最新版本的2.4.7内核已经发布,这次升级经历了9次pre的版本才正式发布下边是更新历史和所做的修改!
-final:
- me: fix ptrace and /proc issues with new core-dump permissions
- numerous: IDE tape driver update for completion handlers
- Ben Collins: ieee1394 GUID cleanups
- Jacek Stepniewski: nasty deadlock in rename()
-pre9:
- Dan Quinlan: cramfs update
- Ben Collins: IEEE 1394 update
- David Miller: network update (pppoe, routing cache stats), sparc32 update
- me: only dump core once per threaded app (first one wins)
- me: use new completion handlers for block device requests (same race
as with vfork, see -pre7)
-pre8:
- Chris Mason: reiserfs update
- Paul Mackerras: PPC updates (softirq)
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- various: workaround for cpuid inline asm problem with egcs-2.91.66
-pre7:
- Andreas Dilger: various ext2 cleanups
- Richard Gooch: devfs update
- Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
- Alan Cox: merges
- David Miller: fix SMP pktsched bootup deadlock (CONFIG_NET_SCHED)
- Roman Zippel: AFFS update
- Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update
- me: fix races in vfork() (semaphores are not good completion handlers)
- Jeff Garzik: net driver updates, sysvfs update
-pre6:
- me: fix more buffer head SMP races (non-x86 only - weak memory ordering)
- Andrea Arkangeli: some bh cleanups from the buffer race condition fix
- Tim Waugh: parport drievr documentation, init sanity
- Ion Badulescu: starfire net driver update
- David Miller: sparc and networking updates
- Ivan Kokshaysky: alpha version of the inlined rw-semaphores
- NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update
-pre5:
- remember to bump the version string
- Andrea Arkangeli: softirq cleanups and fixes, and everybody is happy
again (ie I changed some details to make me happy ;)
- Neil Brown: raid5 stall fix, nfsd filehandle sanity check fix
-pre4:
- David Miller: sparc and networking updates
- Al Viro: SysV FS add_link off-by-two bogosity.
- Jeff Garzik: merge D-Link DL2k GigE driver, other network driver cleanups
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Alan Cox: more merging (MPT fusion core)
- Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
- Stas Sergeev: make sure we return out of vm86 mode when interrupts
get re.enabled
- Rusty Russell: netfilter fixes for ipt_unclean and ip_queue
- me: initialize page->age when adding it to the swap cache
- Paul Mackerras: PPC updates
- some subtle fs/buffer.c race conditions (Andrew Morton, me)
-pre3:
- merge with Alan (SCSI subsystem)
- Jeff Garzik: make serial driver PCI hotplug-aware
-pre2:
- merge with Alan (USB, zoran, sony motion-eye, rio, dmi-scan)
-pre1:
- merge with Alan (irda, s390, mips64, chris, sk98lin, mips/mm)
- rth: fix alpha RTC calibration
- Paul Mackerras: fix PPC typo
摘自：http://www.linuxbyte.net/