2.6.12 was released June 17, 2005. Changelog.

• Cpusets: Cpusets provide a way to manage subsets of CPUs and Memory Nodes for scheduling and memory placement, via a new virtual file system, usually mounted at /dev/cpuset. Manipulation of cpusets can be done directly via this file system, from the shell. (LWN article) commit, commit

• Device mapper multipath support (LWN article) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Annotate /proc/<PID>/maps with [heap]/[stack]/[vdso] markers commit

• Add timing information to printk messages commit

• posix-timers: high-resolution CPU clocks for POSIX clock_* syscalls commit

• posix-timers: CPU clock support for POSIX timers commit

• Make RLIMIT_CPU/SIGXCPU, ITIMER_PROF, ITIMER_VIRTUAL, ITIMER_REAL per-process commit, commit, commit

• Show RLIMIT_SIGPENDING usage in /proc/PID/status and set limit based on RLIMIT_NPROC commit, commit, commit

• Add RLIMIT_NICE and RLIMIT_RTPRIO to allow non-root tasks to raise nice and rt priorities. Defaults to traditional behavior (LWN article) commit

• loglevel boot option commit

• seccomp: secure computing support commit, commit

• Address space randomization: each process's stack will begin at a random location, and the beginning of the memory area used for mmap(2) (which is where shared libraries go, among other things) will be randomized as well (LWN article). commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Introduce the CONFIG_BASE_SMALL flag commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Speed up /proc/pid/maps commit

• class core: export MAJOR/MINOR to the hotplug env commit

• block core: export MAJOR/MINOR to the hotplug env commit

• Driver core: add "bus" symlink to class/block devices commit

• IPV6: no longer considered EXPERIMENTAL. commit

• IPv4: equal cost multipath with caching support commit

• IPV4: Make multipath algs into true drivers commit

• PKT_SCHED: Extended Matches API commit

• PKT_SCHED: Simple comparison ematch (cmp) commit

• PKT_SCHED: Multi byte comparison ematch (nbyte) commit

• PKT_SCHED: u32 hasing key ematch commit

• PKT_SCHED: Metadata ematch (meta) commit

• PKT_SCHED: Basic classifier commit

• IPV6: match TCP port selection behavior with ipv4 commit

• IPV6: ROUTE: Add gc_min_interval_ms sysctl. commit

• IPV6: NDISC: NEWLINK notification on change of Reachable Time commit

• NET: NEIGHBOUR: Add retrans_time_ms and reachable_time_ms sysctls. commit

• NEIGH: Provide number of probes to userspace commit

• NETFILTER: Restore ports module parameter for ip_nat_{ftp,irq} commit

• NET: Allow dumping of application specific statistics if no primary TLV is used commit

• PKT_SCHED: Introduce simple actions. commit

• BRIDGE: features change notification commit

• IPV4: Primary and secondary addresses commit

• NET: Add ethtool support for NETIF_F_HW_CSUM. commit

• NET: Allow controlling NAPI device weight with sysfs commit

• SCTP: Support SO_BINDTODEVICE socket option on incoming packets. commit

• SCTP: Extend the info exported via /proc/net/sctp to support netstat for SCTP. commit

• SCTP: Add support for ip_nonlocal_bind sysctl & IP_FREEBIND socket option commit

• IPV4: Sysctl configurable icmp error source address. commit

• PKT_SCHED: Allow socket attributes to be matched on via meta ematch commit

• PKT_SCHED: Dump classification result for basic classifier commit

• CIFS: Add support for updating Windows NT times/dates (part 1) commit

• CIFS: Display pool sizes in cifs stats commit

• CIFS: add generic readv/writev and aio support. commit

• cifs: add support for chattr/lsattr in new CIFS POSIX extensions commit

• cifs: Enable ioctl support in POSIX extensions to handle lsattr commit

• cifs: Add new mount parm mapchars commit

• cifs: character mapping of special characters commit

• JFS: allow iocharset=none mount option commit

• FAT: add AIO and the -o sync' and -o dirsync' supports to fatfs. If user specified that option, the fatfs does traditional ordered updates by using synchronous writes commit

