AC97 Codec Core
Kevin Mack <kevmack@accesscomm.ca>
Here's a quick and dirty patch that's given me basic sound from
my Gateway M675 notebook (Sigmatel 9758 AC97 codec).

Intel8x0 driver
Added slot definitions for s/pdif pcm - ICH4

ALSA Core
fixed the wrong release of id proc file.

ALSA Core
added the new magic numbers for atiixp and au88x0 drivers.

Documentation,PCI drivers,Intel8x0-modem driver
added Intel-compatible onboard MC97 modem driver
by Sasha Khapyorsky <sashak@smlink.com>

Documentation,PCI drivers,ATIIXP driver
added snd-atiixp driver for the ATI IXP150/200/250 AC97 controllers.

MIXART driver
fixed the compile warning.

EMU10K1/EMU10K2 driver
disabled Dell OEM Emu10k1x from the pci id list.
the board isn't compatible with the normal emu10k1.

au88x0 driver
removed EXPORT_NO_SYMBOLS.

PPC Tumbler driver
fixed the info callback of mixer input source (for enum type).

USB generic driver
added fix and workaround for the mixer problem on SB Extigy.

Documentation
fixed the files to include.

Documentation
changed the description of the buffer allocation routines
for the new designed functions.

PPC Tumbler driver
added input source switch to select mic/line-in.

Documentation,PCI drivers,au88x0 driver
added the au88x0 drivers for Aureal soundcards by Manuel Jander <mjander@embedded.cl>

VIA82xx driver
patch was applied wrongly.  fixed the rate restriction of spdif output
again.

DT019x driver
Fixed warnings

VIA82xx driver
restrict the PCM sample rates to 32, 44.1 and 48kHz when the SPDIF
switch is on.

USB generic driver
prevent twenty-seconds wait when unplugging USB MIDI device with a port subscription

USB generic driver
show one decimal place of momentary frequency in proc file

USB generic driver
use MIN_PACKS_URB as lower bound for nrpacks parameter

ALSA sequencer,ALSA<-OSS sequencer
use wrapper function for DELETE_PORT ioctl calls

ALSA sequencer
remove superfluous call to snd_seq_event_port_detach

into suse.cz:/home/perex/bk/linux-sound/linux-sound

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/libata-2.5

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into redhat.com:/spare/repo/netconsole-2.5

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

into ppc970.osdl.org:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

Cset exclude: akpm@osdl.org|ChangeSet|20040312161945|47751

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

At present slab is using 2-order allocations for the size-2048 cache.  Of
course, this can affect networking quite seriously.

The patch ensures that slab will never use more than a 1-order allocation
for objects which have a size of less than 2*PAGE_SIZE.

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

Add a little helper macro for a common list extraction operation in vmscan.c

The current refill logic in refill_inactive_zone() takes an arbitrarily large
number of pages and chops it down to SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX*4, regardless of the
size of the zone.

This has the effect of reducing the amount of refilling of large zones
proportionately much more than of small zones.

We made this change in may 2003 and I'm damned if I remember why.  let's put
it back so we don't truncate the refill count and see what happens.

- prevent nr_scan_inactive from going negative

- compare `count' with SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX, not `max_scan'

- Use ">= SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX", not "> SWAP_CLUSTER_MAX".

From: Nick Piggin <piggin@cyberone.com.au>

Use a "refill_counter" for inactive list scanning, similar to the one used
for active list scanning.  This batches up scanning now that we precisely
balance ratios, and don't round up the amount to be done.

No observed benefits, but I imagine it would lower the acquisition
frequency of the lru locks in some cases, and make codepaths more efficient
in general due to cache niceness.