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Linux 2.4.5-pre2 Is Out

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Linux 2.4.5-pre2 is out. Please use a mirror.

The changelog:

-pre2:
 - David Miller: network syncup (better TCP page fault handling by Andrea etc)
 - Tim Hockin: moxa driver fixes
 - Alexander Viro: clean up process reaping procedures, make /proc use
   the proper fields to notice that the process is gone, gone, gone.
 - Justin Gibbs: aic7xxx driver update to 6.1.13.
 - me: fix PCI allocation so that it doesn't stomp on unknown memory
 - Jeff Garzik: 8139too net drvr fix
 - Nigel Gamble: merge page fault interrupt gate from preemtible kernel.
   Fixes problem noticed by Brian Gerst.
 - Jean Tourrilhes: Orinoco / Airport support diff. Mucho cleanups.

-pre1:
 - Al Viro: clean up driver "invalidate_device()" mess
 - Andries Brouwer: make sd.c work with USB Dane-Elec CompactFlash Card
   Reader
 - me: fix nasty lazy kernel page table update problem
 - me: undo fork changes. Too many user-level bugs and unresolved issues.
 - Peter Anvin: iso9660 cleanups
 - Alan Cox: big merge
 - Johannes Erdfelt: UHCI pci DMA setup fix

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