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:Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.22

Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.22
Aug 25, 2003, 14 :00 UTC (3 Talkback[s]) (14739 reads)

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final:

2.4.22-rc4 was released as 2.4.22 with no changes.

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-rc3 to v2.4.22-rc4

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

Fix drivers/net/Config.in -> CONFIG_TC35815
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc4

Andi Kleen:

Fix x86-64 ia32 emulation

Paul Mackerras:

PPC32: Make strncpy clear the unused part of the destination
PPC32: Make sure various sections get aligned properly by the linker

Ralf Bächle:

dep_tristate fix for CONFIG_TC35815

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-rc2 to v2.4.22-rc3

<len.brown:intel.com>:

ACPI update
ACPI build fix
linux-acpi-2.4.22.patch

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

Cset exclude: jgarzik@redhat.com|ChangeSet|20030706160607|06244
Cset exclude: jgarzik@redhat.com|ChangeSet|20030705173225|06246
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc3
Update Makefile: drivers/sgi removed
Make the Toshiba TC35815 only selectable on the only system know to actually use it

<markhe:veritas.com>:

Wrong assumption in set_bh_page()

<paul.clements:steeleye.com>:

nbd: fix race conditions

<steved:redhat.com>:

Stop call_decode() from ignorning RPC header errors

Alan Cox:

Alan CREDIT/MAINTAINERS update

Andi Kleen:

Disable ACPI NUMA support for x86-64
Critical x86-64 fixes for 2.4.22-rc
[SECURITY] Fix interrupt gates on x86-64

Andrea Arcangeli:

Andrea contact information update

Andreas Gruenbacher:

More steal_locks fixes: we should be in full LSB compliance now

David S. Miller:

[IPV6]: Fix dangling multicast device references

David Stevens:

[NET]: Fix IGMPv2/MLDv2 list handling OOPS

Erik Andersen:

Fix cdrom error handling

Geert Uytterhoeven:

Remove unused label in sunrpc code
Update Geert's contact information

Ivan Kokshaysky:

alpha: yet another stxncpy fix

Jeff Garzik:

fix OOPS in bonding driver, when removing primary slave
add a couple pci ids to pci_ids.h

Kai Makisara:

Change Kai Makisara's email address

Marcelo Tosatti:

Ingo: Fix ptrace swap race
Changed HFS maintainer: Roman Zippel is now doing the work

Michal Ostrowski:

Fix PPPoE oops on unload

Muli Ben-Yehuda:

fix trident.c lockup on module load 2.4.22-rc1

Nathan Scott:

Fix 2.4 loop handling of sector size ioctl

Petr Vandrovec:

Allow atime updates on ncpfs

Ralf Bächle:

Important DEC/MIPS update
More MIPS update

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-rc1 to v2.4.22-rc2

<bjorn.helgaas:hp.com>:

HP ZX1 PCI ID update

<khali:linux-fr.org>:

i2c-dev ioctl fixes

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

ide.c: Keep hwif->hold flag needed by powermac mbay driver
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc2

<robn:verdi.et.tudelft.nl>:

Do not update fifo timestamps on readonly fses

Alan Cox:

ide makefile
Promise cable
Fix the siimage dma setup bug
via ide fix timing bug (as already done in 2.6.0-test)
fix bracketing in ti113x pcmcia header
remove bogus printk that can spam the logs
zero padding in struct on stack
get quota version
Avoid i810 ICH crashes with MMIO only

Andrew Morton:

ext3_read_inode() race fix

Herbert Xu:

Fix steal_locks race

Ivan Kokshaysky:

alpha: shutdown/reboot fix (Jay Estabrook, me)

Marc-Christian Petersen:

Intel ICH5 PCI IDs

Oleg Drokin:

reiserfs: fix some issues with extended inode attributes

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre10 to v2.4.22-rc1

<calum.mackay:cdmnet.org>:

export the symbol "mmu_cr4_features" for XFree86

<lethal:unusual.internal.linux-sh.org>:

sh: Define __flush_icache_all() for SH-3
sh: Fix single stepping from looping
sh: Add pgprot_nocached() definition
sh: Further support for SecureEdge5410 and SH7751R

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

Delete: fs/noquot.c
Cset exclude: bunk@fs.tum.de|ChangeSet|20030804201535|32414
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc1

Adrian Bunk:

fix a compile warning in acpi/system.c
Fix circular dependency

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

ppc32: Fix PowerMac mediabay driver

Jeff Garzik:

devices.txt: rename /dev/intel_rng to /dev/hwrandom
[i810_rng] update docs to reflect new /dev name, and new pkg name

Manfred Spraul:

fix select() with an xoffed tty

Theodore Y. T'so:

Correct 64-bit write system call assignment

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre9 to v2.4.22-pre10

<achirica:telefonica.net>:

[wireless airo] sync with 2.6
[wireless airo] Simplify dynamic buffer code in Cisco extensions
[wireless airo] Update structs with the new fields in latest firmwares
[wireless airo] Make locking "per thread" so it's fully preemptive
[wireless airo] Don't sleep when the stats are requested
[wireless airo] Don't call MIC functions if the card doesn't support them
[wireless airo] Fix small endianness bug
[wireless airo] Returns proper status in case of transmission error
[wireless airo] Checks for small packets before transmitting them
[wireless airo] Return channel in infrastructure mode
[wireless airo] Update to wireless extensions 15 (add monitor mode)
[wireless airo] Update to wireless extensions 16 (new spy API)
[wireless airo] fix Tx race
[wireless airo] safer shutdown sequence
[wireless airo] eliminate infinite loop
[wireless airo] makes the card passive when entering monitor mode
[wireless airo] adds support for noise level reporting (if available)

<bjorn.helgaas:hp.com>:

trivial 2.4 HCDP documentation/config patch

<herbert:13thfloor.at>:

ROOT NFS fixes

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

NMI watchdog documentation for x86-64

<mike.miller:hp.com>:

cciss update: author change
cciss update: Fix problem with shared IRQs

Adam Radford:

3ware driver update

Adrian Bunk:

fix IPMI build error #if CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

ppc32: export hash_table_lock on SMP for MacOnLinux

Dave Kleikamp:

JFS: write_super_lockfs should mark superblock clean

Jan Harkes:

Coda fixes

Jay Vosburgh:

[netdrvr bonding] fix ifenslave ia64 build

Jeff Garzik:

[netdrvr] add new broadcom 440x net driver, "b44"

Marc-Christian Petersen:

Fix AGPGART problem with 4GB RAM
Fix irq handling of IO-APIC edge IRQs on UP
MXCSR Handler Unspecified Vulnerability
Fix /proc/self security issue
Add missing -EFAULT for sysctl

Marcelo Tosatti:

Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre10

Oleg Drokin:

reiserfs: fix savelinks for bigendian arches

Petr Vandrovec:

ncpfs: Support for clustered NetWare volumes
matroxfb: extended support for mplayer

Shmulik Hen:

[bonding] fix ifenslave ABI bug
[netdrvr bonding] fix ARP monitoring bug

Trond Myklebust:

If an RPC request has to be resent due to a timeout, it turns out that call_encode() may cause rq_rcv_buf to be reset despite the fact that a reply might be delivered at any moment by a softirq.
If xdr_kmap() fails, we need to ensure that it unmaps all the pages, and returns 0. We don't want to be sending partial RPC requests to the server.

