The percpu counters break UML SMP compilation (in current 2.5.58 bk snapshot)
(first NR_CPUS undeclared in header, then dereference of incomplete structure
in .c file)

From: Janet Morgan <janetmor@us.ibm.com>

Here's a small patch that adds aio_read and aio_write methods to the
block device driver.

Fix a bug identified by Nikita Danilov: refill_inactive_zone() is deferring
the update of zone->nr_inactive and zone->nr_active for too long - it needs
to be consistent whenever zone->lock is not held.

From: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>

- Whitespace fixes

- Fix for the case where HZ != 1000 (pointed out by Mika Penttila).

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

Update some no-longer-true comments around nr_threads locking.

From: Ernie Petrides <petrides@redhat.com>

The problem resolved by this patch is that if a root file system has an
error recorded from a previous mount, and then (when rebooting) the orphan
recovery procedure is initiated, the recovery is correctly skipped but the
file system is incorrectly left in a writable state.

This causes the subsequent fsck to fail due to the root file system
being dirty, and then requires manual intervention to get the system
fully booted.

From: Paul B Schroeder <paulsch@haywired.net>

The following patch simply moves the 'nr_registered_attrs' and
'device_registered' variables in mwavedd.c into the MWAVE_DEVICE_DATA struct
which is defined in mwavedd.h..

- Remove dead variable from block_read_full_page (Oleg Drokin)

From: Miklos.Szeredi@eth.ericsson.se (Miklos Szeredi)

This fixes a problem with method 0 of proc_file_read (when the whole file
is copied to the page).  The calculation of the final bytecount is wrong,
and hence smaller then page size reads will give a truncated file.

Current 2.4 kernels do it this way as well.

From: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl>

Updates the HDLC drivers to the approved module API.

From: Paul Clements <Paul.Clements@SteelEye.com>

Currently, when I build ext3 as a module, jbd gets built into the kernel
proper.  This trivial patch allows jbd to be built as a module when ext3 is
also modular.  I believe this is the intention, as this is how it works in
2.4.  I've built and tested with modular jbd and ext3 on 2.5.68.

From: Dave Olien <dmo@osdl.org>

Christoph submitted a patch to linus last week fixing up some DAC960 driver
entry points.  That patch will OOPS during boot on version 2 controller
types.  Christoph's version of the disk_size() function was dereferencing
a NULL pointer in it's "else" clause.

Christoph's patch hasn't appeared in linus's BK tree yet.  So, I'm
resending Christoph's orignal patch with my fix to disk_size() included.
This patch can be applied to the driver in Linus's BK tree from April 28.

Here's Christoph's original description of his patch:

Some grepping showed that DAC960's open routine was duplicating parts
of check_disk_change().  I went on fixing this by implementing a
media_changed method and making DAC960_Open use it.  While looking
at the surrounding code I noticed that

  (a) all methods weren't using the private data the upperlayer
      hands to it properly, but instead using kdev_t-based indexes
  (b) DAC960_Open/DAC960_Release was keeping never used counters
  (c) DAC960_Open was doing tons of checks the upperlayer already does
  (d) DAC960_Release was entirely superflous.

The patch below corrects that and rewrites the block entry points
into readable code - 100 LOC are gone and the same amount replaced
by readable code.

Fix a few unused var warnings in drivers/block/xd.c

From: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com>

apm.c:suspend() calls set_system_power_state() under (effectively)
spin_lock_irq(i8253_lock).

But set_system_power_state() unconditionally enables interrupts, in
apm_bios_call_simple().  This generates nasty warnings from the uniprocessor
spinlock debugging code, and would be deadlocky if APM worked on SMP.

So drop the locks around the set_system_power_state() call.

Update bttv driver to the new IRQ API.

Fixes a bug spotted by Alexey Mahotkin <alexm@hsys.msk.ru>: the slab-internal
SLAB_NO_GROW bit clashes with __GFP_NORETRY.

Fix that up so it won't happen again by moving the bit layout into gfp.h.

Some IRQ udpates for IRDA which seemed to get lost.

IRQ API udpate in i2c-elektor.c

Introduces __module_get for places where we know we already hold
a reference and ignoring the fact that the module is being "rmmod --wait"ed
is simpler.

Restores .modinfo section, and uses it to store license and vermagic.

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

   This one-liner is required for PCI serial ports that have multiple
MMIO ports off a single PCI BAR.  Calls to request_mem_resource() fail
after the first one otherwise.  Patch against 2.5.67.  Thanks,

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

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

Update the dcache section in Documentation/filesystems/Locking to match
reality.  Note that there's other parts of this file that are badly out
of date - I'll look into it later.

this fixes a harmless but annoying warning when compiling one of the
tape drivers without devfs.

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

The included patch cleans up the EISA code :

- Documentation update,
- Remove i386 EISA ID reservation (handled in the generic code),
- Add some preliminary support for EISA-like VLB cards (Adaptec 287x),
- Add some stricter dependancies for EISA_VIRTUAL_ROOT
- Preliminary support for EISA DMA,
- Much more conservative probing,
- EISA IDs list update (Compaq stuff).

into kernel.bkbits.net:/home/davem/net-2.5

* Need _rcu on the list_for_each_entry in br_get_port because called in
  read path for some ioctls
* Move two small functions is_root_bridge and is_designated_port into
  inlines because they are so short.

into nuts.ninka.net:/home/davem/src/BK/net-2.5

Thanks to Rusty for spotting this one, if the net family module is not there
anymore (or is going away at that time) it is not supported, not busy.