Linux: 2.4.25-pre6 | KernelTrap

Marcelo Tosatti [interview] announced 2.4.25-pre6 quickly following 2.4.25-pre5 [story]. He explains:

"This release came out so quickly because -pre5 contains a deadly mistake in one of the fs patches. It [also] contains SPARC/x86-64 updates, networking and crypto updates, amongst others."

Read on for the complete changelog.

From: Marcelo Tosatti [email blocked]
To:  linux-kernel
Subject: Linux 2.4.25-pre6
Date: Fri, 16 Jan 2004 12:11:58 -0200 (BRST)


Hi,

Here goes -pre6.

This release came out so quickly because -pre5 contains a deadly mistake
in one of the fs patches.

It contains SPARC/x86-64 updates, networking and crypto updates, amongst
others.

Summary of changes from v2.4.25-pre5 to v2.4.25-pre6
============================================

<jmorris:redhat.com>:
  o [CRYPTO]: Clean up tcrypt module and allow it to be unloaded

<kartik_me:hotmail.com>:
  o [CRYPTO]: Add CAST6 (CAST-256) algorithm

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre6

<my:utfors.se>:
  o [CRYPTO]: Move ivsize from algorithm to tfm

Andi Kleen:
  o x86-64 update

Chas Williams:
  o [ATM]: br2684 incorrectly handles frames recvd with FCS (by Alex Zeffertt [email blocked])
  o [ATM]: [nicstar] convert to new style pci module (by "Jorge Boncompte [DTI2]" [email blocked])
  o [ATM]: better behavior for sendmsg/recvmsg during async closes
  o [ATM]: refcount atm sockets

David S. Miller:
  o [SPARC64]: In early bootup, BUG() if cannot find TLB entry for remapping
  o [SPARC64]: Disable PCI ROM address OBP sanity check for now
  o [IPV4]: Print correct source addr in invalid ICMP msgs, from Dennis Jorgensen

David Stevens:
  o [IPV4/IPV6]: In MLD, add new filter first, then delete old one

David Woodhouse:
  o Do not leave inodes with stale waitqueue on slab cache

Harald Welte:
  o [NETFILTER]: Add config help texts for IP_NF_ARP{TABLES,FILTER}

Jean Tourrilhes:
  o NSC '39x support
  o VIA IrDA driver

Kurt Garloff:
  o [NETFILTER]: Align nulldevname properly in ip_tables

Marcel Holtmann:
  o [Bluetooth] Use R2 for default value of pscan_rep_mode
  o [Bluetooth] Set disconnect timer for incoming ACL links
  o [Bluetooth] Start inquiry if cache is empty
  o [Bluetooth] Change maintainer role of the Bluetooth subsystem

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