Marcello recently made 2.4.18-rc2 available, bringing us closer to a final version of 2.4.18. This second release candidate had four fixes, as listed in the following changelog...

From: Marcelo Tosatti
To: lkml
Subject: Linux 2.4.18-rc2
Date: 	Mon, 18 Feb 2002 18:16:30 -0200 (BRST)

We'll hopefully have a 2.4.18 pretty soon..

rc2:
 - Make get_user_pages handle VM_IO areas
  gracefully					(Manfred Spraul)
 - Fix SMP race on PID allocation		(Erik A. Hendriks)
 - Fix SMP race on dnotify scheme		(Alexander Viro)
 - Add missing checks to shmem_file_write	(Alan Cox)

rc1:
 - PPC MPC8260 update				(Tom Rini)
 - eepro100 fixes				(Jeff Garzik)
 - Make natsemi hardware workaround a config 
   option					(Jeff Garzik)
 - Add serial board PCI ID			(Jeff Garzik)
 - Add support for another tulip clone		(Jeff Garzik)
 - Fix typo in winbond driver			(Jeff Garzik)
 - Move initialization of tridentfb before
  the generic drivers				(Geert Uytterhoeven)
 - Reiserfs bugfixes				(Oleg Drokin)
 - More __devexit_p assorted fixes		(Andrew Morton)
 - Merge some -ac bugfixes			(Alan Cox)