Diff between 2.4.6pre5aa1 and 2.4.7pre2aa1: Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_irda-2.4.5ac13-1.bz2 Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_swapinfo-1 Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_numa-compile-1 Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_alpha-irq_err_count-1 Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_bootmem-header-1 Merged in in mainline. Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_3c59x-zerocopy-1 Fix from Andi to allow zerocopy networking on HIGHMEM enabled kernel running on non highmem hardware. Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_double-buffer-pass-1 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_double-buffer-pass-2 Rediffed on top of the new sync logic. Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_increase-logbuffer-1 Increase dmesg buffer for long bootup logs. Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_ksoftirqd-6_ia64-1 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_ksoftirqd-7_ia64-2 Fix from Andreas S. Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_nanosleep-4 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_nanosleep-5 Fixed a stupid merging bug. (spotted by Andi) Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 00_rwsem-13 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_rwsem-14 Rediffed to fix minor reject. Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_swapfiles-1 Increase the max number of swapfiles (should be dynamic oh well). Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 00_vm-deadlock-fix-1 Fix VM deadlock with GFP_NOFS. Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 10_blkdev-pagecache-4 Move blkdev in pagecache. Ramdisk should be rock solid, even better than before, the rd_blocksize is meaningless these days so it won't break regardless of the blocksize used by the fs like it could happen before. Only last pending points are: 1) blkdev with a size not multiple of PAGE_CACHE_SIZE, need to check nothing fatal happens in that case with some simulation. 2) about performance, Chel van Gennip raised a point about granularity of the I/O to avoid read-modify-write (which is easily selectable at compile time like in 2.2, by default it is 4k for streming I/O performance reason, order of magnitude faster) The question is if we should change the granularity dynamically, and if we should also handle partial reads similarly to what we do with the partial writes. (this way a partial write followed by a partial read would generate no I/O besides the async flush of the dirty block) However this is a performance point, not really a functional/stability point. Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1/30_tux: 30_atomic-alloc-1 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/30_tux: 30_atomic-alloc-2 Rediffered to fix trivial reject. Only in 2.4.6pre5aa1: 40_experimental Gone away as blkdev in pagecache is included by default. Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 50_uml-arch-2.4.5ac17.bz2 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 50_uml-common-1.bz2 Only in 2.4.7pre2aa1/: 51_uml-ac-to-aa-1.bz2 Merged in uml from -ac.