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Notes

Release Name: 2.2.1-xr3 [Download]

Notes: The new additions to the kernel are a completely updated 2.2.20 filesystem and memory management layer. Lots of bug fixes and some performance enhancements. See the ChangeLog for a full list of changes.


Changes:
  • Fixed wierd menu probems in 'make menuconfig'.
  • You can now specify whether you want the memory card filesystem to be compiled into the kernel or as a module.
  • Up-ported entire filesystem layer from 2.2.1 to 2.2.20 [linux/fs/*]
    • New features in updated filesystem layer
      • Improved ext2 filesystem corruption recovery code
      • Better Samba support
      • NFS server support (nfsd)
      • Much faster directory cache support
      • Tons of filesystem bug fixes
  • Up-ported entire memory management layer from 2.2.1 to 2.2.20 [linux/mm/*]
    • New features in updated memory management layer
      • Faster memory mapping/allocation (result is faster large file disk I/O)
  • Up-ported entire sunrpc network layer from 2.2.1 to 2.2.20 [linux/net/sunrpc/*]
    • New features in updated sunrpc
      • Additions to support nfsd
  • Countless bug fixes that occurred between 2.2.1 and 2.2.20 (the bug fix list is 8 pages long, so we won't re-list them here)