Linux 2.4.19-rc3-ac3

Alan Cox
2002-07-23T15:26:49Z

[+ 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 2.4.19rc3-ac3
o Hopefully fix the smp boot/apic problem (James Cleverdon)
o Tidy various VM bits up (Christoph Hellwig)
o Further quota updates (Jan Kara, Al Viro, Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix incorrect tristate in Config.in (Keith Owens)
o amd76x_pm compile fix (Erik Andersen)

Linux 2.4.19rc3-ac2
o Fix escaped iconfig makefile line (Greg Louis)
o Fix a dcache locking error (Al Viro)
o AMD native powermanagement (Tony Lindgren,
Johnathan Hicks)
| Replaces amd768_pm as its already far better
o Remove dead tq_bdflush (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove dead pg_nosave bits (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove dead 8253x build script (Christoph Hellwig)
o Clean up speakup Makefile (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix typo in drivers/net/Config.in (Hans-Joachim Baader)
o Update to new quota code with dual format (Jan Kara)
support
o Add the XFS framework for quota into it (Nathan Scott)
o Fix unaligned access on ewrk3 (Martin Brulisauer)
o Fix config breakage from mips merge (Christoph Hellwig)
o Recognize GPLv2 as a valid license (Keith Owens)
o Update ACPI hotplug driver (Takayoshi KOCHI)
| And fix posted shortly after
o Remove ksyms.c debugging junk (Khromy)
o Remove limits.h use in speakup (Adrian Bunk)
o NFS lock daemon fixes (Olaf Kirch)
| Sign errors, Openserver interoperability
o Further trident sound cleanup and fixes (Muli Ben-Yehuda)
o Change tcp_diag.h fix to keep DaveM happy (me)
o Add via apic to expected apic versions (me)
o Next batch of summit tweaks (James Cleverdon)
| Won't fix the existing APIC problem
o Add Vaio C1MV mode lines to radeonfb (James Mayer)
o Fix sloppy sign handling in apm and rio500 (Silvio Cesare)
o Reformat depca.c ready for some bugfixes (me)

Linux 2.4.19rc3-a1
o Merge with 2.4.19rc3

Linux 2.4.19rc2-ac2
o Fix ide probe crash stupid bug in ac1 (me)
| I mismerged Kurt's change

Linux 2.4.19rc2-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.19-rc2
o Minor HP merge fixup
o Orinoco build fix (Adrian Bunk)
o Vaio C1VE/N frame buffer console mode (Marcel Wijlaars)
o Fix an inverted test in sym53c8xx_2 (Grant Grundler)
o Fix aic7xxx build without PCI enabled (me)
o Clear allocated gendisk in IDE (Kurt Garloff)

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac7
o Merge more HPPA bits
o tcp_diag alignment fixup (Richard Henderson)
| Pending DaveM making a nicer fix Im sure
o Hopefully fix the SMP APIC problems rc6 (James Cleverdon)
gave some people
o Fix incorrect __init in PCI core (Takayoshi KOCHI)
| Caused hotplug bugs
o Update IBM PCI hotplug driver (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Add SCSI blacklist entries for Centristor (Robert Sertic)
o Update Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt (Steven Cole)
* Fix kdev_val macro (Steven Cole)
o Allow a user to force dma 0 to be allowed (Gerald Teschl)
for ISAPnP [be nice to autodetect this ?]
o Hopefully fix bogus config question bug (me)
o Fix hang on some boxes if you unload
maestro audio then hit the volume buttons (Samuel Thibault)
+ Fix aha152x scsi (Juergen Fischer)
o Bluetooth pcmcia drivers (Marcel Holtmann)

