Linux 2.6.9-ac3

[Alan Cox]

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/

2.6.9-ac3
o	Fix syncppp/async ppp problems with new hangup	(Paul Fulghum)
o	Fix broken parport_pc unload			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Security fix for smbfs leak/overrun		(Urban Widmark)
o	Stop i8xx_tco making some boxes reboot on load	(wim@iguana)
o	Fix cpia/module tools deadlock			(Peter Pregler)
o	Fix missing suid_dumpable export		(Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac2
o	Fix invalid kernel version stupidity		(Adrian Bunk)
o	Compiler ICE workaround/fixup			(Linus Torvalds)
o	Fix network DoS bug in 2.6.9			(Herbert Xu)
	| Suggested by Sami Farin
o	Flash lights on panic as in 2.4			(Andi Kleen)

2.6.9-ac1

Security Fixes
o	Set VM_IO on areas that are temporarily		(Alan Cox)
	marked PageReserved (Serious bug)
o	Lock ide-proc against driver unload		(Alan Cox)
	(very low severity)

Bug Fixes
o	Working IDE locking				(Alan Cox)
	| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o	Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws	(Alan Cox)
	
Functionality
o	Allow booting with "irqpoll" or "irqfixup"	(Alan Cox)
	on systems with broken IRQ tables.
o	Support for setuid core dumping in some		(Alan Cox)
	environments (off by default)
o	Support for drives that don't report geometry
o	IT8212 support (raid and passthrough)		(Alan Cox)
o	Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE	(Alan Cox)
	devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o	Restore PWC driver				(Luc Saillard)

Other
o	Small pending tty clean-up to moxa		(Alan Cox)
o	Put VIA Velocity (tm) adapters under gigabit	(VIA)

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