• Handle MS_SYNCHRONOUS flag in FAT: FAT filesystem has been ignoring the "sync" mount option for ages. This patches fixes this, but (obviously) degrades performance unless you mount your FAT filesystem as asynchronous ("async" mount option) commit

• CRYPTO: Add Tiger digest algorithms. commit

• CIFS: ioctl support commit, commit

• CIFS: recognize nouser_xattr and user_xattr mount options (default is still xattr enabled if built with xattr support) commit

• CIFS: Add support for setting timestaps by handle for NT4 servers commit

• CIFS: add new statfs call for posix extensions commit

• CIFS: statfs protocol extensions commit

• XFS: Provide a mechanism for reporting ihashsize defaults via /proc/mounts. commit

• XFS: Make trivial extension to sync flag to implement dirsync, instead of silently ignoring it. commit

• Updated FAT attributes: This updates the FAT attributes as well as corrects the handling of VFAT ctime commit

• JFS: Support page sizes greater than 4K commit

• reiserfs: make resize option auto-get new device size commit

• ext3 writeback "nobh" option commit

• hfs: add nls support commit

• hfs: unicode decompose support commit

• Block I/O barrier rewrite (enables full barrier support on serial ATA drives) commit

• NFS: Add emulation of BSD flock() in terms of POSIX locks on the server commit

• RPC: remove broken_suid mount option commit

• Add selinux support for reiserfs commit, commit, commit, commit

• kbuild: Introdude KBUILD_NOCMDDEP commit

• readahead: improve sequential read detection commit

• Pageout throttling: With silly pageout testcases it is possible to place huge amounts of memory under I/O. This means that all memory is pinned and unreclaimable and the VM gets upset and goes oom. This patch limits the amount of memory which is under pageout writeout to be a little more than the amount of memory at which balance_dirty_pages() callers will synchronously throttle. This means that heavy pageout activity can starve heavy writeback activity completely, but heavy writeback activity will not cause starvation of pageout commit

