커널 2.4 정식 발표

오늘 드디어 리누스 토발즈가 커널 2.4.0을 공개하는 메일링 리스트를 띄웠습니다.

다음은 리누스 토발즈의 발표문입니다.

트레이드 프레스와 애널리스트들의 초기 정신 질환자같은 열렬한 환영분위기 속에서 리누스 토발즈('father of Linux'혹은 'mush-for-brain'이라고도 알려진)는 테스트를 거듭해도 나아질 것이 별로 없을 정도로 충분하다고 결론지었습니다. 즉 2.4.0이 나왔습니다.

최근 수개월의 기다림끝에 2.4.0이 많은 개선점을 들고 나왔습니다. 현재 지친 릴리스매니저에게는 아무 생각도 들지 않는 군요. 'It's better'라는 말이 할 수 있는 유일한 말 같습니다. 자주 보도된 것처럼, 리누스는 씩 웃으며 리포터들이 할말을 잃도록(밑에 원문 참조) 대했는데 그들 대부분은 순간 IT 산업계보다 '가정'란을 커버하고 있다는 생각이 들었을 것입니다.

어쨋든, 즐기세요. 또 며칠간은 버그 리포트로 귀찮게하지마시고요. 전 신경쓰지 않을겁니다.

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다음은 원문과 업데이트 내용입니다.

kernel.org에는 아직 업데이트가 안됐는데 diff파일이 있고(체인지로그가 같군요.이름은 prerelease-diff),

ftp://ftp.linux.org/pub/linux/linux-2.4/linux-2.4.0.tar.gz를 다운로드 받으세요.근데 사람이 폭주해서 접속이 안돼네요 -0-;;

And oh, btw..2.4.0 is out

In a move unanimously hailed by the trade press and industry analysts as being a sure sign of incipient braindamage, Linus Torvalds (also known as the "father of Linux" or, more commonly, as "mush-for-brains") decided that enough is enough, and that things don't get better from having the same people test it over and over again. In short, 2.4.0 is out there.

Anxiously awaited for the last too many months, 2.4.0 brings to the table many improvements, none of which come to mind to the exhausted release manager right now. "It's better", was the only printable quote. Pressed for details, Linus bared his teeth and hissed at reporters, most of which
suddenly remembered that they'd rather over "Home and Gardening" than the IT industry anyway.

Anyway, have fun. And don't bother reporting any bugs for the next few days. I won't care anyway.

Linus

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Changes since the prerelease:

David Mosberger:
- ia64 update

NIIBE Yutaka:
- SuperH update

Karsten Keil:
- re-do ISDN certification checksums

Tim Waugh:
- VIA DMA=255 bug fix
- IEEE 1284 config message
- IEEE 1284 probe fix
- missing printk argument
- ppa driver reconnect timeout tweak

Matthew Dharm:
- USB hotplug fix - specify exactly which fields to match on

Rik Faith:
- drm driver synch with XFree86-4.0.2
- oops: we synched a bit too far. Backsync to the _real_ 4.0.2 level.

Geert Uytterhoeven:
- m68k updates
- Amiga resource management updates
- m68k loops_per_jiffy updates
- m68k keyboard delay/repeat
- m68k SCSI updates
- m68k exported symbols update
- m68k Lance updates
- fbdev config fixes
- Amiga Ethernet updates
- Amiga builtin serial updates
- m68k config updates
- m68k __ashldi3
- Amiga Y2K fixes (a bit late, wouldn't you say?)
- Misc m68k updates
- fbdev init order fix
- Mac/m68k IDE updates
- m68k asm constraint fixes

Marc ZYNGIER:
- SMP lockup with IrDA

David Huggins-Daines:
- remove extra "remove_wait_queue()" in drivers/sound/cs46xx.c. It
would lock up badly on nonblocking reads.

Matti Aarnio:
- teach tulip driver about media types 5 and 6
- fix ATM LANE driver linkage issues
- fix DECNET driver unload time cleanup
- fix pointer comparison type warning
- get rid of excessive '##' token pasting that newer gcc's warn about

Keith Owens:
- fix drm Makefile to not use the same objects built-in and in a module
- update modutils version numbers to match 2.4.x kernel

Russell Kroll:
- fix radio card drivers that got the request_region sense inverted

Rich Baum:
- Remove compile warnings with newer gcc versions for lables with no
expression at the end of a compound block

Andreas Franck:
- Make the x86 semaphore implementation compile properly with current
gcc snapshots. Newer gcc's will release the memory allocated for a
data structure too early if only the pointer to that memory is passed
to an asm.

Alan Cox:
- pcxx.c: make it compile ("mseconds" -> "msec")
- Documentation: fix typos/glitches
- CCISS bugfix
- riscom setup bugfix
- toshoboe and wavelan overlarge udelay
- clean/bugfixes amateur radio
- yam/mkiss build fix
- old tulip chips driver update
- sg driver unchecked scsi_allocate_request
- i810 audio fix
- RTC CMOS locking fixes

David Miller:
- update sparc to "loops_per_jiffy"
- sparc32 uses ix86-like semaphores now
- missing flush_dcache_page in kiovec support layer
- netfilter: use "long" for values operated on using bitops
- more empty statement warning fixes
- LVM 32-bit compat ioctl checks
- Include param.h into Sparc64's delay.h to get HZ define
- Fix Zilog serial port speed setting checks

Neil Brown:
- raid5 missing unlock on degraded array
- knfsd inode semaphore: get it early

Johannes Erdfelt:
- USB oops on unplug fix for dc2xx and ov511 driver

Mitch Davis:
- prettier printout of IDE registers if < 0x100

Richard Henderson:
- alpha "loops_per_jiffy" update

Oliver Neukum:
- fix for SMP race in v4l open()

Andreas Bombe:
- Makefile fix for ieee1394
- IEEE 1394 up-to-date

Kai Germaschewski:
- fix ISDN diversion services name-clash (and crash)

Andre Hedrick:
- IDE chipset update, DVD-RAM update

Rik van Riel:
- don't deactivate partially written pages in generic_file_write

Michael Lang:
- ibmmca upgrade: docs and small bugs

Marko Kreen:
- big udelay's in fb drivers. Fix.

Me:
- drivers/net/rcpci45.c: make it compile ("rcpci_pci_table" ->
"rcpci45_pci_table")
- mark_buffer_dirty() only does a "balance_dirty()" if the
buffer was previously clean.
- mm sanity: never decrement page count past zero
- no synchronous bdflush wait
- mm VM scanning and exit race cleanup: mmlist_lock