Linux 2.4.27-rc1

[Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>]

Hi, 

Here goes the first release candidate of kernel v2.4.27. 

It contains a handful of ACPI bugfixes, HPFS update, USB fixes, 
amongst other smaller fixes.

Read the detailed changelog for more details

Summary of changes from v2.4.27-pre6 to v2.4.27-rc1
============================================

<andreas:xss.co.at>:
  o fix hotplug Config.in xconfig breakage

Andi Kleen:
  o Undo mistaken hunks in previous x86-64 MCE change
  o Add missing include to x86-64 bluesmoke.c

Chris Wedgwood:
  o stat nlink resolution fix

David S. Miller:
  o Cset exclude: kaber@trash.net|ChangeSet|20040529193918|20643

David Stevens:
  o [IPV4]: Fix interface selection in multicast sockops

Eyal Lebedinsky:
  o Fix USB visor.c compilation error

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
  o [IPV6]: UDPv6 checksum
  o [IPV6]: UDPv6: Use udpv6_queue_rcv_skb()
  o [IPV6]: Missing include in ip6_tables.c

Karol Kozimor:
  o acpi4asus trivial sync with 2.6 (Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor)

Len Brown:
  o [ACPI] PCI bus numbering workaround for ServerWorks from David Shaohua Li http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662
  o [ACPI] fix passive cooling mode indicator (Luming Yu) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1770
  o [ACPI] avoid spurious interrupts on VIA http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2243
  o [ACPI] fix 2.4.27-pre3 IRQ override regression due to dynamically allocated mp_irqs[].
  o [ACPI] handle SCI override to nth IOAPIC http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2835

Marcelo Tosatti:
  o Add missing struct definition of rwsem race fixes
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc1
  o journal_try_to_free_buffers(): Add debug print in case of bh list corruption

Mikulas Patocka:
  o HPFS fixes

Pete Zaitcev:
  o USB: Fix jumpshot's capacity