Fedora Core 6 Update: kernel-2.6.22.2-42.fc6

Fri Aug 17 18:57:31 UTC 2007

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Fedora Update Notification
FEDORA-2007-672
2007-08-17
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Product     : Fedora Core 6
Name        : kernel
Version     : 2.6.22.2
Release     : 42.fc6
Summary     : The Linux kernel (the core of the Linux operating system)
Description :
The kernel package contains the Linux kernel (vmlinuz), the core of any
Linux operating system.  The kernel handles the basic functions
of the operating system:  memory allocation, process allocation, device
input and output, etc.

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Update Information:

Update to kernel 2.6.22.2:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/ChangeLog-2.6.22.2

Disable asynchronous SCSI device scanning: fixes failure to
find root device on SCSI disk at boot time.

Fix failure to find serial ports on some machines.

Disable PCI MMCONFIG and MSI by default, can be overrideen
with new options "pci=msi" and "pci=mmconf".

Detect broken timers on some AMD dual-core machines: fixes
hangs and failure to boot.

Don't crash when a userspace driver requests too much memory.

Update the CFS scheduler to more closely match upstream. 

Fix problems with the ssb driver.

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* Wed Aug 15 2007 John W. Linville <linville at redhat.com>
- Remove b44 bits from git-wireless-dev.patch (broken and unnecessary)
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- update CFS scheduler
- revert "don't BUG on too-large memory allocation"
- limit memory allocated by input force feedback drivers
* Tue Aug 14 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- set CONFIG_NET_RADIO (#251094)
* Fri Aug 10 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- 2.6.22.2
- don't use incremental patches for -stable
- update CFS scheduler with upstream patches
- serial: revert changes to port detection
- update utrace
- disable PCI MMCONFIG by default
* Thu Aug  9 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- revert s390 changes
* Thu Aug  9 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- hopefully add s390 back to the build
  (ugly hack, s390 overrides s390x, no -generic used)
* Thu Aug  9 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- disable CONFIG_SCSI_SCAN_ASYNC
* Thu Aug  9 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- disable PCI MSI by default
* Wed Aug  8 2007 Chuck Ebbert <cebbert at redhat.com>
- add xt_statistic.h to header list for iptables
- detect broken lapic timer on some dual-core AMD systems
- don't BUG on too-large memory allocation

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This update can be downloaded from:
    http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/fedora/linux/core/updates/6/

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This update can be installed with the 'yum' update program.  Use 'yum update
package-name' at the command line.  For more information, refer to 'Managing
Software with yum,' available at http://fedora.redhat.com/docs/yum/.
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