- Al Viro: VFS inode allocation moved down to filesystem, trim inodes
- Greg KH: USB update, hotplug documentation
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Ingo Molnar: scheduler tweaking ("J2")
- Arnaldo: emu10k kdev_t updates
- Ben Collins: firewire updates
- Björn Wesen: cris arch update
- Hal Duston: ps2esdi driver bio/kdev_t fixes
- Jean Tourrilhes: move wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless,
update wireless API #1
- Richard Gooch: devfs race fix
- OGAWA Hirofumi: FATFS update

- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- Al Viro: start moving buffer cache indexing to "struct block_device *"
- Greg KH: USB update
- Russell King: fix up some ARM merge issues
- Ingo Molnar: scalable scheduler

- Greg KH: USB updates
- Jens Axboe: more bio updates
- Christoph Rohland: fix up proper shmat semantics

- Greg KH: USB update
- Richard Gooch: refcounting for devfs
- Jens Axboe: start of new block IO layer

  - David Brownell: usbnet update
  - Greg KH: USB and PCI hotplug update
  - Ingo/me: fix SCHED_FIFO for UP/SMP for good (flw).
  - Add back direct_IO now that it works again.

  - Greg KH: enable hotplug driver support
  - Andrea Arcangeli: remove bogus sanity check
  - David Mosberger: /proc/cpuinfo and scsi scatter-gather for ia64
  - David Hinds: 16-bit pcmcia network driver updates/cleanups
  - Hugh Dickins: remove some stale code from VM
  - David Miller: /proc/cpuinfo for sparc, sparc fork bug fix, network
  fixes, warning fixes
  - Peter Braam: intermezzo update
  - Greg KH: USB updates
  - Ivan Kokshaysky: /proc/cpuinfo for alpha
  - David Woodhouse: jffs2 - remove dead code, remove gcc3 warning
  - Hugh Dickins: fix kiobuf page allocation/deallocation

  - Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug)
  - Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes
  - Al Viro: more mount cleanup
  - me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling
  - David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup
  - Tim Waugh: parport update
  - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates

  - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
  - me: symlink attach fix
  - Greg KH: USB update
  - Rui Sousa: emu10k driver update

  - Alan Cox: continued merging
  - Mingming Cao: make msgrcv/shmat check the queue/segment ID's properly
  - Greg KH: USB serial init failure fix, Xircom serial converter driver
  - Neil Brown: nsfd/raid/md/lockd cleanups
  - Ingo Molnar: multipath RAID personality, raid xor update
  - Hugh Dickins/Marcelo Tosatti: swapin read-ahead race fix
  - Vojtech Pavlik: fix up some of the infrastructure for x86-64
  - Robert Love: AMD 761 AGP GART support
  - Jens Axboe: fix SCSI-generic queue handling race
  - me: be sane about page reference bits

  - Greg KH: start migration to new "min()/max()"
  - Roman Zippel: move affs over to "min()/max()".
  - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA update (make sure not to IRQ-unmask a vt82c576)
  - Jan Kara: quota bug-fix (don't decrement quota for non-counted inode)
  - Anton Altaparmakov: more NTFS updates
  - Al Viro: make nosuid/noexec/nodev be per-mount flags, not per-filesystem
  - Alan Cox: merge input/joystick layer differences, driver and alpha merge
  - Keith Owens: scsi Makefile cleanup
  - Trond Myklebust: fix oopsable race in locking code
  - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update

  - Christoph Hellwig: clean up personality handling a bit
  - Robert Love: update sysctl/vm documentation
  - make the three-argument (that everybody hates) "min()" be "min_t()",
  and introduce a type-anal "min()" that complains about arguments of
  different types.

