Date Tue, 19 Sep 2006 21:33:54 -0700 (PDT) From Linus Torvalds <> Subject Arrr! Linux 2.6.18

Ahoy!



She's good to go, hoist anchor!



Here's some real booty for all you land-lubbers.



There's not too many changes, with t'bulk of the patch bein' defconfig

updates, but the shortlog at the aft of this here email describes the

details if you care, you scurvy dogs.



Header cleanups, various one-liners, and random other fixes.



Linus "but you can call me Cap'n"



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Adrian Bunk:

Ahoy! Make fs/jffs2/nodelist.c:jffs2_obsolete_node_frag() static

fs/jffs2/xattr.c: maroon dead code



Al "Bilge rat" Viro:

[IPV4] fib_trie: missin' ntohl() when callin' fib_semantic_match()



Alexey Dobriyan:

headers_check: improve #include regexp

headers_check: clarify error message



Alexey Korolev:

[MTD] Fixes of performance and stability issues in CFI driver. Arrr!



Cap'n Andrew Morton:

Blimey! hvc_console suspend fix



Andy Walker:

[SPARC]: Fix mutimous regression in sys_getdomainname()



Arnaud Patard:

IPMI: Fix oops on ipmi_msghandler removal for non ipmi systems. Gar!



Artem B. Bityutskiy:

[MTD] NAND: keelhaul marooned URL in Kconfig



Aubrey Lee:

[MTD] DEVICES: Fill more device IDs in t'structure of m25p80



Auke Kok:

e1000: fix bilge-sucking TX timout hang regression for 82542rev3



Ben Dooks:

[ARM] 3784/1: S3C2413: keelhaul config for MACH_S3C2413/MACH_SMDK2413

[ARM] 3785/1: S3C2412: Fix idle code as default uses wrong clocks

[ARM] 3793/1: S3C2412: fix barnacles in wrong serial info struct

[ARM] 3794/1: S3C24XX: do not defined set_irq_wake when no CONFIG_PM



Benjamin Herrenschmidt:

[POWERPC] Fix G5 DART (IOMMU) race causin' occasional data corruption



Benjamin LaHaise:

i386/x86-64: Add core 2 to oprofile



Chas Williams:

[ATM]: [he] when transmit fails, unmap t'dma regions right smartly

[ATM]: [he] don't hold t'device lock when upcalling



Chuck Ebbert:

Kconfig: move CONFIG_EMBEDDED options to submenu. Gar!



Corey Minyard:

IPMI: keelhaul handlin' of OEM flags



Dale Farnsworth:

mv643xx_eth: Unmap DMA buffers in receive path



Dan Williams:

[ARM] 3780/1: Fix iop321 cpuid



Dave Kleikamp:

[Shiver me timbers] EXT2: Remove superblock lock contention in ext2_statfs



David S. Miller:

[OPENPROMIO]: Handle current_node bein' NULL correctly. Arrr!



David Woodhouse:

[MTD NAND] Fix lookup error in nand_get_flash_type()

[POWERPC] Implement PowerPC futex_atomic_cmpxchg_inatomic(). Arrr!

headers_check: reduce user-visible noise in <linux/nfs_fs.h>

headers_check: remove <asm/timex.h> from user export

headers_check: move inclusion of <linux/linkage.h> in <asm-i386/signal.h>

headers_check: move kernel-only #includes within <asm-i386/elf.h>

headers_check: don't expose PFN stuff to userspace in <asm-i386/setup.h>

headers_check: keelhaul userspace build of asm-mips/page.h

Fix scurvy 'make headers_check' on biarch architectures

Fix 'make headers_check' on s390

Fix 'make headers_check' on ia64

Fix 'make headers_check' on i386

Fix 'make headers_check' on x86_64

Fix 'make headers_check' for Alpha

headers_check: use a different default directory

Add headers_check' target to output of 'make help'



Davy Jones:

Didn't do anything, the scurvy lad. Ahoy!



Eli Cohen:

IPoIB: Retry failed send-only multicast group joins. Gar!



Frank Pavlic:

s390: minor s390 network driver fixes

s390: netiucv driver fixes

s390: Makefile cleanup

s390: qeth driver fixes [1/6]

s390: qeth driver fixes [2/6]

s390: qeth driver fixes [3/6]

s390: qeth driver fixes [4/6]

s390: qeth driver fixes [5/6]

s390: qeth driver fixes [6/6]



Geert Uytterhoeven:

Well blow me down, if he didn't fix 'make headers_check' on ia64



Greg KH:

We can not allow anonymous contributions to t'kernel



Haavard Skinnemoen:

MTD: Convert Atmel PRI information to AMD format

MTD: Add lock/unlock operations for Atmel AT49BV6416



Havasi Ferenc:

[JFFS2][SUMMARY] Fix a bilge-suckin' summary collectin' bug. Arrr!