Willy Tarreau:

ACPI poweroff fix
[netdrvr bonding] fix a typo in the MODULE_PARM_DESC
[netdrvr bonding] fix kernel panic when optional feature used

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre8 to v2.4.22-pre9

<jones:ingate.com>:

[IGMP]: linux/igmp.h needs asm/byteorder.h

<martin.bene:icomedias.com>:

[NETFILTER]: Add missing include to ip_conntrack_core.h

<pp:netppl.fi>:

Avoid annoying "can't emulate rawmode" messages with logitech cordless mice

<vherva:niksula.hut.fi>:

NMI watchdog documentation

Adrian Bunk:

[NETFILTER]: Add missing Configure.help entry for ipt_recent
MTD Configure.help cleanups

Andreas Gruenbacher:

Fix warning in fs/binfmt_elf.c

Ben Collins:

Include param.h for HZ in ieee1394
Interim IEEE-1394 fixes

Harald Welte:

[NETFILTER]: Fix a bug in the IRC DCC command parser of ip_conntrack_irc

Maciej Soltysiak:

[NETFILTER]: Make REJECT target compliant with RFC 1812

Marcelo Tosatti:

Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre9

Neil Brown:

knfsd - Convert error code to nfserror code in nfsd_symlink
knfsd - BKL is missing in once place in knfsd
md - Resolve problem with refcounting of md arrays

Olof Johansson:

[RANDOM]: Fix SMP deadlock in __check_and_rekey()

Patrick McHardy:

[NET]: Fix signnedness test in socket filter code
[NETFILTER]: Fix problems with iptables MIRROR target
[NETFILTER]: Fix issues with iptables REJECT and MIRROR targets wrt. policy routing
[NETFILTER]: Fix locking of ipt_helper
[NETFILTER]: Drop reference to conntrack after removing confirmed expectation

Tom Rini:

PPC32: Allow eth0 and eth1 to work on MPC8xx boards with QS6612 PHYs
PPC32: Correctly set intfreq / busfreq on the Motorola 860FADS

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre7 to v2.4.22-pre8

<gorgo:thunderchild.debian.net>:

[netdrvr wan] note comx maintainer change, by request

<lethal:unusual.internal.linux-sh.org>:

sh64: sh-sci support for SH-5 101/103

<mark.fasheh:oracle.com>:

Fix deadlock in journal_create

<taowenhwa:intel.com>:

[e100] read skb->len after freeing skb
[e100] cu_start: timeout waiting for cu
[e100] misc

Andreas Gruenbacher:

unshare-files fix breaks file locks

Ben Collins:

[SPARC64]: Clear all IRQs at probe time in PCI sabre driver
Update IEEE1394 (r1010)

Bhavesh P. Davda:

Fix aha152x hangs on pcmcia card eject

Chas Williams:

[ATM]: Get config/build dependencies correct

Daniel Ritz:

fix ne2k-pci memleak

Marcelo Tosatti:

Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre8

Neil Brown:

knfsd: Only set ->reuse for tcp sockets, not udp

Roger Luethi:

via-rhine 1.19: One more Rhine-I fix

Scott Feldman:

[netdrvr ethtool] add ethtool TSO get/set
[e1000] request_irq() failure resulted in freeing twice
[e1000] fix VLAN support on PPC64
[e1000] missing Tx cleanup opportunities during intr handling
[e1000] alloc_etherdev failure didn't cleanup regions
[e1000] ethtool diag cleanup
[e1000] h/w workaround for mis-fused parts
[e1000] s/int/unsigned int/ for descriptor ring indexes
[e1000] misc cleanup

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre6 to v2.4.22-pre7

<ja:ssi.bg>:

[IPV4/IPV6]: Fix use-after-free bugs in tunneling drivers

<lethal:unusual.internal.linux-sh.org>:

SH Merge
SH update

<tgraf:suug.ch>:

[NET]: Make {send,recv}msg return EMSGSIZE when msg_iovelen is too big, as per 1003.1
[NET]: Return EDESTADDRREQ as appropriate in sendmsg implementations

Alan Cox:

add quota autoload
typo bits

Ben Collins:

[SPARC64]: Fix OBP 4.6+ PCI probing, use pcic_present() consistently
Fix ALi15x3 DMA on sparc64 (maybe others)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

radeonfb: fix artifacts during boot

Chas Williams:

[ATM]: Add reference counting to atm_dev
[ATM]: Make ATM buildable as a module
[ATM]: Eliminate cli, make function names sane in net/atm/lec.c

Christoph Hellwig:

vmap() backport

Dave Kleikamp:

JFS: Possible trap/data loss when fixing directory index table

David S. Miller:

[SUNHME]: Set RXMAX/TXMAX large enough to handle VLAN frames
[NET]: Ok, sunhme is VLAN challenged after all
[SUNRPC]: Fix compiler warning in svcsock.c
[NETFILTER]: Fix build warnings in ipv6 modules, thanks Geert
[ATM]: Fix build, missing lec_priv member
[ATM]: Fix lec.c warning with bridging disabled
[SPARC64]: Fix assumptions about data section ordering and objects ending up in .data vs .bss
[SPARC{,64}]: Add barrier() to cpu_relax() for consistency with 2.5.x
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig
[Bluetooth]: Fix buggy CONFIG_ISDN test in cmtp Config.in
[SPARC64]: Do not break out of PCI controller probing loop too early

David Stevens:

[IPV4]: Do not sent IGMP leave messages unless IFF_UP

Gerd Knorr:

bttv driver update
tuner driver update
bttv documentation update
Update tv card i2c helper modules

Ivan Kokshaysky:

typecast bug in sched.c bites reschedule_idle

James Morris:

[NETLINK]: Just drop packets for kernel netlink socket with no data_ready handler

Jens Axboe:

more iosched work

Maksim Krasnyanskiy:

[Bluetooth] CMTP protocol depends on ISDN and ISDN CAPI

Marcel Holtmann:

[Bluetooth] Make READ_TRANSMIT_POWER_LEVEL available for normal users
[Bluetooth] Support for inquiry with unlimited responses
[Bluetooth] Support for AVM BlueFRITZ! USB
[Bluetooth] Add l2cap_load() function
[Bluetooth] Handle command complete event for inquiry cancel
[Bluetooth] Declare the function l2cap_load()
[Bluetooth] Update the maintainer entries for the Bluetooth subsystem

Marcelo Tosatti:

Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre7
buffer.c: remove unused out_putf label

Mikael Pettersson:

clean crc temp files in lib/

Oleg Drokin:

Fix link/unlink race. By Chris Mason concurrent link/unlinks can create savelinks for files that still exist, the fix here is to be somewhat smarter about when we change the link count

Paul Mackerras:

PPC32: Fix the debug check in kunmap_atomic
PPC32: Fix IRQ sense and polarity setting on 405 and 440 cpus

Paul Mundt:

sh64: Fix ATM module build
sh64: defconfig update
sh64: Cayman IRQ handler updates

Roman Zippel:

hfs+: update copyright
hfs+: remove some smaller files
hfs+: volume/permission fixes
hfs+: fix rename of links
hfs+: check size of inode and sb info
hfs+: various cleanups
hfs+: link hfsplus before hfs
hfs+: export mark_page_accessed
hfs+: Makefile update

Tom Rini:

PPC32: Add support for the Motorola PowerPlus family of boards
PPC32: Remove trailing whitespace in numerous files

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre5 to v2.4.22-pre6

<jack:ucw.cz>:

Fix misc quota bugs

<jbourne:hardrock.org>:

Add missing break in Apollo P4X400 AGP code

<yinah:couragetech.com.cn>:

USB: patch for sl811 usb host controller driver

Adrian Bunk:

Configure.help updates from -ac

Alan Cox:

fix compile warning
clear mp bus array properly
add qdio options
allow legacy free hw with no smi cmd port
run late loaded ide modules
fix hpt ide crash, floppy noise
warning fixes
fix sbni driver
fix yenta hang on some laptops
qeth/qdio driver layer
more warning fixes
fix a race in the plugin api for ac97
example ac97 plugin codec
fix i810 and cs46xx crashes
re-enable POST on via audio
add intellinet to the usb idents
fix vicam with old gcc
update intelfb
make rep-nop a barrier as in 2.5
qdio headers for S/390 and S/390x
fix agpgart list
use the right function in reiserfs (resend #3)

Alan Stern:

USB: Reconcile unusual_devs.h for 2.4 and 2.5
USB: Final reconciliation for unusual_devs.h in 2.4
USB: Updates for unusual_devs.h
USB: Implement US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY for 2.4
USB: usb-storage US_FL_FIX_CAPACITY fix

Christoph Hellwig:

Fix ext3 quota deadlock

David Brownell:

USB: usb_string(), don't use bogus ids
USB: usbnet updates

David Glance:

USB: Adding DSS-20 SyncStation to ftdi_sio

David S. Miller:

[SPARC64]: Port over IPC msg{snd,rcv} compat32 fixes from ia64
[SPARC64]: Delete bogus icmpv6 filter translation code
[SPARC64]: Fix warning in drivers/sbus/sbus.c build
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig
[SPARC64]: Fix sys32_rt_sigtimedwait, noticed by Roland McGrath and Jakub Jelinek

David T. Hollis:

USB: ax8817x.c - add Intellinet USB 2.0 Ethernet device ids

Eric Brower:

[SPARC]: Missing part of 2.5.x interrupt decoders fix backport

Ganesh Varadarajan:

USB: more ids for ipaq

Geert Uytterhoeven:

kmap_types.h for m68k

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

USB: fix up my USB Bluetooth entry to help prevent confusion in the future
USB: fix up previous sl811 patch

Marcelo Tosatti:

drm_agpsupport.h: Remove ugly comments which used to fix compilation
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre6
Cset exclude: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk|ChangeSet|20030714130500|09040
Cset exclude: alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk|ChangeSet|20030714133559|12582
add radeonfb.h

Paul Mundt:

sh64: 2-3 pgtable level updates

Trond Myklebust:

2.4.22 NFS O_DIRECT a la mode ->direct_IO2()

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre4 to v2.4.22-pre5

<jcchen:icplus.com.tw>:

[netdrvr sundance] increase eeprom read timeout

<mike.miller:hp.com>:

cciss: change names and correct subsystem device ID for U320
cciss: PCI BAR fix
cciss: Fix potential overrun
cciss: update version
cciss: First part of PCI changes/driver cleanup
cciss: Second part of PCI changes/driver cleanup

Andi Kleen:

Fix compiling on x86-64

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

radeonfb 0.1.8 + my stuffs

Chris Mason:

Fix deadlocks in IO scheduler changes

David Woodhouse:

Backport vsprintf/scanf fixes from 2.5.74

Geert Uytterhoeven:

Fix adbhid m68k screwup J. A. Magallon:
hfsplus: group Apple FS's and help text

John Stultz:

Fix boot crash of x440's in full acpi mode
Cleanup x440 acpi fix

Marcelo Tosatti:

Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre5

Petr Vandrovec:

Fix matroxfb on PPC64

Tom Rini:

An ethernet driver for the IBM PPC 4xx series of machines

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre3 to v2.4.22-pre4

<dtor_core@ameritech.net>:

[NET] Attach inner qdiscs to TBF

<lethal@linux-sh.org>:

sh64: Add FIOQSIZE definition
sh64: Fixup Cayman IRQ reporting
sh64: SH-5 PCI updates
sh64: Fix privileged insn handling
sh64: IDE support

<lode_leroy@hotmail.com>:

[IPV4] display bootserver in /proc/net/pnp

<lunz@falooley.org>:

[NET] Fix refcounting of dev->promiscuity for af_packet

<m.c.p@wolk-project.de>:

[RESEND 5th] Fix oom killer braindamage

<stelian@popies.net>:

Export 'acpi_disabled' symbol to modules

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

Make ACPI work on lots more boxes
config for new Nvidia AGP
parisc sync up (resend of resend of resend ... 8))
AGP update - new intel, add nvidia
ebda check in ibm hotplug is insufficient
update mpt fusion driver
fix the eexpress
move sdla to mod_timer
add code for missing c7000 driver
resend - fix security bits in binfmt_exec/som
re-fix printk level for buffer cachehash
exec part of security fix
fix inverted dnotify
fix definition of boot_DT
add the new agp modes to the headers
kernel/fork helper for exec security fix
S/390 CLAW bits
fix up z85230 queue wake logic

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>:

ppc32: Fix races in low level adb drivers

Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>:

quota patch breaks kernel build

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>:

new quota code
fix Q_SYNC for dev == 0

David S. Miller <davem@nuts.ninka.net>:

[SPARC64]: sys_sparc32.c needs linux/quotacompat.h
[FS]: Provide unshare_files() declaration and export to modules
[SPARC]: SEMTIMEDOP for both Sparc ports

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:

Cset exclude: rusty@rustcorp.com.au|ChangeSet|20030707182325|08049
Remove bogus diff from drivers/char/Config.in
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4
Cset exclude: hannal@us.ibm.com|ChangeSet|20030707180059|08076
Fixes ext3 quota/truncate oops
CRIS architecture update
Cset exclude: Remove NFS direct IO patches Cset exclude: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no|ChangeSet|20030708095239|55752
Cset exclude: remove NFS direct IO patches Cset exclude: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no|ChangeSet|20030706143259|16957
Add missing fs/quota_v2.c file
Comment out VIA_APOLLO_P4X400 handling in drm_agpsupport.h: Alan will fix that up later

Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org>:

pci_name()

Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se>:

i386 cpufeature.h cleanup + comment

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>:

PPC32: Minor updates to comments and processor register definitions
PPC32: Minor boot wrapper cleanups
PPC32: Define screen_info if CONFIG_FB is set for the sake of vesafb
PPC32: Make __kernel_ino_t be unsigned long like on other architectures

Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>:

make profile= doc. clearer

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>:

Configure.help Polish translation location update
unreachable code in drivers_mediavideocpia_pp.c
2.4 drivers_char_random.c fix sample shellscripts
trivial patch
fix sound doc typos
fs_bfs_dir.c unused variables
Decision PCCOM4_PCCOM8 serial support for 2.4.19
Re: setrlimit incorrectly allows hard limits to exceed
fix linewrap in Documentation_ia64_efirtc.txt
fix linewrap in Documentation_arm_SA1100_CERF
fix linewrap in Documentation_filesystems_befs.txt
[2.5 patch] two small MTD fixes
2.4 patch for more debug safety
esssolo1.c doesn't free resources correctly

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>:

Back out some congestion control changes that were causing trouble among other things for the "soft" mount option.

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre2 to v2.4.22-pre3

<abbotti@mev.co.uk>:

USB: several ftdi_sio driver patches

<alex_williamson@hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: Poll for CPEs on all CPUs, improve check for # of CPEs logged
ia64: Switch to polling for CMCs if they happen too fast
ia64: add wmb in sba_iommu to guarantee IOPDIR updates are visible
ia64: fix timer interrupts getting lost

<arun.sharma@intel.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: fix IA-32 emulation of msgctl()
ia64: define rlim_cur/rlim_max as unsigned
ia64: fix IA-32 version of shmctl()
ia64: ia32 semctl check for bad command
ia64: Patch by Arun Sharma: In the absence of the patch, this system call fails:
ia64: Fix SMP FPH handling. From 2.5 patch by Asit Mallick, David Mosberger, Arun Sharma.
ia64: work around race conditions in ia32 support code
ia64: IA-32 support patch: msgsnd/msgrcv return value off by 4
ia64: IA-32 support patch: munmap should return EINVAL if size == 0
ia64: IA-32 support patch: mmap should return ENOMEM

<baldrick@wanadoo.fr>:

USB speedtouch: use common CRC library

<bdschuym@pandora.be>:

[NETFILTER]: Missing return in arp_packet_match()
[NETFILTER]: Add arptables mangle module

