Linux 2.4.19pre7-ac2

Alan Cox
2002-04-20T00:38:10Z

[+ indicates stuff that went to Marcelo, o stuff that has not,
* indicates stuff that is merged in mainstream now, X stuff that proved
bad and was dropped out]

Linux 2.4.19pre7-ac2
o Limit default i2o_block to 64K writes (me)
| Several controllers can't handle larger single requests
o Add power management control to i2o_block (me)
o Use chained sg list for i2o_block (me)
| Need to load first 8 entries into message for performance still
o Updated i2o documentation (me)
o Fix make xconfig
o Fix bios reboot sequence (Robert Hentosh)
o Kees Cook changed email address (Kees Cook)
o Fix a minor SuSv3 violation in SIGURG (Christopher Yeoh)
o Make htmldocs fixups (Erik van Konijnenburg)
o Make all the slab caches use the "_" convention (Ryan Mack)
o Fix flow control problems with TCP over NFS (Neil Brown)
o Removepage hooks as per old -ac (Christoph Rohland)
| This lets shmfs/ramfs keep accounting straight
| ramfs needs someone to drop in the other old -ac bits stil
o Fix via-rhine PCI idents (Shing Chuang)
o Backport of 2.5 aha152x update by (Juergen Fischer)
o Loop fixups (Arjan van de Ven)
o Add HP tachyon idents to cpqfc driver (Jes Sorensen)
o Clean up mpu401 failure handling paths (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Ad1848 pnp scanning fixes (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Kill dead URL in maintainers (Joe Perches)
o Back out problem bridge update (Mike Fedyk)
o Fix sound on Compaq Presario 700 (Santiago Nullo)
o Fix restore_flags handling in cmd640 probe (Justin Gibbs)
o Fix oops from mptable impaired bioses (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix 8139cp/8139too big endian multicast setup (Naoki Hamada)
o Fix missing newline in i810 audio printk (???)
o Put syscall table back for now (Steven Hirsch)
o Fix ips build for some combinations (Steven Hirsch)
o NLS makefile tidy (Urban Widmark)
o Fix radeonfb build (Peter Horton)
o Update poll_out fixes on tty devices (Sapan Bhatia)
o 32bit uids in acct data (Chris Wing)

Linux 2.4.19pre7-ac1
o Merge CPU speed control framework and support (Dave Jones, Russell King
for VIA processors and AMD K6 Arjan van de Ven, Janne Pänkälä)
o Merge with 2.4.19pre7
- drop out keyb changes (breaks some setups)
o Lots more i2o debugging work (me)
| I2O now seems to be working again and works
| for the first time on the AMI Megaraid

Linux 2.4.19pre5-ac3
o Software suspend initial patch (Pavel Machek, Gabor Kuti,..)
| Don't enable this idly. Its here to get exposure and so
| people can bring the rest of the code up to meet its needs as
| well as fix it.
| Read the docs first!
o Small fix for the radeonfb (Peter Horton)
o Fix highmem truncation on DMA mapping bug (Dave Miller)
o Modules are not supposed to hack the syscall (Arjan van de Ven)
table so remove the export
+ Add ite sound configuration help (Steven Cole)

Linux 2.4.19pre5-ac2
o Fix compile error when using initrd (Jeff Nguyen)
+ Make the KL133 onboard video happy again (Andre Pang)
| and a lot of people working to figure out the right bits
o Reparent jdb to init and drop lock on exit (Ishan Jayawardena)
o Fix radeon corner case (Arjan van de Ven)
o Cache more group descriptors on ext2/ext3 (Arjan van de Ven)
+ SAB8253 series wan drivers (Joachim Martillo)
o Add more idents for PIIX IDE controllers (Arjan van de Ven)
o Lock signals in procfs (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Backport of 2.5 BUG_ON() functionality (Robert Love)
o Drop -O1 on sched.c - turns out its a CPU
microcode bug on early Xeon not Linux
o Fix Radeon fb reset problems as X11 did (Peter Horton)
o Radeon acceleration/mtrr updates (Peter Horton)
o JFS flushpage updates (Christoph Hellwig)
o BeOS file system support (Will Dyson)
| original work by Makoto Kato
+ Fix w83877 watchdog SMP compile failure (Paul Komkoff, me)
o Fix pty/tty POLL_OUT reporting (Sapan Bhatia)
o Update berkshire watchdog driver (Lindsay Harris, Rob Radez)
o Clean up duplicated path_init and __user_walk (Hanna Linder)
code
o Enable MMX extensions on Geode GXm (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o O(1) scsi free command block finder (Mark Hemment)
+ Updated IBM serveraid driver (Jack Hammer)
o S/390 makefile cross compile fixups (Pete Zaitcev)

