Linux 2.5.10-dj1

Dave Jones
2002-04-27T03:08:41Z

Clear out the pending patch queue, and merge up to Linus' latest
in order to have a base to continue pushing bits from.

As usual,..
Patch against 2.5.10 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/

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

-- Davej.

2.5.10-dj1
o Fix mysterious SMP compile breakage in sched.c (Adam Kropelin)
o Fix ISDN config.in typo. (Steven Cole)
o Remove duplicate entry from MAINTAINERS (Adrian Bunk)
o Silly typo in z2ram.c (Jerry Cooperstein)
o Disallow smp_call_function from bottom halves. (Dipankar Sarma)
| x86 only right now, other archs need changing.
o Fix up builtin_expect warnings. (Andrew Morton)
o Only frob P4 LVT if thermal monitor enabled. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o TUN/TAP readv/writev support. (Maxim Krasnyansky)
o updated UP CPU number microoptimisation. (Mikael Pettersson)
o Various net driver/ISDN request_region fixes. (William Stinson)
o Large sd update. (Douglas Gilbert)
o Add some missing exports. (Dagfinn Ilmari Manns?ker)
o CONFIG_DMASOUND_AWACS fix. (Steven Cole)
o A few Config.help updates. (Steven Cole)
o x86 pagetable_init cleanup. (Brian Gerst)
o New synclink drivers. (Paul Fulghum)
o e100 devinit compilation fix. (Adrian Bunk)
o Several trivial compile fixes. (Keith Owens)
o Update to IDE-42 (Martin Dalecki)
o Fix handling of the wrong cluster chain. (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Add validity check the first entry of FAT. (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Other misc cleanups of fatfs. (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o printk loglevels in fatfs. (Andrey Panin)
| Andrey, some of these rejected, and were dropped
| due to the above updates.
o Release BKL in sem_undo exit path. (Chris Wright)
o Make sure UTS_VERSION is always in C locale. (Martin Dalecki)
o Fix Alpha ptrace. (Ivan Kokshaysky)
o Fix hang in migration thread. (James Bottomley)

2.5.9-dj1
o Resync against 2.5.9
| Configure enhanced to look in /boot/`uname -r` (Me)
o Fall back to PCI BIOS if direct access fails. (Me)
o Bump size of xconfig variable buffer (Me)
o 64bit fixes for x86-64 MTRR driver. (Me)
o GL641USB based CF-Reader USB support. (Gert Menke)
o Bring x86-64 bluesmoke up to date with ia32. (Me)
| And drop non-x86-64 bits.
o UP CPU number microoptimisation. (Mikael Pettersson)
o ATM resources compile fix. (Frank Davis)
o readahead reformatting. (Steven Cole)
o Death of SYMBOL_NAME (Brian Gerst)
o Add more missing Config.help entries. (Steven Cole)
o remove old SCSI-EH methods from Scsi_Host_Template (Christoph Hellwig)
| This likely breaks many SCSI drivers. They were broken anyway,
| and only worked by chance. With this, they stand a chance of being fixed.
o meye driver request_irq bugfix. (Stelian Pop)
o Add kernel command line params to meye driver. (Stelian Pop)
o Slabcache namespace cleanup. (Ryan Mack)
o SIGURG SUSv3 compliance. (Christopher Yeoh)
o Ultrastor region handling cleanup. (William Stinson)
o Megaraid region handling cleanup. (William Stinson)
o Buslogic region handling cleanup. (William Stinson)
o IrDA driver update. (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Fix ESSID related wireless crash. (Jean Tourrilhes)
o Attempt rd.c surgery. (Me, Andrew Morton)
| works/doesn't work feedback appreciated.
o Fix reboot=bios cache handling. (Robert Hentosh)
o Recognise P4 Xeon in mptable. (James Bourne)
o 64bit fixes for smbfs. (Urban Widmark)
o nfsd double down() fix. (Anton Blanchard)
o x86 io.h cleanup revisited. (Brian Gerst)
o kjournald open files fix. (Ph. Marek)
o Make expfs compilable on old compilers. (Andrew Morton)
o Nail the per-cpu-areas problem once and for all. (Rusty Russell)