Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-1613
2007-08-15 12:42:50.628862
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.6.22.2
Release     : 57.fc7
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
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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Update Information:

Update to kernel 2.6.22.2:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.2

Fix failure to find serial ports on some machines.

Detect broken timers on some AMD dual-core machines: fixes
hangs and failure to boot.

Don't crash when a userspace driver requests too much memory.

Update the CFS scheduler to more closely match upstream.
	
Wireless driver update.

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ChangeLog:

* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- revert "don't BUG on too-large memory allocation"
- limit memory allocated by input force feedback drivers
* Tue Aug 14 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update wireless-dev bits (mac80211 & ssb updates, bcm43xx -> b43 rename)
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- update CFS scheduler with upstream patches
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_NET_RADIO (#251094)
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.2
- serial: revert changes to port detection
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- don't use incremental patches for -stable updates
- update CFS scheduler patch
- update utrace patches
* Wed Aug  8 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update wireless bits (upstream fixes, iwlwifi and bcm43xx updates)
* Wed Aug  8 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add xt_statistic.h to header list for iptables
- detect broken lapic timer on some dual-core AMD systems
- don't BUG on too-large memory allocation
* Tue Aug  7 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- mac80211: probe for hidden SSIDs during when scanning for association
* Mon Aug  6 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch (bcm43xx & zd1211rw updates)
- mac80211: Filter locally-originated multicast frames echoed by AP (2nd try)
* Fri Aug  3 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Disable busted mac80211 local multicast filter patch
* Thu Aug  2 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch (iwlwifi, rt2x00, & zd1211rw updates)
- mac80211: Filter locally-originated multicast frames echoed by AP
* Wed Aug  1 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- fix crash in xfrm4
* Tue Jul 31 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
- fix softmac deadlock.
* Fri Jul 27 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch (iwlwifi & bcm43xx updates)
- Remove hunk of linux-2.6-wireless that was reverted upstream
* Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- revert upstream "genirq: do not mask interrupts by default"
* Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- fix DMI strings in HP notebook quirk for ALI controller
* Fri Jul 27 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sync the CFS scheduler timekeeping changes with upstream
* Fri Jul 27 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
- Update PlayStation 3 support (#249217)
* Wed Jul 25 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- update wireless bits
* Wed Jul 25 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- kernel requires newer version of cpuspeed
- pata_hpt37x: Fix 2.6.22 clock PLL regression (#249254)
- atl1: possibly fix DMA bugs (#249511)
* Wed Jul 25 2007 David Woodhouse <dwmw2 at infradead.org>
- Restore bcm43xx functionality
- Restore PowerMac suspend-to-ram via /sys/power/state
  (since userspace forgot how to use the PMU ioctls)
- Restore ofpath functionality (IDE_PROC_FS=y)
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_DEBUG_SHIRQ only in -debug kernels
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS (should fix #249211)
* Mon Jul 23 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
- Re-enable aes-i586 and twofish-i586 for i686 kernels (#249158)
* Fri Jul 20 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- SDHCI: clear the error interrupt bit
- ftdi_sio: fix oops
* Fri Jul 20 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- update wireless bits
* Fri Jul 20 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- utrace update
- CFS scheduler update
* Tue Jul 17 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- update wireless bits
* Tue Jul 17 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- gfs2: update to the latest
- sched: fix show_task()/show_tasks() output
- sched: fix newly idle load balance in case of SMT
- sched: fix the all pinned logic in load_balance_newidle()
- fix leaks of struct seq_operations
- fix leaks of ref to user struct
- pata_atiixp: add SB700 PCI ID
- ata_piix: fix pio/mwdma programming
- sdhci: add ene controller id
- sdhci: Fix "Unexpected interrupt" handling
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- bluetooth: hangup tty before releasing rfcomm
- driver core: get driver properly during release
- net scheduler: fix deadlock
- input: rfkill driver screws up the CPU flags
- acpi-cpufreq: make register write work properly again
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add proper caching of last_ctl to the 'unbreak SMART' fix
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Unbreak SMART on libata.
* Mon Jul 16 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Disable warnings that trigger due to disabled USB suspend.
* Fri Jul 13 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add more ATI SB700 ids to the ahci driver
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Some systems have a HPET which is not incrementing, which leads
  to a complete hang.  Detect it during HPET setup.
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Replace the pcspkr private PIT lock by the global PIT lock to
  serialize the PIT access all over the place.
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Add back the rediffed PS3 patches.
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- ata: update noncq list
- idr: multiple bugfixes
- tcp: sack fix leak msgs
- vbe: always save ddc data
* Thu Jul 12 2007 Jarod Wilson <jwilson at redhat.com>
- Fix up some uname -r issues in certain kernel version
  cases (due to new versioning scheme)
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- jbd: fix transaction dropping (kernel oops)
- kvm: reinit real mode TSS on shutdown
- kvm: detect SVM disabled by BIOS
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sky2: re-enable lost interrupt workarounds
- aacraid: ioctl handler needs permission check
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- NFS: Add the mount option "nosharecache"
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Revert mkinitrd requires: bump to what's in FC7.
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Remove the x86-64 tickless patches, they aren't ready.
* Wed Jul 11 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.1
* Wed Jul 11 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Update git-wireless-dev.patch
- Add upstream version of rtl8187 patch
- Add updated iwlwifi driver from intellinuxwireless.org
* Tue Jul 10 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Fix issue with PIE randomization (#246623).
* Tue Jul 10 2007 Dave Jones <davej at redhat.com>
- Rebase to 2.6.22
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Updated packages:

