Updated kernel package needs testing.

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Wed Jan 7 20:02:42 UTC 2004


Quite a few changes here, especially to ext2/3 and fs/vm subsystems.
Handle with care for now.

		Dave

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2003-048
2004-01-07
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Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.4.22                      
Release     : 1.2149.nptl                  
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of your
Fedora Core Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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* Wed Jan 07 2004 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>

- Merge several EXT2/3 fixes from 2.4.25pre
  - EXT2/3 fixes.
    - Reclaim pages in truncate
    - 2.6 EA symlink compatibility
    - forward-compatibility: online resizing
    - Allow filesystems with expanded inodes to be mounted
    - Handle j_commit_interval == 0
  - IDE timeout race fix
- Merge some 2.4.23pre patches that were missed.
  - Make root a special case for per-user process limits.
  - out_of_memory() locking
  - Drop module count if lockd reclaimer thread failed to start
  - Fix potential fsync() race condition
- s/Red Hat/Fedora/ in specfile (#112992)
- Add PCI ident for new Intel e1000 card. (#105046)
- Actually wire up 3c59x ethtool ioctl.
- Fix up numeric sysctls to match mainline.

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This update can be downloaded from:
  http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/1/

0528ff2ef4b077e34a6e9f0bdc4c4c43  SRPMS/kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.src.rpm
cf2da4c300650d6a68aeb3141e8de93e  i386/kernel-source-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i386.rpm
b6ffe91b11cb64af23f08de19c965677  i386/kernel-doc-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i386.rpm
37bdb02f23cd936fc6a68c8b2f176275  i386/kernel-BOOT-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i386.rpm
fe89710f267b238c9e5fcdf3d2658383  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i386.rpm
68de6d015862dfc63d40b68a8fa1affa  i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i586.rpm
9714ae57c042a42400336c06ae07f2c3  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i586.rpm
ccc831fbb9ffa04ed7504f058411febc  i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i686.rpm
257145cc01f1ea38fbcf22304b93d566  i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i686.rpm
baff2d70eb4e24b626511b9f3feacccd  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.i686.rpm
70b1314d932ff4283cab39a289b7aedc  i386/kernel-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.athlon.rpm
af27b81477979c6ff42a9e1475adaf3b  i386/kernel-smp-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.athlon.rpm
307fb0efbbc54a55e3d0c2a4b134c691  i386/debug/kernel-debuginfo-2.4.22-1.2149.nptl.athlon.rpm

This update can also be installed with the Update Agent; you can
launch the Update Agent with the 'up2date' command.
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