2.5.49 long-format changelog

Summary of changes from v2.5.48 to v2.5.49
============================================

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] sctp_params cleanup (jgrimm)
	
	naming, purge typdef
	add macro for walking parameters, stronger validity checks

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] More param handling, mostly handling hostname parm (jgrimm)
	
	Per RFC, ABORT the peer if you don't want to support hostname parm.
	Found/fixed potential div by zero.
	Changed process_init to return error code, so its clients can do error handling.

<sridhar@dyn9-47-18-140.beaverton.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] Support for Peer address parameters socket option.

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP]: sctp_process_init can fail; cleanup and bail on errors.  (jgrimm)

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Fix carry ripple in 3 and 4 word addition and subtraction macros.

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] sctp_addr code cleanup.
	
	Replace sockaddr_storage_t with 'union sctp_addr'.
	Split up more ipv4/ipv6 code into af specific functions.
	More later, but this gives me a base to do the rest.

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] Handle "no route" case for output handler (jgrimm)

<sridhar@dyn9-47-18-140.beaverton.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] udp-style connect support(non-blocking).

<sridhar@dyn9-47-18-140.beaverton.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] Fix for sideeffect violation in sctp_sf_heartbeat().

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] Addr family cleanup part 2.  (jgrimm)
	
	Splitting out yet more code.  New af and pf specific functions. 

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Fix a whole pile of signed/unsigned comparison warnings.
	From Thorsten Kranzkowski <dl8bcu@dl8bcu.de>.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Remove duplicate sys_rx164.o in GENERIC kernel.
	From Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de> via the Trivial Patch Manager.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Avoid multi-line string literal for asm block.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Add Alpha entry in MAINTAINERS.

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP]: enable v6 autobinding.
	
	This is just more address cleanup really, but the sideeffect is that 
	this enables the autobinding on PF_INET6 sockets. 

<sridhar@dyn9-47-18-140.beaverton.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] Blocking connect() support.

<dwmw2@infradead.org>
	JFFS2 update.
	
	Various bugfixes
	 -- deadlock in prepare_write() on extension of file fixed.
	 -- corruption when reading a page where a multi-page hole ends fixed.
	 -- oops on unlink of bad inodes fixed.
	 -- allow bi-endian operation; mounting of non-host-endian file system is now possible.
	
	Optimisations
	 -- switch to rbtrees for the inode fragment list. O(log n) insertion and lookup now.
	 -- avoid checking all data crcs and building fragment trees at scan time. Do it later in GC.
	 -- use 'point' method if available to use a pointer directly into the flash chip during
		scan, rather than always using memcpy into RAM first.
	 -- start to track node 'pristine' status, for later use in GC optimisation -- we'll be
		able to copy those nodes intact without having to read them, decompress and 
		recompress their payload, etc. Or indeed having to read_inode() their inode. 
	 -- fix ordering of work done from kupdated. We now erase a block, mark it free and stick 
		it on the appropriate list, and go on to the next one. Before, we erased _all_ the
		pending blocks before marking any of them free, while everyone waited for us.

<sridhar@dyn9-47-18-140.beaverton.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] MSG_EOR support for recvmsg().

<jgrimm@touki.austin.ibm.com>
	[SCTP] PF_INET6 sockets should accept v4 addresses into association.
	
	Yet more address split out, but with the sideeffect that PF_INET6 
	sockets can accept v4 addresses.   Another sideeffect is that this 
	fixes an issue with the destination lookup code to deal with wildcards,
	as the previous code was not considering the wildcard a match and
	consequently doing a second lookup.  

<agrover@groveronline.com>
	ACPI: Fix compilation error when CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not set (Shawn Starr)

<agrover@groveronline.com>
	ACPI: fix debug print levels, and use down() instead of down_interruptible(),
	  and some whitespace.

<agrover@groveronline.com>
	ACPI: Interpreter fixes
	  Fixed memory leak in method argument resolution
	  Fixed Index() operator to work properly with a target operand
	  Fixed attempted double delete in the Index() code
	  Code size improvements
	  Improved debug/error messages and levels
	  Fixed a problem with premature deletion of a buffer object

<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
	[CRYPTO] kstack cleanup (v0.28)

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o tr: make CONFIG_TR depend on CONFIG_LLC=y
	
	Also update help, clarifying that LLC is needed for Token Ring
	Support.
	
	Fixes one of the make allmodconfig undefined symbols report on lkml.

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] Add cpu_flush_pmd()
	
	This cset adds the missing cpu_flush_pmd() and fixes pmd_clear()
	(how did I miss that first time around...)

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] Acorn SCSI build fixes
	
	Oops, I broke them.  This cset fixes the errors.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o wdt: fix up header cleanups: add include linux/interrupt.h
	
	Also some cleanups removing not needed includes and initializer style.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o hotplug: fix up header cleanups: add include linux/interrupts.h

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o sound: more fixups for header cleanup: add include <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	Also some cleanups wrt struct member initialization style.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o i2c: fix up header cleanups: add include <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	Also some cleanups wrt struct member initialization style.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o input: fix up header cleanups: add include <linux/interrupt.h>

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o smbfs: fixup header cleanups: forward declare struct sock, add include/uio.h

<maneesh@in.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] dcache usage cleanups
	
	This cleans up the dcache code to always use the proper dcache functions
	(d_unhashed and __d_drop) instead of accessing the dentry lists
	directly.
	
	In other words: use "d_unhashed(dentry)" instead of doing a manual
	"list_empty(&dentry->d_hash)" test.  And use "__d_drop(dentry)" instead
	of doing "list_del_init(&dentry->d_hash)" by hand.
	
	This will help the dcache-rcu patches.

<wli@holomorphy.com>
	[PATCH] Numa-Q bootup failure fix
	
	Make sure the non-boot CPU's aren't taking interrupts before they are ready..

<bunk@fs.tum.de>
	[PATCH] dv1394 devfs missing brace

<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
	Devfs was broken by the nanosecond inode times. Fix properly.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Misc alpha compilation fixes.

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializer for fs/afs/inode.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/serial

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializer for drivers/zorro/proc.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/message/i2o/i2o_config.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/pci

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initiailzers for fs/intermezzo

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/pcmcia

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/ieee1394

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/input

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/block/cciss_scsi.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/scsi

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/cdrom

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/i2c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/parisc

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/parport

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/pnp

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/sgi

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/s390

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/tc

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializers for drivers/telephony

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Include IEEE1394 configury.
	Patch from donaldlf@i-55.com.

<ldb@ldb.ods.org>
	[PATCH] dup_mmap tiny optimization
	
	This patch moves retval = -ENOMEM out of the vma loop and after the
	fail_nomem label.
	
	The fail label is added and is used when retval is already set.

<ldb@ldb.ods.org>
	[PATCH] Small futex improvement
	
	This patch makes the futex code check utime only when waiting.
	This makes it possible to do futex wakes without clearing the register
	containing the utime parameter.
	
	The code also becomes cleaner.

<willy@debian.org>
	[PATCH] missing smp.h in topology.c

<willy@debian.org>
	[PATCH] remove sched.h from sctp/sm.h

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] fix C99 initializers fix
	
	Sorry about sending the screwed up patches the first time.  Here's the
	fix for the two missing "{".

