Marcelo Tosatti [interview] released 2.4.28-pre4 with few changes since -pre3 a month ago [story], "it contains a number of driver updates (pcnet, e1000, gdth, prism54), a network update from David, few more gcc3.4 warning fixes." He noted that no more new features are planned for the 2.4 stable kernel, "from now on [I] can change only what is necessary and let the 2.4 tree [rest] in peace :)"

From: Marcelo Tosatti [email blocked]
To:  linux-kernel
Subject: Linux 2.4.28-pre4
Date: 	Fri, 8 Oct 2004 08:21:35 -0300


Hi,

Here goes 2.4.28-pre4...

It contains a number of driver updates (pcnet, e1000, gdth, prism54),
a network update from David, few more gcc3.4 warning fixes.

I'm happy that the number of updates is small, -pre3
has been released more than one month ago.

>From now on can now change only what is necessary and let 
the 2.4 tree in peace :)


Summary of changes from v2.4.28-pre3 to v2.4.28-pre4
============================================

<ajgrothe:yahoo.com>:
  o [CRYPTO]: Whirlpool algorithm updates
  o [CRYPTO]: Add missing tcrypt part of whirlpool updates

<ananth:broadcom.com>:
  o [libata sata_svw] race condition fix, new device support

<joshk:triplehelix.org>:
  o radeonfb: Fix module unload and red/blue typo
  o hotplug: Don't build cpqphp_proc.o if !PROC_FS

<lesanti:sinectis.com.ar>:
  o fix dcache nr_dentry race

<martin.wilck:fujitsu-siemens.com>:
  o [TG3]: Fix pause handling, we had duplicate flags for the same thing

<michael.waychison:sun.com>:
  o [TG3]: Fix thinko in 5704 fibre hw autoneg code

<peter:pantasys.com>:
  o [IPCONFIG]: Verify DHCPACK packets
  o [IPV4]: Fix DHCPACK checking in ipconfig.c

<tkooda-patch-kernel:devsec.org>:
  o [CRYPTO]: xtea_encrypt() should use XTEA_DELTA instead of TEA_DELTA

<vda:port.imtp.ilyichevsk.odessa.ua>:
  o trivial patch for 2.4: always inline __constant_*

Achim Leubner:
  o gdth update

David S. Miller:
  o [NET]: Kill SCM_CONNECT, never used and unreferenced
  o [TCP]: Just silently ignore ICMP Source Quench messages

  o [TG3]: Recognize all onboard Sun variants, not just 5704
  o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
  o [CRYPTO]: Zero out tfm before freeing in crypto_free_tfm()
  o [SPARC64]: Do not log streaming byte hole errors
  o [PKT_SCHED]: sch_netem.c needs linux/init.h
  o [SPARC64]: Disable SBH interrupt properly

David Woodhouse:
  o [NET]: In compat syscall handling, check socket option types correctly

Don Fry:
  o pcnet32: discard oversize rx packets
  o pcnet32: recover after rx hang
  o pcnet32: cleanup IRQ limitation
  o pcnet32: Add HomePNA parameter for 79C978
  o pcnet32: correctly program bcr32

Doug Ledford:
  o RAID1 error handling locking fix

Ganesh Venkatesan:
  o e1000 - ethtool support cleanup
  o e1000 - Enable TSO
  o e1000 - Replace kmalloc with vmalloc for data structures not shared with h/w
  o e1000 - TSO context descriptor setup fixes (in preparation for IPv6 TSO)
  o e1000 - Fix to prevent infinite loop trying to re-establish link while actively communicating
  o e1000 - Condition that determines when to quit polling mode includes work done in Tx path
  o e1000 - Shutdown PHY while bringing the interface down (if WoL not enabled)
  o e1000 - add likely/unlikely to assist branch prediction, other cleanups
  o e1000 - more DPRINTK messages
  o e1000 - suspend/resume fix from [email blocked]
  o e1000 - white space corrections
  o e1000 - remove support for advanced TCO features
  o e1000 - Fix MODULE_PARM, module_param and module_param_array usage
  o e1000 - Fix VLAN filter setup errors (while running on PPC)
  o e1000 - Polarity reversal workaround for 10F/10H links
  o e1000 - white space corrections, other cleanups
  o e1000 update - reset default ITR value to 8000

Geert Uytterhoeven:
  o m68k MM off-by-one
  o Atari ST-RAM setup
  o Amiga frame buffer: kill obsolete DMI Resolver code
  o fbdev monochrome lines

Herbert Xu:
  o Backport Via IRQ mask fix

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
  o [IPV6] Fix routing header handling
  o [IPV6] Fix skb allocation size for RST and ACK
  o [IPV6]: Missing ip_rt_put() in SIT error path

Jack Hammer:
  o broken ips update

Jean Delvare:
  o Update Documentation/i2c/writing-clients

Jeff Garzik:
  o [TG3]: Kill all on-chip send BD support code
  o linux/compiler.h: dummy __iomem macro (an sparse annotation)
  o [libata] resync with 2.6.x
  o [libata] remove distinction between MMIO/PIO helper functions
  o [libata] consolidate legacy/native mode init code into helpers
  o [libata] minor comment updates, preparing for iomap merge

Jens Axboe:
  o irq safe gendisk_lock

Linus Torvalds:
  o libata: initial PCI memory annotations

Marcelo Tosatti:
  o Cset exclude: [email blocked]|ChangeSet|20040928105422|00490
  o Mike Miller: cciss typo fix
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4

Margit Schubert-While:
  o prism54 Code cleanup
  o prism54 remove module params
  o prism54 add WE17 support
  o prism54 initial WPA support
  o prism54 fix wpa_supplicant frequency parsing
  o prism54 remove TRACE
  o prism54 Bug in timeout scheduling
  o prism54 print firmware version
  o prism54 bug initialization/mgt_commit

Maximilian Attems:
  o menuconfig fix crash due to infinite recursion

Mikael Pettersson:
  o 53c700 scsi driver gcc-3.4 fixes
  o pcmcia mem_op.h gcc-3.4 fixes
  o ATM drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
  o IBM PCI hotplug controller driver gcc-3.4 fixes
  o ISDN drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
  o MTD drivers gcc-3.4 fixes
  o RIVA driver gcc-3.4 fix
  o E100 driver gcc-3.4 fixes
  o PPC32 PReP residual data gcc-3.4 fix
  o matrox framebuffer driver gcc-3.4 fix

Pete Zaitcev:
  o USB drivers gcc-3.4 fixes

Stephen Hemminger:
  o [TCP]: Store congestion algorithm per socket
  o [TCP]: Add vegas style bandwidth info to 2.4.x tcp diag
  o [TCP]: Backport 2.6.x cleanup of westwood code

Thomas Graf:
  o [PKT_SCHED]: Fix slab corruption in cbq_destroy
  o [PKT_SCHED] Report qdisc parent to userspace

Wensong Zhang:
  o [IPVS] add the MAINTAINERS entry

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