Linus Torvalds: Linux 2.6.8-rc2

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MTD updates, i2c updates and some USB updates, and a lot of
small stuff (sparse cleanups and fixes from Al etc).

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Summary of changes from v2.6.8-rc1 to v2.6.8-rc2

Adrian Bunk:

• [IPV4]: Remove no longer available URL
• #ifndef guard percpu_counter.h and blockgroup_lock.h
• remove outdated Stallion contact information
• USB: USB w9968cf compile error

Alan Stern:

• USB: Add usb_kill_urb()
• USB: Make hub driver use usb_kill_urb()
• USB: Don’t ask for string descriptor lengths
• USB: Store pointer to usb_device in private hub structure
• USB: Fix endianness bug in UHCI driver
• USB: Allow NULL argument in usb_unlink_urb() and
  usb_kill_urb()

Alexander Viro:

• sparse: NULL noise in fs/reiserfs
• sparse: misc NULL noise in fs/*
• sparse: aacraid annotation
• sparse: megaraid inline fixes
• sparse: megaraid annotation
• sparse: NULL noise in drivers/isdn
• sparse: misc NULL noise in drivers/*
• sparse: ISDN ->readstat() and ->writecmd()
  annotation
• sparse: blind dereference of userland pointers in
  divasproc
• sparse: drivers/isdn/* annotation
• sparse: dvb_ringbuffer_pkt_write()/dvb_ringbuffer_write()
  annotation
• sparse: blind dereference of userland pointers in ac7110
• sparse: drivers/media/* annotation
• sparse: switching afs to kvec
• sparse: VIDIOCSWIN compat_ioctl fixes
• sparse: usb ioctl cleanups
• sparse: isdn compile fix for platforms with HZ > 1000
• sparse: saa fix
• sparse: compile fix for rrunner on big-endian platforms
• sparse: tms380tr.c fix
• sparse: NULL noise removal in drivers/sbus
• sparse: drivers/sbus fixes
• sparse: drivers/sbus annotation
• sparse: alpha NULL noise removal
• sparse: alpha sparse infrastructure
• sparse: alpha topology.h compile fix
• sparse: signal annotation
• sparse: arch/* NULL noise removal
• sparse: ipc compat annotations and cleanups
• sparse: gemtek ioctl fix
• sparse: drivers/media NULL noise removal
• sparse: drivers/net partial NULL noise removal
• sparse: drivers/usb NULL noise removal
• sparse: net/* NULL noise removal
• sparse: assorted drivers/* NULL noise removal
• sparse: more fs/* NULL noise removal
• __vfs_follow_link() made inline again
• compat_fillonedir() warning fix
• sparse: read_descriptor_t annotation
• sparse: missing cpumask_t bits on sparc
• sparse: aout32 sparse fixes for compat
• sparse: __forced added to casts in arch-specific code
• pointer-to-int done the canonical way
• sparse: more drivers/scsi annotations
• sparse: a couple of inline fixes in drivers’/scsi
• sparse: more drivers/usb/* annotations
• sparse: #if where #ifdef should’ve been (saa7146)
• sparse: (ipv6/netfilter) initializer fix
• sparse: sound compat ioctls annotations
• mcdx irq handling cleanup
• remove bogus casts of pointers to unsigned int in sound/*
• au88x0: use proper field of snd_kcontrol_t and don’t try to
  store pointer in int
• ic31712: when storing a bitmask in pointer field, use unsigned
  long
• annotated sound/pci/nm256/nm256.c
• NULL noise removal in sound/usb/*
• mark broken stuff as such in Kconfig
• misc sparse cleanups
• switch sys32_timer_create() to compat_alloc_user_space()
• sparse: beginning of iovec cleanups – infrastructure
• sparse: iovec cleanups – smbfs
• sparse: iovec cleanups – ncpfs
• sparse: iovec cleanups – cifs
• sparse: iovec cleanups – rxrpc
• sparse: iovec cleanups – sunrpc, nfs and nfsd
• sparse: iovec cleanups – the rest
• annotations and NULL noise removal in drivers/char/drm
• 3w-9xxx.c annotated
• fbmem.c partially annotated
• hfs and hfsplus switched to use of ffs(3) instead of homegrown
  versions
• more annotations in binfmt_aout.c
• pointer-to-number cast in binfmt_elf.c done right

