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    Linux核心的最新版本--2.4.7核心已经问世了。现在大家可以登录到http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/站点下载这个内核。同时还可以在相关目录下找到其他信息。
    
    以下是2.4.7各个版本的变动情况：
    
    -final:
     - me: fix ptrace and /proc issues with new core-dump permissions
     - numerous: IDE tape driver update for completion handlers
     - Ben Collins: ieee1394 GUID cleanups
     - Jacek Stepniewski: nasty deadlock in rename()
    
    -pre9:
     - Dan Quinlan: cramfs update
     - Ben Collins: IEEE 1394 update
     - David Miller: network update (pppoe, routing cache stats), sparc32 update
     - me: only dump core once per threaded app (first one wins)
     - me: use new completion handlers for block device requests (same race
     as with vfork, see -pre7)
    
    -pre8:
     - Chris Mason: reiserfs update
     - Paul Mackerras: PPC updates (softirq)
     - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
     - various: workaround for cpuid inline asm problem with egcs-2.91.66
    
    -pre7:
     - Andreas Dilger: various ext2 cleanups
     - Richard Gooch: devfs update
     - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
     - Alan Cox: merges
     - David Miller: fix SMP pktsched bootup deadlock (CONFIG_NET_SCHED)
     - Roman Zippel: AFFS update
     - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update
     - me: fix races in vfork() (semaphores are not good completion handlers)
     - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates, sysvfs update
    
    -pre6:
     - me: fix more buffer head SMP races (non-x86 only - weak memory ordering)
     - Andrea Arkangeli: some bh cleanups from the buffer race condition fix
     - Tim Waugh: parport drievr documentation, init sanity
     - Ion Badulescu: starfire net driver update
     - David Miller: sparc and networking updates
     - Ivan Kokshaysky: alpha version of the inlined rw-semaphores
     - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update
    
    -pre5:
     - remember to bump the version string
     - Andrea Arkangeli: softirq cleanups and fixes, and everybody is happy
     again (ie I changed some details to make me happy ;)
     - Neil Brown: raid5 stall fix, nfsd filehandle sanity check fix
    
    -pre4:
     - David Miller: sparc and networking updates
     - Al Viro: SysV FS add_link off-by-two bogosity.
     - Jeff Garzik: merge D-Link DL2k GigE driver, other network driver cleanups
     - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
     - Alan Cox: more merging (MPT fusion core)
     - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
     - Stas Sergeev: make sure we return out of vm86 mode when interrupts
     get re.enabled
     - Rusty Russell: netfilter fixes for ipt_unclean and ip_queue
     - me: initialize page->age when adding it to the swap cache
     - Paul Mackerras: PPC updates
     - some subtle fs/buffer.c race conditions (Andrew Morton, me)
    
    -pre3:
     - merge with Alan (SCSI subsystem)
     - Jeff Garzik: make serial driver PCI hotplug-aware
    
    -pre2:
     - merge with Alan (USB, zoran, sony motion-eye, rio, dmi-scan)
    
    -pre1:
     - merge with Alan (irda, s390, mips64, chris, sk98lin, mips/mm)
     - rth: fix alpha RTC calibration
     - Paul Mackerras: fix PPC typo

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来源:linuxaid 作者: 时间:2001/7/23 0:00:00