Новость: Вышел пятый кандидат в релиз Linux 2.6.11
	
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	Добавил Roman I Khimov
	Четверг, 24 Февраль 2005, 11:50
	
Линус Торвальдс объявил сегодня о выходе Linux 2.6.11-rc5. В письме он отметил, что надеялся на то, что rc4 станет последним перед финальным релизом, однако обнаруженные проблемы конфликтов ресурсов на ноутбуках, различные проблемы с TLB на ppc, переполнения буфера в сетевой подсистеме и некоторые другие проблемы потребовали выпуска еще одного промежуточного -rc5.
Впрочем, финальный релиз последует очень скоро. В rc5 вошли небольшие, но важные изменения, самое большое из которых - новый драйвер SATA.
Скачать патчи можно с kernel.org, однако, сейчас там происходит что-то неправильное, патч с 2.6.10 весит 14 байт, а rc4-rc5 больше 4 МБ. Надеюсь, скоро это исправят и можно будет нормально скачать.
Changelog следует далее.
Summary of changes from v2.6.11-rc4 to v2.6.11-rc5
============================================
<benh:au1.ibm.com>:
  o ppc32: Wrong vaddr in flush_hash_one_pte()
<mat.loikkanen:synopsys.com>:
  o [libata] add ->bmdma_{stop,status} hooks
Alan Stern:
  o USB Hub driver: Add reset recovery-time delay
Andrew Morton:
  o mca resource layout fix
  o end_buffer_async_read printk ratelimiting
  o strip.c build fix
  o alpha: struct resource fix
  o ppc32: resource layout fixes
  o sparc64 rusage build fix
  o sparc64 usb build fix
  o x86_64: resource layout fix
Anton Blanchard:
  o ppc64: Fix 32bit largepage issue
Antonino Daplas:
  o fbdev: Fix gcc 4.0 compile failure
Arjan van de Ven:
  o Allow heap to be marked executable too
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
  o [TCP]: Fix excessive stack usage resulting in OOPS with 4KSTACKS
Art Haas:
  o [SPARC]:Check prom_getproperty() return value in prom_nodematch()
Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:
  o [ide] fix ide_get_error_location() for LBA28
Ben Dooks:
  o [ARM PATCH] 2480/1: IXP4XX - cleanup resource for i2c controller
  o [ARM PATCH] 2481/1: IXP2000 - replace sti/cli with
    local_irq{save,restore}
  o [ide] Kconfig for VR1000 machine driver selection
Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
  o radeonfb: typos fixes
  o radeonfb: Fix hang on boot with some laptops
  o Fix possible race with 4level-fixup.h
  o Check for wraps in copy_page_range
  o Fix buf in zeromap_pud_range() losing virtual address
  o radeonfb: Workaround memory corruption accel problem
  o ppc32: fix ptep_test_and_clear_young
  o ppc32: kernel mapping breakage
Bjorn Helgaas:
  o de214x.c uses uninitialized pci_dev->irq
Bob Breuer:
  o [SPARC]: Check prom_getproperty return value
Brian Murphy:
  o USB: ehci requeue revisit
Christoph Hellwig:
  o block new writers on frozen filesystems
Corey Minyard:
  o IPMI: Fix LAN bridging
Daniel Ritz:
  o PCI: support PCI_PM_CAP version 1
David Brownell:
  o USB: ehci patch for NF4 port miscounting
David S. Miller:
  o [COMPAT]: TUNSETIFF needs to copy back data after ioctl
  o [SPARC]: Fix cg3 fb blanking
  o [SPARC]: Fix video mode probing in atyfb driver
  o [TG3]: Always check tg3_readphy() return value
  o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
  o [SPARC64]: auxio_register is pointer not integer
  o [SPARC64]: Put PROM trampolines into asm file
  o [SPARC64]: Fix access_ok() and friends warnings
  o [SPARC64]: Fix access_ok() args in sys_sparc32.c:get_tv32()
  o [SPARC64]: Use common sys_ipc() compat code
  o [SPARC64]: BUG on rediculious memcpy lengths
Dmitry Torokhov:
  o ALPS: do not activate on unsupported models
François Romieu:
  o dscc4: use of uncompletely initialized struct
  o dscc4: code factorisation
  o dscc4: error status checking and pci janitoring
  o dscc4: removal of unneeded casts
  o dscc4: removal of unneeded variable
  o r8169: endianness fixes
  o r8169: merge of Realtek's code
  o r8169: typo in debugging code
  o r8169: screaming irq when the device is closed
  o r8169: synchronization and balancing when the device is closed
  o r8169: fix rx skb allocation error logging
  o r8169: skb alignment nitpicking
