Trying to make releases slightly more often and slightly smaller.
ACPI, USB, networking (mainly netfilter) updates. Some syscall path
updates and a thread bug in mm_release() that would miss updating the TID
and cause a few extra traps at exec time.
And a watchdog forward port from 2.4.x by DaveJ.
Linus
---- Summary of changes from v2.5.55 to v2.5.56 ============================================<blueflux@koffein.net>: o [IPV4 ROUTE]: Fix some sysctl documentation
<gandalf@wlug.westbo.se>: o [NETFILTER]: Fix a locking bug in ip_conntrack_proto_tcp
<kadlec@blackhole.kfki.hu>: o [NETFILTER]: Fix excess logging of reused FTP expectations
<marcus@ingate.com>: o [NETFILTER]: ipt_multiport invert fix
<mulix@mulix.org>: o fix "assignment from incompatible pointer type"
<neilt@slimy.greenend.org.uk>: o USB Serial patch for old pl2303 devices
<netfilter@interlinx.bc.ca>: o [NETFILTER]: UDP nat helper support
<pablo@menichini.com.ar>: o 2.5.54 dev_*(&<dev>,...): drivers/usb/input/pid.c
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>: o more unusual USB storage devices
Anders Gustafsson <andersg@0x63.nu>: o [IPV6]: cleanup_ipv6_mibs cannot be __exit, since it is called on the ipv6_init error path
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>: o [NET]: Uninline skb_headerinit o [AF_UNIX]: Uninline unix_get_socket/maybe_unmark_and_push, mark {pop,empty}_stack static o [UNIX]: Uninline unix_peer_get o [IPSEC]: Uninline _decode_session o [IPV4 ROUTE]: Uninline rt_hash_code and rt_may_expire o [IPV4 OUTPUT]: Uninline ip_finish_output and skb_fill_page_desc o [IPV4 FRAG]: Uninline ipq_kill o [IPV4 FIBHASH]: extern inline --> static inline o [IPV4 TCP]: Dont export or inline __tcp_put_port, but do inline tcp_put_port o [IPV4 TCP]: Uninline tcp_rtt_estimator and tcp_urg. extern inline --> static inline
Andy Grover <agrover@groveronline.com>: o ACPI: Use printk instead of pr_debug (Randy Dunlap) o ACPI: Remove typedefs in favor of using "struct" and "union" explicitly o ACPI: Expose lid state to userspace (Zdenek OGAR Skalak) o ACPI: Make button functions static (Pavel Machek) o ACPI: Express state of lid in words, not a number o cpufreq-ACPI: no longer use CPUFREQ_ALL_CPUS (Dominik Brodowski) o ACPI: Eliminate spawning of thread from timer callback. Use schedule_work for all cases. Thanks to Ingo Oeser, Andrew Morton, and Pavel Machek for their wisdom. o ACPI: Update version string to 20030109
Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>: o [WATCHDOG] wdt_pci nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] eurotech indentation fixes o [WATCHDOG] eurotech nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] wdt nowayout changes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] wdt977 nowayout fixes from 2.4 o c99 initialisers o [WATCHDOG] Add several new watchdog drivers from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] pcwd driver update from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] acquirewdt nowayout fixes from 2.4 (plus some CodingStyle reformatting) o [WATCHDOG] Acquirewdt C99 struct initialisers o [WATCHDOG] Advantech fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] simplify advwdt_open, and add C99 struct initialisers o [WATCHDOG] Fix up incorrect C99 struct conversion o [WATCHDOG] acquirewdt compile fixes o [WATCHDOG] advantech compile fixes o [WATCHDOG] ALIM7101 fixes from 2.4 + C99 structs o [WATCHDOG] More alim7101 cleanups o [WATCHDOG] i810-tco fix from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] ib700wdt fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] ib700wdt c99 structs o [WATCHDOG] indydog nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] machzwd nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] mixcomwd nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] pcwd nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] sbc60xxwdt nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] SC1200WDT nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] SC520 nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] C99 struct initialisers for shwdt o [WATCHDOG] softdog nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] w83877f nowayout fixes from 2.4 o [WATCHDOG] nowayout fixes for wafer5823
David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>: o ehci, remove potential hangs o zaurus B500 (sl-5600?) & usbnet o 2.5.54 -- ohci-dbg.c: 358: In function `show_list': `data1' o usbtest, covers control queueing and fault cleanup
