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From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Saturday, January 6, 2007 - 11:19 pm

There's absolutely nothing interesting here, unless you want to play with 
KVM, or happened to be bitten by the bug with really old versions of the 
linker that made parts of entry.S just go away.

But check it out anyway, and the shortlog gives more details on the 
various minor fixes that have accumulated this week. Mostly in random 
device drivers.

		Linus

---
Adam Megacz (1):
      Add AFS_SUPER_MAGIC to magic.h

Adrian Bunk (2):
      [NET] drivers/net/loopback.c: convert to module_init()
      [X25]: proper prototype for x25_init_timers()

Alan (3):
      libata: fix combined mode
      atiixp: Old drivers/ide layer driver for the ATIIXP hang fix
      hpt37x: Two important bug fixes

Alan Stern (2):
      UHCI: make test for ASUS motherboard more specific
      UHCI: support device_may_wakeup

Alexey Dobriyan (2):
      [NETFILTER] xt_hashlimit.c: fix typo
      pata_optidma: typo in Kconfig

Andrew Morton (5):
      USB: funsoft is borken on sparc
      sisusb_con warning fixes
      PCI: disable PCI_MULTITHREAD_PROBE
      ip2 warning fix
      shrink_all_memory(): fix lru_pages handling

Ard van Breemen (3):
      start_kernel: test if irq's got enabled early, barf, and disable them again
      kernelparams: detect if and which parameter parsing enabled irq's
      PCI: prevent down_read when pci_devices is empty

Arnaud Patard (2):
      [ARM] 4065/1: S3C24XX: dma printk fixes
      [ARM] 4073/1: Prevent s3c24xx drivers from including asm/arch/hardware.h and asm/arch/irqs.h

Avi Kivity (39):
      KVM: Prevent stale bits in cr0 and cr4
      KVM: MMU: Implement simple reverse mapping
      KVM: MMU: Teach the page table walker to track guest page table gfns
      KVM: MMU: Load the pae pdptrs on cr3 change like the processor does
      KVM: MMU: Fold fetch_guest() into init_walker()
      KVM: MU: Special treatment for shadow pae root pages
      KVM: MMU: Use the guest pdptrs instead of mapping cr3 in pae mode
      KVM: MMU: Make the shadow page tables also special-case pae
      KVM: MMU: Make kvm_mmu_alloc_page() return a kvm_mmu_page pointer
      KVM: MMU: Shadow page table caching
      KVM: MMU: Write protect guest pages when a shadow is created for them
      KVM: MMU: Let the walker extract the target page gfn from the pte
      KVM: MMU: Support emulated writes into RAM
      KVM: MMU: Zap shadow page table entries on writes to guest page tables
      KVM: MMU: If emulating an instruction fails, try unprotecting the page
      KVM: MMU: Implement child shadow unlinking
      KVM: MMU: kvm_mmu_put_page() only removes one link to the page
      KVM: MMU: oom handling
      KVM: MMU: Remove invlpg interception
      KVM: MMU: Remove release_pt_page_64()
      KVM: MMU: Handle misaligned accesses to write protected guest page tables
      KVM: MMU: <ove is_empty_shadow_page() above kvm_mmu_free_page()
      KVM: MMU: Ensure freed shadow pages are clean
      KVM: MMU: If an empty shadow page is not empty, report more info
      KVM: MMU: Page table write flood protection
      KVM: MMU: Never free a shadow page actively serving as a root
      KVM: MMU: Fix cmpxchg8b emulation
      KVM: MMU: Treat user-mode faults as a hint that a page is no longer a page table
      KVM: MMU: Free pages on kvm destruction
      KVM: MMU: Replace atomic allocations by preallocated objects
      KVM: MMU: Detect oom conditions and propagate error to userspace
      KVM: MMU: Flush guest tlb when reducing permissions on a pte
      KVM: MMU: Destroy mmu while we still have a vcpu left
      KVM: MMU: add audit code to check mappings, etc are correct
      KVM: Improve reporting of vmwrite errors
      KVM: Initialize vcpu->kvm a little earlier
      KVM: Add missing 'break'
      KVM: Don't set guest cr3 from vmx_vcpu_setup()
      KVM: MMU: Add missing dirty bit

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz (1):
      via82cxxx: fix cable detection

Ben Dooks (1):
      [ARM] 4071/1: S3C24XX: Documentation update

Benjamin Herrenschmidt (1):
      [SUNGEM]: PHY updates & pause fixes (#2)

Brice Goglin (1):
      [CPUFREQ] speedstep-centrino: missing space and bracket

Christoph Hellwig (2):
      [XFRM_USER]: avoid pointless void ** casts
      Fix BUG at drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c:1118 caused by "pktsetup dvd /dev/sr0"

Christoph Lameter (1):
      Check for populated zone in __drain_pages

Chuck Ebbert (1):
      [NETFILTER]: ebtables: don't compute gap before checking struct type

Cyrill V. Gorcunov (1):
      qconf: fix SIGSEGV on empty menu items

Dan Williams (1):
      [ARM] 4077/1: iop13xx: fix __io() macro

Dave Jones (3):
      [CPUFREQ] longhaul: Fix up unreachable code.
      [CPUFREQ] longhaul: Kill off warnings introduced by recent changes.
      Fix implicit declarations in via-pmu

David Brownell (4):
      i2c: Migration aids for i2c_adapter.dev removal
      USB: omap_udc build fixes (sync with linux-omap)
      rtc-at91rm9200 build fix
      Update the rtc-rs5c372 driver

David Hollis (1):
      USB: asix: Fix AX88772 device PHY selection

David L Stevens (1):
      [IPV4/IPV6]: Fix inet{,6} device initialization order.