  - Al Viro: block device cleanups
  - Marcelo Tosatti: make bounce buffer allocations more robust (it's ok
  for them to do IO, just not cause recursive bounce IO. So allow them)
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update (1.1.17)
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC update (big re-org)
  - Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver fixes
  - David Miller: networking and sparc updates
  - Trond Myklebust: Export atomic_dec_and_lock
  - OGAWA Hirofumi: find and fix umsdos "filldir" users that were broken
  by the 64-bit-cleanups. Fix msdos warnings.
  - Al Viro: superblock handling cleanups and race fixes
  - Johannes Erdfelt++: USB updates

  - Andreas Dilger: various ext2 cleanups
  - Richard Gooch: devfs update
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
  - Alan Cox: merges
  - David Miller: fix SMP pktsched bootup deadlock (CONFIG_NET_SCHED)
  - Roman Zippel: AFFS update
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update
  - me: fix races in vfork() (semaphores are not good completion handlers)
  - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates, sysvfs update

  - remember to increment the version number
  - Chris Mason: reiserfs mark_journal_new and bh leak fix
  - Richard Gooch: devfs update
  - Alexander Viro: further FS cleanup (superblock list)
  - David Woodhouse: MTD update
  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update (stanford checker fixes etc)
  - Rich Baum: gcc-3.0 warning fixes
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
  - Geert Uytterhoeven: m68k fbdev logo merge glitch fix
  - Andrea Arcangeli: fix signal return path
  - David Miller: Sparc updates
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update
  - Carsten Otte, Andries Brouwer: don't clear blk_size unconditionally
  on partition check
  - Martin Frey: alpha Sable irq fix
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC softirq update
  - Patrick Mochel: PCI power management infrastructure
  - Robert Siemer: miroSOUND driver update
  - Neil Brown: knfsd updates, including ability to export ReiserFS filesystems
  - Trond Myklebust: NFS readdir fixup, don't update atime on client
  - Andrew Morton: truncate_inode_pages speedup
  - Paul Menage: make inode quota count all inodes..

  - Andreas Dilger: make ext2fs react more gracefully to inode disk
  errors
  - Andrea Arkangeli: fix up alpha compile issues
  - Ingo Molnar: io-apic MP table parsing update and softirq latency
  update
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
  - Richard Henderson: alpha rawhide irq handling fixes
  - Marcelo, Andrea, Rik: more VM issues
  - Al Viro: fix various ext2 directory handling checks by biting the
  bullet and using the page cache.

  - Al Viro: fs cleanups
  - David Miller: sparc semaphores
  - Christoph Hellwig: VxFS update
  - Asit Mallick: set machine check bit with set_in_cr4
  - Richard Henderson: fix alpha pci_controller_num(), sg_fill, SRM poweroff.
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
  - Cort Dougan: bitkeeper Id's on the ppc side
  - Matt Chapman: NFS file locking SMP lock fix
  - Alan Cox: further merging

  - Hui-Fen Hsu: sis900 driver update
  - NIIBE Yutaka: Super-H update
  - Alan Cox: more resyncs (ARM down, but more to go)
  - David Miller: network zerocopy, Sparc sync, qlogic,FC fix, etc.
  - David Miller/me: get rid of various drivers hacks to do mmap
  alignment behind the back of the VM layer. Create a real
  protocol for it.

  - Bob Tracy: Cyrix MTRR setup fix (don't make it twice as big as asked
  for)
  - Trond Myklebust: rpciod needs to be PF_MEMALLOC to avoid deadlocks on
  memory allocation when writing out NFS data under low memory conditions.
  Fix up BKL and RPC interactions.
  - Jeff Garzik: tulip network driver update
  - fix truncate to call down to the filesystem with the kernel lock.
  - David Mosberger: ia64 update
  - David Mosberger: simplify ELF program header generation.
  - Alan Cox: merge from -ac series
  - Jeff Garzik: make serial.c recognize modem devices properly

  - Paul Mackerras: PPC update for thread-safe page table handling
  - Ingo Molnar: x86 PAE update for thread-safe page table handling
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates, i810 rng driver, and
  "alloc_etherdev()" network driver insert race condition fix.
  - David Miller: UltraSparcIII update, network locking fixes
  - Al Viro: fix fs counts on mount failure

  - Rik van Riel and others: mm rw-semaphore (ps/top ok when swapping)
  - IDE: 256 sectors at a time is legal, but apparently confuses some
  drives. Max out at 255 sectors instead.
  - Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver update
  - make the boottime memory map printout at least almost readable.
  - USB driver updates
  - pte_alloc()/pmd_alloc() need page_table_lock.