- Alan Cox: more merging
  - Alexander Viro: block device module race fixes
  - Richard Henderson: mmap for 32-bit alpha personality
  - Jeff Garzik: 8139 and natsemi update

  - Michael Warfield: computone serial driver update
  - Alexander Viro: cdrom module race fixes
  - David Miller: Acenic driver fix
  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
  - Tim Waugh: parport update
  - David Woodhouse: JFFS garbage collect sleep

  - page write-out throttling
  - Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci sound driver update (make Civ:CTP happy with it)
  - Alan Cox: i2o sync-up
  - Andrea Arcangeli: revert broken x86 smp_call_function patch
  - me: handle VM write load more gracefully. Merge parts of -aa VM

  - Stephen Rothwell: APM idle time handling fixes, docbook update, cleanup
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
  - Greg KH: USB updates
  - Al Viro: UFS update, binfmt_misc rewrite.
  - Andreas Dilger: /dev/random fixes
  - David Miller: network/sparc updates

  - Greg KH: usbnet fix
  - Johannes Erdfelt: uhci.c bulk queueing fixes

  - Al Viro: mnt_list init
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver update (license tags, tulip driver)
  - David Miller: sparc, net updates
  - Ben Collins: firewire update
  - Gerd Knorr: btaudio/bttv update
  - Tim Hockin: MD cleanups
  - Greg KH, Petko Manolov: USB updates
  - Leonard Zubkoff: DAC960 driver update

  - Jens Axboe: clean up duplicate unused request list
  - Jeff Mahoney: reiserfs endianness finishing touches
  - Hugh Dickins: some further swapoff fixes and cleanups
  - prepare-for-Alan: move drivers/i2o into drivers/message/i2o
  - Leonard Zubkoff: 2TB disk device fixes
  - Paul Schroeder: mwave config enable
  - Urban Widmark: fix via-rhine double free..
  - Tom Rini: PPC fixes
  - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update

  - Alan Cox: more merging
  - Ben Fennema: UDF module license
  - Jeff Mahoney: reiserfs endian safeness
  - Chris Mason: reiserfs O_SYNC/fsync performance improvements
  - Jean Tourrilhes: wireless extension update
  - Joerg Reuter: AX.25 updates
  - David Miller: 64-bit DMA interfaces

  - Trond Myklebust: deadlock checking in lockd server
  - Tim Waugh: fix up parport wrong #define
  - Christoph Hellwig: i2c update, ext2 cleanup
  - Al Viro: fix partition handling sanity check.
  - Trond Myklebust: make NFS use SLAB_NOFS, and not play games with PF_MEMALLOC
  - Ben Fennema: UDF update
  - Alan Cox: continued merging
  - Chris Mason: get /proc buffer memory sizes right after buf-in-page-cache

  - Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug)
  - Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes
  - Al Viro: more mount cleanup
  - me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling
  - David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup
  - Tim Waugh: parport update
  - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates

  - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
  - me: symlink attach fix
  - Greg KH: USB update
  - Rui Sousa: emu10k driver update

  - various: fix some module exports uncovered by stricter error checking
  - Urban Widmark: make smbfs use same error define names as samba and win32
  - Greg KH: USB update
  - Tom Rini: MPC8xx ppc update
  - Matthew Wilcox: rd.c page cache flushing fix
  - Richard Gooch: devfs race fix: rwsem for symlinks
  - Björn Wesen: Cris arch update
  - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs cleanup
  - Tim Waugh: parport update
  - Peter Rival: update alpha SMP bootup to match wait_init_idle fixes
  - Trond Myklebust: lockd/grace period fix

  - Keith Owens: module exporting error checking
  - Greg KH: USB update
  - Paul Mackerras: clean up wait_init_idle(), ppc prefetch macros
  - Jan Kara: quota fixes
  - Abraham vd Merwe: agpgart support for Intel 830M
  - Jakub Jelinek: ELF loader cleanups
  - Al Viro: more cleanups
  - David Miller: sparc64 fix, netfilter fixes
  - me: tweak resurrected oom handling

  - Al Viro: separate out superblocks and FS namespaces: fs/super.c fathers
  fs/namespace.c
  - David Woodhouse: large MTD and JFFS[2] update
  - Marcelo Tosatti: resurrect oom handling
  - Hugh Dickins: add_to_swap_cache racefix cleanup
  - Jean Tourrilhes: IrDA update
  - Martin Bligh: support clustered logical APIC for >8 CPU x86 boxes
  - Richard Henderson: alpha update

  - Al Viro: superblock cleanups, partition handling fixes and cleanups
  - Ben Collins: firewire update
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
  - Urban Widmark: smbfs updates
  - Kai Mäkisara: SCSI tape driver update
  - various: embarrassing lack of error checking in ELF loader
  - Neil Brown: md formatting cleanup.

  - 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