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Change log for patch v2.4.17

final:

- Fix more loopback deadlocks         (Andrea Arcangeli)
- Make Alpha with Nautilus chipset and
  Irongate chipset configuration compile
  correctly               (Michal Jaegermann)

rc2: 

- Fix potential oops with via-rhine      (Andrew Morton)
- sysvfs: mark inodes as bad in case of read 
  failure               (Christoph Hellwig)
- NTFS bugfixes               (Anton Altaparmakov)
- Fix Netfilter oops            (Edward Killips)
- Direct IO error handling fix         (Masaroni Goto)
- Fix loop device deadlock         (Andrea Arcangeli)
- Make some erroneously global spinlocks 
  static               (David C. Hansen)
- Avoid i810 driver from oopsing with 830ME   (Robert Love)
- Reiserfs fixes            (Oleg Drokin/Chris Mason)
- Fix VM "not-swapping" issue with lowmem 
  machines               (Rik van Riel)
- Make kernel try a bit harder to shrink caches
  instead swapping out             (me)
- Make NCR5380 compile builtin         (Erik Andersen)
- More __devexit_p fixes         (Daniel T. Chen)
- devfs bugfixes            (Richard Gooch)


rc1: 

- Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls    (Mark Hymers)
- Console race fix            (Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
- Configure.help update            (Eric S. Raymond)
- Correctly fix Direct IO bug         (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Turn off aacraid debugging         (Alan Cox)
- Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()   (Alexander Viro)
- Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092 
  pcmcia driver               (Keith Owens)
- ns83820 zerocopy bugfix         (Benjamin LaHaise)
- Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
  freed                  (me)

pre8:

- ext3 quota fix             (Neil Brown)
- Add __devexit_p() to ISDN driver      (Kai Germaschewski)
- Declare missing function on fdomain.h      (Eyal Lebedinsky)
- Add Sony Vaio PCG-Z600NE to broken APM 
  reporting blacklist            (Kai Germaschewski)
- ns83820 driver update            (Benjamin LaHaise)
- pas16 driver cleanup            (Alan Cox)
- disable console flush on secondary CPUs on
  IA64                  (Andrew Morton)
- fix typo on parport's ChangeLog      (Tim Waugh)
- fix use count for multiple queued requests on 
  closed fd               (Douglas Gilbert)
- Check return value of get_user() on 
  set_vesa_blanking            (Jeff Garzik)
- Remove asm/segment.h include from nbd    (Jeff Garzik)
- Guard sysrq.h against multiple inclusion    (Jeff Garzik)
- Minor PCI skeleton changes         (Jeff Garzik)
- Add via rhine MMIO to Configure.help      (Jeff Garzik)
- Jeff Garzik is not the via82cxxx driver 
  maintainer anymore: "No time, no hardware".   (Jeff Garzik)
- Remove old tulip documentation      (Jeff Garzik)
- Avoid direct IO's "misunderstanding" of which 
  block device it should use         (Masanori Goto)
- Remove mcheck_init() call from processor
  dependant code and put it in unified codepath   (Dave Jones)
- Netfilter bugfixes            (Harald Welte)


pre7:

- More USB updates            (Greg KH)
- Add missing checks on shmat()         (Christoph Rohland)
- ymfpci update               (Pete Zaitcev)
- Add aacraid driver             (Alan Cox)
- Actually apply some of the Alan's changes
  which were on pre6 changelog.         (silly me)
- Clean up t128 SCSI driver         (Alan Cox)
- Clean up dtc SCSI driver         (Alan Cox) 
- Undo lcall patch from -pre6         (me)
- More ISDN updates            (Kai Germaschewski)

pre6:

- ISDN fixes               (Kai Germaschewski)
- Eicon driver updates            (Kai Germaschewski)
- ymfpci update               (Pete Zaitcev)
- Fix multithread coredump deadlock      (Manfred Spraul)
- Support /dev/kmem access to vmalloc space   (Marc Boucher)
- ext3 fixes/enhancements         (Andrew Morton)   
- Add IT8172G driver to Config.in/Makefile   (Giacomo Catenazzi)
- Configure.help update            (Eric S. Raymond)
- Create __devexit_p() function and use that on 
  drivers which need it to make it possible to 
  use newer binutils            (Keith Owens) 
- Make PCMCIA compile without PCI support   (Paul Mackerras)
- Use copy_user_highpage instead copy_highpage
  on COW path.               (David S. Miller)
- Cacheline align some more performance
  critical spinlocks            (Anton Blanchard)
- sonypi driver update            (Michael C.B. Ashley/Bob Donnelly)
- direct render for some SiS cards      (Torsten Duwe/Alan Cox)
- full handling of the NFSv3 'jukebox' feature  (Trond Myklebust)
- NFS performance improvements         (Trond Myklebust)
- More parport fixes            (Tim Waugh)
- Fix lots of core NCR5380 bugs         (Alan Cox)
- NCR5380/PAS driver update         (Alan Cox)
- Add aacraid to the SCSI list         (Alan Cox)
- fdomain driver fixes            (Alan Cox)

pre5:

- 8139too fixes               (Andreas Dilger)
- sym53c8xx_2 update            (Gerard Roudier)
- loopback deadlock bugfix         (Jan Kara)
- Yet another devfs update         (Richard Gooch)   
- Enable K7 SSE               (John Clemens)
- Make grab_cache_page return NULL instead 
  ERR_PTR: callers expect NULL on failure   (Christoph Hellwig)
- Make ide-{disk-floppy} compile without 
  PROCFS support            (Robert Love)
- Another ymfpci update            (Pete Zaitcev)
- indent NCR5380.{c,h}, g_NCR5380.{c,h}, plus 
  NCR5380 fix               (Alan Cox)
- SPARC32/64 update            (David S. Miller)
- Fix atyfb warnings            (David S. Miller)
- Make bootmem init code correctly align 
  bootmem data               (David S. Miller)
- Networking updates            (David S. Miller)
- Fix scanning luns > 7 on SCSI-3 devices    (Michael Clark)
- Add sparse lun hint for Chaparral G8324 
   Fibre-SCSI controller         (Michael Clark)
- Really apply sg changes         (me)
- Parport updates            (Tim Waugh)
- ReiserFS updates            (Vladimir V. Saveliev)
- Make AGP code scan all kinds of devices:
  they are not always video ones      (Alan Cox)
- EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS in floppy.c         (Alan Cox)
- Pentium IV Hyperthreading support      (Alan Cox)

pre4:

- Added missing tcp_diag.c and tcp_diag.h   (me)

pre3:

- Enable ppro errata workaround                 (Dave Jones)
- Update tmpfs documentation                    (Christoph Rohland)
- Fritz!PCIv2 ISDN card support                 (Kai Germaschewski)
- Really apply ymfpci changes                   (Pete Zaitcev)
- USB update                                    (Greg KH)
- Adds detection of more eepro100 cards         (Troy A. Griffitts)
- Make ftruncate64() compliant with SuS         (Andrew Morton)
- ATI64 fb driver update                        (Geert Uytterhoeven)
- Coda fixes                                    (Jan Harkes)
- devfs update                                  (Richard Gooch)
- Fix ad1848 breakage in -pre2                  (Alan Cox)
- Network updates                               (David S. Miller)
- Add cramfs locking                            (Christoph Hellwig)
- Move locking of page_table_lock on expand_stack
  before accessing any vma field                (Manfred Spraul)
- Make time monotonous with gettimeofday        (Andi Kleen)
- Add MODULE_LICENSE(GPL) to ide-tape.c         (Mikael Pettersson)
- Minor cs46xx ioctl fix                        (Thomas Woller)

pre2:

- Remove userland header from bonding driver   (David S. Miller)
- Create a SLAB for page tables on i386      (Christoph Hellwig)
- Unregister devices at shaper unload time   (David S. Miller)
- Remove several unused variables from various
  places in the kernel            (David S. Miller)
- Fix slab code to not blindly trust cc_data():
  it may be not valid on some platforms      (David S. Miller)
- Fix RTC driver bug            (David S. Miller)
- SPARC 32/64 update            (David S. Miller)
- W9966 V4L driver update         (Jakob Jemi)
- ad1848 driver fixes            (Alan Cox/Daniel T. Cobra)
- PCMCIA update               (David Hinds)
- Fix PCMCIA problem with multiple PCI busses    (Paul Mackerras)
- Correctly free per-process signal struct   (Dave McCracken)
- IA64 PAL/signal headers cleanup      (Nathan Myers)
- ymfpci driver cleanup          (Pete Zaitcev)
- Change NLS "licenses" to be "GPL/BSD" instead 
  only BSD.               (Robert Love)
- Fix serial module use count         (Russell King)
- Update sg to 3.1.22            (Douglas Gilbert)
- ieee1394 update            (Ben Collins)
- ReiserFS fixes            (Nikita Danilov)
- Update ACPI documentantion         (Patrick Mochel)
- Smarter atime update            (Andrew Morton)
- Correctly mark ext2 sb as dirty and sync it   (Andrew Morton) 
- IrDA update               (Jean Tourrilhes)
- Count locked buffers at
  balance_dirty_state(): Helps interactivity under
  heavy IO workloads            (Andrew Morton)
- USB update               (Greg KH)
- ide-scsi locking fix                          (Christoph Hellwig)

pre1:

- Change USB maintainer          (Greg Kroah-Hartman)
- Speeling fix for rd.c            (From Ralf Baechle's tree)
- Updated URL for bigphysmem patch in v4l docs  (Adrian Bunk)
- Add buggy 440GX to broken pirq blacklist    (Arjan Van de Ven)
- Add new entry to Sound blaster ISAPNP list   (Arjan Van de Ven)
- Remove crap character from Configure.help   (Niels Kristian Bech Jensen)
- Backout erroneous change to lookup_exec_domain (Christoph Hellwig)
- Update osst sound driver to 1.65      (Willem Riede)
- Fix i810 sound driver problems      (Andris Pavenis)
- Add AF_LLC define in network headers      (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
- block_size cleanup on some SCSI drivers   (Erik Andersen)
- Added missing MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") in some   (Andreas Krennmair)
  modules
- Add ->show_options() to super_ops and 
  implement NFS method            (Alexander Viro)
- Updated i8k driver            (Massimo Dal Zoto)
- devfs update              (Richard Gooch)
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