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Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.16-rc6

Ok, we’re getting closer, although the 2.6.16 release certainly
seems to drag out more than it should have.

Some of the worrisome bootup problems seem to have been resolved
to a stupid build-time race, where we just generated an empty
version string. Oops.

The diffstat shows that the largest changes here are the ia64
defconfig updates, much of the rest really is pretty small, but all
over the map. Some ocfs2 and 9pfs fixes and updates, and various
driver and networking fixes.

The ShortLog (appended) gives a pretty good picture of it,
       Linus

Adam Belay:
      pnp bus type fix

Adrian Bunk:
      V4L/DVB (3337):
Drivers/media/dvb/frontends/mt312.c: cleanups
      V4L/DVB (3341): Upstream sync –
make 2 structs static
      add missing pm_power_off’s
      arch/sh/Kconfig: don’t source
non-existing Kconfig files
      xtensa must set
RWSEM_GENERIC_SPINLOCK=y

Alan Stern:
      USB: unusual_devs entry for
Lyra RCA RD1080

Alessandro Zummo:
      [ARM] 3353/1: NAS100d: protect
nas100d_power_exit() with machine_is_nas100d()

Alexey Dobriyan:
      video1394: fix “return E;”
typo
      V4L/DVB (3413): Typos grab bag
of the month

Andi Kleen:
      i386: port ATI timer fix from
x86_64 to i386 II
      block: disable block layer
bouncing for most memory on 64bit systems

Andrew Fuller:
      USB: Wisegroup MP-8866 Dual USB
Joypad

Andrew Morton:
      nommu: implement
vmalloc_node()
      out_of_memory(): use of
uninitialised
      out_of_memory() locking fix
      numa_maps-update fix
      percpu_counter_sum()
      3c509: bus registration fix

Andrew Vasquez:
      [SCSI] fc_transport: stop
creating duplicate rport entries.

Antonino A. Daplas:
      neofb: Fix uninitialized
value
      arcfb: Fix uninitialized
value
      kyrofb: Fix uninitialized
value
      arcfb: Fix dereference before
NULL check
      s1d13xxxfb: Fix resource
leak
      imsttfb: Fix resource leak
      savagefb: Fix kfree before
use
      intelfb: Fix buffer overrun
      tdfxfb: Fix buffer overrun
      aty128fb: Fix array overrun
      radeonfb: Fix static array
overrun

Arjan van de Ven:
      edac: disable a few sysfs files
to avoid them becoming an ABI

Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo:
      [REQSK]: Don’t reset
rskq_defer_accept in reqsk_queue_alloc

Atsushi Nemoto:
      [MIPS] Use generic compat
routines for readdir, getdents
      [MIPS] Use USECS_PER_SEC / HZ
instead of tick_usec in do_gettimeofday.
      x86: fix potential jiffies
overflow in timer_resume()
      time: add barrier after
updating jiffies_64
      __get_unaligned() gcc-4 fix
      mtd: 64 bit fixes

Badari Pulavarty:
      ext3: fix nobh mode for chattr
+j inodes

Bastian Blank:
      s390: fix match in ccw
modalias

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
      powerpc: vdso 64bits
gettimeofday bug
      Add mm->task_size and fix
powerpc vdso
      powerpc: Fix old g5 issues with
windfarm
      powerpc: Fix windfarm_pm112 not
starting all control loops
      powerpc: Expose SMT and L1
icache snoop userland features
      powerpc: incorrect rmo_top
handling in prom_init
      windfarm license fix

Bjorn Helgaas:
      [IA64] gensparse_defconfig:
turn on PNPACPI
      [IA64] don’t report !sn2 or
!summit hardware as an error
      [IA64] SGI SN drivers: don’t
report !sn2 hardware as an error

Brian King:
      [SCSI] sg: Remove aha1542
hack
      [SCSI] scsi: scsi command
retries off by one fix

Catalin Marinas:
      [ARM] 3352/1: DSB required for
the completion of a TLB maintenance operation

Chas Williams:
      [ATM]: keep atmsvc failure
messages quiet

Chris Wright:
      update email address
      LSM mail list has moved

Christian Ehrhardt:
      s390: Increase spinlock retry
code performance

Christoph Hellwig:
      [IA64-SGI] revert export
sn_pcidev_info_get
      [SCSI] scsi: handle
->slave_configure return value
      [SCSI] megaraid_sas: fix
physical disk handling
      remove __put_task_struct_cb
export again

Christoph Lameter:
      Fix sys_migrate_pages: Move all
pages when invoked from root
      remove_from_swap: fix
locking
      time_interpolator: Use
readq_relaxed() instead of readq().
      numa_maps: Fix potential crash
on non IA64 platforms
      numa_maps update
      [IA64] Fix race in the
accessed/dirty bit handlers
      vmscan: no zone_reclaim if
PF_MALLOC is set
      slab: Node rotor for freeing
alien caches and remote per cpu pages.