  o r8169: removal of unused #define
  o r8169: uniformize comments
  o r8169: IRQ races during change of mtu
  o r8169: factor out some code
Gary N. Spiess:
  o natsemi long cable fix
Herbert Xu:
  o ISDN locking fix
  o [IPSEC]: Move dst->child loop from dst_ifdown to xfrm_dst_ifdown
  o [NET]: Add netdev argument to dst ifdown
Hideaki Yoshifuji:
  o [IPV6]: Fix IPV6_PKTINFO et al. handling in udpv6_recvmsg()
Hirokazu Takata:
  o m32r: build fix for SMP kernel
  o m32r: fix sys_clone()
  o m32r: defconfig updates
  o m32r: warning fix
Jeff Garzik:
  o [libata sata_via] minor cleanups
  o [libata sata_via] add support for VT6421 SATA
  o [libata] do not call pci_disable_device() for certain errors
  o libata kfree fix
  o [libata] Add missing hooks, to avoid oops in advanced SATA drivers
Joe Korty:
  o memset argument order misuses
John W. Linville:
  o libata: fix command queue leak when xlat_func fails
Krzysztof Helt:
  o [SPARC32]: Need to clear PSR_EF in psr of childregs on fork() on
    SMP
Len Brown:
  o [ACPI] ACPICA 20050211 from Bob Moore
Lennert Buytenhek:
  o [ARM PATCH] 2485/1: fix enp2611 coexistence with other machine
    types
  o [ARM PATCH] 2486/1: fix incorrect comment in
    arch/arm/kernel/debug.S
  o [ARM PATCH] 2487/1: minor IRQ routing tweaks for ENP-2611
  o [ARM PATCH] 2493/1: put IXP2000 slowport in 8-bit mode after boot
  o [ARM PATCH] 2494/1: fix 'CONFGI_' -> 'CONFIG_' in
    mach-ixp2000/ixdp2x00.c
Linus Torvalds:
  o Eicon driver: remove ^M for real this time
  o Limit tty IO chunking to 2kB
  o Fix bogus opost buffer size check
  o Input: fix ALPS protocol validation rules
  o Use e820 memory map to determine PCI allocation area
  o Be more careful about looking for gaps in the e820 table
  o x86: when choosing PCI starting address, print out gap information
  o agp: aper_base is unsigned
  o Linux 2.6.11-rc5
Marcel Holtmann:
  o [Bluetooth] The new Microsoft dongle needs HCI_Reset
Mark Lord:
  o sata_qstor: new basic driver for Pacific Digital
Matt Porter:
  o emac: fix jumbo frame support
  o emac: fix mdio delay
Mika Kukkonen:
  o [ide] small compile fix to ide.c with !CONFIG_PCI
  o Build failure with !CONFIG_PCI and with CONFIG_ISAPNP=y &&
    CONFIG_PNPBIOS=y
Nathan Scott:
  o [XFS] Reinstate missing frozen check on write, fixes snapshots and
    xfs_freeze.
  o [XFS] Prevent releasepage from releasing pages early, while they
    still have delayed allocate buffers.  Affects filesystem blocksizes
    smaller than the pagesize only.
  o [XFS] Fix problems with synchronous writes returning EAGAIN
    incorrectly for pinned inodes.
Nathan T. Lynch:
  o kthread_bind new worker threads when onlining cpu
Nick Piggin:
  o optimise copy page range
Olaf Hering:
  o ppc64: remove extra whitespace before preprocessor token
  o [NET]: Fix socket.h comment typo
Olof Johansson:
  o Fix possible futex mmap_sem deadlock
Paul Mackerras:
  o ppc64: fix compilation for Maple board
Pete Zaitcev:
  o USB: Add ioctls to ub
  o ub: fix Add ioctls to ub patch
Ralf Bächle:
  o [NETROM/ROSE]: Use netdev_priv()
Randy Dunlap:
  o sis: fix sparse warnings
  o au1100: fix io_remap_page_range() arg. list
Ravinandan Arakali:
  o S2io: Multicast fix
Robert Olsson:
  o [PKTGEN]: Bug fixes, bump to version 2.56
Rolf Eike Beer:
  o make ACPI_BLACKLIST_YEAR depend on ACPI_INTERPRETER
Russell King:
  o [ARM] Add missing __user annotations to sys_clone()
  o [ARM] Fix SA1111 and PXA iomem sparse warnings
  o [ARM] Fix sparse warnings for Integrator builds
  o [ARM] Take account of vm_pgoff for DMA mmap
Stephen Hemminger:
  o [TCP]: Fix BIC max_cwnd calculation error
Thomas Gleixner:
  o [ARM PATCH] 2474/1: Fix compile for badge4
  o [ARM PATCH] 2476/1: Fix compile for shannon
  o [ARM PATCH] 2478/1: Remove NULL initializers
Tim Burgess:
  o device-mapper: dm-raid1 deadlock fix
Tom Rini:
  o ppc32: fixup of previous PCI9 patch
  o Re-order <linux/fs.h> includes to fix userland breakage
  o Fix NR_OPEN header order dependency
Trond Myklebust:
  o NFS: Further fixes for the -onolock case
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