Hi all:

The attached patch applies to 2.4.27-rc5 + Mikael's patch
series. Most fixes are taken from 2.6. The only non-lvalue
change is to e100.h which, otherwise, caused some tens of
warning lines on my logs.

There still are some lvalue related warnings (eicon_idi.c:2057,
53c7,8xx.c:3929,  fs/affs/super.c:133, rio_linux.c:1209,1333,
intermezzo/sysctl.c:305,  and ibmphp_hpc.c and  pciehp_hpc.c).
The hotplug dir (ibmphp_hpc.c and  pciehp_hpc.c) seems to get
very many updates in 2.6 compared to 2.4 so it wasn't easy to
decide. And for the rest, I got tired and bored..

There also are "integer constant is too large for "long" type"
warnings all around and I would like to know how serious they
are.

Compilations were tested with the gcc-3.4.0-1 package from FC2
(rebuilt on rh9). I would like to have the folks review this
for any of my errors/typos/brainfarts etc ;)

Thanks,
Özkan Sezer