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Alan Cox: Linux 2.5.40-ac2

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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)

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                "EMACS - it's a nice OS, but I like UNIX better"
                                -- Al Viro

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