Linux-2.4.4-pre1

Aktualnie rozpoczęły się prace nad kolejną stabilną wersją jądra Linux Kernel 2.4.4 pre1. Co znajdziemy w nowym jajku ?

Linux 2.4.4-pre1:
– Bob Tracy: Cyrix MTRR setup fix (don’t make it twice as big as asked for)
– Trond Myklebust: rpciod needs to be PF_MEMALLOC to avoid deadlocks on memory allocation when writing out NFS data under low memory conditions. Fix up BKL and RPC interactions.
– Jeff Garzik: tulip network driver update
– fix truncate to call down to the filesystem with the kernel lock.
– David Mosberger: ia64 update
– David Mosberger: simplify ELF program header generation.
– Alan Cox: merge from -ac series
– Jeff Garzik: make serial.c recognize modem devices properly