From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Linux 2.6.24
Date: Jan 24, 7:17 pm 2008

The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for 
the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) 
LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one.

Nothing earth-shattering happened since -rc8, although the new set of ACPI 
blacklist entries and some network driver updates makes the diffstat show 
that there was more than the random sprinkling of one-liners all over the 
tree.

But most of it really is one-liners, and mostly not very exciting ones at 
that.

The appended shortlog is obviously just the changes from -rc8, if you want 
the full ChangeLog (all 5.8MB of it) from 2.6.23 it's available in the 
usual places.

			Linus

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Adrian Bunk (2):
      [ATM] atm/idt77105.c: Fix section mismatch.
      [ATM] atm/suni.c: Fix section mismatch.

Al Viro (9):
      dscc4 endian fixes
      wan/lmc bitfields fixes
      sbni endian fixes
      3c574, 3c515 bitfields abuse
      dl2k: BMCR_t fixes
      dl2k: ANAR, ANLPAR fixes
      dl2k: BMSR fixes
      dl2k: MSCR, MSSR, ESR, PHY_SCR fixes
      dl2k: the rest

Alan Cox (2):
      pata_pdc202xx_old: Fix crashes with ATAPI
      keyspan: fix oops

Alex (1):
      fix radeonfb regression with Xpress 200m 5955

Alexey Starikovskiy (2):
      ACPI: processor: Fix null pointer dereference in throttling
      ACPI: EC: fix dmesg spam regression

Andres Salomon (2):
      Input: psmouse - fix potential memory leak in psmouse_connect()
      Input: psmouse - fix input_dev leak in lifebook driver

Andrew Dyer (1):
      [WATCHDOG] clarify watchdog operation in documentation

Andrew G. Morgan (1):
      Fix filesystem capability support

Anton Salikhmetov (1):
      Update ctime and mtime for memory-mapped files

Arjan van de Ven (2):
      x86: add support for the latest Intel processors to Oprofile
      lockdep: fix kernel crash on module unload

Atsushi Nemoto (1):
      tc35815: Use irq number for tc35815-mac platform device id

Bjorn Helgaas (1):
      hwmon: (it87) request only Environment Controller ports

Carlos Martín (2):
      agp/intel: add support for E7221 chipset
      drm/i915: add support for E7221 chipset

Carsten Otte (1):
      #ifdef very expensive debug check in page fault path

Cyrill Gorcunov (1):
      CRIS: add missed local_irq_restore call

Dan Williams (1):
      [ARM] 4748/1: dca: source drivers/dca/Kconfig in arch/arm/Kconfig to fix warning

Daniel Ritz (1):
      Input: usbtouchscreen - fix buffer overflow, make more egalax work

Daniel Walker (2):
      fix wrong sized spinlock flags argument
      ARM: OMAP1: Fix compile for board-nokia770

Dave Young (1):
      [BLUETOOTH]: Move children of connection device to NULL before connection down.

David Fries (2):
      W1: w1_therm.c ds18b20 decode freezing temperatures correctly
      W1: w1_therm.c is flagging 0C etc as invalid

David S. Miller (8):
      [NET]: Fix TX timeout regression in Intel drivers.
      [NIU]: Fix 1G PHY link state handling.
      [SPARC64]: Fix hypervisor TLB operation error reporting.
      [NET]: Fix interrupt semaphore corruption in Intel drivers.
      [NEIGH]: Revert 'Fix race between neigh_parms_release and neightbl_fill_parms'
      [TULIP] DMFE: Fix SROM parsing regression.
      [IPV4]: Add missing skb->truesize increment in ip_append_page().
      [SPARC64]: Partially revert "Constify function pointer tables."

Denis V. Lunev (1):
      [NETNS]: Re-export init_net via EXPORT_SYMBOL.