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac6
o Update merge using bits from newer summit diff (James Cleverdon)
o Fix problems with non SMP but io-apic build (me)
o Socket error path memory leak fix (Robert Love)
o Fix sd_varyio masks for higher drives (Kurt Garloff)
o Fix tmpfs double kunmap (Hugh Dickins)
o VIA rhine cleanup/fixes (Roger Luethi)
o Fix typos in ncr/seagate scsi (James Mayer)
o MPT fusion update (Pam Delaney)
o Trident audio code cleanups and lock fixes (Muli Ben-Yehuda)
o Fix irq balancing for summit boxes with Ingo's (James Cleverdon)
PIV balancer

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac5
o Add additional promise chip names provided by (me)
Hank Yang
o Fix promise 20277 misreporting (me)
o Remove extra argument from vm_enough_memory (me)
| Suggested by Hugh Dickins
o Initial merge of main chunk of parisc-55 tree
- fix scheduling of disabled kbd tasklet

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac4
o Tweak pnpbios permissions on escd file (me)
| We only want root able to see it
o Merge first bits of Summit stuff (me)
| Working from ugly ibm patch for 2.4.9
o Fix casting warnings in i830 DRM (me)
+ Fix atp870u warning (me)
o Fix APM hang on resume with SMP kernel on up (me)
laptop
o Change added proc/cpuinfo entries to fit format(me)
o Fix PIV clockmod (Peter Osterlund)
o Re-order scsi disk structure to save space (Kurt Garloff)
o Fix CPU_FREQ build problem (Peter Osterlund)
o Clean up speakup_acntpc (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Clean up speakup_acntsa (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Clean up speakup_apolo (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Basic speakup core cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix a mishandling of PCIBIOS boxes that do not (Mark Lisher)
use CONF1/CONF2
o Fix promise skip for new supertrak (Jan Schmidt)
o Allocate nocache ram based on mem size for (Tomas Szepe)
sparc32
o Fix incorrect zlib includes (David Woodhouse)
o Fix duplicated scsi host idents (Itai Nahshon)
o Update ALi5451 audio (Lei Hu)
| Sorry this took so long - it got lost
o Handle radeon cards that report zero RAM (James Mayer)
o Blacklist H.01.09 megaraid firmware (Jan Koop)
o Initial ALi5455 audio support (Lei Hu)

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac3
* Remove SWSUSPEND
| With the IDE backport option and other general 2.5 improvements
| its now best worked on in 2.5
* Remove duplicate config options (Steven Cole)
o Newer SX6000 has PDC20276 chips. Handle this (me)
o Don't use LBA48 hack on Promise 20262/3 (Hank Yang)
* Switch to Promise namings for chips (Hank Yang)
* Update promise drive quirks (Hank Yang)
o Fix missing sem up on error in usb printer (Oliver Neukum)
o Correct FPU stack fault signal flag bits (Dave Richards)
o Resync with base JFS tree (Dave Kleikamp)
o Make it clear CMD64x drives CMD680 (Adrian Bunk)

