Linux 2.4.10-pre7

From: Linus Torvalds (torvalds@transmeta.com)
Date: Sun Sep 09 2001 - 21:38:57 EST


Mainly a large sync with Alan (more to come), although some tulip owners
will probably like the erratum workaround even more..

                Linus

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pre7: - Alan Cox: big driver/mips sync - Andries Brouwer, Christoph Hellwig: more gendisk fixups - Tobias Ringstrom: tulip driver workaround for DC21143 erratum

pre6: - Jens Axboe: remove trivially dead io_request_lock usage - Andrea Arcangeli: softirq cleanup and ARM fixes. Slab cleanups - Christoph Hellwig: gendisk handling helper functions/cleanups - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs dead code pruning - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update to 1.1.18 - firestream network driver: patch reverted on authors request - NIIBE Yutaka: SH architecture update - Paul Mackerras: PPC cleanups, PPC8xx update. - me: reverse broken bootdata allocation patch that went into pre5

pre5: - Merge with Alan - Trond Myklebust: NFS fixes - kmap and root inode special case - Al Viro: more superblock cleanups, inode leak in rd.c, minix directories in page cache - Paul Mackerras: clean up rubbish from sl82c105.c - Neil Brown: md/raid cleanups, NFS filehandles - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (usb-2.0 support, visor fix, Clie fix, pl2303 driver update) - David Miller: sparc and net update - Eric Biederman: simplify and correct bootdata allocation - don't overwrite ramdisks - Tim Waugh: support multiple SuperIO devices, parport doc updates

pre4: - Hugh Dickins: swapoff cleanups and speedups - Matthew Dharm: USB storage update - Keith Owens: Makefile fixes - Tom Rini: MPC8xx build fix - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs update - Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader fix for ET_DYN - Andrew Morton: reparent_to_init() for kernel threads - Christoph Hellwig: VxFS and SysV updates, vfs_permission fix

pre3: - Johannes Erdfelt, Oliver Neukum: USB printer driver race fix - John Byrne: fix stupid i386-SMP irq stack layout bug - Andreas Bombe, me: yenta IO window fix - Neil Brown: raid1 buffer state fix - David Miller, Paul Mackerras: fix up sparc and ppc respectively for kmap/kbd_rate - Matija Nalis: umsdos fixes, and make it possible to boot up with umsdos - Francois Romieu: fix bugs in dscc4 driver - Andy Grover: new PCI config space access functions (eventually for ACPI) - Albert Cranford: fix incorrect e2fsprog data from ver_linux script - Dave Jones: re-sync x86 setup code, fix macsonic kmalloc use - Johannes Erdfelt: remove obsolete plusb USB driver - Andries Brouwer: fix USB compact flash version info, add blksize ioctls

pre2: - Al Viro: block device cleanups - Marcelo Tosatti: make bounce buffer allocations more robust (it's ok for them to do IO, just not cause recursive bounce IO. So allow them) - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update (1.1.17) - Paul Mackerras: PPC update (big re-org) - Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver fixes - David Miller: networking and sparc updates - Trond Myklebust: Export atomic_dec_and_lock - OGAWA Hirofumi: find and fix umsdos "filldir" users that were broken by the 64-bit-cleanups. Fix msdos warnings. - Al Viro: superblock handling cleanups and race fixes - Johannes Erdfelt++: USB updates

pre1: - Jeff Hartmann: DRM AGP/alpha cleanups - Ben LaHaise: highmem user pagecopy/clear optimization - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA IDE driver update - Herbert Xu: make cramfs work with HIGHMEM pages - David Fennell: awe32 ram size detection improvement - Istvan Varadi: umsdos EMD filename bug fix - Keith Owens: make min/max work for pointers too - Jan Kara: quota initialization fix - Brad Hards: Kaweth USB driver update (enable, and fix endianness) - Ralf Baechle: MIPS updates - David Gibson: airport driver update - Rogier Wolff: firestream ATM driver multi-phy support - Daniel Phillips: swap read page referenced set - avoid swap thrashing

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