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Full Changelog

Here's mainly ARM, XFS, PCI hotplug and firewire updates. And some parport cleanups and fixes from Al.

And a fairly small merge from Andrew (s390 and random stuff).

Linus

Summary of changes from v2.6.4-rc1 to v2.6.4-rc2

<jpk:sgi.com>:

• [XFS] Merge missing mount stripe-unit/width-alignment check

Adrian Bunk:

• move rme96xx to Documentation/sound/oss/

Alexander Viro:

• oops on HPFS filesystem file rename
• parport: move exports to where they are defined
• parport: use module_init()
• parport: sysctl registration
• parport: option parsing cleanup
• parport: fix probe leaks
• parport: slave port cleanups
• parport: fix parport_unregister_port
• parport: clean up parport_announce_port and friends
• parport: keep track of parport_pc ports
• parport: keep track of parport_sunbpp ports
• parport: get rid of parport_enumerate
• parport: list cleanups

Andrew Morton:

• fix x86_64 build for sys_device_register rename
• [ATM]: Gcc-3.5 fix for net/atm/lec.c
• fix umount dataloss problem
• ppc64: fix a bug in iSeries MMU hash management
• ppc64: iSeries virtual disk update
• Add missing numa EXPORT_SYMBOLs
• ppc64: Update G5 defconfig, remove DISCONTIGMEM
• s390: core s390 update
• s390: common i/o layer
• s390: sclp console
• s390: tape class for s390 tapes
• s390: xpram driver
• Doc/00-index additions
• sysrq-o atomicity fix
• fix small highmem bio bounce bvec handling glitch
• move scatterwalk functions to own file
• fix in-place de/encryption bug with highmem
• dm-crypt cleanups
• dm-crypt end_io bv_offset fix
• revert the /proc thread visibility fix
• zr36067 driver update
• C99 initializers for drivers/usb/serial/keyspan.h
• C99 initiailzers for drivers/isdn/hisax/hisax_fcpcipnp.c
• raid1: fix oops in bio_put()
• linux/README update
• DCSSBLK depends on CONFIG_S390
• NFS SUNRPC fix
• Fix tty drivers which dont set tty_driver->devfs_name
• Fix VT mode change vs. fbcon
• sys_alarm() return value fix
• Fix network hashtable sizing
• buslogic initsection fix
• remove a few remaining "make dep" references
• clarify CONFIG_SWAP Kconfig help
• Make powernow-k8 cpufreq control work again
• x86-64 fixes for 2.6.4rc1
• watchdog updates
• convert pdflush to kthread
• firmware loader: pin firmware module
• firmware loader: delay firmware hotplug event
• swsusp: fix error handling in "not enough swap space"
• m68k interrupt handling fix
• scripts/modpost warning
• oprofile: fix P4 HT msr sharing

Bart De Schuymer:

• [BR_NETFILTER]: Fix vlan-encapsulated fragmented IP traffic

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

• update for pdc202xx_old driver

Ben Collins:

• IEEE1394(r1165): Better pending packet handling, patch from Steve
• IEEE1394(r1166): Move generic packet initialization to kmem_cache ctor
• IEEE1394(r1167): Cleanup hostnum allocation to prevent race of double allocation
• IEEE1394(r1168): Add on a mempool for packet allocation, in addition to the kmem_cache
• IEEE1394(r1169): Trivial cleanups
• IEEE1394: Revision sync
• IEEE1394/SBP2(r1170): Unblock scsi requests specifically in the update callback
• IEEE1394/Video1394(r1171): Fix bug with cdev_add usage from a previous change
• IEEE1394(r1172): Generalize the default config rom entries for new hosts
• IEEE1394/eth1394(r1175): Added MODULE_DEVICE_TABLE()
• IEEE1394: Revision sync
• IEEE1394(r1176): Remove mempool and ctor stuff
• IEEE1394/dv(r1177): Fix dv1394 devfs cleanup
• IEEE1394/ohci(r1179): Remove ohci->id. It was just the same as host->id anyway
• SPARC/m68k: Remove sun_setup_serial references, which is already gone
• IEEE1394(r1180): Fix pdrv update call to use ud class list. Fixes an oops

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

• ppc32: Fix crash on load in DACA sound driver
• radeonfb: some more PLL problems
• /proc/cpuinfo fixes for G5

Chip Salzenberg:

• export locks_remove_posix

Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] use generic XFS stats and sysctl infrastructure in pagebuf
• [XFS] Remove a superflous i_size_write
• [XFS] Fix up daemon names
• [XFS] only lock pagecache pages
• [XFS] plug race in pagebuf freeing
• [XFS] kill some dead constants from pagebuf

Dave Kleikamp:

• JFS: Error path accessed uninitialized variables
• JFS: Support sharing of journal by multiple volumes

David Brownell:

• OHCI urb unlink fixes

David Mosberger:

• ia64: Fix IDE block-layer BUG_ON() reported by Darren Williams
• ia64: Fix pdflush-triggered stack-overflow due to long thread-creation chains

David S. Miller:

• [TCP]: Restart tw bucket scan when lock is dropped, noticed by Olof Johansson
• [NET]: Propagate dev_mc_{add,delete}() error to SIOC{ADD,DEL}MULTI
• [AF_UNIX]: Mark unix_*_ops as static
• [SPARC64]: Add support for CONFIG_DEBUG_STACK_USAGE

Dean Roehrich:

• [XFS] release i_sem before going into dmapi queues
• [XFS] DMAPI deadlock prevention when interacting with the IO path

Dely Sy:

• PCI Hotplug: Patch to get polling mode in SHPC hot-plug driver properly working
• PCI Hotplug: fixes for shpc and pcie hot-plug drivers

Eric Sandeen:

• [XFS] Remove some dead debug code

François Romieu:

• [netdrvr r8169] fix TX descriptor overflow

Geert Uytterhoeven:

• lost Amiga Hydra Ethernet patch

Go Taniguchi:

• [libata ata_piix] Fix transposed ICH6 PCI id

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

• PCI Hotplug: remove unneeded ACPI Makefile rules
• PCI Hotplug: clean up the Makefile a bit more
• kobject: fix kobject hotplug debug message to show more needed info
• kobject: clean up kobject_get() convoluted logic
• Fix USB printer transfers
• PCI Hotplug: fix stupid directory name of "pci_hotplug_slots" to be just "slots"
• Make IBMASM driver depend on X86 as that is the only valid platform for it
• PCI Hotplug: fix up the permission settings on a few of the sysfs files
• Driver core: add CONFIG_DEBUG_DRIVER to help track down driver core bugs easier
• PCI Hotplug: clean up the Makefile a bit more

Hollis Blanchard:

• ppc64: make "viodev->unit_address" 32-bit
• ppc64: export vio_find_node()

Ingo Molnar:

• Avoid writing the APIC ID register

Ivan Kokshaysky:

• Alpha: switch semaphores to PPC scheme

James Simmons:

• New Permedia2 framebuffer driver

Jeff Garzik:

• [libata] Use scsi_finish_command as completion function, in our error handling thread callback.
• [libata ata_piix] Add yet another Intel ICH6 PCI id

Jens Axboe:

• fix CDROM_SEND_PACKET 32 -> 64-bit translation

Karsten Keil:

• ISDN strpbrk fix

Kenneth W. Chen:

• ia64: make hugetlbfs page size a boot-time option
• ia64: move irq_entry()/irq_exit() to ia64_handle_irq()

Linda Xie:

• PCI Hotplug: fix rpaphp bugs

Linus Torvalds:

• Update x86 defconfig
• Fix typo in radeon pll update
• Linux 2.6.4-rc2

Manfred Weihs:

• IEEE1394(1164): Added 1394 acknowledge codes

Marc Zyngier:

• Re: 2.6.4-rc1 + hp100 EISA, not working

Marcel Holtmann:

• [Bluetooth] Use BT_ERR wherever possible

Max Asbock:

• Driver for IBM service processor - updated (1/2)
• Driver for IBM service processor - updated (2/2)

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Use same string for identifying whether security namespace is enabled
• [XFS] Add I/O path tracing code, useful in diagnosing that last unwritten extent problem
• [XFS] Use a naming convention here thats more consistent with everything else
• [XFS] Fix BUG in debug trace code, it was plain wrong for the unmapped page case
• [XFS] Fix the by-handle attr list interface (used by xfsdump) for security attrs
• [XFS] Implement mrlocks on top of rwsems, instead of using our own mrlock code
• [XFS] Fix length of mount argument path strings, off by one
• [XFS] Remove PBF_SYNC buffer flag, unused for some time now
• [XFS] Sort out some minor differences between trees

Olof Johansson:

• ppc64: Add iommu=on for enabling DART on small-mem machines
• ppc64: Use iommu=force instead of iommu=on for commonality with x86_64
• ppc64: More IOMMU cleanups

Peter Chubb:

• ia64: greatly speed-up I/O-SAPIC irq_enable()/irq_disable()

Philippe Elie:

• oprofile needs smp_num_siblings on x86-64

Randy Dunlap:

• sys_device_[un]register() are not syscalls
• rename sys_bus_init()

Roger Luethi:

• Update via-rhine Kconfig entry

Russell King:

• PCI: Report meaningful error for failed resource allocation
• PCI: Don't report pci_request_regions() failure twice
• PCI: Introduce bus->bridge_ctl member
• [MTD] Fix build errors in Lubbock MTD map driver
• [ARM] Fix SA1111 OHCI IRQ handler return type
• [MTD] Fix ARM Firmware Suite MTD partition detection
• [MTD] Update integrator-flash.c with MTD CVS
• [ARM] Update ICS IDE driver
• [ARM] Always return IRQ_HANDLED for USB interrupts
• Wireless pcmcia netdev patches

Santiago Leon:

• broken PowerPC Virtual Ethernet

Stephen Hemminger:

• propogate errors from misc_register to caller
• hp100 -- isa probe fix

Steve Kinneberg:

• IEEE1394(r1173): Small change to csr1212 prevent possible kernel panics from improper directory parsing
• IEEE1394(r1174): Fixed a problem parsing directories with null entries
• IEEE1394(r1179): Fix nodemgr_get_max_rom() to work properly on little endian machines

Steven Dake:

• [AF_UNIX]: Add SOCK_SEQPACKET support

Stéphane Eranian:

• ia64: perfmon update

Timothy Shimmin:

• [XFS] Add XFS_FS_GOINGDOWN interface to xfs
• [XFS] Fix log recovery case when have v2 log with size >32K and we have a Log Record wrapping around the physical log end. Need to reset the pb size back to what we were using and NOT just 32K.
• [XFS] Version 2 log fixes - remove l_stripemask and add v2 log stripe padding to ic_roundoff to cater for pad in reservation cursor updates.
• [XFS] fix up some debug log code for when XFS_LOUD_RECOVERY is turned on

Torben Mathiasen:

• PCI Hotplug: Patch to get cpqphp working with IOAPIC

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