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Marcelo Tosatti: Linux 2.4.26-pre4

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Hi,

Here goes the fourth -pre of 2.4.26.

Pretty small (great!), containing a few network updates, SPARC64
fixes, Bluetooth fixes, IDE update (fixes for AMD chipset driver
and inclusion of Medley software RAID driver by Thomas Horsten),
amongst others.

Summary of changes from v2.4.26-pre3 to v2.4.26-pre4

<colin:gibbsonline.net>:

  • [NET_SCHED]: Use time_after, fixes htb on 64-bit arch

<mlord:pobox.com>:

  • Yet another vmalloc() fixup

<tuncer.ayaz:gmx.de>:

  • [IPVS]: Fix typo in Config.in

Angelo Dell’Aera:

  • [TCP]: Kill westwood bw_sample, set but not used

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:

  • small cleanup for AMD/nVidia IDE driver
  • IDE AMD/nForce driver update
  • amd74xx.c: fix for !CONFIG_PROCFS
  • fix IDE build for CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
  • new Medley software RAID driver

David S. Miller:

  • [SPARC64]: Handle failed vmalloc_area_pages in module_map
    correctly
  • [SPARC64]: Update defconfig

Marcel Holtmann:

  • [Bluetooth] Fix race for incoming connections
  • [Bluetooth] Fix error handling for not connected socket
  • [Bluetooth] Fix several copy_to_user() glitches
  • [Bluetooth] Fix non-blocking socket race conditions
  • [Bluetooth] Copy all L2CAP signal frames to the raw
    sockets
  • [Bluetooth] Send HCI_Reset for some Broadcom dongles

Marcelo Tosatti:

  • Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre4

Theodore Y. T’so:

  • zerout JBD journal descriptor blocks

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