Linux 2.5.15-dj2

Dave Jones
2002-05-17T01:58:29Z

Grab some of the more fun bits from Linus' public bk tree, and
merge in another boatload of patches that turned up elsewhere.
Quite a large set of changes, so tread carefully.

As usual,..

Patch against 2.5.15 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.

2.5.15-dj2
o Fix ADFS map scanning code. (Russell King)
o Drop userspace utilities from 8253x driver. (Keith Owens)
o Remove duplicate apic init code. (Ishan O Jayawardena)
o zlib_inflate return code fix. (David Woodhouse)
o Hotplug CPU preparations. (Rusty Russell)
o More conversions to use standard AS rule. (Kai Germaschewski)
o AVM CAPI init/remove cleanups. (Kai Germaschewski)
o 64 bit jiffies. (George Anzinger)
o More Pentium4 thermal interrupt fixes. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Fix typo in serial unload message.. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Allow disabling of P4 Xeon hyperthreading. (Hugh Dickins, Me)
| I mangled Hugh's 2.4 patch quite a bit to work
| with Pat Mochels reworked x86 setup code.
o set_cpus_allowed() optimisation. (Mike Kravetz)
o Further ps2esdi resource cleanups. (William Stinson)
o Re-add dropped compile fix for hd.c (Adrian Bunk)
o Remove event from block_dev.c (Manfred Spraul)
o Intel I845G AGPGART support. (Graeme Fisher)
o ni65 driver region handling cleanup. (William Stinson)
o Add Farallon PN9100-T ident to acenic driver. (Eric Smith)
o Remove spurious timer interrupts on clustered APIC. (Martin J Bligh)
o Various typo fixes. (Marko Myllynen)
o Some more malloc.h -> slab.h conversions. (Marko Myllynen)
o Add missing bootmem include. (Johan Adolfsson)
o Reword exiting with non-zero preempt count warning. (Robert Love)
o Numerous RAID5 fixes. (Neil Brown)
o Remove Documentation/man on make mrproper. (Marko Myllynen)
o menuconfig -Wshadow fixes. (Marko Myllynen)
o Use named initialisers for net/sched/ (Thomas 'Dent' Wirlacher)
o sys_[p]read/sys_[p]write cleanup. (Christoph Hellwig)
o sdla_main region handling cleanup. (William Stinson)
o FATFS extension filters. (OGAWA Hirofumi)
o Various soft accel fb bugfixes. (James Simmons)
o Appletalk ltpc region handling cleanup. (William Stinson)

2.5.15-dj1
o Several pipe cleanups. (Manfred Spraul)
o Remove duplicated function in irlmp (Adrian Bunk)
o Throw out some more bogons found whilst splitting.
o Compile warning fix for ikconfig. (Adrian Bunk)
o Kill unused var in bpck6 (Adrian Bunk)
o Compilation fix for 586TSC (Manfred Spraul)
o Add missing VM86 exception handlers. (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix d_subdir counting in dcache_readdir (Charles A. Clinton)
| Munged to apply to 2.5 by me.
o Fix exports in pci makefile. (Greg KH)
o Convert pidhash to use list_t (William Lee Irwin III)
o Fix compile warning in dnotify. (Steven Rothwell)
o Fix zftape bit function abuse. (Mikael Pettersson)
o Drop various USB bits.
| Larger updates in mainline soon.
o Do not increment TcpAttemptFails twice. (David S. Miller)
o Remove pointless CONFIG_SYN_COOKIES ifdef. (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix export-objs usage in Makefiles. (Keith Owens)
o Fix compile error with CONFIG_NET_CLS_POLICE (David S. Miller)
o Fix JFS deadlock when flushing data during commit. (Dave Kleikamp)
o kNFSd export_operations support for isofs. (Neil Brown)
o Make setresuid/setresgid more consistent wrt fsuid (Linus Torvalds)
o Fix tasklet leak in PPPoATM. (Luca Barbieri)
o Update to IDE-60. (Martin Dalecki)
o Minor NTFS clean ups. (Anton Altaparmakov)
o Fix use after __init bug in 3c509. (Kasper Dupont)
o Dump extended MSRs in P4/Xeon MCE handler. (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o block_dev doesn't need f_version. (Manfred Spraul)
o Remove unused vars from paride. (Frank Davis)
o mmap() correctness fix. ("DervishD",
David G?mez Espinosa)
o Incorrect sizeof in kmem_cache_sizes_init() (Manfred Spraul)
o try_atomic_semop() cleanup. (Manfred Spraul)

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