final:

- 2.0.40-rc8 was released as 2.0.40 with no changes.

2.0.40-rc8

Ahem, 2.0.40-rc7 never happened, and thus never contained a non-working
sk_buff.c...  *Lalalalala*

o   Fix sk_buff.c            (me)
   | Thanks to the following who
   | informed me of my blunder:
   | Jari Ruusu, Seiichi Nakashima,
   | Steven ?, Michael Deutschmann
o   Correct AF_UNIX fd-passing      (Michael Deutschmann)
   semantics to match what OpenSSH
   expects
o   Fix typo in rtl8139.c introduced in   (me)
   2.0.40-rc7
o   Fix typo in ni65.c introduced in   (me)
   2.0.40-rc7
o   Fix compile-time error in pci2000.h   (me)
o   Fix ICMP-fix for ip_forward.c      (me)
o   Fix two compile-time warnings      (me)
   in menuconfig
o   Minor changes to CREDITS      (me)
o   Cosmetic changes to MAINTAINERS      (me)


2.0.40-rc7

Well, lets pretend, like many times before, that this really is the
last release candidate for the 2.0.40-kernel.  I won't bother with
excusing myself for being late (bordering on the extreme) with this
release.  Better late than never.

o   __Security-fix__: fix local LCALL7   (taken from 2.2.23)
   crasher
o   __Security-fix__: made mmap of      (me)
   /proc/*/mem a config-option,
   disabled by default
o   __Security-fix__: fix ICMP data leak   (Philippe Biondi, me)
o   __Security-fix__: Fix ethernet      (backported from 2.2.24)
   padding data leak
   | fixed drivers:
   | 3c501
   | 3c505
   | 3c507
   | 8390
   | atarilance
   | de600
   | de620
   | depca
   | epic100
   | hp100
   | ni52
   | ni65
   | rtl8139
   | seeq8005
   | sk_g16
   | smc9194
   | tulip
   | via-rhine
   | znet
   | todo:
   | a2065
   | ariadne
o   Make tulip handle the case where   (taken from 2.2.24)
   init_etherdev returns NULL
o   Rest in Peace, Leonard Zubkoff      (me, Paul Gortmaker)
o   RTC wildcard fix         (taken from 2.2.24)
o   Make padding work properly in      (Jeff DeFouw, me)
   ip_options
   | Did whitespace-changes too
o   Fix typo and incorrect C-code      (Michael Deutschmann)
   in arch/i386/kernel/setup.c
o   Documentation fix for unicode.txt   (Michael Deutschmann)
o   Updated COPYING to fix y2k-issues...   (me)
o   Update of various documentation      (Thunder from the Hill, me)
   to reflect the fact that Linus is NOT
   the right person to contact
   about 2.0-related bugs...
o   Remove the MCA-entry from      (me)
   MAINTAINERS, since the 2.0-tree
   does not support MCA
o   Change my e-mail address to      (me)
   tao@kernel.org; since I have such
   an address, I might as well use it
   for kernel-related matters.  Also
   added my GPG-key information
o   Add default:-clause to a switch in    (me)
   vsprintf.c
   | Minor whitespace-changes while
   | at it
o   Add default:-clauses to         (me)
   mm/{shm,sem,msg}.c
   | No whitespace-changes here


2.0.40-rc6

o   Make sys_utime and sys_utimes      (Stephen Rothwell, me)
   perform the same permission checking
   | Again, I did some whitespace changes
   | while at it; Stephen's innocent
o   Remy Card no longer maintains ext2   (me)


2.0.40-rc5

o   Ignore SIGURG in SIG_DFL, as per SUSv3   (Christopher Yeoh, me)
o   Fix ipc/sem.c SUS/LSB compliance   (Christopher Yeoh)
   | Both these fixes contains whitespace
   | changes. Don't blame poor Chris for
   | this; I made them
o   Changes to MAINTAINERS         (Riley Williams, me)
   | Added Riley Williams
   | Various tidying
   | Updated the address to the
   | Appletalk mailing-list
   | Updated Christoph Lameter's
   | e-mail address
   | Updated Andre Hedrick's entry
   | Updated Thomas Bogendörfer's entry
   | Updated Martin Mares' e-mail address


2.0.40-rc4

o   Commented out a printk in fs/buffer.c   (Michael Deutschmann)
   that complains about mismatching
   blocksizes


2.0.40-rc3

o   Fix memory-leak in af_unix      (Jon Nelson, Alan Cox, me)


2.0.40-rc2

o   Fix ICMP bug            (David S. Miller)
o   Add autodetection for wd1002s-wx2   (Paul, who appears to
   in the xd-driver          have no last name =])
o   Fix path MTU discovery for      (Kirk Petersen)
   transparent TCP sockets
o   Revert array-size change in      (me, on advise from
   include/linux/module.h          Jari Ruusu)
o   Remove workaround for gcc-2.4.5      (Adrian Bunk)
   | This is basically a whitespace-
   | change, since it removes code
   | inside an #ifdef #endif clause


2.0.40-rc1

o   Fix possible vmalloc bug for      (Ralf Baechle)
   architectures with virtually
   indexed caches
o   Micro-optimization in vmalloc      (Ralf Baechle)
o   Fix group descriptor corruption      (Daniel Phillips,
   in ext2fs             Ville Herva,
                   Samuli Kärkkäinen)
o   Fix some missing includes      (me)
o   Change array-size from 0 to 1 for   (me)
   two arrays in the symbol-table
   in include/linux/module.h
o   Fix type of struct timeval xtime in   (me)
   include/linux/sched.h
o   Fix warnings in include/linux/skbuff.h   (me)
o   Fix a few typos in Configure.help   (me)
o   Various small whitespace changes   (me)
   and fixes of strange indentation
   | I know some of you won't like this
   | and I don't give a damn ;-)


2.0.40-pre3

o   Fix typo in sched.c         (Tim Sutherland)
   | this time for real; I applied this
   | patch to the wrong kernel-tree last
   | time, hence the reject
o   IDE probe patch for some ATAPI drives   (Geert Van der Plas)


2.0.40-pre2

o   Make pci2000 compile         (Joseph Martin)
o   Use KERNELRELEASE in module      (me)
   installpath as well
o   Removed unused variable in      (me)
   ext2/super.c
o   Fixed warning in ext2/dir.c      (me)
o   Fix a blunder of my own in      (me)
   arch/kernel/i386/traps.c
o   Fix typo in sched.c         (Tim Sutherland)
o   Fix bug in mkdep.c         (Tim Sutherland)
o   Fix bug in autoirq.c         (Michael Deutschmann)
o   Add allocation debugging code      (Michael Deutschmann)
o   Fix bugs in the math-emu code      (Bill Metzenthen,
                   Michael Deutschmann)

2.0.40-pre1

o   Fixed the ordering of         (Philipp Rumpf)
   watchdog initialising, to make sure
   hardware watchdogs takes precedence
   over the softdog driver
o   Fix the CREDITS-entry for      (Kai Petzke)
   Kai Petzke
o   Updated the MAINTAINERS-file a little   (me)
o   Fix "dumpable"-race         (Solar Designer)
o   Fix theoretical exploit in printk   (Solar Designer)
o   Backported checkconfig.pl,      (me)
   checkhelp.pl and checkincludes.pl
   from v2.4
o   Backported support for tags and      (me)
   TAGS
o   Added an extra-version entry to      (me)
   the version#, to keep track of
   the prepatches etc.
o   Fix all occurences of         (me)
   #endif BLABLA type; don't forget
   that it should be /* BLABLA */ !!!