Linux 2.4.6-ac2

Linux 2.4.6-ac2
Date: Sat, 7 Jul 2001 16:50:50 +0100 (BST)
From: Alan Cox 
To: editors@newsforge.com


ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/2.4/

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2.4.6-ac2
o        Merge Linus 2.4.7pre1
o        Drop out various bits that are 2.5 stuff
         AS/400 etc
o        Merge Linus 2.4.7pre2
o        Merge Linus 2.4.7pre3
o        Handle strange USB descriptors in CDCEther      (Brad Hards,
         | Fixe Motorola SB4100 cable modem              Jason Purdy)

o        Experimentally add aha1505 isapnp support       (Peter Samuelson)
o        Fix SMP race in buffer.c                        (Andrew Morton)
o        Fix fs/sysv/dir.c link mishandling              (Al Viro)
o        D-Link 2000 Gigabit ethernet driver             (Edward Peng)
o        EEPro100 fixes                                  (Kai Germaschewski)
o        Radeon frame buffer driver updates              (Ani Joshi)
o        Incorrect PPC irq assignment fix                (Paul Mackerras)
o        Fix usb scanner ioctl error return              (Paul Mackerras)
o        Fix ohci ppc build                              (Paul Mackerras)
o        Avoid oom handler firing excessively early      (Rik van Riel)
o        Fix imsttfb build bug                           (Paul Mackerras)
o        Add another kaweth ethernet id                  (Fumiaki OHATA)
o        i810 audio driver updates                       (Doug Ledford)
o        Vm86 sti handling fixup                                 (Stas Sergeev)
o        Fix non pnpbios build                           (Steve Cole)
o        Remove SGML short forms from video docs                 (Erik Mouw)
o        Pnp comments change for remove op               (Jeff Garzik)
o        Revert epic100 MII change                       (Jeff Garzik)
o        Update Jes maintainer info                      (Jes Sorensen)
o        Add test shared irq support to fdomain driver   (me)
o        Add mising DQUOT_INIT in inode.c                (Al Viro)
o        Fix device locking leak in pppoe        (Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o        Clean up the pnpbios BIOS calling code          (Brian Gerst)
o        Configure.help updates                          (Eric Raymond)
o        Don't autoload parport_serial in parport        (Tim Waugh)
o        Update atyfb                                    (Geert Uytterhoeven)
o        Fix procfs reporting of ataraid                         (Arjan van de Ven)
o        Upate ATP870u driver to handle the new          (Wittman Lee)
         6760 U160 hardware
o        Further ALi trident driver updates              (Matt Wu)