The included patch is essentially a Linux Plug and Play Support rewrite.  It
contains many significant improvements, including the following:


1.)  A Global Plug and Play Layer
    - Now drivers do not have to worry about which plug and play
      protocol they are using.  Calls are made directly to the Linux
      Plug and Play Layer and then forwarded to the appropriate
      protocol.
    - This will make it very easy to integrate ACPI PnP support when
      it's ready


2.)  A complete Plug and Play BIOS driver
    - The Plug and Play BIOS now supports reading and writing of
      resource configurations.
    - It is now possible to enable disabled PNPBIOS devices.  Therefore
      the user can safely enable PnP OS support in their BIOS.


3.)  Driver Model Integration
    - The entire plug and play layer is integrated into the driver model
    - The user interface is housed here
    - PnP protocols are listed under the bus "pnp"


4.)  A powerful global resource configuration interface
    - The user can use this to activate PnP devices for legacy and
      user-level drivers
    - See the documentation for how to configure devices.

5.)  Automatic resource allocation for needed devices


6.)  A PnP device name database

And many more improvements.

This patch also adds me to the maintainers list, considering the current
PnP maintainer has been inactive for over 2 years now.

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into dell.com:/home/mdomsch/bk/linux-2.5-edd-tolinus

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* Documentation/networking/e1000.txt updates 

* Added bullets to changelog 
* Whitespace cleanup 

* Forcing 1000/fd is easier to undo with ethtool 
* Adapters supporting WoL capabilities are now an inclusive versus 
  exclusive list 

* Added software interrupt to ensure rx ring is cleaned in case 
  of previous allocation failures 
* Filled netdev->mem_end member 

* Adding notifier to track ifname change for /proc info 

* 2/3 wire downshift phy bits changed in newer phy revs 

* Newer controllers required manual phy PM enable for WoL to work 

* Set interrupt delay timer defaults to 0 across all adapters 

* Changed flow control defaults to minimize packet drops 

* add new pci ids

* updates to Documentation/networking/e100.txt

* Updated change log
* Adding notifier to track ifname change for /proc info 

* Added meaningful message for self-test failures
* Removed confusing messages from probe when link isn't detected

* Remove broken home-grown Rx polling mode (make way for NAPI)

into redhat.com:/home/jgarzik/repo/net-drivers-2.5

into redhat.com:/home/jgarzik/repo/net-drivers-2.5

A cloned bio still needs destructor set (and should clear bi_io_vec as
well), this was broken when Jens rewrote bio_alloc() recently.

This should now be OK with the mempool_alloc failing, and initialises
bi_io_vec = NULL for nr_iovecs = 0.

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into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into tp1.ruhr-uni-bochum.de:/home/kai/src/kernel/v2.5/linux-2.5.make

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

locked "xchg". It only needs a compiler barrier on UP.

This fixes the UP set_task_state and set_current_state in 2.5.43 to
ensure that we don't re-order loads around the store for setting
task->state.

This patch is from Nicolas Pitre, nico@cam.org

(As a side note - 2.4.10 also contains the same problem, but 2.2
contain the memory barrier.)

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into kroah.com:/home/greg/linux/BK/gregkh-2.5

you will find a patch for the tipar char driver.
This patch fixes some typos and add a documentation entry.

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If a device didn't match a driver, bus_match() returned 0, and device_attach()
would break out of the loop. So, the first driver was the only one being
checked every time. 

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This is pretty ugly, Al will fix up properly.

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This recognizes & logs 2 more IO APIC bit fields and reduces UNEXPECTED
IO-APIC traffic.

Has also been acked by Maciej W. Rozycki (marco).

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infrastructure.