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac2
o Update eata and u14/34f drivers (Dario Ballabio)
o Handle 3c556 transmitter enable bit (Andrew Morton)
o Make the DRM layer use the pci mapping api (Arjan van de Ven)
o Set pci dma masks on the i2o devices (Frank Davis)
* JFFS2 bug fixes (Dave Woodhouse)
* Fix i815 APSIZE masking (Nicolas Aspert)
o Remove junk pcxxdelay function (Sergey Kononenko)
o EFI partition updates (Matt Domsch)
- I took out the MSDOS check - if both are
present we should favour MSDOS for now
* Fix ipc/shm locking (Hugh Dickins)
* Update Configure.help (Steven Cole)
o USB updates - cleanups (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o USB fix for intuos tablet (Christer Nilsson)
o USB scanner updates (David Nelson, Henning Meier-Geinitz,
Sergey Vlasov, Karl Heinz Kremer)
| Note - new maintainer for USB scanner - Brian Beattie
o Re-merge the ramfs limits code (David Gibson)
| * This needs good testing
| + TODO - make ramfs homour vm_accounting
o eepro100 warning fix (Pavel Machek)
o Report ok for nfs directory fsync (Trond Myklebust)
* Promise 20268 raid should be called 20270 (Hank Yang)
| Trivial item pulled out of the pending promise patches
o Speakup HZ != 100 cleanup part 1 (Arjan van de Ven)
o Report HT info in /proc/cpuinfo (Arjan van de Ven)
o PIV IRQ balancing fix (Ingo Molnar)
o Allow a non PGE PII optimised build (Arjan van de Ven)
o Elevator performance fixes (Andrea Arcangeli)
o Update cpufreq, add PIV throttling (Robert Schwebel,
Padraig Brady, Zwane Mwaikambo, Arjan van de Ven,
Tora Engstad)
o O(1) scheduler updates (Ingo Molnar)
* Fix 64bit random panic with
"I refuse to corrupt memory/swap" (Bill Nottingham)
* Fix compile with floppy disabled (Adrian Bunk)
o Quirk handler for Dunord I-3000 (Dave Close, David Mosberger)
| Plus I added real PCI idents for neatness
o Fix another vm accounting corner case (Robert Love)
o Patch up XFree 4.1 back compat problems (Arjan van de Ven)
in DRM 4.2+

Linux 2.4.19rc1-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.19-rc1
- Drop out mm fixes
* Shmem fixes for -ac (Hugh Dickins)
o Fix vm accounting corner cases (Hugh Dickins)
* Fix utimes permission check error (Stephen Rothwell)
| It was overstrong
o Fix JFS error handling down_write_trylock (David Kleikamp)
o Module loader off by 1 fix (Peter Oberparleiter)
o Allow irda modem bits to be arch set (Grant Grundler)
+ ALI M1671 GART support (Arjan van de Ven)
o IDE scsi off by one transformation fix (Mark Lord)
o Printk fixes
o USBserial semaphore fix (Pete Zaitcev)
o Alpha updates for O(1) scheduler (Robert Love)

Linux 2.4.19pre10-ac2
o Merge speakup support for blind users
o CSB6 cable detect for Dell (Matt Domsch)
o Update pci ids for Intel i8xx (Wim Van Sebroeck)
+ Add AMD766 PCI irq router support (Wayne Whitney)
+ ACARD scsi update (Matthew Chang)
* Fix idle-period bug in APM parser (Laurent Latil)
* Printk levels for 3c501 ethernet (Felipe Damasio)
o AMD768 TCO watchdog driver - * needs testing * (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Fix IDE port offset for pdc202xx (Hang Yang)
| should fix LBA48 drives on primary channel
o Fix incorrect speedstep multiplier detect (Dominik Brodowski)
* Add support for Aptiva with Bose subwoofer (Toshio Spoor,
John Rood)
+ Autodetect SiS 745 AGP (Carsten Rietzschel)
* More scsi sparselun entries (Arjan van de Ven)
+ Fix possible crash on shutdown with AF_ROSE (Jean-Paul Roubelat)
* Intel 845G IDE support (Andre Hedrick)
o Further CPiA driver updates (Duncan Haldane)
o Fix DAC960 diff that went astray (Juan Quintela)
o Add HP arrays to the sparselun list (Andrew Patterson)