• Speed freeing memory for suspend. commit

• Properly share process and session keyrings with CLONE_THREAD commit

• swsusp: enable resume from initrd commit

• Allow admin to enable only some of the Magic-Sysrq functions commit

• SELinux: audit unrecognized netlink messages commit

• SELinux: add support for NETLINK_KOBJECT_UEVENT commit

• SELinux: enhanced MLS support commit

• SELinux: add finer grained permissions to Netlink audit processing commit

• make sysrq-F call oom_kill() commit

• Add audit uid to netlink credentials commit

• Kconfig i18n support commit

• Drivers & architectures

  • ARM: Remove PrPMC1100 platform commit

  • ARM: S3C2440 - camera interface device commit

  • ARM: base support for poodle machine commit

  • ARM: !SMDK2440 - base machine support commit

  • ARM: S3C2410 - add Acer n30 commit

  • ARM: Sharp SCOOP - Add mutliple device support commit

  • ARM: OMAP 32KHz timer and 64-bit sched_clock, take 3 commit

  • ARM: S3C2410 - s3c2400 uart support commit

  • ARM: S3C2410 - OTOM1.1 and Nexcoder 2440 support commit

  • ARM: ptrace support for accessing iWMMXt regs commit

  • ARM: OMAP: Add boards VoiceBlue and NetStar commit

  • ARM: kernel helpers for NPTL support commit

  • mips: add TANBAC TB0219 base board driver commit

  • PA-RISC PDC stable storage driver commit

  • ALSA Harmony sound driver for PA-RISC commit

  • ppc32: Add PCI bus support for Freescale MPC52xx commit

  • ppc32: Add VIA IDE support to MPC8555 CDS platform commit

  • ppc32: Support for 82xx PQII on-chip PCI bridge commit

  • ppc32: Add pegasos ethernet support commit

  • ppc32: add support for Sky Computers HDPU Compute blade commit

  • ppc32: PowerQUICC II Pro subarch support commit

  • ppc32: support OpenBIOS/U-Boot for Ebony commit

  • ppc32: Add support for the Dallas 1553 RTC/NVRAM commit

  • ppc32: Add support to use the DS1553 RTC/NVRAM on MPC8555 CDS system commit

  • ppc32: add Radstone PPC7D platform support commit

  • ppc32: Support 36-bit physical addressing on e500 commit

  • ppc32: add sound support for Mac Mini commit

  • ppc64: add PT_NOTE section to vDSO commit

  • ppc64: collect and export low-level cpu usage statistics commit

  • ppc64: allow xmon=on,off,early commit

  • ppc64: Implement a vDSO and use it for signal trampoline commit

  • ppc64: generic hotplug cpu support commit

  • ppc64: new machine definitions commit

  • ppc64: Add IDE-pmac support for new "Shasta" chipset commit

  • ppc64: Add basic support for the SMU chip in iMac G5 commit

  • PPC64 Implement non-executable stacks commit

  • ppc64: thermal control for Xserve commit

  • ppc64: Add mem=X boot command line option commit

  • ppc64: very basic desktop g5 sound support commit

  • sh64: Initial checkstack port commit

  • sh64: module support commit

  • IA64 SGI: altix: tioca chip driver (agp) commit

  • IA64 SGI: Altix SN topology support for new chipsets and pci topology commit

  • IA64: SGI Altix cross partition functionality commit, commit, commit

  • IA64 SGI: New chipset support for SN platform commit, commit

  • IA64: Add config SCHED_SMT commit

  • IA64 SGI: Bus driver for the CX port of SGI's TIO chip. commit

  • IA64: multi-core/multi-thread identification commit

  • IA64: vector sharing (Large I/O system support) commit

  • i386: add kstack=N option (from x86_64) commit

  • i386/x86-64 vDSO: add PT_NOTE segment commit, commit

  • x86_64: add support for Intel dual-core detection and displaying commit

  • x86_64: Final support for AMD dual core commit

  • x86_64: Add acpi_skip_timer_override option commit

  • x86_64: Add pmtimer support commit

  • Support for Cyrix MediaGX (aka GEODE) CPUs. Linux and GCC treat this chip as a 586TSC with some extended instructions and alignment requirements commit

  • Altix: ioc4 serial driver support commit

  • uml: "Hardware" random number generator commit

  • uml: support AES i586 crypto driver commit

  • uml: finish cross-build support commit

  • uml: Remove ubd-mmap support commit

  • SPARC64: Make PAGE_SIZE configurable. commit

  • SPARC64: Support >=cheetah+ dual-dtlbs properly. commit

  • SPARC64: Add UltraSPARC-IV cpu ids. commit

  • SPARC64: Add boot option to force UltraSPARC-III P-Cache on. commit

  • SPARC: Provide generic ioctls in Sparc RTC driver. commit

  • ALSA: AC'97 Audio support for Intel ICH7 commit

  • ALSA: Add support for Chaintech 9CJS commit

  • ALSA: Enable HP jack sense for FSC Scenic-W commit

  • ALSA: Add Intel HDA driver commit

  • ALSA: Novation and MOTU USB MIDI support commit

  • ALSA: MPU-401 PnP support commit

  • ALSA: add 96Khz support and setting sample rate for direct SPDIF output commit

  • ALSA: add STAC9708 output bias mixer control commit

  • ALSA: Added support for Terratec PHASE 22 commit

  • ALSA: Add support for Audigy2LS on MSI motherboard commit

  • ALSA: Enables SPDIF output on the Audigy2 Value commit

  • ALSA: Added ICE1724 - ESI Juli@ code (not complete) + AK4114 code + AK4358 commit

  • mv643xx: Add support for PHYs/boards that don't support autonegotiation. commit

  • Adds a disable_irm option to ieee1394.ko which disables all Isochronous Resource Manager functionality, useful to work around certain problems, e.g. iPod detection. commit

  • SCSI: Add device io statistics commit

  • ACPI: Add ACPI-based memory hot plug driver. commit

  • input: This patch adds support to uinput for Linux's force feedback interface. With these changes, it's possible to write drivers for force feedback joysticks and similar devices in userspace. It also adds a way to set the physical path of devices created via uinput commit