Cornelia Huck:
      s390: improve response code
handling in chsc_enable_facility()

Daniele Venzano:
      Fix Wake on LAN support in
sis900

Darren Jenkins:
      synclink_gt: make
->init_error signed

Dave Johnson:
      cramfs mounts provide corrupted
content since 2.6.15

Dave Jones:
      x86 microcode driver vs hotplug
CPUs.

David Brownell:
      USB: fix EHCI BIOS
handshake
      pcmcia: add another ide-cs CF
card id

David Gibson:
      powerpc: Fix incorrect
pud_ERROR() message

David S. Miller:
      [TG3]: Fix Sun tg3 variant
detection.
      [SUNSU]: Fix locking error in
sunsu_stop_rx().
      [SPARC64]: Mark __ex_table
section correctly.
      Wrong return value corrupts
free object in e1000 driver

David Woodhouse:
      jffs2: avoid divide-by-zero

Dipankar Sarma:
      rcu batch tuning
      fix file counting

Dmitry Torokhov:
      Input: psmouse – disable
autoresync

Dominik Brodowski:
      pcmcia: properly handle pseudo
multi-function devices

Doug Warzecha:
      dcdbas: dcdbas_pdev referenced
after platform_device_unregister on exit

Edgar Hucek:
      EFI: Fix gdt load

Eric Sandeen:
      [XFS] Don’t map non-uptodate
buffers in xfs_probe_cluster; also fixes

Eric Sesterhenn:
      chelsio: fix kmalloc failure in
t1_espi_create

Eric Van Hensbergen:
      v9fs: fix bug in atomic create
open fix
      v9fs: simplify fid mapping

Franck Bui-Huu:
      USB: lh7a40x gadget driver:
Fixed a dead lock

Francois Romieu:
      via-velocity: fix memory
corruption when changing the mtu
      8139cp: fix broken
suspend/resume
      de2104x: prevent interrupt
before the interrupt handler is registered
      de2104x: fix the TX
watchdog

Gerald Schaefer:
      s390: fix strnlen_user return
value

GOTO Masanori:
      x86: Fix i386 nmi_watchdog that
does not trigger die_nmi

Greg KH:
      fix build breakage in eeh.c in
2.6.16-rc5-git5

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
      USB Serial: fix use-after-free
bug in usb-serial core

Hans Verkuil:
      V4L/DVB (3354): Fix maximum for
the saturation and contrast controls.

Harald Welte:
      pcmcia: CM4000, CM4040 Driver
fixes

Hartmut Hackmann:
      V4L/DVB (3378): Restore power
on defaults of tda9887 after tda8290 probe
      V4L/DVB (3395): Fixed Pinnacle
300i DVB-T support

Hendrik Schweppe:
      USB: visor.c id for gspda
smartphone

Herbert Xu:
      [IPSEC] esp: Kill unnecessary
block and indentation
      [IPSEC]: Kill post_input hook
and do NAT-T in esp_input directly

Horms:
      [IA64] Document the “nomca”
boot parameter

Horst Hummel:
      s390: dasd partition
detection
      s390: dasd proc interface
typo

Hugh Dickins:
      page_add_file_rmap(): remove
BUG_ON()s
      fix pcmcia_device_probe
oops

Ian Abbott:
      USB: ftdi_sio: new microHAM
device IDs

Ian McDonald:
      [DCCP] ccid3: Divide by zero
fix

Ingo Molnar:
      idle threads should have a sane
->timestamp value

Ivan Kokshaysky:
      alpha: fix IRQ handling
lockup

Jack Steiner:
      [IA64-SGI] Make number of TIO
nodes configurable
      Increase max kmalloc size for
very large systems
      slab: allocate larger
cache_cache if order 0 fails

Jan Beulich:
      kbuild: version.h should depend
on .kernelrelease

Jan Blunck:
      s390: fix compile with
VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING=n

Jean Delvare:
      Fix error handling in backlight
drivers

Jeff Garzik:
      [libata] Disable FUA
      s2io: set_multicast_list
bug

Jeff Kirsher:
      e1000: revert to single
descriptor for legacy receive path

Jeff Mahoney:
      ocfs2: fix -Wformat warnings
when building UML on x86-64
      ocfs2: complete failure
recovery for nodemanager init
      reiserfs: fix unaligned bitmap
usage

Jens Axboe:
      cfq-iosched: slice expiry
fixups

Jes Sorensen:
      [IA64] show “SN Devices” menu
only if CONFIG_SGI_SN
      [IA64] sysctl option to silence
unaligned trap warnings

Jesper Juhl:
      NE2000 Kconfig help entry
improvement

Jesse Allen:
      pcmcia: add id for AMB8110 PC
Card

Joel Becker:
      ocfs2: Set .owner on masklog
sysfs attributes.
      ocfs2: Respond to on-disk
corruption in the extent map code.

