- me/Al Viro: fix bdget() oops with block device modules that don't
  clean up after they exit
  - Alan Cox: continued merging (drivers, license tags)
  - David Miller: sparc update, network fixes
  - Christoph Hellwig: work around broken drivers that add a gendisk more
  than once
  - Jakub Jelinek: handle more ELF loading special cases
  - Trond Myklebust: NFS client and lockd reclaimer cleanups/fixes
  - Greg KH: USB updates
  - Mikael Pettersson: sparate out local APIC / IO-APIC config options

  - Chris Mason: fix ppp race conditions
  - Al Viro: block device cleanups/fixes
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS 1.1.20 update
  - Andrea Arcangeli: VM tweaks

  - more buffers-in-pagecache coherency

  - more buffers-in-pagecache coherency

  - more buffers-in-pagecache coherency

  - me/al/andrea: buffers-in-pagecache coherency, buffer.c cleanups

  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
  - Al Viro: block devices..
  - Andrea Arcangeli: fix list manipulation bogosity
  - Trond Myklebust: 64-bit file locking fixes
  - Brad Hards: USB CDC ethernet
  - Chris Mason: reiserfs speedup
  - Robert Love: re-merge AMD 761 GART support that was lost in -ac merge
  - Adam Richter: check pci_module_init() return value

  - Jan Harkes: make Coda work with arbitrary host filesystems, not
  just filesystems that use generic_file_read/write
  - Al Viro: block device cleanups
  - Hugh Dickins: swap device lock fixes - fix swap readahead race
  - me, Andrea: more reference bit cleanups

  - Richard Gooch: devfs update
  - Andrea Arcangeli: clean up/fix ramdisk handling now that it's in page cache
  - Al Viro: follow up the above with initrd cleanups
  - Keith Owens: get rid of drivers/scsi/53c700-mem.c file
  - Trond Myklebust: RPC over TCP race fix
  - Greg KH: USB update (ohci understands USB_ZERO_PACKET)
  - me: clean up reference bit handling, fix silly GFP_ATOMIC allocation bug

  - Manfred Spraul: /proc/pid/maps cleanup (and bugfix for non-x86)
  - Al Viro: "block device fs" - cleanup of page cache handling
  - Hugh Dickins: VM/shmem cleanups and swap search speedup
  - David Miller: sparc updates, soc driver typo fix, net updates
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates (dl2k, yellowfin and tulip)
  - Neil Brown: knfsd cleanups and fixues
  - Ben LaHaise: zap_page_range merge from -ac

  - Alan Cox: much more merging
  - Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci race fixes
  - Andrea Arkangeli: VM race fix and OOM tweak.
  - Arjan Van de Ven: merge RH kernel fixes
  - Andi Kleen: use more readable 'likely()/unlikely()' instead of __builtin_expect()
  - Keith Owens: fix 64-bit ELF types
  - Gerd Knorr: mark more broken PCI bridges, update btaudio driver
  - Paul Mackerras: powermac driver update
  - me: clean up PTRACE_DETACH to use common infrastructure

  - Neil Brown: md cleanups/fixes
  - Andrew Morton: console locking merge
  - Andrea Arkangeli: major VM merge

  - Alan Cox: continued merging
  - Mingming Cao: make msgrcv/shmat check the queue/segment ID's properly
  - Greg KH: USB serial init failure fix, Xircom serial converter driver
  - Neil Brown: nsfd/raid/md/lockd cleanups
  - Ingo Molnar: multipath RAID personality, raid xor update
  - Hugh Dickins/Marcelo Tosatti: swapin read-ahead race fix
  - Vojtech Pavlik: fix up some of the infrastructure for x86-64
  - Robert Love: AMD 761 AGP GART support
  - Jens Axboe: fix SCSI-generic queue handling race
  - me: be sane about page reference bits

  - Greg KH: start migration to new "min()/max()"
  - Roman Zippel: move affs over to "min()/max()".
  - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA update (make sure not to IRQ-unmask a vt82c576)
  - Jan Kara: quota bug-fix (don't decrement quota for non-counted inode)
  - Anton Altaparmakov: more NTFS updates
  - Al Viro: make nosuid/noexec/nodev be per-mount flags, not per-filesystem
  - Alan Cox: merge input/joystick layer differences, driver and alpha merge
  - Keith Owens: scsi Makefile cleanup
  - Trond Myklebust: fix oopsable race in locking code
  - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update

  - Christoph Hellwig: clean up personality handling a bit
  - Robert Love: update sysctl/vm documentation
  - make the three-argument (that everybody hates) "min()" be "min_t()",
  and introduce a type-anal "min()" that complains about arguments of
  different types.

