2.6.10 was released December 24, 2004. Changelog

• Switchable and modular io schedulers (LWN article) commit

• CFQ v2 I/O scheduler update commit

• vm thrashing control tuning (disabled by default) commit, commit

• ext3 block reservations commit, commit, commit

• ext3: online resizing commit

• DVD+RW support commit

• CDRW packet writing support commit

• Un-inline the big kernel lock commit

• Allow BKL re-acquire to fail, causing us to re-schedule. commit

• In-kernel cryptographic key management subsystem commit, commit, 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

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

• Distinct tgid/tid CPU usage commit

• Add WCONTINUED support to wait4 syscall commit

• Make rlimit settings per-process instead of per-thread commit

• kbuild: Allow install of external modules to custom path with INSTALL_MOD_DIR env variable commit

• Create nodemask_t commit

• Generic xattr API commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Report per-process pagetable usage in /proc/$PID/status commit

• 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)

• BSD Secure Levels LSM commit, commit, commit

• CRYPTO: Add Tnepres cipher support commit

• NET: Add Mirred TC action. commit

• TCP: Dump SYN_RECV sockets in tcpdiag commit

• NETFILTER: Add iptables CONNMARK match+target commit

• NETFILTER: Add iptables hashlimit match commit

• TCP: Add total num retransmits accounting. commit

• ATM: point to multipoint signalling (from ekinzie@cmf.nrl.navy.mil) commit

• SCTP: Adaption layer indication support. commit

• NET: Add new sysfs attribute 'carrier' for net devices. commit

• PKT_SCHED: Requeues statistics commit

• EBTABLES: Add wildcard support for interface matching. commit

• PKT_SCHED: Add generic packet editor. commit

• PKT_SCHED: Add iptables action. commit

• kallsyms data size reduction / lookup speedup 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

• Generic IRQ code instead of per-arch commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• ReiserFS: Add I/O error handling to journal operations commit

• FAT: rewrite the cache for file allocation table lookup commit

• kobject: add CONFIG_DEBUG_KOBJECT commit

• Shared Reed-Solomon ECC library commit

• device-mapper: dm-crypt: new IV mode ESSIV commit

• Builtin Module Parameters in sysfs too commit

• hfs: export type/creator via xattr commit

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

• Driver core: add driver symlink to device commit

• Add panic 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

• add the physical device and the bus to the hotplug environment commit

• /proc/kcore - allow to enable/disable. commit

• CRYPTO: Add Anubis support. commit

• new Solaris partition ID commit

• md: "Faulty" personality commit

• device-mapper: Add DM_TARGET_MSG commit

• device-mapper: Allow referencing by device number commit

• Add the driver name to the hotplug environment commit

• Add the bus name to the hotplug environment commit

• mm: tune the page allocator thresholds commit

• CIFS: Improve SMB buffer allocation make SMB sending more efficient commit

• CIFS: add debug message for trusted and security xattrs commit

• CIFS: POSIX ACL support commit, commit, commit

• CIFS: Add cifs serverino mount parm to allow use of inode numbers reported from the server (rather than generated by the client) commit

• CIFS: Add support for module init parms for number of small and large cifs network buffers and for maximum number of simultaneous requests commit * CIFS: Add setfacl support to cifs commit

• CIFS: add direct mount options to optionally bypass the page cache on reads and writes commit

• early uart console support commit

• allow NFS exports of EFS filesystems commit

• cfq-iosched: kill show_status sysfs entry commit

• XFS: Add xfs_rotorstep sysctl for controlling placement of extents for new files by the inode32 allocator. commit