Linux 2.4.19pre5-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.19pre5

Linux 2.4.19pre4-ac4
o Fix an additional vm86 case (Stas Sergeev)
| Check DOSemu again and this code wants some good review
o Do sanity checking to avoid mispoking PCI on (me)
the CMD640 [noted by Justin Gibbs]
o Fix promise IDE error recovery (Manfred Spraul)
o Ali IDE hang fixes (Sen Dong)
| Extracts from a bigger ALi update
o Ext3 balloc locking fix (Andrew Morton)
* Fix escaped MWAVE configuration (Thomas Hood)
+ Fix nls_utf8 problems (Liyang Hu)
+ Fix mmx_memcpy over-prefetching on Athlon (me)
o Fix an error return the vm accounting code broke(Andrew Morton)
+ Fix bpck6 build on the powerpc platform (Jens Schmalzing)
+ Fix bpck6 64bit cleanness and other minor bits (me)
+ Fix sound Configure.help thinko (Per von Zweigbergk)
+ Backport the 2.5 wireless driver stuff (Jean Tourrilhes)
| So 2.5 driver fix back merging is sane

Linux 2.4.19pre4-ac3
o Fix NFS pathconf problem (Neil Brown)
o IBM memory key ident for usb_storage (Alexander Inyukhin)
+ Add byte counters to mkiss driver (Ken Koster)
o Add more entries to the scsi scan lists (Arjan van de Ven)
o More eepro100 variants (Arjan van de Ven)
+ Update wolfson codec initialisers (Randolph Bentson)
+ USB serial oops fixes (Greg Kroah Hartmann)
+ Mad16 register gameport with input layer (Michael Haardt)
+ Update specialix driver to handle SI v1.x board (Ismo Salonen)
+ Fix a wdt285 EFAULT return, remove crud (Ron Gage, me)
+ Fix ioctl return errors on several sound cards (Ron Gage)

Linux 2.4.19pre4-ac2
o Hopefully correctly fix the vm86 problems (Stas Sergeev)
| Please test wine 16bit/dosemu/XFree stuff
* Fix panic when writing 0 length ucode chunk (Tigran Aivazian)
o Fix incorrect use of hwif->index in ALI IDE (Martin Dalecki)
o Fix mmap rbtree corruption bug (Ben LaHaise)
o Fix incorrect 10 to 6 byte scsi command switch (Jens Axboe)
* TCP correctness fix (Dave Miller)
+ Correct mwi acronym in docs (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o Merge the rest of Promise 20271 support (YAMAWAKI Teruo)
+ Fix open/close races in indydog (Dave Hansen)
o Fix compile problem with ibm hotplug (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
+ Save the .config file in make rpm (Kelly French)
+ Add another vaio with swapped minutes (Michael Piotrowski)
o Further atm fixes (Maksim Krasnyanskiy
Marcell Gal)
o Even more atm fixes (Francois Romieu)
* USB support for palm m130 (Udo Eisenbarth)
* USB fix for pegasus hotplug crash (Petko Manolov)
* USB request sense help for some scanners (Oliver ?)
* USB support for Optus@home (Oliver ?)
* USB printer updates (David Paschal, Pete Zaitcev)
* Work around USB ATEN keyboard switches (Vojtech Pavlik)
* PWC usb camera updates ("Nemosoft")
* Small updates to the USB hub code (Itai Nahshon)
* Fix spinlock handling bugs in ipaq USB (Ganesh Varadarajan)
* OHCI fixes (David Brownell)
* USB docs update (David Brownell)
* UHCI fixes (Johannes Erdfelt)
* Quieten a USB message to debug (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* USB bandwidth reporting (David Brownell)
+ Fix msync SuS v3 compliance (Chris Yeoh)
o CS8900 fixes (need testing) (Paul Komkoff)
* Adapt HP100 driver to pci api (Jeff Garzik)
+ Acenic updates - fix leak and Tigon1 (Jes Sorensen)
* DE620 region handling fixes (K Kasprzak)
* DLink DL2K gige updates (Edward Peng, Jeff Garzik)
+ pcnet32 leak fix (Jeff Garzik)
+ pcnet32 types fixes for non x86 (Anton Blanchard)
+ pcnet32 assorted fixes (Dave Engebretsen)
+ pcnet32 fixes (Paul Mackerras)
+ Fix missing linux/delay.h from eepro100 (me)
+ Further pcnet32 cleanup and probe fixes (Go Taniguchi)
* Merge gcc3 warning fixes for copy/csum (Jeff Garzik)
* Fix bmac build (Joshua Uziel)
* DE4x5 slight tidy up (Jeff Garzik)
* More AC97 ident strings (Peter Christy)