  - Alan Cox: big driver/mips sync
  - Andries Brouwer, Christoph Hellwig: more gendisk fixups
  - Tobias Ringstrom: tulip driver workaround for DC21143 erratum

  - Jens Axboe: remove trivially dead io_request_lock usage
  - Andrea Arcangeli: softirq cleanup and ARM fixes. Slab cleanups
  - Christoph Hellwig: gendisk handling helper functions/cleanups
  - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs dead code pruning
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update to 1.1.18
  - firestream network driver: patch reverted on authors request
  - NIIBE Yutaka: SH architecture update
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC cleanups, PPC8xx update.
  - me: reverse broken bootdata allocation patch that went into pre5

  - Merge with Alan
  - Trond Myklebust: NFS fixes - kmap and root inode special case
  - Al Viro: more superblock cleanups, inode leak in rd.c, minix
  directories in page cache
  - Paul Mackerras: clean up rubbish from sl82c105.c
  - Neil Brown: md/raid cleanups, NFS filehandles
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (usb-2.0 support, visor fix, Clie fix,
  pl2303 driver update)
  - David Miller: sparc and net update
  - Eric Biederman: simplify and correct bootdata allocation - don't
  overwrite ramdisks
  - Tim Waugh: support multiple SuperIO devices, parport doc updates

  - Hugh Dickins: swapoff cleanups and speedups
  - Matthew Dharm: USB storage update
  - Keith Owens: Makefile fixes
  - Tom Rini: MPC8xx build fix
  - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs update
  - Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader fix for ET_DYN
  - Andrew Morton: reparent_to_init() for kernel threads
  - Christoph Hellwig: VxFS and SysV updates, vfs_permission fix

  - Johannes Erdfelt, Oliver Neukum: USB printer driver race fix
  - John Byrne: fix stupid i386-SMP irq stack layout bug
  - Andreas Bombe, me: yenta IO window fix
  - Neil Brown: raid1 buffer state fix
  - David Miller, Paul Mackerras: fix up sparc and ppc respectively for kmap/kbd_rate
  - Matija Nalis: umsdos fixes, and make it possible to boot up with umsdos
  - Francois Romieu: fix bugs in dscc4 driver
  - Andy Grover: new PCI config space access functions (eventually for ACPI)
  - Albert Cranford: fix incorrect e2fsprog data from ver_linux script
  - Dave Jones: re-sync x86 setup code, fix macsonic kmalloc use
  - Johannes Erdfelt: remove obsolete plusb USB driver
  - Andries Brouwer: fix USB compact flash version info, add blksize ioctls

  - Al Viro: block device cleanups
  - Marcelo Tosatti: make bounce buffer allocations more robust (it's ok
  for them to do IO, just not cause recursive bounce IO. So allow them)
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update (1.1.17)
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC update (big re-org)
  - Petko Manolov: USB pegasus driver fixes
  - David Miller: networking and sparc updates
  - Trond Myklebust: Export atomic_dec_and_lock
  - OGAWA Hirofumi: find and fix umsdos "filldir" users that were broken
  by the 64-bit-cleanups. Fix msdos warnings.
  - Al Viro: superblock handling cleanups and race fixes
  - Johannes Erdfelt++: USB updates

  - Jeff Hartmann: DRM AGP/alpha cleanups
  - Ben LaHaise: highmem user pagecopy/clear optimization
  - Vojtech Pavlik: VIA IDE driver update
  - Herbert Xu: make cramfs work with HIGHMEM pages
  - David Fennell: awe32 ram size detection improvement
  - Istvan Varadi: umsdos EMD filename bug fix
  - Keith Owens: make min/max work for pointers too
  - Jan Kara: quota initialization fix
  - Brad Hards: Kaweth USB driver update (enable, and fix endianness)
  - Ralf Baechle: MIPS updates
  - David Gibson: airport driver update
  - Rogier Wolff: firestream ATM driver multi-phy support
  - Daniel Phillips: swap read page referenced set - avoid swap thrashing

  - David Miller: sparc updates, FAT fs fixes, btaudio build fix
  - David Gibson: Orinoco driver update
  - Kevin Fleming: more disks the HPT controller doesn't like
  - David Miller: "min()/max()" cleanups. Understands signs and sizes.
  - Ben LaHaise: make vma merging more generous, help Mozilla /proc/<>/maps
  - Jens Axboe: CD updates
  - Trond Myklebust: save away NFS credentials in inode, so that mmap can
  writeout.
  - Mark Hemment: HIGHMEM ops cleanups
  - Jes Sorensen: use "unsigned long" for flags in various drivers