Linux 2.4.19pre10-ac1
o Merge with Linux 2.4.19-pre10

Linux 2.4.19pre9-ac3
o Cpufreq updates (Dominik Brodowski, Dave Jones0
| Now includes some reverse engineered speedstep support
o JFS updates (David Kleikamp, Christoph Hellwig)
o CPiA updates/Intel microscope support (Duncan Haldane)
o Fix vm86 locking errors on SMP (Ben LaHaise)
o Remove dead vm86mode field (Ben LaHaise)
* Fix make clean for cl2llc (Keith Owens)
o Fix loop errors with highmem (Ben LaHaise)
* Fix ipc/sem.c SuS/LSB compliance (Christopher Yeoh)
X Update swsuspend maintainer info (Pavel Machek)
* Add another drive quirk for the promise (Hank Yang)
drivers
o Merge external journal support for jfs (David Kleikamp)
o Add documentation about O(1) scheduler (Robert Love)
o O(1) scheduler tidy ups (Robert Love)
o Fix remaining extern inline users (Christoph Hellwig)
o Cache alignment cleanups for SMP apic timers (Ravikiran Thirumalai)
o Ext3 file system updates (Stephen Tweedie)
o Fix 'dump corrupts live fs bug' (Stephen Tweedie)
o Add DAC960 devices to init table (Oliver Pitzeier)
| Lilo doesn't care but grub does ..

Linux 2.4.19pre9-ac2
* Clean up after SIGURG properly (David Weinehall)
| Needed to match the other SuS compliance fix for it
* Fixed wrong elf section in neofb (Thomas Mirlacher,
Andrey Panin)
* Don't write to reserved bits on 815 gart (Nicolas Aspert)
* Make fcntl locking POSIX 2001 compliant (Andries Brouwer)
* Fix an mmap corner case (Raúl)
* Merge 3c59x vlan support (Paul Komkoff)
* Update URLS for LDP documentation (John Kacur)
* Fix rmem setting for low memory (J A Magallon)
* Reparent scsi error thread to init (J A Magallon)
* Backport FPU init fixes (J A Magallon)
* Fix AGPgart crash on I830M/I845G when using
8Mb/8Mb split (Jeff Hartmann)
* Fix phy masking on 8139too (Jeff Garzik)
* Fix link state reporting on generic phy code (Jeff Garzik)
* Tulip phy handling fix (Jeff Garzik)
* Update 8139too docs (Jeff Garzik)
* cs89x0 update (Jeff Garzik)
* VIA rhine fixes (Jeff Garzik)
+ Hamachi quick fixup for 2.4.19 (Keith Underwood)
* Revert escaped procfs debug code (Todd Eigenschink)
* Merge the 2.5 additions to ethtool (Jeff Garzik)
* Update dl2k driver (Jeff Garzik)
* Fix kernel api docs to reflect fb changes (Juan Quintela)
* Fix problems with pcnet32 workaround for x250 (Go Taniguchi)
* De4x5 cleanups (Jeff Garzik)

Linux 2.4.19pre9-ac1
o Merge with 2.4.19pre9
*o Fix SuS violation on readv/writev (me)
| I believe this one is correct, please double check

Linux 2.4.19pre8-ac5
* Fix various audio copy*user (Rusty Russell)
o Update to rmap 13 (Rik van Riel, Christoph Hellwig)
* Fix joystick copy_user bugs (Robert Johnson)
* Document the i2o_pci module (me)
* Switch i2o_block back to direct pointers (me)
to avoid promise firmware bugs
* Remove cache error paths from i2o_block (me)
| new code doesnt trip that bug
* Reduce the i2o queue depth per device (me)
| pending tuning - might need more yet
* Set i2o default limit at 48K a write (me)
| more firmware bug stuff
* Clean up i2o cache strategy, add tuning ioctl (me)
* Allow users to force dpt cards to use base i2o (me)
| tested i2o_block on DPT with my cards
* Remove duplicate ac97_codec inclusion (Keith Owens)
X Tidy up patch for swsuspend (Pavel Machek)
* Fix wrong __init in 3c509 (Kasper Dupont)
o Fix mm/bootmem.c build on cris (Johan Adolfsson)
* Remove config tools for 8253x from kernel tree (Keith Owens)
* Rename files in aacraid ready for merge (me)
of updates
* Merge bridge specific changes in aac code (Deanna Bonds)
* Merge most of the fixups/cleanups for aacraid (Deanna Bonds)
o Set PCI masks for the 64 and 32bit aacraids (me)
* Don't program up the ali secondary codec for (me)
6 channel if you don't have one fitted
* Block layer copy*user fixups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Fix missing intermezzo include (Marc-Christian Petersen)
o Slab cache for iobufs (Andrea Arcangeli, Chuck Lever,
Christoph Hellwig)
* Fix intermezzo copy*user (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o down_trylock (Christoph Hellwig)
* Fix video compile for split module (Michal Jaegermann)
and compiled in
* Kill 3c59x debug bits (Andrew Morton)
* Char fixes for copy*user (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
* Fix a few errors in the janitor copy* fixes (me)

