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

• debugfs: add debugfs commit

• debugfs: add /sys/kernel/debug mount point for people to mount debugfs on. commit

• sysfs: export the /sys/kernel subsystem for people to use. commit

• Add ATA over Ethernet driver commit

• TCP: Efficient port randomization commit

• CRYPTO: Standalone VIA PadLock driver. commit

• JFFS2: Add support for bizarre NOR flash with ECC. commit

• EBTABLES: Add userspace logging via netlink socket. commit

• Drivers & architectures

  • IA64 CPU hotplug topology commit

  • IA64-SGI: Add support for a future SGI chipset (shub2) commit, commit, commit, commit

  • 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

  • r8169: netconsole support commit

  • Input: i8042 ACPI enumeration - add PNP IDs found in AMD64 laptops. commit

  • Input: i8042 - allow turning debugging on and off "on-fly" commit

  • ACPI: create ACPI hotplug eject interface commit

  • ACPI: Extend processor driver to support ACPI-based Physical CPU hotplug commit

  • ACPI: Initial container driver to support hotplug notifications on ACPI0004, PNP0A05 and PNP0A06 devices. commit

  • Add Altimata PHY to sis900 driver commit

  • S2io: module loadable parameters commit

  • ALSA: Add subvendor ID to the pci id table of vx222 driver commit

  • ALSA: emu10k1: add interval timer support commit

  • ALSA nonblock_open=1 by default for OSS PCM API emulation commit

  • sk98: add netpoll console support commit

  • sk98: basic ethtool support commit

  • sk98: ethtool phy support commit

  • sk98: ethtool pause param support commit

  • libata: sata_via: add support for VT6421 SATA commit

  • libata: sata_uli: add 5281 support, fix SATA phy setup for others commit

  • MTD: Provide XIP support for Intel flash chips. commit

  • MTD: Support NOR and NAND flash on Sharp SL Series PDAs. commit

  • MTD: NAND flash simulator commit

  • ALSA: add Line/Headphone jack detection for AD1981A/B commit

  • ALSA: via82xx: Enable DXS on ABIT KV8 Pro commit

  • ALSA: Support for Audigy2 Value SB0400 commit

  • ALSA: add register dump to proc commit

  • MTD: New mapping driver for IBM 405GP 'Walnut' board. commit

  • USB: serial driver for TI USB 3410/5052 chips commit, commit, commit

  • USB Storage: support 'bulk32' devices commit

  • ftdi_sio: Add sysfs attributes for event character and latency commit

  • AGPGART: Add support for ALI M1681/M1683 commit

  • I2C: i2c-nforce2 supports the nForce3 250Gb commit

  • Garmin gps driver patch 0.23 commit

  • SCSI: Add basic infrastructure for transport host statistics commit

  • SCSI: Add FC transport host statistics commit

  • qla2xxx: Tx/Rx Sensitivity additions commit

  • aacraid 2.6: Support for new cards commit

  • USB: additional device id for kaweth driver commit

  • ACPI: Add _CST parsing commit

  • ACPI: Export /sys/module/processor/parameters/max_cstate commit

  • PCI: add legacy resources to sysfs for pci busses commit

  • AGPGART: ULI M1689 support. commit

  • SCSI: add queue_type entry in sysfs commit

  • ACPI: add "processor.nocst" parameter which blocks _CST parsing and always uses FADT info instead. commit