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Linux creator Linus Torvalds released the 2.6.22-rc7 kernel saying, "it's hopefully (almost certainly) the last -rc before the final 2.6.22 release, and we should be in pretty good shape. The flow of patches has really slowed down and the regression list has shrunk a lot." He briefly summarized the changes in this latest release candidate, "the patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it," adding, "final testing always appreciated, of course".
The previous stable kernel, 2.6.21, was released a little over two months ago on April 25'th [story]. An overview of all the changes merged into the latest version of the kernel is maintained in the Kernel Newbies wiki. Included in the list of changes are the SLUB allocator which replaced the slab allocator, a new wireless stack, a new firewire stack [story], and support for the Blackfin architecture. Source level changes can be tracked via the gitweb interface to Linus' kernel tree.
From: Linus Torvalds [email blocked]
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List [email blocked]
Subject: Linux 2.6.22-rc7
Date: Sun, 1 Jul 2007 14:32:17 -0700 (PDT)
Ok, Linux-2.6.22-rc7 is out there.
It's hopefully (almost certainly) the last -rc before the final 2.6.22
release, and we should be in pretty good shape. The flow of patches has
really slowed down and the regression list has shrunk a lot.
The shortlog/diffstat reflects that, with the biggest part of the -rc7
patch being literally just a power defconfig update.
The patches are mostly trivial fixes, a few new device ID's, and the
appended shortlog really does pretty much explain it.
Final testing always appreciated, of course,
Linus
---
Alan Cox (1):
HPT374 is UDMA100 not UDMA133
Alexander Gattin (1):
USB: add new device id to option driver
Alexey Dobriyan (3):
mips-jazz: correct flags for timer io resource
[SPARC64]: Add linux/pagemap.h to asm/tlb.h
frv: fix fallout from "remove sched.h from mm.h" patch
Andrew Morton (2):
ext2: fix return of uninitialised variable
i386: mtrr crash fix
Atsushi Nemoto (1):
[MIPS] Remove a duplicated local variable in test_and_clear_bit()
Bjorn Helgaas (3):
smsc-ircc2: skip preconfiguration for PNP devices
PNP SMCf010 quirk: auto-config device if BIOS left it broken
smsc-ircc2: bypass PNP detection until we get the quirks worked out
Björn Steinbrink (1):
fix nmi_watchdog=2 bootup hang
Catalin Marinas (1):
[ARM] 4452/1: Force the literal pool dump before reloc_end
Chris Dearman (1):
[MIPS] Count timer interrupts correctly.
Christoph Lameter (1):
SLAB: remove WARN_ON_ONCE for zero sized objects for 2.6.22 release
David S. Miller (3):
[SPARC64]: Add irqs to mdesc_node.
[SPARC64]: Fix VIRQ enabling.
[SPARC64]: Need to set state to IDLE during sun4v IRQ enable.
David Wilder (1):
relay file read: start-pos fix
David Woodhouse (1):
Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM
Davide Libenzi (1):
avoid spurious POLLIN returns in signalfd
Dean Nelson (1):
[IA64] change sh_change_coherence oemcall to use nolock
Divy Le Ray (1):
cxgb3 - fix register to stop bc/mc traffic
Evgeniy Polyakov (1):
w1_therm_read_bin: don't call flush_signals()
Hugh Dickins (1):
mm: kill validate_anon_vma to avoid mapcount BUG
Ian Romanick (1):
Add support SiS based XGI chips to SiS DRM.
Jarek Poplawski (1):
[NETPOLL] netconsole: fix soft lockup when removing module
Jay Lubomirski (1):
serial: clear proper MPSC interrupt cause bits
Jeff Mahoney (1):
saa7134: fix thread shutdown handling
Jes Sorensen (1):
[IA64] Make SN2 PCI code use ioremap rather than manually mangle the address
Keith Owens (1):
[IA64] Correct unwind validation code
Kumar Gala (1):
phy: Fix phy_id for Vitesse 824x PHY
Linus Torvalds (2):
i386: remove bogus mtrr range check
Linux 2.6.22-rc7
Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino (1):
USB: ftdio_sio: New IPlus device ID
MUNEDA Takahiro (1):
[IA64] remove duplicate header include line
Masami Hiramatsu (1):
relayfs: fix overwrites
Maxime Austruy (1):
asus_acpi: fix oops on non-asus machines
Michael Halcrow (3):
eCryptfs: fix write zeros behavior
eCryptfs: initialize crypt_stat in setattr
zero out last page for llseek/write
Neil Horman (2):
SCTP: update sctp_getsockopt helpers to allow oversized buffers
SCTP: Fix sctp_getsockopt_get_peer_addrs
Nicolas Pitre (1):
[ARM] 4449/1: more entries in arch/arm/boot/.gitignore
Olaf Hering (2):
2.6.22: ERROR: "__ucmpdi2" [drivers/net/s2io.ko] undefined!
fix section mismatch in chipsfb
Oleg Nesterov (1):
USB: g_file_storage: call allow_signal()
Oliver Neukum (4):
USB: ti serial driver sleeps with spinlock held
USB: memory leak in iowarrior.c
USB: usblcd doesn't limit memory consumption during write
USB: fix race leading to use after free in io_edgeport
Paul Mackerras (2):
[POWERPC] Update defconfigs
[POWERPC] Fix subtle FP state corruption bug in signal return on SMP
Pavel Kiryukhin (1):
[MIPS] use compat_siginfo in rt_sigframe_n32
Rafael J. Wysocki (1):
PM: introduce set_target method in pm_ops
Ralf Baechle (6):
[MIPS] __ucmpdi2 arguments are unsigned long long.
