[PATCH] Linux-0.99.3 (January 13, 1993)
VFS gets "permission()" virtual function. [Original announcement below] Still no 1.0 - I have had a couple of reports of problems, so I'll make yet another 0.99 release. The diffs (against 0.99.2) and complete source can be found at nic.funet.fi: pub/OS/Linux/PEOPLE/Linus as usual, and will probably show up at the other sites pretty soon. 0.99.3 contains no real new features, but the diffs are pretty big anyway (100kB+ compressed): various things have moved around a bit and there are a lot of minor changes. The changes include (but are not limited to): - the math emulator code now also understands the unofficial codes (in case somebody followed the ML math emulator thread). I'd be interested to hear whether ML now works with the emulator. - various SCSI driver changes - some re-organization of the tty open/close code to remove a few race conditions. - interrupt handling rewrites (two-level interrupt code cleanups) - the serial drivers are tytso's alpha-drivers: they aren't quite completed, but as they need the interrupt handling patches to get ready, this is probably the least traumatic way of doing it. - some more minor keyboard driver changes (mostly taking advantage of the two-level interrupts) + a lot of other minor changes. I once more hope people will try it out, and report any problems or successes to me. Known problems: - there seems to be something weird going on in the ST-0x driver with some scsi disks. - tcp/ip is reportedly still not quite stable, and I can't even test it out. NOTE! The DMA functions have changed for the high DMA channels - all DMA functions now take their arguments as the number of bytes instead of the old way of using bytes for ch 0-3 and words for ch 5-7. This might lead to problems with the SoundBlaster driver, which may need editing. Linus
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