Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.2-rc3

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The bulk of this is an ACPI update, but there’s USB, ia-64, i2c,
XFS and PCI hotplug updates here too.

Please don’t send in anything but critical fixes until after the
final 2.6.2 release.

Linus

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Summary of changes from v2.6.2-rc2 to v2.6.2-rc3

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Alan Stern:

• USB Storage: unusual_devs update
• USB: Don’t dereference NULL actconfig
• USB: Fix DMA coherence when reading device descriptor
• USB: Update sound/usb/usbaudio.c

Andi Kleen:

• Fix error checking in IPC_SET

Andreas Schwab:

• ia64: Fix xbow.c compilation

Andrew Morton:

• ia64: i2c config fix
• Fix CONFIG_DEBUG_SPINLOCK on UP
• kbuildL fix cscope index generation
• Fix two warnings on x86-64
• Fix kernel_flag again
• pmdisk.c needs utsname.h
• cpufreq: fix cpufreq_update_policy

Arjan van de Ven:

• usb: remove some sleep_on’s

Ben Collins:

• head.S
• [SPARC64]: Changes to accomodate booting from non-phys_base
  memory
• [SPARC64]: Add _end and _start to list of sections
• [SUNSAB]: Fixup sunsab_receive_chars for when serial console
  isn’t open (no tty)

Bjorn Helgaas:

• ia64: Kconfig cleanup, part 1
• ia64: remove MCA (MicroChannel) cruft

Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] Small ktrace fixes
• [XFS] Simplify pagebuf_rele / pagebuf_free
• [XFS] Don’t fail pagebuf allocations
• [XFS] Stop using sleep_on
• [XFS] Plug a pagebuf race that got bigger with the recent
  cleanup

Dave Jones:

• USB: fix suspicious pointer usage in kobil_sct driver

David Brownell:

• USB gadget: net2280 controller updates
• USB gadget: add File-backed Storage Gadget (FSG)
• USB gadget: config/build updates
• USB gadget: zero config updates
• USB gadget: ethernet config updates
• USB gadget: serial driver config update
• USB: fix gadget config

David Mosberger:

• ia64: arch/ia64/Kconfig URL update: www.linux-on-laptops.com
• ia64: Drop copyright notices on header files which are either
  entirely trivial
• ia64: Fix typo in comment in asm-ia64/posix_types.h
• ia64: Patch by Jesse Barnes: remove unnecessary set_affinity
  handler
• ia64: Fix merge error: remove duplicate NR_CPUS
• ia64: Implement exception-table sorting for real

David S. Miller:

• [IPV6]: Fix TCP socket leak, do not grab socket reference when
  adding to main hashes
• [IRDA]: Mark init/exit functions of drivers static to fix
  build
• [SPARC64]: Remove interruptible_sleep_on() usage, with help
  from Tom Callaway

Dirk Behme:

• [ARM PATCH] 1749/1: Remove warnings in
  csumpartialcopygeneric.S

Dominik Brodowski:

• Validate ACPI CPU frequency values

Frank Becker:

• [ARM PATCH] 1744/1: SA Cerfboard/cube update (flash)
• [ARM PATCH] 1747/1: MIssing export for cpufreq
• [ARM PATCH] 1748/1: SA Cerfcube update (base+pcmica)

Grant Grundler:

• ia64: enable PIOW/DMAR relaxed ordering on ZX1

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

• USB storage: remove info sysfs file as it violates the sysfs 1
  value per file rule
• USB: fix up emi drivers Kconfig dependancy
• USB: fix up whiteheat syntax errors from previous patch
• USB: add ohci support for OMAP controller
• I2C: remove printk() calls in lm85, and clean up debug
  logic
• PCI: add .owner field to the config sysfs file to be
  “correct”
• PCI: fix compiler warning in probe.c cause by PPC patch

Herbert Xu:

• USB Storage: revert freecom dvd-rw fx-50 usb-ide patch

James Simmons:

• fbdev booting fix
• fbdev documentation patch

Jean Delvare:

• I2C: undo documentation change
• I2C: Fix bus reset in i2c-philips-par
• I2C: Add ADM1025EB support to i2c-parport
• I2C: Bring lm75 and lm78 in compliance with sysfs naming
  conventions

Jesse Barnes:

• ia64: fix cast in irq_lsapic.c
• ia64: kill some more warnings

John Rose:

• PCI: Allow pci hotplug drivers to initialize individual
  devices

Kieran Morrissey:

• PCI: name length change
• PCI: pci.ids update

Leann Ogasawara:

