PRE-[ANNOUNCE] WOLK v4.10s FINAL - Server Edition

Hi all,

I just want to update you about v4.10s. I'm gonna release v4.10 final this 
evening with many updates and tons of fixes. (I planned it for yesterday but 
haven't had the time because of a relocation over the weekend for a friend.)

Sorry for the delay. I had some private problems, been very busy at work and 
had a case of death.

Anyway, here's the changelog (if there's something I forgot, scream _now_):



Changelog from v4.9s -> v4.10s
------------------------------

o   added:    Promise PDC ULTRA SATA support v1.00.0.10
o   added:    Emulex LP8000/9000/9002L/9002DC/9402DC/9802/10000 FC support 
o   added:    Quick Sort support (qsort)
o   added:    ignore unrecognized mount options
o   added:    ATI IGP chipset support
o   added:    S3 Savage support
o   added:    VIA CLE266 support
o   added:    full XAPIC support (vanilla has half of this :p)
o   added:    rICMP support
o   fixed:    full modular IDE build problems
o   fixed:    Support for processor throttling when VMware runs
o   fixed:    overflow on unaligned checksum buffers
o   fixed:    handle unreachable IO-APICs in ACPI without panic
o   fixed:    problem where every user who can open /dev/cdrom can
                crash the kernel
o   fixed:    boot code overflow with more CPUs than CONFIG_NR_CPUS
o   fixed:    missing brackets in agpgart
o   fixed:    SCSI: never ever merge requests if we exceed the maximum number
                of scatter-gather segments that fit into a page.
o   fixed:    another potential procfs memory leak
o   fixed:    PAX' SEGMEXEC did not work with HIGHMEM vs. SMP
o   fixed:    years outstanding bug with P3/P4 Hyperthreading :-(
o   fixed:    problem with set_ioapic_affinity()
o   fixed:    SMP kernel dummy APIC emulation in smpboot for x86:
                the process timer must be driven from the 8253 in this case.
o   fixed:    mpparse for default MP systems
o   fixed:    missing memory barrier in get_request_wait_wakeup()
o   fixed:    Data region of memory output was negative
o   fixed:    more irq/bh races (smp_mb()'s)
o   fixed:    nvidia-kernel-1.0.4496 didn't compile
o   fixed:    race in the O(1) scheduler
o   fixed:    memory leak in kernel module loader
o   fixed:    possible SMP deadlock on reboot
o   fixed:    log_buf_len boot parameter
o   fixed:    too few characters for boot parameters
o   fixed:    ipc_init() SMP crash
o   fixed:    route SMIs through IOAPIC
o   fixed:    RCU helpers for PREEMPT
o   fixed:    reduce bkl contention caused by blkdev_put
o   fixed:    RMAP: smp race in rebalance_laundry_zone()
o   fixed:    RMAP: inode reclaim bug
o   fixed:    missing symbol 'console_printk' for IDE modularization
o   fixed:    disable the anti-DoS fix tested on some embedded
                platforms, to avoid regressions due softirq delays
o   fixed:    mmap on /dev/mem wrt to uncached accesses
o   fixed:    wrong APIC handling for SMP/HT
o   fixed:    ieee1394 locking bug in nodemgr
o   fixed:    memory leak in user space communication with USB devices
o   fixed:    memory leaks in LVM v1.0.7
o   fixed:    IPVS: ip_vs_tunnel_xmit to return NF_DROP when no memory
                available
o   fixed:    IPVS: add strict boundary check in parsing FTP commands
o   updated:  PPP Microsoft encryption/compression (MPPE/MPPC) v0.98
o   updated:  SysKonnect SK-98xx driver v6.19
o   updated:  Device Mapper (LVM2) v4.0.4-ioctl (2003-08-30)
o   updated:  EVMS v2.1.1
o   updated:  Super FreeS/WAN v1.99.9c
o   updated:  CryptoAPI from 2.4.22/2.4.23-pre4
o   updated:  CryptoLOOP (jari edition)
o   updated:  rmap VM v15k
o   updated:  grsecurity v1.9.13 Final
o   updated:  tons of ACPI fixes for UP/SMP/HT and better Notebook support.
o   updated:  convert /proc/interrupts to use seq_file
o   updated:  shfs v0.32-pre2
o   updated:  Intel VTune Support
o   updated:  RFCOMM protocol support v12
o   updated:  FireWire IEEE1394 rev1050
o   updated:  USB: tons of fixes and updates
o   updated:  Broadcom BCM5700 driver v7.0.0
o   updated:  Broadcom Tigon3 v2.3
o   updated:  Compressed Loop (cloop) v1.02
o   updated:  DAC960 RAID Driver v2.4.20 of 1 May 2003
                (Vanilla still has the driver from kernel 2.4.11!!)
o   updated:  Intel/ICP RAID Controller support v2.06
o   updated:  Qlogic QLA 2x00 v6 FC SCSI support v6.06.00
o   updated:  CPU Frequency scaling v2.4.22 2003-09-01
o   updated:  XFS v1.3.1 Final (SCO: go and fuck yourself!)
o   removed:  RMAP: OOM killer braindamage fix fix fix fix: BROKEN!
o   removed:  Option 'PS/2 keyboard support': broke too much stuff
o   changed:  CPU - Cap Processor Usage: Make it a config option




P.S.:
-----

- I don't have the time to do WOLK5, so WOLK4.10s is the last wolk you'll see
  from me 'yet'. This might change in the future but I don't know when. Maybe
  when 2.4.24 or 2.4.25 is out and there is a need for another WOLK based on
  2.4.
- I'm gonna release a first WOLK for 2.6.0 soon (maybe this evening too)
  Nothing special about this. Just some tunings for better desktop behaviour.



--
Kind regards
        Marc-Christian Petersen

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