  • input: Add support for Logitech MX300 mouse in PS/2 mode. commit

  • input: Add support for the Logitech MX1000 mouse in PS/2 mode. commit

  • input: Add support for Sharp Zaurus SL-C7cc Corgi keyboards. commit

  • input: Add support for Sharp SL-C7xx touchscreen (Corgi). commit

  • input: New driver for ICS MicroClock MK712 TouchScreens commit

  • input: HP HIL support (from PARISC Linux tree). commit

  • input: This patch adds support for a Wacom new tablet, Intuos3, and its associated tools. commit

  • input: Add a new ID to the Logitech ForceFeedback joystick driver. commit

  • input: Add support for serial ELO touchscreens, including Elo IntelliTouch, AccuTouch and SecureTouch. commit

  • mv643xx: Add ethtool support to the mv643xx ethernet driver. Initially, we add statistics and link status reporting. commit

  • AGPGART: Drop the Intel-mch AGP driver. commit

  • input: Add support for less usual ALPS touchpads commit

  • input: Add more PnP IDs to i8042 PnP probe table commit

  • input: Add MicroTouch (3M) serial touchscreen driver commit

  • input: Add the option to use cooked coordinates in MicroTouch USB touchscreen driver. commit

  • input: This patch is for the keyboard on Sharp Zaurus collie and poodle models (SL5000, SL5500, and SL5600) commit

  • Input: export psmouse module parameters via sysfs commit

  • I2C: add fscpos chip driver commit

  • I2C: Enable w83781d and w83627hf temperature channels commit

  • I2C: add ST M41T00 I2C RTC chip driver commit

  • I2C: New chip driver: sis5595 commit

  • I2C: add Marvell mv64xxx i2c driver commit

  • I2C: add GL520SM Sensor Chip driver commit

  • I2C i2c-nforce2: add support for nForce4 (patch against 2.6.11-rc4) commit

  • ALSA: emu10k1 driver - add multichannel device hw:x,3 commit, commit

  • ALSA emu10k1 - add 'voices' /proc entry for debugging the voice allocator commit

