After much discussion with the SCSI folks, here's a patch to export
max_sectors as a sysfs attribute.  Turning this down makes some people's
devices more stable, but at a significant cost in performance.  Now, users
can adjust it without recompilation.

This is YAASP (yet another Alan Stern patch).

According to James Bottomley, we need to notify the SCSI midlayer whenever
we issue a driver-initiated device reset.  That can happen in several
places, most notably following a transport error.  This patch adds
code to the reset routine to take care of it.  (Notifying about resets
requested by the midlayer itself is unnecessary but harmless.)

Alan Stern

On 15 Dec 2003, James Bottomley wrote:

> It looks like the driver sent a reset to the device on its own without
> reporting it to the mid-layer.
>
> There's an expecting_cc_ua flag in the scsi_device.  It gets set on
> error recovery actions, or if the device does something to detect or
> trigger a reset (that's the scsi_report_device_reset() and
> scsi_report_bus_reset() API's).
>
> James

I've noticed in 2.6 kernels that HIDIOCGREPORT does not wait for io
completion before returning to the caller. This creates a few unpleasant
issues for userspace:

First, code sequences such as...

        ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGREPORT, &rinfo);
        ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGUSAGE, &uinfo);
        ioctl(fd, HIDIOCGSTRING, &sdesc);

...that used to work in 2.4 now fail in 2.6 if the device takes more
than a few milliseconds to respond to HIDIOCGREPORT. (I'm seeing this
issue on APC UPSes, FWIW.)

Second, userspace code can easily flood the kernel with control messages
since the kernel provides no "backpressure". The result is a lot of
"hid-core.c: control queue full" errors and lost reports.

2.6 hid-core.c appears to submit the request and return immediately.
Although the 2.4 code differs significantly, I traced the call path to
usb-core.c, which seems to block with a timeout, so the code supports my
userspace observation. (Assuming I didn't misread it.)

This patch fixes a long-standing (albeit unidentified) problem in the
queueing code for the UHCI HCD.  The code propagates data toggle settings
between messages in a queue for control transfers just the same as bulk
and interrupt transfers.  That is a mistake, since control messages always
restart with data toggle 0.  With this patch, the UHCI driver now passes
test 10 (control URB queueing) in David Brownell's usbtest suite.

The patch appears to change more than it really does, because it alters
the indentation level of a large section of code.

into kroah.com:/home/linux/BK/usb-2.6

non-fatal didn't get the same change that k7.c did a few months
back, so it reads from banks that actually _cause_ MCEs.

This patch also adds a bunch of copyright headers whilst we're
in that neighborhood.

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/libata-2.5

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

started the command - it may not exist any more.

In particular, load the host early in order to do proper
locking without having to access the command structure later.

Noted by Andries Brouwer.

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/net-2.6

This patch arranges for the exception tables to be sorted on most
architectures.  It sorts the main kernel exception table on startup
and the module exception tables when they get loaded.  The main table
is sorted reasonably early - just after kmem_cache_init - but that
could be moved even earlier if necessary.

There is now a lib/extable.c which includes the sort_extable()
function from arch/ppc/mm/extable.c and the search_extable() function
from arch/i386/mm/extable.c, which had been copied to many
architectures.  On many architectures, arch/$(ARCH)/mm/extable.c
became empty and so I have removed it.

There are four architectures which do things differently from i386:
alpha, ia64, sparc and sparc64.  Alpha and ia64 store the offset from
the offset from the exception table entry to the instruction, and
sparc and sparc64 have range entries in the table.  For those
architectures I have added empty sort_extable functions.  The
maintainers for those architectures can implement something better if
they care to.  As it is they are no worse off than before.

Although it is a moderately sizable patch, it ends up with a net
reduction of 377 lines in the size of the kernel source. :)

I have tested this on x86 and ppc with a module that uses __get_user
in an init function, deliberately laid out to get the exception table
out of order, and it works (whereas it oopsed without this patch).

This went missing somewhere.  Here's a patch which puts it back.

Sanitize 66MHz clock use: "enable" 66MHz clock before starting UDMA3/4/5
read/write transfer and "disable" it after finishing transfer.

- fixes timings for non-UDMA3/4/5 operations (correct 33MHz timings are used)

- allows using UDMA3/4/5 modes on a capable drive even if non-UDMA3/4/5 drive
  is present on the same channel

- fixes corner case when one drive on the channel was using UDMA66/100 + LBA48
  (so clock was enabled/disabled for each read/write) and other one was using
  UDMA66/100 + LBA28, it could happen that request on LBA48 drive disabled
  66MHz clock and it was not enabled for the next transfer on LBA28 drive

drive->id is now always present even if no device is attached,
therefore check for drive->present instead.

This fixes bugzilla bug #1431.

Always tune controller PIO timings.  This fixes lockup during PIO access
(ie. 'cat /proc/ide/hda/identify') when Promise BIOS is disabled.

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

When binding to a link-local address, inet6_bind() and raw6_bind() only
check that an interface is specified and that the address exists, but
they don't check if it actually exists on the specified interface.

Similarly, in datagram_sent_ctl() we don't check for the possibility of a
link-local address when we receive the source address from userspace.

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

The config entries etc were already removed earlier.

From: Chris Mason <mason@suse.com>

The v3 reiserfs_file_write func doesn't do any write throttling, which
leads to a variety of problems.  Here's a patch that makes
reiserfs_file_write call balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited, and exports that
func for module usage.

Remove now-unused 2.4 back-compat code.

gcc miscompiles this. Scary.

- A couple of them are using alloca (via DECLARE_BITMAP) and this generates
  a cannot-inline warning with -Winline.

- These functions are too big to inline anwyay.

From: Andries.Brouwer@cwi.nl

Remove obsolete CLONE_DETACHED

From: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Modify MAINTAINERS to reflect the reality in maintainership for kbuild.
This is ack'ed with Michael Elizabeth Chastain and Kai Germaschewski.

I removed the list and web-site since they are not actively used today.

From: risto.sandvik@helsinki.fi

Everything freezes when trying to play sounds using the alsa driver opl3sa2
(kernel supplied or 1.0.0rc2) on an Acer Extensa series laptop with the Ali
M1533 PCI to ISA bridge.  Problem exists both in the 2.6 and 2.4 series of
kernels.

Adding AL_M1533 to drivers/pci/quirks.c fixes the problem for both.  This has
been a known problem since 2.2.x (see
http://www.mfn.unipmn.it/~sitta/linux503.html)

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Here's a patch to improve the AFS linux support. It:

 (1) Includes Pete's patch to skip the colon in the volume name, compile
     directly into the kernel, and not try to access non-existent caching
     routines.

 (2) Changes if (...) BUG() to BUG_ON()

 (3) Gets rid of typedefs.

 (4) Changes list_for_each() into list_for_each_entry().

 (5) Adds more whitespace and wraps lines to please the CodingStyle sticklers.

From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>

Here's a patch to fix some bugs in my RxRPC code, including the fix for the
transport initialisation failure recovery spotted by Pete Zaitcev.

It also inserts some extra spaces in a few places.

From: Jes Sorensen <jes@trained-monkey.org>

The included patch removes the usage of weak symbols from sgiioc4.c now
that we have the Kconfig issue sorted as well as cleans up the error no
handling (instead of return 1 on error) and adds a check for the return
value on snia_pci_endian_set as suggested by Christoph.