Linux 2.5.5-dj3

[Dave Jones <davej@suse.de>]

Mostly just keeping up with the Torvalds & Tossati's.
I've not merged any of the mips/ia64/ppc etc changes from 2.4,
and I'm looking at dropping whats in my tree that touches those soon.
The rationale being that the arch maintainers can do (and will do)
a better job at pushing those to Linus than I can, and as I've no way of
testing a lot of these changes, fixing up rejects in foreign asm is nigh
on impossible.

It's likely I won't put out too many patches in the next week or so, with
both a pending housemove, and experimenting with bitkeeper to try and
get much of this huge diff pushed Linus' way.
I'll still be picking up the overspill/syncing with -current however.

As usual,..
Patch against 2.5.5 vanilla is available from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/

Merged patch archive: http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/patches/merged/

Also, please check http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/Linux-2.5.html before
reporting known bugs that are also in mainline.

 -- Davej.

2.5.5-dj3
o   Merge 2.5.6pre2
o   Merge 2.4.19pre2
    | Drop various arch bits. (See above)
    | Drop LVM bits.
    | Drop some SIS bits that rejected -- James please take a look.
    | Fix some obvious sillies as per 2.4.19pre2ac1
o   Add missing struct initialiser to nls_cp850		(OGAWA Hirofumi)
o   natsemi rx/tx ring buffer confusion fixup.		(Jeff Garzik)
o   Backout bogus isofs makefile changes.		(Me)
o   Fix sys_shmdt return code.				(Andreas Schwab)
o   Numerous net driver last_rx = jiffies fixes.	(Me, Celso Gonzalez)
o   msync/mprotect POSIX fixes.				(Thorsten Kukuk)
o   Small SCSI generic updates.				(Douglas Gilbert)
o   Allow short commands in SCSI debug driver.		(Douglas Gilbert)
o   Update helptext for Machine Check.			(Paul Gortmaker)
o   Updated email address.				(Thomas Molina)
o   Fix potential oops in swapfile code.		(Andries Brouwer)
o   Reset/Reservation handling fixes.			(James Bottomley)
o   Various console fixes.				(James Simmons)
o   Update numerous fb drivers to new api.		(James Simmons)
o   Twin inquiry mode for SCSI LUN scanning.		(Patrick Mansfield,
							 Douglas Gilbert)
o   Update DMI / local APIC fixes.			(Mikael Pettersson)
o   Emu10k1 OSS highmem dma fixes.			(Daniel Bertrand)
o   Export dparent_lock					(Petr Vandrovec)
o   Clean up struct page shrinkage.		(Rik van Riel, Dave Miller)
o   More Config.help updates.				(Steven Cole)
o   Make highmem pte a boolean.				(Steven Cole)
o   opl3sa2 modular compile fix.			(Zwane Mwaikambo)
o   es18xx compile fix.					(Zwane Mwaikambo)
o   nfsd modular compile fix.				(Stelian Pop)
o   Use list heads for task list.			(Brian Gerst)
o   Fix up various compilation warnings.		(Roberto Nibali)
o   Power management for 3c509.				(Zwane Mwaikambo)
o   Small kbuild cleanup.				(John Levon)