  • ALSA: add code to dump packets commit

  • ALSA: add support for Emagic USB MIDI interfaces commit

  • ALSA: ALC882 support commit

  • ALSA: add Roland FANTOM-X support commit

  • ALSA: Add mixer controls to intel8x0m commit

  • sis900.c net poll support commit

  • Add OMAP support to smc91x Ethernet driver commit

  • wireless: atmel: Add support LG LW2100N WLAN PCMCIA card commit

  • mii: add GigE support commit

  • IB/mthca: implement query of device caps commit

  • Add ATP88x support to the ATP870U driver (Vendor patch) commit

  • Restore PWC driver commit

  • USB: add SiS USB2VGA kernel driver commit

  • USB: Add USBAT02 storage support commit

  • USB: Add USBAT-based CompactFlash storage support commit

  • USB ftdi_sio: an rs485 adaptor from 4n-galaxy.de commit

  • USB: add 'distrust_firmware' option to ohci commit

  • USB: wacom tablet driver commit

  • USB: Add ASIX AX88772 10/100 Ethernet support to usbnet commit

  • USB: add usbmon, a USB monitoring framework commit

  • USB Storage: Unusual_devs entry for Nikon DSC D70 commit

  • USB: add zd1201 wireless lan driver commit

  • remove drivers/char/tpqic02.c commit

  • OSS Support for AC97 low power codecs commit

  • serial: add NEC VR4100 series serial support commit

  • serial: add the output interface control to VR41xx SIU driver commit

  • Implement quota reading and writing functions for UFS. commit

  • Add TPM hardware enablement driver commit

  • Add SuperHyway bus subsystem commit

  • i4l: HFC-4S and HFC-8S driver commit

  • Removing Auvertech TurboPAM ISDN driver commit

  • Hotplug parallel ports commit

  • cciss: new controller support commit

  • cciss: support for more than 8 controllers commit

  • cciss: per disk queue support commit

  • Ressurrect the esp serial driver commit

  • intelfb: Add partial support 915G chipset commit

  • geodefb: Add Geode framebuffer driver commit

  • nvidiafb: Add update framebuffer driver for nVidia chipsets commit

  • fbdev: Add mode changing via sysfs commit

  • ide: generic Power Management for IDE devices commit

  • IRDA: support NSC PC8738x commit

  • ALSA: Add AD1986 support commit

  • ALSA: Add PCI ids for ICH6/7 commit

  • AGP support for powermac G5 commit

  • ALSA: AC97 wm9713 support commit

  • IA64: Add HP zx2 chipset identifier commit

  • AGPGART: SGI TIO support. commit

  • pcmcia: yenta_socket - ti4150 support commit

  • pcmcia: rsrc_nonstatic: sysfs commit, commit

  • pcmcia: per-device sysfs output commit

  • v4l2 api: mpeg encoder support commit

  • dvb: add or51132 driver (atsc demodulator) commit

  • v4l: cx88 driver update commit

  • sym2 version 2.2.0 commit

  • remove drivers/mtd/maps/ich2rom.c commit

  • pcxx: Remove obsolete driver commit

  • kill IPHASE5526 commit

  • ipr: New adapter support commit

  • ipr: Send uevent change notifications commit

  • ipr: Fast failure module options commit

  • Add statistics to generic transport class commit

  • target code updates to support scanned targets commit

  • USB: add at91_udc recognition commit

  • USB: usbnet gets status polling, uses for CDC Ethernet commit

  • emi26: add another product ID for the Emi2|6/A26 commit

  • USB: Support for new ipod mini (and possibly others) + usb commit

  • USB unusual_devs: Add another Tekom entry commit

  • USB unusual_devs: add another datafab device commit

  • Bluetooth: Support HCI Extensions in BCSP driver commit

  • SERIAL: new hp diva console port commit

  • SERIAL: sealevel 8 port RS-232/RS-422/RS-485 board commit

  • MMC: SD support : protocol commit

  • ALSA: Add DXS support for MSI K8T Neo2-FI commit

  • ALSA: emu10k1 - add support for p16v chip (24-bit playback) commit

  • ALSA: Add new C-Media 9880 codec ID commit

  • ALSA: Add framework for better audigy sound card capabilities selection commit

  • ALSA: Add AD1986A support commit

  • ALSA: Add Mono volume controls for ALC260 commit

  • USB: add fossil watch ids to the visor driver. commit

  • DVD-RAM support for pktcdvd commit

  • serial: Digi Neo driver commit

  • Netmos parallel/serial/combo support commit

  • dvb: support Activy Budget card commit

  • dvb: dibusb: support Hauppauge WinTV NOVA-T USB2 commit

  • dvb: nxt2002: QAM64/256 support commit

  • dvb: support KWorld/ADSTech Instant DVB-T USB2.0 commit

  • dvb: support pcHDTV HD2000 commit

  • dvb: dibusb: support nova-t usb ir commit

  • dvb: ttusb_dec: IR support commit

  • dvb: support for Technotrend PCI DVB-T commit

  • dvb: dibusb: support dtt200u (Yakumo/Typhoon/Hama) USB2.0 device commit

  • dvb: support Nova-S rev 2.2 commit

  • PCI: create PCI_DEBUG config option to make it easier for users to enable pci debugging commit

