Hi,

2.6.33.4 brings couple of bug fixes and support for new hardware.



Changelog:

Linux 2.6.33.4

• MIPS: Sibyte: Apply M3 workaround only on affected chip types and versions.
  
• SCSI: Retry commands with UNIT_ATTENTION sense codes to fix ext3/ext4 I/O error
  
• Enable retries for SYNCRONIZE_CACHE commands to fix I/O error
  
• scsi_debug: virtual_gb ignores sector_size
  
• SCSI: libiscsi: regression: fix header digest errors
  
• SCSI: fix locking around blk_abort_request()
  
• pxa/colibri: fix missing #include <mach/mfp.h> in colibri.h
  
• cpuidle: Fix incorrect optimization
  
• ACPI: sleep: init_set_sci_en_on_resume for Dell Studio 155x
  
• power_meter: acpi_device_class "power_meter_resource" too long
  
• ACPI: DMI init_set_sci_en_on_resume for multiple Lenovo ThinkPads
  
• V4L/DVB: budget: Oops: "BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference"
  
• md/raid6: Fix raid-6 read-error correction in degraded state
  
• virtio: initialize earlier
  
• md: restore ability of spare drives to spin down.
  
• security: testing the wrong variable in create_by_name()
  
• sparc64: Fix memory leak in pci_register_iommu_region().
  
• sparc64: Adjust __raw_local_irq_save() to cooperate in NMIs.
  
• sparc64: Use kstack_valid() in die_if_kernel().
  
• sparc64: Fix hardirq tracing in trap return path.
  
• sparc64: Fix PREEMPT_ACTIVE value.
  
• sparc64: Use correct pt_regs in decode_access_size() error paths.
  
• WAN: flush tx_queue in hdlc_ppp to prevent panic on rmmod hw_driver.
  
• udp: fix for unicast RX path optimization
  
• tun: orphan an skb on tx
  
• tipc: Fix oops on send prior to entering networked mode (v3)
  
• net: Fix oops from tcp_collapse() when using splice()
  
• sctp: Fix oops when sending queued ASCONF chunks
  
• sctp: fix to calc the INIT/INIT-ACK chunk length correctly is set
  
• sctp: per_cpu variables should be in bh_disabled section
  
• sctp: fix potential reference of a freed pointer
  
• sctp: avoid irq lock inversion while call sk->sk_data_ready()
  
• ipv6: Fix tcp_v6_send_response transport header setting.
  
• ieee802154: Fix oops during ieee802154_sock_ioctl
  
• cdc_ether: fix autosuspend for mbm devices
  
• bnx2: Fix lost MSI-X problem on 5709 NICs.
  
• powerpc: Reduce printk from pseries_mach_cpu_die()
  
• powerpc: Move checks in pseries_mach_cpu_die()
  
• powerpc: Reset kernel stack on cpu online from cede state
  
• xfs: add a shrinker to background inode reclaim
  
• tg3: Fix INTx fallback when MSI fails
  
• skip sense logging for some ATA PASS-THROUGH cdbs
  
• ath9k: reorder ieee80211_free_hw behind ath9k_uninit_hw to avoid oops
  
• r8169: more broken register writes workaround
  
• r8169: fix broken register writes
  
• r8169: use correct barrier between cacheable and non-cacheable memory
  
• kgdb: don't needlessly skip PAGE_USER test for Fsl booke
  
• drivers/net/wireless/p54/txrx.c Fix off by one error
  
• jfs: fix diAllocExt error in resizing filesystem
  
• CRED: Fix a race in creds_are_invalid() in credentials debugging
  
• initramfs: handle unrecognised decompressor when unpacking
  
• ext4: correctly calculate number of blocks for fiemap
  
• libata: Fix accesses at LBA28 boundary (old bug, but nasty) (v2)
  
• PCI: Ensure we re-enable devices on resume
  
• ALSA: hda: Use olpc-xo-1_5 quirk for Toshiba Satellite P500-PSPGSC-01800T
  
• ALSA: hda: Use olpc-xo-1_5 quirk for Toshiba Satellite Pro T130-15F
  
• ALSA: hda: Fix 0 dB for Packard Bell models using Conexant CX20549 (Venice)
  
• ALSA: snd-meastro3: Ignore spurious HV interrupts during suspend / resume
  
• ALSA: snd-meastro3: Add amp_gpio quirk for Compaq EVO N600C
  
• ALSA: hda: Use ALC880_F1734 quirk for Fujitsu Siemens AMILO Xi 1526
  
• ALSA: hda: Use STAC_DELL_M6_BOTH quirk for Dell Studio 1558
  
• ALSA: hda: Use STAC_DELL_M6_BOTH quirk for Dell Studio XPS 1645
  
• ALSA: hda - Add PCI quirk for HP dv6-1110ax.
  