Alexandre d’Alton:

• I2C: ADM1030 and Co sensors chips support

Andi Kleen:

• Fix memory corruption at x86-64 SMP bootup
• Fix i386 bootup with HIGHMEM+SLAB_DEBUG+NUMA and no real

Andras Bali:

• I2C: Add support for LM77

Andrew Morton:

• raw.c cleanups
• JFS: jfs_dmap build fix
• [SPARSE]: Fix warnings in net/sctp/
• small style fixups for the new automount code
• `unknown symbol’ in sound/oss/kahlua.ko needs unknown symbol
  udelay
• remove struct_cpy()
• Altix serial driver updates

Anton Blanchard:

• tg3 bug

Arthur Othieno:

• fix return codes after i2c_add_driver() in tea6415c and
  tea6420

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

• ide: PIO-out fixes for ide-taskfile.c
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=n)
• ide: PIO-out ->prehandler() fixes
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y)
• ide: PIO-out error handling fixes
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y)
• ide: remove BUSY check from task_in_intr()
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=n)
• remove pre_task_out_intr() comment
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=n)
• ide: pre_task_mulout_intr() cleanup
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=n)
• ide: no partial completions for PIO
  (CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y)
• ide: merge CONFIG_IDE_TASKFILE_IO=y|n PIO handlers
  together
• ide: use “normal” handlers for “flagged” taskfiles
  (ide-taskfile.c)

Ben Dooks:

• [ARM PATCH] 1961/1: S3C2410 – fix for UART FIFO size
  calculation
• [ARM PATCH] 1962/1: S3C2410 – Rename MACH_VR1000 to
  Thorcom-VR1000

Bill Nottingham:

• fix airo oops-on-removal

Bjorn Helgaas:

• fix ia64 early_printk build problem

Brent Casavant:

• ia64: Fix bug in ia64_atomic64_{add,sub}

Colin Leroy:

• fix saa7146 compilation

Daniel McNeil:

• mmap PROT_NONE fix for NX patch

Daniele Venzano:

• sis900-fix-phy-transceiver-detection.patch

Dave Kleikamp:

• JFS: Don’t allow reading beyond the inode map’s EOF
• JFS: Error path released metadata page it shouldn’t have
• JFS: Updated field isn’t always written to disk during
  truncate
• JFS: Protect active_ag with a spinlock
• JFS: prevent concurrent calls to txCommit on the imap
  inode
• JFS: Check for dmap corruption before using leafidx
• JFS: Add d_hash and d_compare operations for case-insensitive
  names

David Brownell:

• USB: misc ohci tweaks
• USB: usb serial gadget, add omap_udc
• USB: usb gadgetfs, handle omap_udc
• USB: usb gadget API updates
• USB: usb gadget zero, basic OTG updates
• USB: usb ethernet gadget, minor fixes + basic OTG support
• USB: usb host side updates, mostly for suspend
• USB: usb hub, don’t check speed before reset

David Eger:

• pmac_zilog: initialize port spinlock on all init paths

David Howells:

• ppc32: openpic driver cpumask_t changes

David Mosberger:

• ia64: Fix OSDL BugMe report 2885: realtime process can’t
  preempt low priority process in kernel
• ia64: Nuke two compiler warnings
• ia64: Define machvec_noop as “static inline”
• ia64: Fix EFI physical-mode stubs to correctly calculate
  physical address
• ia64: Nuke a warning due to the syscall auditing patch

David S. Miller:

• [TCP]: Type qualifiers, such as const, are ignored on function
  return type
• [IPV4]: Fix multicast socket hangs
• [PKT_SCHED]: Remove CSZ scheduler
• [SPARC64]: Add CMT register defines
• [SPARC64]: Update defconfig

David T. Hollis:

• USB: usbnet:ax8817x – use interrupt URB for link detection
• USB: ax8817x_unbind does not free the interrupt URB after
  unlinking

David Woodhouse:

• NAND flash driver updates
• JFFS2 file system update
• MTD core include and device code cleanup
• NOR flash drivers update
• ppc32: Fix UART detection on WindRiver SBC8560
• ppc32: Fix UART initialisation on WindRiver SBC8560
• ppc32: Fix IRQ setup on WindRiver SBC8560
• Remove /proc/fs/jffs2 support
• M-Systems DiskOnChip driver: fix DiskOnChip Millennium ECC
  support and fix a few compiler warnings while we’re at it.
• Make obsolete NOR flash chip drivers depend on BROKEN

Dmitry Torokhov:

• Driver core: add platform_device_register_simple to register
  platform
• Driver core: add default driver attributes to struct
  bus_type
• Driver core: kset_find_obj should increment refcount of the
  found object
• Driver core: add driver_find helper to find a driver by its
  name
• Driver core: Fix OOPS in device_platform_unregister

Eugene Surovegin:

• I2C PPC4xx IIC driver: 0-length transactions bit-banging
  implementation

Gordon Jin:

• ia64: IA-32 sigaltstack bug fix

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

• Driver Core: remove extra space in Kconfig file
• I2C: sparse cleanups for a few i2c drivers
• I2C: small ADM1030 fix
• 1 Wire: add Dallas 1-wire protocol driver subsystem
• USB: add 3 Phidget device ids to the HID blacklist
• USB: fix up the wording in the emi26 firmware file to match the
  other kernel firmware files
• USB: more sparse cleanups (all pretty much NULL usages.)
• USB: fix lockup with 2.6 keyspan_pda driver
• USB: Trivial fix to include/linux/usb.h
• USB: more sparse fixups that found a real bug in the se401
  driver
• USB: fix usbfs mount options ignored bug
• USB: oops, revert hub patch that wasn’t supposed to make it
  into this patch series yet
• USB: change all usbserial drivers to use module_param()
• USB: remove CONFIG_USB_SERIAL_DEBUG
• USB: sort the order in which the usb-serial drivers get
  built
• USB: fix SN9C10[12] driver for ia64
• USB: unusual_devs.h update
• USB: usbserial/ipaq update
• USB: ftdi_sio debug trace for TIOCMSET
• Upgrade security/root_plug.c to new module parameter
  syntax
• add removeable sysfs block device attribute

Guennadi Liakhovetski:

• [wireless airo] fix alignment problem (particularly on
  ARM)

Herbert Xu:

• [XFRM]: Add FLUSHSA and FLUSHPOLICY
• [IPSEC]: Fix uh->len when doing NATT with IP options
• [IPSEC]: Move generic encap code into xfrm4_output
• [IPCOMP6]: Exclude IPCOMP header from props.header_len

Hideaki Yoshifuji:

• [NET]: Fix dst_underflow_bug_msg printk args

Hirofumi Ogawa:

• [IPV4]: IPMR fixes
• [NET]: Cleanup mis-usage of seq_release_private
• autoselect FAT_FS in config

Hugh Dickins:

• tmpfs preempt count panic

Ian Abbott:

• USB: ftdi_sio VID/PID updates

Jack Steiner:

• ia64: Reduce TLB flushing during process migration

Jamal Hadi Salim:

• [PKT_SCHED]: Another missed tc_stats spinlock conversion

James Morris:

• [CRYPTO]: Remove lazy allocation from deflate

Jan-Benedict Glaw:

• mconf.c: Honor $LINES and $COLUMNS if TIOCGWINSZ failed

Janice M. Girouard:

• [netdrvr acenic] fix RX descriptor memory ordering

Jean Delvare:

• I2C: Class of scx200_acb
• I2C: Add support for LM86, MAX6657 and MAX6658 to lm90
• I2C: Documentation for i2c-parport
• I2C: remove Documentation for i2c-pport
• I2C: adm1025 driver ported to 2.6
• I2C: Refine detection of LM75 chips

Jeff Garzik:

• [netdrvr dmfe] remove ALi pci id
• [netdrvr tg3] bump version and reldate
• [PCI, libata] Fix “combined mode” PCI quirk for ICH6

Jens Axboe:

• CFQ: allocation under lock, missing memset on allocation
• fix cdrom mt rainier probe

John Heffner:

• [TCP]: Do not round window to MSS if window scaling

John Lenz:

• [ARM PATCH] 1958/1: make collie use INIT_MACHINE

Kam Leo:

• floppy.c: remove superfluous variable initialization

Keith M. Wesolowski:

• [SPARC32]: Regenerate defconfig
• [SPARC32]: Move non-PCI DMA definitions out of pgtable.h
• [SPARC32]: Continue to avoid the use of __builtin_trap for
  BUG()
• [SPARC32]: Fix CONFIG_SUN4 build
• [SPARC32]: Don’t allow the kernel to read PAGE_NONE pages

Keith Owens:

• ia64: Rename local move_irq to sn_move_irq
• ia64: Correct invalid unwind data
• ia64: build fixes for IA64_MCA_DEBUG_INFO

Kenneth W. Chen:

• ia64: fix interpolation-bug in fsys_gettimeofday()

Linus Torvalds:

• Remove obsoleted drivers/char/h8.c drivers/char/h8.h
• x86: fix stackframe ownership confusion in
  sys_sigaltstack()
• ppc64: fix up si_addr usage
• It’s a pointer, dummy. Use NULL, not 0
• ppc64: More NULL/0 confusion in prom.c
• Clean up ptrace child exit case
• Linux 2.6.8-rc2

Luca Risolia:

• Updates for W99[87]CF and new SN9C10[12] driver
• USB: W99[87]CF fix

Luiz Capitulino:

• I2C: i2c/i2c-dev.c::i2c_dev_init() cleanup
• USB: usb/core/file.c::usb_major_init() cleanup
• USB: usb/core/hcd.c::usb_init() missing audit

Manfred Spraul:

• natsemi updates
• natsemi 1: switch to netdev_priv()
• natsemi 2: support packets > 1518 bytes
• Gigabit Ethernet support for forcedeth

Marcel Holtmann:

• [Bluetooth] Respond to L2CAP info requests
• [Bluetooth] Don’t reset the USB halted bits

Margit Schubert-While:

• prism54 freq to channel incorrect for 5GHz
• prism54 Fix wrong type for BSSID

Mark M. Hoffman:

• I2C: Remove extra inits from lm78 driver

Martin Josefsson:

• [NETFILTER]: Add timestamping to ipt_ULOG

Mika Kukkonen:

• Fix ‘unsigned’ < 0 checks
• Remove all uses of ‘#ifdef MODULE_PARM’ from kernel

Miklos Szeredi:

• fix inode state incoherency

Patrick McHardy:

• [NETFILTER]: Fix two broken checks for options in ipt_LOG

Pavel Roskin:

• [netdrvr pci-skeleton] refresh

Peter Martuccelli:

• ia64: add audit support

Petri Koistinen:

• Fix 3c59x.c uses of plain integer as NULL pointer

Richard Henderson:

• [ALPHA] Pass pt_regs as pointer to execve and sigprocmask
  syscalls

Russell King:

• [ARM] ohci-omap does not need asm/mach-types.h

Rusty Russell:

• [TRIVIAL 2.6] sk98lin: kill dup include

Sergio Gelato:

• libata: fix kunmap() of incorrect page, in PIO data xfer

Seth Rohit:

• ia64: nointroute option needs to be parsed early

Stephen Hemminger:

• [NET]: Deinline sock_i_uid, sock_i_ino
• [BRIDGE]: Support different MTU sizes
• [PKT_SCHED]: Add jitter support to netem

Steve French:

• fix oops in build_wildcard_path_from_dentry
• clean up NULL vs. 0 warnings generated by sparse tool
• Set Type field when creating block/char/pipe e.g. via
  mknod
• Set DevMajor/DevMinor when querying info on remote char/block
  devices

Stéphane Eranian:

• ia64: fix various problems in pfm_check_task_state()

Thomas DuBuisson:

• [CRYPTO]: Set CRYPTO_TFM_RES_BAD_KEY_LEN in twofish

Tim Chick:

• USB: usbnet, Sitecom LN-029

Tony Luck:

• ia64: allow module core code calls to module init code
  again

Örjan Persson:

• I2C: patch quirks.c – SMBus hidden on hp laptop