  - Tim Hockin: NatSemi ethernet update
  - Kurt Garloff: make PS/2 mouse reconnect adjustable like 2.2.x
  - Daniel Phillips: unlazy use-once
  - David Miller: undo poll() limit braindamage
  - me: make return value from do_try_to_free_pages() meaningful

  - Patrick Mochel: fix PCI:PCI bridge 64-bit memory type detection
  - me: more forgotten nfsd off_t -> loff_t
  - Alan Cox: ide driver merge
  - Eric Lammerts, Rik van Riel: when oom, kill all threads.
  - Ben LaHaise: use down_read, not down_write() in map_user_kiobuf.
  We don't change the mappings, we just read them.
  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
  - Roland Fehrenbacher: sparse lun check
  - Tim Waugh: handle awkward Titan parallel/serial port cards
  - Stephen Rothwell: APM updates
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS updates

  - me: fix forgotten nfsd usage of filldir off_t -> loff_t change
  - Alan Cox: more driver merges

  - Rui Sousa: emu10k1 module fixes, remove joystick part.
  - Alan Cox: driver merges
  - Andrea Arkangeli: alpha updates
  - David Woodhouse: up_and_exit -> complete_and_exit
  - David Miller: sparc and network update
  - Andrew Morton: update 3c59x driver
  - Neil Brown: NFS export VFAT, knfsd cleanups, raid fixes
  - Ben Collins: ieee1394 updates
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC update
  - me: make sure we don't lose position bits in "filldir()"

  - Rik van Riel: free up swap cache on swapin when swap is full..
  - Robert Love: merge emu10k sound driver.  This one is better ("Yeah,
  you actually get sound out of it")
  - Jeremy Linton: swapin/swapoff race condition fix

  - Jeff Hartmann: serverworks AGP gart unload memory leak fix
  - Marcelo Tosatti: make zone_inactive_shortage() return how big the shortage is.
  - Hugh Dickins: tidy up age_page_down()
  - Al Viro: super block handling cleanups

  - me: sane and nice VM balancing
  - Jeff Hartmann: upgrade DRM to XF86 4.1.x, drop support for 4.0.x

  - me: better dirty balancing
  - David Miller: sparc and network updates

  - Alan Cox: more merging
  - L.C. Chang: new SiS IDE PCI id's.
  - Maciej Rozycki: make MP table parsing more anal. Should fix broken P4 MP tables.
  - Leonard Zubkoff: merge DAC960 completion changes
  - Christoph Rohland: saner tmpfs mount-time limit behaviour (and remount)
  - me: buffer.c logic update - faster and hopefully livelock-free

  - David Mosberger: IA64 update
  - Geert Uytterhoeven: cleanup, new atyfb
  - Marcelo Tosatti: zone aging fixes
  - me, others: limit IO requests sanely

  - Ben Collins: 1394 updates
  - Matthew Dharm: USB storage update
  - Ion Badulescu: starfire driver update
  - VM aging cleanups

  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
  - David Miller: sparc and network updates
  - Andrea Arcangeli, Maksim Krasnyanskiy: tasklet fixes
  - Stelian Pop: Motion Eye camera driver update
  - Jens Axboe: DAC960 update

  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS error checking
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
  - OGAWA Hirofumi: FAT update
  - Alan Cox: driver + s390 update merge
  - Richard Henderson: fix alpha sigsuspend error return value
  - Marcelo Tosatti: per-zone VM shortage
  - Daniel Phillips: generic use-once optimization instead of drop-behind
  - Bjorn Wesen: Cris architecture update
  - Anton Altaparmakov: support for Windows Dynamic Disks
  - James Washer: LDT loading SMP bug fix

  - me: fix ptrace and /proc issues with new core-dump permissions
  - numerous: IDE tape driver update for completion handlers
  - Ben Collins: ieee1394 GUID cleanups
  - Jacek Stepniewski: nasty deadlock in rename()

  - Dan Quinlan: cramfs update
  - Ben Collins: IEEE 1394 update
  - David Miller: network update (pppoe, routing cache stats), sparc32 update
  - me: only dump core once per threaded app (first one wins)
  - me: use new completion handlers for block device requests (same race
  as with vfork, see -pre7)

  - Chris Mason: reiserfs update
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC updates (softirq)
  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
  - various: workaround for cpuid inline asm problem with egcs-2.91.66

  - Andreas Dilger: various ext2 cleanups
  - Richard Gooch: devfs update
  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
  - Alan Cox: merges
  - David Miller: fix SMP pktsched bootup deadlock (CONFIG_NET_SCHED)
  - Roman Zippel: AFFS update
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update
  - me: fix races in vfork() (semaphores are not good completion handlers)
  - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates, sysvfs update