Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.17

Not a lot of changes since the last -rc, the bulk is actually some last-minute MIPS updates and s390 futex changes, the rest tend to be various very small fixes that trickled in over the last week.

Have fun with it,
       Linus

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Aki M Nyrhinen:
      [TCP]: continued: reno sacked_out count fix

Andrea Bittau:
      [DCCP] Ackvec: fix soft lockup in ackvec handling code

Andrew Morton:
      powernow-k8 crash workaround
      PCI: fix pciehp compile issue when CONFIG_ACPI is not enabled

Andy Currid:
      Fix HPET operation on 32-bit NVIDIA platforms
      Fix HPET operation on 64-bit NVIDIA platforms

Arnd Bergmann:
      powerpc: Fix cell blade detection
      powerpc: Fix 64k pages on non-partitioned machines
      powerpc: enable CPU_FTR_CI_LARGE_PAGE for cell

Auke Kok:
      e1000: fix ethtool test irq alloc as "probe"
      e1000: remove risky prefetch on next_skb->data

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
      powerpc: Fix call to ibm,client-architecture-support

Christoph Lameter:
      typo in vmscan.c

Dave Jones:
      PCI: Improve PCI config space writeback

David Howells:
      Further alterations for memory barrier document

David S. Miller:
      [SPARC64]: Dump local cpu registers in sun4v_log_error()
      [TG3]: Handle Sun onboard tg3 chips more correctly.
      [SPARC64]: Avoid JBUS errors on some Niagara systems.
      [SPARC64]: Set appropriate max_cache_size.
      [SPARC64]: Do not double-export sys_close() when CONFIG_SOLARIS_EMUL_MODULE

Jean Delvare:
      PCI: Error handling on PCI device resume

Jens Axboe:
      elevator switching race
      debugfs inode leak
      cfq-iosched: fix crash in do_div()
      fix cdrom open
      Fix missing ret assignment in __bio_map_user() error path

Kirill Korotaev:
      Return error in case flock_lock_file failure

Krzysztof Helt:
      [SPARC]: Migration cost tune up in sparc smp.

Lennert Buytenhek:
      ep93xx build fix

Linus Torvalds:
      [sky2] Fix sky2 network driver suspend/resume
      Linux v2.6.17

Malcom Parsons:
      fbcon: fix limited scroll in SCROLL_PAN_REDRAW mode

Mark Lord:
      sata_mv: grab host lock inside eng_timeout

Markus Lidel:
      I2O: Bugfixes to get I2O working again

Martin Schwidefsky:
      s390: fix in-user atomic futex operation.

Matt Reimer:
      [ARM] 3546/1: PATCH: subtle lost interrupts bug on i.MX

Michael Buesch:
      bcm43xx: add DMA rx poll workaround to DMA4

Milton Miller:
      powerpc: console_initcall ordering issues

Oleg Nesterov:
      check_process_timers: fix possible lockup
      run_posix_cpu_timers: remove a bogus BUG_ON()
      arm_timer: remove a racy and obsolete PF_EXITING check

Paul Mackerras:
      powerpc: Fix machine check problem on 32-bit kernels
      Fix for the PPTP hangs that have been reported

Ralf Baechle:
      Fix mempolicy.h build error

Randy Dunlap:
      alpha: generic hweight build fix

Richard Purdie:
      [ARM] 3547/1: PXA-OHCI: Allow platforms to specify a power budget

Robin H. Johnson:
      tmpfs: time granularity fix for [acm]time going backwards

Russell King:
      [ARM] Fix Neponset IRQ handling
      [ARM] Fix Integrator and Versatile interrupt initialisation

Sergey Vlasov:
      tmpfs: Decrement i_nlink correctly in shmem_rmdir()

Stephen Hemminger:
      sky2: set_power_state should be void
      sky2: don't hard code number of ports
      sky2: fix hotplug detect during poll
      sky2: save/restore base hardware irq during suspend/resume
      sky2: stop/start hardware idle timer on suspend/resume
      sky2: netconsole suspend/resume interaction

Tom "spot" Callaway:
      [FUSION]: Fix mptspi.c build with CONFIG_PM not set.

Weidong:
      [IPV4]: Increment ipInHdrErrors when TTL expires.

Yu, Luming:
      PCI: reverse pci config space restore order

211 files changed, 2151 insertions(+), 1534 deletions(-)