[MIPS] AP/SP requires shadow registers, auto enable support.
[MIPS] 20K: Handle WAIT related bugs according to errata information
[MIPS] EMMA2RH: Disable GEN_RTC, it can't possibly work.
[MIPS] SMTC and non-SMTC kernel and modules are incompatible
au1000_eth: Fix warnings.
Randy Dunlap (9):
pata_it821x: fix section mismatch warning
eventfd: clean compile when CONFIG_EVENTFD=n
mtrr/cyrix: fix sections
IOATDMA: fix section mismatches
ALSA: fix ice1712 section mismatch
ALSA: use __devexit_p
[IRDA]: fix printk format
ALSA: more section mismatches
pci.h stubs (for EDD build error)
Russ Anderson (1):
[IA64] Force error to surface in nofault code
Russell King (2):
[ARM] Add support for pause_on_oops and display preempt/smp options
[ARM] Update show_regs/oops register format
Siddha, Suresh B (1):
x86_64 irq: use mask/unmask and proper locking in fixup_irqs()
Stefan Richter (1):
Documentation/HOWTO: update URLs of git trees
Stephen Hemminger (3):
[NETPOLL]: tx lock deadlock fix
remove leftover documentation of acpi_generic_hotkey
blink driver power saving
Suresh Siddha (1):
x86_64: set the irq_chip name for lapic
Tejun Heo (9):
libata: kill the infamous abnormal status message
libata: kill non-sense warning message
libata: be less verbose about hpa
libata: remove unused variable from ata_eh_reset()
libata: fix ata_dev_disable()
libata: fix infinite EH waiting bug
libata: call ata_check_atapi_dma() with qc better prepared
libata: use PIO for non-16 byte aligned ATAPI commands
libata: kill ATA_HORKAGE_DMA_RW_ONLY
Tony Breeds (1):
[POWERPC] Fix VDSO gettimeofday() when called with NULL struct timeval
Trent Piepho (1):
Fix Kconfig dependency problems wrt boolean menuconfigs
Ville Syrjala (1):
atyfb: Fix XCLK frequency on Apple iBook1
Will Schmidt (1):
Fix VDSO gettimeofday() when called with NULL struct timeval.
Yoichi Yuasa (4):
[MIPS] add io_map_base to pci_controller on Cobalt
[MIPS] remove "support for" from system type entry
[MIPS] Alchemy: Fix wrong cast
[MIPS] Fix pb1500 reg B access
Zach Brown (1):
SCTP: lock_sock_nested in sctp_sock_migrate
vignesh babu (1):
[IA64] is_power_of_2-ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c
will schmidt (1):
[POWERPC] Update g5_defconfig
---
Documentation/HOWTO | 28 +-
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 -
Makefile | 2 +-
arch/arm/boot/.gitignore | 3 +
arch/arm/boot/compressed/head.S | 1 +
arch/arm/kernel/calls.S | 2 +-
arch/arm/kernel/process.c | 63 ++--
arch/arm/kernel/sys_arm.c | 13 -
arch/arm/kernel/traps.c | 20 +-
arch/arm/mach-at91/pm.c | 4 +-
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/cyrix.c | 4 +-
arch/i386/kernel/cpu/mtrr/generic.c | 8 +-
arch/ia64/kernel/time.c | 1 -
arch/ia64/kernel/unwind.c | 16 +-
arch/ia64/mm/hugetlbpage.c | 3 +-
arch/ia64/sn/kernel/xp_nofault.S | 3 +-
arch/ia64/sn/pci/pcibr/pcibr_provider.c | 7 +-
arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioca_provider.c | 4 +-
arch/ia64/sn/pci/tioce_provider.c | 4 +-
arch/mips/Kconfig | 5 +-
arch/mips/au1000/pb1100/init.c | 2 +-
arch/mips/au1000/pb1500/board_setup.c | 2 +-
arch/mips/cobalt/pci.c | 1 +
arch/mips/configs/emma2rh_defconfig | 3 +-
arch/mips/jazz/setup.c | 2 +-
arch/mips/kernel/cpu-probe.c | 12 +-
arch/mips/kernel/signal32.c | 62 ----
arch/mips/kernel/signal_n32.c | 6 +-
arch/mips/kernel/smtc.c | 2 +-
arch/mips/lib/ucmpdi2.c | 2 +-
arch/powerpc/configs/cell_defconfig | 243 ++++++--------
arch/powerpc/configs/celleb_defconfig | 169 +++------
arch/powerpc/configs/chrp32_defconfig | 353 +++++++++++--------
arch/powerpc/configs/ebony_defconfig | 138 +++-----
arch/powerpc/configs/g5_defconfig | 342 ++++++++++---------
arch/powerpc/configs/holly_defconfig | 125 +++-----