Linux 2.4.19pre4-ac1
o Merge 2.4.19pre4
+ Add PCI idents for mobility parallel port (me)
o Fix crash on boot with LLC if no devices present(me)

Linux 2.4.19pre3-ac6
o Fix the oops initialising the CD-ROM (Andre Hedrick)
* Add devexit_p() to the wdt_pci watchdog (Adrian Bunk)
o Fix lm_sensors compile (Eyal Lebedinsky)
o Remove some dead JFS oddments (Christoph Hellwig)
o SCSI generic update (Doug Gilbert, Travers Carter)
o VM86 exception fixups (Kasper Dupont, Manfred Spraul)
* Fix an fcntl error corner case to match SuS (Christopher Yeoh)

Linux 2.4.19pre3-ac5
o Further IDE updates (Andre Hedrick)
o Reduce ide tape debug noise (Alfredo Sanjuán)
* Sync devices on final close not each close (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
o Make max busses/irqs dynamic on x86 (James Cleverdon)
| Needed for big IBM boxen
o Remove exp_find in NFS (never used) (Al Viro)
o Fix read locking on NFS export_table (Erik Habbinga)
o Fix possible NFS error path mnt/dentry leak (Al Viro)
o Use MKDEV macro in NFS device create (GOTO Masanori)
o Clean up stale fh stats (Neil Brown)
o Tidy nfsd_lookup (Al Viro)
o nfsd_setattr fixes (Neil Brown)
o Tidy up nfsd vfs calls (Neil Brown)
o Clean up nfsd syscall interface (Neil Brown)
o Fix fat NFS handle interfaces (Neil Brown)
o Tidy up export list handling for NFS (Al Viro)
o Use seq_file for NFS exports proc file (Al Viro)
o Support for deviceless file system exports (Steven Whitehouse)
o Remove big kernel lock use for most of nfsd (Neil Brown)
o Convert sunrpc code to use generic linux lists (Neil Brown)
o Tidy up svc_sock NFS locking on SMP (Neil Brown)
o Improve tcp error/close handling (Neil Brown)
o Close down idle NFS tcp sockets (Neil Brown)
o NFS TCP fixes for buffer space tracking (Neil Brown)
o Handle TCP RPC service flooding (Neil Brown)
o Enable NFS over TCP via config options (Neil Brown)

Linux 2.4.19pre3-ac4
o Ensure jfs readdir doesn't spin on bad metadata (Dave Kleikamp)
o Fix iconfig with no modules (Randy Dunlap)
* Don't enfore rlimit on block device files (Peter Hartley)
o Add belkin wireless card idents (Brendan McAdams)
o Add HP VA7400 to the scsi blacklist quirks (Alar Aun)
o JFS race fix (Dave Kleikamp)
* Fix wafer5823 watchdog merge error I made (Justin Cormack)
* Fix Config rule for phonejack pcmcia card (Eyal Lebedinsky)
o Test improved OOM handler for rmap (Rik van Riel)
* Update defconfig/experimental bits (Neils Jensen)
* The incredible shrinking kernel patch (Andrew Morton)
* Clean up BUG() implementation (Andrew Morton)

Linux 2.4.19pre3-ac3
o Doh fixed the SYSVIPC build problem (Everyone...)
o Added 802.2LLC support (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| Based on 2.0 code contributed by Procom
o Fix i2o build as module (Mark Cooke)
o Blacklist for machines where local apic fails (Mikael Pettersson)
* Clean up wdt_pci (Zwane Mwaikambo)

