This merges a lot of the small fixes, and its mostly aimed at getting more stuff building and working, as well as fixing some of the oopses people reported that aren't fixed in a Linus release tree yet. Linux 2.5.40-ac2 o Fix a cut and paste error in the amd rng docs (Troels Hansen) o Forward port OSS maestro3 fixes for toughbook o Forward port ramdisk cache coherency o RTL8150 USB updates (Petko Manalov) o Fix corega USB ident (Petko Manalov) o USB keyboard driver fix (Dave Miller) o USB prototype fix (Luc Vanoostenryck) o USB string fixes (cip307@cip.physik.uni-wuerzburg.de) o USB test driver (David Brownell) o Speedtouch USB driver fixes (Greg Kroah-Hartmann) o Clean environment for hotplug (Greg Kroah-Hartmann) o Fix mprotect oops (Hugh Dickins) o NUMA-Q cleanups (Martin Dobson) o Split timers into one x86 timer type per file (John Stultz) o Cyclone timer support for x440 etc (John Stultz) o Fix sleeping from illegal context for ioperm (Andrew Morton) o Fix imm compile (bonganilinux@mweb.co.za) o Fix irda for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix xjack telephony build (Carlos Gorges) o Fix ppa compile (Carlos Gorges) o Fix aha152x compile for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix hamradio drivers for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix plip driver for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix mpt fusion for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix isdn for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix ieee1394 for tq changes (Carlos Gorges) o Fix new timer code to build with cpufreq on (me) o Fix capi build for new tq_ code (me) | ISDN still needs moving to real locks | this just cleans up one item o Fix missing header in mtdblock_ro (Carlos Gorges) o Fix a typo and other header (me) o Fix up ixj_pcmcia for 2.5 (me) | Note for janitors - it looks like a lot of the pcmcia release | code people "fixed" should be using del_timer_sync not del_timer o Fix missing header in longhaul cpu speed driver (me) o Pipe read/write cleanup (Manfred Spraul) o Make IDE PCI config text clearer (Andrzej Krzysztofowicz) Linux 2.5.40-ac1 + Initial port of aacraid driver to 2.5 (me) + vfat corruption fix (Petr Vandrovec) + Clean up firestream warnings (Francois Romieu) + Voyager support (James Bottomley) + Fix split_vma (Hugh Dickins) + Fix config in video subdirectory (John Levon) + Update olympic driver to 2.5 (Mike Phillips) + Fix sg init error (Mike Anderson) + Fix Rules.make o Merge most of ucLinux stuff (Greg Ungerer) | It needs putting somewhere so we can pick over the | hard bits left | Q: Wouldn't drivers/char/mem-nommu.c be better | Q: How to do the procfs stuff tidily | Q: Wouldn't it be nicer to move all mm or mmnommu specific ksyms | int the relevant mm/*.c file area instead of kernel/ksyms | Q: Why ifdef out overcommit - its even easier to account on | MMUless and useful info + Stick tulip back under 10/100 ethernet (me) + Correct docs for IBM touchpad back to how (me) they were before o Fix abuse of set_bit in winbond-840 (me) + Fix abuse of set_bit in atp (me) -- "EMACS - it's a nice OS, but I like UNIX better" -- Al Viro
Alan Cox: Linux 2.5.40-ac2
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