- Asit Mallick: mtrr update
- Patrick Mochel: split up kernel/device.c into drivers/base
- Mikael Pettersson/Al Viro: fix missing in-core inode initialization
in ext2 introduced by Al's inode trimming
- David Miller: sparc and network updates
- Frank Davis: firewire video mmap page remapping fix
- me: fix configure help scripts to fix breakage noticed by Dave Jones
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN fixes, Config.help entries
- Douglas Gilbert: SCSI doc update
- Ingo Molnar: x86 taskswitch optimizations, scheduler updates
- Mikael Pettersson: make APIC work on old external setups
- Al Viro: more inode trimming

- Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
- NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update

- Patrick Mochel: devicefs locking cleanups, refcount fixes
- Brian Gerst: apic timer cleanup
- Adam Richter: fix loop over block device bio breakage, ipfwadm compile fix
- Peter Anvin: bootproto v2.03
- me: split up Configure.help over the subdirectories where it is used

- Patrick Mochel: initcall levels
- Patrick Mochel: devicefs updates, add PCI devices into the hierarchy
- Denis Oliver Kropp: neomagic fb driver
- David Miller: sparc64 and network updates
- Kai Mäkisara: scsi tape update
- Al Viro: more inode trimming, VFS cleanup
- Greg KH: USB update - proper urb allocations
- Eric Raymond: kdev_t updates for fb devices

- Al Viro: VFS inode allocation moved down to filesystem, trim inodes
- Greg KH: USB update, hotplug documentation
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Ingo Molnar: scheduler tweaking ("J2")
- Arnaldo: emu10k kdev_t updates
- Ben Collins: firewire updates
- Björn Wesen: cris arch update
- Hal Duston: ps2esdi driver bio/kdev_t fixes
- Jean Tourrilhes: move wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless,
update wireless API #1
- Richard Gooch: devfs race fix
- OGAWA Hirofumi: FATFS update

- Al Viro: fix new_inode() allocation
- undo initcall update
- cciss driver update

- David Howells: abtract out "current->need_resched" as "need_resched()"
- Frank Davis: ide-tape update for bio
- various: header file fixups
- Jens Axboe: fix up bio/ide/highmem issues
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Tim Waugh: parport update
- Patrik Mochel: initcall update
- Greg KH: USB and Compaq PCI hotplug updates

- Al Viro: fix up silly problem in swapfile filp cleanups in 2.5.2
- Tachino Nobuhiro: fix another error return for swapfile filp code
- Robert Love: merge some of Ingo's scheduler fixes
- David Miller: networking, sparc and some scsi driver fixes
- Tim Waugh: parport update
- OGAWA Hirofumi: fatfs cleanups and bugfixes
- Roland Dreier: fix vsscanf buglets.
- Ben LaHaise: include file cleanup
- Andre Hedrick: IDE taskfile update

- Matt Domsch: combine common crc32 library
- Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci update
- Davide Libenzi: scheduler improvements
- Al Viro: almost there: "struct block_device *" everywhere
- Richard Gooch: devfs cpqarray update, race fix
- Rusty Russell: PATH_MAX should include the final '0' count
- David Miller: various random updates (mainly net and sparc)

- Davide Libenzi, Ingo Molnar: scheduler updates
- Greg KH: USB update
- Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA and wireless updates
- Jens Axboe: bio/block updates

- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- Al Viro: start moving buffer cache indexing to "struct block_device *"
- Greg KH: USB update
- Russell King: fix up some ARM merge issues
- Ingo Molnar: scalable scheduler

- Russell King: large ARM update
- Adam Richter et al: more kdev_t updates

- Greg KH: USB updates
- various: kdev_t updates
- Al Viro: more bread()/filesystem cleanups

- Jeff Garzik: fix up loop and md for struct kdev_t typechecking
- Jeff Garzik: improved old-tulip network driver
- Arnaldo: more scsi driver bio updates
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- various: kdev_t updates

- Davide Libenzi: nicer timeslices for scheduler
- Arnaldo: wd7000 scsi driver cleanups and bio update
- Greg KH: USB update (including initial 2.0 support)
- me: strict typechecking on "kdev_t"

- Dave Jones: more merging, fix up last merge..
- release to sync with Dave

- Jens Axboe: more bio updates, fix some request list bogosity under load
- Al Viro: export seq_xxx functions
- Manfred Spraul: include file cleanups, pc110pad compile fix
- David Woodhouse: fix JFFS2 write error handling
- Dave Jones: start merging up with 2.4.x patches
- Manfred Spraul: coredump fixes, FS event counter cleanups
- me: fix SCSI CD-ROM sectorsize BIO breakage

- Christoph Hellwig: scsi_register_module cleanup
- Mikael Pettersson: apic.c LVTERR fixes
- Russell King: ARM update (including bio update for icside)
- Jens Axboe: more bio updates
- Al Viro: make ready to switch bread away from kdev_t..
- Davide Libenzi: scheduler cleanups
- Anders Gustafsson: LVM fixes for bio
- Richard Gooch: devfs update

