Linux 2.4.23-pre2

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hello,

Here goes -pre2. It contains an USB update, PPC merge, m68k merge, IDE
changes from Alan, network drivers update from Jeff, amongst other fixes
and updates.



Summary of changes from v2.4.23-pre1 to v2.4.23-pre2
============================================

<cw:sgi.com>:
  o Add SGI IOC4 IDE Driver
  o SGI SN Serial/Console Driver

<davej:redhat.com>:
  o USB: Add Minolta Dimage F300 to unusual_devs

<gaa:ulticom.com>:
  o USB: new ids for io_ti driver

<javier:tudela.mad.ttd.net>:
  o [wireless airo] add support for MIC and latest firmwares

<kevino:asti-usa.com>:
  o USB: bug in EHCI device reset through transaction

<malte.d:gmx.net>:
  o USB: support for Zaurus 750/760 to usbnet.c (2.4.22-pre8) + code cleanup backport from 2.6

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:
  o Changed hch contact information
  o Fix compilation warning in panic.c
  o Delete unused drivers/scsi/aic79xx (now aic7xxx supports it)
  o add sysctl bits for setuid core
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre2

<masanari.iida:hp.com>:
  o SCSI blacklist HP Va7140

<mike.miller:hp.com>:
  o cciss multi-path failover in md

<mporter:kernel.crashing.org>:
  o PPC32: Add support for the IBM PPC 440 family of processors
  o PPC32: Add support for DMA controllers on PPC 4xx processors

<russell_d_cagle:mindspring.com>:
  o USB: add Garmin iQue support to visor driver

<thomas:winischhofer.net>:
  o sisfb update

<vmlinuz386:yahoo.com.ar>:
  o PCI Hotplug: fix __FUNCTION__ warnings

Alan Cox:
  o remove all the 440gx broken bios stuff
  o replace the pci router logic with working code
  o update INDEX for docs
  o wolfson touchscreen docs
  o amd watchdog update
  o update i8xx watchdog
  o improved extra key bounce fix
  o fix a missing rocket card
  o warning fix
  o fix nowayout handling on softdog
  o fix missing formatting info in ide-cd
  o add open/close methods to ide-default for hotplug
  o move sibyte driver into the right dir
  o Add Intel ICH3 hotplug support
  o siimage: set a sata flag on the hwif so we can do cable det
  o update ide raid for info pointer changes
  o update ide headers for hotplug
  o fix cable detect issue with sata
  o split ide probe code up
  o Add disk hotplug to the IDE core
  o update cpia driver to fix warnings
  o aacraid update
  o wolfson ac97 touchscreen driver
  o ad1889 error handling fixes
  o ALi5455 update
  o cmpci update
  o fix i810 audio leak
  o makefile/config update for sound changes
  o USB audio fixes for OSS API compliance
  o VGA also works on IA64
  o tdfxfb updates for 24/32 and big endian
  o allow setuid core dumps
  o add sysctl number for setuid core
  o Add headers for wolfson codecs
  o Fix the file sharing/initrd bug
  o resend - mm checks have precedence bugs

Alan Stern:
  o USB: More unusual_devs.h entry updates
  o USB: More unusual_devs.h stuff
  o USB: Another unusual_devs.h entry update

Andrea Arcangeli:
  o vmalloc allocations in ipc needs smp initialized

Andrew Morton:
  o fix possible busywait in rtc_read()
  o tty oops fix

Dan Streetman:
  o USB: backport usbfs 'disconnect'

David Brownell:
  o USB: ehci needs a readb() on IDP425 PCI (ARM)
  o USB: ehci-hcd and period=1frame hs interrupts

David S. Miller:
  o [TG3]: Update to irqreturn_t
  o [TG3]: Sync TSO changes from base 2.5.x
  o [TG3]: Merge comment typo fixes from 2.5.x
  o [TG3]: Initial implementation of 5705 support
  o [TG3]: Fix statistics on 5705
  o [TG3]: Do not reset the RX_MAC unless PHY is Serdes
  o [TG3]: More missing PCI IDs
  o [TG3]: Reset PHY more reliably on 570{3,4,5} chips
  o [TG3]: Fix 5788/5901, update TSO code
  o [TG3]: Differentiate between TSO capable and TSO enabled
  o [TG3]: Add {get,set}_tso ethtool_ops support
  o [TG3]: Bump version/reldate
  o [TG3]: Fix tg3_phy_reset_5703_4_5 chip rev test
  o [TG3]: Bump version/reldate
  o [TG3]: More fixes and enhancements

Geert Uytterhoeven:
  o M68k ptrace
  o Isapnp warning
  o fb_cmap and transparency
  o M68k RTC updates
  o Rename ariadne2 to zorro8390
  o M68k mm cleanup
  o M68k free_io_area()
  o M68k invalid vs. illegal
  o Dmasound invalid vs. illegal
  o M68k cpu_relax()
  o dmasound SOUND_PCM_READ_RATE
  o M68k FPU emulator
  o dmasound core fixes
  o lmc_proto.c includes <asm/smp.h>
  o Sonic Ethernet unsafe interrupt