Dmitri Vorobiev (1):
      [MIPS] Malta: Fix reading the PCI clock frequency on big-endian

Dmitry Torokhov (1):
      Input: ALPS - fix sync loss on Acer Aspire 5720ZG

Eric Dumazet (1):
      [IPV4] FIB_HASH : Avoid unecessary loop in fn_hash_dump_zone()

Eric Paris (1):
      rfkill: call rfkill_led_trigger_unregister() on error

Eric Sandeen (1):
      hfs: fix coverity-found null deref

Eric W. Biederman (1):
      sysctl: kill binary sysctl KERN_PPC_L2CR

Francois Romieu (8):
      ipg: balance locking in irq handler
      ipg: plug Tx completion leak
      ipg: fix queue stop condition in the xmit handler
      ipg: fix Tx completion irq request
      sis190: add cmos ram access code for the SiS19x/968 chipset pair
      sis190: remove duplicate INIT_WORK
      sis190: mdio operation failure is not correctly detected
      sis190: scheduling while atomic error

Frank Rowand (1):
      [MIPS] SMTC: Fix build error.

Herbert Xu (1):
      [INET]: Fix truesize setting in ip_append_data

Ingo Molnar (1):
      sched: group scheduler, set uid share fix

Ivan Kokshaysky (1):
      alpha: fix conversion from denormal float to double

Ivo van Doorn (1):
      rt2x00: Fix ieee80211 payload alignment

Jan Engelhardt (1):
      [SPARC]: Constify function pointer tables.

Jason Uhlenkott (1):
      e1000e Kconfig: remove ref to nonexistant docs

Jay Cliburn (1):
      atl1: fix frame length bug

Jay Vosburgh (7):
      bonding: fix locking in sysfs primary/active selection
      bonding: fix ASSERT_RTNL that produces spurious warnings
      bonding: fix locking during alb failover and slave removal
      bonding: release slaves when master removed via sysfs
      bonding: Fix up parameter parsing
      bonding: fix lock ordering for rtnl and bonding_rwsem
      bonding: Don't hold lock when calling rtnl_unlock

Jeremy Fitzhardinge (1):
      xen: disable vcpu_info placement for now

Jesper Juhl (1):
      [IrDA]: af_irda memory leak fixes

Jesper Nilsson (1):
      CRIS v10: vmlinux.lds.S: ix kernel oops on boot and use common defines

Johann Felix Soden (1):
      Fix file references in documentation and Kconfig

Johannes Berg (1):
      lockdep: fix workqueue creation API lockdep interaction

Johannes Weiner (1):
      cpufreq: Initialise default governor before use

Jonas Bonn (1):
      jbd: do not try lock_acquire after handle made invalid

Joonwoo Park (2):
      [IPV4] fib_hash: fix duplicated route issue
      [IPV4] fib_trie: fix duplicated route issue

Jordan Crouse (1):
      x86: GEODE fix a race condition in the MFGPT timer tick

Josef 'Jeff' Sipek (1):
      arch: Ignore arch/i386 and arch/x86_64

Kalle Valo (1):
      spi: omap2_mcspi PIO RX fix

Larry Woodman (1):
      fix hugepages leak due to pagetable page sharing

Len Brown (10):
      pnpacpi: print resource shortage message only once (more)
      DMI: move dmi_available declaration to linux/dmi.h
      DMI: create dmi_get_slot()
      ACPI: create acpi_dmi_dump()
      ACPI: on OSI(Linux), print needed DMI rather than requesting dmidecode output
      ACPI: Delete Intel Customer Reference Board (CRB) from OSI(Linux) DMI list
      ACPI: make _OSI(Linux) console messages smarter
      ACPI: Add ThinkPad R61, ThinkPad T61 to OSI(Linux) white-list
      ACPI: DMI blacklist to reduce console warnings on OSI(Linux) systems.
      Revert "ACPI: Fan: Drop force_power_state acpi_device option"

Li Zefan (1):
      Revert "local_t Documentation update"

Linus Nilsson (1):
      Makefile: Change typoed 'behavour' to 'behaviour'

Linus Torvalds (2):
      Revert "mac80211: warn when receiving frames with unaligned data"

Marc Pignat (1):
      wireless/libertas support for 88w8385 sdio older revision

Matteo Croce (1):
      Replace cpmac fix

Matti Linnanvuori (1):
      Documentation: add a guideline for hard_start_xmit method

Mel Gorman (1):
      slab: partially revert list3 changes

Micah Parrish (1):
      Input: mousedev - handle mice that use absolute coordinates

Márton Németh (2):
      ACPI: EC: add leading zeros to debug messages
      ACPI: EC: "DEBUG" needs to be defined earlier

Nick Piggin (1):
      lockdep: fix internal double unlock during self-test

Nigel Cunningham (1):
      Fix unbalanced helper_lock in kernel/kmod.c

Patrick McHardy (3):
      [NETFILTER]: bridge-netfilter: fix net_device refcnt leaks
      [AF_KEY]: Fix skb leak on pfkey_send_migrate() error
      [NET]: rtnl_link: fix use-after-free

Paul Moore (1):
      selinux: fix memory leak in netlabel code

Pavel Emelyanov (1):
      [IPV6]: Mischecked tw match in __inet6_check_established.

