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The recent escd fix I have made corrects a thinko in the PnPBIOS code and it
turns out that faults from calling /proc/pnp/bus/escd were probably not caused
by BIOS bugs.

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Sometimes a menuconfig item is shown twice, so hide the other item.

Let gconf find it's glade file, even it's started with an absolute path
and check srcdir so it also works if it's compiled outside of the tree.

gconf compile warning fixes (by Buddy Lucas <b.lucas@ohra.nl>)

fix gconf segfault problem (by Romain Lievin <roms@tilp.info>)

generate an error if writing of kernel config failed

Fix for oops on rmmod caused by *_remove() function marked as __devinit
(and thus discarded after module initialization - if CONFIG_MODULES=y
and CONFIG_HOTPLUG is not set).
This patch changes __devinit to __devexit and adds __devexit_p() where
pointer to such function is used.

The only exception is au1000, where au1000_remove() is called from
cleanup_au1000() function - __devinit is jest removed there.

It was also removed in 2.4.23.

Use rq->cmd[0] instead of rq->flags for storing special request flags.

Per Jens' suggestion.  Tested by Stef van der Made <svdmade@planet.nl>.

Revert wrong changes introduced in 2.4.21.

From: Stefan Talpalaru <stefantalpalaru@yahoo.com>,
      Ingo Kilian <ikilian@web.de>.

The MSI port to x86-64 added an interrupt routing bug that makes the
kernel not boot anymore on some machines.

Fix that.

With help from Jeff Garzik and others.

This patch for 2.6 fixes the problem found by Zoltan Farkas
with mixed PCI/ISA and a non-modular config.  The problem is the old_netdev
ISA probing isn't skipping eth0 which already got assigned by the PCI
initialization.

From Pavel Machek

sometimes nanoseconds are used, sometimes microseconds, sometimes even something else.

Dominik Brodowski.

From Dominik Brodowski

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