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Add new syscalls.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: PCI device name changes.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: Missing linux/interrupt.h includes.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sunos32.c: Include net/sock.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: More missing includes after the cleanups.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: Nanosecond time changes.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Remove dead module code so that builds with CONFIG_MODULES=n
	will succeed.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Fix scsi build wrt include files.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: config & make.
	
	Kconfig file fixes: remove options ISA/MCA/EISA, add some missing
	help texts. Regenerate default configuration files. Update section
	names in vmlinux.lds.S. Simplify some Makefiles.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: system calls.
	
	Add system calls and POLLREMOVE define for eventpoll.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: mman.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: 64bit sector_t.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: module loader.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: missing includes.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: uaccess bug.
	
	Don't rely on lowcore information in __copy_{from,to}_user_asm. Fix compile
	for peculiar get_user() usage in drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: gcc 3.2 fixes.
	
	Make the kernel compile with gcc 3.2.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: ebcdic conversion bug.
	
	Fix ebcdic conversion for strings of n*256 + 1 characters.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: flushtlb bug.
	
	Don't set cpu_vm_mask if the mm isn't exclusive to the cpu.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: isclean bug.
	
	Remove the _PAGE_ISCLEAN bit in pte_mkwrite to make pte_mkwrite
	work correctly even if it is not followed by a pte_mkdirty.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: 31bit emulation.
	
	Bug fixes for the 31 bit emulation layer. New interface
	[un]register_ioctl32_conversion.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: xpram driver.
	
	Remove unused variable and add missing return in xpram_setup_blkdev.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: warnings.
	
	Remove some warnings.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: sclp driver part 1.
	
	Reworked sclp driver part 1.

<schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] s390: sclp driver part 2.
	
	Reworked sclp driver part 2.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: More nanosecond timestamp updates.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SCSI]: drivers/scsi/scsi.h needs linux/init.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[PARPORT]: drivers/parport/ieee1284.c needs sched.h and timer.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[QLOGICFC]: drivers/scsi/qlogicfc.c needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: drivers/sbus/char/bbc_i2c.c needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SCSI]: drivers/scsi/qlogicpti.c needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SCSI]: drivers/scsi/qlogicisp.c needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SCSI]: drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SCSI]: drivers/scsi/esp.c needs interrupt.h plus fix abort/reset locking.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SCSI]: drivers/scsi/sym53c8xx_2/sym_glue.h needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Module loading API updates.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SOUND]: sound/sparc/{amd7930,cs4231}.c needs interrupt.h

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Implement module_{init,core}_size.

<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
	[LLC]: Fix timer_init calls.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	make sure DEBUG is #undef'd so it's really turned off
	
	...since macro using it was changed from #if to #ifdef..

<taral@taral.net>
	[IPSEC]: Fix double unlock in esp/ah.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: isa_{device,bus} --> sparc_isa_{device,bus}

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Add set_tid_address syscall vectors.

<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
	[CRYPTO]: Fix non-modular build.

<ebrower@usa.net>
	[SPARC]: Make APC idle a boot time cmdline option.

<chris@qwirx.com>
	[SPARC]: Add missing iounmap to display7seg driver.

<kuznet@ms2.inr.ac.ru>
	[IPSEC]: Policy timeout and pfkey acquire fixes.
	- Implement policy timeouts.
	- Make PF_KEY return proper error from KM acquire.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[IPSEC]: Make xfrm_user key manager return proper errors.

<rth@dorothy.sfbay.redhat.com>
	Remove osf_swapon; fall back to sys_swapon immediately.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	make sure cpu class is registered before cpu driver.
	
	This way, we make sure the driver gets added to the class's list
	and is exported correctly in sysfs.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: make sure driver is added to class it belongs to.
	
	devclass_{add,remove}_driver() had been implemented, but had never been
	called.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: catch one last #define DEBUG 0
	
	Convert it to #undef DEBUG.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: don't double up() if device registration fails. 
	
	I thought this had been fixed some time ago, but must have never been 
	picked up..

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: typo in intf.c.

<joe@wavicle.org>
	[PATCH] vicam.c
	
	Included in this patch:
	
	- (From John Tyner) Move allocation of memory out of send_control_msg. With
	the allocation moved to open, control messages are less expensive since
	they don't allocate and free memory every time.
	- (From John Tyner) Change the behaviour of send_control_msg to return 0 on
	success instead of the number of bytes transferred.
	- Clean up of a couple down_interruptible() calls that weren't checking for
	failure
	- Rewrite of proc fs entries to use one file per value instead of parsing
	in the kernel

<greg@kroah.com>
	USB: vicam.c driver fixes
	
	fixed a bug if CONFIG_VIDEO_PROC_FS was not enabled.
	removed unneeded #ifdefs
	removed bool nonsense.

<mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
	[PATCH] usb-storage: change function signatures and cleanup debug msgs
	
	This patch changes the data buffer type from char* to void*, and fixes some
	problems with debug prints and comments.

<mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
	[PATCH] usb-storage: fix missed changes in freecom.c and isd200.c
	
	This patch changes freecom.c and isd200.c to use the new data-moving logic
	instead of the old data-moving logic.  This allows for code consolidation
	and better error-handling.

<mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>
	[PATCH] usb-storage: code consolidation
	
	This patch puts all the code to interpret the result code from an URB into
	a single place, instead of copying it everywhere throughout transport.c

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Cset exclude: rth@are.twiddle.net|ChangeSet|20021118212616|10632

<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
	[CRYPTO]: Add maintainers entry.

<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
	[CRYPTO]: Minor doc update.

<bunk@fs.tum.de>
	[PATCH] fix compile error in usb-serial.c
	
	drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c in 2.5.48 fails to compile with the
	following error:
	
	drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c:842: dereferencing pointer to incompletetype
	
	Is the following patch correct?

<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
	[PATCH] kallsyms for new modules
	
	Since I believe kallsyms is important, this reimplements it sanely,
	using the current module infrastructure, and not using an external
	kallsyms script.
	
	FYI, the previous interface was:
	
	int kallsyms_symbol_to_address(
		const char       *name,			/* Name to lookup */
		unsigned long    *token,		/* Which module to start with */
		const char      **mod_name,		/* Set to module name or "kernel" */
		unsigned long    *mod_start,		/* Set to start address of module */
		unsigned long    *mod_end,		/* Set to end address of module */
		const char      **sec_name,		/* Set to section name */
		unsigned long    *sec_start,		/* Set to start address of section */
		unsigned long    *sec_end,		/* Set to end address of section */
		const char      **sym_name,		/* Set to full symbol name */
		unsigned long    *sym_start,		/* Set to start address of symbol */
		unsigned long    *sym_end		/* Set to end address of symbol */
		);
	
	The new one is:
	/* Lookup an address.  modname is set to NULL if it's in the kernel. */
	const char *kallsyms_lookup(unsigned long addr,
				    unsigned long *symbolsize,
				    unsigned long *offset,
				    char **modname);

<mochel@osdl.org>
	kobject - expose backend helpers to registration interface.
	
	The interface should now be more sane and protect against races better. 
	
	kobject_register() was split into two helpers: kobject_init() and kobject_add().
	It calls both consecutively, though both are also exposed for use by users
	that want to use the objects w/o adding them to the object hierarchy. 
	
	kobject_unregister() was made simply a wrapper for kobject_del() and 
	kobject_put(), which are both also exposed. The guts of kobject_put() was
	moved into kobject_cleanup(), which it calls when the reference count hits
	0. (This was done for clarity).
	