Peter Zijlstra (1):
      lockdep: more hardirq annotations for notify_die()

Ralph Campbell (1):
      IB/ipath: Fix receiving UD messages with immediate data

Randy Dunlap (4):
      hostap: section mismatch warning
      hrtimer: fix section mismatch
      timer: fix section mismatch
      rcu: fix section mismatch

Reinette Chatre (1):
      iwlwifi: fix possible read attempt on ucode that is not available

Russell King (1):
      [ARM] pxa: don't rely on r2 being preserved over a function call

Rusty Russell (2):
      Selecting LGUEST should turn on Guest support, as in 2.6.23.
      Remove bogus duplicate CONFIG_LGUEST_GUEST entry.

Sam Ravnborg (3):
      mm: fix section mismatch warning in page_alloc.c
      [SPARC64]: Fix of section mismatch warnings.
      [SPARC64]: Fix section error in sparcspkr

Sreenivasa Honnur (1):
      S2io: Fixed synchronization between scheduling of napi with card reset and close

Stefan Schmidt (1):
      s3c2410_fb: fix line length calculation

Stefano Brivio (2):
      ipw2200: fix typo in kerneldoc
      b43: fix use-after-free rfkill bug

Stephen Hemminger (1):
      Revert "sky2: remove check for PCI wakeup setting from BIOS"

Stuart Swales (1):
      [SCSI] initio: fix module hangs on loading

Tejun Heo (2):
      sysfs: make sysfs_lookup() return ERR_PTR(-ENOENT) on failed lookup
      sysfs: fix bugs in sysfs_rename/move_dir()

Thomas Gleixner (1):
      Revert "x86: fix NMI watchdog & 'stopped time' problem"

Vivek Kutal (1):
      ARM: OMAP1: Keymap fix for f-sample and p2-sample

Wang Chen (3):
      [IPV6]: ICMP6_MIB_OUTMSGS increment duplicated
      [IPV6]: RFC 2011 compatibility broken
      [ICMP]: ICMP_MIB_OUTMSGS increment duplicated

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
      [WATCHDOG] Revert "Stop looking for device as soon as one is found"

YOSHIFUJI Hideaki (1):
      [IPV6] ROUTE: Make sending algorithm more friendly with RFC 4861.

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From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...>
Subject: Re: Linux 2.6.24
Date: Jan 24, 7:41 pm 2008

On Thu, 24 Jan 2008, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> The release is out there (both git trees and as tarballs/patches), and for 
> the next week many kernel developers will be at (or flying into/out of) 
> LCA in Melbourne, so let's hope it's a good one.

Since I already had two kernel developers asking about the merge window 
and whether people (including me) traveling will impact it, the plan right 
now is to keep the impact pretty minimal. So yes, it will probably extend 
the window from the regular two weeks, but *hopefully* not by more than a 
few days.

I'm going to try to merge at least some stuff while I'm in Melbourne, and 
I'd expect that most of the stuff that happens during LCA is code that is 
already pending to be merged (that's how the merge window is _supposed_ to 
work, after all, but with the 2.6.24 release cycle being longer than usual 
I suspect it's actually true in practice too).

And the second week of the merge window I'll be back again.

If I have bad bandwidth or am just goofing off during LCA, or if I end up 
being too jetlagged to merge well after, that will obviously push out 
things. And the same thing obviously goes for any other maintainer in the 
same condition. 

I'd hope that the git users to be in fairly good condition (with hopefully 
much of the stuff pending for 2.6.25 ready to go), and would worry more 
about people like Andrew in particular. So let's see how this works out.

In short: I'm hoping that there won't be a big impact, but hey, let's be 
flexible. Who knows what happens..

			Linus
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