The world has been blessed with the release of Linux kernel 2.2.6. Download it from your local kernel.org mirror. CHANGELOG follows: Linux 2.2.6 -- Released 16-Apr-99 21:46 - Required software documentation updates. (Documentation/Changes) - VESA framebuffer console documentation updates. (Documentation/fb/vesafb.txt) - UFS filesystem documentation added. (Documentation/filesystems/ufs.txt) - PCM1-pro sound driver documentation added. (Documentation/sound/PCM1-pro) - Kernel sysctl documentation updates. (Documentation/sysctl/) - Minor Alpha architecture update. - x86 IO-APIC code updates. - x86 MCA bus code updates. - Minor x86 SMP code update. - Minor generic hard disk driver updates: Changes to the SGI partition detection code. - Mitsumi CD-ROM driver update: IRQ and port now are config options. - Sanyo CD-ROM driver update: The driver now sets the sector size tables, fixing a bug in the previous version. - ADS Cadet AM/FM Tuner support added. - Pixelview PlayTV support added. - Cyclades multiport serial driver updates: Bug that prevented the port from being closed properly after a SIGINT fixed. Module usage counter improved. Support added for "Y PCI" boards. - /dev/mem character device driver updated: Mostly stuff regarding O_SYNC, I believe. - Minor software watchdog timer update. - DEC FDDIcontroller (defxx) driver updates. - Major IrDA subsystem updates. - RedCreek network driver updates. - SyncPPP network driver update: It appears that support was added for size 20 Cisco packets. - z85230 net card driver updates. - ncr53c8xx SCSI driver updates: "excl" boot command option added; this allows you the IO address of devices not to attach. - aha152x SCSI driver updates. - gdth SCSI driver updates. - PCI-2000 SCSI driver updates: Spinlock and PCI configuration bugfixes. - PCI-2220i SCSI driver updates: Spinlock and PCI configuration bugfixes. - qlogic fibrechannel SCSI driver updates. - Major generic SCSI driver updates. - Symbios 53C896 SCSI driver added. - Minor wd33c93 SCSI driver update. - Sound driver updates. - Ensoniq 1370 and 1371 sound driver updates: More IOCTLs implimented. Fixes for DEC Alpha systems. - S3 Sonicvibes sound driver updates: This driver now revives the chip if it locks up. More IOCTLs implimented. Fixes for DEC Alpha systems. - MTRR option added to the VESA framebuffer console driver. - affs filesystem driver updates. - Coda filesystem driver updates. - ext2 filesystem driver updates. - FAT filesystem driver update: Invalid FSINFO offset fixed. - Minor HFS filesystem driver update. - Minor updates to the generic filesystem layer (VFS). - Minix filesystem driver updates. - MS-DOS filesystem driver updates. - NCP network filesystem driver updates. - NFS filesystem driver updates. - Kernel NFS daemon updates. - NT filesystem driver updates. - Minor /proc virtual filesystem driver update. - SMB network filesystem driver updates. - System V filesystem driver updates. - UFS filesystem driver updates. - UMSDOS filesystem driver updates. - VFAT filesystem driver updates. - IPC shared memory code updated. - Memory map code updated. - Appletalk net driver updates. - ver_linux utility script updated. Also, for those interested, Alan Cox has also released his 2.2.6-ac1 patch. -- Michael Merritt [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.merrittpop.com/ [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.merrittpop.com/jmm/ ICQ: 21021306 -- To get out of this list, please send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e Check out the SuSE-FAQ at http://www.suse.com/Support/Doku/FAQ/ and the archive at http://www.suse.com/Mailinglists/suse-linux-e/index.html