<bjorn_helgaas@hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: Export pm_idle
ia64: sys32_sysinfo: update to current struct sysinfo (add totalhigh, freehigh, mem_unit).
ia64: Make struct sysinfo32 internal padding explicit
ia64: Make CONFIG_SYSCTL control sys32_sysctl as well. Based on a patch from Peter Chubb.
ia64: ia64_fetch_and_add(), xchg(), ia64_cmpxchg(), etc
ia64: Update default configs
ia64: iosapic: remove find_iosapic duplication
ia64: iosapic: simplify ISA IRQ init
ia64: iosapic: self-documenting polarity/trigger arguments
ia64: iosapic: Remove gratuitous differences with 2.5 (whitespace, C99 initializers, printk levels, etc).
ia64: Use printk severity-levels where appropriate
ia64: cleanup unwind.c warnings (from David's 2.5 change)
ia64: mca.c whitespace changes and dead code removal from 2.5
ia64: sba_iommu: whitespace and comment changes to align with 2.5
ia64: sba_iommu: prefetch_spill_page alignment with 2.5
ia64: sba_iommu: printk text and other trivial changes to align with 2.5
io4
ia64: sba_iommu: make sure devices are at least 32-bit capable (from 2.5)
ia64: sba_iommu: Combine HWP0001 and HWP0004 ACPI claim (from 2.5 changes by Alex Williamson).
ia64: sba_iommu: remove workarounds for broken, never released, firmware that didn't program IBASE/IMASK correctly.
ia64: remove cpu_is_online local defs, in favor of a 2.5-style cpu_online
ia64: Remove unused variable from acpi.c
ia64: sba_iommu: fix warning and use old-style ACPI typedef
ia64: whitespace and trivial changes in mca.c
ia64: palinfo whitespace changes to match 2.5
ia64: simplify syscalls with force_successful_syscall_return()
ia64: Remove unused acpi_get_addr_space() interface
ia64: Wrap pal.h with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to solve userland compilation issues (including <linux/modules.h>).
ia64: Don't blindly probe PCI buses (probe only those reported by ACPI)
ia64: pci warning for unavailable resources
ia64: TLB flushing fixes - don't use smp_call_function in context-switch path.
ia64: Disable interrupts during context switch
ia64: ptrace whitespace changes to follow 2.5
ia64: add hugetlb and cmd649 IDE to configs
ia64: Export SAL error records in /proc/sal/{mca,init,cmc,cpe}/{event,data}
ia64: Rename EFI systab tags (no spaces, etc, for easier parsing)
ia64: Ignore empty address ranges from _CRS to workaround buggy Big Sur firmware.

<chad_smith@hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: expose pointers from EFI system table in /proc

<chas@cmd.nrl.navy.mil>:

[ATM]: remove iovcnt member in struct atm_skb

<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>:

[ATM]: Backport HE driver fixes from 2.5.x
[ATM]: ixmicro puts esi in different location
[ATM]: lock neighbor entry during update in clip.c
[ATM]: make sub skb->cb is clear before upcall to network
[ATM]: eliminate ATM_PDU_OVHD, ops->free_rx_skb and ops->alloc_tx
[ATM]: make clip buildable as a module

<dave@thedillows.org>:

Use a non-zero rx_copybreak to avoid charging a full MTU to the socket on tiny packets.
Fix misreporting of card type and spurious "already scheduled" messages

<david@csse.uwa.edu.au>:

USB: usb-uhci fix for one-shot interrupt problem
USB: usb-ohci handling of one-shot interrupt transfers

<davidm@hpl.hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: For SIGSEGV triggered by NaT page, set si_addr to faulting data address, not the faulting IP.

<davidm@tiger.hpl.hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: Make ia64_fetch_and_add() simpler to optimize so lib/rwsem.c can be optimized properly.
ia64: Implement pcibios_set_mwi() and define HAVE_ARCH_PCI_MWI to ensure that PCI line-size gets programmed properly. Based
ia64; Improve debug output from kernel unwinder. Based on patch by Keith Owens. (Ported to 2.4 by Bjorn Helgaas).
ia64: In kernel unwinder, replace dump_info_pt() with get_scratch_regs() and reformat to make it fit in 100 columns.
ia64: Add unwcheck.sh script contributed by Harish Patil. It checks the unwind info for consistency (well, just the obvious stuff, but it's a start).
ia64: Minor cleanups. (From 2.5 by Bjorn Helgaas)
ia64: Make signal deliver work when the current register frame is incomplete (as a result of a faulting mandatory RSE load).
ia64: Correct region_start calculation in kernel unwinder
ia64: clean up unneeded test in kernel unwinder
ia64: More vmlinux.lds.S cleanups (__start/__end inside sections)
ia64: Minor fixes
ia64: Two small MCA fixes
ia64: Sync itc after interrupts enabled
ia64: Sync sys32_ipc() with x86 counter-part
ia64: Patch by Arun Sharma: In brl_emu.c, a 64 bit value was being assigned to an int.
ia64: Minor whitespace & formatting fixups in asm-ia64/sal.h
ia64: Fix SAL processor-log info handling. Based on patch by Keith Owens.
ia64: Manual merge of Keith Owen's patch to avoid deadlock on ia64_sal_mc_rendez(). Also prefix local-variables in SAL macros to avoid name collisions.
ia64: dump the min-state area in the MCA INIT platform handler
ia64: Update platform INIT handler to print a backtrace
ia64: Consolidate backtrace printing in a single routine (ia64_do_show_stack())
ia64: fix /proc/.../vm_info memory attributes
ia64: Fix printing of memory attributes
mca.c
ia64: Fix INIT copying of banked registers
ia64: ptrace: don't let reading NaT bits for R4-R7 overwrite the value we're intending to write; get_rnat & put_rnat cleanups.
ia64: Fix ptrace() RNaT accessors
ia64: Fix page-fault handler so it handles not-present translations for region 5 (patch by John Marvin).
ia64: Fix unwinder so core-dumps work again. Without this patch, most scratch-regs came out wrong.
ia64: Fixups for GCC v3.3

<davidm@wailua.hpl.hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: Change struct ia64_fpreg so it will get 16-byte alignment with all ia64 compilers, not just GCC.
ia64: Don't output backspaces in palinfo output

<eranian@hpl.hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: perfmon update to v1.4
ia64: perfmon fixes for system-wide monitoring overflow, opcode matcher, and force PMC[89] bit 2 on.
ia64: perfmon update
ia64: perfmon TLB_* and ALAT event fix

<garyhade@us.ibm.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: fix sysinfo(2) memory value truncation for 32-bit apps

<grigouze@noos.fr>:

USB: zaurus SL-C700

<james@cobaltmountain.com[helgaas]>:

include_asm-ia64_sal.h, typo: the the

<jbarnes@sgi.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: ACPI fix for no PCI

<jes@wildopensource.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: don't try to synchronize ITCs on ITC_DRIFT platforms

<jgarzik@pobox.com>:

fix Via pci irq routing

<jh@sgi.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: SGI SN update
ia64: SN2 update 030528
ia64: SN2 update 030630

<jsm@udlkern.fc.hp.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: don't let PTRACE_POKEDATA write the NaT bits of syscall args

<judd@jpilot.org>:

USB: visor.h[c] USB device IDs

<kaos@ocs.com.au[helgaas]>:

ia64: fix unwinder to call get_scratch_regs() only when really needed

<kaos@sgi.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: fix scratch-regs handling in kernel unwinder
ia64: unwind.c - allow unw_access_gr(r0)
ia64: Trivial stack-size correction in mca.c
ia64: mca rendezvous fix
ia64: Hold modlist_lock while searching exception tables
ia64: Handle SAL rejection of MCA rendezvous timeout value

<kenneth.w.chen@intel.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: rwsem using atomic primitive

<kpc-usbdev@gelato.uiuc.edu>:

USB: Desknote/ECS UCR-61S2B card reader (2.4.21 patched)

<lethal@linux-sh.org>:

SH64 Merge
Add SH-5 support to SH-SCI
Add SH-5 support to tulip_core
Update MAINTAINERS for sh/sh64
SH-5 DMAC Support
sh64 PCI DMA coherency fixups
sh64: Fix SHMBLA compile error
sh64: Add an onchip_unmap() to clean up after
sh64: tlbmiss handler updates
sh64: Don't startup the irq in make_intc_irq()
sh64: Add workarounds for cache aliasing issues
sh64: Cleanup sleep usage
sh64: Fix PTRACE_POKEUSR to ignore changes of privileged
sh64: Make memcpy safe on SH5-101 cut2
sh64: export more needed symbols
sh64: Fixes for Cayman LEDs

<mk@linux-ipv6.org>:

[CRYPTO]: Update deflate dependencies

<mkp@mkp.net[helgaas]>:

ia64: declare ia64_sal_handler_init non-static

<mort@wildopensource.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: print ISR for FPSWA faults
ia64: runtime platform detection for 2.5

<richard.curnow@superh.com>:

Ensure that the 'unlink' XDR structures are correctly aligned on 64-bit architectures.