Johannes Stezenbach:
      V4L/DVB (3385): Dvb: fix
__init/__exit section references in av7110 driver

John Bowler:
      drivers/mtd/redboot.c:
recognise a foreign byte sex partition table
      “drivers/mtd/redboot.c:
recognise a foreign byte sex partition table” update

John Rose:
      powerpc: fix dynamic PCI probe
regression

Jon Mason:
      dl2k: DMA freeing error

JÃ&fraq14;rgen E. Fischer:
      [SCSI] aha152x: fix variable
use before initialisation and other bugs

KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki:
      memory-hotplug compile fix

Karsten Keil:
      i4l: add new PCI IDs for HFC-S
PCI
      i4l: fix refcounting problem
with ttyIx devices
      i4l: fix compatiblity issue
with big endian systems

Karsten Suehring:
      V4L/DVB (3347): Pinnacle PCTV
40i: add filtered Composite2 input

Ken Chen:
      [IA64] cleanup in fsys.S

Kirill Korotaev:
      ext3: ext3_symlink should use
GFP_NOFS allocations inside

Latchesar Ionkov:
      v9fs: fix atomic create
open
      v9fs: fix for access to
unitialized variables or freed memory

Linus Torvalds:
      Revert “x86_64: Only do the
clustered systems have unsynchronized TSC assumption on IBM
systems”
      ppc64: make sure to align stack
pointer to 16 bytes at boot
      Fix “check_slabp” printout size
calculation
      Add early-boot-safety check to
cond_resched()
      Allocate 96 bytes for SCSI
sense data reply
      slab: clarify and fix
calculate_slab_order()
      Simplify fifo_open() locking
logic
      slab: fix
calculate_slab_order() for SLAB_RECLAIM_ACCOUNT
      Mark the pipe file operations
static
      Linux 2.6.16-rc6

Manu Abraham:
      V4L/DVB (3340): Make a struct
static

Marc Zyngier:
      Fix Specialix SX corruption

Marco Schluessler:
      V4L/DVB (3403): Workaround to
fix initialization for Nexus CA

Mark Brown:
      Add missing ifdef for VIA RNG
code

Mark Fasheh:
      ocfs2: remove pointless max
journal size limit
      ocfs2: remove unused code
      ocfs2: remove non existing
function prototypes
      ocfs2: fix orphan recovery
deadlock
      ocfs2: use hlists for lockres
hash
      powerpc: restore
eeh_add_device_late() prototype stub

Martin Michlmayr:
      [MMC] au1xmmc: Fix compilation
error by using platform_driver
      [MMC] au1xmmc: Fix linking
error because mmc_rsp_type doesn’t exist
      [MMC] au1xmmc: Fix a
compilation warning (‘status’ is not used)
      [SERIAL] ip22zilog: Fix oops on
runlevel change with serial console

Martin Schwidefsky:
      s390: iucv message limit for
smsg

Matt Mackall:
      dac960: add disk entropy in
request completions

Matthew Wilcox:
      [IA64] Fix pcibios_setup
      [SCSI] Fix uninitialised width
and speed in sym2

Mattias Nordstrom:
      V4L/DVB (3382): Fix stv0297 for
qam128 on tt c1500 (saa7146)

Mauro Carvalho Chehab:
      V4L/DVB (3300a): Removing
personal email from DVB maintainers

Max Asbock:
      ibmasm: use after free fix

Michael Chan:
      [TG3]: Add DMA address
workaround

Michael Ellerman:
      powerpc/iseries: Fix double
phys_to_abs bug in htab_bolt_mapping

Michael Krufky:
      V4L/DVB (3336): Bt8xx
documentation authors fix
      V4L/DVB (3352): Cxusb: fix
lgdt3303 naming
      V4L/DVB (3399): ELSA EX-VISION
500TV: fix incorrect PCI subsystem ID

Michael Matz:
      fix kexec asm

Miklos Szeredi:
      fuse: fix bug in negative
lookup

Nathan Scott:
      [XFS] Fix a realtime allocator
regression introduced by an old iget race
      [XFS] Reduce stack use during
quota mounts (caused a panic). This

NeilBrown:
      md: Fix several raid1 bugs
which cause a memory leak

Nick Piggin:
      smaps: hugepages fix
      smaps: shared fix

Olaf Hering:
      powerpc: fix NULL pointer in
handle_eeh_events

Pat Gefre:
      Altix: more ioc3 cleanups and
locking fixes
      Altix: small ioc4 oversight

