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2.1.100 out




Ok, I just released 2.1.100, which does:

     * fix an ugly lockup on SMP that could fairly easily happen if
       you used your floppies. 
     * various irq/apic fixes - this should get us back to booting
       on the machines that had problems with the earlier versions.
     * capabilities stuff - get rid of many suser() calls to
       instead use the more finegrained capabilities. 
     * IDE driver updates 
     * Coda FS update 
     * various network fixes from David (the oops in the TCP
       hashing stuff fixed etc) 

    As has already been found out by earlier testers, pppd has
    problems with newer kernels. The problems are:

     * using "strcmp()" to do numeric comparisons. That's a no-no,
       pppd needs to be fixed (patches have floated around). It
       breaks because it thinks 100 is smaller than 16. 
     * doing a route on a downed device doesn't work in recent
       kernels (sanely enough). Again, a patch to pppd is
       available. 

    Do people still have problems with lockups or bootup under SMP
    with this? 

    Linus