Linux 2.4.19pre3-ac2
o Hopefully fixed all the as accounting bugs (me)
o Bit more LS220 work (nothing useful yet) (me)
o Change should be long not int in shmem acct (me)
o Ignore MAP_NORESERVE in mode 2/3 accounting (me)
+ Fix pci bar flag parsing (Russell King)
+ Handle ELF setup_arg_pages failure (Russell King)
* AT1700 filter fix (Sawa)
o S/390 fix for O(1) scheduler (Pete Zaitcev)
o Fix /proc/kcore for non zero memory start (Russell King)
* Update USB config files (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* TCP minisocks fixes (Dave Miller)
* dnotify fixes (Stephen Rothwell)
* Remove pointles sysrq-L (Russell King)
* Reparent khubd to init (Andrew Morton)
* EEpro100 test updates (Arjan van de Ven)
* Use named initializers in hwc_con (Pete Zaitcev)
* SHM ipc fix (Paul Larson)
o Further printk level fixes (Denis Vlasenko)
o Revert epic100 changes - reports of problems (me)
* Water WDT watchdog driver (Justin Cormack)
| I did some cleanup - Justin please double check it
* ITE8330G PIRQ map support (Tobias Diedrich)
o Trivial khttpd logging bug fix (Rogier Wolff)
o Stop module autoloader making user /proc/pid (Andreas Ferber)
dir root owned
o Handle TF flag properly on debug trap (Christoph Hellwig,
Arjan van de Ven, Stephan Springl)
* ALi M1701 watchdog driver (Stve Hill)
| I tidied/fixed this one too so please check
o Add iconfig (save/extract config from kernel (Randy Dunlap)
image file)
* Add mk712 touchscreen driver (Daniel Quinlan)
| Fixed various bugs in it - Dan please check

Linux 2.4.19pre3-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.19pre3
- Revert buggy bluesmoke change
- Add missing pppox header change
* Next SIS ide update (Lionel Bouton)
o Only try the flush and recycle trick for (me)
known buggy I2O controllers.
o Clean up module junk and use new init style (me)
for I2O.
o Don't use cache hints on dim i2o controllers (me)
* Add vmalloc_to_page to 2.4 from 2.5 (Gerd Knorr)
o JFS updates (Christoph Hellwig, Dave Kleikamp)
* Fix boot_cpu_data corruption bug (Mikael Pettersson)
+ Clean up ppp vfree paths (David Woodhouse)
* Emagic EMI usb driver (Tapio Laxström)
* Edgeport fixes for multiple device case (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Ethtool support for catc usb (Brad Hards)
* Update to pegasus driver in base tree (Petko Manolov)
* Update USB maintainers (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* IPAQ usb driver fixup (Ganesh Varadarajan)
* Allow usbfs name for 2.5 compatibility (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Committed_AS without a space in procfs (Andy Dustman)
* Fix an NFS file creation problem (Trond Myklebust)
o Fix a missing ksym (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o Increase init delay on ALI5451 audio setup (Harald Jenny)
| Needed for Acer Travelmate 521TE
* Fix printk message levels in pci code (Denis Vlasenko)
o Add another laptop to the buggy APM tables (Mihnea-Costin Grigore)
o Fix an obscure acct race (Bob Miller)
o Sonypi driver update (Stelian Pop)
o Fix devfs glitch with namespace stuff (Paul Komkoff, Al Viro)

Linux 2.4.19pre2-ac4
* Initial Ricoh ZVbus support (Marcus Metzler)
o PnPBIOS fixes (Brian Gerst)
o Fix a case where sync_one might not start an (Ben LaHaise)
inode writeout
+ Corrected atm locking fix (Maksim Krasnyanskiy)
o mp table parsing corner case fix (James Cleverdon)
o NFS over JFS directory offset fix (Christoph Hellwig)
* Update reisefsprogs version (Paul Komkoff)
* RME Hammerfall driver update (Günter Geiger)
o Fix an off by one in the bluesmoke reporting (Dave Jones)
+ Make irnet disconnect hang up ppp (Jean Tourrilhes)
+ Fix abuse of cli() in irda socket connect (Jean Tourrilhes)
* Add help text to patch-kernel script (Damjan Lango)
* USB irda updates (Jean Tourrilhes)
+ IRDA link layer updates (Jean Tourrilhes)
* Add WD xd signature to 2.4 (from 2.2) (Jim Freeman)
* Update sc1200 watchdog (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Switch wdt501 watchdog driver to bitops (me)
* Much updated LSI logic MPT fusion drivers (Pam Delaney)
* Wavelan driver updates (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Fix a race where we could hit init_idle after (Kip Walker)
freeing it (from rest_init)
* Raylink driver bugfixes (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Switch 2.4 to using a shared zlib (David Woodhouse)
* Fix w83877 SMP deadlock, clean up locking (me)
o IBM lanstreamer update (Kent Yoder)
o Fix 32bitism in the PM code (Pavel Machek)
o Make irqsave use unsigned long for consistency (Pavel Machek)
| Just fixes a few exceptions
o Make i2o_block fallback to blkpg for ioctls (me)
o All pids in use handling (Paul Larson)
* IDE code wasn't using ide_free_irq (William Jhun)
o Fix non procfs build (Eric Sandeen)
* Cyberjack bug fix (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* USB vicam fixes (Oliver Neukum)
* Add another device to the ftdi driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* UHCI performance fixes (Johannes Erdfelt)
* STV680 bug fixes (Kevin Sisson)
* Kaweth bug fixes (Oliver Neukum)
* Update hpusbscsi driver (Oliver Neukum)
* Update OV511 driver (Mark McClelland)
* Update usb-ipaq driver to support journada (Ganesh Varadarajan)
* Fix a bug in the USB skeleton driver (Holger Waechtler)
* Further SiS IDE updates (Lionel Bouton)
* Fix ufs mount failure bug (Andries Brouwer)
o Allow the max user frequency for the rtc to (Mike Shaver)
be configurable
o HPT37x crash on init fixups (Vojtech Pavlik)