Patrick McHardy:
      [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: don’t
copy registered rerouter data
      [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: check if
rerouter is present before using it
      [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix
rerouting after packet mangling
      [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: remove
unnecessary check for outfn
      [NETFILTER]: nf_queue: fix
end-of-list check
      [NETFILTER]: Restore
{ipt,ip6t,ebt}_LOG compatibility

Paul Fulghum:
      tty buffering: comment out
debug code

Paul Mackerras:
      powerpc: Fix might-sleep
warning in program check exception handler
      powerpc: Turn off verbose debug
output in powermac platform functions
      powerpc32: Fix timebase
synchronization on 32-bit powermacs
      powerpc: Fix various
syscall/signal/swapcontext bugs

Pavel Machek:
      serial core: work around
sub-driver bugs

Pavel Roskin:
      pcmcia: Add macro to match
PCMCIA cards by numeric ID and first vendor string
      pcmcia: avoid binding hostap_cs
to Orinoco cards

Pete Zaitcev:
      ieee80211_rx.c: is_beacon

Peter Staubach:
      ramfs needs to update directory
m/ctime on symlink

Phillip Susi:
      udf: fix uid/gid options and
add uid/gid=ignore and forget options

Ralf Baechle:
      [MIPS] Use “=R” constraint to
avoid compiler errors in cmpxchg().
      [MIPS] SMP: Fix initialization
order bug.
      [MIPS] Fix
atomic*_sub_if_positive return value.
      [SCSI] Delete duplicate driver
template.
      [MIPS] Initialize S-cache
function pointers even on S-cache-less CPUs.
      [MIPS] Fix build error on
processors that don’s support copy-on-write.
      [MIPS] Threaten removal of code
for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.
      [MIPS] A struct console.setup
function may not be __init.
      [MIPS] Enable highmem for all
MIPS32 and MIPS64 processors.
      [MIPS] Discard .exit.text at
runtime.
      [MIPS] Momentum: Resurrect
after things were moved around a while ago.
      [MIPS] Scatter a bunch of
__init over tlbex.c.
      [MIPS] Undefine scr_writew and
scr_readw in <asm/vga.h>.
      [MIPS] Always pass
-msoft-float.

Randy Dunlap:
      [NET] compat ifconf: fix
limits

Ricardo Cerqueira:
      V4L/DVB (3348): Fixed saa7134
ALSA initialization with multiple cards

Roland Dreier:
      IB/srp: Don’t send task
management commands after target removal

Roman Zippel:
      m68k: fix cmpxchg compile
errors if CONFIG_RMW_INSNS=n

Russ Anderson:
      [IA64] Increase severity of MCA
recovery messages
      [IA64] mca recovery return
value when no bus check

Russell King:
      [SERIAL] Fix two bugs in
parport_serial

Sam Ravnborg:
      [ATM]: [fore200e] fix section
mismatch warnings
      de620: fix section mismatch
warning

Shaohua Li:
      x86: cpu model calculation for
family 6 cpu

Shaun Tancheff:
      USB: Gadget RNDIS fix alloc
bug. (buffer overflow)

Stefan Seyfried:
      fix acpi_video_flags on
x86-64

Stephen Hemminger:
      sky2: remove MSI support
      [BRIDGE]: fix crash in STP
      [BRIDGE]: port timer
initialization
      [BRIDGE]: generate kobject
remove event
      sky2: not random enough
      sky2: force early transmit
interrupts
      sky2: truncate oversize
packets

Stephen Smalley:
      selinux: tracer SID fix

Steve French:
      [CIFS] Always match oplock
break (cache notification) to the right tcp

Sunil Mushran:
      ocfs2: added source addr to
bind() in o2net_start_connect()

Takashi Iwai:
      alsa: fix error paths in
snd_ctl_elem_add()

Tejun Heo:
      sata_sil: add board ID for
3512
      sata_sil: implement R_ERR on
DMA activate FIS errata fix

Thomas Graf:
      [NETFILTER] ip_queue: Fix wrong
skb->len == nlmsg_len assumption

Tim Small:
      edac: mark as experimental

Tony Lindgren:
      fix next_timer_interrupt() for
hrtimer

Tony Luck:
      [IA64] die_if_kernel() can
return
      [IA64] refresh default config
files

Vladimir V. Saveliev:
      reiserfs: do not check if
unsigned < 0

Yasunori Goto:
      memory hotadd:
pgdat->node_present_pages fix

Zhang, Yanmin:
      [IA64] Delete a redundant
instruction in unaligned_access

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