• XFS: Allow the option of skipping quotacheck processing. commit

• Drivers & architectures

  • ppc32: Xilinx ML300 board support (very basic) commit

  • sh: SH73180 subtype support commit

  • sh: EDOSK7705 board support commit

  • sh: SH4-202 MicroDev board support commit

  • sh: oprofile support for SH7750/SH7750S commit

  • sh: SE73180 board support commit

  • sh: CTP/PCI-SH03 board support commit

  • sched: IA64 add disjoint NUMA domain support commit

  • m32r: ds1302 driver commit

  • m32r: new CF/PCMCIA driver for m32r commit

  • m32r: AR camera driver commit

  • m32r: SIO driver commit

  • x86_64: add notsc option commit

  • x86_64: add an option to configure oops stack dump commit

  • x86-64 clustered APIC support commit

  • ARM: Add IXP46x CPU support commit

  • IA64: Allow -mtune=merced for gcc 3.4 commit

  • IA64: top level scheduler domain for ia64 commit

  • ARM: PXA SSP driver commit

  • ARM: Re: Motorola i.MX serial driver commit

  • ARM: Add platform-based IrDA device support. commit

  • ppc32: Add support for Sandpoint X2 commit

  • ppc32: add PPC440GX L2C error handler commit

  • uml: add conf INITRAMFS_SOURCE commit

  • ppc64: Add new "Maple" platform support commit

  • m68k: HP300 fb commit

  • m68k: HP300 8250 serial for DCA and APCI ports commit

  • faster signal handling on x86 commit

  • parisc: Light-weight syscall support commit

  • x86_64: add nmi button support commit

  • x86_64: Add 32bit quota support commit

  • x86_64: Auto enable HPET on Summit commit

  • x86_64: Add p4 clockmod commit

  • kprobes: kprobes ported to x86_64 commit

  • parisc: register cpus with sysfs commit

  • m68knommu: 527x platform support Makefile commit

  • m68knommu: kernel startup code for Freescale M5271EVB board commit

  • m68knommu: new device support for ColdFire FEC ethernet driver commit

  • ARM: Add SA1100 generic flash infrastructure. commit

  • XIP kernel for ARM commit, commit

  • CRIS: Add USB host driver commit

  • CRIS: IDE driver commit

  • ARM: Remove broken SA1100 machine support. commit

  • ARM: S3C2410 - add iPAQ rx3715 machine commit

  • ARM: Add IXDPG425 platform support commit

  • ARM: Add I2C device to IXDP2x01 platforms commit

  • ARM: SIMpad: Add a mq200 device to the platform bus commit

  • m68knommu: code for the ColdFire 5272 Feith SCALES board commit, commit

  • 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

  • USB Storage: unusual_devs patch for winward music disk commit

  • USB Storage: unusual_devs patch for new tekom entry commit

  • USB Storage: Unusual_dev patch for Finepix 1300 and 1400's. commit

  • USB: USB CDC OBEX driver commit

  • USB: usb/serial RM vendor/product id for ftdi_sio commit

  • ACPI: add module parameters: processor.c2=[0,1] processor.c3=[0,1] to disable/enable C2 or C3 blacklist entries for R40e and Medion 41700 http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3549 commit

