- remove NATIVE_CHAR typedef
 - remove ACPI_{GET,VALID}_ADDRESS macros
 - fix memory corruption in deletion of a static AML buffer
 - fix fault caused by 0-length AML
 - fix user-buffer overwrite/corruption of buffer is too small
 - fix buffer-to-string conversion

  Prefix more contants with ACPI_
  Fixed a problem causing DSDT image corruption
  Fixed a problem if a method was called in an object declaration
  Fixed a problem in the string copy routine
  Broke out some code into new files

 - Remove old code
 - Change some defines
 - Change Scope behavior

- Improved ACPI mode switching (Kochi Takayoshi)
- Improved namespace handling of parent operator "^^"
- Changed the names of some proprocessor macros
- Other improvements

Improved error checking on hw accesses
Moved arch specific macros to arch/asm/acpi.h

add support for GPE fields to be in any address space, not just IO.
comment and debug print cleanups

This is the update to the core interpreter code.

  - Michael Warfield: computone serial driver update
  - Alexander Viro: cdrom module race fixes
  - David Miller: Acenic driver fix
  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
  - Tim Waugh: parport update
  - David Woodhouse: JFFS garbage collect sleep

  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
  - Al Viro: block devices..
  - Andrea Arcangeli: fix list manipulation bogosity
  - Trond Myklebust: 64-bit file locking fixes
  - Brad Hards: USB CDC ethernet
  - Chris Mason: reiserfs speedup
  - Robert Love: re-merge AMD 761 GART support that was lost in -ac merge
  - Adam Richter: check pci_module_init() return value

  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (bluetooth and serial)
  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update for _real_ this time.
  - Neil Brown: md update
  - Keith Owens: kbuild script fix, do_softirq versioning fix
  - David Miller: sparc and portability updates

  - got a few too-new R128 #defines in the Radeon merge. Fix.
  - tulip driver update from Jeff Garzik
  - more cpq and DAC elevator fixes from Jens. Looks good.
  - Petr Vandrovec: nicer ncpfs behaviour
  - Andy Grover: APCI update
  - Cort Dougan: PPC update
  - David Miller: sparc updates
  - David Miller: networking updates
  - Neil Brown: RAID5 fixes