Herbert Xu:

[NET]: Drop tx lock in dev_watchdog_up



HÃ¥vard Skinnemoen:

MTD: Fix bug in fixup_convert_atmel_pri



Imre Deak:

genirq: Fix the typo in IRQ resend smartly, cabin boy!



Ingo Molnar:

lockdep: double the number of stack-trace entries

genirq core: keelhaul handle_level_irq()



Ishai Rabinovitz:

IB/srp: Don't schedule reconnect from srp



James Morris:

[NETFILTER]: Add secmark headers to header-y



Jeremy Fitzhardinge:

x86: reserve a boot-loader ID number for Xen



Jon Loeliger:

[POWERPC] Add new, missin' argument to of_irq_map_raw() for 86xx. Arrr!



Josef 'Jeff' Sipek:

[MTD] Use SEEK_{SET,CUR,END} instead of hardcoded values in mtdchar lseek()



Josh Triplett:

Add preprocessed files (*.i) to .gitignore

Add mixed source and assembly listings (*.lst) to .gitignore

Add symbol type files (*.symtypes) to .gitignore



Kenneth Lee:

bug fix for bilge-suckin' in kernel/kmod.c



Kirill Korotaev:

[NEIGH]: neigh_table_clear() doesn't free stats



Linus "Cap'n" Torvalds:

x86: save/restore eflags in context switch

Avast! Belay those mmiocfg heuristics and blacklist changes

Linux v2.6.18. Arrr!



Matthew Wilcox:

headers_check: Clean up asm-parisc/page.h for user headers



Michael De Backer:

alim15x3.c: M5229 (rev c8) support for DMA cd-writer



Michael S. Tsirkin:

RDMA/cma: Increase t'IB CM retry count in CMA



Mike Miller:

cciss: version update, new hw



Mohan Kumar M:

[POWERPC] Fix interrupt clearin' in kdump shutdown sequence



NeilBrown:

knfsd: Have ext2 reject file handles with bad inode numbers early

knfsd: Make ext3 reject filehandles referrin' to invalid inode number



Olaf Hering:

[POWERPC] update prep_defconfig



Oleg Nesterov:

rcu_do_batch: make ->qlen decrement irq safe



Patrick McHardy:

[PACKET]: Don't truncate non-linear skbs with mmaped IO

[NETFILTER]: xt_quota: add missin' module aliases



Paul "Peg leg" Mackerras:

[POWERPC] Update defconfigs

[POWERPC] Fix MMIO ops to provide expected barrier behaviour



Ralph Siemsen:

[ARM] 3815/1: headers_install support for ARM



Remi Denis-Courmont:

[IPV6]: Accept -1 for IPV6_TCLASS



Richard Purdie:

MTD: [NAND] Fix t'sharpsl driver after breakage from a core conversion



Roland Dreier:

[ATM]: linux-atm-general mailin' list is subscribers only



Rolf Eike Beer:

remove #error on !PCI from pmc551.c



Ross Biro:

Add a missin' space that prevents buildin' modules that require host programs



Sachin P. Sant:

[POWERPC] kdump: Support kernels havin' 64k page size. Arrr!



Simon Horman:

[IPVS]: Document t'ports option to ip_vs_ftp in kernel-parameters.txt

[IPVS]: auto-help for ip_vs_ftp

[IPVS]: Make sure ip_vs_ftp ports are valid

[IPVS]: remove the debug option go ip_vs_ftp



Stefan Richter:

SCSI: lockdep annotation in scsi_send_eh_cmnd



Stephen Hemminger:

[TCP]: Turn ABC off. Arrr!

[BRIDGE]: random extra bytes on STP TCN packet

[NET]: Mark frame diverter for future removal. Arrr!



Suparna Bhattacharya:

ext3 sequential read regression fix



Takashi YOSHI:

MTD: Add Macronix MX29F040 to JEDEC



Takashi YOSHII:

[MTD] Maps: Add dependency on alternate probe methods to physmap



Tejun Heo:

libata: ignore CFA signature while sanity-checkin' an ATAPI device



Trond Myklebust:

NFS: Fix Oopsable condition in nfs_readpage_sync()

NFSv4: Fix incorrect semaphore release in _nfs4_do_open()

NFS: Fix nfs_page use after free issues in fs/nfs/write.c



Ulrich Kunitz:

zd1211rw: Fix of signal strength and quality measurement



Ville Herva:

block2mtd.c: Make kernel boot command line arguments work (try 4)



Vitaly Wool:

[MTD] NAND: OOB buffer offset fixups

[ARM] 3786/1: pnx4008: update defconfig

MTD NAND: OOB buffer offset fixups



Wong Hoi Sing Edison:

[TCP] tcp-lp: bug fix for oops in 2.6.18-rc6

[TCP] tcp-lp: update information to MAINTAINERS



YOSHIFUJI Hideaki:

[IPV6]: Fix tclass settin' for raw sockets.

[ATM] CLIP: Do not refer freed skbuff in clip_mkip(). Arrr!



Zoltan Sogor:

JFFS2: SUMMARY: keelhaul a summary collectin' bug

