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Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.3-ac12

        ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

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2.4.3-ac12
o       Rewrite the i2o post handling code to fix       (me)
        DMA memory scribbles
o       Handle IOP constipation in the i2o_block layer  (me)
o       Fix bugs in the i2o table query causing reboots (me)
        in i2o_proc on the DPT card
o       Add quirks for i2o cards that handle large I/O  (me)
        queues badly [Promise supertrak100]
o       Add cache heuristics to the I2O block driver    (me)
        | We don't cache large writes (assume seq)
        | We writeback small writes (random, metadata)
o       Disable use of writeback caching if there is    (me)
        no battery backup
o       Merge Linus 2.4.4pre6
o       Further semaphore fixes                         (David Howells)
o       Correct 'void main' to 'int main' in rtc doc    (Jesper Juhl)
o       Hopefully fix bugtraq reported netfilter ftp
        flaw
o       Fix unistd.h for ARM                            (Russell King)
o       Fix pre-emption of rt tasks                     (Nigel Gamble)
o       Fix revalidation bugs in cciss/cpqarray         (Charles White)
        when rereading partitions
o       Acenic updates                                  (Jes Sorensen)
o       Fix MAINTAINERS sort order                      (David Woodhouse)
o       Restore DVDRAM fix with cdrom init fix too      (Jens Axboe)
o       Fix irda disconnect timeout bug                 (Dag Brattli)
o       Experimentally reap dead swap harder            (Dave Miller)
o       Remove dead low mtu checks from drivers         (Arnaldo Carvalho de
                                                         Melo)
o       Add missing sk_chk_filter export                (Byeong-ryeol Kim)
o       Quieten pci printks, send them to log           (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Hopefully fix fastrak oops                      (me)

2.4.3-ac11
o       Merge Linus 2.4.4pre5
o       Back out problem dvdram changes
o       Make reiserfs use daemonize                     (Chris Mason)
o       Fix lvm map buglet                              (Jens Axboe)
o       tms380 driver fixes                             (Adam Fritzler)
o       Fix up duplicate configs and other glitches     (Steven Cole)
o       Fix pcnet32 printk format bug                   (me)
o       ISDN driver further small update/fixes          (me)
o       Fix bounce buffer deadlock on bh allocs         (Arjan van de Ven)
o       Fix fbmem merge glitch                          (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o       Version string cleanups on net devices          (Jeff Garzik)
o       Update ext2 documentation                       (Andreas Dilger)
o       Add MCE support for AMD Athlon/Duron            (Dave Jones)
o       Further SDLA tidying                            (me)
o       Update Configure.help maintainers               (Steven Cole, Eric
                                                         Raymond)
o       Tulip update                                    (Jeff Garzik)
o       Fix sound config to use right symnames          (Eric Raymond)
o       Further dmfe fixes                              (Tobias Ringstrom,
                                                         Frank Davis
                                                         Jeff Garzik)
o       Parport probe cleanups                          (Tim Waugh)
o       Fix a few configure items                       (Eric Raymond)
o       Fix cmsfs nonbuild                              (me)

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