[patch 00/66] 2.6.24-stable review

Chris Wright
2008-04-17T01:06:47Z

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.24.5 release.
There are 66 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response
to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please
let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and
wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it.

These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the
Cc: line. If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@kernel.org
to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list,
also email us.

Responses should be made by Sat April 19 01:00 UTC
Anything received after that time might be too late.

The whole patch series can be found in one patch at:
kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.24.5-rc1.gz
and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

the -stable release team
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Makefile | 4 -
arch/parisc/kernel/firmware.c | 27 +++++++----
arch/parisc/kernel/pdc_cons.c | 19 +++++++-
arch/parisc/kernel/signal.c | 3 -
arch/sparc64/kernel/ptrace.c | 4 +
arch/sparc64/kernel/signal.c | 2
arch/sparc64/mm/tlb.c | 3 -
arch/x86/kernel/machine_kexec_64.c | 1
arch/x86/xen/enlighten.c | 42 ++++++++++--------
arch/x86/xen/xen-asm.S | 9 +++
crypto/xcbc.c | 17 +++----
drivers/acpi/bus.c | 7 +--
drivers/acpi/processor_core.c | 2
drivers/ata/libata-core.c | 38 ++++++++++------
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c | 2
drivers/hwmon/w83781d.c | 21 ++++++---
drivers/macintosh/via-pmu.c | 2
drivers/md/md.c | 12 -----
drivers/md/raid5.c | 51 ++++++++++++----------
drivers/media/dvb/dvb-usb/ttusb2.c | 1
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10086.c | 28 +++++++++---
drivers/media/dvb/frontends/tda10086.h | 3 +
drivers/media/dvb/ttpci/budget.c | 1
drivers/media/video/ivtv/ivtv-driver.c | 3 +
drivers/media/video/saa7134/saa7134-dvb.c | 1
drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 10 ++--
drivers/mtd/devices/block2mtd.c | 1
drivers/net/macb.c | 2
drivers/net/plip.c | 7 +--
drivers/net/pppol2tp.c | 69 ++++++++++++++++--------------
drivers/net/sis190.c | 15 ++++--
drivers/net/sungem.c | 2
drivers/pci/quirks.c | 11 ++--
drivers/pnp/pnpacpi/rsparser.c | 8 +--
drivers/uio/uio.c | 2
drivers/usb/core/message.c | 5 +-
drivers/usb/core/quirks.c | 3 +
drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.h | 4 +
drivers/usb/serial/ti_usb_3410_5052.c | 4 -
drivers/usb/serial/visor.c | 2
drivers/usb/storage/transport.c | 3 -
drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 11 ++++
drivers/video/fbmem.c | 1
fs/buffer.c | 13 ++---
fs/dcache.c | 3 -
fs/hfsplus/dir.c | 23 ++++++----
fs/inotify.c | 30 ++++++-------
fs/locks.c | 48 ++++++++++++--------
fs/signalfd.c | 7 ++-
include/asm-parisc/futex.h | 10 +++-
include/asm-parisc/pdc.h | 3 -
include/asm-sparc64/backoff.h | 3 -
include/linux/ethtool.h | 1
include/linux/percpu.h | 2
include/linux/sched.h | 6 ++
include/linux/security.h | 3 -
include/linux/time.h | 4 +
include/linux/usb/quirks.h | 3 +
include/linux/usb_usual.h | 4 +
kernel/sched.c | 43 ++++++++++++++++++
kernel/timer.c | 10 +++-
mm/allocpercpu.c | 15 ++++++
mm/slab.c | 4 -
net/8021q/vlan.c | 2
net/ax25/ax25_out.c | 13 ++++-
net/bluetooth/hci_core.c | 4 -
net/core/dev.c | 4 -
net/core/netpoll.c | 6 +-
net/ipv4/tcp.c | 4 -
net/ipv4/tcp_output.c | 2
net/ipv6/netfilter/nf_conntrack_reasm.c | 2
net/llc/af_llc.c | 3 +
net/sched/sch_generic.c | 18 ++++++-
net/sched/sch_htb.c | 13 +++--
net/sctp/bind_addr.c | 4 +
net/sctp/ipv6.c | 4 +
net/sctp/protocol.c | 4 +
net/sunrpc/clnt.c | 4 -
scripts/Makefile.modpost | 6 ++
scripts/mod/file2alias.c | 4 +
scripts/mod/modpost.c | 5 +-
scripts/mod/modpost.h | 1
security/capability.c | 1
security/commoncap.c | 39 ----------------
84 files changed, 533 insertions(+), 308 deletions(-)