Linux 2.4.19pre8-ac4
o Fix warnings in pc_keyb.c (Christoph Hellwig)
* Fix undefined C in rivafb (Christoph Hellwig)
* Fix dnotify warnings (Christoph Hellwig)
o Remove unused nfs label (Christoph Hellwig)
o Fix vm_validate_enough prototypes (Christoph Hellwig)
* Fix wrong comment in agpgart (Nicolas Aspert)
* JFFS2 fixes (David Woodhouse)
o Hopefully fix zisofs breakage (David Woodhouse)
* Remove a defunct soc_probe call (Christoph Hellwig)
o Update initrd documentation (Mark Post)
o Fix SMP build (Robert Love)
o Numa-Q apic timer update (Martin Bligh)

Linux 2.4.19pre8-ac3
o Kbuild fixes (Keith Owens)
* Fix eepro100 bug/typo (Michael Rozhavsky)
* Intel 845G GART support (Graeme Fisher)
* Fix tasklet disable/kill in pppoatm (Luca Barbier)
* Add another PCI ident to the acenic driver (Eric Smith)
o Major IDE updates (Andre Hedrick)

Linux 2.4.19pre8-ac2
* Fix more compile problems (me)
* Fix a possible hang on shutdown in 3270 tty (Martin Schwidefsky)
* Make "make rpm" sane for non x86 (Cesar Cardoso)
* Two new AC97 codec entries (Lei Hu)
* Thread exit race fix (Dave McCracken)
* Further sg buffer clearing fix (Douglas Gilbert)
* Fix do_mounts printk (Al Viro)
* Umembp fixups (Neil Brown)
* Umembp shift bug fixup (me)
o Kbuild fixes and improvements (Keith Owens)
* Add a new tulip clone pci ident entry (Ohta Kyuma)
* Fix url on via pci fixups (Erich Schubert)
* koi8-ru handling fixes (Petr Vandrovec)
o Clean up remaining code to use yield (Robert Love)
o Clean up migration_init as per 2.5 (Erich Focht)
o Clean up maximum real time priorities (Robert Love)
* Kill unused variable in bpck6 (Adrian Bunk)
* Fix dnotify/process exit handling (Stephen Rothwell)
* Add another vaio bios to the table (Yves Lafon)
* Allow users to disable hyperthreading (Hugh Dickins)

Linux 2.4.19pre8-ac1
o Merge with Linux 2.4.19pre8
- Fix some compile problems

Linux 2.4.19pre7-ac4
* Test AMD768 IRQ router support (me)
* Fix ext2 build error
* Improve i810 audio documentation (Johannes Feigl)
* Ensure UTS data is in C locale (Martin Dalecki)
* Add the Intel ICH4 to the i810 audio driver (Wang Jun)
* Fix qlogicfc crash under load (Dave Miller)
* Fix snprintf return values in some cases (Ben LaHaise)
* Fix a bug that got into the iph5526 code when (Vineet Abraham)
networking
* Add more scanners that respond to all LUNs (Frank Zago)
+ Synclink PCMCIA wan driver (Paul Fulghum)
* Fix sparc64/ppc64 bluetooth ioctl build (Martin Eriksson)
* Change 5/6bit codec resolution detect for (Wan Tat Chee)
AC97
* Fix v4l compile bug in one option case (Iain Stevenson)
o Clean up powernow initcalls ("CaT")
o Add PIO mode support for the Pacific Digital (Mark Lord)
ADMA-100i card

