2.6.11

• Released March 2, 2005 changelog

• Conversion to 4-level page tables (LWN article) (commit)

• New Pipe implementation (LWN article)

• "Big Kernel Semaphore": Turns the Big Kernel Lock into a semaphore (LWN article) (commit)

• Introduces the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities (commit)

• Simplify readahead code (commit) - (commit)

• Support for Extended Attributes in the body of large inode in ext3: saves space and improves performance in some cases (commit)

• Add /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type (commit)

• Remove bitmaps from the buddy allocator (commit)

• Enhanced I/O and memory accounting (commit) - (commit)

• AMD Dual-core support (commit)

• Add Fujitsu FR-V CPU architecture (commit)

• TCP port randomization (commit)

• SATA support for Intel ICH7

• DebugFS (LWN article)

• Infiniband support (LWN article)

• Remove UMSDOS (commit)

• Major problems with TCP/IP BIC (the default congestion control) are resolved

• Drivers & architectures

  • input: Add support for Kensington ThinkingMouse PS/2 protocol. commit

  • input: Add ALPS touchpad driver commit

  • input: Add AT-compatible rawmode generation for ARM. commit

  • Input: add a new signature for ALPS DualPoint found in Dell Inspiron 8500 commit

  • Input: atkbd - export extra, scroll, set, softrepeat and softraw as individual keyboard attributes (sysfs) and allow them to be set/changed independently for each keyboard: commit

  • r8169: TSO support. commit

  • r8169: vlan support commit

  • r8169: Rx checksum support commit

  • r8169: Tx checksum offload commit