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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