A few hours before the new year, Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.20-rc3 Linux kernel, "in order to not get in trouble with MADR ("Mothers Against Drunk Releases") I decided to cut the 2.6.20-rc3 release early rather than wait for midnight, because it's bound to be new years _somewhere_ out there. So here's to a happy 2007 for everybody." In good humor, he noted that the new kernel would be available on all the kernel.org mirrors by the time everyone's New Years celebrations had concluded, "it's probably going to be up-to-date by the time the hangovers are mostly gone. At which point the first thing on any self-respecting geek's mind should obviously be: 'is there a new kernel release for me to try?'" Regarding the changes in the new release candidate, which include a data corruption fix [story], Linus summarized:
"The big thing at least for me personally is that nasty shared mmap corruption fix, but there's a number of other changes in here, many of them just documentation (and some media and network drivers). Shortlog and diffstat appended."
From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Happy New Year (and v2.6.20-rc3 released)
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2006 17:19:44 -0800 (PST)
In order to not get in trouble with MADR ("Mothers Against Drunk
Releases") I decided to cut the 2.6.20-rc3 release early rather than wait
for midnight, because it's bound to be new years _somewhere_ out there. So
here's to a happy 2007 for everybody.
The big thing at least for me personally is that nasty shared mmap
corruption fix, but there's a number of other changes in here, many of
them just documentation (and some media and network drivers). Shortlog and
diffstat appended..
The git trees have been updated, and the tar-tree and patches seem to have
finisged crawling out my poor DSL connection too.
As usual, mirroring might take a while, although the delay has not been
all that horrible lately, so it's probably going to be up-to-date by the
time the hangovers are mostly gone.
At which point the first thing on any self-respecting geek's mind should
obviously be: "is there a new kernel release for me to try?"
Right?
Linus
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Adrian Bunk (2):
V4L/DVB (4959): Usbvision: possible cleanups
V4L/DVB (4991): Cafe_ccic.c: fix NULL dereference
Akinobu Mita (5):
V4L/DVB (4994): Vivi: fix use after free in list_for_each()
V4L/DVB (4995): Vivi: fix kthread_run() error check
V4L/DVB (4996): Msp3400: fix kthread_run error check
V4L/DVB (4997): Bttv: delete duplicated ioremap()
module: fix mod_sysfs_setup() return value
Al Viro (1):
page_mkclean_one(): fix call to set_pte_at()
Alexey Dobriyan (2):
V4L/DVB (5012): Usbvision fix: It was using "&&" instead "&"
fuse: fix typo
Amit Choudhary (1):
V4L/DVB (4990): Cpia2/cpia2_usb.c: fix error-path leak
Amit S. Kale (8):
NetXen: Adding new device ids.
NetXen: driver reload fix for newer firmware.
NetXen: Using correct CHECKSUM flag.
NetXen: Multiple adapter fix.
NetXen: Link status message correction for quad port cards.
NetXen: work queue fixes.
NetXen: Fix for PPC machines.
NetXen: Reducing ring sizes for IOMMU issue.
Andreas Schwab (1):
Fix compilation of via-pmu-backlight
Andrew Morton (2):
cpuset procfs warning fix
lockdep: printk warning fix
Ang Way Chuang (1):
V4L/DVB (4972): Dvb-core: fix bug in CRC-32 checking on 64-bit systems
Arnaud Patard (Rtp (1):
spi_s3c24xx_gpio: use right header
Avi Kivity (6):
KVM: Use boot_cpu_data instead of current_cpu_data
KVM: Simplify is_long_mode()
KVM: Implement a few system configuration msrs
KVM: Move common msr handling to arch independent code
KVM: More msr misery
KVM: Fix oops on oom
Ayaz Abdulla (1):
forcedeth: modified comment header
Brice Goglin (5):
myri10ge: match number of save_state and restore
myri10ge: move request_irq to myri10ge_open
myri10ge: make msi configurable at runtime through sysfs
myri10ge: no need to save MSI and PCIe state in the driver
myri10ge: handle failures in suspend and resume
Bruce Allan (2):
e1000: fix to set the new max frame size before resetting the adapter
e1000: Fix PBA allocation calculations
David Brownell (4):
V4L/DVB (5014): Allyesconfig build fixes on some non x86 arch
SPI: define null tx_buf to mean "shift out zeroes"
m25p80 build fixes (with MTD debug)
SPI/MTD: mtd_dataflash oops prevention
David S. Miller (5):
[SPARC64]: Fix "mem=xxx" handling.
[SPARC64]: Fix of_iounmap() region release.
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig.
[SPARC64]: Handle ISA devices with no 'regs' property.
[NET]: Add memory barrrier to netif_poll_enable()
David Woodhouse (1):
[NET]: Don't export linux/random.h outside __KERNEL__.
Dimitri Gorokhovik (2):
ramfs breaks without CONFIG_BLOCK
MM: SLOB is broken by recent cleanup of slab.h
Dwaine Garden (1):
V4L/DVB (4979): Fixes compilation when CONFIG_V4L1_COMPAT is not selected
Eric Moore (1):
MAINTAINERS: email addr change for Eric Moore
Francois Romieu (3):
netpoll: drivers must not enable IRQ unconditionally in their NAPI handler
r8169: use the broken_parity_status field in pci_dev
r8169: extraneous Cmd{Tx/Rx}Enb write
Hans Verkuil (6):
V4L/DVB (4967): Add missing tuner module option pal=60 for PAL-60 support.
V4L/DVB (4968): Add PAL-60 support for cx2584x.
V4L/DVB (4982): Fix broken audio mode handling for line-in in msp3400.
V4L/DVB (4983): Force temporal filter to 0 when scaling to prevent ghosting.
V4L/DVB (4984): LOG_STATUS should show the real temporal filter value.
V4L/DVB (4988): Cx2341x audio_properties is an u16, not u8
Herbert Xu (1):
e1000: Do not truncate TSO TCP header with 82544 workaround
Hynek Petrak (1):
PHY probe not working properly for ibm_emac (PPC4xx)
Ingo Molnar (4):
change WARN_ON back to "BUG: at ..."
rcu: rcutorture suspend fix
sched: fix cond_resched_softirq() offset
kvm: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation in atomic section in kvm_dev_ioctl_create_vcpu()
Jan Andersson (1):
sparc32: add offset in pci_map_sg()
Jean Delvare (1):
V4L/DVB (5010): Cx88: Fix leadtek_eeprom tagging
Jeff Garzik (5):
e1000: For sanity, reformat e1000_set_mac_type(), struct e1000_hw[_stats]
e1000: omit stats for broken counter in 82543
e1000: consolidate managability enabling/disabling
e1000: workaround for the ESB2 NIC RX unit issue
e1000: 3 new driver stats for managability testing
Jeff Kirsher (1):
e1000: fix ethtool reported bus type for older adapters
Jesse Brandeburg (7):
e1000: The user-supplied itr setting needs the lower 2 bits masked off
e1000: dynamic itr: take TSO and jumbo into account
e1000: Fix Wake-on-Lan with forced gigabit speed
e1000: disable TSO on the 82544 with slab debugging
e1000: narrow down the scope of the tipg timer tweak
e1000: Make the copybreak value a module parameter
e1000: No-delay link detection at interface up
Jiri Slaby (2):
Char: mxser, fix oops when removing opened
Char: isicom, eliminate spinlock recursion
Judith Lebzelter (1):
powerpc iseries link error in allmodconfig
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki (1):
fix oom killer kills current every time if there is memory-less-node take2
Kyungmin Park (2):
ARM: OMAP: fix GPMC compiler errors
ARM: OMAP: fix missing header on apollon board
Lennert Buytenhek (1):
Update CREDITS and MAINTAINERS entries for Lennert Buytenhek
Linus Torvalds (2):
VM: Fix nasty and subtle race in shared mmap'ed page writeback
Linux 2.6.20-rc3
Mario Rossi (2):
V4L/DVB (4955): Fix autosearch index
V4L/DVB (4956): [NOVA-T-USB2] Put remote-debugging in the right place
Mark Fasheh (4):
ocfs2: don't print error in ocfs2_permission()
ocfs2: Allow direct I/O read past end of file
ocfs2: ignore NULL vfsmnt in ocfs2_should_update_atime()
ocfs2: always unmap in ocfs2_data_convert_worker()
Martin Willi (1):
[XFRM]: Algorithm lookup using .compat name
Mauro Carvalho Chehab (3):
V4L/DVB (4960): Removal of unused code from usbvision-i2c.c
V4L/DVB (4980): Fixes bug 7267: PAL/60 is not working
V4L/DVB (5001): Add two required headers on kernel 2.6.20-rc1
Melissa Howland (1):
[S390] Change max. buffer size for monwriter device.
Michael Holzheu (1):
[S390] cio: fix stsch_reset.
