LuCarD bracht ons als eerste op de hoogte van het nieuws dat de Linux 2.4.9 kernel zojuist is gereleased. Versie 2.4.9 volgt nog geen week na de 2.4.8 kernel, die zaterdag werd vrijgelaten. Het changelog maakt melding van de volgende veranderingen:
final:pre4:
- David Miller: sparc updates, FAT fs fixes, btaudio build fix
- David Gibson: Orinoco driver update
- Kevin Fleming: more disks the HPT controller doesn't like
- David Miller: "min()/max()" cleanups. Understands signs and sizes.
- Ben LaHaise: make vma merging more generous, help Mozilla /proc/<>/maps
- Jens Axboe: CD updates
- Trond Myklebust: save away NFS credentials in inode, so that mmap can writeout.
- Mark Hemment: HIGHMEM ops cleanups
- Jes Sorensen: use "unsigned long" for flags in various drivers
pre3:
- Tim Hockin: NatSemi ethernet update
- Kurt Garloff: make PS/2 mouse reconnect adjustable like 2.2.x
- Daniel Phillips: unlazy use-once
- David Miller: undo poll() limit braindamage
- me: make return value from do_try_to_free_pages() meaningful
pre2:
- Patrick Mochel: fix PCI : PCI bridge 64-bit memory type detection
- me: more forgotten nfsd off_t -> loff_t
- Alan Cox: ide driver merge
- Eric Lammerts, Rik van Riel: when oom, kill all threads.
- Ben LaHaise: use down_read, not down_write() in map_user_kiobuf. We don't change the mappings, we just read them.
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- Roland Fehrenbacher: sparse lun check
- Tim Waugh: handle awkward Titan parallel/serial port cards
- Stephen Rothwell: APM updates
- Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS updates
pre1:
- me: fix forgotten nfsd usage of filldir off_t -> loff_t change
- Alan Cox: more driver merges
- Rui Sousa: emu10k1 module fixes, remove joystick part.
- Alan Cox: driver merges
- Andrea Arkangeli: alpha updates
- David Woodhouse: up_and_exit -> complete_and_exit
- David Miller: sparc and network update
- Andrew Morton: update 3c59x driver
- Neil Brown: NFS export VFAT, knfsd cleanups, raid fixes
- Ben Collins: ieee1394 updates
- Paul Mackerras: PPC update
- me: make sure we don't lose position bits in "filldir()"