Patch from Scott Anderson <scott_anderson@mvista.com> originally.

This allows for platform specific bi_recs to be passed in,
as well as other platform-specific fixups.

into kernel.crashing.org:/home/trini/work/kernel/pristine/linux-2.6-misc

From Scott Anderson <scott_anderson@mvista.com>.

into kernel.crashing.org:/home/trini/work/kernel/pristine/linux-2.6-misc

- Roadrunner address is defunct
- 3c501/Z85230 are no longer maintained
- Update other stuff because I will be away for a year

into home.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/net-2.5

Remove duplicate string definition. Same table already defined and
exported in irlan_event.c

Ircomm in 2.6.0-test3 can just set the owner field in the tty structure
like other drivers, and not mess with MOD_INC/MOD_DEC.

- set owner field on tty ldisc
- allocate network device objects with alloc_netdev
- use list_head macros and put locking around list of devices
- convert to seq_file for /proc
- use change_mtu hook rather than guessing at mtu changes

When doing the audit for this change, it was obvious that several drivers
allocate but never free the net_device.

This fixes these drivers.  This patch is riskier than the earlier
ones, because it isn't just a simple substitution and maybe there
is a reason they never free.

Drivers that use kfree in destructor are easily converted
to use free_netdev.

Replace kfree with free_netdev in cleanup routines
of protocols and network pseudo drivers.

s/kfree/free_netdev/ in cleanup routines of a bunch
of different network drivers.

Replace kfree with free_netdev

s/kfree/free_netdev/ as appropriate for tokenring drivers.

Simple one line substitution of kfree with free_netdev
for the bulk of the network drivers.

This patch adds the free_netdev function and associated
changes so that net_device structures are not freed until
last reference to the network device class is released.

into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/net-2.5

into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/sparc-2.5