[ANNOUNCE] kernel v2.0.40-pre1

[ANNOUNCE] kernel v2.0.40-pre1

[David Weinehall]

This is the first pre-patch of 2.0.40. It mainly cleans up some stuff
and adds a few useful scripts. I've also added an extra-version entry
to the KERNELRELEASE. If this causes any trouble, please let me know.

I intend to do quite some cleanup of the kernel-source; my goal is to
make it compile with gcc-3.x. This does _NOT_ mean that gcc-3.x will
produce a working kernel, at least not on x86, but the code needs
some fixups none-the-less; the #endif-fixes are the first changes in
this direction. Enjoy (?)

Later v2.0.40-prepatches will also see whitespace-fixes and fixes of
at least the most horrid uses of code-formatting. My reasoning here
is consistency and making it easier to use the v2.0-kernel for
educational purposes, and to simplify my own maintainance work. Feel
free to complain. I _might_ care, but I most probably won't :^)

This release is dedicated to all the victims of the terror-attacks
vs the United States on the 11th of September 2001.


2.0.40pre1

o	Fixed the ordering of			(Philipp Rumpf)
	watchdog initialising, to make sure
	hardware watchdogs takes precedence
	over the softdog driver
o	Fix the CREDITS-entry for		(Kai Petzke)
	Kai Petzke
o	Updated the MAINTAINERS-file a little	(me)
o	Fix "dumpable"-race			(Solar Designer)
o	Fix theoretical exploit in printk	(Solar Designer)
o	Backported checkconfig.pl,		(me)
	checkhelp.pl and checkincludes.pl
	from v2.4
o	Backported support for tags and		(me)
	TAGS
o	Added an extra-version entry to		(me)
	the version#, to keep track of
	the prepatches etc.
o	Fix all occurences of			(me)
	#endif BLABLA type; don't forget
	that it should be /* BLABLA */ !!!


/David Weinehall
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