	The infrastructure now takes a lot in kobject_get() and kobject_put() when
	checking and modifying the objects' reference counts. This was an obvious
	one that hsould have been fixed long ago. 
	
	kobject_add() increments the refcount of the object, which is decremented
	when kobject_del() is called. This guarantees that the object's memory
	cannot be freed if it has been added to the hierarchy, and kobject_del() 
	has not been called on it. 
	
	kobject_init() is now the function that increments the refcount on the 
	object's subsystem, which is decremented only after its release() method
	has been called for the object in kobject_cleanup(). 
	
	The documentation has been updated to reflect these changes. 

<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
	Parts of "module.c" was needed even when no module support
	was enabled, so split it up into "extable.c"

<rml@tech9.net>
	[PATCH] ALSA compiler warnings fixes
	
	Fix numerous ALSA core compiler warnings of the type "unused variable foo"

<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
	[PATCH] Support for micro/nanosecond [acm]time in the NFS client
	
	Given Andi Kleen's patch that introduces of VFS-level support for
	nanosecond time resolutions, we should finally be able to export the
	existing NFS client level support to userland.
	
	In order to do so, the following patch will convert all NFS private 'raw
	u64' values into the kernel-supported struct timespec directly in the
	xdr_encode/xdr_decode routines.
	
	It adds support for the nanosecond field in NFS 'setattr' calls, and in
	nfs_refresh_inode().
	
	Finally, there are a few cleanups in the nfs_refresh_inode code that
	convert multiple use of the NFS_*(inode) macros into a single
	dereference of NFS_I(inode).

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializer for init/initramfs.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializer for drivers/parisc/ccio-dma.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializer for fs/ext2/dir.c

<ahaas@airmail.net>
	[PATCH] C99 initializer for fs/sysv/super.c

<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
	[PATCH] inode_mknod parameters
	
	These security_ops are declared like
	
	        int (*inode_mknod) (struct inode *dir, struct dentry *dentry,
	                            int mode, dev_t dev);
	
	with a mode and a dev_t argument.
	
	But the users mistakenly had major, minor instead of mode, dev.

<jgarzik@redhat.com>
	[CRYPTO]: Kill accidental double memset.

<jmorris@intercode.com.au>
	[CRYPTO]: Add null algorithms and minor cleanups.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[CRYPTO]: Forgot to add crypto_null.c in previous commit.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[CRYPTO]: Kill stray CRYPTO_ALG_TYPE_COMP.

<dwmw2@infradead.org>
	Fix nanosecond merge.

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] 2.5.48 Build fixes (round 1)
	
	This cset applies the ARM fixups for various 2.5.48 changes, including
	fixing ADFS.  This cset does NOT contain ARM fixes for Rusty's 2.5.48
	module changes.

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] 2.5.48 module fixups (and disable module loading for ARM)
	
	This cset implements half the changes required for Rusty's in-kernel
	module loader.  It implements the basic principles required to link
	a module with other modules and the kernel, as well as providing the
	required functions to allow the kernel to build with CONFIG_MODULES=y.
	
	However, as an unfortunate side effect, this cset DISABLES the
	ability to load modules on ARM; it's currently broken since we need
	to allocate a jump table for out of range branches (which is required
	for most calls from modules to the kernel binary to work.)
	
	Since we don't know the size of the jump table until we come to link
	the module, a subsequent vmalloc could return memory no where near
	the module itself, giving the same problem.

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] Undefine symbol "arm", update mach-types.

<bfennema@falcon.csc.calpoly.edu>
	[PATCH] fix nanosecond stat timefields in UDF

<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
	[PATCH] compilation fix (tpyo)

<torvalds@home.transmeta.com>
	Broken applications do not realize that a zero return
	from "write()" is an error condition, and hang retrying.
	
	Return EINVAL in sysfs instead.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	sysfs: do permission checking on open.
	
	sysfs has always had a bug that would allow a read-only file to be opened 
	for writing. It has also returned 0 on write when there was no store method
	defined for the file. 
	
	This addresses both via sysfs_open_file(). It checks the flags the file was
	opened with and compares them with the mode of the inode. If the mode does
	not support the flags passed, -EPERM is returned.
	
	If the sysfs_ops for the object does not have the correct method for the 
	flags, -EACCESS is returned. 
	
	Since all checks happen on open(), the corresponding checks in the read()
	and write() methods have been removed. 

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] 2.5.48 Build fixes (round 2)
	
	This cset fixes various PCI and FPA11 FPE related build warnings and
	errors resulting from changes from 2.5.47 to 2.5.48.

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] Update ARM bitops to operate on unsigned long quantities.
	
	This cset removes some complexity that arose due to the endian issues
	caused by using byte accesses in the bitops.  Since bitops are now
	guaranteed to operate on unsigned long quantities, we can now use
	word operations.  This means that bitops bit 0 naturally falls into
	word 0 bit 0.

<torvalds@penguin.transmeta.com>
	Don't trust "rq->cmd_len", most of the internal IDE-CD command
	sending routines don't set it up.

<ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
	[PATCH] alpha: initrd vs. "mem=" fix
	
	As the aboot always puts initrd image near the top of physical memory,
	initrd is not accessible if we limit memory size with "mem=" argument.
	Fixed by moving the image to the "low" memory if needed.
	
	Also, some of these routines will be used by marvel (in non-NUMA config)
	and up1500.
	
	Ivan.

<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
	PPC32: In-kernel module linker for PPC.

<petkan@tequila.dce.bg>
	[PATCH] ADM8513 support added;

<chris@wirex.com>
	[PATCH] sys_capget should use current if the pid argument is 0

<hch@lst.de>
	[PATCH] make scsi_ioctl.h useable without including scsi.h
	
	*grr* - silly typedefs..

<hch@lst.de>
	[PATCH] rationalize allocation and freeing of struct scsi_device
	
	Currently allocation and freeing of struct scsi_device is a mess.
	We have two nice functions in scsi_scan.c (scsi_allocate_sdev/
	scsi_free_sdev) that are the right interfaces to deal with it, so I moved
	them to scsi and made them non-static.  I've changed all functions
	allocation freeing them to use it.

<hch@lst.de>
	[PATCH] remove dead struct/typedef from hosts.h

<hch@lst.de>
	[PATCH] remove unused includes and misleading comments from scsi_lib.c
	
	Some of that stuff might have been right for 2.4, but..
	
	(and btw, scsi_lib is pretty misleading, what about reusing scsi_queue.c?)

<jejb@mulgrave.(none)>
	fix queue run on returning I/O [axboe@suse.de]
	
	On returning I/O, need to unplug the queue before we call the queue_fn. 
	This fixes a problem in 2.5.48 where the aic7xxx driver hangs under e2fsck.
	

<dougg@torque.net>
	scsi_debug 1.65 for lk 2.5.48
	
	The scsi_debug version in lk 2.5.48 is the second last one
	I sent to this list. So this patch includes the changes from
	the last one I sent:
	   - fix "in use" counting [hch]
	   - clean up bios_param() code
	It also merges a sysfs re-organisation from Mike Anderson.

<patmans@us.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] Re: 2.5.48 /proc/scsi directory missing
	
	On Tue, Nov 19, 2002 at 10:45:25AM +1100, Douglas Gilbert wrote:
	> That directory (and all who sail in her, e.g. /proc/scsi/scsi)
	> seems to have disappeared. When the scsi_debug module is
	> loaded a /proc/scsi_debug/0 entry appears (that used to be
	> /proc/scsi/scsi_debug/0).
	>
	> Doug Gilbert
	
	It looks like the merge of Doug and Christoph's code dropped two calls
	(unless the exit devfs_unregister was supposed to be removed).
	
