Linux 2.5.3-dj4

Linux 2.5.3-dj4

[Dave Jones]

Three Linus prepatches, one from Marcelo, and another bunch
of pending items. Pretty big merge, so tread carefully.

Patch against 2.5.3 vanilla is available from:
ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/davej/patches/2.5/

 -- Davej.

2.5.3-dj4
o   Merge 2.5.4pre3
    | Make virt_to_bus change optional, so drivers compile again.
    | Not the correct fix, but it at least gets things usable
    | until the right fixes exist. Define CONFIG_DEBUG_OBSOLETE
    | if you want to help out fixing these.
o   Merge 2.4.18pre9
o   Remove old cruft from blk.h				(Christoph Hellwig)
o   SEM_UNDO in semop() in pthread			(Dave Olien)
o   AFAVLAB serial multiport card support.		(Harald Welte)
o   Handle awk failure gracefully.			(Andrew Church)
o   Add Intel Pro/100 VE recognition to eepro100	(Hanno Böck)
o   Extra debug checking in __free_pages_ok		(Hugh Dickins)
o   Numerous PPP fixes.					(Paul Mackerras)
o   First try at fixing PNPBIOS & floppy problem.	(Anton Altaparmakov)
o   VM_IO mmap() fixes.					(Andrew Morton)
o   Recognise several extra cards in MOXA driver.	(Damian Wrobel)
o   Fix ide-dma compile.				(Jens Axboe)
o   driverfs 'read past end of buffer' fix.		(Andrey Panin)
o   Make ide-scsi & sg work again.			(Jens Axboe)
o   procfs prototype fixes.				(Mikael Pettersson)
o   Fix cardbus oops.					(Peter Osterlund)
o   Add support for Lava Octopus PCI serial card.	(Jim Treadway)
o   Sanity check inode in fcntl_dirnotify.		(Me)
o   Fix ethtool defines in pcnet32.			(William Lee Irwin III)
o   aha1542 modular compile warning fix.		(William Lee Irwin III)


2.5.3-dj3
o   Merge 2.4.17-pre8
o   Merge some small bits from 2.4.18-pre7-ac3
o   Drop sd-many patch.
    | Not relevant for 2.5, + a better alternative
    | is in the works from Christoph Hellwig.
o   Merge radix tree page cache.		(Momchil Velikov)
o   inflatefs doesn't need its own zconf.h	(Me)
o   Add missing includes to ymfpci & opl3sa2.	(Michal Jaegermann)
o   Fix DRM warnings on 64bit compiles.		(Michal Jaegermann)
o   Fix highmem compile.			(Me)
    | Ugly, needs fs.h untangling.
o   NSC Geode recognition/support.		(Hiroshi MIURA)
o   Hack around ZISOFS link order problem.	(Todor Todorov)
o   Increase inline name length for the dcache.	(Andi Kleen)
o   Reduce mount hash table size.		(Andi Kleen)
o   cosa.c compile error fix.			(Adrian Bunk)
o   initcall initialisation off by one fix.	(Bjorn Wesen)
o   Unbreak compilation of iptables userspace.	(Harald Welte, Rusty Russell)
o   Yet more reiserfs updates.			(Oleg Drokin & Namesys folks)
o   Fix large LUNs breakage.			(Kurt Garloff)
o   Clean up simple_strtol exports.		(Russell King)


2.5.3-dj2
o   More include file shake-ups.		(Me)
    | Break binfmt out of sched.h
    | Divorce fs.h from linux/capability.h
    | fs.h fathers err.h
o   Fix some include breakage from -dj1.	(Jarno Paananen)
o   Fix LVM compile.				(Dave Gilbert)
o   Numerous Lanstreamer fixes.			(Kent Yoder)
o   Support large numbers of SCSI devices.	(Richard Gooch)
o   CRC32 late initialisation fix.		(Petr Vandrovec)
o   qnx4fs update.				(Anders Larsen)
o   Iforce joystick compile fix.		(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Numerous NFS fixes.				(Trond Myklebust)
o   No CONFIG_PCI compile fix.			(Adrian Bunk)
o   NBD request size limit fix.			(Petr Vandrovec)
o   Selectable port/irq for i8042.		(James Simmons)
o   Improved free page accounting.		(Ed Tomlinson)
o   Convert various strtok --> strsep.		(René Scharfe)


2.5.3-dj1
o   Merge 2.5.3final
    | Drop NCR5380 changes for now. For reasons why, read
    | http://kt.zork.net/kernel-traffic/kt20020121_151.html#4
o   MAINTAINERS updates.				(Me, Ingo Molnar)
o   Move IA64 perfmon init out of init/main.c		(Me)
o   Several #include linux/malloc.h -> linux/slab.h	(Me)
o   Remove bogus duplicate dmi_scan()			(Me)
o   Remove duplicate code in bootsect.S			(Rob Landley)
o   ScanLogic USB-ATAPI adapter support.		(Leif Sawyer)
o   Shrink dqcache by priority.				(Josh MacDonald)
o   Fix up BKL removal breakage in HFS & UFS.		(Robert Love, Me)
o   Config.help updates for GUID partition support.	(Matt Domsch)
o   Updated USB driverfs support.			(Greg KH)
o   Fix modular USB build.				(Jim McDonald)
o   Handle error case in sys_swapon()			(Andrey Panin)
o   i810_audio build fix.				(Martin Bahlinger)
o   text.lock->subsection improvements.			(Keith Owens)
o   Support an extra mystery rocketport card.		(Andi Kleen)
o   zlib_inflate build fix.				(Andi Kleen)
o   Remove inclusion of sched.h for most of fs/		(Me)
    | pushes CURRENT_TIME into wait.h
    | There's still work to do here.
o   Debug trap for vfree.				(Arjan van de Ven)
o   Make xconfig find help texts again.			(Olaf Dietsche)
o   Fix nbd breakage.					(Petr Vandrovec)
o   IBM partition compile fix.				(Sergey S. Kostyliov)
o   More reiserfs fixes.				(Oleg Drokin)


2.5.2-dj7
o   Merge 2.5.3pre6
o   Remove fs.h inclusion from sched.h again.		(Christoph Hellwig)
o   Remove some segment.h inclusions that reappeared.	(Me)
o   Unmangle dl2k crc fix from -dj6			(Jim McDonald)
o   Fix tsdev compile.					(Me)
o   aty128fb & radeonfb compile fixes.			(James Simmons)
o   Updated Config.help entries for input layer.	(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Input layer tweak for old IBM keyboards.		(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Fix USB HID feature report output.			(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Workaround some broken PS/2 mice.			(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Don't filter outgoing fields to HID defined ranges.	(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Disable address in scatterlist for sg.		(Douglas Gilbert)
o   Limit NR_IRQS in no IO-APIC case.			(Brian Gerst)
o   Sonypi driver update (C1MRX Vaio).			(Stelian Pop)
o   Remove bogus release_region in eexpress.		(Gianluca Anzolin)
o   Neofb compile fixes.				(James Simmons)
o   Reiserfs update.					(all@namesys)
o   Further reiserfs fixes.				(Oleg Drokin)
o   Fix keyboard not working with nothing in AUX port.	(Vojtech Pavlik)
o   Small devfs changes.				(Richard Gooch)
o   Rage128 Pro TF identification to aty128fb.		(James Simmons)




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