• ALSA: hda: Use LPIB quirk for DG965OT board version AAD63733-203
  
• x86, k8 nb: Fix boot crash: enable k8_northbridges unconditionally on AMD systems
  
• x86: Fix NULL pointer access in irq_force_complete_move() for Xen guests
  
• x86: Disable large pages on CPUs with Atom erratum AAE44
  
• x86-64: Clear a 64-bit FS/GS base on fork if selector is nonzero
  
• edac, mce: Fix wrong mask and macro usage
  
• p54pci: fix bugs in p54p_check_tx_ring
  
• dm9601: fix phy/eeprom write routine
  
• Revert "memory-hotplug: add 0x prefix to HEX block_size_bytes"
  
• block: ensure jiffies wrap is handled correctly in blk_rq_timed_out_timer
  
• serial: 8250_pnp - add Fujitsu Wacom device
  
• raid6: fix recovery performance regression
  
• perf: Fix resource leak in failure path of perf_event_open()
  
• i2c: Fix probing of FSC hardware monitoring chips
  
• Staging: hv: name network device ethX rather than sethX
  
• Staging: hv: Fix up memory leak on HvCleanup
  
• Staging: hv: Fix a bug affecting IPv6
  
• NFS: rsize and wsize settings ignored on v4 mounts
  
• nfs d_revalidate() is too trigger-happy with d_drop()
  
• powernow-k8: Fix frequency reporting
  
• ocfs2_dlmfs: Fix math error when reading LVB.
  
• ocfs2: Compute metaecc for superblocks during online resize.
  
• ocfs2: potential ERR_PTR dereference on error paths
  
• ocfs2: Update VFS inode's id info after reflink.
  
• USB: xhci: properly set endpoint context fields for periodic eps.
  
• USB: xhci: properly set the "Mult" field of the endpoint context.
  
• USB: OHCI: don't look at the root hub to get the number of ports
  
• USB: don't choose configs with no interfaces
  
• USB: fix testing the wrong variable in fs_create_by_name()
  
• USB: don't read past config->interface[] if usb_control_msg() fails in usb_reset_configuration()
  
• USB: Add id for HP ev2210 a.k.a Sierra MC5725 miniPCI-e Cell Modem.
  
• USB: fix remote wakeup settings during system sleep
  
• staging: usbip: Fix deadlock
  
• sfc: Change falcon_probe_board() to fail for unsupported boards
  
• sfc: Always close net device at the end of a disabling reset
  
• sfc: Wait at most 10ms for the MC to finish reading out MAC statistics
  
• keys: the request_key() syscall should link an existing key to the dest keyring
  
• nfsd4: bug in read_buf
  
• procfs: fix tid fdinfo
  
• reiserfs: fix corruption during shrinking of xattrs
  
• reiserfs: fix permissions on .reiserfs_priv
  
• hugetlb: fix infinite loop in get_futex_key() when backed by huge pages
  
• flex_array: fix the panic when calling flex_array_alloc() without __GFP_ZERO
  
• mac80211: remove bogus TX agg state assignment
  
• memcg: fix prepare migration
  
• w1: w1 temp: fix negative termperature calculation
  
• libata: ensure NCQ error result taskfile is fully initialized before returning it via qc->result_tf.
  
• libata: fix locking around blk_abort_request()
  
• md/raid5: fix previous patch.
  
• md/raid5: allow for more than 2^31 chunks.
  
• drm/i915: fix tiling limits for i915 class hw v2
  
• drm/i915: Add initial bits for VGA modesetting bringup on Sandybridge.
  
• p54usb: Add usbid for Corega CG-WLUSB2GT
  

Just updated to a new kernel, runs perfectly

Ubuntu updates the Kernels in short intervals.Is it really needed?What bugfixes and all?IMHO ,linux-image-generic,linux-generic like packages needs to be purged from the system.will never bug for kernel upgrade!



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