From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>

I'm not entirely sure about this change.  But it seems to be necessary. 
The dnotify code stores the PID in the file structure.  The entire process
shares the file and any signal (is it used for that?) should be sent to the
process (thread group), not the individual thread.  Also keep in mind that
threads can go away while the process (and therefore file descriptor)
remain.  And the ID of the thread can be reused.

Somebody who knows this code should take a good look.

(Looks right to me...)

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

- use kernel.h min() and max();

- C99 initializers;

- Tidy up the scheule_work() callbacks (none of them take an arg)

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

fix arcnet printk parameter types

From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Adds an explicit check for the new modutils in the build system.

Generally we should avoid these sorts of hardwired checks for the right
versions of things, but we are still getting a significant number of problem
reports due to people not having the new tools.  Let's help them out.

From: "John Stoffel" <stoffel@lucent.com>

Quick patch to get my 8 port Cyclades Cyclom-Y ISA card to work.

(It doesn't look to be very SMP-robust, but then the 2.4 dirver probably
isn't either).

From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>

I moved a while ago and I'm also not at SGI anymore.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

In the anticipatory scheduler, don't anticipate against the very first IO
request which a process issues.

This solves a very specific problem wherein a process starts, submits a
single IO then exits.

From: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor_core@ameritech.net>

While working on my GPM patches found out that EV_MSC was forgotten...

From: viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk

On Wed, Aug 27, 2003 at 01:46:37AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> LILO seems to be oopsing in HDIO_GETGEO ioctl for some reason, in
> generic_ide_ioctl().
>
> I'm not sure quite why though.  Could one of your patches affected this
> area?

The last one (fix for hd_struct handling).  The fix follows:

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

This patch removes warnings on non-matching parameter types to printk
and incorrect function types (n_hdlc).

From: Peter Chubb <peterc@gelato.unsw.edu.au>

Currently, the context switch counters reported by getrusage() are
always zero.  The appended patch adds fields to struct task_struct to
count context switches, and adds code to do the counting.

The patch adds 4 longs to struct task struct, and a single addition to
the fast path in schedule().

From: Christophe Saout <christophe@saout.de>

- acpi_pci_link_get_irq() returns 0 on error, not -ENODEV.

- Fix mpparse.c tpyo.

This printk doesn't impart any information.

From: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>

The do_no_page() function in mm/memory.c does accounting for reserved pages
(++mm->rss), but in zap_pte_range() we don't decrement rss if the page was
reserved.

So don't account for PageReserved pages in the rss.  (Maybe it would be
better to fix zap_pte_range in the opposite direction..)

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

Remove CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT: the ability to present /proc/kcore in a.out
format.

I've checked with various arch maintainers.  It won't be missed.

We get a linkage error with CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT because there is no
implementation of kclist_add() and kclist_del().

Also fix a warning in the a.out version of read_kcore().

Maybe we should just remove kcore a.out support.  m68knommu and h8300 are
setting CONFIG_KCORE_AOUT in their defconfigs though.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Flesh out the bad_inode file and inode operations tables with new
additions.

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

This patch corrects a typo in an ifdef that enables xattr operations for
special files in the ext2 code; otherwise, extended attributes cannot be
obtained or set on such inodes.

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

This patch reworks the SELinux binprm hook functions to use a security
structure for the linux_binprm rather than directly stuffing the security
identifier into the void* security field.  It also performs some cleanup of
the SELinux binprm hook functions, and one miscellaneous fix.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

This patch corrects several format specifiers in the SELinux security server
code.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

This patch changes the SELinux avtab to use vmalloc/vfree; the table is too
large for kmalloc on s390.

From: Stephen Smalley <sds@epoch.ncsc.mil>, James Morris <jmorris@redhat.com>

This patch adds the appropriate #if around the F_*64 commands in the
selinux_file_fcntl hook function.

From: Franz Sirl <Franz.Sirl-kernel@lauterbach.com>

current bk 2.6.0 corrupts my ext3 filesystems, usually in the RESYNC dir
during a bk pull.  Checking the recent changes I noticed that the one in
fs/ext3/namei.c misses an endian conversion.  The attached patch fixes that
and works fine for me since 2 days now on PPC.

From: Andrey Panin <pazke@donpac.ru>

attached trivial patch fixes visws subarch kernel build.  It was broken by
2.6.0-test4 cpumask_t changes.

From: Oleg Drokin <green@namesys.com>

The conversion of reiserfs to not return errors from
writepage-outside-i_size was incorrect.  Fix.

The `user_specified' variable is used in cleanup_module() and hence cannot be
dropped from memory after module initialisation.

From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>,
	"Sharma, Arun" <arun.sharma@intel.com>

The truncate race fix assumed that a non-zero vma->vm_ops->nopage implies a
non-zero vma->vm_file.

The ia64 x86 emulation code breaks this assumption, so teach do_no_page() to
handle it.

From: Vinay K Nallamothu <vinay-rc@naturesoft.net>

drivers/net/ni5010.c:
This patch replaces cli/sti with spinlocks. Compiles fine though
untested.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Update the abi sysctl documentation.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

The expected case is (sysctl_overcommit_memory == 0), so put that first.

From: <ffrederick@prov-liege.be>

Here's an _important_ kobject doc patch.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Change the permissions on /proc/kallsyms.  As David M-T points out,
it's nice for analysis tools not to need root.  Place
cond_resched() to avoid starvation problems on non-preempt.

From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>

Out by one error broke caching of results in /proc/kallsyms, slowing
reading to a crawl.

From: Thomas Schlichter <schlicht@uni-mannheim.de>

Make the `pci=noacpi' command line option work correctly.  It fixes
interrupt routing probems for (at least 3) people with broken ACPI BIOSes.

From: CaT <cat@zip.com.au>

Convert a whole bunch of struct initialisers into c99 format.

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

The problem in pcnet32 is, that it doesn't unregister pci, if there's no
hardware.

This patch solves the problem.

From: "Krishnakumar. R" <krishnakumar@naturesoft.net>

This patch removes the warning:

drivers/char/pcxx.c:124:8: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive

From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

On Fri, 22 Aug 2003, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Javier Achirica:
>   o [wireless airo] Fix PCI unregister code

This patch causes a regression: if CONFIG_PCI is not set, it doesn't compile
anymore. Here's a fix. I also killed a dead variable and its corresponding
warning: