Linux 2.4.23-pre5

Linux 2.4.23-pre5

[Marcelo Tosatti]

Hi,

Here goes -pre5. It contains a bunch of important ACPI fixes, adds a very
important missing hunk from -aa VM merge, amongst others.

Detailed changelog below


Summary of changes from v2.4.23-pre4 to v2.4.23-pre5
============================================

<achirica:telefonica.net>:
  o [wireless airo] Fix MIC support using CryptoAPI

<amir.noam:intel.com>:
  o [bonding 2.4] Get rid of MOD_*_USE_COUNT, and use C99 initializers
  o [bonding 2.4] Backport free_netdev()
  o [bonding 2.4] Backport PDE()
  o [bonding] Convert /proc to seq_file

<bjorn.helgaas:hp.com>:
  o IA64 config help update
  o IA64 460GX gart support
  o IA64 ZX1 gart support

<daniel:deadlock.et.tudelft.nl>:
  o Patch: Fix reported Atyfb problem on Sparc

<len.brown:intel.com>:
  o Extended IRQ resource type for nForce (Andrew de Quincey) Handle BIOS with _CRS that fails (Jun Nakajima)
  o Fix ACPI oops on ThinkPad T32/T40 (Shaohua David Li)
  o support non ACPI compliant SCI over-ride specs (Jun Nakajima)
  o remove ASUS A7V BIOS version 1011 from blacklist (Eric Valette)
  o fix off-by-one error in ioremap() fixes kernel crash in acpi mode: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1085
  o ACPI_CA_VERSION                 0x20030916
  o tables.c.diff
  o from 2.6 acpi_pci_link_get_irq() returns 0 on error, not -ENODEV. (Christophe Saout)
  o exclude acpitable.[ch] from the CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY build
  o [ACPI] delete acpitable.[ch], which used to be just for CONFIG_ACPI_HT_ONLY
  o [ACPI] Fix SCI storm on out of spec boards like Tyan http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=774
  o [ACPI] acpi_disabled is used after __initdata is freed
  o [ACPI] fix IO-APIC mode SCI storm due to sharing with PCI device (David Shaohua Li) http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1165

<liam.girdwood:wolfsonmicro.com>:
  o 2.4.23-pre3 WM97xx touchscreen documentation

<marcelo:logos.cnet>:
  o Liam Girdwood: eliminates pop noises when doing a PM suspend/resume with the WM9712 AC97 codec.
  o Fix ide-scsi initialization lockup (kudos to Alan)
  o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre5
  o Fix Andrea VM merge error

<stuart_hayes:dell.com>:
  o Fix ide-tape lock up

Adrian Bunk:
  o add CONFIG_AGP_ATI Configure.help entry

Andi Kleen:
  o Fix x86-64 compatilation for pre4

Andrea Arcangeli:
  o Fix nr_free_buffer_pages()
  o Remove unused code from balance_classzone()

Geert Uytterhoeven:
  o Fixup atyfb changes in -pre4

Harald Welte:
  o [NETFILTER]: Use u16 for port numbers

Jeff Garzik:
  o fix ifdown+ifup
  o [sound i810_audio] sync with 2.5

Jens Axboe:
  o ide-cd capacity "bug"

Marc-Christian Petersen:
  o Fix wrong slash/backslash in ACPI
  o Fix 'head.S:116: warning: extra tokens at end of #endif directive'
  o Missing 'Hermes in TMD7160/NCP130 based PCI adaptor support' config option
  o Fwd: [PATCH 2.4.23-pre1] Menu fixes

Martin K. Petersen:
  o forte sound driver update

Mikael Pettersson:
  o repair mpparse for default MP systems

Neil Brown:
  o Revert broken knfsd change

Oleg Drokin:
  o Update reiserfs configure help

Paul Mackerras:
  o Fix IDE compile on PPC in 2.4.23-pre4
  o PPC32: Fix compile for "Walnut" board.  Patch from David Gibson
  o PPC32: Use nap mode in the idle loop on the PPC970
  o PPC32: Change the ucontext to move the sigmask back where it was

Tom Rini:
  o PPC32: Fix udelay in the PPC boot code for non-16.6 MHz timebases
  o PPC32: Fix another incorrect asm statement
  o PPC32: Fix a rounding error in the bootwrapper udelay

Re: Linux 2.4.23-pre5: airo.c does not build

[Eyal Lebedinsky]

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gcc -D__KERNEL__ -I/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre/include -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common
-fomit-frame-pointer -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=i686
-malign-functions=4 -DMODULE -DMODVERSIONS -include
/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre/include/linux/modversions.h 
-nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=airo  -DEXPORT_SYMTAB
-c airo.c
airo.c:207: redefinition of `PDE'
/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre/include/linux/proc_fs.h:213: `PDE'
previously defined here
make[3]: *** [airo.o] Error 1
make[3]: Leaving directory
`/data2/usr/local/src/linux-2.4-pre/drivers/net/wireless'

--
Eyal Lebedinsky (eyal@eyal.emu.id.au) <http://samba.org/eyal/>

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--- linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c.orig	Mon Sep 22 08:27:31 2003
+++ linux/drivers/net/wireless/airo.c	Mon Sep 22 08:32:18 2003
@@ -202,7 +202,7 @@
 #ifndef RUN_AT
 #define RUN_AT(x) (jiffies+(x))
 #endif
-#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < 0x020500
+#if LINUX_VERSION_CODE < KERNEL_VERSION(2,4,23)
 static inline struct proc_dir_entry *PDE(const struct inode *inode)
 {
 	return inode->u.generic_ip;

Re: Linux 2.4.23-pre5

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> Here goes -pre5. It contains a bunch of important ACPI fixes, adds a very
> important missing hunk from -aa VM merge, amongst others.

A small fix from the m68k warning police (out is no longer used):

--- linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c.orig	Mon Sep 22 08:43:17 2003
+++ linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c	Mon Sep 22 10:26:35 2003
@@ -317,7 +317,6 @@
 		}
 		current->nr_local_pages = 0;
 	}
- out:
 	*freed = __freed;
 	return page;
 }

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds

Re: Linux 2.4.23-pre5

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, 22 Sep 2003, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:

> On Sun, 21 Sep 2003, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> > Here goes -pre5. It contains a bunch of important ACPI fixes, adds a very
> > important missing hunk from -aa VM merge, amongst others.
> 
> A small fix from the m68k warning police (out is no longer used):
> 
> --- linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c.orig	Mon Sep 22 08:43:17 2003
> +++ linux-2.4.23-pre5/mm/page_alloc.c	Mon Sep 22 10:26:35 2003
> @@ -317,7 +317,6 @@
>  		}
>  		current->nr_local_pages = 0;
>  	}
> - out:
>  	*freed = __freed;
>  	return page;
>  }

Applied

Thanks Geert.