Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.27-pre3

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Hi,

Here goes the third pre of 2.4.27.

It contains network driver fixes, nForce2 hang PCI workaround, i810 audio fixes, JFS update, ACPI, sh64/ia64 arch updates, amongst others.

Please refer to the detailed changeloged

Summary of changes from v2.4.27-pre2 to v2.4.27-pre3

<achurch:achurch.org>:

• ext2fs sb= mount option fix

<chad.dupuis:hp.com>:

• Fix HP HSG80 storage array entry on SCSI device list

<gtw:cs.bu.edu>:

• [sound i810] silently ignore invalid PCM_ENABLE_xxx bits from userland

<jparmele:wildbear.com>:

• ad1848: Fix crystal CS4235 mixer setup

<lkml:lievin.net>:

• tipar char driver: wrong timeout value

<m.c.p:kernel.linux-systeme.com>:

• copy WARN_ON() definition from 2.6

<ouellettes:videotron.ca>:

• Remove extra semicolumn in arch/i386/mm/fault.c

<ross:datscreative.com.au>:

• nVidia supplied nForce2 workaround

Andrew Morton:

• sata_sx4.c warning fix

Arun Sharma:

• ia64: make ia32 core dumps work

Bjorn Helgaas:

• Cset exclude: arun.sharma@intel.com[helgaas]|ChangeSet|20040405163028|42090
• ia64: Fix ia32 core dumps
• ia64: Update defconfigs
• ia64: Update defconfig to current generic config
• ia64: Allow IO port space without EFI RT attribute
• ia64: Define acpi_pci_disabled for recent ACPI update

Dave Kleikamp:

• JFS: [CHECKER] Fix a possible null-pointer dereference
• JFS: [CHECKER] Memory leak in jfs_link
• JFS: [CHECKER] get rid of txAbortCommit
• JFS: Avoid race invalidating metadata page
• JFS: reduce stack usage
• JFS: [CHECKER] More robust error recovery in add_index
• JFS: module unload was not removing /proc/fs/jfs/

David Mosberger:

• ia64: Fix typo in unwinder which could cause NULL-pointer dereferences

Don Fry:

• pcnet32 whitespace only changes
• pcnet32 support for 79C976
• pcnet32 all printk under netif_msg
• pcnet32 correct name display
• pcnet32 add led blink capability
• pcnet32 transmit performance fix
• pcnet32 add register dump capability
• pcnet32 timer to free tx skbs for 79C971/972

Gerd Knorr:

• Fix V4L miss of range check oops

Herbert Xu:

• [sound i810] fix wait queue race in drain_dac
• [sound i810] fix race
• [sound i810] remove bogus CIV_TO_LVI
• [sound i810] clean up with macros
• [sound i810] fix partial DMA transfers
• [sound i810] fix playback SETTRIGGER
• [sound i810] fix OSS fragments
• [sound i810] remove divides on playback
• [sound i810] fix drain_dac loop when signals_allowed==0
• [sound i810] fix reads/writes % 4 != 0
• [sound i810] fix deadlock in drain_dac

Jack Hammer:

• ServeRAID driver update to 7.00.15: sync with v2.6

Jack Steiner:

• ia64: fix HUGETLB null pointer dereference

Jeff Garzik:

• [netdrvr b44] sync with 2.6.x version
• Add dummy "__user" marker, for compat with 2.6.x
• Rename get_current_user tmpvar to avoid namespace clash
• [netdrvr] Add driver for IBM p/iSeries virtual ethernet adapters
• [libata sata_sis] add new PCI id
• [libata] Promise driver split part 1: clone to sx4
• [libata] Promise driver split part 2: remove SX4 code from sata_promise
• [libata] Promise driver split part 3: remove TX2/4 code from sata_sx4
• [libata] Promise driver split part 4: common header
• [libata] add ata_tf_{to,from}_fis helpers
• [libata] clean up taskfile submission to hardware
• [libata] remove call to WARN_ON(), 2.4 doesn't have this
• [libata] move ATAPI startup from katad thread to workqueue thread
• [libata] minor updates
• [libata] move PIO data xfer from katad thread to workqueue thread
• [libata] move probe execution from katad thread to workqueue thread
• [libata] move ATAPI command initiation code from libata-scsi to libata-core
• [libata] kill unnecessary include
• [libata] internal cleanup: kill ata_pio_start
• [libata] some work on the ATAPI path
• [libata] Make sure to initialize PIO data xfer state
• [libata] replace per-command semaphore with optional completion
• [libata promise] make sure our schedule_timeout(N) are never with N==0
• [libata] remove unused struct ata_engine
• [libata sata_sx4] trivial: fix filename in header
• [libata sata_sis] support SATA SCRs in PCI cfg space
• [libata] preparation for writeback caching support
• [libata] Maintainer annotations
• [sound i810] sync with 2.6.x driver
• [sound i810] bump driver to version 1.00