Linux 2.4.19pre2-ac3
o Fix quota deadlock and extreme load corruption (Jan Kara, Chris Mason)
* MIPS config fix (Ralf Baechle)
* Update AGP config entry (Daniele Venzano)
* SMBfs NLS oops fix (Urban Widmark)
o Fix expand_stack locking hang on OOM (Kevin Buhr)
o Restore 10Mbit half duplex eepro100 fix (me)
o 3c509 full duplex and documentation (David Ruggiero)
o 3c509 power management (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Remove more surplus llseek methods (Robert Love)
X ATM locking fix (Frode Isaksen)
o Merge extra sound help texts (Steven Cole)
| plus one typo fix
o Add help for IXJ pcmcia configuration (Steven Cole, me)
| Rewrote the text somewhat

Linux 2.4.19pre2-ac2
o Fix a mismerge (may explain the patch weirdo)
+ Fix highmem + sblive (Daniel Bertrand)
* Reiserfs updates (Oleg Drokin)
o Auto enable HT on HT capable systems (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix init/do_mounts O(1) scheduler merge glitch (Greg Louis)
o Fix drm build problem on CPU=386 (Mark Cooke)
+ Fix incorrect sleep in ZR36067 driver (me)
* Add missing cpu_relax to iph5526 driver (me)

Linux 2.4.19pre2-ac1
* Merge aic7xxx update (Justin Gibbs)
* Fix handling of scsi 'medium error: recovered' (Justin Gibbs)
* Further request region fixups (Marcus Alanen)
o Add interlace/doublescan to voodoo1/2 fb driver (Urs Ganse)
| interlace is always handy with 3d glasses..
o Merge O(1) scheduler (Ingo Molnar)
| Thanks to Martin Knoblauch for doing the merge work
| Non x86 ports may need to clean up their mm/fault.c
* Lseek usage cleanup (Robert Love)
o Merge with 2.4.19pre2
- Fixed bogus sysctl definitions
- Fixed incorrect MODULE_LICENSE backout
- Fixed gratuitous supercede spelling change
- Fixed double patches from mips people
- Fixed incorrect link order from mips people
- Fixed broken config rules from mips people
- Made cciss build
- Remove half written "meth.c" driver
* Fix up some of the watchdog api text (me)
| Janitor job - go through that and make all the drivers
| support all the things ('V' NOWAYOUT and ioctl core)
o Fix wrong order in MAINTAINERS (me)
o Remove roadrunner reference from MAINTAINERS (me)

Linux 2.4.19pre1-ac2
o Fix chown/chmod on shmemfs (me)
o Fix accounting error in the shm code (me)
o Turn on mode2/mode3 overcommit protection (me)
* w83877f watchdog fix compile for SMP (Mark Cooke)
* Fix ide=nodma for serverworks (Ken Brownfield)
* USB2 controller support (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Add more devices to the visor driver (m515,clie)(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* IBM USB camera driver updates (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* USB auerswald driver (Wolfgang Muees)
o Trivial random match up with 2.2 (Marco Colombo)
* Spelling fixes (Jim Freeman)
* Next batch of time_*() fixups (Tim Schmielau)
+ Update video4linux API docs (Gerd Knorr)
* Merge some comment fixups (John Kim)
o ymfpci sync (Pete Zaitcev)
* Update maintainers to add pm3fb (Romain DOLBEAU)
* Hotplug updates (docs, fs, compaq driver) (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* IBM hotplug support (Irene Zubarev, Tong Yu, Jyoti Shah, Chuck Cole)
* ACPI hotplug driver support (Hiroshi Aono, Takayoshi Kochi)
* Blink keyboard lights on x86 panic (Andi Kleen)
o Further Configure.help changes (Steven Cole)
o Merge a version of the sard I/O accounting (Stephen Tweedie,
Christoph Hellwig)
+ SC1200 watchdog driver (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Fix address ordering for 36bit MCE on x86 (Dave Jones)