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
  o USB: added support for TIOCM_RI and TIOCM_CD to pl2303 driver and fix stupid bug
  o USB: remove some vendor specific stuff from the pl2303 driver to get other devices to work
  o [TG3]: pci_device_id can not be marked __devinitdata
  o [netdrvr sis900] don't call pci_find_device from irq context
  o USB: fix up a bunch of copyrights that were incorrectly declared
  o PCI hotplug: fix up a bunch of copyrights that were incorrectly declared
  o PCI: add PCI_DEVICE() macro to make pci_device_id tables easier to read
  o PCI: add PCI_DEVICE_CLASS() macro to match PCI_DEVICE() macro

Henning Meier-Geinitz:
  o USB: New vendor/product ids for scanner driver
  o USB: fix check for SCN_MAX_MNR in scanner driver
  o USB: Fix crash when scanners are disconnected while open
  o USB: unlink interrupt URBs in scanner driver

Hirofumi Ogawa:
  o [netdrvr 8139too] lwake unlock fix
  o [netdrvr 8139too] remove unused RxConfigMask
  o [netdrvr 8139too] add more h/w revision ids

Ian Abbott:
  o USB: ftdi_sio - additional pids
  o USB: ftdi_sio - VID/PID for ID TECH IDT1221U USB to RS-232 adapter
  o USB: ftdi_sio - tidy up write bulk callback

James Morris:
  o [TG3]: skb_headlen() cleanup

Jeff Garzik:
  o [TG3]: Detect shared (and screaming) interrupts
  o [TG3]: Convert to using ethtool_ops
  o [TG3]: Bug fixes for 5705 support
  o [TG3]: More 5705 updates
  o [TG3]: More 5705 fixes
  o [TG3]: Another 5705 fix: enable eeprom write prot as needed
  o [TG3]: Only write the on-nic sram addr on non-5705
  o [TG3]: Add 5782 pci id
  o [netdrvr sis900] ethtool_ops support
  o [netdrvr sis900] minor bits from 2.6
  o [netdrvr 8139cp] minor bits from 2.6
  o [netdrvr 8139cp] ethtool_ops support
  o [netdrvr 3c59x] add a piece missed in previous ethtool_ops patch
  o [netdrvr 3c501] ethtool_ops support
  o [netdrvr] ethtool_ops support in 3c503, 3c505, 3c507
  o [netdrvr] ethtool_ops support for 3c515, 3c523, 3c527, and dmfe
  o [netdrvr pcmcia] ethtool_ops for 3c574, 3c589, aironet4500, axnet
  o [NET] add SET_ETHTOOL_OPS back-compat hook
  o [netdrvr pcmcia] use SET_ETHTOOL_OPS in 3c574, 3c589, aironet4500, and axnet
  o [netdrvr pcmcia] ethtool_ops support for several more pcmcia drivers
  o [netdrvr 8139too] minor bits from 2.6
  o [wireless airo] build fixes
  o [scsi] add SCSI opcodes and SAM status codes to scsi/scsi.h

Judd Montgomery:
  o USB: visor.h[c] USB device IDs documentation

Marc-Christian Petersen:
  o DRM menu the right fix

Matthew Wilcox:
  o [netdrvr 3c59x] ethtool_ops support

Nemosoft Unv.:
  o USB: PWC 8.11

Paul Mackerras:
  o PPC32: Add support for DMA mapping on non-cache-coherent machines
  o PPC32: Add the infrastructure to allow for 64-bit PTEs
  o PPC32: Fix typo in arch/ppc/Makefile
  o PPC32: Use CONFIG_IBM_OPENBIOS instead of CONFIG_TREEBOOT
  o PPC32: Add support for the PPC970 processor
  o PPC32: Minor cleanups and fixes for 4xx/BookE systems
  o PPC32: Restructure signal code, new ucontext structure, add swapcontext syscall
  o PPC32: Implement semtimedop system call

Paul Mundt:
  o Add Paul Mundt to CREDITS

Randy Dunlap:
  o add seq_file "single" interfaces

Stefan Becker:
  o USB: acm.c update for new devices

Stefan Rompf:
  o [netdrvr 8139too] use mii_check_media lib function, instead of homebrew MII bitbanging.

Steven Cole:
  o Add 39 Configure.help texts from -ac tree
  o Add six more Configure.help texts from the -ac tree

Tom Rini:
  o PPC32: Change the default behavior of a kernel with KGDB
  o PPC32: Fix KGDB and userland GDB interactions

Willy Tarreau:
  o Fix log buffer length issues

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