  • USB: add driver for CP2101/CP2102 RS232 adaptors commit

  • ftdi_sio: Support sysfs attributes for more chip commit

  • atyfb: Add boot/module option to override composite sync commit

  • s1d13xxxfb: Add support for Epson S1D13806 FB commit

  • I2C: New lm92 chip driver commit

  • I2C: group Intel on I2C Hardware Bus support commit

  • i2c: new driver for ds1337 RTC commit

  • i2c: add adt7461 chip support to lm90 driver commit

  • I2C: Recognize new revision of the ADT7463 chip commit

  • pmac: sound support for latest laptops commit

  • piix: IDE PATA patch for Intel ESB2 commit

  • intel8x0: AC'97 audio patch for Intel ESB2 commit

  • ata_piix: IDE mode SATA patch for Intel ESB2 commit

  • ahci: AHCI mode SATA patch for Intel ESB2 commit

  • i2c-i801: I2C patch for Intel ESB2 commit

  • IB/mthca: add support for new MT25204 HCA commit

  • zfcp: add point-2-point support commit

  • qla2xxx: remove /proc interface commit

  • aic7xxx: add support for the SPI transport class commit

  • lpfc: add Emulex FC driver version 8.0.28 commit

  • USB: add new visor id for Treo 650 commit

  • USB Storage unusual_dev.h 07c4:a10b Datafab Systems, Inc. commit

  • USB: new SIS device id commit

  • USB: usbnet and zaurus zl-5600 commit

  • USB: OHCI on Compaq Aramada 7400 commit

  • USB: pl2303 new vendor/model ids commit

  • add TIMEOUT to firmware_class hotplug event commit

  • aoe 11/12: add support for disk statistics commit

  • TG3: add basic bcm5752 support commit

  • TG3: add support for bcm5752 rev a1 commit

  • TG3: Add GPIO3 for 5752 commit

  • TG3: Add nvram detection for 5752 commit

  • TG3: Add nvram lock-out support for 5752 TPM commit

  • TG3: Add msi support commit

  • USB: add HP49G+ Calculator USB Serial support commit

  • USB: new SiS device id commit

  • irq and pci_ids for Intel ICH7DH & ICH7-M DH commit

  • hda_intel: Intel ESB2 support commit

  • saa7134: Add OEM version of already supported card commit

  • imxfb: Add Freescale i.MX framebuffer driver commit

  • USB: add a driver for the AirPrime CDMA Wireless PC card. commit

  • USB: new usbnet device id commit

  • USB: unusual_devs.h: atmel snd1 storage commit

  • USB: unusual_devs entry for Minolta Dimage Z10 commit

  • aoe: improve allowed interfaces configuration commit

  • aoe: add firmware version to info in sysfs commit

  • DAC960: add support for Mylex AcceleRAID 4/5/600 commit

  • video/tuner: add VIDEO_G_FREQUENCY and freq range to VIDIOC_G_TUNER commit

  • forcedeth: netpoll support commit

  • More ethtool support for sis900 and warning fix commit

  • ixgb: Support for ethtool -d commit

  • tlan: restore deleted module parameters. commit

  • USB: cypress_m8: add support for the DeLorme Earthmate lt-20 commit

  • USB: add modalias sysfs file for usb devices commit

  • PCI: add modalias sysfs file for pci devices commit

  • PCI: add MODALIAS to hotplug event for pci devices commit

  • serio 'id' attributes commit

  • Intel 6300ESB TCO timer support commit

  • dvb: b2c2/flexcop driver refactoring part 2: add modular Flexcop driver commit

  • dvb: support for TT/Hauppauge Nexus-S Rev 2.3 commit

  • dvb: add support for KNC-1 cards commit

  • dvb: DST: add support for Twinhan 200103A commit

  • TG3: Add tagged status support. commit

  • Add sysfs support for the IPMI device interface commit

  • MMC: Proper MMC command classes support commit

  • TG3: Add 5752M device ID. commit

  • sata_sil: new ID 1002:437A for ATI IXP400 commit

  • sata_promise: add PCI ID for FastTrak TX2200 2-ports commit

  • BNX2: New Broadcom gigabit network driver. commit

  • USB: add sl811_cs support commit

  • USB: ftdi_sio: new PID for ELV UM100 commit

  • PCI: amd74xx patch for new NVIDIA device IDs commit

  • CPUFREQ: speedstep-centrino: Pentium 4 - M (HT) support commit

  • CPUFREQ: AMD Elan SC520 cpufreq driver. commit

  • CPUFREQ: dual-core powernow-k8 commit

  • CPUFREQ: Conservative cpufreq governer commit

  • CPUFREQ: Add support to cpufreq_ondemand to ignore 'nice' cpu time commit

  • CPUFREQ: Allow ondemand stepping to be changed by user. commit

  • CPUFREQ: ondemand governor automatic downscaling commit

  • USB: Support multiply-LUN devices in ub commit

  • USB: add new wacom device to usb hid-core list commit

  • USB: add Vernier devices to HID blacklist commit

  • USB: add Option Card driver commit

  • USB Storage: Add unusual_devs for Trumpion Voice Recorder commit

  • USB: CP2101 Add support for flow control commit

  • i945G patch for agpgart commit

  • drm add i945G pci id commit