Dankzij HackWizzard870 changelog is weer erg groot. Wat erg opvalt is dat er veel gesleuteld is aan de ondersteuning van ReiserFS. Ook zijn er net als gewoonlijk weer bugs uit gehaald en is de ondersteuning voor verschillende motorola processoren is verbeterd.
Hieronder een gedeelte uit het changelog:
final:No changes have been made between -final and -rc4.
rc4:Load code did not set personality for binaries without an interpreter: This was breaking static apps on several archs (Tom Gall)
rc3:Fix reiserfs endianess problems (Chris Mason) Fix PowerMac compilation problem (Pmac team) Fix some eepro100 ID's which had problems in -ac merge (Jeff Garzik) Rename some internal pcnet32 definitions to not clash with ethtool.h - the clash caused the driver not work correctly (William Lee Irwin) Add missing netif_carrier_" rel="external">on,off to eepro100 (Andrew Morton) Fix netfilter race (Rusty Russell) Correct error handling on tcp_recvmsg (Alexey Kuznetsov) Revert tulip changes which were apparently causing slowdowns (Jeff Garzik) Fix ptrace behaviour (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
rc2:Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas gracefully (Manfred Spraul) Fix SMP race on PID allocation (Erik A. Hendriks) Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme (Alexander Viro) Add missing checks to shmem_file_write (Alan Cox)
Kernel [Stable]