<romieu@fr.zoreil.com>:

[NETFILTER]: Fix leaks in error paths of ip_recent_ctrl

<rusty@rustcorp.com.au[helgaas]>:

Designated initializers for ia64

<schwab@suse.de[helgaas]>:

ia64: fix unwinder bug in unw_access_gr()
ia64: Fix request_module from ia32 process
ia64: make sys32_ptrace() use ptrace_check_attach()

<shemminger@osdl.org>:

[BRIDGE]: Ethernet bridge fixes

<shmulik.hen@intel.com>:

Fix load balance problem with high UDP Tx stress
Fix 802.3ad long fail over with high UDP Tx stress
[netdrvr bonding] Fix change active for ALB/TLB

<sv@sw.com.sg[helgaas]>:

ia64: improve show_trace_task() portability

<venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com[helgaas]>:

ia64: IA-32 emulation patch: ptrace get_FPREGS bug fix

<will@sowerbutts.com>:

USB: Update for the powermate driver to work with newer devices

Adam J. Richter <adam@yggdrasil.com>:

[CRYPTO]: Simplify crypto memory allocation

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>:

postfix a constant in efi.h with ULL

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

[NETFILTER]: Fix nat_helper warnings with gcc 3.3
[NET]: Add EDP2 ethernet protocol ID
[SPARC]: d_path() can return an error code, must handle it
Optimise FAT handling using the prev_free info as DOS does
PATH: add hfsplus file system (stands alone)
NLS config.in for hfsplus
config.in for HFSPLUS
makefile for HFSPLUS
fix leak in llc 802
fix decnet gcc 3.3 build
add xapic checking define
add the extra cpu bit test flags
remove io_apic_modify - this doesnt work on some APICs
add the MSR's for IA32 perf ctl
fix false sharing of mm info
we moved these so this copy can go
collated copy of Geerts patches for m68k headers
add a flag so we can forbid APM idling
add the ide_register_driver defines
add EDP2 protocol id
update fat docs - we now use the field
bring PCI_IDS back into sync
add new entry to sisfb types
support cramfs initrd
add timedop stub for IPC=n
assorted module race fixe
dont corrupt utsname on failed copy
fix make rpm
dont idle if forbid_idle set
large scale DMI table updates
merge long standing reboot fix form -ac
fix up semops and return, allow timedop
fix error in vm86 fixups
add semtimedop to ia64 emu too
fix up gcc 3.3 bits
copy the right data in mips emulation
collected m68k core diffs
typo fix
fix iphase leak
bump cciss to new vendor driver
Jens floppy locking fixes
add comtrol note in case we need to know in the future
& v && fixes in sysrq.c
update sonypi driver
parisc gsc driver sync
fix config.in bits for IDE
make IDE modularisable
fix ide dma timeout bugs
make pnpide module happy
Herbert's fix for ide proc oops
make pdc4030 module happy
add generic support for toshiba piccolo
fix hpt speed bits
fix promise sx6000 newer board problems
clean up older pdc
siimage updates, add aar-1210sa
SiS IDE updates
hptraid updates
small setup-pci cleanups
d_path can return an error code, must handle it
update motion eye drivers
fix leak in octagon
new 3c59x. plus handle power bits
typo fix in atari_pamsnet driver
fix ma600 gcc 3.3
minor m68k fixes
fix leak in aironet4500_cs
fix plip hang on ifdown/ifup
update sonic
update orinoco drivers
update pci.ids
add cirrus support to i82092
fix rsrc manager
pci routing for ti cardbus
update aacraid
aic7xxx allow db4
gdth register failure path
update scsi tape docs
megaraid broke config tools
send_diag wants long timeout default
let the ide layer fail commands
resync scsi blacklist
new segate bios string
update scsi tape driver
remove noise
fix copy from user bug in cmpci
update AC97 codec core
switch cards to new ac97_audio
switch i810 to generalised digital out, new ac97
ac97 updates
fix long standing doc typo
update trident, fix printks, new ac97
Update via audio - fix problems esd, mpg321
update to new ac97_codec
core fbcon fixes
update vesafb memory handling for big cards
update sis fb drivers
add semtimedop to x86 headers
update ac97 codec headers
declare semtimedop function
add scripts ready to merge kconfig
update cciss docs to match new driver
add vram to vesafb docs
CMD640 update
(new) Turn on the IDE modular stuff in the Makefile
(resend) collected semaphore fixes and semtimedop
make i810 audio compile

Alex Williamson <alex_williamson@hp.com>:

ia64: CMC deadlock fix

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>:

Personality fixes for x86-64
x86-64 merge
Support exception-trace sysctl for x86-64
non executable stack support for x86-64

Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:

[CRYPTO]: Fix memcpy/memset args

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>:

Update IEEE1394 (r972)

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>:

ppc32: support for 750FX rev2 CPU
ppc32: Enable use of USB2 on recent G4s
ppc32: Update PowerMac motherboard support
ppc32: Update swim3 floppy driver
ppc32: Add TotalImpact briQ panel driver
ppc32: Add a "query" function to core ADB
ppc32: Update adbhid driver
ppc32: Update battery calculation code & via-pmu
ppc32: Minimal ethtool for bmac and mace
ppc32: Fix a problem with both gmac and sungem

Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn_helgaas@hp.com>:

ia64: chmod +x unwcheck.sh script
ia64: iosapic: make pcat_compat system property
ia64: iosapic: rationalize __init/__devinit
ia64: Export io_space so drivers using legacy I/O ports can insmod
ia64: brl_emu.c: use temporary variable to avoid gcc3.1 warning
ia64: remove incorrect and redundant "cpu not responding" message
ia64: Update configs
ia64: pci.c: Trivial changes to follow 2.5
ia64: sba_iommu: use seq_file
ia64: acpi: handle vendor resources more generically
Move UP cpu_online definition to <linux/smp.h>
Cset exclude: rohit.seth@intel.com[helgaas]|ChangeSet|20030623203306|58862

Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>:

Fix potential IO hangs and increase interactiveness during heavy IO

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>:

[CRYPTO-2.4]: Missing ULL postfixes and statics

David S. Miller <davem@nuts.ninka.net>:

[BK]: Add *~ to ignore regexps
[CRYPTO]: kunmap does not return a value
[CRYPTO]: Build/warning fixups
[CRYPTO]: Clean up header file usage
[CRYPTO]: Include kernel.h in crypto.h
[CRYPTO]: Allocate work buffers instead of using kstack
[CRYPTO]: Make sha256.c more palatable to GCCs optimizers
[CRYPTO]: internal.h needs init.h
[CRYPTO]: Use appropriate defaults if AH/ESP is enabled
[CRYPTO-2.4]: Add dummy kmap_types.h header for sparc64
[CRYPTO]: Include linux/errno.h as appropriate
[CRYPTO-2.4]: module_name does not exist in 2.4.x
[CRYPTO-2.4]: const static --> static const
[CRYPTO]: deflate.c needs slab.h
[CRYPTO-2.4]: Fix condition typos in crypto/Config.in
[CRYPTO-2.4]: Emulate module_name semantics correctly to avoid OOPS
[CRYPTO-2.4]: Make sure crypto config is before lib config on ia64
[NET]: net/bluetooth/cmtp/core.c needs linux/init.h
[NET]: Scale DST/ipv6 intervals like we did for ipv4
[SPARC64]: Fix build error from OBP parsing patch
[SPARC64]: Update defconfig

Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>:

fix 2.4.22-pre broken x86 math-emu

Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>:

USB: remove stupid conversions and use of floating point from aiptek.c
USB: 2.4 fix UHCI debug kmalloc() usage
USB: add support for 50 baud to io_edgeport.c
USB: pl2303: report CTS and DSR status changes to userspace
Cset exclude: cweidema@indiana.edu|ChangeSet|20030620002017|05386
USB: compiler fixes for previous vicam patches

Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:

remove shmem info->sem
shmem_getpage absorb _locked
shmem_getpage read,cache,write
shmem truncation swizzled
shmem account metablocks
shmem_file_write and _read
init_tmpfs shm_mnt error
shmem whitespace only
shmem misc minor mods
swapoff loopable tmpfs
shmem mount percentile size
shmem_removepage replace recalc_inode
loop file use highmem
madvise_willneed check readpage
shmem_filewrite precheckfile_write
mremap VM_LOCKED move_vma
shmem loopable tmpfs [again]

Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>:

alpha: fix generic kernel build (Jay Estabrook)
alpha: finalize Sable/Lynx support (Jay Estabrook)

James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>:

[CRYPTO]: Add initial crypto api subsystem
[CRYPTO]: Cleanups based upon feedback from Rusty and jgarzik
[CRYPTO]: Cleanups based upon feedback from Rusty and jgarzik
[CRYPTO]: Use try_inc_mod_count and semaphore for alg list
[CRYPTO]: Use kmod to try to autoload modules
[CRYPTO]: Bug fixes and cleanups
[CRYPTO]: More bug fixes and cleanups
[CRYPTO]: Add MD4
[CRYPTO]: Algorithm lookup API change plus bug fixes
[CRYPTO]: Run tcrypt through lindent, plus doc update
[CRYPTO]: Assert that interfaces are called on correct cipher type
[CRYPTO]: Cleanups and more consistency checks
[CRYPTO]: Update to IV get/set interface
[CRYPTO]: Add some documentation
[CRYPTO]: Fix some credits
[CRYPTO]: Cleanups based upon suggestions by Jeff Garzik
[CRYPTO]: Uninline some functions to save some bloat
[CRYPTO]: Cleanups based upon feedback from jgarzik
[CRYPTO]: Add crypto_alg_available interface
[CRYPTO]: Rework HMAC interface
[CRYPTO]: Add SHA256 plus bug fixes
[CRYPTO]: Add blowfish algorithm
[CRYPTO]: minor updates
[CRYPTO] kstack cleanup (v0.28)
[CRYPTO] Add maintainers entry
[CRYPTO] Minor doc update
[CRYPTO]: Add null algorithms and minor cleanups
[CRYPTO]: Kill stray CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMP
[CRYPTO]: Add twofish algorithm
[CRYPTO]: Add serpent algorithm
[CRYPTO]: Documentation update
[CRYPTO]: Dont compile procfs stuff if procfs is not enabled
[CRYPTO]: Add AES algorithm
[CRYPTO]: More credits for AES
[CRYPTO]: Add support for SHA-386 and SHA-512
[CRYPTO] remove superfluous goto from des module init exception path
[CRYPTO] Add AES and MD4 to tcrypto crypto_alg_available() test
[CRYPTO]: in/out scatterlist support for ciphers
[CRYPTO]: Move km_types out of header
[CRYPTO]: Add encrypt_iv() and decrypt_iv() methods
[CRYPTO]: Eliminate crypto_tfm.crt_ctx, from Adam Richter
[CRYPTO]: Documentation updates
[CRYPTO]: Make use of crypto_exit_ops() during crypto_free_tfm()
[CRYPTO]: Add Deflate algorithm to crypto API
[CRYPTO]: deflate module: workaround zlib bug
[CRYPTO]: Fix config dependencies

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>:

[CRYPTO]: Kill accidental double memset
[netdrvr 8139too] fix debug printk

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>:

The crypto auto-load should be enabled if crypto is enabled

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:

Cset exclude: rusty@rustcorp.com.au|ChangeSet|20030625201246|52045
Added missing BROKEN_PNP_BIOS declaration
Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre3

Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>:

s390 base update
s390 common i/o layer fixes
s390 dasd driver update
s390 31 bit compat
s390 documentation update
Add Configure.help entries for s390 options
s390 3215 driver update
s390 ctc network driver update
s390 iucv network driver
s390 defconfigs update
console semaphore fix

Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com>:

ia64: efivars fix by Matt Domsch and Peter Chubb

Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>:

missing asm-ppc64/kmap_types.h

Oleg Drokin <green@angband.namesys.com>:

reiserfs: Relocated journal support by Edward Shushkin & Vladimir Saveliev
reiserfs: speed up large file holes creation
reiserfs: Make most of the reiserfs warning messages to print what device they relate to

Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>:

USB: disconnect of v4l devices in 2.4
USB: fix to previous vicam patch

Peter Chubb <peter@chubb.wattle.id.au>:

ia64: declare test_bit() arg as "const"

Roger Luethi <rl@hellgate.ch>:

[netdrvr via-rhine] via-rhine 1.18-rc1: Fix Rhine-I regression

Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>:

ARM merge part 1 - arch/arm
ARM merge part 2 - include/asm-arm
ARM merge part 3 - drivers/acorn

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>:

2.5.43 export _end

Scott Feldman <scott.feldman@intel.com>:

Remove CAP_NET_ADMIN check for SIOCETHTOOL's

Tom Callaway <tcallawa@redhat.com>:

[SPARC64]: Fix OBP version parsing on newer systems

Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>:

A patch by Chuck Lever that cleans up the RPC socket slot allocation code.
A patch by Chuck Lever with further cleanups of the RPC socket slot allocation code.
Another patch by Chuck Lever that ensures that the PG_uptodate bit gets set when the entire page gets written by nfs_writepage_sync()
A patch by Patrice Dumas to implement nlmsvc_proc_granted_res
A patch by Patrice Dumas to add a check in order to ensure that we really were requesting a blocking lock when we get a reply from the server asking us to block.
A patch to ensures that blocks which are not going to time out are placed last on the nlm_block list (problem reported by Olaf Kirch).
Add standard spinlocks to protect the socket from being released by one CPU while the other is in a soft interrupt.
Fix a race: Ensure that requests retry if the remote server disconnects us while we're inside xprt_transmit().
Don't use an RPC child process when reconnecting to a TCP server
Ensure that if we need to reconnect the socket, we also resend the entire message.
Fix a TCP client corruption problem affecting resent requests
Ensure that the lockd clients always use one of the reserved ports
Replace buggy version of xdr_shift_buf() with the version from 2.5.x

Summary of changes from v2.4.22-pre1 to v2.4.22-pre2

<bernie@develer.com>:

fix bug in drivers/net/cs89x0.c:set_mac_address()
[IPV4]: Trim the includes used in util.c

<cramerj@intel.com>:

[e1000] TSO fix
[e1000] Added ethtool test ioctl
[e1000] Added support for 82546 Quad-port adapter
[e1000] Removed strong branded device ids
[e1000] Fixed LED coloring on 82541/82547 controllers
[e1000] Miscellaneous code cleanup
[e1000] Whitespace cleanup

<dean@arctic.org>:

[netdrvr tulip] support DM910x chip from ALi

<dlstevens@us.ibm.com>:

[IPV{4,6}]: Fix "slow multicast on 2.5.69" bug

<gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>:

[NETFILTER]: Really search _backwards_ to find the oldest unreplied connection to evict

<green@linuxhacker.ru>:

current bk ipmi build fix

<hadi@shell.cyberus.ca>:

[NET]: Fix OOPSes with RSVP

<hall@vdata.com>:

[NETFILTER]: Fix two issues in the newnat core, with help from laforge@netfilter.org

<heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>:

sd.c: set data direction to SCSI_DATA_NONE for START_STOP

<jejb@raven.il.steeleye.com>:

Add XRAYTEX to SCSI whitelist
sd.c: Backport wild spin loop mitigation from 2.5
Backport from 2.5: scsi allow devices to restrict start on add

<laforge@netfilter.org>:

[NETFILTER]: Cosmetic changes
[NETFILTER]: ip{,6}tables enhancement, add new /proc/net files
[NETFILTER]: Fix conntrack master_ct refcounting

<linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>:

new eepro100 PDI ID

<marcel@holtmann.org[holtmann]>:

[Bluetooth] Add CAPI message transport protocol support

<mgreer@mivsta.com>:

PPC32: Fix /proc/sys/kernel/l2cr on newer CPUs

<mort@wildopensource.com>:

[NETFILTER]: Fix processor shifts in lockhelp.h

<mulix@mulix.org>:

ISDN: [PATCH] memory leak in tpam_queues.c

<oliver@vermuden.neukum.org>:

hfs-readonly-fix.diff

<qboosh@pld.org.pl>:

[NETFILTER]: Fix ip6tables alignment (64bit archs)
[NETFILTER]: Fix endianness bugs in conntrack
[NETFILTER]: Fix endianness bugs in ipt_nat

