Ditmaal niet één, maar drie patches in één posting. Zoals bekend mag worden verondersteld is dit pré-productie software en 't gebruik ervan dan ook niet zonder risico.
Het changelog van 2.4.3-pre5, pre6 en pre7:
pre7:more bugs found by the automatic stanford checker, yay!
Andrew Morton: fix SAK locking bugs by moving it into a process context
Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
Jeff Garzik: merge Hermes driver by David Gibson
Jens Axboe: cdrom merges, ll_rw_blk proper accounting
pre6:Jeff Garzik: network driver merge
Andrew Morton: fix missed page_table_lock unlock
David Miller: Qlogic,FC bufix, page allocation order problem.
pre5:Rik van Riel and others: mm rw-semaphore (ps/top ok when swapping)
IDE: 256 sectors at a time is legal, but apparently confuses some drives. Max out at 255 sectors instead.
Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver update
make the boottime memory map printout at least almost readable.
USB driver updates
pte_alloc()/pmd_alloc() need page_table_lock.