• PCI hotplug: pcihp_zt5550.c ioremap/iounmap audit

Len Brown:

• [ACPI] If ACPI is disabled by DMI BIOS date, then turn it off
  completely, including table parsing for HT.
• [ACPI] In ACPI mode, delay print_IO_APIC() to make its output
  valid
• [ACPI] print_IO_APIC() only after it is programmed http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1177
• [ACPI] “acpi_pic_sci=edge” in case platform requires Edge
  Triggered SCI http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1390
• [ACPI] fix compiler warning (Andrew Morton)
• [ACPI] prevent ES7000 tweak from breaking i386 IOAPIC (Andrew
  de Quincey)
• [ACPI] sync with 2.4.23 Re-enable IRQ balacning if IOAPIC mode
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1440
• [ACPI] add warning to thermal shutdown (Pavel Machek)
• [ACPI] set APIC ACPI SCI OVR default to level/low http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1351
• [ACPI] replace multiple flags with acpi_noirq — ala 2.4
• [ACPI] revert two fixes in preparation for ACPICA merge
• [ACPI] update Linux to ACPICA 20031029 (Bob Moore)
• [ACPI] Update Linux to ACPICA 20031203 (Bob Moore)
• [ACPI] delete old _TRA code formerly used just by IA64. (Bjorn
  Helgaas) The current approach is to walk the _CRS in
  pcibios_scan_root() using acpi_walk_resources().
• [ACPI] /proc/acpi files appear in /proc if acpi=off (Shaohua
  David Li)
• [ACPI] set acpi_disabled=1 on failure for clean /proc http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991
• [ACPI] change hard-coded IO width to programmable width
  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349
  from David Shaohua Li and Venatesh Pallipadi
• [ACPI] ACPICA 20040116 from Bob Moore
• [ACPI] acpi_bus_add() ignored _STA’s return value from Bjorn
  Helgaas
• [ACPI] fix ACPI spec URL in comment – from Randy Dunlap
• [ACPI] on SCI allocation failure, don’t mistakenly free IRQ0
  from Jes Sorensen
• [ACPI] move zero initialized data to .bss from Jes
  Sorensen
• [ACPI] handle system with NULL DSDT and valid XDSDT from ia64
  via Alex Williamson

Linda Xie:

• PCI Hotplug: add unlimited PHP slot name lengths support

Linus Torvalds:

• Move exception table sorting much earlier
• Fix sha256 padding block initializer to be static
• Linux 2.6.2-rc3

Marcelo Tosatti:

• PC300 update

Mark M. Hoffman:

• I2C: i2c-piix4.c bugfix

Martin Hicks:

• ia64: add platform_timer_interrupt() hook
• ia64: remove old sn1 machvec header file
• Remove sn2 debug printk
• PCI Hotplug: Trivial warning fix

Matthew Chapman:

• ia64: Fix ptrace infrastructure some more so that strace’d
  sigreturn() works without trashing any registers.

Matthew Dobson:

• PCI: add pci_bus sysfs class

Matthew Wilcox:

• PCI Hotplug: Better reporting of PCI frequency / bus mode
  problems for acpi driver
• PCI: add pci_get_slot() function
• PCI: fix pci_get_slot() bug

Michael Hunold:

• dvb subsystem and saa7146 v4l fixes

Michael Schierl:

• [APM] Is this the correct way to fix suspend bug
  introduced

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Fix a warning from some gcc variants after recent flags
  botch
• [XFS] Revert botched merge where KM_NOFS check was
  unintentionally dropped
• [XFS] Add the security extended attributes namespace
• [XFS] Remove no-longer-needed debug symbol exports
• [XFS] Sync up some missing header updates from local XFS
  tree

Oliver Neukum:

• USB: fix whiteheat doing DMA to stack
• USB: fix dma to stack in ti driver

Ralf Bachle:

• PCI: fix probing for some mips systems

Rolf Eike Beer:

• PCI Hotplug: Fixup pcihp_skeleton.c

Russell Cattelan:

• [XFS] Christoph has signed over copyrights
• [XFS] Move bits around to better manage common code. No
  functional change

Russell King:

• Prevent PCI driver registration failure oopsing
• [ARM] Eliminate tsk->used_math
• [ARM] Fix bitops pointer qualifiers
• [ARM] Add comments for newish functions in cacheflush.h
• [ARM] Remove FP work-arounds

Stephane Eranian:

• ia64: fix icc compilation

Suresh B. Siddha:

• ia64: replace inline assembly in sn2 code

Takayoshi Kochi:

• PCI Hotplug: add address file and fix acpiphp bugs