Jeremy Higdon:

• sata_vsc initialization fix

Karol Kozimor:

• acpi4asus 0.28 (Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor)

Krzysztof Halasa:

• [netdrvr tulip] fix use-after-free

Len Brown:

• [ACPI] delete unused CONFIG_ACPI_RELAXED_AML this code is included always -- or disable at boot w/ "acpi=strict
• [ACPI] Delete IRQ2 "cascade" in ACPI IOAPIC mode no such concept exists in ACPI, frees IRQ2 for use.
• [ACPI] enhance intr-src-override parsing to handle ES7000 http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2520
• [ACPI] allow use of IRQ2 in ACPI/IOAPIC mode http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2564
• [ACPI] No IRQ known... - using IRQ 255 (Bjarni Rúnar Einarsson) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2148
• [ACPI] battery "charged" instead of "unknown" (Luming Yu) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1863
• [ACPI] support button driver unload (Luming Yu) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2281
• [ACPI] pci-link may not always be SHARED (SuSE via Luming Yu) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2404
• [ACPI] pcibios_scan_root fix for IA64 (from IA64 tree via Luming Yu) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2130
• [ACPI] toshiba_acpi driver if acpi_disabled (David Shaohua Li) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2465
• [ACPI] button build fix
• [ACPI] export symbols to button module
• [ACPI] PCI Interrupt Link fixes
• [ACPI] rmmod ACPI modules vs /proc from Anil S Keshavamurthy and David Shaohua Li http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2457
• [ACPI] enhance "pci=noacpi" to skip PCI probe (David Shaohua Li) add "acpi=noirq" to just disable IRQ config http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1662
• [ACPI] parse ACPI MCFG table and set pci_mmcfg_base_addr from 2.6 via Sundar/Dely Sy
• [ACPI] handle _CRS outside _PRS -- even when non-zero avoid sharing IRQ12 http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2665

Marcelo Tosatti:

• Delete: drivers/char/amd7xx_tco.c
• Matt Domsch: Lower printk severity for PCI devices with no PCI_CACHE_LINE_SIZE implemented
• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre3

Mike Miller:

• cciss update: support for two new controllers
• Fix cciss bug in proc reporting

Oleg Drokin:

• [2.4] Make reiserfs not to crash on oom during mount

Pavel Machek:

• Cleanups for b44

Pete Zaitcev:

• tiglusb bug fixes (usb_clear_halt, usb_sndbulkpipe)
• USB: Check results of copy_to_user in hiddev
• USB: Fix memory leaks in speedtch
• USB: Fix IBM USB memory key unusual dev entry

Richard Curnow:

• Patch [sh64]: Fix liveness dependency constraints in _syscalln()
• Fix Cayman PCI IRQ routing for PCI cards containing bridges
• Patch [sh64]: Fix approach for calibrating CPU MHz so it works even if the I-cache is disabled
• Patch [sh64]: Clean-up handling of the SR.WATCH bit
• Patch [sh64]: Remove obsolete CONFIG_UNCACHED_MEMORY_OFFSET option
• Patch [sh64]: clean-up to allow building on Cayman board without configuring PCI support
• Patch [sh64]: Handle base of RAM not being 512Mb aligned
• Patch [sh64]: Allow greater choice over the effective address at which the kernel runs

Sridhar Samudrala:

• [SCTP] Fix bugs in handling overlapping INIT and peer restart over a multihomed association.
• [SCTP] Rename SCTP_ADDRREACHABLE as SCTPADDR_AVAILABLE to be consistent with the SCTP sockets API draft.

Stephen Hemminger:

• SCTP crc table can be static const

Stéphane Eranian:

• ia64: switch /proc/perfmon to seq_file avoid buffer overflows

Zwane Mwaikambo:

• remove amd7(saucy)_tco