Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.15-rc4

Ok, so -rc3 wasn’t so good.

[ Everybody chorus now: “Nooo?” ]

No.

[ Everybody chorus now: “Really?” ]

Really.

[ Everybody chorus now: “So what?” ]

So I made an -rc4.

This one hopefully doesn’t have those pesky PageReserved()
annoyances, and the EHCI host controller bootup problems.

[ Everybody chorus now: “Hallelujah!” ]

Indeed.

It also has some atm, mtd and cifs updates.
       Linus

[ Btw, some drivers will now complain loudly about their nasty
mis-use of page remapping, and that might look scary, but it should
all be good, and we’d love to see the detailed output of dmesg on
such machines. ]

—
Adrian Bunk:
      [MTD] Make functions static,
include header files with prototypes
      [IPV4]: make two functions
static
      [NETFILTER] ipv4: small
cleanups
      [IPV6]: make two functions
static

Alan Stern:
      USB: documentation update

Antonino A. Daplas:
      fbdev: cirrusfb: Driver cleanup
and bug fixes

Arjan van de Ven:
      [NET]: Add const markers to
various variables.

Ben Collins:
      Fix missing pfn variables
caused by vm changes

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
      USB: Fix USB suspend/resume
crasher (#2)

Chas Williams:
      [ATM]: linux/config.h only
needed for #ifdef __KERNEL__ section
      [ATM]: [adummy] dummy ATM
driver (similar to net/dummy)

Christoph Hellwig:
      fix megaraid.c locking

Dave Jones:
      [ATM]: [lanai] lanai missing
unregister
      Additional device ID for
Conexant AccessRunner USB driver

David Brownell:
      USB: ehci fixups

David Gibson:
      Fix crash when ptrace poking
hugepage areas

David S. Miller:
      [SPARC64]: Fix >8K I/O
mappings.

David Woodhouse:
      [MTD] Make some tables ‘const’
so they can live in .rodata

Dean Roe:
      [IA64] – Make pfn_valid more
precise for SGI Altix systems

Egbert Eich:
      SiS DRM: Fix possible NULL
dereference

Grant Coady:
      pci_ids.h: remove duplicate
entries

Hugh Dickins:
      pfnmap: remove src_page from
do_wp_page
      pfnmap: do_no_page BUG_ON
again

Jan Pieter:
      [ATM]:
drivers/atm/atmdev_init.c no longer necessary

Jean Delvare:
      hwmon: w83792d fix unused fan
pins

Jeff Mahoney:
      reiserfs: handle cnode
allocation failure gracefully

John Bowler:
      [MTD] maps/ixp4xx: half-word
boundary and little-endian fixups

Keshavamurthy Anil S:
      [IA64] Remove getting break_num
by decoding instruction

Linus Torvalds:
      Support strange discontiguous
PFN remappings
      VM: add common helper function
to create the page tables
      cow_user_page: fix page
alignment
      Revert
“drivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c: make code static”
      VM: add “vm_insert_page()”
function
      Revert “pci_ids.h: remove
duplicate entries”
      Linux v2.6.15-rc4

Luiz Capitulino:
      [MTD] maps: sparse fixup

Maciej W. Rozycki:
      [MTD] devices/ms02-nv:
phys/virt address fixups

Mark Fortescue:
      fbdev: cg3fb: Kconfig fix

Matt Helsley:
      process events connector: uid_t
gid_t size issues

Mike Stroyan:
      [IPV4] tcp/route: Another look
at hash table sizes

Mitchell Blank Jr:
      [ATM]: always return the first
interface for ATM_ITF_ANY
      [ATM]: atm_pcr_goal() doesn’t
modify its argument’s contents — mark it as const
      [ATM]: [lanai] better
constification
      [ATM]: attempt to autoload atm
drivers
      [ATM]: [lanai] kill
lanai_ioctl() which just contains some old debugging code

Nick Piggin:
      Fix vma argument in
get_usr_pages() for gate areas

Nicolas Pitre:
      [MTD] cfi_cmdset_0001: relax
locking rules for multi hardware partition support

Olaf Hering:
      powerpc: prevent stack
corruption in call_prom_ret

Otavio Salvador:
      ppc: Export symbol needed by
MOL

Paolo Galtieri:
      ppc: fix floating point
register corruption
      ppc: fix floating point
register corruption

Paul Mackerras:
      powerpc: Export
__flush_icache_range for 32-bit
      powerpc: Fix bug causing FP
registers corruption on UP + preempt

Pavel Machek:
      fix swsusp on machines not
supporting S4

Richard Purdie:
      [MTD] chips: make sharps driver
usable again

Roman Zippel:
      hfsplus: don’t modify journaled
volume

Sean Young:
      [MTD] RFD_FTL: Use lanana
assigned major device number

Shaohua Li:
      setting irq affinity is broken
in ia32 with MSI enabled

Stanislaw Gruszka:
      [ATM]: avoid race conditions
related to atm_devs list
      [ATM]: deregistration removes
device from atm_devs list immediately

Steve French:
      [CIFS] When file is deleted
locally but later recreated on the server
      [CIFS] Fix missing permission
check on setattr when noperm mount option is
      [CIFS] Fix umount –force to
wake up the pending response queue, not just
      [CIFS] Missing parenthesis and
typo in previous fix
      [CIFS] For previous fix, mode
on mkdir needed S_IFDIR left out.

Thierry Vignaud:
      fix rebooting on HP nc6120
laptop

Thomas Gleixner:
      [JFFS2] Fix the slab cache
constructor of ‘struct jffs2_inode_info’ objects.
      [MTD] Remove bogus PQ2FADS
driver

Todd Poynor:
      [MTD] CFI: Use 16-bit access to
autoselect/read device id data

Trond Myklebust:
      VM: Fix typos in
get_locked_pte

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki:
      [IPV6]: Implement appropriate
dummy rule 4 in ipv6_dev_get_saddr().

• diffstat —

112 files changed, 1134 insertions(+), 645 deletions(-)