From: Jim Radford <radford@indigita.com>

I finally took the time to figure our why my parallel port wasn't
working...  here's the patch.

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>

the Linux-on-a-CD system Knoppix has nearly all framebuffer drivers for
2.4.23 compiled in. Additionally, it surpresses most kernel messages by
lowering the kernel log level.

Two framebuffer drivers (clgenfb.c and hgafb.c), however, use KERN_ERR
to say that their particular card has *not* been found which is very
annoying.

Especially the clgenfb.c driver simply says on bootup:
  >  Couldn't find PCI device
which can really confuse newbie users.

I've already send a patch that fixes this for 2.4 -- Marcelo and Geert
Uytterhoeven have already ack'ed it.

The same change should be done for 2.6, too IMHO.

The appended patch replaces two KERN_ERR with KERN_INFO and additionally
makes the cirrusfb.c message more descriptive.

From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>

Add Intel SpeedStep zero-page memory usage doc.

From: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>

* using generic_ffs
* optimized code

From: IWAMOTO Toshihiro <iwamoto@valinux.co.jp>

I found linux-2.6.0-test11 leaks memory when execve fails.  I've also
checked the bitkeeper tree and the problem seems to be unchanged.

The attached patch is a partial backout of bitkeeper rev.  1.87 of
fs/exec.c.  I guess the original change was a simple mistake.
(free_arg_pages() is a NOP when CONFIG_MMU is defined).

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>

This patch fixes the "non-terminating inflate" problem that Russell King
complained about on LKML earlier today.

I chose to use "goto" much like zlib does, in order to not require
setjmp/longjmp inside the kernel.  It's a bit ugly, but it also lets each
function chose how it needs to be terminated on error, which is a good
thing.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

- uses just printk() instead of unneeded fat_fs_panic()
- removes the debug printk
- less verbose on error path
- uses correct a error number on error path

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

If path length became zero by fat_striptail_len(), this returns the -ENOENT
as empty path.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

fatfs misc cleanups/fixes.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

This adds the check of count of clusters.  And if it's too big, fat driver
can't handle it.  So doesn't recognize this as fatfs.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

The -1 was documented as "there is no hint", so this patch uses -1 instead
of 0 for FAT32 fsinfo.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

include/linux/msdos_fs.h cleanup

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

Fix printk format

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

For atomicity write, adds readv/writev support to FAT.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      Michal Rokos <m.rokos@sh.cvut.cz>

The problem is: even if vfat_striptail_len() counts len of name without
trailing dots and sets len to the correct value, utf8_mbstowcs() doesn't
care about len and takes whole name.  So dirs and files with dots can be
created on vfat fs.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
      Yokota Hiroshi <yokota@netlab.is.tsukuba.ac.jp>

This patch is required for my 640MB Optical disk.  Because MS windows 95/ME
based FAT filesystem disk formatter generetes wrong super bloacks.

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

- remove unused "rows" and "cols"
- change the 2 variable to static

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

Suppress a buffer_error() warning which occurs when a page which previously
had an I/O error gets its buffers stripped.

From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>

This patch makes /proc/PID/maps report the range from FIXADDR_USER_START to
FIXADDR_USER_END as a final pseudo-vma.  This is consistent with the notion
that reading /proc/PID/maps tells you about every page containing data that
the process can in fact access, and with things such as ptrace allowing
access to this memory.  Without this, userland tools that want to look at all
of a process's accessible pages need special-case knowledge about things such
as the vsyscall DSO page.  With this change, existing code that iterates over
the /proc/PID/maps lines will cover those pages like any other.  For example,
this lets gdb's "gcore" command synthesize a core file from a live process
that contains the vsyscall DSO page as a real core dump would, using its
existing generic iterator code and no new special cases.

From: "Josef 'Jeff' Sipek" <jeffpc@optonline.net>

Simple clean up patch to remove double logical operators.

From: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>

From: Chris Bajumpaa <cbajumpa@or8.net>

This patch fixes a problem with the TSC failing on via686a/KX133
motherboards either reverting to using the pit or deadlocking the machine
alltogether under heavy load.  (Specifically Abit KA7/KA7-100).

Message from the log:
Dec 18 18:20:37 grinder kernel: Losing too many ticks!
Dec 18 18:20:37 grinder kernel: TSC cannot be used as a timesource. (Are
you running with SpeedStep?)
Dec 18 18:20:37 grinder kernel: Falling back to a sane timesource.

The snippet of code that was missing from timer_tsc.c comes from
timer_pit.c.

From: "Maciej Soltysiak" <solt@dns.toxicfilms.tv>

make gconfig causes this:

scripts/kconfig/gconf.c: In function `on_treeview1_button_press_event':
scripts/kconfig/gconf.c:1175: warning: passing arg 1 of
`gtk_widget_grab_focus' from incompatible pointer type

From: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>

The fatfs was ignoring the I/O error on two points. If I/O error
happen while checking a free block entries, this checks the all
entries, and reports an I/O error on each entry.

This problem became cause of the disk full by syslogd.

From: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>

From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>

The code to parse the EBDA (Extended BIOS Data Area) for Summit boxen is
broken because it does not handle Lookout boxen (external boxes full of
additional PCI slots).  This patch cleans up some ugliness in
arch/i386/kernel/summit.c as well as fixing the code to handle Lookout boxen
and various other configurations of PCI buses.  Without this, Summit PCI bus
to node mappings are totally hosed with Lookout boxen attatched.  This patch
depends upon the GENERICARCH fix.

