Fedora 7 Test Update: kernel-2.6.22.3-61.fc7

Fri Aug 24 05:29:49 UTC 2007

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Fedora Test Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-1705
2007-08-23 22:27:39.514635
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Name        : kernel
Product     : Fedora 7
Version     : 2.6.22.3
Release     : 61.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 and 2.6.22.3:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.2
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.3

- 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.
- Enable ACPI_DEBUG in -debug builds.
- Fix e820 memory hole sizing on x86_64.
- Add three bugfixes for sky2 ethernet.
- Fix some SCSI async scanning bugs.
- Fix polling in r8169 driver.
- Fix wrong sensor values with some chips.

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ChangeLog:

* Thu Aug 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- sensors:   fix wrong values with some chips
- r8169:     fix polling
- forcedeth: fix wrong OUI for PHY
- SCSI:      fix async scanning
- sky2:      4 patches from maintainer
* Thu Aug 16 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- enable ACPI_DEBUG in -debug builds
- fix e820 memory hole sizing on x86_64
- export GFS2 symbols for lock modules
* Wed Aug 15 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- Linux 2.6.22.3
* Wed Aug 15 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- ACPI: fix broken conversion of older FADTs
- ACPI: fix possible corruption of GPE list
* 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:

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4351e9d73bb438b3208ddf3f8cc017807304abbe kernel-headers-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.i386.rpm
4b65f27ea3c06a9104adc64ad1a6f21e17f6cb84 kernel-debug-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.i686.rpm
48f4d2ebc74218691807aa2ff92865c3ad54244c kernel-PAE-debug-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.i686.rpm
1662cea93f60d4f2e31a0aadd340e5876c666a93 kernel-debug-debuginfo-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.i686.rpm
1057aee66959f2384bbf42ed5a028688fb320321 kernel-PAE-debug-devel-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.i686.rpm
3727d5b05c3bf8ddfd500828fc4f998e0a3b24df kernel-PAE-debuginfo-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.i686.rpm
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7f7f03a3df101dc71e4b5667ddfe6b1655f85034 kernel-smp-debuginfo-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.ppc.rpm
65a74953f732daadea6c4ac1a351ea3d95b84d71 kernel-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.ppc.rpm
49df253b2d96fbb6f53873748d55b2b7e042e19f kernel-headers-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.ppc.rpm
6969e80aabd793948c267f79866d2648cf243bc6 kernel-debuginfo-common-2.6.22.3-61.fc7.ppc.rpm
ecc35f213f8df90f664187b0a15d7ca4d1e76c42 kernel-2.6.22.3-61.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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