Linux 2.6.9-ac1

[Alan Cox]

For those who need the various patches and bits I've been doing. Also if
people have small, clearly correct fixes to real problems in 2.6.9 that
ought to go into a production 2.6.9 series kernel please mail me a copy
and I'll merge those so we don't get the 2.6.8.1 audio ripping mess
again. 

ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/

2.6.9-ac1

Security Fixes
o	Set VM_IO on areas that are temporarily		(Alan Cox)
	marked PageReserved (Serious bug)
o	Lock ide-proc against driver unload		(Alan Cox)
	(very low severity)

Bug Fixes
o	Working IDE locking				(Alan Cox)
	| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o	Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws	(Alan Cox)
	
Functionality
o	Allow booting with "irqpoll" or "irqfixup"	(Alan Cox)
	on systems with broken IRQ tables.
o	Support for setuid core dumping in some		(Alan Cox)
	environments (off by default)
o	Support for drives that don't report geometry
o	IT8212 support (raid and passthrough)		(Alan Cox)
o	Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE	(Alan Cox)
	devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o	Restore PWC driver				(Luc Saillard)

Other
o	Small pending tty clean-up to moxa		(Alan Cox)
o	Put VIA Velocity (tm) adapters under gigabit	(VIA)

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