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

This is from Ben Herrenschmidt's tree.

into samba.org:/home/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc

into samba.org:/home/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc

into samba.org:/home/paulus/kernel/for-linus-ppc

This moves the uc_sigmask field back to where it was before.  We now don't
assume the registers are at a fixed offset in the ucontext, but instead
access them through the uc_regs field as in the past.  This corresponds with
a recent change in glibc CVS.

GCC 3.4 miscompiles the kernel because it silently optimizes away
data placed in the .init.setup section by the __setup() macro.

__attribute__((unused)) does only avoid the warning, but doesn't
mark the data as being used.

Since GCC 3.3, __attribute__((used)) should be applied to such
variables.  The __attribute_used__ macro from linux/compiler.h already
takes care of compiler differences for us.

In this patch, I've gone a step further and proactively fixed that in
all places.

Thanks Matt and Jens for the debug help on the multipath problem. 

This solves the problem and makes multipath work properly.

There are two types of "flags" that are used in a block io request,
bi_flags, and bi_rw.  bi_flags is used for flags to the block level
code, and bi_rw is used for flags to the low level device drivers.

The code in the multipath driver used the wrong flag in the wrong field.
In this case, the flag FASTFAIL (value 3) was being set to the bi_flags
field.  FASTFAIL is a hint to the low level driver that it should try to
fail out quickly.  Unfortunately, the value 3 is also BIO_SEG_VALID,
which is a flag to the block subsystem that the segments shouldn't be
recalculated.  The result was that the wrong field was set, telling the
block layer not to recalculate the segments resulting in phys and hw
segments of 0.  Not good.

This is a new patch that includes Martin's, and makes create_dir() return
an int. That matches sysfs_create_file(), and saves a couple of
conversions back and forth between pointer and error.

avoid an annoying nonsense configuration question.

 - Remove obsolete wrong do_magic prototype
 - Remove the dependency between ACPI_SLEEP and SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
   some people complained about. Works the same as i386 now.
 - Fix another gcc 3.3 warning in reboot.c
 - Default NMI watchdog to LOCAL_APIC because that works on more
   boxes

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

From: Randy Hron <rwhron@earthlink.net>

Remove duplicate #includes from fs/intermezzo.

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

The verify_area's are not needed.

From: Randy Hron <rwhron@earthlink.net>

Remove unnecessary include of version.h in drivers/tc/

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

verify_area isn't needed.

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

Drop verify_area, using copy*user already (instead).
Also user -EFAULT for error instead of -EINVAL.

From: maximilian attems <janitor@sternwelten.at>

this patches catches obvious mistyping of new line:
/n versus \n
adds a printk loglevel to one of the erroneous lines

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

From: Randy Hron <rwhron@earthlink.net>

Remove duplicate #includes in fs/
Remove version.h includes where they aren't necessary.
Test compiled on 2.6.0-test5-bk9.

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

Deleted unneeded verify_area calls.
Also commented a label.

From: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>

Use get_user/put_user to check user addressing,
don't need to use verify_area also.

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

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

Remove outdated ipl records from arch/s390/boot. They are now part of
the s390-tools package.

s390 documentation changes.

Add support for vt220 console over sclp.

 - Create symlinks between netdev and groupdev.
 - Remove initialization of device.name.
 - Call qeth_free_card on removal.
 - Remove async hsi.
 - Remove contig memusage.
 - Add check for -EFAULT to copy_from_user/copy_to_user.
 - Inlining some functions to save kernel stack space.
 - vlan header fixes.
 - Replace atomic_return_sub with atomic_add_return.

 - Add type and timeout attribute.
 - Create symlinks between netdev and groupdev.
 - Remove initialization of device.name.

 - Move iucv bus and root device initialization from netiucv to iucv.
 - Fix race condition in iucv_connect.
 - Add 'user' attribute to netiucv driver.

 - Add type attribute.
 - Remove initialization of device.name.
 - Remove unnecessary include.

 - Fix use of tape block request queue pointer.
 - Remove unnecessary includes.

Fix bug in CMS label recognition in ibm.c

 - Do add_disk even for unformatted devices to be able to format them.
 - Remove initialization of device.name.
 - Export some functions.

 - Make xpram work on 64 bit machines.
 - Use new-style module_param.