Marcello Tosatti: Linux 2.4.24-pre2

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Hi,

Here goes 2.4.24-pre2. It contains MIPS/PPC64/SPARC updates,
ACPI bugfixes, USB update, XFS fixes, amongst others.

Detailed changelog below

Summary of changes from v2.4.24-pre1 to v2.4.24-pre2

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<achirica:telefonica.net>:

• [wireless airo] Fix PCI registration
• [wireless airo] Delay MIC activation to prevent Oops

<alexander:all-2.com>:

• USB storage: patch for unusual_devs.h

<berentsen:sent5.uni-duisburg.de>:

• USB storage: Minolta Dimage S414 usb patch

<bjorn.helgaas:hp.com>:

• Fix 2.4 EFI RTC oops
• 2.4 IA64 DRM interface changes

<boutcher:us.ibm.com>:

• [PPC64] Set the ASR correctly for ISTAR and PULSAR
  processors

<dancy:dancysoft.com>:

• USB: add TIOCMIWAIT support to pl2303 driver

<daniela:cyclades.com>:

• Add Cyclades PC300 driver

<engebret:au1.ibm.com>:

• [PPC64] Add some more definitions needed for SMT support
• [PPC64] Add support for shared processors on partitioned
  systems
• [PPC64] Modify spinlocks to be more efficient on shared
  processors
• [PPC64] Add a /proc interface to control SMT configuration
  settings

<fello:libero.it>:

• USB storage: patch for Fujifilm EX-20

<khali:linux-fr.org>:

• i2c core cleanups
• i2c documentation
• i2c printk fixes
• Remove sa1100 unused header

<krishnakumar:naturesoft.net>:

• [netdrvr 8139too] support netif_msg_* interface

<len.brown:intel.com>:

• [ACPI] fix xconfig failure (Matt Wilcox) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1568
• [ACPI] handle sparse APIC-IDs in the face of reduced
  NR_CPUS
• [ACPI] add warning to thermal shutdown (Pavel Machek)
• [ACPI] change hard-coded IO width to programmable width
  (Shaohua David Li) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1349
• [ACPI] set APIC ACPI SCI OVR default to level/low http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1351
• [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] set acpi_disabled=1 on failure for clean /proc http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=991

<linas:us.ibm.com>:

• [PPC64] Use the correct functions to access user memory in proc
  file routines

<luca.risolia:studio.unibo.it>:

• USB: W996[87]CF driver update

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

• Ernie Petrides: Fix __alloc_pages PF_MEMDIE handling
• page_alloc.c: Fix typo
• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre2

<marr:flex.com>:

• USB: MCT-U232 Patch for cts

<mbp:samba.org>:

• USB storage: add unusual storage device entry for Minolta
  DiMAGE

<mikem:beardog.cca.cpqcorp.net>:

• cciss update part 1
• cciss update part 2
• cciss update part 3: enable prefetch on i386

<moilanen:us.ibm.com>:

• [PPC64] Cope with unknown PCI host bridges when running under
  hypervisor

<per.winkvist:uk.com>:

• USB storage: Make Pentax Optio S4 work

<petkan:nucleusys.com>:

• USB: pegasus driver update

<stephane.galles:free.fr>:

• USB storage: patch for Kyocera S5 camera

<t-kochi:bq.jp.nec.com>:

• duplicate PID fix

<tchen:on-go.com>:

• USB: fix bug when errors happen in ioedgeport driver
• USB: fix io_edgeport driver alignment issues

<trini:mvista.com>:

• Fix rtc leak

<_nessuno_:katamail.com>:

• USB storage: Medion 6047 Digital Camera

Adrian Bunk:

• Ask for CONFIG_INDYDOG only on mips
• fix two pcmcia/cardbus.c compile warnings

Alan Stern:

• USB storage: unusual_devs.h entry revision
• USB storage: Another unusual_devs.h update
• USB storage: Unusual_devs.h addition

Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

• [PPC64] Clean up arch/ppc64/kernel/head.S a bit; fix bug on
  iSeries

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Chuck Lever:

• NFS O_DIRECT offset wrap bug

David Dillow:

• Bug fixes

David Engebretsen:

• PPC64: Use r13 to point to a per-processor data area rather
  than current
• [PPC64] Makefile fixes: use $(CC),
  -fno-zero-initialized-in-bss
• [PPC64] Boot wrapper improvements
• [PPC64] Fix save_flags/restore_flags on iSeries
• [PPC64] Fix setting/clearing of the RI (recoverable interrupt)
  bit
• [PPC64] Rework IRQ code so we can handle systems with large IRQ
  numbers
• [PPC64] Add support for SMT (multi-threaded) processors

David Hinds:

• Kernel.org
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  Full ChangelogI>Re: UPD: “do_IRQ: near stack overflow” when
  inserting CF disk

• fix PCMCIA interrupt allocation
• fix PCMCIA memory resource management bug
• fix logging levels for yenta socket driver

David S. Miller:

• [SPARC32]: Fix build after asm/system.h include was added to
  linux/spinlock.h

Eric Brower:

• [SPARC64]: SUNW,lombus device has nonstandard ebus child regs
  too

Eric Sandeen:

• [XFS] Update xfs_showargs to reflect all current mount
  options

Greg Kroah-Hartman:

• USB: add support for Protego devices to ftdi_sio driver
• USB: add support for another pl2303 device
• USB: add support for Sony UX50 device to visor driver

Henning Meier-Geinitz:

• USB: scanner driver: new device ids

Herbert Xu:

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

Jean Tourrilhes:

• IrDA kernel log buster

Jeff Garzik:

• [netdrvr natsemi] backport 2.6 fixes and cleanups
• [netdrvr starfire] remove duplicate include

Marcel Holtmann:

• User level driver support for input subsystem
• [Bluetooth] Update HCI security filter
• [Bluetooth] Support inquiry results with RSSI
• [Bluetooth] Remove copy of sockfd_lookup()
• [Bluetooth] Cosmetic cleanup of the HCI USB driver
• Fix LED’s for input subsystem keyboards
• Add Bluetooth to the bus types of the input subsystem

Matt Domsch:

• EDD: move DISK80_SIG_BUFFER to 0x2cc in empty_zero_page
• zero-page.txt: note 0x228 as in use by unknown

Mirko Lindner:

• sk98lin-2.4: Kernel Update to Driver Version v6.21
• sk98lin-2.4: Readme Update to Driver Version v6.21
• sk98lin-2.4: Configure.help Update to Driver Version
• sk98lin-2.4: pci.ids Update to Driver Version v6.21

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] No need to initialise struct xfs_trans field to null
  after a zalloc
• [XFS] Remove some spurious double semi-colons
• [XFS] Fix async pagebuf I/O tracing at the bottom of
  pagebuf_get
• [XFS] Fix a small pagebuf memory leak and keep track of slab
  pages ourselves
• [XFS] Fix an XFS release_page case where unwritten extents may
  cause I/O incorrectly
• [XFS] Should not add comments right before checkin – add
  closing comment delimiter
• [XFS] Cleanup bdevname conditional code in xfs_buf headers
• [XFS] Remove some unnecessary conditional refcache code
• [XFS] Remove some unnecessary kernel-version conditional
  code
• [XFS] Rework some casts and use of sector_t in some
  address_space operations
• [XFS] Remove some kernel-version macros around old I/O path
  code
• [XFS] Rework some extended attributes code to make it more
  easily extended
• [XFS] Remove the partial support for the Large Block Device
  patch from XFS
• [XFS] Remove remaining conditional code for the Large Block
  Device patch

Neil Brown:

• Fix RAID1 blocksize check

Olof Johansson:

• [PPC64] Fix smp_call_function so we don’t crash if an IPI is
  very late
• [PPC64] Make sure we don’t take a segment miss in a critical
  region
• [PPC64] Better default port, irq and flag settings for
  ttyS2/3

Paul Mackerras:

• [PPC64] Make sure the user stack pointer is 16-byte aligned on
  signal delivery
• [PPC64] Fix stack expansion bug
• [PPC64] Fix compile error in arch/ppc64/kernel/pmc.c
• [PPC64] Fix and extend 32-bit syscall emulation code
• [PPC64] Add some hypervisor call functions, rename HSC to
  HVSC
• [PPC64] Add virtual I/O infrastructure for pSeries and
  iSeries
• [PPC64] Fix a page-crossing bug in HvCall_writeLogBuffer
• [PPC64] Fixes for the TCE (DMA mapping table) code

Pete Zaitcev:

• USB: Backport of printer 2.6=>2.4

Ralf Bächle:

• Undo accidental deletion of MWave config bits
• Update generic MIPS code
• Add support for PMC Sierra Yosemite eval board
• Update code for NEC VR41xx systems
• Alchemy updates
• Update defconfigs
• Update MIPS evaluation board support
• SGI IP22 updates
• Sibyte build fixes and defconfig updates
• NEC DDB updates
• DEC updates
• Update MIPS char drivers
• PMAG-AA fb driver update
• EV96100 cleanup
• PI1 parport driver fixes
• Remove bitrotten MIPS bits in char/misc.c
• Initialize ioc3_timer before use
• de4x5 EISA fix
• Pass LDFLAGS to all linker invocations

Steven Cole:

• update scripts/ver_linux for xfsprogs