	Here's a patch for the addition of scsi_init_procfs, devfs_mk_dir and
	bus_unregister calls, and a small reordering so calls in exit_scsi
	match the reverse of those in init_scsi.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: exploit kobject contstructs.
	
	This makes the driver model core (for devices) exploit the kobject
	infrastructure more and make the resulting code quite a bit simpler. 
	
	For one, device_register() mimmicks kobject_register() in that it now only
	calls device_initialize() and device_add() back to back. Similarly, 
	device_unregister() calls device_del() and put_device() consecutively. 
	
	device_del() no longer removes and frees the device, it only removes them.
	It also removes the devices from the global and sibling lists. This was 
	previously done by device_put(), but moved here to be symmetrical with 
	device_add().
	
	The device's parent is now only incremented in device_add() and decremented
	in device_del(), fixing a bug in which the parent's refcount was incremented
	twice. 
	
	Because of these simplifications, the core can easily be converted to use 
	the kobject reference counting infrastructure. get_device() now simply 
	forwards the call to kobject_get() and ditto for put_device(). 
	device_release() is implemented to handle the freeing of devices once their
	reference count reaches 0.
	
	Since we're using the kobject refcounting model, we no longer need the 
	checking or setting of the device state field, so it has been removed. 
	The only users of it were the power routines. In those, it is implicit that
	we have a valid device, since we've already taken device_sem, and we're 
	walking the list (all modifications are protected by device_sem).
	
	struct device::lock, and the helpers to lock/unlock have been removed. No
	one has ever used them, and no one is likely to use them.

<chris@wirex.com>
	[PATCH] remove duplicated assignment from sys_capget.
	
	This removes the code from cap_sysget that fills out the capability set
	being returned to userspace.  The module handles this in a policy
	specific way.  This updates the dummy.c module to fill in return data
	according to superuser policy, and also disables setting capabilities in
	superuser policy.

<paulus@samba.org>
	PPC32: adjust some includes in response to recent include cleanups

<greg@kroah.com>
	ISDN: Convert usages of pcibios_* functions to pci_*

<greg@kroah.com>
	PCMCIA: remove usage of pcibios_read_config_dword

<greg@kroah.com>
	PCI: removed pcibios_read_config_* and pcibios_write_config_* functions.

<paulus@samba.org>
	PPC32: adjust <asm/atomic.h> so it doesn't need <asm/system.h>.
	
	Now atomic.h defines the smp_mb__* macros completely itself without
	needing the smp_mb definition from <asm/system.h>

<paulus@samba.org>
	PPC32: Move BUG() definition from asm-ppc/page.h to asm-ppc/processor.h.
	
	This solves some mutual inclusion problems.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[NET]: Make sock_ioctl truly static.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Add epoll syscall entries.

<sam@ravnborg.org>
	[SPARC64]: Use kbuild more consistently, add archhelp target.

<sam@ravnborg.org>
	[SPARC64]: Makefile cleanups.

<zaitcev@redhat.com>
	[SPARC]: Fix finish_arch_switch and factor PIL users.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[TG3]: Use spin_lock_irq{save,restore} on tx_lock.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[VLAN]: remove vlan_devices[] entries properly.

<greg@kroah.com>
	USB:  usb-serial core updates
	
	 - removed a few #ifdefs in the main code
	 - cleaned up the failure logic in initialization.

<willy@debian.org>
	[PATCH] rename get_lease to break_lease
	
	Al pointed out that the current name of get_lease is extremely confusing
	and I agree.
	
	This (a) renames it to break_lease and (b) fixes a bug noticed by Dave
	Hansen which could cause a NULL pointer dereference under high load.

<zwane@holomorphy.com>
	[PATCH] USB core/config.c == memory corruption
	
	parse_interface allocates the incorrect storage size for additional
	altsettings (new buffer) leading to a BUG being triggered in
	mm/slab.c:1453 when we do the memcpy from the old buffer to the new
	buffer (writing beyond new buffer).
	Patch appended, tested with an OV511 on an Intel PIIX4

<paulus@samba.org>
	PPC32: clean up the arch/ppc/boot Makefiles.
	
	This removes Rules.make inclusions, makes make clean work properly,
	removes EXTRA_TARGETS where not needed, and fixes a couple of compile
	warnings in the boot wrappers where <linux/string.h> wasn't included.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o scsi: fix up header cleanups: add include <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	Also use strsep in ibmmca.c, as strtok is gone from the kernel.

<jejb@mulgrave.(none)>
	fix queue plug performance problem found by akpm
	
	Fix is to only plug on prep deferral if the device queue is empty
	(otherwise we can rely on returning I/O to restart the queue)

<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
	[PATCH] module device table restoration
	
	Patch from Adam Richter.  I have a nicer solution based on aliases, but
	it requires coordination with USB, PCI and PCMCIA maintainers, which is
	taking time.
	
	This restores the old code in the meantime: one week without this is too
	long for people who need it.

<rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
	[PATCH] Module length calculation fix and module with no init fix
	
	Fixes miscalculation of required module size due to alignment issues of
	first section after common, and also doesn't think that no init section
	is an allocation failure.

<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
	[PATCH] *_mknod prototype
	
	The dev_t argument of sys_mknod is passed to vfs_mknod, and is then cast
	to int when foo_mknod is called, and is subsequently very often cast
	back to dev_t.  (For example, minix_mknod() calls minix_set_inode() that
	takes a dev_t.)
	
	This is a cleanup that avoids this back-and-forth casting by giving
	foo_mknod a prototype with dev_t.  In most cases now the dev_t is
	transmitted untouched until init_special_inode.
	
	It also makes the two routines hugetlbfs_get_inode() and
	shmem_get_inode() static.

<ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
	[PATCH] PCI: transparent bridge detection fix
	
	The detection of subtractive decoding bridges is broken: `class' variable
	doesn't contain ProgIf byte at this point, I should check `dev->class'
	instead.
	
	This fixes resource allocation problems on certain docking stations.

<ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
	[PATCH] PCI setup: misc cleanups and fixes
	
	- Use PCI_BUS_NUM_RESOURCES instead of hardcoded `4' in
	  pci_find_parent_resource;
	- clean up pci_claim_resource() and make it a bit more informative
	  on errors;
	- pdev_sort_resources() must be __devinit, as it's called from
	  pbus_assign_resources_sorted(), which is __devinit now;
	- fix one remaining dev->name in debugging printk.