<reeja.john@amd.com>:

[netdrvr amd8111e] interrupt coalescing, libmii, bug fixes
[netdrvr amd8111e] link against mii lib
[netdrvr amd8111e] bug fix: move stats update after irq free

<riel@redhat.com>:

[wireless airo] fix end-of-array test

<sfrost@snowman.net>:

[NETFILTER]: Add iptables "recent" module

<shmulik.hen@intel.com>:

[bonding] ABI versioning
[bonding] better 802.3ad mode control, some cleanup
[bonding] much improved locking
[bonding] support xmit load balancing mode
[bonding] add rcv load balancing mode
[netdrvr bonding] fix long failover in 802.3ad mode
[netdrvr bonding] fix ABI version control problem

<solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>:

[IPV4]: Be more verbose about invalid ICMPs sent to broadcast

<tonyb@cybernetics.com>:

make sym53c8xx_2 not reject autosense IWR

<valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu>:

[netdrvr typhoon] s/#if/#ifdef/ for a CONFIG_ var

Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>:

fix .text.exit error in drivers/net/r8169.c
add three ACPI Configure.help entries

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

[netdrvr tlan] fix 64-bit issues

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>:

Remove copied inet_aton code in bond_main.c
ACPI compile fixes for 2.4.22pre1
Don't enable I2O for AMD64

Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>:

Additional 3c980 device support

Andy Grover <agrover@groveronline.com>:

ACPI: Fix config.in (Jeff Garzik)
ACPI: make it so acpismp=force works (reported by Andrew Morton)

Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>:

[netdrvr 8139cp] enable MWI via pci_set_mwi, rather than manually

Dave Engebretsen <engebret@us.ibm.com>:

[netdrvr pcnet32] bug fixes

Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>:

Update JFS team members in jfs.txt
JFS: resize fixes

Douglas Gilbert <dougg@torque.net>:

sg driver version 3.1.25

Edward Peng <edward_peng@dlink.com.tw>:

[netdrvr via-rhine] fix promisc mode
[netdrvr sundance] bug fixes, VLAN support
[netdrvr sundance] fix flow control bug
[netdrvr sundance] fix another flow control bug

Hideaki Yoshifuji <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>:

IPv6 over ARCnet (RFC2497) support, driver part
IPv6 over ARCnet (RFC2497) support, IPv6 part

Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>:

remove unsafe BUG() in __remove_inode_page()

Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>:

alpha: Lynx platform support (Jay Estabrook)
alpha: initrd fix (Wiedemeier, Jeff)
alpha: nautilus poweroff

Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>:

[bonding] small cleanups
Bonding 2.4 update patch 1
Bonding 2.4 update patch 2
Bonding 2.4 update patch 3
Bonding 2.4 update patch 4
Bonding 2.4 update patch 5
Bonding 2.4 update patch 6

Jean Tourrilhes <jt@bougret.hpl.hp.com>:

irda: static init fixes
irda: Export CRC routine to drivers
irda: Mask C/R bit from connection
irda-usb driver fixes
IrCOMM chat fixes
QoS interoperability fixes
IrLMP timer race fix
Fix IrIAP skb leak
irda: Secondary nack code fixes

Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>:

[net] store physical device a packet arrives in on
[bonding] fix comment to prevent future merge difficulties
[bonding] add support for getting slave's speed and duplex via ethtool
[bonding] Moved setting slave mac addr, and open, from app to the driver
[bonding] move driver into new drivers/net/bonding directory
[bonding] move private decls into new drv/net/bonding/bonding.h file
[bonding] add support for IEEE 802.3ad Dynamic link aggregation
[netdrvr sundance] small cleanups from 2.5
Remove duplicate CONFIG_TULIP_MWI entry in Configure.help
[netdrvr eepro] update MODULE_AUTHOR per old-author request
[netdrvr tlan] backport fixes and cleanups from 2.5
[netdrvr] s/init_etherdev/alloc_etherdev/ in code comments, in 8139too and pci-skeleton drivers.
[netdrvr 8139too] add comment, whitespace cleanup
[netdrvr olympic] fix build with gcc 3.3
[netdrvr r8169] use alloc_etherdev (fix race), pci_disable_device
[netdrvr r8169] sync with 2.5 (backport whitespace cleanups)
[netdrvr amd8111e] remove out-of-tree feature that snuck in
[netdrvr] gcc 3.3 cleanups
[netdrvr sis900] minor fixes from 2.5

Justin T. Gibbs <gibbs@overdrive.btc.adaptec.com>:

Update the aic7xxx driver to 6.2.10 and add the aic79xx driver version 1.1.1
Correct building of aicasm
Update to aic7xxx version 6.2.22 and aic79xx 1.3.0_ALPHA2
Integrate 2.5.X aic7xxx and aic79xx changes
Misc driver updates
Integrate changes from Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Update to aic7xxx version 6.2.24 and aic79xx version 1.3.0_ALPHA5
Preface the "asserting atn" diagnostic with controller/target information
aic7xxx Driver
Aic7xxx Driver
Aic7xxx & Aic79xx Drivers Correct 2.5.X declaration for aic_sector_div().
Aic7XXX Firmware Assembler
Aic7XXX and Aic79XX drivers Use down_interruptable() rather than down() to avoid having our DV threads counted toward the load average.
Aic7XXX and Aic79XX drivers
Aic79XX and Aic7xxx Drivers
Aic7XXX and Aic79XX Drivers
Aic7XXX and Aic79xx Drivers
aic7xxx/aic79xx firmware assembler
aic7xx and aic79xx drivers - Correct several DV issues
aic7xxx and aic79xx driver updates
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx DV fix
Aic79xx Driver Update Enable abort and bus device reset handlers for both legacy and packetized connections.
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update Force an SDTR after a rejected WDTR if the syncrate is unkonwn.
Aic7xxx Driver Update 6.2.28
Update Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Documentation
Bump aic79xx version number to 1.3.0 now that it has passed functional testing.
Aic7xxx Driver Update to verstion 6.2.29
Update aic7xxx/Makefile
Update aicasm/Makefile so that link specifications are specified after all object files. This seems to be required in order to link correctly in some cases.
Aic79xx Driver Update to 1.3.2
Update Aic7xxx to version 6.2.29
AICLIB Update
Update Aic7xxx driver [Rev 6.2.31]
Aic79XX Driver Update [Rev 1.3.5]
Change the callback argument for aic brace option parsing to u_long to avoid casting problems with different architectures.
Aic7xxx Driver Update (version 6.2.32)
Aic79xx Driver Update (version 1.3.6)
Complete merge of AC aic7xxx and aic79xx bits
Remove the CONFIG_AIC7XXX_ALLOW_MEMIO option. It has been supplanted by the MEMIO probe/test code.
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver updates
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver updates
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Updates
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Use absolute path to drivers/scsi in the aic7xxx Makefile
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Upate
Remove pre-2.2.X kernel support. Pre-2.2.X support requires
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Updates
Update Aic79xx and Aic7xxx Documenation
Aic79xx Driver Update (version 1.3.8)
Aic7xxx Driver Update (6.2.33)
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Updates
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic79XX Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver README update
Aic79xx and Aic7xxx Driver Updates
Cset exclude: ak@muc.de|ChangeSet|20030508192559|45150 Cset exclude: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva|ChangeSet|20030507201543|47130 Cset exclude: marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva|ChangeSet|20030507200707|47153
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Updates
Aic79xx Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver version 6.2.35
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Updated
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Updates
Bump aic79xx driver version to 1.3.9
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx and Aic79xx Driver Update
Aic7xxx Driver Update
Aic79xx Driver Update
Update Aic79xx Readme

Kai Germaschewski <kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>:

ISDN: Fix Fritz!PCI v2 xmit irq underrun recovery
ISDN: Fix bug in ST5481 D-Channel state machine

Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>:

ISDN: [PATCH] Fix problem with external hisax drivers

Maksim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>:

L2CAP config req/rsp handling fixes
[Bluetooth] Detect and log error condition when first L2CAP fragment is too long
[Bluetooth] RFCOMM must wait for MSC exchange to complete before sending the data
[Bluetooth] L2CAP sockets can now set LM_RELIABLE flag and get notification when we detect reliablity problem with the ACL connection.
[Bluetooth] Add support for SO_LINGER option to all Bluetooth protocols
Bluetooth: RFCOMM must send MSC when DLC was opened by SABM
[Bluetooth] Fix RFCOMM C/R and Direction bit handling
[Bluetooth] L2CAP qualification spec mandates sending additional config request if we receive config response with unacceptable parameters error code.

Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>:

[Bluetooth] Send the correct values in RPN response
[Bluetooth] Handle priority bits in parameter negotiation
[Bluetooth] Implement rfcomm_tty_put_char() function
[Bluetooth] Send correct RPN response for accepted values
[Bluetooth] Set EA bit for V.24 signals parameter
[Bluetooth] Handle bit rate in remote port negotiation
[Bluetooth] Quirk for devices with no ISOC endpoints

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:

Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre2
Cset exclude: jamagallon@able.es|ChangeSet|20030620200318|50799

Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>:

PPC32: Fix the gen550 infrastructure for baud rates other than 9600

Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>:

remove TIOCGDEV from asm/ioctls.h
RAID_AUTORUN is a compatible ioctl

Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>:

ISDN: [PATCH] missing cli() in isdn_net.c
ISDN: [PATCH] don't unlock lp if there is nothing to unlock
ISDN: Add CONFIG_IPPP_FILTER
[NETFILTER]: Dont call helpers expectfn() for unconfirmed connections

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>:

PPC32: Update for PPC 4xx TLB and exception handling
PPC32: Add a new framework for on-chip peripherals for the IBM 4xx embedded processors.
PPC32: Introduce a new config symbol, CONFIG_40x, used for PPC 40x cpus
PPC32: Add generic IBM PPC405GP support and use it on the walnut platform
PPC32: Update the support for the "Walnut" 405GP platform
PPC32: Make debug exceptions usable on 4xx-class processors, and improve trap handling.
PPC32: Add support for PPC 405GP interrupt controller
PPC32: Extra register and other definitions for the PPC 405GP processor
PPC32: Move PC-style serial port definitions out to asm/pc_serial.h
PPC32: remove ppc4xx_serial.h, it is no longer used
PPC32: Cleanups for PPC 405GP-based systems; add file of OCP ids
PPC32: Don't run `checks' program on make zImage
PPC32: Add definitions for the UIC interrupt controller on the 405GP processor
PPC32: Add support for PCI and time-of-day clock on 405GP-based systems
PPC32: Allow for PCI host bridges that need explicit type 1 cycle indication

Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>:

unexpected IO-APIC code update

Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>:

[irda] module refcounts for irlan
[patch, 2.5] dgrs doesn't free on error path
namespace pollution in cosa driver
[2.4 patch] fix wavelan_cs compile warning
Clear up GFP confusion in rcpci45.c
[patch, 2.5] fix errorpath in apne.c
Remove naked GFP_DMA from drivers_net_macmace.c
namespace pollution in skfddi driver
improve signal-to-noise ratio in atm code
2.4.20 wait.h doc typo
fs_autofs4_root.c unused variable
[TRIVIAL PATCH 2.4] update README file to current
fix documentation in include_asm-i386_bitops.h
missing headers in i82092.c
fix linewrap in Documentation_power_pci.txt
include_asm-ia64_sal.h, typo: the the
Typos in drivers_s390_net_iucv.h
[TRIVIAL PATCH] include_asm-i386_dma.h: wrong lowest DMA
redundant declarations (#1_15)
add some missing init.h inclusions
remove superflous if in wait_kio
Squash warning in ppc64 addnote tool
fix linewrap in Documentation_filesystems_sysv-fs.txt
set b_page to null in fake buffer_head for O_DIRECT
fix linewrap in Documentation_pci.txt
misc_register audit fix of wdt_pci
misc register fix on ds1286
reorganize for unreachable code

Sam Ravnborg <sam@mars.ravnborg.org>:

[netdrvr sis900] make function headers readable by kernel-doc tool

Scott Feldman <scott.feldman@intel.com>:

[netdrvr e1000] add support for NAPI
[netdrvr e1000] add TSO support -- disabled
10GbE ethtool support
remove ethtool privileged references
[e100] Remove "Freeing alive device" warning
[e100] move e100_asf_enable under CONFIG_PM to avoid warning
[e100] Add ethtool parameter support
[e100] Add ethtool cable diag test
[e100] Add MDI/MDI-X status to ethtool reg dump
[e100] cleanup Tx resources before running ethtool diags
[e100] full stop/start on ethtool set speed/duplex/autoneg
[e100] fixed stalled stats collection
[e100] VLAN configuration was lost after ethtool diags run
[e100] use skb_headlen() rather than rolling own
[e100] set netdev members before registration
[e100] misc

Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:

PPC32: Clean up the cpu_idle() code a bit
PPC32: Fix a multicast bug in the MPC 8xx / 8260 enet drivers
PPC32: Correct the DTLB miss handler on MPC8xx
PPC32: Fix a problem with MDIO requests on reset in MPC 8xx enet
PPC32: Minor cleanups to the MPC 8xx FEC driver
PPC32: Fix a small problem in the 8xx / 8260 uart code
PPC32: Important fixes in the MPC8xx FEC and MPC826x enet driver
PPC32: Describe when we want to do a CPM reset on MPC8xx
Add /proc/sys/kernel/l3cr

Zwane Mwaikambo <zwane@linuxpower.ca>:

Remove warning due to comparison in drivers/net/pcnet32.c

Summary of changes from v2.4.21 to v2.4.22-pre1

<baldrick@wanadoo.fr>:

USB: Backport of USB speedtouch driver to 2.4
USB speedtouch: move MOD_INC_USE_COUNT
USB speedtouch: discard packets for non-existant vcc's
USB speedtouch: bump the version number
USB speedtouch: crc optimization
USB speedtouch: compile fix
USB speedtouch: remove trailing semicolon
USB speedtouch: trivial whitespace and name changes
USB speedtouch: add missing #include
USB speedtouch: replace yield()
USB speedtouch: add defensive memory barriers
USB speedtouch: spin_lock_irqsave -> spin_lock_irq in process context
USB speedtouch: spin_lock_irqsave -> spin_lock_irq in tasklets
USB speedtouch: verbose debugging
USB speedtouch: use optimally sized reconstruction buffers
USB speedtouch: send path micro optimizations
USB speedtouch: kfree_skb -> dev_kfree_skb
USB speedtouch: remove useless NULL pointer checks
USB speedtouch: receive path micro optimization
USB speedtouch: receive code rewrite
USB speedtouch: remove MOD_XXX_USE_COUNT
USB speedtouch: set owner fields
USB speedtouch: parametrize the module

<bdschuym@pandora.be>:

[NETFILTER]: Fix ARPT_INV_MASK in arp_tables.h

<bwheadley@earthlink.net>:

USB: Aiptek kernel driver 1.0 for Kernel 2.4

<ccheney@cheney.cx>:

USB: vicam.c copyright patches

<chas@cmf.nrl.navy.mil>:

[ATM]: Fix foul up in lec driver
[ATM]: Add Forerunner HE support

<chas@locutus.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>:

[ATM]: Fix excessive stack usage in iphase driver
[ATM]: svcs possible race with sigd

<cweidema@indiana.edu>:

USB: pentax optio S

<dlstevens@us.ibm.com>:

[IGMP]: Backport igmpv3/mld2 support to 2.4.x
[IGMP]: Make sock_alloc_send_skb calls non-blocking
[IPV4/IPV6]: Make sure SKB has enough space while building IGMP/MLD packets
[IPV4/IPV6]: Fix IGMP device refcount leaks, with help from yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org

<dwmw2@dwmw2.baythorne.internal>:

Switch to shared optimised CRC32 functions
Add config help for CONFIG_CRC32 (Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>)
Fix CONFIG_CRC32=y when nothing in-kernel uses CRC32 functions by exporting the symbol from kernel/ksyms.c instead of lib/crc32.c, hence forcing lib/crc32.o to get pulled in during the final link.

<engebret@brule.rchland.ibm.com>: