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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.21-rc5

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Hi,

Mainly due to a IDE DMA problem which would happen on boxes with
lots of RAM, here is -rc5.

As I always ask, please test.

Summary of changes from v2.4.21-rc4 to v2.4.21-rc5

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>:

  • 1: (trivial) Fix the formatting of your ide hack
  • 2: =scsi option fails in some cases
  • 3: IDE DMA
  • add the via ide ident
  • fix the siimage mmio stuff

Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>:

  • Fix 32bit ioctl holes
  • Fix context switch bug on x86-64
  • Prefetch workaround for csum-copy

Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>:

  • PPC Documentation/Configure.help fix

Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@freak.distro.conectiva>:

  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc5

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