2.6.11 was released March 2, 2005. Changelog

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

• New Pipe implementation (LWN article). commit

• Introduces the CAP_AUDIT_WRITE and CAP_AUDIT_CONTROL capabilities commit

• Support 4 level page tables (LWN article). commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Add Infiniband support (LWN article) commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Improve preemption on SMP commit

• Add Fujitsu FR-V CPU architecture commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• Enhanced I/O and memory accounting commit, commit

• mm: oom-killer tunable commit

• Add debugfs (LWN article). commit, commit

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

• kbuild: make kernelrelease commit

• Add PR_GET_NAME commit

• Enables the kernel to allocate several boot time hashes using vmalloc rather than alloc_bootmem, thereby causing the hashes to be interleaved amongst NUMA nodes, commit, commit, commit

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

• Permit nommu MAP_SHARED of memory backed files 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

• Remove NAT to multiple ranges commit

• iptables revision getsockopt, which allows userspace to query the revision number of extensions commit

• Add bitops to ipt_MARK without breaking compatbility commit

• /proc/sys/kernel/bootloader_type commit

• SELinux scalability: convert AVC to RCU commit, commit

• SELinux: add dynamic context transition support to SELinux commit

• SELinux: enhance SELinux control of executable mappings commit

• SELinux: add member node to selinuxfs commit

• SELinux: add Netlink message types for the TC action code. commit

• oprofile: stack trace sampling commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

• knfsd: add the DELEGRETURN operation. commit

• Net: Multicast filtering for tun commit

• PKT_SCHED: tc filter extension API commit

• ATALK: Add ioctls to allow ifx txqueuelen sets/gets commit

• NETFILTER: Add --log-uid option to ipt_LOG/ip6t_LOG commit

• NETFILTER: Add inversion to multiport match commit

• NETFILTER: Improve TCP window tracking retransmission detection commit

• NETFILTER: ipt_hashlimit rule load time race condition commit

• IPV4: Add gc_min_interval_ms sysctl. commit

• Remove umsdos from tree commit

• random: remove pool resizing sysctl commit

• random: run-time configurable debugging commit

• cputime: introduce the idea of (virtual) cputime commit

• Add a generic device transport class commit, commit

• Use official Unicodes for DEC VT characters commit

• Modules: Allow sysfs module parameters to be written to. commit

• Configurable delay before mounting root device commit

• Drivers & architectures

  • IA64 CPU hotplug topology commit

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

  • IA64: Remove Merced B-step support commit

  • ARM: Add IXP46x and IXDPG465 implementation commit

  • ARM: Add DMA mmap() support. commit

  • ppc32: Marvell host bridge support (mv64x60) commit

  • ppc32: support for Marvell EV-64260[ab]-BP eval platform commit

  • ppc32: support for Force CPCI-690 board commit

  • ppc32: support for Artesyn Katana cPCI boards commit

  • ppc32: add Support for IBM 750FX and 750GX Eval Boards commit

  • ppc32: performance Monitor/Oprofile support for e500 commit

  • ppc32: add uImage to default targets commit

  • ppc32: Add Freescale PQ2FADS support commit

  • ppc32: Add support for Pegasos machines commit

  • ppc64: kprobes implementation commit

  • ppc32: add PPC440SP and Luan ref board support commit

  • x86_64: Add reboot=force commit

  • x86_64: Add SRAT NUMA discovery to x86-64. commit

  • x86_64: Scheduler support for AMD CMP commit

  • x86_64: Allow to configure more CPUs and nodes. commit

  • x86_64: Add SLIT (inter node distance) information to sysfs. commit

  • x86_64: remove centaur mtrr support commit

  • uml: add elf vsyscall support commit

  • uml: Add TRACESYSGOOD support commit

  • uml: sysfs support for uml network driver. commit

  • uml: sysfs support for the uml block devices. commit

  • ARM: Add basic SMP support. commit

  • ARM: PXA: Add support for the Sharp SL-C7xx series of PDAs commit, commit, commit, commit, commit

  • ARM: TLS support for ARM commit

  • ARM: Add SMP IRQ affinity and routing support. commit

  • ARM: PXA Corgi - Add MMC Support commit

  • ARM: PXA Corgi - Add USB Device Controller support commit

  • ARM: S3C2410 - serial auto-flow-control enable commit

  • ARM: Adds new machine: ixp4xx based gtwx5715 commit

  • ARM: PXA Corgi - Add Backlight Device Definition commit

  • i386: AMD dual core support for i386 commit

  • UML: x86-64 core support commit, commit, commit, commit

  • PPC64 Add PREEMPT_BKL option commit

  • mips: AMD Alchemy I2C driver 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