<patmans@us.ibm.com>
	[PATCH] remove unused includes and misleading comments from scsi_lib.c
	
	On Sun, Nov 17, 2002 at 11:54:49PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
	
	> --- 1.46/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c	Thu Nov 14 18:09:17 2002
	> +++ edited/drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c	Sun Nov 17 21:37:05 2002
	> @@ -7,50 +7,18 @@
	>   *                        of people at Linux Expo.
	>   */
	>
	> -/*
	> - * The fundamental purpose of this file is to contain a library of utility
	> - * routines that can be used by low-level drivers.   Ultimately the idea
	> - * is that there should be a sufficiently rich number of functions that it
	> - * would be possible for a driver author to fashion a queueing function for
	> - * a low-level driver if they wished.   Note however that this file also
	> - * contains the "default" versions of these functions, as we don't want to
	> - * go through and retrofit queueing functions into all 30 some-odd drivers.
	> - */
	> -
	> -#include <linux/module.h>
	> -
	> -#include <linux/sched.h>
	> -#include <linux/timer.h>
	>  #include <linux/string.h>
	>  #include <linux/slab.h>
	>  #include <linux/bio.h>
	> -#include <linux/ioport.h>
	>  #include <linux/kernel.h>
	> -#include <linux/stat.h>
	>  #include <linux/blk.h>
	> -#include <linux/interrupt.h>
	> -#include <linux/delay.h>
	> -#include <linux/smp_lock.h>
	>  #include <linux/completion.h>
	>
	> -
	> -#define __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
	> -
	> -#include <linux/unistd.h>
	
	I had to add back the smp_lock.h include to compile with CONFIG_PREEMPT,
	as kernel_locked was not defined and is used by in_atomic().
	
	Patch against the latest scsi-misc-2.5:

<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
	[PATCH] Merge lcall7 and lcall27 code paths in ia32
	
	lcall7 and lcall27 code paths are almost identical, except one
	constant. This code merges these two paths together, by moving
	constant to the beginning of function.
	
	It is possible to eliminate even more of lcall7 and lcall27
	code paths, but at cost of splitting SAVE_ALL into two halves,
	and I do not want to do that. But if you think that it is worth
	of effort, I can save 16 more bytes, but at cost of speed.
	
	Side effects of merge is that now stack is addressed relative
	to %ebx instead of relative to %esp, so generated code is
	shorter and faster.

<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
	[PATCH] Mark executable files as executable on ncpfs
	
	* Executable files on ncpfs are marked by combination of SHARED and
	  SYSTEM attribute, not by SYSTEM attribute alone.
	
	  After this change gcc output is really marked executable on ncpfs.

<vandrove@vc.cvut.cz>
	[PATCH] Small matroxfb fixes
	
	* Fix compile warning in matroxfb when only 8bpp support is enabled.
	* Set memory type correctly on Matrox G400.

<hadi@cyberus.ca>
	[SCH_GRED]: Array overflow fixes, found by Stanford checker.

<greearb@candelatech.com>
	[VLAN]: Quiet some printks and free devices/groups correctly.

<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
	kbuild: Fix KBUILD_MODNAME
	
	The KBUILD_MODNAME patch which got included lately dated back a couple
	of months ago and thus got the following wrong:
	o multi-part components which don't live in the local subdir
	o using foo-y instead of foo-objs

<kai@tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de>
	kbuild: arch/i386/oprofile/Makefile cosmetics

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: keep reference to device during device_add().
	

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] Fix ARM module support
	
	This cset allows ARM modules to work again.  The solution was
	suggested by Andi Kleen.
	
	We shrink the available user space size by 16MB, thereby opening up
	a window in virtual memory space between user space and the kernel
	direct mapped RAM.  We place modules into this space, and, since the
	kernel image is always at the bottom of kernel direct mapped RAM, we
	can be assured that any 24-bit PC relocations (which have a range
	of +/- 32MB) will always be able to reach the kernel.

<jgrimm2@us.ibm.com>
	[IPV6]: Export ipv6_chk_addr.

<bdschuym@pandora.be>
	[EBTABLES]: Use correct base pointer in ebt_do_table.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC64]: Move data.cacheline_aligned right before edata.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[XFRM_USER]: Index xfrma array correctly.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	hd: fix up header cleanup: add include <linux/interrupt.h>

<wli@holomorphy.com>
	input: fix up header cleanups: add <linux/interrupt.h>

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	i2o: fix up header cleanups: add include <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	and also makes a var go to .bss...

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	tcic: fix up header cleanups: add include <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	also convert some struct initializations to C99 style and change
	irq_count to tcic_irq_count, as irq_count now is a macro...

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	sound: fix up header cleanups: add include <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	also fix a bug in hammerfall driver, removing __exit from a function
	that is called from a non __exit function.

<wli@holomorphy.com>
	sched: privatizes the sibling inlines to sched.c, the sole caller of them.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	sysfs: various updates.
	
	- Don't do extra dget() when creating symlink. 
	This is a long-standing bug with a simple and obvious fix. We were doing 
	an extra dget() on the dentry after d_instantiate(). It only gets decremented
	once on removal, so the dentry was never really going away, and the directory
	wasn't, either. 
	
	- Use simple_unlink() instead of sysfs_unlink().
	
	- Use simple_rmdir() instead of our own, unrolled, version. 
	
	- Remove MODULE_LICENSE(), since it's always in the kernel. 
	

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: update and clean bus and driver support.
	
	This a multi-pronged attack aimed at exploiting the kobject infrastructure mor. 
	
	- Remove bus_driver_list, in favor of list in bus_subys.
	
	- Remove bus_for_each_* and driver_for_each_dev(). They're not being used by
	anyone, have questionable locking semantics, and really don't provide that
	much use, as the function returns once the callback fails, with no indication
	of where it failed. Forget them, at least for now. 
	
	- Make sure that we return success from bus_match() if device matches, but
	doesn't have a probe method.
	
	- Remove extraneous get_{device,driver}s from bus routines that are serialized
	by the bus's rwsem. bus_{add,remove}_{device,driver} all take the rwsem, so there 
	is no way we can get a non-existant object when in those functions.
	
	- Use the rwsem in the struct subsystem the bus has embedded in it, and kill the
	separate one in struct bus_type.
	
	- Move bulk of driver_register() into bus_add_driver(), which holds the bus's
	rwsem during the entirety. this will prevent the driver from being unloaded while
	it's being registered, and two drivers with the same name getting registered
	at the same time. 
	
	- Ditto for driver_unregister() and bus_remove_driver().
	
	- Add driver_release() method for the driver bus driver subsystems. (Explained later)
	
	- Use only the refcounts in the buses' kobjects, and kill the one in struct bus_type.
	
	- Kill struct bus_type::present and struct device_driver::present. These didn't 
	work out the way we intended them to. The idea was to not let a user obtain a 
	rerference count to the object if it was in the process of being unregistered. 
	All the code paths should be fixed now such that their registration is protected with
	a semaphore, so no partially initialized objects can be removed, and enough 
	infrastructure is moved to the kobject model so that once the object is publically
	visible, it should be usable by other sources.
	
	- Add a bus_sem to serialize bus registration and unregistration. 
	
	- Add struct device_driver::unload_sem to prevent unloading of drivers 
	with a positive reference count.
	
	The driver model has always had a bug that would allow a driver with a 
	positive reference count to be unloaded. It would decrement the reference 
	count and return, letting the module be unloaded, without accounting for 
	the other users of the object. This has been discussed many times, though 
	never resolved cleanly. This should fix the problem in the simplest manner.
	
	struct device_driver gets unload_sem, which is initialized to _locked_. When
	the reference count for the driver reaches 0, the semaphore is unlocked.
	driver_unregister() blocks on acquiring this lock before it exits. In the 
	normal case that driver_unregister() drops the last reference to the driver,
	the lock will be acquired immediately, and the module will unload. 
	
	In the case that someone else is using the driver object, driver_unregister()
	will not be able to acquire the lock, since the refcount has not reached 0,
	and the lock has not been released. 
	
	This means that rmmod(8) will block while drivers' sysfs files are open. 
	There are no sysfs files for drivers yet, but note this when they do have 
	some.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	driver model: make classes and interfaces use kobject infrastructure. 
	
	Like the other objects, this allows a decent bit of cleanup. Details include:
	
	- use rwsem in subsytem, instead of one in struct device_class.
	
	- use refcount in struct kobject, instead of one in struct device_class.
	
	- kill class's present flag. 
	
	- kill class_list, since we can just use class_subsys's. 
	
	- make interfaces instances of their class's subsystem. This allows us to 
	kill struct device_class::intf_list, and struct device_interface::node.

<mochel@osdl.org>
	USB: minor driver model-related updates.
	
	- don't define and use a release callback for the generic driver. 
	
	- Call bus_unregister() in usb_exit() to remove the usb driver, instead of put_bus().

<mochel@osdl.org>
	partitions: use the name in disk->kobj.name, instead of disk->disk_name.
	
	Some names (for some reason) have a '/' in them, making them no good for directory
	names. disk->kobj.name has already been transformed to turn those into '!', so this
	makes sure we use those when setting the name for the partitions' names.

<agrover@groveronline.com>
	ACPI: Add ec_read and ec_write external functions
	  Other ec.c cleanups, too

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	net/core: export sk_send_sigurg, its needed by x25 when built as a module

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o net: fix up header cleanups: remove unneeded sched.h include

<ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
	[PATCH] compile fixes
	
	- iovec stuff in linux/uio.h is needed for CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT;
	- pcibios_{read,write}_config_xx has gone - replaced with
	  respective pci_bus_xx functions.
	
	Ivan.

<rth@are.twiddle.net>
	Add dummy <asm/suspend.h> for alpha.

<hch@lst.de>
	[PATCH] fix compilation for !CONFIG_SWAP
	
	We must always use total_swapcache_pages instead of
	swapper_space.nrpages in code that doesn't depend on CONFIG_SWAP

<hch@lst.de>
	[PATCH] uClinux bits for /dev/zero
	
	uClinux ports can't use mmu tricks for reading /dev/zero due to the
	lack of one.  similarly it can't mmap /dev/zero.

<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
	[PATCH] A new Athlon 'bug'.
	
	Very recent Athlons (Model 8 stepping 1 and above) (XPs/MPs and mobiles)
	have an interesting problem.  Certain bits in the CLK_CTL register need
	to be programmed differently to those in earlier models. The problem arises
	when people plug these new CPUs into boards running BIOSes that are unaware
	of this fact.
	
	The fix is to reprogram CLK_CTL to 200xxxxx instead of 0x600xxxxx as it was
	in previous models. The AMD folks have found that this improves stability.
	
	The patch below does this reprogramming if an affected model/bios is
	detected.
	
	I'm interested if someone with an affected model could run some
	benchmarks before and after to also see if this affects performance.

<mingo@elte.hu>
	[PATCH] threading enhancements, tid-2.5.48-C0
	
	Support more flexible child pid set/clear operations for NPTL.
	
	there's one more improvement in the interface: set the parent-TID prior
	doing the copy_mm() - this helps cfork() to pass the TID to the child as
	well.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o drivers/net: fix up header cleanup: remove unneeded sched.h includes

<Nicolas.Mailhot@laposte.net>
	[PATCH] Via KT400 agp support
	
	This adds the KT400 pci ID and lists it as using Via generic setup
	routines.  This patch has been tested with all GL xscreensavers I could
	find, and been reviewed by Dave Jones (full patch history at
	http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3D14).
	
	diff -uNr linux-2.5.47-ac6.orig/drivers/char/agp/agp.c
	linux-2.5.47-ac6/drivers/char/agp/agp.c

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] fix the build for egcs-1.1.2
	
	egcs-1.1.2 doesn't understand that form of vararg macro

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] detect uninitialised per-cpu storage
	
	So poor old Dave spent days hunting down memory corruption because the
	`kstat' per-cpu storage is not initialised (it needs to be, it's a workaround
	for ancient gcc's).
	
	The same problem had me hunting for a day too.
	
	This patch, based on an initial version from Rusty will
	parse System.map at final link and will fail the build if
	any per-cpu symbols are found to be not in the percpu section.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] explicitly initialise kstat per-cpu storage
	
	This is a requirement for ancient gcc's

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Fix *_mergeable_bvec routines for linear/raid0.
	
	They take the length of the passed bvec into account, which is wrong.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Fix r5 bug - wrong variable used.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Tidy up some handling of sb_dirty in md.c
	
	when do_md_run fails mddev->pers is not set, so
	do_md_stop will not try to write out the superblock
	so there is no need to set sb_dirty to 0.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Remove unused variable in umem.c

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o drivers/net/hamradio: fix up header cleanups: remove uneeded sched.h includes

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Avoid 'defined but not used' warning with i386/xor.h

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] NFSv3 to extract large symlinks from paginated requests.
	
	Now that requests are broken into non-contiguous pages,
	an NFSv3 symlink request could be larger than a page and
	so non-continguous.
	This patch copies the symlink into a new page (while checking
	for nul bytes) so nfsd_symlink will definately get a
	contiguous link.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Fix err in size calculation for readdir response.
	
	If the 'data' component of a readdir response is
	exactly one page (the max allowed) then we currently
	only send 0 bytes of it, instead of PAGE_SIZE bytes.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Fix bug in svc_udp_recvfrom
	
	 Hirokazu Takahashi <taka@valinux.co.jp> noticed that
	 svc_udp_recvfrom wouild set some fields in rqstp->rq_arg
	 wrongly if the request was shorter than one page.
	 This patch makes the code in udp_recvfrom the same
	 as the (correct) code in tcp_recvfrom.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Avoid copying unfragmented udp NFS requests.
	
	If an NFS request arrives in a linear skb,
	we don't need to copy it, particularly if the
	network card has already done the DUB checksum.
	
	This patch only copies a request if it is
	already non-linear.

<acme@conectiva.com.br>
	o drivers/net/wan/lmc: fix up header cleanups: remove uneeded sched.h includes

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] Only set dest addr in NFS/udp reply, not NFS/tcp.
	
	We don't need to send an empty message to
	set up remote address when sending tcp reply, so
	we don't.  Also, as the data is empty, we don't
	need to set_fs.

<riel@conectiva.com.br>
	[PATCH] advansys.c buffer overflow
	
	The Stanford checker found an error in advansys.c, the driver
	is accessing field 6 in an array[6].  Since this is the only
	place where this field is accessed it should be safe to simply
	remove this line.

<davem@redhat.com>
	[PATCH] Missing unlock_kernel() in fs/block_dev.c

<ak@muc.de>
	[PATCH] Some leftover nsec stat fixes (ADFS,AFS,CIFS)
	
	This fixes some more file system for the CURRENT_TIME change:
	AFS, ADFS, and a harmless one in CIFS.
	
	Somehow these changes got lost in the original patch kit.

<bgerst@didntduck.org>
	[PATCH] break up fs/devices.c
	
	This patch breaks up and removes fs/devices.c, moving functions to more
	logical places.
	
	  character device functions -> char_dev.c
	  init_special_inode() -> inode.c
	  kdevname() -> libfs.c (this should die, but that's another patch)
	  bad_sock_fops -> socket.c

<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
	[PATCH] kill i_dev
	
	The i_dev field is deleted and the few uses are replaced by i_sb->s_dev.
	