Linux 2.4.19pre1-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.19-pre1

Linux 2.4.18-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.18 proper
o Add missing -rc4 diff
o Use attribute notifiers to account shmemfs (me)
o Initial luxsonor LS220/LS240 driver code (me)
| This is just setup code and only in the tree because
| its where I keep my hacks in progress

Linux 2.4.18rc2-ac2
o Fix a corruption problem in the jfs dir table (Dave Kleikamp)
o Fix trap when extending a single extent of (Dave Kleikamp)
over 64Gb in JFS
* NBD deadlock fix (Steven Whitehouse)
* Fix device ref counting in netrom stack (Tomi Manninen)
* Fix shmemfs link counting (Christoph Rohland)
* Fix potential scsi disk oops (Peter Wong)
* eepro100 carrier init fix (Jeff Garzik)
* Fix wrong kfree in netrom stack (Tomi Manninen)
* Add TI1250 inits to ZV bus support (me)
| Zoom video now works on the IBM TP600 at least..
* Fix off by one on loop devices limit (Heinz Mauelshagen)
o Improve handling of psaux open with no mouse (Christoph Hellwig)
present
* 3COM 3c359 token ring driver (Mike Phillips)
* Fix a case where hpfs didnt set block size (Chris Mason)
early enough
* Remove use of lock_kernel in softdog driver (me)
* Make olympic driver use spinlocks not (Mike Phillips)
lock_kernel
o Fix type of detected devices in md.c (Jakob Kemi)
* Changes and defconfig update (Niels Jensen)
o PNP BIOS driver updates (Thomas Hood)
* Turn off excess printks in pnp quirk reporting (Andrey Panin)
* Add documentation for ITE I2C (Steven Cole)
o Add documentation for other zoran cards (Steven Cole)
+ Add an SC520 watchdog, and enable wd8387ff (Scott Jennings)
+ Cleaned up and fixed some SC520 watchdog bugs (me)
| Scott - can you double check these
* Fix return on generic lib/string.c memcmp (Georg Nikodym)
* Further zoom video cleanups (me)

Linux 2.4.18rc2-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.18rc2
* Ignore i810 modem codecs (me)
o Core of address space accounting code (me)
| Enforcement, ptrace and some shmem corner bits to do
* Fix security hole in shmfs (me)
o Fix various bits of 64bit file I/O in shmem (me)
o Merge with rmap12f (Rik van Riel and co)

Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac4
* SIS IDE driver update (handle with care) (Lionel Bouton)
o First set of I2O endian cleanups (me)
o Make i2o_pci.c 64bit/BE clean (me)
o Maybe fix crash on i2o scsi abort/reset paths (me)
o Make i2o use the passed scsi direction flag (me)
* Fix awk failure path in menuconfig (Andrew Church)
+ Merge varies doc updates (Steven Cole)
o Add serial support for the Lava Octopus-550 (Jim Treadway)
* OPL3SA2 cleanup (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Add missing blkdev_varyio export (Todd Roy)
o/* Update Changes file, config and experimental (Niels Jensen)
checks
* Fix highmem warning in aacraid (Andrew Morton)
* Make tpqic02 use new style request region (Marcus Alanen)
* Only turn off mediagx/geode TSC on 5510/5520 (me)
| From information provided by Hiroshi MIURA
* Massively clean up the AGP enable and bugfix it (Bjorn Helgaas)
o Fix oops if you try to use the RW wq locks (Bob Miller)
o Remove FPU usage in neomagic fb (Denis Kropp)
o Merge IBM JFS (Steve Best, Dave Kleikamp,
Barry Arndt, Christoph Hellwig, ..)
* Updated sis frame buffer driver (Thomas Winischhofer)

Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac3
* Clean up various macros and misuse of ; (Timothy Ball)
* Correct procfs locking fixup (Al Viro)
o Speed up ext2/ext3 synchronous mounts (Andrew Morton)
* Update IDE DMA blacklist (Jonathan Kamens)
o Update to XFree86 DRM 4.2 (compatible to 4.1) (Rik Faith,
and adds I830 DRM Jeff Hartmann,
Keith Whitwell,
Abraham vd Merwe
and others)
* IBM Lanstreamer updates (Mike Phillips)
* Fix acct rlimit problem (I hope) (me)
| Problem noted by Ian Allen
o Automatically set file limits based on mem size (Andi Kleen)
* Correct scsi reservation conflict handling (James Bottomley)
and add the scsi reset api code
o Add further kernel docs (me)
o Merge to rmap-12e (Rik van Riel and co)
|merge patch from Nick Orlov
* Small fix to the eata driver update (Dario Ballabio)

Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac2
* Nat Semi now use their own ident on the Geode (Hiroshi Miura)
* Put #error in two files that need FPU fixups (me)
* Correct a specific mmap return to match posix (Christopher Yeoh)
* Add Eepro100/VE ident (Hanno Boeck)
* Add provides for DRM to the kernel make rpm (Alexander Hoogerhuis)
* Fix a problem where vm86 irq releasing could be (Stas Sergeev)
missed
* EATA and U14/34F driver updates (Dario Ballabio)
* Handle EMC storage arrays that report SCSI-2 (Kurt Garloff)
but want REPORT_LUNs
* Update README, defconfig, remove autogen files (Niels Jensen)
o Add AFAVLAB PCI serial support (Harald Welte)
* Fix incorrect resource free in eexpress (Gianluca Anzolin)
o Variable size rawio optimisations (Badari Pulavarty)
* Add AT's compatible 8139 cardbus chip (Go Taniguchi)
o Fix crash with newest hpt ide chips (Arjan van de Ven)
* Fix tiny SMP race in pid selection (Erik Hendriks)
o Hopefully fix pnpbios crash caused by early (me)
kernel_thread creation

Linux 2.4.18pre9-ac1
o Initial merge of DVD card driver (Christian Wolff,Marcus Metzler)
| This is just an initial testing piece. DVB needs merging
| properly and this is only a first bit of testing
* Random number generator support for AMD768 (me)
* Add AMD768 to i810 driver pci ident list (me)
o Initial AMD768 power management work (me)
| Unfinished pending some docs clarifications
* Fix bugbuf mishandling for modular es1370 (me)
* Fix up i2o readl abuse, post_wait race, and (me, Arjan van de Ven)
some deadlock cases
* Added cpu_relax to yam driver (me)
* Fixup AMD762 if the BIOS apparently got it wrong(me)
(eg ASUS boards)
* MP1.4 alignment fixup
* pcwd cleanup, backport of fixes from 2.5 (Rob Radez)
* Add support for more Moxa cards to mxser (Damian Wrobel)
* Add remaining missing MODULE_LICENSE tags (Hubert Mantel)
* Fix floppy reservation ranges (Anton Altaparmakov)
* Fix max file size setup (Andi Kleen)

Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac3
o Fix a wrong error return in the megaraid driver (Arjan van de Ven)
* FreeVXFS update (Christoph Hellwig)
* Qnxfs update (Anders Larsen)
o Fix non compile with PCI=n (Adrian Bunk)
o Fix DRM 4.0 non compile in i810 (me)
* Drop out now dead CLONE thread/parent fixup (Dave McCracken)
* Make NetROM incoming frame check stricter (Tomi Manninen)
* Use sock_orphan in AX.25/NetROM (Jeroen PE1RXQ)
* Pegasus update (Petko Manolov)
o Make reparent_to_init and exec_usermodehelper (Andrew Morton)
use set_user, fix a tiny set_user SMP race
* Mark framebuffer mappings VM_IO (Andrew Morton)
o Neomagic frame buffer driver (Denis Kropp)
- Needs FPU code fixing before it can be merged
* Hyperthreading awareness for MTRR driver
* Correct NR_IRQ with no apic support (Brian Gerst)
* Fix missing includes in sound drivers (Michal Jaegermann)

Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac2
* i810 audio driver update (Doug Ledford)
* Early ioremap for x86 specific code (Mikael Pettersson)
| This is needed to do things like apic/dmi detect early enough
* Pentium IV APIC/NMI watchdog (Mikael Pettersson)
* Add C1MRX support to sonypi driver (Junichi Morita)
* Fix "make rpm" with two '-' in extraversion (Gerald Britton)
* Fix aacraid hang/irq storm on i960 boards (Chris Pascoe)
* Fix isdn audio compiler behaviour dependancy (Urs Thuermann)
* YAM driver fixes (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
* ROSE protocol stack update/fixes (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
* Fix UFS/CDROM oops (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Fix nm256 hang on Dell Latitude (origin unknown)
| Please test this tree with other NM256 based boxes and check
| those still work...
o Merge PnPBIOS patch (Thomas Hood, David Hinds, Tom Lees,
Christian Schmidt, ..)
* Merge new sis frame buffer drivers (Thomas Winischhofer)
* cs46xx oops fix (Mike Gorse)
* Fix a second cs46xx bug related to this (me)
* Fix acpitable oopses on boot and other problems (James Cleverdon)
o Fix io port type on the hpt366 driver (Pete Popov)
* Updated matrox drivers (Petr Vandrovec)
* IPchains fixes needed for 2.4.18pre7
+ IDE config text updates for the IDE patches (Anton Altaparmakov)
* Merge the first bits of ZV support (Marcus Metzler)
* Add initial ZV support to yenta socket driver (me)
for TI cards
* Fix pirq routing on the CS5530 (me)
| Finally the palmax pcmcia/cardbus works properly

Linux 2.4.18pre7-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.18pre7 (Arjan van de Ven)
| + some quota fixups redone by me
| several 18pre7 netfilter bugs left unfixed for now
o Rmap-12a (Rik van Riel and co)

Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac2

* Re-merge the IDE patches (Andre Hedrick and co)
* Fix check/request region in ali_ircc and lowcomx(Steven Walter)
com90xx, sealevel, sb1000
* Remove unused message from 6pack driver (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix unused variable warning in i60scsi (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix off by one floppy oops (Keith Owens)
* Fix i2o_config use of undefined C (Andreas Dilger)
* Fix fdomain scsi oopses (Per Larsson)
* Fix sf16fmi hang on boot (me)
+ Add bridge resources to the resource tree (Ivan Kokshaysky)
* Fix iphase ATM oops on close in on case (Till Immanuel Patzschke)
* Enable OOSTORE on winchip processors (Dave Jones, me)
| Worth about 10-20% performance
* Code Page 1250 support (Petr Titera)
* Fix sdla and hpfs doc typos (Sven Vermeulen)
o Document /proc/stat (Sven Heinicke)
* Update cs4281 drivers (Tom Woller)
| Fixes xmms stutter, remove wrapper code
| handle tosh boxes, allow record device change
| trigger wakeups on ioctl triggered changes
+/o/X Fix locking of file struct stuff found by ibm (Dipankar Sarma)
audit
o Use spin_lock_init in serial.c (Dave Miller)
* Fix AF_UNIX shutdown bug (Dave Miller)

Linux 2.4.18pre3-ac1

o 32bit uid quota
o rmap-11b VM (Rik van Riel,
William Irwin etc)
* Make scsi printer visible (Stefan Wieseckel)
* Report Hercules Fortissimo card (Minya Sorakinu)
* Fix O_NDELAY close mishandling on the following (me)
sound cards: cmpci, cs46xx, es1370, es1371,
esssolo1, sonicvibes
* tdfx pixclock handling fix (Jurriaan)
+ Fix mishandling of file system size limiting (Andrea Arcangeli)
* generic_serial cleanups (Rasmus Andersen)
o serial.c locking fixes for SMP - move from cli (Kees)
too
* Truncate fixes from old -ac tree (Andrew Morton)
* Hopefully fix the i2o oops (me)
| Not the right fix but it'll do till I rewrite this
* Fix non blocking tty blocking bug (Peter Benie)
o IRQ routing workaround for problem HP laptops (Cory Bell)
* Fix the rcpci driver (Pete Popov)
* Fix documentation of aedsp location (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix the worst of the APM ate my cpu problems (Andreas Steinmetz)
* Correct icmp documentation (Pierre Lombard)
* Multiple mxser crash on boot fix (Stephan von Krawczynski)
o ldm header fix (Anton Altaparmakov)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in i2c_proc (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in airo_cs (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in btaudio (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Fix unchecked kmalloc in qnx4/inode.c (Ragnar Hojland Espinosa)
* Disable DRM4.1 GMX2000 driver (4.0 required) (me)
* Fix sb16 lower speed limit bug (Jori Liesenborgs)
* Fix compilation of orinoco driver (Ben Herrenschmidt)
* ISAPnP init fix (Chris Rankin)
o Export release_console_sem (Andrew Morton)
* Output nat crash fix (Rusty Russell)
* Fix PLIP (Niels Jensen)
* Natsemi driver hang fix (Manfred Spraul)
* Add mono/stereo reporting to gemtek pci radio (Jonathan Hudson)