From: Matthew Dobson <colpatch@us.ibm.com>

Trying to build a kernel with both CONFIG_X86_GENERICARCH and
CONFIG_NUMA on results in a compile error.  This patch fixes that build 
problem by adding a config option for NUMA on Summit which is used to
correctly conditionally compile arch/i386/kernel/summit.c and properly
ifdef the function calls used in generic code.  Please apply.

Running make -j24 bzImage
arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `mps_oem_check':
arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o(.text+0x3ce): undefined reference to
`setup_summit'
arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o: In function `acpi_madt_oem_check':
arch/i386/mach-generic/built-in.o(.text+0x468): undefined reference to
`setup_summit'
make: *** [.tmp_vmlinux1] Error 1

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>

  CC [M]  drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.o
drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c: In function `eicon_exit':
drivers/isdn/eicon/eicon_mod.c:1362: warning: implicit declaration of
function `mca_mark_as_unused'

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch against 2.6.0 adds a control to the SELinux module over the
inheritance of signal-related state upon security context transitions in
order to protect the new security context.  If the permission is not
granted by the policy for a given pair of contexts, then transitions
between them will clear itimers, flush all pending signals, forcibly
flush signal handlers, and unblock all signals.  Roland McGrath provided
input and feedback on the patch. 
Please apply, or let James Morris and me know if you'd like this to be
resubmitted later.  Thanks.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch removes the use of nameidata by selinux_inode_permission, as this
appears to be unsafe in certain cases (e.g.  path_walk call from
rpc_lookup_parent), leading to an Oops if d_path is subsequently called by
avc_audit on the (mnt,dentry) pair to generate a pathname for an audit
message.

The change does not affect the ability of SELinux to perform its permission
check (which only requires the inode), only the set of information that is
available for audit messages.  We'll investigate better approaches for the
SELinux audit generation in the future.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch reduces the full capability check in the SELinux module for the
KDSKBENT/SENT ioctls to only check the corresponding SELinux permission,
avoiding a change to the Linux permissions model for these operations.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>

This patch fixes the SELinux build for "make O=..." by removing the use of
-include and eliminating the global.h file, adding appropriate individual
#include's to the various files in the security/selinux/ss subdirectory.
The compilation error was reported by Sam Ravnborg and again by Adrian
Bunk.

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@convergence.de>

> Thomas Meyer <tantalus@gmx.ch> wrote:
>>there seems to be a problem with a DVB driver.
>>Dec 29 17:15:30 jupiter kernel: dvb_ttpci: Unknown symbol request_firmware

The dvb-ttpci/av7110 driver needs the firmware_class stuff to work now.

IMHO the appropriate fix is to let the driver automatically select the
firmware loader via Kconfig's SELECT facility.

The dvb-ttusb-dec driver should behave like this, too.  (It currently
depends on the FW_LOADER, which is not "the right thing" (tm))

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

Add some valuable documentation about the DVB subsystem, the supported cards,
a faq, ...

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

Use a kernel thread instead of schedule_work() when waiting for the firmware
upload to happen

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

remove various LINUX_VERSION_CODE code paths

fix compile bug in new bt8xx/Makefile

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

add support for the DEC3000-s (Alex Woods)

use the hotplug firmware loader for 2.6 kernels instead of compiling the
firmware into the module (Alex Woods)

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

use new firmware_class firmware loading facilities in dvb-ttpci/av7110 driver

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

av7110: follow changes in saa7146_core regarding saa7146_set_gpio() and
saa7146_wait_for_debi_done() function

av7110: increased I2C speed to 275 kHz, follow introduction of
SAA7146_I2C_SHORT_DELAY flag to speed up I2C access

budget: make budget-ci use this gpio function and the new wait_...()
function, this fixes
BORROWED_FROM_AV7110_H_BUT_REALLY_BELONGS_IN_SAA7146_DEFS_H remark

budget: use alternative values for BRS setup on budget cards (by Rober
Schlabbach)

budget: remote control table should be filled completely.  at least populate
the entries that come with the standard Hauppauge RC (Jamie Honan)

ttpci-eeprom: add proper MODULE_LICENSE("GPL") so we don't taint the kernel
anymore

From: Michael Hunold <hunold@linuxtv.org>

alps_tdmb7, cx24110: use correct delay values, don't divide by HZ when using
dvb_delay(), found by Artur Skawina

alps_tdmb7: set FE_HAS_LOCK only when all low-order bits are valid

mt312: patch for the mt312 module, targeting the VP310: reduced heat,
implement "auto" inversion mode, remove debugging verbosity, add module
parameter for debugging (Augusto Cardoso)

nxt6000: code review and beautification, use per i2c-adapater void pointer
for private data in nxt_attach() / nxt_detach, fix frontend private data
handling.  patch by Mikael Rosbacke <rosbacke at nada.kth.se>

sp887x: firmware loader implementation contributed by Martin Stubbs, C99
comile fixes by Wolfgang Thiel

stv0299: Added new module parameter to choose between BER and UCBLOCKs error
monitoring since the STV0299 can't do both at once, Added modifications based
on the recommended settings in the SU1278 datasheet.

tda1004x: remove FE_CAN_INVERSION_AUTO

ves1820:completed nokia board support, increased some delays to get constant
results,set default pwm value to 0x48 for boards which don't have an eeprom
(by Andreas Oberritter)