	There is a single side effect: a stat on a socket now sees a nonzero
	st_dev.  There is nothing against that - FreeBSD has a nonzero value as
	well - but there is at least one utility (fuser) that will need an
	update.

<torvalds@penguin.transmeta.com>
	Add <asm/io.h> include for readw uses in <pcmcia/mem_op.h>

<stevef@steveft21.ltcsamba>
	Properly emulate POSIX semantics for deleting of open files and renaming over open files.  Fix oops in readpages caused by unitialized aops field.

<rth@dorothy.sfbay.redhat.com>
	[ALPHA] Update clone syscall for child_tid argument.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Remove schedule_tail ifdefs.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Update for new do_fork semantics.

<davem@nuts.ninka.net>
	[SPARC]: Handle clone flag name changes.

<yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
	[PATCH] IPv6: Fix BUG When Received Unknown Protocol.

<bdschuym@pandora.be>
	[PATCH] add necessary #ifdefs to netfilter_bridge.h, vs 2.5.48

<rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>
	[ARM] Fixups for 2.5.48-bkcur
	
	Fix compilation errors for do_fork() and print_symbol()

<davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
	Move watchdog drivers to drivers/char/watchdog/

<rread@clusterfs.com>
	[PATCH] fix intermezzo compile

<Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl>
	[PATCH] fcntl fix
	
	Today we return EINVAL for fcntl with a lock with negative length.
	POSIX-2001 says that the lock covers start .. start+len-1 if len >= 0
	and start+len .. start-1 if len < 0.

<stelian@popies.net>
	[PATCH] sonypi driver update
	
	The most important changes are:
		* add suspend/resume support to the sonypi driver (not
		  based on driverfs however) (Florian Lohoff);
		* add "Zoom" and "Thumbphrase" buttons (Francois Gurin);
		* add camera and lid events for C1XE (Kunihiko IMAI);
		* add a mask parameter letting the user choose what kind
		  of events he wants;
		* use ACPI ec_read/ec_write when available in order to
		  play nice when latest ACPI is enabled;
		* several source cleanups.

<stelian@popies.net>
	[PATCH] meye driver update
	
	The most important changes are:
		- allocate buffers on open(), not module load;
		- correct some failed allocation paths;
		- use wait_event;
		- C99 structs inits;

<ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
	[PATCH] PCI: rename exported pbus_* functions
	
	Traditional naming in pci/setup-xx code assumes that
	pdev_*/pbus_* functions are private, everything visible
	from outer world should be pci_*.

<linux@brodo.de>
	[PATCH] cpufreq: cleanups
	
	This changes the return type of the verify and setpolicy functions from
	void to int.  While doing this, I've changed the values for minimum and
	maximum supported frequency to be per CPU, as UltraSPARC needs this.
	
	Additionally, small cleanups in various drivers.

<trini@kernel.crashing.org>
	[PATCH] Add back in <asm/system.h> and <linux/linkage.h> to <linux/interrupt.h>
	
	linux/interrupt.h needs:
		asm/system.h: smb_mb()
		linux/linkage.h: asmlinkage/FASTCALL/etc.

<trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no>
	[PATCH] Split buffer overflow checking out of struct nfs4_compound
	
	Here is the a pre-patch in the attempt to get rid of 'struct
	nfs4_compound', and the associated horrible union in 'struct
	nfs4_op'.
	
	It splits out the fields that are meant to do buffer overflow checking
	and iovec adjusting on the XDR received/sent data. It moves support
	for that nto the dedicated structure 'xdr_stream', and the associated
	functions 'xdr_reserve_space()', 'xdr_inline_decode()'.
	
	The patch also expands out the all macros ENCODE_HEAD, ENCODE_TAIL,
	ADJUST_ARGS and DECODE_HEAD, as well as most of the DECODE_TAILs.

<anton@samba.org>
	[PATCH] disable old stat on ppc64
	
	We don't implement the ancient stat syscalls on ppc64 since early libcs
	wont run on ppc64 (they hardcode the incorrect cacheline size).

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] kNFSd - 1 of 2 - Change NFSv4 xdr decoding to cope with separate pages.
	
	Now that nfsd uses a list of pages for requests instead of
	one large buffer, NFSv4 need to know about this.
	
	The most interesting part of this is that it is possible
	that section of a request, like a path name, could span
	two pages, so we need to be able to kmalloc as little bit
	of space to copy them into, and make sure they get
	freed later.

<neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>
	[PATCH] kNFSd - 2 of 2 - Change NFSv4 reply encoding to cope with multiple pages.
	
	This allows NFSv4 responses to cover move than one page.  There are
	still limits though.  There can be at most one 'data' response which
	includes READ, READLINK, READDIR.  For these responses, the interesting
	data goes in a separate page or, for READ, list of pages.
	
	All responses before the 'data' response must fit in one page, and all
	responses after it must also fit in one (separate) page.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] misc
	
	- I hit a BUG in end_swap_bio_read() under heavy load.  The page
	  wasn't locked.  No idea how this can happen :(
	
	  Add a BUG at submission time to catch a caller reading into an
	  unlocked swapcache page.
	
	- Remove a debug check from destroy_inode() - it was in the wrong leg
	  of the `if' statement anyway.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] shmdt bugfix
	
	Patch from Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
	
	Fixes the Oracle startup problem reported by Alessandro Suardi.
	
	Reverts a "simplification" to shmdt() which was wrong if subsequent
	mprotects broke up the original VMA, or if parts of it were munmapped.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] radix-tree reinitialisation fix
	
	This patch fixes a problem which was discovered by Vladimir Saveliev
	<vs@namesys.com>
	
	Radix trees have a `height' field, which defines how far the pages are
	from the root of the tree.  It starts out at zero and increases as the
	trees depth is grown.
	
	But it is never decreased.  It cannot be decreased without a full tree
	traversal.
	
	Because radix_tree_delete() does not decrease `height', we end up
	returning inodes to their filesystem's inode slab cache with a non-zero
	height.
	
	And when that inode is reused from slab for a new file, it still has a
	non-zero height.  So we're breaking the slab rules by not putting
	objects back in a fully reinitialised state.
	
	So the new file starts out life with whatever height the previous owner
	of the inode had.  Which is space- and speed-inefficient.
	
	The most efficient place to fix this would be in destroy_inode().  But
	that only fixes the problem for inodes - there are other users of radix
	trees.
	
	So fix it in radix_tree_delete(): if the tree was emptied, reset
	`height' to zero.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] Add SMP barrier to ipc's grow_ary()
	
	From Dipanker Sarma.
	
	Before setting the ids->entries to the new array, there must be a wmb()
	to make sure that the memcpyed contents of the new array are visible
	before the new array becomes visible.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] reduce CPU cost in loop
	
	balance_dirty_pages() is too expensive to call once-per-page.  Use the
	ratelimited version.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] Expanded bad page handling
	
	The page allocator has traditionally just gone BUG when it sees a page
	in a bad state.  This is usually due to hardware errors, sometimes
	software errors.
	
	I'm proposing that we not go BUG() any more, but print lots (and lots)
	of diagnostic info and try to continue.
	
	Might be a bit controversial.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] Make inode_ops->setxattr value parameter const
	
	Patch from Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
	
	The setxattr inode operation is defined like this in 2.4 and 2.5:
	
	        int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
	                         void *value, size_t size, int flags);
	
	the original type of the value parameter was `const void *'; the const
	obviously has been lost at some point. The definition should be:
	
	        int (*setxattr) (struct dentry *dentry, const char *name,
	                         const void *value, size_t size, int flags);

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] fix endian problem in ext3 htree code
	
	Patch from Christopher Li <chrisl@vmware.com>
	
	This little patch will fix two place in htree code which
	forget the "cpu_to_le16" converting . This bug causes
	incorrect record length on PPC.
	
