Linux 2.6.10-ac2

From: Alan Cox (alan_at_lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk)
Date: 12/31/04

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Date:	Thu, 30 Dec 2004 23:42:34 +0000

    Arjan van de Ven is now building RPMS of the kernel and those can be found
    in the RPM subdirectory and should be yum-able. Expect the RPMS to lag the
    diff a little as the RPM builds and tests do take time.

    Key: o - only in -ac
            * - already fixed upstream
            X - discarded later as wrong
            + - ac specific (fix not relevant to non -ac)

    2.6.10-ac2
    o Fix printk fixes for geometry free drives (Alan Cox)
            | Found by Bartlomiej
    o Bartlomiej's requested cleanups for IT8212 (Alan Cox)
    X Drop unneeded i810 audio patch
    X Drop useless kmalloc size patch
    + Fix proposed ide ISA v PIO change to work (Alan Cox)
            | Bug noted by .. everyone
    * Backport mxser compile fix (Al Viro)
    * Backport via acpi irq routing fixes (Len Brown, Shaohua Li)
            | Replaces the old -ac fix
    * Backport further aacraid chipset support (Mark Haverkamp)
    * ULi 5281 support (Peer Chen)
    * Backport several libata fixes notably problems (Albert Lee)
            with PDC20275
    o FW_LOADER is needed by several dvb devices (Michal Feix)
    o Add IT8211 PCI identifiers to IT8212 and (Alan Cox)
            rename driver and functions it iT821x
            | Thanks to Philipp Imhof for the IT8211 idents
    o Clean up and merge LAN M526X support (Clear Zhang)
            | 2.6 port/slight tidy done on the original

    2.6.10-ac1
    o Revert AX.25 protocol breakage (Alan Cox)
    o Remove bogus obsolete option junk from 2.6.10 (Alan Cox)
            ide changes
            | Options are often useful, so should be kept.
            | Especially stuff like serialize
    o Fix bogus dma_ naming in the 2.6.10 patch (Alan Cox)
    o Initial CS5520 fixups for VDMA and 2.6.10
            | Must set vdma flag before command issue
            | ?? could we just set it at boot and leave it - probably (check)

    Forward ported from 2.6.9-ac
    o Smbfs improved parsing fixes (Chuck Ebbert)
    o Fix several IDE drivers that assumed > 0 was (Alan Cox)
            also an error return for pci probe functions
    o Fix sys5 semaphore wakeups (Manfred Spraul)
    o Suggest irqpoll when we get screaming irqs (Alan Cox)
    o Fix reset problems with older 3c59x/3c90x (John Linville)
    o Configurable 100/1Khz clock for x86 (James Bottomley)
            | 100Hz is great for battery life
    o Delkin cardbus IDE support (Mark Lord)
    o IT8212 IDE support (Alan Cox)
    X Add more AC97 table data
    o Token ring locking fix
    o Fix URL for lanana (Alexander Stohr)
    X Add a 1620 byte slab cache for ethernet frames (Arjan van de Ven)
    o EDD boot options (Matt Domsch)
    o Don't probe legacy ISA ide2,3,4,5 on PCI boxes (Alan Cox)
    o Restore PWC driver (Luc Saillard)
            | Please port away from remap_page_range
    o Fix AT2701FX AMD PCnet32 on fibre (Guido Guenther)
    o Fix build of CS461x gameport (Adrian Bunk)
    o Fix crash with aacraid double complete (Mark Salyzyn, Tom Coughlan,
                                                     Alan Cox)
    o Fix getblk_slow hang (Chris Mason)
    + Fix SMP hang with IDE unregister (Mark Lord)
    o Working IDE locking (Alan Cox)
            | And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
    o Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE (Alan Cox)
            devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
    o More ATI IDE PCI identifiers (Enrico Scholza)
    o Initial patch for ide_abort hang (Alan Cox)
    o Fix serveral ide timing violations on reset (Alan Cox)
    o Support CSB6-R Serverworks raid (Alan Cox)
    o Teach ide-cd to use sense data for file system (Alan Cox)
            requests
            - This means you get better diagonstics on CD errors
            - It means a partial I/O failure will get you back the ok sectors
            - It may fix the problem some users have with ISO copying and ide-cd
    o Lock ide-proc against driver unload (Alan Cox)
            (very low severity)
    o Fix ide /proc and legacy devices problem (Alan Cox)
    * Watchdog support for early cobalt ALi hardware (Mike Waychison)
    o Make sx8 naming follow LANANA (Jeremy Katz)
    * Don't warn on scsi ioctl kmalloc fail (Arjan van de Ven)
    * Fix Paul Laufer's email address (Paul Laufer)
    * Fix misleading microcode message (Arjan van de Ven)
    o Allow cross compile of x86_32 kernel on x86_64 (Arjan van de Ven)
    o Kill "open failed" cdrom message. (Alan Cox)
            | This is a natural event from code poking around
            | doing CD detection etc
    o Minor typo fix in cdrom driver (efalk@google)
    * Add support for newer ALi AGP (Clear Zhang)
    o Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws (Alan Cox)

    Cleanups in porting
    o Drop ->taskfile hooks in the IDE layer (Alan Cox)
            (->fixup replaces)
    o Fix up IT8212 for 2.6.10 ide_use_dma cleanups (Alan Cox)
            and other 2.6.10 cleaning

    Dropped for now
    o VIA extra quirk
    o HP Cardbus routing fixup

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