• Linux_2_6_10

2.6.10

• Released December 24, 2004 changelog

• Accounting: report single record for multithreaded process. In kernels before 2.6.10, a separate process accounting record was written for each thread created using NTPL. Since 2.6.10, a single accounting record is written for the entire process (commit)

• x86-64 clustered APIC support (commit)

• Make rlimit settings per-process instead of per-thread for POSIX compliance (commit)

• POSIX compliant CPU clocks (commit)

• Show aggregate per-process counters in /proc/$PID/stat: Add up resource usage counters for live and dead threads to show aggregate per-process usage. This mirrors the new getrusage() semantics. /proc/$PID/task/$TID/stat still has the per-thread usage (commit)

• Report the pages used for pagetables in /proc/$PID/status (commit)

• Display committed memory limit (per the current overcommit ratio) and the amount of memory remaining under this limit in meminfo (commit)

• Thrashing control tuning (commit)

• Big Kernel Lock preemption

• IRQ subsystem code rework (commit)

• Removal of the "BIO walking" helper functions

• Generic circular buffer type (LWN article) (commit)

• Ext3 block reservation (LWN article) (commit)

• Ext3 online resizing patches (LWN article) (commit)

• Add I/O error handling to journal operations in reiserfs (commit)

• sysfs backing store (LWN article)

• I/O space write barriers (LWN article) (commit)

• Modular, on-the-fly switchable I/O schedulers (LWN article) (commit)

• CFQ v2 update (commit)

• BSD secure levels module (commit)

• In-kernel cryptographic key management (commit)

• DVD+RW support (commit)

• CDRW packet writing support (commit)

• kernel events notification mechanism

• Lock initializater unification (commit)

• Panick blinking: Makes the keyboard blink when a oops happens - useful to know if the kernel has really oopsed or not (ej: X.org bugs) (commit)

• Reworking of spin lock initialization (LWN article)

• Configurable /proc/kcore (commit)

• Kobject Userspace Event Notification through a netlink socket commit

• kevent: add block mount and umount support commit

• Put symbolic links between drivers and modules in the sysfs tree commit

• Wireless extensions v17 commit

• export of SEQNUM to /sys/kernel/hotplug_seqnum (creates /sys/kernel) commit

• USB: export inteface and configuration strings to sysfs commit

• Drivers & architectures

  • USB: Add B&B Electronics VID/PIDs to ftdi_sio commit

  • prism54 initial WPA support commit

  • prism54 add WE17 support commit

  • emu10k1: Audigy DSP support commit

  • intel8x0: Inverted EAPD support commit

  • Add S3C2410 (Samsung ARM9 Mobile SoC) watchdog driver commit

  • USB: Codemercs IO-Warrior support commit

  • Remove gameport/MIDI support commit

  • USB: Unusual_devs entry for Panasonic cameras commit

  • USB: Add On-The-Go support to file storage driver commit

  • USB: omap_udc supports 5910/1510 chips commit

  • Add scsi_target abstraction and place it in sysfs commit

  • aic79xx hostraid support commit

  • scsi: Add reset ioctl capability to ULDs commit

  • adding smc91x ethernet to lpd7a40x commit

  • USB: Add Surecom USB Ethernet device ids to usbnet commit

  • i2c: Add Intel VRD 10.0 and AMD Opteron VID support commit

  • USB: add support for symlink from usb and usb-serial driver to its module in sysfs commit

  • Added support of Mediastation commit

  • Add UA-1000 sample rate detection commit

  • Added support for AudioTrak Prodigy 192 cards commit

  • Support for capture of 16,32,64 channels on emu10k1 device 2 commit

  • qla1280: ISP1020/1040 support commit

  • libata: add sata_uli driver for ULi (formerly ALi) SATA commit

  • rx checksum support for gige nForce ethernet commit

  • ns83820: add vlan tag hardware acceleration support commit

  • USB: Generic USB ATM/DSL core and completed SpeedTouch driver commit

  • PCI Hotplug: RPA dynamic addition/removal of PCI Host Bridges commit

  • Adds AC'97 support to Aureon cards. commit

  • Add (experimental) CM9761 support commit

  • Add Edirol UA-25 support commit

  • Alsa: Add overclocking option for the analog input commit

  • Bluetooth: Add module parameter for disabling ISOC transfers commit

  • Bluetooth: Add security manager flags and options commit

  • libata: add AHCI driver commit

  • netconsole support for b44 commit