arch/powerpc/configs/iseries_defconfig | 36 +--
arch/powerpc/configs/linkstation_defconfig | 384 +++++++++------------
arch/powerpc/configs/lite5200_defconfig | 182 +++++------
arch/powerpc/configs/maple_defconfig | 248 ++++++--------
arch/powerpc/configs/pasemi_defconfig | 58 +---
arch/powerpc/configs/pmac32_defconfig | 375 ++++++++++-----------
arch/powerpc/configs/ppc64_defconfig | 460 +++++++++++++++---------
arch/powerpc/configs/prpmc2800_defconfig | 98 ++----
arch/powerpc/configs/ps3_defconfig | 79 +----
arch/powerpc/configs/pseries_defconfig | 387 +++++++++++++---------
arch/powerpc/kernel/signal_64.c | 10 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c | 9 +
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso32/gettimeofday.S | 4 +-
arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/gettimeofday.S | 7 +-
arch/sparc64/kernel/irq.c | 12 +-
arch/x86_64/kernel/io_apic.c | 1 +
arch/x86_64/kernel/irq.c | 32 ++-
drivers/acpi/asus_acpi.c | 3 +-
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 56 +--
drivers/ata/libata-eh.c | 7 +-
drivers/ata/libata-scsi.c | 20 +-
drivers/ata/pata_hpt37x.c | 4 +-
drivers/ata/pata_it821x.c | 2 +-
drivers/atm/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/char/drm/drm_pciids.h | 2 +
drivers/char/drm/sis_drv.h | 8 +-
drivers/dma/ioatdma.c | 8 +-
drivers/media/dvb/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/media/radio/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/media/video/Kconfig | 6 +-
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-tvaudio.c | 2 +-
drivers/misc/blink.c | 22 +-
drivers/net/au1000_eth.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/cxgb3/xgmac.c | 8 +-
drivers/net/irda/irport.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c | 16 +-
drivers/net/pcmcia/Kconfig | 2 +-
drivers/net/phy/mdio_bus.c | 3 +-
drivers/net/phy/vitesse.c | 2 +-
drivers/net/s2io.c | 16 +-
drivers/pnp/quirks.c | 66 +++-
drivers/serial/mpsc.c | 3 +-
drivers/usb/gadget/file_storage.c | 12 +-
drivers/usb/misc/iowarrior.c | 7 +-
drivers/usb/misc/usblcd.c | 22 +-
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.h | 1 +
drivers/usb/serial/io_edgeport.c | 4 +-
drivers/usb/serial/option.c | 6 +-
drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 8 +-
drivers/video/aty/atyfb_base.c | 17 +-
drivers/video/chipsfb.c | 6 +-
drivers/w1/slaves/w1_therm.c | 6 +-
fs/ecryptfs/ecryptfs_kernel.h | 2 +
fs/ecryptfs/inode.c | 66 ++++-
fs/ecryptfs/mmap.c | 55 ++--
fs/ext2/super.c | 1 +
fs/signalfd.c | 3 +-
fs/sync.c | 8 +
include/asm-arm/ptrace.h | 3 -
include/asm-arm/unistd.h | 1 +
include/asm-frv/pgtable.h | 2 +-
include/asm-i386/paravirt.h | 2 +-
include/asm-ia64/sn/sn_sal.h | 4 +-
include/asm-mips/bitops.h | 2 +-
include/asm-mips/compat-signal.h | 62 ++++
include/asm-mips/module.h | 9 +-
include/asm-powerpc/systbl.h | 1 +
include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h | 3 +-
include/asm-sparc64/mdesc.h | 1 +
include/asm-sparc64/tlb.h | 1 +
include/linux/eventfd.h | 3 +-
include/linux/libata.h | 9 +-
include/linux/pci.h | 11 +
include/linux/pm.h | 62 +++-
include/linux/syscalls.h | 2 +
kernel/power/main.c | 6 +-
kernel/relay.c | 11 +-
mm/rmap.c | 24 +--
mm/slab.c | 1 -
net/core/netpoll.c | 30 +-
net/sctp/socket.c | 120 +++++--
scripts/checksyscalls.sh | 5 +
sound/drivers/mts64.c | 2 +-
sound/isa/opl3sa2.c | 2 +-
sound/oss/sb_card.c | 2 +-
sound/pci/ice1712/prodigy192.c | 2 +-
123 files changed, 2506 insertions(+), 2410 deletions(-)
Definitely some nice things
Definitely some nice things in this release, I am very much looking forward to future releases that make more and more use of the new wireless stack. It is long overdue ;^)