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    Linux 2.2.2-pre2 · 616d8602
    Linus Torvalds authored
    this one contains various small documentation updates and updates to xconfig,
    but the important parts (and the smallest part of the actual patch) are:
    
     - shared file lockup fix by Stephen Tweedie
     - my fix for the TCP bug that Ingo found
     - Ingo's io-apic setup fixes, which should finally get rid of the
       spurious apic interrupts with some motherboards and the ExtINT setup.
     - inode leak thing
     - SMP scheduler potential race condition fix
     - sound driver updates
     - partition and disk fixes (2kB blocksize media and some IDE disk
       geometry and irq detection issues).
    
    None of the fixes are critical to most people, but all of them _can_ be
    critical to people who have seen vulnerabilities in the area. As such, if
    you're happy with 2.2.1 there is no pressing reason to test this patch
    out, but I hope to have the pre-patches so that the final 2.2.2 can be
    left around for a while (CD-ROM manufacturers etc would certainly prefer
    to not see lots of releases).
    
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