From Mike Anderson: 

I have been using it on an outstanding patch for scsi_set_host_offline. It
appears to work fine in my testing.

The only thing preventing this from happening earlier was the circular sysfs
registration dependency - it would need to be initialized before it was 
registered, but needed to be registered before it was initialized. 

With kobjects gone from struct filesystem_type, the dependency no longer 
exists and we don't have to special-case the possibility that a kobject will
be passed to kobject_get with a refcount == 0. 

Note that a kobject with a count of 0 in that function is still a bug, but 
one in the subsystem making the call. We should add a debugging hook to dump
the stack if it does happen. 

It was initially added for the immediate gain of being able to see what 
filesystems were registered in the system. However, it was done without
proper analysis of the lifetime rules associated with them. 

Someday, we should convert struct filesystem_type and struct super_block to
use kobjects, though it will take sufficent time and effort to get it right.
Until then, we go without..

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Add C99 initializers to fs/bio.c and fs/dquot.c.  And fs/libfs.c had an
obsolete GCC style initialzers that is converted to C99 style.

into osdl.org:/home/mochel/src/kernel/devel/linux-2.5-core

into osdl.org:/home/mochel/src/kernel/devel/linux-2.5-core

smp_send_reschedule_all() is unused in 2.5 and can be eliminated.

It is unused and not needed

In ide_register_subdriver() create drive->proc entries only if driver is
not idedefault_driver.

[ There won't be /proc/ide/hdX/capacity for devices attached
  to idedefault_driver now, it reported 0x7fffffff previously. ]

Do not create drive->proc entries in create_proc_ide_drives(), they are
added later in ide_register_subdriver().

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into hostme.bitkeeper.com:/ua/repos/l/ldm/linux-2.5-core

It's a slow afternoon. 

- Make it very explicit that supplying an object desctructor is imperative
  if using the interface for object reference counting. 

- Add GPL statement to the source files. 

- Add GFL (http://www.fsf.org/licenses/fdl.html) statement to documentation.

Based on a patch by Stephen Hemminger.

From Greg: 

This fixes a oops when unplugging pci network devices.

From Dave Jones.

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A recent change to the megaraid driver to fix some memset calls resulted
in overflowing the arrays being cleared and causing a system panic.
This patch fixes the problem by making sure that the arrays being
cleared are dimensioned to the correct size.  The patch has been tested
on osdl's stp machines that have megaraid controllers.

Here we really want CONFIG_ALL_PPC, since these headers are only valid
for PPC Mac machines (barf: badly named config option).

One of those very-hard-to-track-down, trivial-to-fix kind of problems:
without this patch, TCP roundtrip time measurements will corrupt the
routing cache's RTT estimates under heavy network load (the bug causes
RTAX_RTT to go negative, but since its type is u32, you end up with a
huge positive value...).  From there on, later TCP connections quickly
will go south.

The typo was introduced 8 months ago in v1.29 of the file by the patch
entitled "Cleanup DST metrics and abstrct MSS/PMTU further".

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into samba.org:/scratch/anton/tmp3

into samba.org:/scratch/anton/tmp3

into samba.org:/scratch/anton/tmp3

signal.h uses spinlock_t now so it needs to include spinlock.h.
Without this compilation failes on PPC.

This patch fixes an unload crash when no PCI drivers are loaded.

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