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Full Changelog

Hi,

Here goes -pre2 -- it contains networking updates, network drivers updates, an XFS update, amongst others.

Detailed changelog follows

Summary of changes from v2.4.26-pre1 to v2.4.26-pre2

<dolbeau:irisa.fr>:

• Small fix to pm3fb & MAINTAINERS

<i.palsenberg:jdirmedia.nl>:

• [QLOGIC]: Mark mbox_param[] as static to avoid namespace pollution

<jon:focalhost.com>:

• [CRYPTO]: Add ARC4 module

<jpk:sgi.com>:

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

<mlord:pobox.com>:

• Fix vmalloc() error handling

Chas Williams:

• [ATM]: [lec] timer cleanup
• [ATM]: [lec] send queued packets immediately after path switch

Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] Simplify pagebuf_rele / pagebuf_free
• [XFS] Stop using sleep_on
• [XFS] Plug a pagebuf race that got bigger with the recent cleanup
• [XFS] Fix gcc 3.5 compilation for real
• [XFS] Fix buffer teardown on _pagebuf_lookup_pages failure
• [XFS] Remove the lockable/not lockable buffer distinction. All metada buffers are lockable these days.
• [XFS] Remove PBF_MAPPABLE
• [XFS] plug a pagebuf leak
• [XFS] "backport" d_alloc_anon (this time for real)
• [XFS] Avoid NULL returns from pagebuf_get
• [XFS] use generic XFS stats and sysctl infrastructure in pagebuf
• [XFS] Fix up daemon names
• [XFS] only lock pagecache pages
• [XFS] plug race in pagebuf freeing
• [XFS] kill some dead constants from pagebuf

David S. Miller:

• [SUNGEM]: At end of RX completion chain, double check OWN bit with completion register
• [IPV4]: Do not return -EAGAIN on blocking UDP socket, noticed by Olaf Kirch
• [NET]: Set default socket rmem/wmem values more sanely and consistently
• [IPV6]: UDPv6 needs recvmsg csum error path fix too, thanks Olaf
• [SCTP]: Ranem MSECS_TO_JIFFIES to avoid conflict with IRDA
• [SCTP]: Comment out buggy ipv6 debugging printk
• [SPARC64]: Update defconfig
• [SPARC]: Pass a real page into do_mount() a final arg
• [SPARC]: Update defconfig

David Stevens:

• [IGMP/MLD]: Verify MSFILTER option length
• [IGMP/MLD]: Check for numsrc overflow, plus temp buffer tweaks

David Woodhouse:

• [IPV6]: Init ipv6 before ipv4 if built statically into kernel

Dean Roehrich:

• [XFS] Change DM_SEMFLAG to DM_SEMFLAG_RD

Don Fry:

• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c SLAB_DEBUG length error fix
• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c transmit hang fix
• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c wrong vendor ID fix
• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c oops in rmmod
• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c bus master arbitration failure fix
• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c convert to use netif_msg_*
• 2.4.25 pcnet32.c change to use ethtool_ops
• pcnet32.c handle failures in open
• pcnet32.c another diff error fix
• pcnet32.c non-mii errors with ethtool
• pcnet32.c add .remove to pci_driver
• pcnet32.c adds loopback test
• pcnet32.c avoid transmit hang for 79C791
• pcnet32 non-mii link state fix

Eric Sandeen:

• [XFS] Add switches to make xfs compile when the nptl patch is present
• [XFS] Remove some dead debug code
• [XFS] Make more xfs errors trappable with panic_mask
• [XFS] zero log buffer during initialization at mount time

François Romieu:

• [netdrvr r8169] fix TX descriptor overflow

Geert Uytterhoeven:

• [netdrvr tulip] fix up 21041 media selection

Harald Welte:

• [NETFILTER]: Kill bogus const in list helpers
• [NETFILTER]: Fix ECN target cloned skb problem
• [NETFILTER]: Remove unused structure member in NAT, from Patrick McHardy

James Morris:

• [CRYPTO]: Backport Christophe Saout's 2.6.x scatterlist code extraction

Jean Delvare:

• Identify Radeon Ya and Yd in radeonfb

Len Brown:

• ACPI URL update
• [ACPI] interrupt over-ride for nforce from Maciej W. Rozycki
• [ACPI] delete unnecessary dmesg lines, fix spelling
• [ACPI] include CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML code always add acpi=strict option to disable platform workarounds
• [ACPI] ACPICA 20040220 from Bob Moore
• [ACPI] fix ia64 build error (Bjorn Helgaas)

Marcelo Tosatti:

• devfs: Fix truncation of mount data as 2.6
• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre2

Matthias Andree:

• [NET]: Export sysctl_optmem_max to modules

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Fix a trivial compiler warning, remove some no-longer-used macros
• [XFS] Use list_move for moving pagebufs between lists, not list_add/list_del
• [XFS] Fix compile warning, ensure _pagebuf_lookup_pages return value is inited
• [XFS] Fix data loss when writing into unwritten extents while memory is being reclaimed
• [XFS] Remove bogus assert I added during testing of previous unwritten fix
• [XFS] Add I/O path tracing code, twas 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] Fix length of mount argument path strings, off by one
• [XFS] release i_sem before going into dmapi queues
• [XFS] Remove PBF_SYNC buffer flag, unused for some time now
• [XFS] Sort out some minor differences between trees
• [XFS] Fix a compiler warning from a redefined symbol

Shmulik Hen:

• bonding: Add support for HW accel. slaves
• bonding: Add VLAN support in TLB mode
• bonding: Add VLAN support in ALB mode

Simon Barber:

• [NET]: Capture skb->protocol after invoking bridge

Simon Horman:

• [JHASH]: Make key arg const in jhash()

Sridhar Samudrala:

• [SCTP] Fix packed attribute usage
• [SCTP] Fix NIP6 macro to take a ptr to struct in6_addr
• [SCTP] Fix incorrect INIT process termination with sinit_max_init_timeo

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 log debug code for when XFS_LOUD_RECOVERY is turned on

Xose Vazquez Perez:

• more RTL-8139 clone boards
• more ne2k-pci clone boards

Yasuyuki Kozakai:

• [IPV6]: Fix frag hdr parsing in ipv6_skip_exthdr()
• [IPV6]: Fix ip6_tables TCP/UDP matching when ipv6 ext hdr exists