syscall latency improvement

 * There's now an asm/thread_info.h header file with the basic structure
   def and asm offsets in it.

 * There's now a linux/thread_info.h header file which includes the asm
   version and wraps some bitops calls to make convenience functions for
   accessing the low-level flags. 

 * The task_struct has had some fields removed (and some flags), and has
   acquired a pointer to the thread_info struct.

 * task_struct's are now allocated on slabs in kernel/fork.c, whereas
   thread_info structs are allocated at the bottom of the stack pages.

 * Some more convenience functions are provided at the end of linux/sched.h to
   access flags in other tasks (these are here because they need to access the
   task_struct).

minor nit, but it seems the tkill() patch added a sys_tkill entry without
removing an ia64_ni_syscall entry.

Linus, below is a patch to return the size of a device in bytes, not
in units of 512-byte sectors (which is incorrect per function
definition).  Tim Pepper submitted an equivalent patch for 2.4.x, now
included in 2.4.18-pre4.  Please apply.

minixfs switched.

sysvfs and v7 switched.
	* super.c: switched to ->get_sb()
	* ChangeLog: fixed dates ;-)

we are done with nodev filesystems - removed dead code in super.c and
fs.h

coda.

ncpfs.

smbfs switched to ->get_sb()

This patch updates the input core to the current version, fixing a bunch
of bugs, adding hotplug support and a listing of available input devices
in /proc. The later is very useful for troubleshooting.

Vojtech Pavlik
SuSE Labs

into penguin.transmeta.com:/home/penguin/torvalds/repositories/kernel/linux

into burns.home.kernel.dk:/usr/local/kernel/BK/linux-2.5

The llseek cleanup contained a typo in bluetooth/hci_vhci.c that
prevents compile.  Thankfully it seems to be the only of this type.

	Robert Love

Remove deprecated SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctls from several net drivers.  The same capabilities have been accessible via SIOCxMIIxxx ioctls
since their introduction in 2.4.x, and it's DaveM's intention to
eventually remove SIOCDEVPRIVATE during the 2.5.x series.

* Support new clone board.
* Count rx-lost-in-ring events.
* Support ethtool-compatible bitmapped printk message enable number.
* Support MII ethtool helper interface, and associated ioctls.
* Replace some MII-related magic numbers with linux/mii.h constants.
* Add in optional (and hopefully preferred... after testing) code
for resetting RX DMA engine on error.

* Support MII ethtool helper interface, and associated ioctls.
* Replace some MII-related magic numbers with constants from linux/mii.h.
* Remove deprecated SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctls, SIOCxMIIxxx ioctl replacements
have been in place since 2.4.x.

* Support MII ethtool helper interface, and associated ioctls.
* Remove unused CP_CHIP_VERSION constant.
* Update to-do list in driver header.

Contributed by one of the kernel janitors.

adding MODULE_{AUTHOR,DESC,LICENSE} tags.

ns82830, starfire.

* Support MII ethtool helper library, and associated ioctls.
* Replace some MII-related magic numbers with constants from linux/mii.h.
* Remove deprecated SIOCDEVPRIVATE ioctl usage, SIOCxMIIxxx is the
supported (and already present) replacement.

* Support MII ethtool helper interface, and related ioctls.
* Replace some MII-related magic numbers with constants.

* Properly identify 4-port server NIC.
* Add new NIC to PCI ids list.
* Fix multicast bug.
Contributed by the vendor, D-Link.

3c589_cs, aironet4500_cs, and fmvj18x_cs.

Replace MII-related magic numbers with meaningful constants
listed in linux/mii.h.

Contributor: somebody from lkml, Tim ?.

* Fix wake-up sequence for some clone boards.
* Support media-related ethtool ioctls, using MII ethtool helper lib.

vendor revision 1.08.
Contributed by the vendor, D-Link.

Caught by Ralf and the mips crowd.

More changes are needed to the task struct/scheduler area before
the alpha port will boot again; this flushes the easy stuff.

into rum.normnet.org:/spare/work/gkernel-2.5

3c501, 3c503, 3c505, 3c507, 3c509, 3c515, 3c523, 3c527.

More ->get_sb() patches: nfs.  It still acts as nodev - what we want to
(and can) do now is to give it enough smarts to recognize that same tree
might be already mounted.

We are almost done with nodev filesystems by now.

More ->get_sb() patches: autofs4

More ->get_sb() patches: autofs

More ->get_sb() patches: capifs