[gentoo-kernel] [ANNOUNCE] genpatches-4.9-1 release

[gentoo-kernel] [ANNOUNCE] genpatches-4.9-1 release

[Mike Pagano]

This is an automated email announcing the release of genpatches-4.9-1


CHANGES
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Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults. Patch to add support for namespace user.pax.* on tmpfs. Patch to enable link security restrictions by default. Patch to ensure that /dev/root doesn't appear in /proc/mounts when booting without an initramfs. Patch to enable control of the unaligned access control policy from sysctl. (Mike Pagano)
A	1500_XATTR_USER_PREFIX.patch
A	1510_fs-enable-link-security-restrictions-by-default.patch
A	2900_dev-root-proc-mount-fix.patch
A	4200_fbcondecor.patch
A	4400_alpha-sysctl-uac.patch
A	5010_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc.patch

Update gentoo kconfig patch to remove DEVPTS_MULTIPLE_INSTANCES. See kernel upstream commit: eedf265aa003b4781de24cfed40a655a664457e6. Thanks to Ralf Ramsauer. (Mike Pagano)
M	4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch

Select SYSVIPC when GENTOO_LINUX_PORTAGE is selected. Dependency of IPC_NS. See bug #587736. (Mike Pagano)
M	4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch

Fix readme (Mike Pagano)

Clean up master (Mike Pagano)
D	1000_linux-4.0.1.patch
D	1001_linux-4.0.2.patch
D	1002_linux-4.0.3.patch
D	1003_linux-4.0.4.patch
D	1004_linux-4.0.5.patch
D	1500_XATTR_USER_PREFIX.patch
D	1510_fs-enable-link-security-restrictions-by-default.patch
D	2600_select-REGMAP_IRQ-for-rt5033.patch
D	2700_ThinkPad-30-brightness-control-fix.patch
D	2900_dev-root-proc-mount-fix.patch
D	2905_2disk-resume-image-fix.patch
D	2910_lz4-compression-fix.patch
D	4200_fbcondecor-3.19.patch
D	5000_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc.patch
D	5001_block-cgroups-kconfig-build-bits-for-BFQ-v7r7-4.0.patch
D	5002_block-introduce-the-BFQ-v7r7-I-O-sched-for-4.0.patch1
D	5003_block-bfq-add-Early-Queue-Merge-EQM-to-BFQ-v7r7-for-4.0.0.patch
D	5010_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc-4.9.patch

Add check to saved_root_name for supported filesystem path naming. (Mike Pagano)
M	2900_dev-root-proc-mount-fix.patch

Linux patch 4.0.5 (Mike Pagano)
A	1004_linux-4.0.5.patch

Linux patch 4.0.4 (Mike Pagano)
A	1003_linux-4.0.4.patch

Linux patch 4.0.3 (Mike Pagano)
A	1002_linux-4.0.3.patch

Fix linux patch 4.0.2 (Mike Pagano)
M	1001_linux-4.0.2.patch

Linux patch 4.0.2 (Mike Pagano)
A	1001_linux-4.0.2.patch

Fix for lz4 compression. Thanks to Christian Xia. See bug #546422. (Mike Pagano)
A	2910_lz4-compression-fix.patch

BFQ patchset for 4.0, v7r7. (Mike Pagano)
A	5001_block-cgroups-kconfig-build-bits-for-BFQ-v7r7-4.0.patch
A	5002_block-introduce-the-BFQ-v7r7-I-O-sched-for-4.0.patch1
A	5003_block-bfq-add-Early-Queue-Merge-EQM-to-BFQ-v7r7-for-4.0.0.patch

Linux patch 4.0.1 (Mike Pagano)
A	1000_linux-4.0.1.patch

Patch to select REGMAP_IRQ for rt5033 mfd driver. See bug #546938. (Mike Pagano)
A	2600_select-REGMAP_IRQ-for-rt5033.patch

Update gcc >= 4.9 optimization patch. See bug #544028. (Mike Pagano)
M	5010_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc-4.9.patch

Update the distro kernel patch to add an option to the Gentoo menu that enables CGROUPS for cgroup, IPC_NS for ipc-sandbox, and NET_NS for network-sandbox. (Mike Pagano)
M	4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch

Patch to enable link security restrictions by default. Patch to disable Windows 8 compatibility for some Lenovo ThinkPads.  Patch to ensure that /dev/root doesn't appear in /proc/mounts when bootint without an initramfs.  Path to not not lock when UMH is waiting on current thread spawned by linuxrc. (bug #481344) fbcondecor bootsplash patch.  Add Gentoo Linux support config settings and defaults.  Kernel patch that enables gcc < v4.9 optimizations for additional CPUs.  Kernel patch enables gcc >= v4.9 optimizations for additional CPUs. (Mike Pagano)
A	1510_fs-enable-link-security-restrictions-by-default.patch
A	2700_ThinkPad-30-brightness-control-fix.patch
A	2900_dev-root-proc-mount-fix.patch
A	2905_2disk-resume-image-fix.patch
A	4200_fbcondecor-3.19.patch
A	5000_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc.patch
A	5010_enable-additional-cpu-optimizations-for-gcc-4.9.patch

Add patch to support namespace user.pax.* on tmpfs, bug #470644 (Anthony G. Basile)
A	1500_XATTR_USER_PREFIX.patch

Adding generic patches for all versions (Mike Pagano)
A	4567_distro-Gentoo-Kconfig.patch


ABOUT GENPATCHES
----------------

genpatches is the patchset applied to some kernels available in Portage.

For more information, see the genpatches homepage:
http://dev.gentoo.org/~mpagano/genpatches

For a simple example of how to use genpatches in your kernel ebuild, look at a
recent gentoo-sources ebuild.