Linux 2.4.19pre7-ac3
* Back merge some documentation fixes (Daniel Dickman)
* Update sisfb driver (Thomas Winischhofer)
o Remove sync wakeups now O(1) handles it (Robert Love)
o Abstract away need_resched (Robert Love)
o Fix scheduler deadlock during switch_mm (Dave Miller)
on sparc etc
o Optimise sched_yield (Robert Love)
o Handle tasks becoming runnable during (Robert Love)
schedule
o Clean up assumptions about MAX_RT_PRIO (Robert Love)
o Backport of migration fixes/irq off (Robert Love
fixes and migration_init William Irwin)
o Cleanups from 2.5->2.4 O(1) backport (Robert Love)
| The entire O(1) block above is a backport
| of all the fixes from Ingo, Robert and others
X Swsuspend fix crash on boot add cleanups (Pavel Machek)
* Scsi generic buffer tidy up (Douglas Gilbert)
* Correct kd.h definitions (Andrej Lajovic)
X Fix missing include for swsuspend (Mauricio Zambrano)
* Configure.help typo fixes (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Identify PIV Xeon in mptable (James Bourne)
o Fix "skip_ioapc_setup" compile problem (Mikael Pettersson)
o Additional ext2/ext3 sanity checker (Andreas Dilger)
* Handle very old misconfigured
NCR53c810 on DECpc XL etc (Graham Cobb)
o Core of support for jfs external log (Christoph Hellwig,
Dave Kleikamp)
o Clean up jfs_mknod a little (Christoph Hellwig)
o Sync up 2.4/2.5 jfs changes (Christoph Hellwig)
* PPC compile fixes (Paul Mackerras)
o Next stage of vm86 fixing (Kasper Dupont)
o Clean up drivers to use vmalloc_to_page (Hugh Dickins)
* Fix missing release in opl3sa2 (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Fix flag type error in rtl8150 (Rusty Russell)
* Fix various missing CONFIG_PCI checks (me)