Michael Krufky (1):
V4L/DVB (4973): Dvb-core: fix printk type warning
Michael S. Tsirkin (1):
IB/mthca: Fix FMR breakage caused by kmemdup() conversion
Mikael Pettersson (1):
fix mrproper incompleteness
Mike Frysinger (1):
respect srctree/objtree in Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
Nguyen Anh Quynh (1):
KVM: Rename some msrs
Oleg Nesterov (1):
restore ->pdeath_signal behaviour
Ralf Baechle (1):
V4L/DVB (4958): Fix namespace conflict between w9968cf.c on MIPS
Randy Dunlap (3):
via-velocity uses INET interfaces
pci/probe: fix macro that confuses kernel-doc
cciss: build with PROC_FS=n
Sebastien Dugué (1):
Fix IPMI watchdog set_param_str() using kstrdup
Sergei Shtylyov (2):
PIIX: remove check for broken MW DMA mode 0
PIIX/SLC90E66: PIO mode fallback fix
Shantanu Goel (1):
Buglet in vmscan.c
Soeren Sonnenburg (1):
make fn_keys work again on power/macbooks
Stefan Richter (2):
ieee1394: sbp2: pass REQUEST_SENSE through to the target
ieee1394: sbp2: fix bogus dma mapping
Stephan Berberig (1):
V4L/DVB (4992): Fix typo in saa7134-dvb.c
Stephen Hemminger (4):
netxen: remove private ioctl
sky2: dual port NAPI problem
sky2: power management/MSI workaround
sky2: phy power down needs PCI config write enabled
Thierry MERLE (1):
V4L/DVB (4970): Usbvision memory fixes
Thomas Meyer (1):
Add .gitignore file for relocs in arch/i386
Tilman Schmidt (1):
Update to Documentation/tty.txt on line disciplines
Ulrich Kunitz (3):
zd1211rw: Call ieee80211_rx in tasklet
ieee80211softmac: Fix errors related to the work_struct changes
ieee80211softmac: Fix mutex_lock at exit of ieee80211_softmac_get_genie
Yan Burman (1):
ep93xx: some minor cleanups to the ep93xx eth driver
Yoshimi Ichiyanagi (1):
KVM: Initialize kvm_arch_ops on unload
Zach Brown (1):
Fix lock inversion aio_kick_handler()
Zhen Wei (1):
ocfs2: export heartbeat thread pid via configfs
audetto@tiscali.it (1):
V4L/DVB (4964): VIDEO_PALETTE_YUYV and VIDEO_PALETTE_YUV422 are the same palette
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CREDITS | 7 +-
Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 4 +-
Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt | 4 +-
Documentation/tty.txt | 111 +++++++-
MAINTAINERS | 132 +++++++++-
Makefile | 4 +-
arch/arm/mach-omap2/board-apollon.c | 1 +
arch/arm/mach-omap2/gpmc.c | 21 +-
arch/i386/boot/compressed/.gitignore | 1 +
arch/i386/defconfig | 2 +-
arch/sparc/kernel/ioport.c | 5 +-
arch/sparc64/defconfig | 36 ++-
arch/sparc64/kernel/isa.c | 20 +-
arch/sparc64/kernel/of_device.c | 7 +-
arch/sparc64/mm/init.c | 147 ++++++++--
arch/x86_64/defconfig | 2 +-
drivers/block/cciss.c | 3 +-
drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_watchdog.c | 11 +-
drivers/char/isicom.c | 103 ++++----
drivers/char/mxser.c | 1 +
drivers/char/mxser_new.c | 1 +
drivers/ide/pci/piix.c | 66 ++----
drivers/ide/pci/slc90e66.c | 20 +-
drivers/ieee1394/sbp2.c | 83 +++---
drivers/infiniband/hw/mthca/mthca_provider.c | 3 +-
drivers/input/serio/i8042-sparcio.h | 6 +-
drivers/kvm/kvm.h | 18 +-
drivers/kvm/kvm_main.c | 98 ++++++-
drivers/kvm/mmu.c | 26 +-
drivers/kvm/paging_tmpl.h | 4 +-
drivers/kvm/svm.c | 52 +----
drivers/kvm/vmx.c | 75 ++----
drivers/kvm/vmx.h | 10 +-
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu-backlight.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/common/ir-functions.c | 1 +
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-core/dvb_net.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/nova-t-usb2.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/dib3000mc.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-driver.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/video/cafe_ccic.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/cpia2/cpia2_usb.c | 4 +
drivers/media/video/cx2341x.c | 21 +-
drivers/media/video/cx25840/cx25840-vbi.c | 9 +-
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-cards.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88-core.c | 35 ++-
drivers/media/video/cx88/cx88.h | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-video.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/video/meye.c | 4 +-
