[ANNOUNCE] WOLK v4.2s FINAL - Server Edition

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Hi all,

so here we go, FINAL v4.2. This is the 2nd maintenance update for WOLK4.0.
Due to popular request, four new features.

NOTE: If almost no one is able to file real bugreports, don't expect
      _ANYTHING_ get fixed for your problems!

The files will appear somewhen within the next hour at sf.net file section and
sourceforge mirrors.


The "Workstation Edition" addon patch location has been updated with
Supermount-NG v1.2.7. Find it here: "http://wolk.sf.net/Workstation-Edition".


Many Thanks to:
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- - Olaf Unterkofler              fix for USB storage problems
- - Andrew Morton                 pause/stop fix
- - Matthias Mueller              3com 3c90x fix

        AKPM, a hint: If I report a bug you can be sure, the bug _IS_ there :P


Changelog from v4.1s -> v4.2s
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o   re-add:   Scheduler Tunables (/proc/sys/sched): I need it!
o   add:      SCSI monitoring support
o   add:      Parallel Port SCSI adapters
o   add:      RFCOMM protocol support
o   add:      an hook to trigger a rescan of the scsi devices
                echo "scsi scan-new-devices" >/proc/scsi/scsi
+   fixed:    3com 3c90x wrong module init/exit stuff
o   fixed:    RMAP: better higher-order page allocation
o   fixed:    RMAP: OOM tweak
o   fixed:    RMAP: minor smp fix backported from 2.5
o   fixed:    RMAP: agressive inode reclaim when we're low on low memory
                      and inodes are taking up lots of low memory.
o   fixed:    RMAP: O(1) page launder bug fix, free buffer heads instead
                      of reactivating the page
o   fixed:    RMAP: if we can't clear page->buffers but the page wasn't
                      locked, move it back to the inactive_dirty list
o   fixed:    RMAP: OOM killer braindamage fix fix
o   fixed:    RMAP: potential infinite loop in inode pruning
o   fixed:    ext3fs deadlock using journal_create while mount
o   fixed:    race in search_exception_table() (Module stuff)
o   fixed:    erroneous fsync on last opener at close()
o   fixed:    long outstanding bug (15 months) that will make your mouse hang,
                keyboard stuck, no possibility to work with your desktop while
                high disk i/o.
o   fixed:    blk-atomic + varyio wasn't right in its first version, the
                refile had to be a few lines below
o   fixed:    race between truncate and the page faults
o   fixed:    wrong DeviceMapper stuff which was left from dcache-fastwalk :(
o   fixed:    IOPERM system call I/O port access vulnerability fix
o   fixed:    AIC7xxx gcc v3.3.x compile errors
+   fixed:    USB storage problems
o   fixed:    'make xconfig' always sets CONFIG_ATM to y
o   fixed:    UP set_task_state and set_current_state to ensure that we don't
                re-order loads around the store for setting task->state.
o   fixed:    sys_munmap for a mapping near the end of the physical address
                space frees pages still in use
o   fixed:    TIOCCONS
o   fixed:    writing to /dev/console returns ESPIPE
o   fixed:    vmalloc increase for 128MB frame buffer with VESA fb driver
o   fixed:    non-working APIC on SiS chipsets
o   fixed:    eepro100 DoS attack and after that, the card is dead
o   fixed:    SG side effect introduced by last "off by one" fix
o   updated:  rmap VM v15j
o   updated:  eepro100 PCI IDs
o   updated:  NVIDIA chipset support (nForce/nForce2)
o   updated:  HostAP driver v0.03
o   updated:  AIC7xxx v6.2.36 / AIC79xx v1.3.10 (v2003-06-03)
o   updated:  IPVS v1.0.9
o   updated:  Encrypted Virtual File System (EVFS) v0.3
o   updated:  Super FreeS/WAN v1.99.7.2 Final
o   changed:  make ksoftirqd cpuid match 2.5
o   changed:  make migration id match 2.5
o   changed:  sync wakeup on UP too like SMP has
o   removed:  gcc 3.3* inlining bug fix. gcc 3.3 does this correct now


md5sums:
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2e43277e89e06604c6b2f824c1c5bf44 *linux-2.4.20-wolk4.1s-to-4.2s.patch.bz2
6ab64158deae24e9aa50cc2920c4eb85 *linux-2.4.20-wolk4.1s-to-4.2s.patch.gz


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Kind regards
        Marc-Christian Petersen

http://sourceforge.net/projects/wolk

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