Linus released the Linux development kernel 2.5.17 last night. He summarized the changes in two sentences, "Various FS updates (including merges of quota and iget_locked), and Makefile cleanups from Kai. And yet more TLB shootdown stuff."

This release includes the new and improved changelog format []earlier story]. It combines some of the verbosity of BitKeeper changelogs with the readability of the old style kernel changelogs. Those watching the development kernel evolve will notice that Linus has been good to his word, releasing new kernels with increasing rapidity. Browse the latest development kernels on kernel.org.

From: Linus Torvalds
To: Linux Kernel Mailing List
Subject: Linux-2.5.17
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 22:16:35 -0700 (PDT)

Various FS updates (including merges of quota and iget_locked), and
Makefile cleanups from Kai.

And yet more TLB shootdown stuff.

Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.5.16 to v2.5.17
============================================

acme AT conectiva.com.br
	copy_from/to_user checking in
	 o drivers/sound/*.c
	 o fs/intermezzo/ext_attr.c
	 o drivers/isdn/*.c
	 o drivers/usr/*.c
	 o sound/{core,pci}/*.c
	 o drivers/char/*
	 o drivers/block/*.c

Andrew Morton
	o check for dirtying of non-uptodate buffers
	o reduce lock contention in do_pagecache_readahead
	o larger b_size, and misc fixlets
	o fix dirty page management
	o reiserfs locking fix
	o pdflush exclusion infrastructure
	o dirty inode management
	o i_dirty_buffers locking fix
	o ext2: preread inode backing blocks
	o pdflush exclusion
	o fix ext3 race with writeback
	o fix ext3 buffer-stealing
	o writeback tuning
	o remove PG_launder
	o improved I/O scheduling for indirect blocks

david AT gibson.dropbear.id.au
	o Missing init.h in drivers/pci/power.c

dmccr AT us.ibm.com
	o Thread group exit problem reappeared

Christoph Hellwig
	o cleanup read/write
	o Small cleanup of nfsd export checks
	o kNFSd cleanup of nfsd_open
	o get rid of 

jack AT suse.cz
	o quota-1-newlocks
	o quota-2-formats
	o quota-3-register
	o quota-4-getstats
	o quota-5-space
	o quota-6-bytes
	o quota-7-quotactl
	o quota-8-format1
	o quota-9-format2
	o quota-10-inttype
	o quota-11-sync
	o quota-12-compat
	o quota-13-ioctl

jaharkes AT cs.cmu.edu
	o iget_locked  [1-6]

jhammer AT us.ibm.com
	o ips for 2.5

kai AT tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de
	o Rules.make cleanup: introduce c_flags, a_flags
	o Remuve some cruft from top-level Makefile
	o Move DocBook stuff out of top-level Makefile
	o Move arch specific options to their Makefile
	o Don't implicitly export all symbols
	o top-level Makefile cleanup
	o Remove assembler rules from top-level Makefile
	o Add scripts to generate include/linux/{version,compile}.h
	o Rules.make: Use variables for commands
	o Small Rules.make cleanup
	o Rules.make: check for changed command line
	o Makefile cleanup: Don't rebuild init/version.o on each build
	o IA64: Use standard AS rule
	o x86_64: Use standard AS rule
	o Rules.make: Remove special rule for $(export-objs)
	o Fix a typo in drivers/pcmcia/Makefile
	o Fix arch/alpha/boot AS rule
	o Makefile: fix merge
	o ISDN: Export CAPI user interface directly
	o ISDN: Remove remaining MOD_{INC,DEC}_USE_COUNT from CAPI drivers
	o Make AFLAGS_KERNEL use consistent with CFLAGS_KERNEL
	o ISDN: CAPI: Remove duplicate statistics
	o ISDN: CAPI: Remove capi_interface_user etc.
	o ISDN: CAPI: Move the notification callback
	o ISDN: Have the CAPI application alloc struct capi_appl
	o ISDN: CAPI: Pass struct capi_appl * instead of index
	o ISDN: CAPI use struct capi20_appl * in signal callback
	o ISDN: CAPI: Get rid of capi_signal mechanism
	o ISDN: AVM T1 ISA CAPI controller fix
	o Update /BitKeeper/etc/ignore
	o kbuild: Use $(CURDIR)
	o kbuild: Suppress printing of '$(MAKE) -C command' line
	o kbuild: Fix object-specific CFLAGS_foo.o
	o Small fix for net/irda/Makefile
	o Fix ext2 compilation
	o Fix some compiler warnings
	o kbuild: Remove generated ..cmd files on 'make clean'
	o kbuild: Standardize building of init/*
	o kbuild: Speed up vmlinux build

mason AT suse.com
	o reiserfs bitops warnings
	o reiserfs iput deadlock fix

Neil Brown
	o Increase snd buffer size for UDP
	o Change MD Superblock IO to go straight to submit_bio
	o Tidy up raid5 code
	o Initial md/raid5 support for 2.5 (with bio)

Linus Torvalds
	o Clean up %cr3 loading on x86, fix lazy TLB problem
	o Fix double i_writecount handling (Tony Luck)
	o Make generic TLB shootdown friendlier to non-x86 architectures
	o Fix OSS API emulation when sound is compiled as a module
	o Update kernel version to 2.5.17
	o New makefiles generate .*.cmd files, not .*.flags files