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Linux 2.4.32-pre2

From:  Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>
To:  linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject:  Linux 2.4.32-pre2
Date:  Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:05:12 -0300
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Hi,

Here goes another -pre, after a long period.

A couple of USB corrections, a socket hashing bugfix and ipvs race
condition, avoidance of rare inode cache SMP race. 

And a zlib security update (erratic changelog for that one, my fault), 
whose CAN number is: CAN-2005-1849

Summary of changes from v2.4.32-pre1 to v2.4.32-pre2
============================================

Alan Stern:
  file_storage and UHCI bugfixes

David S. Miller:
  [NETLINK]: Fix two socket hashing bugs.

Jakub Bogusz:
  [SPARC64]: fix sys32_utimes(somefile, NULL)

Larry Woodman:
  workaround inode cache (prune_icache/__refile_inode) SMP races

Marcelo Tosatti:
  Change VERSION to 2.4.32-pre2
  Merge with rsync://rsync.kernel.org/.../davem/net-2.4.git
  Revert [NETLINK]: Fix two socket hashing bugs.

Neil Horman:
  [IPVS]: Close race conditions on ip_vs_conn_tab list modification

Pete Zaitcev:
  usb: printer double up()

Tim Yamin:
  Merge with rsync://rsync.kernel.org/.../davem/sparc-2.4.git/
  The gzip description is as good as the ChangeLog says it is -: "Set n to


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