David S. Miller <davem@nuts.ninka.net>: o [SUNZILOG]: Adapt sun4u get_zs for Peters new scanning scheme o [CRYPTO]: Fix typo in aes.o rule o [NET]: Kill __tcp_put_port module export o [TCP]: Fix tcp_put_port declaration o [IPSEC]: Dont check algorithm availability unless CONFIG_CRYPTO o [IPSEC]: Kill warning in xfrm_algo.c o [CRYPTO]: Use appropriate defaults if AH/ESP is enabled o [SUNZILOG]: Fix uart_get_baud_rate args o [AIC7XXX]: Include asm/io.h, necessary to get at inb/outb/etc o [SPARC64]: Update defconfig
Duncan Sands <baldrick@wanadoo.fr>: o USB: atmsar is not a module o USB: speedtouch missing __init and __exit o USB: speedtouch: add GPL notices
Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>: o USB: speedtouch: remove version string duplication
Erich Focht <efocht@ess.nec.de>: o small migration thread fix
Filip Sneppe <filip.sneppe@cronos.be>: o [NETFILTER]: ip_conntrack_ftp.c, fixes a typo in a DEBUG statement
Gabriel Paubert <paubert@iram.es>: o 'iret' segment fixup
Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>: o USB: revert davem's compile time fix, now that it's fixed properly o USB brlvger: Forward port 2.4 fix for misuse of types o USB: removed MOD_INC_USE_COUNT and MOD_DEC_USE_COUNT from driver that do not need it o USB printer driver: forward port 2.4 fix for misuse of types o USB mdc800: forward port 2.4 fix for misuse of types o DEV: change dev_printk() to take a pointer to dev instead of the structure itself o USB: drivers/usb/core/ fixups due to dev_printk change o USB: drivers/usb/host/ fixups due to dev_printk change o USB: drivers/usb/serial/ fixups due to dev_printk change o USB serial: pass the usb_device_id to the probe() function o USB serial: fixup for probe function paramaters changing o USB: fix ehci build for older versions of gcc
Harald Welte <laforge@gnumonks.org>: o [NETFILTER]: This patch fixes the ULOG target when logging packets without any ethernet header (mac address).
Henning Meier-Geinitz <henning@meier-geinitz.de>: o scanner.c: fix race in ioctl_scanner() o USB scanner driver: updated documentation o USB scanner driver: updated Kconfig o scanner.c, scanner.h: Added vendor/product ids o scanner.c: print user-supplied ids only on start-up o scanner.c, scanner.h: Remove PV8630 ioctls o [PATCH 2.5.54] scanner.c: endpoint detection cleanup o scanner.c, scanner.h: Use symbolic name for interface class
James Morris <jmorris@intercode.com.au>: o [IPSEC]: Clean up key manager algorithm handling o [CRYPTO]: Add AES algorithm o [SUNSAB]: Comment out powering down of chip for now o [CRYPTO]: More credits for AES
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@home.transmeta.com>: o Fix exec_mmap() to release the MM while we still have it active, to properly de-activate it and make the child_tid logic work correctly. o Fix kallsyms symbol lookup code. Let's do this trivial one-character version before looking at more complicated changes. o Make psmouse driver _much_ more lenient about packet data timeouts
Luca Barbieri <ldb@ldb.ods.org>: o Use %ebp rather than %ebx for thread_info pointer o Remove all register pops before sysexit
Matthew Dharm <mdharm-usb@one-eyed-alien.net>: o USB storage: remove usb_stor_tranfer_length()
Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>: o USB: kaweth freeing skbs
Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>: o [NETFILTER]: Fix ipt_REJECT udp checksums o [NETFILTER]: Fix incremental TCP checksum in ECN module
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>: o PPC32: Add support for the IBM PPC 405GPR-based "Sycamore" board o PPC32: Handle machine checks on 4xx processors better
Petko Manolov <petkan@users.sourceforge.net>: o USB pegasus: small patch for 2.5 o again rtl8150
Rob Radez <rob@osinvestor.com>: o [SPARC32]: Copy over sparc64 exception table changes
Robert Olsson <robert.olsson@data.slu.se>: o [NAPI]: Discuss some more issues in driver HOWTO
Russell King <rmk@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>: o [SERIAL] Add prototypes and rename UPF_FLAGS o [SERIAL] Remove unused info->event o [SERIAL] Convert change_speed() to settermios() o [SERIAL] Change settermios to set_termios o [SERIAL] Bug fix: remove infinite loop in sa1100 serial driver o [SERIAL] Restrict the baud rates returnable from uart_get_baud_rate() o [SERIAL] Fix build errors caused in previous cset
Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>: o [COMPAT]: Sparc64 use get/put compat_timespec
Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>: o PPC32: Default to 768MB of lowmem
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