patch-2.4.6 linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog

• Lines: 52
• Date: Wed Jun 20 10:54:31 2001
• Orig file: v2.4.5/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog
• Orig date: Fri Apr 6 10:42:48 2001

diff -u --recursive --new-file v2.4.5/linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog linux/Documentation/filesystems/devfs/ChangeLog
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 - Updated README from master HTML file
 
 - Ported to kernel 2.4.0-test3-pre4 (which had devfs-patch-v174)
+===============================================================================
+Changes for patch v177
+
+- Updated README from master HTML file
+
+- Documentation cleanups
+
+- Ensure <devfs_generate_path> terminates string for root entry
+  Thanks to Tim Jansen <tim@tjansen.de>
+
+- Exported <devfs_get_name> to modules
+
+- Make <devfs_mk_symlink> send events to devfsd
+
+- Cleaned up option processing in <devfs_setup>
+
+- Fixed bugs in handling symlinks: could leak or cause Oops
+
+- Cleaned up directory handling by separating fops
+  Thanks to Alexander Viro <viro@math.psu.edu>
+===============================================================================
+Changes for patch v178
+
+- Fixed handling of inverted options in <devfs_setup>
+===============================================================================
+Changes for patch v179
+
+- Adjusted <try_modload> to account for <devfs_generate_path> fix
+===============================================================================
+Changes for patch v180
+
+- Fixed !CONFIG_DEVFS_FS stub declaration of <devfs_get_info>
+===============================================================================
+Changes for patch v181
+
+- Answered question posed by Al Viro and removed his comments from <devfs_open>
+
+- Moved setting of registered flag after other fields are changed
+
+- Fixed race between <devfsd_close> and <devfsd_notify_one>
+
+- Global VFS changes added bogus BKL to devfsd_close(): removed
+
+- Widened locking in <devfs_readlink> and <devfs_follow_link>
+
+- Replaced <devfsd_read> stack usage with <devfsd_ioctl> kmalloc
+
+- Simplified locking in <devfsd_ioctl> and fixed memory leak