Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 10 Dec 2001 10:51:44 +0100 (CET) | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Patches in 2.4.17-pre2 that aren't in 2.5.1-pre8 |
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Hi,
patches that go into the stable kernel should also go into the development kernel. I was wondering how good this works and I was surprised that only few patches that were applied to the 2.4 kernels also went into the 2.5 kernels. Below is a list of patches in 2.4.17-pre2 that are missing in 2.5.1-pre8. The name below the changelog entries is the name of the file if you download the missing patches from [1].
Before applying them they need to be checked: Most of the patches apply cleanly but there are some (most of them trivial) rejects and what's more important: I checked whether the patches seem to be missing from 2.5.1-pre8, not whether they compile or produce working code.
I don't know whether this work is redundant, I was mostly interested in how much of the patches in the 2.4 kernels went into the 2.5 kernels. If it helps other people I can continue it up to more recent 2.4 kernels.
Any comments are welcome.
cu Adrian
[1] http://www.fs.tum.de/~bunk/kernel/missing-2.4.17pre2-2.5.1pre8.tar.gz
2.4.16-pre1 - Make pagecache readahead size tunable via /proc (was in -ac tree) 2.4.16-pre1-readahead-tuneable - Fix PPC kernel compilation problems (Paul Mackerras) 2.4.16-pre1-ppc-compile
2.4.17-pre1 - Speeling fix for rd.c (From Ralf Baechle's tree) 2.4.17-pre1-rd.c-spelling - Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs (Adrian Bunk) 2.4.17-pre1-bigphysmem-url - Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist (Arjan Van de Ven) 2.4.17-pre1-440GX-broken_pirq - Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list (Arjan Van de Ven) 2.4.17-pre1-soundblaster-isapnp - Update osst sound driver to 1.65 (Willem Riede) [this is a SCSI Tape Driver] 2.4.17-pre1-osst-update - Fix i810 sound driver problems (Andris Pavenis) 2.4.17-pre1-i810-fix - Add AF_LLC define in network headers (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo) [really added in pre2] 2.4.17-pre2-network-headers-llc-define - block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers (Erik Andersen) 2.4.17-pre1-scsi-block_size - Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some (Andreas Krennmair) modules 2.4.17-pre1-module-license - Updated i8k driver (Massimo Dal Zoto) 2.4.17-pre1-i8k-update - devfs update (Richard Gooch) [part of it was already merged in 2.5.1-pre2; Richard has separate patches for the 2.5 series]
2.4.17-pre2 - Remove userland header from bonding driver (David S. Miller) 2.4.17-pre2-bonding-remove-userland-header - Unregister devices at shaper unload time (David S. Miller) 2.4.17-pre2-shaper-unload-register-devices - Remove several unused variables from various places in the kernel (David S. Miller) [patch to drivers/md/lvm-snap.c is already in 2.5] 2.4.17-pre2-remove-unused-variables - Fix RTC driver bug (David S. Miller) 2.4.17-pre2-rtc-bugfix - SPARC 32/64 update (David S. Miller) 2.4.17-pre2-sparc-update - W9966 V4L driver update (Jakob Jemi) 2.4.17-pre2-W9966-update - Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses (Paul Mackerras) 2.4.17-pre2-pcmcia-fix-pci - IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup (Nathan Myers) 2.4.17-pre2-ia64-headers-cleanup - Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead only BSD. (Robert Love) 2.4.17-pre2-nls-correct-licenses - Fix serial module use count (Russell King) 2.4.17-pre2-serial-fix-use-count - ieee1394 update (Ben Collins) 2.4.17-pre2-ieee1394-update - ReiserFS fixes (Nikita Danilov) [the fix to fs/reiserfs/journal.c is already in 2.5] 2.4.17-pre2-reiserfs-fixes - Smarter atime update (Andrew Morton) 2.4.17-pre2-atime-smarter-update - Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it (Andrew Morton) 2.4.17-pre2-ext2-sb-mark-correctly-dirty - [changes to intermezzo and jbd.h] 2.4.17-pre2-misc
- Update sg to 3.1.22 (Douglas Gilbert) [s/sg/cs/ ?] - PCMCIA update (David Hinds) 2.4.17-pre2-pcmcia
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