drivers/media/video/msp3400-driver.c | 8 +-
drivers/media/video/msp3400-kthreads.c | 11 +-
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.c | 8 +-
drivers/media/video/tuner-core.c | 4 +
drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-cards.c | 11 +-
drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-core.c | 83 ++----
drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-i2c.c | 35 +--
drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision-video.c | 150 ++++++----
drivers/media/video/usbvision/usbvision.h | 27 --
drivers/media/video/vivi.c | 8 +-
drivers/media/video/w9966.c | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/w9968cf.c | 24 +-
drivers/media/video/zoran_device.c | 3 +-
drivers/mtd/devices/m25p80.c | 4 +-
drivers/mtd/devices/mtd_dataflash.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/8139cp.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/arm/ep93xx_eth.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/b44.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_ethtool.c | 3 +
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.c | 296 ++++++++++---------
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_hw.h | 310 +++++++++++----------
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c | 345 ++++++++++++++++-------
drivers/net/e1000/e1000_param.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/forcedeth.c | 16 +-
drivers/net/ibm_emac/ibm_emac_phy.c | 4 +-
drivers/net/myri10ge/myri10ge.c | 163 +++++------
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic.h | 25 +--
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_ethtool.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_hw.c | 296 +-------------------
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_init.c | 251 +----------------
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_ioctl.h | 77 -----
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_isr.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_main.c | 85 ++-----
drivers/net/r8169.c | 6 +-
drivers/net/skge.c | 5 +-
drivers/net/sky2.c | 35 +++-
drivers/net/via-velocity.c | 18 +-
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.c | 96 +++++--
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_mac.h | 5 +-
drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.c | 4 +-
drivers/pci/probe.c | 5 +-
drivers/s390/char/monwriter.c | 2 +-
drivers/s390/cio/cio.c | 13 +-
drivers/scsi/ibmvscsi/Makefile | 2 +
drivers/serial/sunsab.c | 11 +-
drivers/serial/sunsu.c | 10 +-
drivers/serial/sunzilog.c | 14 +-
drivers/spi/spi_mpc83xx.c | 2 +
drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx.c | 2 +-
drivers/spi/spi_s3c24xx_gpio.c | 2 +-
drivers/usb/input/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/video/bw2.c | 18 +-
drivers/video/cg14.c | 28 +-
drivers/video/cg3.c | 22 +-
drivers/video/cg6.c | 33 ++-
drivers/video/ffb.c | 25 +-
drivers/video/leo.c | 29 +-
drivers/video/p9100.c | 25 +-
drivers/video/tcx.c | 33 ++-
fs/aio.c | 7 +-
fs/ocfs2/aops.c | 24 ++-
fs/ocfs2/cluster/heartbeat.c | 17 ++
fs/ocfs2/dlmglue.c | 10 +-
fs/ocfs2/file.c | 13 +-
fs/ramfs/file-mmu.c | 4 +-
fs/ramfs/file-nommu.c | 4 +-
include/asm-generic/bug.h | 2 +-
include/asm-sparc/of_device.h | 2 +-
include/asm-sparc64/of_device.h | 2 +-
include/linux/cpuset.h | 2 +-
include/linux/net.h | 2 +-
include/linux/netdevice.h | 1 +
include/linux/spi/spi.h | 2 +-
include/media/cx2341x.h | 2 +-
include/media/ir-common.h | 1 +
kernel/cpuset.c | 2 +-
kernel/exit.c | 8 +-
kernel/lockdep.c | 8 +-
kernel/module.c | 4 +-
kernel/rcutorture.c | 3 +
kernel/sched.c | 18 +-
mm/oom_kill.c | 7 +-
mm/page-writeback.c | 45 +++-
mm/rmap.c | 2 +-
mm/slob.c | 11 +-
mm/vmscan.c | 2 +-
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_assoc.c | 4 +-
net/ieee80211/softmac/ieee80211softmac_wx.c | 2 +-
net/xfrm/xfrm_algo.c | 3 +-
138 files changed, 2077 insertions(+), 2049 deletions(-)
create mode 100644 arch/i386/boot/compressed/.gitignore
delete mode 100644 drivers/net/netxen/netxen_nic_ioctl.h
