one more step closer to killing off ether=

once eth0 was found) - it is long since anyone shipped or built kernels
with all the ISA drivers compiled in.

This change will eliminate the need for adding "ether=...." at the boot 
prompt for a lot of users who build their own kernels and have multiple
ISA ethercards at standard (i.e. probed) I/O addresses.

Also got sick of counting zeros, so did a struct init cleanup,
i.e. {1,0,0,0,0,0,0,0,9}  -> {one:1, nine:9}

based net cards and hence these should be moved into the dev->priv
for these cards.

This patch adds rmem_start and rmem_end to dev->priv in 8390.h, and does:

        s/dev->rmem_/ei_local.rmem_/g   on all 8390 shared mem drivers.

the rmem_end field to store an I/O port address in.  As rmem_end is going
away, this does a s/rmem_end/mem_start/g since mem_start is otherwise 
unused in sb1000.

(probably as a result of copying skeleton or similar).  Removed this as 
a step in the goal to remove rmem_start/end from netdev struct entirely.

aironet4500, arlan, e2100, baycom, soundmodem

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

* region resource handling
* do-while macro definitions
* error cleanup

dev->last_rx equal to jiffies.

Whitespace cleanup

Update a few stale comments

Bump version to 4.2.8-k1, use EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS, minor changes
to ensure that reported link information is always correct, 
remove magic numbers in calls to memset.

ProcFS code updates, check for page boundaries.

change_mtu cleanup.  Allows frame sizes up to 2k on the 82542
instead of limiting the MTU to 1500, so that the 82542 can be 
used with software 802.1q VLANs.

Minor receive cleanup, queue empty buffers to the hardware in 
groups of 16 to reduce unneeded fetches and improve PCI 
efficiency.

Adaptive Inter-Frame Spacing to reduce collisions and improve 
half duplex transmit performance.

Replace LIST_LEN macro use with the standard ARRAY_SIZE.

VLAN hardware offload.

Updated transmit path.  Breaks the transmit path up to make it 
more understandable.  Aggressively reclaim resources by checking
for completed transmits before queuing each new frame to avoid 
stalling the driver by delaying interrupts to long.

Search and replace of adapter->shared with adapter->hw 
throughout the driver.  This matches the naming used in 
e1000_hw.c and is more correct.

Update to low level hardware code.  Adds support for the new 
82540 device.  Replaces e1000_mac.c e1000_mac.h e1000_phy.c and 
e1000_phy.h with e1000_hw.c and e1000_hw.c.  Changes to the 
makefile, header includes, and some minor function syntax 
changes to get the driver working with the new code.

License update, the "GNU General Public License" was incorrectly
referred to as the "GNU Public License".

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

Update from Thomas..

Here are the additional bits from the -ac tree, diffed
against 2.5.6 + 2.5.5-dj3 patch.  The changes include:

- Improve some comments
- Postpone starting the kernel thread (Alan Cox)
- Call kernel thread 'kpnpbiosd' instead of 'kpnpbios'
- Consolidate printing of error messages to save space
- Add __init and __exit tags and return appropriate error codes
- Print slightly more consistent messages
- Get closer to supporting build-as-module

o  Make MCE compile time optional	(Paul Gortmaker)
o  P4 thermal trip monitoring.		(Zwane Mwaikambo)
o  Non-fatal MCE logging.		(Me)

From Paul via 2.4

Originally from Matt Domsch.
Adds a nowayout module option to override CONFIG_WATCHDOG_NOWAYOUT
From 2.4

These are mostly Cyrix-alike, but for some quirks we work around.

Still a few out there.. Most of these from 2.4

Some from 2.4, some from the kernel janitor team,..

From Mikael via 2.4.

From Tigran via 2.4

The usual search and replace type operations from various people
to various drivers..