Linux 2.4.21-rc2

Hi,

Here goes release canditate 2. The aic7xxx problems should be fixed.

[Marcelo didn't append the changelog to his announcement, so here's 
 the version from kernel.org]


Summary of changes from v2.4.21-rc1 to v2.4.21-rc2
============================================

<bernhard.kaindl@gmx.de>:
  o Fixup 2.4 ptrace fix

<green@linuxhacker.ru>:
  o Memleak fix for DIGITAL EtherWORKS 3 ethernet driver

<javaman@katamail.com>:
  o explicit support for nVidia nForce

<jgarzik@pobox.com>:
  o tg3 fix
  o fix fealnx build on ia64 and other non-x86

<jsun@mvista.com>:
  o kiobuf flush dcache properly

<laforge@netfilter.org>:
  o [NETFILTER]: Makefile and build fixes
  o [NETFILTER]: Trivial but important state fix for ipt_conntrack

<lucy@innosys.com>:
  o USB: keyspan driver fixes

<mulix@mulix.org>:
  o [NETFILTER]: ip_queue memory leaks

<niv@us.ibm.com>:
  o [AF_UNIX]: Fix max_dgram_qlen procfs permissions

<petrides@redhat.com>:
  o Orphan recovery error path fix

<r.a.mercer@blueyonder.co.uk>:
  o Fix vesafb with large memory

<shemminger@osdl.org>:
  o [BRIDGE]: New maintainership

<torben.mathiasen@hp.com>:
  o PCI Hotplug: cpqphp 66/100/133MHz PCI-X support

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:
  o fix overrun in cdu31a
  o fix memory leak on rio
  o fix ide smp deadlock on settings sem
  o IDE: if 0 garbage removal
  o add blacklist for barracuda ata iv with CSB5
  o Fix copy_to_user handling in eicon
  o /proc stuff for zoran
  o Fix copy_user handling in z36120
  o Fix arcnet crashes with raw socket
  o fix compile of r8169 with newer binutils
  o fix roadrunner memory leak
  o sis900 needs to know another PHY
  o Fix copy_user handling in cosa
  o fix 82092 crash cases
  o fix time type in aha152x
  o fix cpqfc leak
  o fix ide-scsi retry oops
  o fix nsp32 build with newer binutils
  o fix qlogicisp leaks
  o add another card id
  o fix build with newer binutils
  o Fix copy_to_user handling in awe_wave
  o Fix get_user handling in cmpci
  o small fix for pcm alloc on i810
  o mpu401 copy_to_user handling fix
  o fix a race and a comment in via_audio
  o mdc800 copy_to_user handling fix
  o make pegasus work on big endian
  o Fix copy_to_user handling in vicam
  o make sstfb work bigendian
  o fix lots of tdfxfb bugs
  o handle error case in fs/namespace.c
  o copy kernel not user object in ncpfs
  o fix error cases in procfs
  o more /proc error cases
  o fix the d_path error cases in umsdos
  o remove dead functions
  o header for arcnet fixes
  o new sis fb idents
  o sisfb ipdate
  o fix wrong types in if_shaper
  o put the ide idents back in working order
  o headers for sisfb update
  o kill unneeded ifdefs, add rd/ and root=nbd
  o fix base handling in lib stuff
  o maintainer updates
  o fix wrong type
  o xdr warning (0 - any)
  o fix x.25 parsing
  o update hptraid

Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>:
  o USB: usb storage async unlink error code fix
  o USB: usb-storage fixes

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>:
  o Critical fix for x86-64
  o Fix gcc 3.3 build for reverted aic7xxx driver
  o Fix SMP x86-64 kernels on simics
  o Another x86-64 build fix for gcc-3.3-hammer

Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>:
  o Fix IEEE1394 locking problems + cleanups
  o More firewire/IEEE1394 fixes
  o Fix highmem_io for sbp2

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>:
  o Fix PPC build

Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>:
  o add intelfb to Config.in

Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@shaggy.austin.ibm.com>:
  o JFS: Performance improvement
  o JFS: jfs_lookup should check for bad inode returned from iget
  o JFS: Avoid rare deadlock

David S. Miller <davem@nuts.ninka.net>:
  o [NET]: SG without checksum support is illegal
  o [NET]: Fix hashing exploits in ipv4 routing, IP conntrack, and TCP synq

David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>:
  o JFFS2: Fix for_each_inode()

Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>:
  o i2c: bug fix for 2.4.21-rc1
  o IBM PCI Hotplug: fix up a lot of memory allocations and leaks just to figure out a slot name
  o IBM PCI Hotplug: fix up a number of memory leaks on the error path

James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>:
  o [NET]: Cosmetic cleanups of jhash code
  o [IPV4]: Choose new rt_hash_rnd every rt_run_flush

Maksim Krasnyanskiy <maxk@qualcomm.com>:
  o [Bluetooth] Improved RFCOMM TTY buffer management. Don't buffer more data than we have credits for.
  o [Bluetooth] Fix race condition in RFCOMM session and dlc scheduler

Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>:
  o [Bluetooth] Respond correctly to RLS packets
  o [Bluetooth] Fix L2CAP binding to local address

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:
  o Avoid is_dumpable() NULL pointer reference
  o aic7xxx: Go back to old aic7xxx (pre3) since the new one lockups some cards on initialization. The new driver (aic79xx) is now a new directory. I know Justin will hate this, but I can't update the aic7xxx to a fully new driver in -rc stage.
  o aic7xxx PCI posting flush fix from Arjan
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc2

Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au>:
  o Return correct result for ACCESS(READ) on eXecute-only
  o Update umem driver for newer cards

Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>:
  o [NETFILTER]: Multiple ipt_REJECT fixes

Paul Mackerras <paulus@au1.ibm.com>:
  o update CREDITS

Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>:
  o PPC32: Update the defconfigs
  o PPC32: Compile fix for ppc_ksyms.c - it needs the declaration of __div64_32
  o Fix drivers/video/Config.in

Stelian Pop <stelian.pop@fr.alcove.com>:
  o sonypi fixes

Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>:
  o PPC32: Export a missing symbol (__div64_32)



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