	Thanks Franz for report the problem.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] remove a warning from __block_write_full_page()
	
	There is a warning in there to detect when block_write_full_page()
	attaches buffers to a blockdev page.  This is a bad thing because that
	page's blocks may then overlap blocks from a different address_space.
	So I disallowed it.
	
	But the message can be triggered when an application is mmapping a
	blockdev MAP_SHARED.  Apparently INND likes to do this.
	
	So remove the warning.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] ext2/ext3 Orlov directory accounting fix
	
	Patch from Stephen Tweedie
	
	"In looking at the fix for the ext3 Orlov double-accounting bug, I
	 noticed a change to the sb->s_dir_count accounting, restoring a
	 missing s_dir_count++ when we allocate a new directory.
	
	 However, I can't find anywhere in the code where we decrement this
	 again on directory deletion, neither in ext2 nor in ext3, in 2.4 nor
	 in 2.5."
	
	Locking is via lock_super().

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] bootmem crash fix
	
	From Roman Zippel.  Don't assume that physical memory starts at
	physical address zero.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] Fix busy-wait with writeback to large queues
	
	blk_congestion_wait() is a utility function which various callers use
	to throttle themselves to the rate at which the IO system can retire
	writes.
	
	The current implementation refuses to wait if no queues are "congested"
	(>75% of requests are in flight).
	
	That doesn't work if the queue is so huge that it can hold more than
	40% (dirty_ratio) of memory.  The queue simply cannot enter congestion
	because the VM refuses to allow more than 40% of memory to be dirtied.
	(This spin could happen with a lot of normal-sized queues too)
	
	So this patch simply changes blk_congestion_wait() to throttle even if
	there are no congested queues.  It will cause the caller to sleep until
	someone puts back a write request against any queue.  (Nobody uses
	blk_congestion_wait for read congestion).
	
	The patch adds new state to backing_dev_info->state: a couple of flags
	which indicate whether there are _any_ reads or writes in flight
	against that queue.  This was added to prevent blk_congestion_wait()
	from taking a nap when there are no writes at all in flight.
	
	But the "are there any reads" info could be used to defer background
	writeout from pdflush, to reduce read-vs-write competition.  We'll see.
	
	Because the large request queues have made a fundamental change:
	blocking in get_request_wait() has been the main form of VM throttling
	for years.  But with large queues it doesn't work any more - all
	throttling happens in blk_congestion_wait().
	
	Also, change io_schedule_timeout() to propagate the schedule_timeout()
	return value.  I was using that in some debug code, but it should have
	been like that from day one.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] Remove mapping->vm_writeback
	
	The vm_writeback address_space operation was designed to provide the VM
	with a "clustered writeout" capability.  It allowed the filesystem to
	perform more intelligent writearound decisions when the VM was trying
	to clean a particular page.
	
	I can't say I ever saw any real benefit from this - not much writeout
	actually happens on that path - quite a lot of work has gone into
	minimising it actually.
	
	The default ->vm_writeback a_op which I provided wrote back the pages
	in ->dirty_pages order.  But there is one scenario in which this causes
	problems - writing a single 4G file with mem=4G.  We end up with all of
	ZONE_NORMAL full of dirty pages, but all writeback effort is against
	highmem pages.  (Because there is about 1.5G of dirty memory total).
	
	Net effect: the machine stalls ZONE_NORMAL allocation attempts until
	the ->dirty_pages writeback advances onto ZONE_NORMAL pages.
	
	This can be fixed most sweetly with additional radix-tree
	infrastructure which will be quite complex.  Later.
	
	
	So this patch dumps it all, and goes back to using writepage
	against individual pages as they come off the LRU.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] strengthen the `incremental min' logic in the page
	
	Strengthen the `incremental min' logic in the page allocator.
	
	Currently it is allowing the allocation to succeed if the zone has
	free_pages >= pages_high.
	
	This was to avoid a lockup corner case in which all the zones were at
	pages_high so reclaim wasn't doing anything, but the incremental min
	refused to take pages from those zones anyway.
	
	But we want the incremental min zone protection to work.  So:
	
	- Only allow the allocator to dip below the incremental min if he
	  cannot run direct reclaim.
	
	- Change the page reclaim code so that on the direct reclaim path,
	  the caller can free pages beyond ->pages_high.  So if the incremental
	  min test fails, the caller will go and free some more memory.
	
	  Eventually, the caller will have freed enough memory for the
	  incremental min test to pass against one of the zones.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] handle zones which are full of unreclaimable pages
	
	This patch is a general solution to the situation where a zone is full
	of pinned pages.
	
	This can come about if:
	
	a) Someone has allocated all of ZONE_DMA for IO buffers
	
	b) Some application is mlocking some memory and a zone ends up full
	   of mlocked pages (can happen on a 1G ia32 system)
	
	c) All of ZONE_HIGHMEM is pinned in hugetlb pages (can happen on 1G
	   machines)
	
	We'll currently burn 10% of CPU in kswapd when this happens, although
	it is quite hard to trigger.
	
	The algorithm is:
	
	- If page reclaim has scanned 2 * the total number of pages in the
	  zone and there have been no pages freed in that zone then mark the
	  zone as "all unreclaimable".
	
	- When a zone is "all unreclaimable" page reclaim almost ignores it.
	  We will perform a "light" scan at DEF_PRIORITY (typically 1/4096'th of
	  the zone, or 64 pages) and then forget about the zone.
	
	- When a batch of pages are freed into the zone, clear its "all
	  unreclaimable" state and start full scanning again.  The assumption
	  being that some state change has come about which will make reclaim
	  successful again.
	
	  So if a "light scan" actually frees some pages, the zone will revert to
	  normal state immediately.
	
	So we're effectively putting the zone into "low power" mode, and lightly
	polling it to see if something has changed.
	
	The code works OK, but is quite hard to test - I mainly tested it by
	pinning all highmem in hugetlb pages.

<akpm@digeo.com>
	[PATCH] no-buffer-head ext2 option
	
	Implements a new set of block address_space_operations which will never
	attach buffer_heads to file pagecache.  These can be turned on for ext2
	with the `nobh' mount option.
	
	During write-intensive testing on a 7G machine, total buffer_head
	storage remained below 0.3 megabytes.  And those buffer_heads are
	against ZONE_NORMAL pagecache and will be reclaimed by ZONE_NORMAL
	memory pressure.
	
	This work is, of course, a special for the huge highmem machines.
	Possibly it obsoletes the buffer_heads_over_limit stuff (which doesn't
	work terribly well), but that code is simple, and will provide relief
	for other filesystems.
	
	
	It should be noted that the nobh_prepare_write() function and the
	PageMappedToDisk() infrastructure is what is needed to solve the
	problem of user data corruption when the filesystem which backs a
	sparse MAP_SHARED mapping runs out of space.  We can use this code in
	filemap_nopage() to ensure that all mapped pages have space allocated
	on-disk.  Deliver SIGBUS on ENOSPC.
	
	This will require a new address_space op, I expect.

<torvalds@penguin.transmeta.com>
	Linux v2.5.49