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Linux 2.6.11-ac3

From:  Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:  Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject:  Linux 2.6.11-ac3
Date:  Mon, 14 Mar 2005 20:03:56 +0000
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Almost entirely the 2.6.11.3 update this time. Nice and simple because the
2.6.11.x is working out wonderfully.

Alan


2.6.11-ac3
o	Merge in 2.6.11.3
o	Make SATA AHCI error recovery work		(Brett Russ)
o	Watchdog link order				(Dave Jones)
o	Ressurect epca serial driver			(Alan Cox)
	
2.6.11-ac2
o	Merge 2.6.11.2					(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
	including epoll error handling			(Georgi Guninski)
	| Theoretically security
o	Fix a couple of pwc warnings			(Alan Cox)
o	Ressurect esp serial driver			(Alan Cox)

2.6.11-ac1
o	Fix jbd race in ext3				(Stephen Tweedie)

Carried over from 2.6.10-ac

Security
o	AF_ROSE security hole fix - still missing from base
o	Bridge failure to check kmalloc argument overflow

Functionality
o	PWC USB camera driver
o	Working ULI526X support (added to base in .11 but broken)
o	ATP88x support
o	Intelligent misrouted IRQ handlers
o	Fix PCI boxes that take minutes IDE probing
o	Remove bogus confusing XFree86 keyboard message
o	Support fibre AMD pcnet32
o	Runtime configurable clock
	| So you can run laptops usefully. Set 100Hz to fix
	| the power drain, clock sliding and other problems
	| 1000Hz causes
o	Fix token ring locking so token ring can be used again
o	x86_64/32 cross build fixes
o	NetROM locking fixes (so NetROM actually works!)
o	SUID dumpable support
o	Don't log pointless CD messages
o	Minimal stallion driver functionality
o	IDE from 2.6-ac

Misc
o	Correct LANANA URL



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