Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.25-rc1

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Here goes the first release candidate.

It contains mostly networking updates, XFS update, amongst
others.

This release contains a fix for excessive inode memory pressure
with highmem boxes. Help is specially wanted with testing this on
heavy-load highmem machines.

Summary of changes from v2.4.25-pre8 to v2.4.25-rc1

<chrisw:osdl.org>:

• Verify interpreter arch

<davej:redhat.com>:

• fix agpgart warning

<davem:nuts.davemloft.net>:

• [IRDA]: Mark driver init/exit funcs static where possible
• [SPARC64]: Fix TUNSETIFF ioctl compat, it takes an ifreq ptr
  not an int
• [TG3]: Bump version and reldate
• [SPARC64}: Fix ultra-III and later support of new-style SILO
  booting

<grundler:parisc-linux.org>:

• [TG3]: Fix DMA test failures
• [TG3]: Only fetch NVRAM_CMD reg if TG3_FLAG_NVRAM

<jlcooke:certainkey.com>:

• [CRYPTO]: Help gcc optimize sha256/sha512 better

<jmorris:redhat.com>:

• [CRYPTO]: Make padding[] array static in
  sha{256,512}_final()
• Zero last byte of mount option page

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:

• Changed EXTRAVERSION to -rc1

<rml:ximian.com>:

• Fix sys_readahead(): Count free pages on maximum ra size
  calculation

Adrian Bunk:

• fix a compile warning in amd76x_pm.c
• fix a compile warning in tipar.c
• fix a compile warning in InterMezzo file.c

Ben Collins:

• [SPARC64]: Add comment for HdrS ver 0x201
• [SPARC64]: Add header for section boundary references
• [SPARC64]: Changes to accomodate booting from non-phys_base
  memory

Chas Williams:

• [ATM]: [idt77252] fix dma_addr_t type error with
  CONFIG_HIGHMEM64G=y (by “Randy.Dunlap” <rddunlap@osdl.org>)
• [ATM]: [clip] check return code from kmem_cache_create (by
  “Randy.Dunlap” <rddunlap@osdl.org>)

Christoph Hellwig:

• [XFS] Small ktrace fixes
• [XFS] Don’t fail pagebuf allocations

David Brownell:

• usb/gadget/file_storage.c doesn’t compile with gcc 2.95

David S. Miller:

• [DECNET]: Fix filling in of header length field
• [CREDITS]: Update Bjorn Ekwall’s address

David Stevens:

• [IPV4]: Add per-device sysctl to force IGMP version
• [IPV4]: Fix IGMP device reference counting

Harald Welte:

• [NETFILTER]: Fix ipt_conntrack/ipt_state module
  refcounting
• [NETFILTER]: Really fix ipt_state/ipt_conntrack
  refcounting

Herbert Xu:

• invalid kfree in ntfs_printcb

Luca Tettamanti:

• Fix ac97_plugin_ad1980.c compilation warning
• Fix aha1542.c compilation warning
• Fix cpqfcTSi2c.c compilation warning
• IEEE1394(r1123): Fix compile warning
• Fix amd7930_fn.h compilation warning
• Fix drivers/net/wan/8253x/crc32.c compilation warning
• Fix vac-serial.c compilation warning

Mirko Lindner:

• sk98lin: Reset Xmac when stopping the port

Nathan Scott:

• [XFS] Remove xfsidbg debugger interfaces, not useful without
  kdb
• [XFS] Fix a warning from some gcc variants after recent flags
  botch
• [XFS] Add the security extended attributes namespace
• [XFS] Remove no-longer-needed debug symbol exports

Patrick McHardy:

• [NET_SCHED]: Add HFSC packet scheduler

Russell Cattelan:

• [XFS] Christoph has signed over copyrights
• [XFS] Move bits around to better manage common code. No
  functional change
• [XFS] Remove non 2.4 ifdefs from the linux-2.4 dir

Rusty Russell:

• [NETFILTER]: ipt_limit fix for HZ=1000

Scott Feldman:

• e100 sync with 2.6