c1730999ae8780c03ae326e115303f4bd93338c7 kernel-doc-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.noarch.rpm
84cf1c5849739b9d9e04913e19ba7fcb51238b6c kernel-headers-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i386.rpm
1420e7061c7b5a1636d21558d23bbca6931d3841 kernel-PAE-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
de2868dc58c70019c8755b465df73cbc8c0651cb kernel-PAE-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
0297ebb0280b384bc530c81612214d329ede9d53 kernel-PAE-debug-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
d4b04ed2fda059ec0bb8ef28a524f9c81d62ef68 kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
871a6cd8589bdabd007c8f19c47efe5d41a159d3 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
a3800eb90b47d8a6f7996ced5ce6362337045e04 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
fbb77684f425d58bb39ea4515123234a01e44d8b kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
12e90d5accea12e00f82adae5bc0802f72e755b3 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
c4726fda8d25a2a8f8ce58a064e8921b74708137 kernel-PAE-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
b5f873e982de0c5407ce994661951c12bd7b4916 kernel-PAE-debug-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
0dd5d150aa30f638726abf690eb8a2506b9d2748 kernel-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
be8b0583aaa4db4f8a9febf8c3a2df29d6b34d76 kernel-debug-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
4a4182000ed22c9d4ed2015b1d9622e96101cee3 kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i686.rpm
c3909a04197654fab1a1aa6c0f4141ba229e1fd5 kernel-headers-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
7079767d14b802d76cafe8da9518e84ab085d399 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
c78136a9179c4ba5bcc9f5b31e0a985c0ce75187 kernel-kdump-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
65845e3e73024b42a899d75b017ac5ffdf40c79d kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
e493a8a19d8ca15a662c374af893fbc4e06609e6 kernel-kdump-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
873860256e8094e3c4060d2fdccaa28b93693e72 kernel-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
0e694611855eec8ea040de1ecde10aae278a387e kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
f5ac494f0e45b0dc14dca905e39e4cdc87fc7307 kernel-kdump-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc64.rpm
7eb3f00d9edfbf81f14f284760981e646f7a316e kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i586.rpm
f0268aa65b9ccb994ab1238ebff9ffa2413a5974 kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i586.rpm
5762b960f56d2b3b63bba41e46d4667bae9986b7 kernel-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i586.rpm
a25984b2734adc2dfbcd687fdf721d38d6b239a2 kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.i586.rpm
eb67148e788b374d1c33203b865f5fa5817c4dd7 kernel-debug-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
bf3f84aa003328824791ceebb1a01d90f9b17e12 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
bea5855de248be37403fdfa777b6c78a28522efd kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
b9ea4d26607dd927cd64f768561a7ba41b346877 kernel-debug-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
11406721a425143989da21769d83f78a43079277 kernel-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
1367f1e6bdd05bb893d141c638006db4a856fedf kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
f2b8c51a34ceb2b34c0003fa7b3036b112a88185 kernel-headers-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
e49743c7af0ffcf7f0452a21765d95f878940d4a kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.x86_64.rpm
3c13ad9fe7cc6af697a8e603ce8ad586b35dc979 kernel-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
b6a7a5fde30b33b616164b62f62c3cb9aaf26b25 kernel-smp-devel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
aa72ddaa358a5c20dcf40f7eae207be0b410a2c3 kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
811a5dce054e3247cebd2f294713cf675e08b64e kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
274373e75347a654eb18c6af433a0c976f3ac6c3 kernel-smp-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
99ffe007565cac9d6e820489d3bc413eafb207e0 kernel-smp-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
b166e79a7a3989f16f44d55a11c5350399762b2f kernel-debuginfo-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
e2b6aac4808039fd66563047d5c91011b6188d62 kernel-headers-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.ppc.rpm
d2f6b19eab97cfe0357bf59952703e8bbfecdf0d kernel-2.6.22.2-57.fc7.src.rpm

This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://docs.fedoraproject.org/yum/.
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