Alan Cox: Linux 2.4.5-ac18 released

2.4.5-ac18
o Issue scsi retries on ‘not ready’ (Khalid Aziz)
o Lave 1uS gaps in the eepro100 cmd probe, and
probe for longer on cmd timeout (Masaru Kawashima)
| Experiment to see what happens
o Prefetch the io_request_lock in the i2o block
irq handler (me)
o Prefetch atomics and locks in the i2o_scsi
driver (me)
o Fix wrong config define in asm-i386/processor.h (Arjan van de Ven)
o Use skb_queue_purge in atmarpd (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix RLIMIT_NPROC accounting and root problem (Rik van Riel)
o Check out of memory case in i2c_parport (Rasmus Andersen)
o Enable internal amp on Targus Xtender and
Mebius PC-MJ100V (Frank Aune)
o X.25 cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Don’t try and load parport_serial if it wasnt
built (Niels Jensen)
o interrupt.h needs sched.h for some ports (Jeff Garzik)
o Fix nwflash driver locking problems (Russell King)
o Fix bug ac17 added to the i810 tco driver (Andrey Panin)
o Fix memory pressure accounting bug (Rik van Riel)
o Small syncppp cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Fix an sg leak on error path (Doug Gilbert)
o Fix comx_proto_fr possible leak (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Update ataraid driver, add hpt raid support (Arjan van de Ven)
o Fix highmem leak in nfs when taking signals (Trond Myklebust)
o Update Rik van Riel’s credits entry (Rik van Riel)
o via audio updates, midi support, endian fixes (Adrian Cox)
o Further Configure.help merges (Eric Raymond)
o Update AMD756 pci irq routing driver (Jhon Caicedo)
o Make nvram allow the full 128 bytes on newer
PC’s (Dave Jones)
o Update the simple boot flag support (Dave Jones)
| User space is now expected to set booted ok, via the
| nvram driver
o Set -fno-common to catch duplicate variable
bugs (Arjan van de Ven)
o Handle out of memory in sr.c get_capapbilities (Rasmus Andersen)
o SIS900 driver warning fix (Dave Miller)
o Update 64bit unclear driver checks (Jeff Garzik)
o Fealnx and sundance driver updates (Dave Miller)
o Small pppo driver cleanups (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o Handle proc entry create failure in videodev (Rasmus Andersen)