  • Bluetooth: Add module parameter for HCI_Reset commit

  • Early ALI watchdog support commit

  • SCSI: Add FC transport host attributes commit

  • CPUFREQ: make ondemand governor aware of CPU domains commit

  • CPUFREQ: cpufreq stat output in sysfs commit

  • CPUFREQ: proc_cpufreq: remove /proc/cpufreq interface commit

  • CPUFREQ: userspace: remove /proc/sys/cpu/ interface commit

  • ide: serverworks: add support for CSB6 RAID commit

  • Intel ICH7 DID's, PIRQ and PATA support commit

  • osst: add sysfs support commit

  • ALSA: Added VIA82xx-modem driver commit

  • ALSA: IEC958 Capture mixer controls and Universe support commit

  • ALSA: Add 'Duplicate Front' control commit

  • ALSA: hwdep interface for pcm data commit

  • ALSA: Hotplug firmware loader support commit, commit

  • Intel thermal monitor for x86_64 commit

  • ALSA: Allow strings for ac97_quirk options commit

  • ALSA: Add emu10k1x driver commit

  • ALSA: Add snd-ca0106 driver commit

  • SERIAL: support for another Rockwell PNP modem commit

  • ALSA: rme9652: Add hotplug firmware loader support commit

  • ALSA: Add CODEC and BUS device types commit

  • ALSA: Add a new ID commit

  • EDD: add edd=off and edd=skipmbr options commit

  • Bluetooth: Add module parameter for ignoring a device commit

  • MTD: New blockdev-backed 'fake' MTD device. commit

  • MTD: Remove long-obsolete DiskOnChip 1000 driver. commit

  • Resurrect ISICOM serial commit

  • r8169: Large Send enablement commit

  • net: Netconsole poll support for 3c509 commit

  • ULi support for 526X tulip variants commit

  • SATA support for Intel ICH7 commit

  • emac: allow rx of the maximum sized VLAN tagged packets commit

  • emac: Add netpoll support commit

  • new PCI_ID for tulip commit

  • forcedeth: add ethtool get/set_settings support commit

  • 8139cp: support for TTTech MC322 commit

  • I2C: add new sensors driver: SMSC LPC47B397-NC commit

  • eepro: basic ethtool support commit

  • raid6: altivec support commit

  • ixgb: Enable Message Signalled Interrupts commit

  • ixgb: Add support for 10GbE LR device ID commit

  • ixgb: Remove support for RAIDC interrupt mitigation commit

  • ixgb: ethtool_ops support commit

  • 3c59x: support more ethtool_ops commit

  • mtd: added NEC uPD29F064115 support commit

  • input: Add support for H-Wheel on Microsoft Explorer and Logitech MX USB HID mice. commit

  • libata: sata_sil: support ATI IXP300/IXP400 SATA commit

  • FC Transport updates - additional fc host attributes commit

  • I2C support for Intel ICH7 - 2.6.10 - resubmit commit

  • I2C: add EMC6D100 support in lm85 driver commit

  • PCI: add PCI Express Port Bus Driver subsystem commit

  • USB: usbnet: Olympus R1000 PDA, and blacklisting if CDC && !ZAURUS commit

  • USB: add driver for the Siemens ID Mouse fingerprint sensor commit

  • USB: add Ever UPS vendor/product id to ftdi_sio driver commit

  • ide: piix: add Intel 82801DBL IDE Controller support commit

  • ide: atiixp: add IXP400 support commit

  • pcmcia: modify irq_mask via sysfs commit

  • serial: MPSC driver commit

  • backlight: Add Backlight/LCD device basic support commit

  • fbdev: Add w100 framebuffer driver commit

  • drm: add drm specific sysfs support commit

  • AGPGART: i915GM support commit

  • ACPI: Add a module parameter to allow tuning how much bus-master activity we remember when entering C3 -- /sys/module/processor/parameters/bm_history Default varies with HZ -- 40ms for 25 - 800 HZ, 32ms for 1000 HZ. commit

  • dvb: support pinnacle pctv-sat, clean-ups commit

  • dvb: support nxt2002 frontend, misc skystar2 fixes commit

  • dvb: add ATSC support, misc fixes commit

  • dvb: nxt2002: add ATSC support, misc fixes commit

  • sd descriptor sense support commit

  • Bluetooth: Add RFCOMM service level security commit

  • add i2c adapter id for the cx88 driver. commit

  • SATA AHCI support for Intel ICH7R commit

  • input: Enable scancode event generation in the HID driver. This should allow changing HID->event mappings (via EVIOCS*) in the future and make debugging easier now. commit

  • drm: radeon hyperz support.. commit

  • drm: add radeon framebuffer tiling support and surface management commit

  • Bluetooth: Support raw mode only devices commit

  • ACPI: add "pnpacpi=off" commit

  • OProfile: Support model 4 P4 commit

  • dvb: support up to six DVB cards commit

  • backlight: Add backlight driver for Sharp Corgi PDAs commit

  • USB: another usbnet ax8817x device (goodway docking station) commit

  • ide: remove adma100 commit

  • Bluetooth: Support Broadcom BCM92035 USB dongles commit

  • Bluetooth: Support for Digianswer BPA 100/105 sniffers commit

  • libata: sata_promise: add PCI ID for new SATAII TX2 card commit

  • libata: ahci: Add support for ULi M5288 commit

  • ALSA: Special AC97 patch for ASUS W1000/CMI9739 laptop commit

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

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

  • ALSA: Add missing FORWARD ioctl commit

  • sonypi: add fan and temperature status/control commit

  • SERIAL: add TP560 data/fax/modem support commit

  • sata_qstor: new basic driver for Pacific Digital commit

  • USB: Add ioctls to ub commit