2.5.5-dj2
o   Merge 2.5.6pre1
o   Merge up to 2.4.19pre1
o   Merge IDE changes from 2.5.5
o   Drop S390 changes.
    | These were incomplete & old, and would be better
    | merged by the maintainers anyway.
o   Fix decvte console graphic mode.			(Nick Pasich)
o   Chop non x86-64 bits out of x86-64 mtrr.c		(Me)
o   Eliminate annoying warning in serial.c		(Andrey Panin)
o   Use named initialisers in various filesystems.	(Todor Todorov)
o   More devexit fixes.					(Andrew Morton)
o   Fix null pointer checks in sd.c			(Peter Wong)
o   Further multi-desktop console work.			(James Simmons)
o   Docbook compile fixes.				(Erlend Aasland)
o   Additional Config.help texts.			(Dan Carpenter,
							 Steven Cole)
o   Convert neofb to new framebuffer api.		(James Simmons)
o   Sanitise arguments to mempool_create()		(Balbir Singh)
o   Fix binfmt_elf modular compile.			(Paul Gortmaker)
o   Only fsync() blockdev on last close/umount.		(Miquel van Smoorenburg)
o   Promise IDE driver update.				(Peter Denison)
o   irq router recognition for Intel ICH chipsets.	(Wim Van Sebroeck)
o   IPv6 initialisation workaround.			(Ben Clifford)
    | Works, but may not be correct fix.
o   Dump x86 MCE MISC register in right order.		(Me)
o   NFSv3->NFSv2 READDIRPLUS fix.			(Trond Myklebust)
o   More /proc/net signedness fixes.			(Arnaud Giersch)
o   Fix JFFS2 duplicate slabcache name.			(Me)
o   mtdblock bio work.					(Me)
    | Quick hack to test JFFS2 changes, WorksForMe(tm).
o   Various other small MTD/JFFS2 fixes.		(Me)
o   sstfb support for interlace / doublescan modes.	(Urs Ganse)
o   Use correct timings for PIIX secondary slave.	(Daniel Quinlan)
o   Fix up some borken comments.			(John Kim)


2.5.5-dj1
o   Merge 2.5.5 final.
    | Backout broken IDE changes.
o   Implement proper locking in ALSA lseek methods.	(Robert Love)
o   Document lseek locking.				(Robert Love)
o   ALSA + YMFPCI compile fixes.			(Stelian Pop)
o   Further console reentrancy work.			(James Simmons)
o   NFS compile fix.					(Neil Brown)
o   Fix up some strsep changes from last time.		(René Scharfe)
o   tmpfs link-count on dir rename fixes.		(Christoph Rohland)
o   USB vicam driver build fixes.			(Greg KH)
o   Split up terminal emulation.			(James Simmons)
o   Fix scsi_merge crash-on-boot problem.		(Jens Axboe)


2.5.4-dj3
o   Merge up to 2.4.18rc2
o   Change <linux/malloc.h> -> <linux/slab.h>	(Me)
o   Fix borken locking in nfs ->lookup.		(Jarno Paananen)
o   Fix ext2 freeing blocks not in datazone.	(Randy Hron, Chris Wright)
o   Fix ext2/ext3 revision level checks.	(Andreas Dilger)
o   Fix ramdisk compilation failure.		(Me, Rudmer van Dijk)
o   More include dependancy tweaks.		(Me)
o   BSS janitor work.				(Craig Christophel)
o   Replace all strtok users with strsep.	(Matthew Hawkins, Jason Thomas)
o   scsi_debug ->address & other fixes.		(Douglas Gilbert)
o   Silence isapnp debug messages.		(Andrey Panin)
o   Clear passcred in sock_alloc()		(OGAWA Hirofumi)
    | Fixes slow sunrpc/portmap, and various
    | gnome-terminal weirdness.
o   Console reentrancy work.			(James Simmons)
o   ALSA Config.in fixes.			(René Scharfe)
o   Fix Oxford Semiconductor PCI id.		(Ed Vance)
o   Power Management for es18xx.		(Zwane Mwaikambo)
o   Remove duplicate PCI ids.			(Wim Van Sebroeck)
o   Change Olympic driver to use spinlocks.	(Mike Phillips)
o   Fix pcilynx locking.			(Manfred Spraul)
o   Fix cris eeprom driver locking.		(Robert Love)
o   PPP/BSD Compression vfree in interrupt fix.	(Paul Mackerras,
						 Dominik Brodowski)
o   cli->spinlocks for aha1542 driver.		(Douglas Gilbert)
o   ALSA ISAPNP fixes.				(Andrey Panin)
o   /proc/net/udp signedness fix.		(Arnaud Giersch)
o   fcntl_[gs]etlk* cleanup.			(Chris Wright)

-- 
Dave Jones.                    http://www.codemonkey.org.uk
SuSE Labs.