Linux 2.4.19pre7-ac2
* Limit default i2o_block to 64K writes (me)
| Several controllers can't handle larger single requests
* Add power management control to i2o_block (me)
X Use chained sg list for i2o_block (me)
| Need to load first 8 entries into message for performance still
* Updated i2o documentation (me)
* Fix make xconfig
* Fix bios reboot sequence (Robert Hentosh)
* Kees Cook changed email address (Kees Cook)
* 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)
* 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)
* Clean up mpu401 failure handling paths (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Ad1848 pnp scanning fixes (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Kill dead URL in maintainers (Joe Perches)
o Back out problem bridge update (Mike Fedyk)
* 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)
* Fix missing newline in i810 audio printk (???)
* Put syscall table back for now (Steven Hirsch)
* Fix ips build for some combinations (Steven Hirsch)
o NLS makefile tidy (Urban Widmark)
o Fix radeonfb build (Peter Horton)
* 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)
* 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
X 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!
* Small fix for the radeonfb (Peter Horton)
* Fix highmem truncation on DMA mapping bug (Dave Miller)
X 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
* 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
* Reparent jdb to init and drop lock on exit (Ishan Jayawardena)
* 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)
* Add more idents for PIIX IDE controllers (Arjan van de Ven)
* Lock signals in procfs (Andrea Arcangeli)
* 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
* Fix Radeon fb reset problems as X11 did (Peter Horton)
* 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)
* Fix pty/tty POLL_OUT reporting (Sapan Bhatia)
+ Update berkshire watchdog driver (Lindsay Harris, Rob Radez)
o Clean up duplicated path_init and __user_walk (Hanna Linder)
code
* Enable MMX extensions on Geode GXm (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o O(1) scsi free command block finder (Mark Hemment)
* Updated IBM serveraid driver (Jack Hammer)
* 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
* 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)
* Add more entries to the scsi scan lists (Arjan van de Ven)
* 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)
* Fix incorrect use of hwif->index in ALI IDE (Martin Dalecki)
* 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)
* Merge the rest of Promise 20271 support (YAMAWAKI Teruo)
* Fix open/close races in indydog (Dave Hansen)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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
* Further IDE updates (Andre Hedrick)
* Reduce ide tape debug noise (Alfredo Sanjuán)
* Sync devices on final close not each close (Miquel van Smoorenburg)
* Make max busses/irqs dynamic on x86 (James Cleverdon)
| Needed for big IBM boxen
* Remove exp_find in NFS (never used) (Al Viro)
* Fix read locking on NFS export_table (Erik Habbinga)
* Fix possible NFS error path mnt/dentry leak (Al Viro)
* Use MKDEV macro in NFS device create (GOTO Masanori)
* 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)
* Add belkin wireless card idents (Brendan McAdams)
* 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
* Doh fixed the SYSVIPC build problem (Everyone...)
o Added 802.2LLC support (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
| Based on 2.0 code contributed by Procom
* Fix i2o build as module (Mark Cooke)
* 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)
* Further printk level fixes (Denis Vlasenko)
* Revert epic100 changes - reports of problems (me)
* Wafer WDT watchdog driver (Justin Cormack)
| I did some cleanup - Justin please double check it
* ITE8330G PIRQ map support (Tobias Diedrich)
* Trivial khttpd logging bug fix (Rogier Wolff)
* 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)
* Only try the flush and recycle trick for (me)
known buggy I2O controllers.
* Clean up module junk and use new init style (me)
for I2O.
* 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)
* Fix a missing ksym (Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
* Increase init delay on ALI5451 audio setup (Harald Jenny)
| Needed for Acer Travelmate 521TE
* Fix printk message levels in pci code (Denis Vlasenko)
* Add another laptop to the buggy APM tables (Mihnea-Costin Grigore)
o Fix an obscure acct race (Bob Miller)
* Sonypi driver update (Stelian Pop)
* 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)
* Fix a case where sync_one might not start an (Ben LaHaise)
inode writeout
* Corrected atm locking fix (Maksim Krasnyanskiy)
* 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)
* 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)
* IBM lanstreamer update (Kent Yoder)
* Fix 32bitism in the PM code (Pavel Machek)
* Make irqsave use unsigned long for consistency (Pavel Machek)
| Just fixes a few exceptions
* Make i2o_block fallback to blkpg for ioctls (me)
* All pids in use handling (Paul Larson)
* IDE code wasn't using ide_free_irq (William Jhun)
* 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)
* Allow the max user frequency for the rtc to (Mike Shaver)
be configurable
* 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)
* Restore 10Mbit half duplex eepro100 fix (me)
* 3c509 full duplex and documentation (David Ruggiero)
* 3c509 power management (Zwane Mwaikambo)
* Remove more surplus llseek methods (Robert Love)
X ATM locking fix (Frode Isaksen)
* Merge extra sound help texts (Steven Cole)
| plus one typo fix
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* Fix wrong order in MAINTAINERS (me)
* Remove roadrunner reference from MAINTAINERS (me)

Linux 2.4.19pre1-ac2
* Fix chown/chmod on shmemfs (me)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)
* First set of I2O endian cleanups (me)
* Make i2o_pci.c 64bit/BE clean (me)
* Maybe fix crash on i2o scsi abort/reset paths (me)
* Make i2o use the passed scsi direction flag (me)
* Fix awk failure path in menuconfig (Andrew Church)
* Merge varies doc updates (Steven Cole)
* Add serial support for the Lava Octopus-550 (Jim Treadway)
* OPL3SA2 cleanup (Zwane Mwaikambo)
o Add missing blkdev_varyio export (Todd Roy)
* 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)
* Fix oops if you try to use the RW wq locks (Bob Miller)
* 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)
* 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)
* 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
* 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)
* 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)
* 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)