- Al Viro: task-private namespaces, more cleanups

- me: revert the "kill(-1..)" change.  POSIX isn't that clear on the
issue anyway, and the new behaviour breaks things.
- Jens Axboe: more bio updates
- Al Viro: rd_load cleanups. hpfs mount fix, mount cleanups
- Ingo Molnar: more raid updates
- Jakub Jelinek: fix Linux/x86 confusion about arg passing of "save_v86_state" and "do_signal"
- Trond Myklebust: fix NFS client race conditions

- Al Viro: floppy_eject cleanup, mount cleanups
- Jens Axboe: bio updates
- Ingo Molnar: mempool fixes
- GOTO Masanori: Fix O_DIRECT error handling

- Jeff Garzik: no longer support old cards in tulip driver
(see separate driver for old tulip chips)
- Pat Mochel: driverfs/device model documentation
- Ballabio Dario: update eata driver to new IO locking
- Ingo Molnar: raid resync with new bio structures (much more efficient)
and mempool_resize()
- Jens Axboe: bio queue locking

- Jens Axboe: more bio stuff
- Ingo Molnar: mempool for bio
- Niibe Yutaka: Super-H update

- Jeff Garzik: separate out handling of older tulip chips
- Jens Axboe: more bio stuff
- Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS 1.1.21 update

- Greg KH: USB updates
- Jens Axboe: more bio updates
- Christoph Rohland: fix up proper shmat semantics

- Jens Axboe: more bio fixes/cleanups/breakage ;)
- Al Viro: superblock cleanups, boot/root mounting.

- Jens Axboe: more bio stuff
- Coda compile fixes
- Nathan Laredo: stradis driver update

- Patrick Mochel: driver model infrastructure, part 1
- Jens Axboe: more bio fixes, cleanups
- Andrew Morton: release locking fixes
- Al Viro: superblock/mount handling
- Kai Germaschewski: AVM Fritz!Card ISDN driver
- Christoph Hellwig: make cramfs SMP-safe.

- Jens Axboe: fix up bio highmem breakage, more cleanups
- Greg KH: USB update

- Al Viro: more superblock cleanups
- Jens Axboe: more patches for new block IO layer
- Christoph Hellwig: get rid of the old, long- deprecated SCSI error
handling

- Greg KH: USB update
- Richard Gooch: refcounting for devfs
- Jens Axboe: start of new block IO layer

- me: README references to 2.4.x -> 2.5.x
- Alexander Viro: fix unmount inode breakage, show_vfsmnt cleanup
- Jeff Garzik: fix 8139too initialization

- fork off 2.5.0, change version numbers

  - Jan Kara: fix quota SMP races with BKL

  - David Brownell: usbnet update
  - Greg KH: USB and PCI hotplug update
  - Ingo/me: fix SCHED_FIFO for UP/SMP for good (flw).
  - Add back direct_IO now that it works again.

  - Richard Henderson: alpha update
  - Andrew Morton: fix ext3/minix/sysv fsync behaviour.

  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
  - Christoph Hellwig: UFS filesystem byteorder cleanups
  - me: modified Andrea VM page allocator tuning

  - Russell King: /proc/cpuinfo for ARM
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC update (cpuinfo etc)
  - Nicolas Aspert: fix Intel 8xx agptlb flush
  - Marko Myllynen: "Lindent" doesn't really need bash ;)
  - Alexander Viro: /proc/cpuinfo for s390/s390x/sh, /proc/pci cleanup
  - Alexander Viro: make lseek work on seqfiles

  - Greg KH: enable hotplug driver support
  - Andrea Arcangeli: remove bogus sanity check
  - David Mosberger: /proc/cpuinfo and scsi scatter-gather for ia64
  - David Hinds: 16-bit pcmcia network driver updates/cleanups
  - Hugh Dickins: remove some stale code from VM
  - David Miller: /proc/cpuinfo for sparc, sparc fork bug fix, network
  fixes, warning fixes
  - Peter Braam: intermezzo update
  - Greg KH: USB updates
  - Ivan Kokshaysky: /proc/cpuinfo for alpha
  - David Woodhouse: jffs2 - remove dead code, remove gcc3 warning
  - Hugh Dickins: fix kiobuf page allocation/deallocation

  - Mikael Pettersson: make proc_misc happy without modules
  - Arjan van de Ven: clean up acpitable implementation ("micro-acpi")
  - Anton Altaparmakov: LDM partition code update
  - Alan Cox: final (yeah, sure) small missing pieces
  - Andrey Savochkin/Andrew Morton: eepro100 config space save/restore over suspend
  - Arjan van de Ven: remove power from pcmcia socket on card remove
  - Greg KH: USB updates
  - Neil Brown: multipath updates
  - Martin Dalecki: fix up some "asmlinkage" routine markings