock, and it worked, don't return an error.
An NFS xid mismatch no longer causes the request to be trashed.
When a socket dies, set the dead flag.
When returning an ICMP error, return the IP address corresponding to
	the interface.
Respond to broadcast ICMP_ECHO (ping) requests.