  • USB: add serial ipw driver commit

  • fbdev: Add Tile Blitting support commit

  • Add VIDIOC_S_CTRL_OLD to matroxfb commit

  • i2o: added support for Promise controllers commit

  • Add netconsole support to ARM AM79C961A driver. commit

  • I2C: Fourth auto-fan control interface proposal commit

  • I2C: S3C2410 I2C Bus driver commit

  • I2C: lm87 driver ported to Linux 2.6 commit

  • ACPI: create IBM ThinkPad ACPI driver -- ibm-acpi-0.6.patch commit

  • DVB: add frontend commit

  • DVB: add frontend #2 commit

  • DVB: new driver for mobile USB Budget DVB-T devices commit

  • transmeta efficeon support and cpuid update commit

  • USB: add phidgetkit driver. commit

  • USB: PL2303 - PharosGPS patch commit

  • USB: tiglusb.c: add direct USB support on some new TI handhelds commit

  • USB: usbnet patch (new ax8817x device) commit

  • ALSA: Add routing/volume of ADAT I/O on EWS88D commit

  • ALSA: Add VIA8237 driver type commit

  • New MTD map drivers. commit

  • Another ISA PnP modem (USR0009) commit

  • USB: ohci module param for broken bios commit

  • ide: remove broken pdc4030 driver commit

  • ide: kill CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO commit

  • IRDA: Adaptive discovery query timer commit

  • IRDA: Debug module param commit

  • ide: kill /proc/ide/ide?/config commit

  • ide: aec62xx: kill /proc/ide/aec62xx commit

  • ide: atiixp: kill /proc/ide/atiixp commit

  • ide: cs5520: kill /proc/ide/cs5520 commit

  • ide: cs5530: kill /proc/ide/cs5530 commit

  • ide: hpt366: kill /proc/ide/hpt366 commit

  • ide: pdc202xx_new: kill /proc/ide/pdcnew commit

  • ide: pdc202xx_old: kill /proc/ide/pdc202xx commit

  • ide: piix: kill /proc/ide/piix commit

  • ide: sc1200: kill /proc/ide/sc1200 commit

  • ide: serverworks: kill /proc/ide/svwks commit

  • ide: slc90e66: kill /proc/ide/slc90e66 commit

  • Add megaraid PCI IDs commit

  • fbdev: Intel 830M/845G/852GM/855GM/865G framebuffer driver port commit

  • fbdev: S3 Savage Framebuffer Driver commit

  • ACPI: Extensions for Display Adapters commit

  • remove NET_HW_FLOWCONTROL commit

  • DVB: add new driver commit

  • CPUFREQ: NVidia nForce2 FSB cpufreq driver. Adds cpufreq support for FSB changing on nForce2 platforms. On this plattforms the PCI/AGP clock is independent from the FSB and it also doesn't depend on the used CPU. commit

  • ACPI: create ACPI-based PNP driver. commit

  • ik8.c: export power_status parameter through sysfs commit

  • ide: ide-disk: enable stroke by default commit

  • amd8111e: Add support for ppc64 eval board commit

  • etherh: add ethtool support. commit

  • USB: add id for Siemens x65 series of mobiles to pl2303 driver commit

  • SERIAL: Add support for Dell PCI Remote Access Card III. commit

  • USB: add KC2190 support for usbnet. commit

  • cypress_m8: add usb-serial driver 'cypress_m8' to kernel tree commit

  • I2C: New LM63 chip driver commit

  • I2C: New PC8736x chip driver commit

  • Add ICS307 clock support commit

  • PCI: add PCI ROMs to sysfs commit

  • ACPI: Allow limiting idle C-States. commit

  • Bluetooth: Support responses with zero SCID commit

  • mmtimer driver update: add SHub interrupt support commit

  • meye: add v4l2 support commit

  • VIA8231 support for parallel port driver commit

  • I2C: add Tyan S4882 driver commit

  • USB Storage: Add unusual_devs entry for iPod commit

  • USB Storage: unusual_devs entry for yakumo commit

  • fakephp: add pci bus rescan ability commit

  • S3C2410 - RTC driver commit

  • fbdev: Add vram option to intelfb commit

  • fbdev: Support for bigger than 16x32 fonts in softcursor commit

  • fbdev: Support for bigger than 16x32 fonts in rivafb cursor commit

  • Bluetooth: Add support for L2CAP secure mode commit

  • I2C: i2c-nforce2.c add support for nForce3 Pro 150 MCP commit

  • USB: add PID to ftdi_sio.c commit

  • USB: new defice for usb serial pl2303 commit

  • serial: add support for Dell Remote Access Card 4. commit

  • I2C: add adm1026 chip driver commit

  • USB: add ati_remote.c device id commit

  • aacraid: Support ROMB RAID/SCSI mode commit

  • mptfusion: command line parameters commit

  • support for 3PAR sparse SCSI LUNs commit

  • USB Storage: Add unusual_devs entry for another yakumo camera commit

  • PCI: Add sysfs file to map PCI busses to cpus commit

  • I2C: Add support for the nForce2 Ultra 400 to i2c-nforce2 commit

  • r8169: new PCI id commit

  • USB: sl811-hcd driver, replaces hc_sl811 commit, commit

  • ide: atiixp: add new PCI identifier commit

  • ide: alim15x3: add support for ULi M5228 commit

  • MMC: Add Winbond SD/MMC driver commit

  • Bring Moxa serial back into being commit