David S. Miller (2):
      [PKTGEN]: Convert to kthread API.
      [SOUND] Sparc CS4231: Use 64 for period_bytes_min

Dmitry Mishin (1):
      [NETFILTER]: compat offsets size change

Dor Laor (2):
      KVM: Improve interrupt response
      KVM: Simplify test for interrupt window

Doug Chapman (1):
      ACPI: increase ACPI_MAX_REFERENCE_COUNT for larger systems

Eric Anholt (1):
      [AGPGART] fix detection of aperture size versus GTT size on G965

Eric Sandeen (1):
      fix memory corruption from misinterpreted bad_inode_ops return values

Erik Jacobson (1):
      connector: some fixes for ia64 unaligned access errors

Evgeniy Dushistov (1):
      fix garbage instead of zeroes in UFS

Gabriel Mansi (1):
      [AGPGART] K8M890 support for amd-k8.

Georg Chini (1):
      [SOUND] Sparc CS4231: Fix IRQ return value and initialization.

Gerrit Renker (1):
      [TCP]: Use old definition of before

Guillaume Chazarain (2):
      ACPI: EC: move verbose printk to debug build only
      [CPUFREQ] Uninitialized use of cmd.val in arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/acpi-cpufreq.c:acpi_cpufreq_target()

Hugh Dickins (2):
      fix BUG_ON(!PageSlab) from fallback_alloc
      fix OOM killing of swapoff

Ingo Molnar (6):
      KVM: Fix GFP_KERNEL alloc in atomic section bug
      KVM: Use raw_smp_processor_id() instead of smp_processor_id() where applicable
      profiling: fix sched profiling typo
      KVM: Avoid oom on cr3 switch
      KVM: Make loading cr3 more robust
      KVM: Simplify mmu_alloc_roots()

James Bursa (1):
      adfs: fix filename handling

Jens Axboe (3):
      cfq-iosched: merging problem
      cdrom: set default timeout to 7 seconds
      ide-cd maintainer

Jiri Kosina (1):
      HID: fix help texts in Kconfig

Kay Sievers (1):
      Driver core: Fix prefix driver links in /sys/module by bus-name

Len Brown (2):
      ACPI: fix section mis-match build warning
      ACPI: asus_acpi: new MAINTAINER

Lennert Buytenhek (1):
      [ARM] 4063/1: ep93xx: fix IRQ_EP93XX_GPIO?MUX numbering

Leonard Norrg
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Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Linus Torvalds, (Sat Jan 6, 11:19 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Jan 7, 3:56 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Russell King, (Sun Jan 7, 4:44 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Akula2, (Sun Jan 7, 5:15 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Russell King, (Sun Jan 7, 5:55 am)
OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Tilman Schmidt, (Sun Jan 7, 6:06 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Alan, (Sun Jan 7, 6:23 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Akula2, (Sun Jan 7, 6:38 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Willy Tarreau, (Sun Jan 7, 6:53 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Akula2, (Sun Jan 7, 7:23 am)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), David Woodhouse, (Sun Jan 7, 8:13 am)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Russell King, (Sun Jan 7, 8:38 am)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), David Woodhouse, (Sun Jan 7, 9:29 am)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Russell King, (Sun Jan 7, 10:06 am)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Jan 7, 12:11 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Jan 7, 12:12 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Russell King, (Sun Jan 7, 12:17 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Russell King, (Sun Jan 7, 12:20 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings, Tilman Schmidt, (Sun Jan 7, 12:29 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Robin Rosenberg, (Sun Jan 7, 12:58 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Dave Jones, (Sun Jan 7, 1:05 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Jan 7, 1:40 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Willy Tarreau, (Sun Jan 7, 1:48 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Peter Osterlund, (Sun Jan 7, 1:57 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Peter Osterlund, (Sun Jan 7, 2:04 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Xavier Bestel, (Sun Jan 7, 2:07 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Gene Heskett, (Sun Jan 7, 2:22 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Linus Torvalds, (Sun Jan 7, 3:50 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Adrian Bunk, (Sun Jan 7, 4:37 pm)
2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Jan 7, 5:22 pm)
2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches available, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Jan 7, 5:25 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches available, Marcel Holtmann, (Sun Jan 7, 5:33 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Willy Tarreau, (Sun Jan 7, 5:38 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, David Miller, (Sun Jan 7, 6:00 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Adrian Bunk, (Sun Jan 7, 6:03 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Willy Tarreau, (Sun Jan 7, 6:14 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions, Bernhard Schmidt, (Sun Jan 7, 6:20 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Jan 7, 6:22 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings, Tilman Schmidt, (Sun Jan 7, 6:32 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4) , Horst H. von Brand, (Sun Jan 7, 6:40 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Adrian Bunk, (Sun Jan 7, 6:45 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings, Adrian Bunk, (Sun Jan 7, 6:59 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), David Woodhouse, (Sun Jan 7, 9:42 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Peter Osterlund, (Sun Jan 7, 11:38 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Sun Jan 7, 11:52 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Adrian Bunk, (Mon Jan 8, 1:02 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Mariusz Kozlowski, (Mon Jan 8, 7:50 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Sylvain Munaut, (Mon Jan 8, 7:58 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Dmitry Torokhov, (Mon Jan 8, 8:50 am)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Pavel Machek, (Mon Jan 8, 9:14 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Jean Delvare, (Mon Jan 8, 12:11 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Valdis.Kletnieks, (Mon Jan 8, 12:53 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jan 8, 1:17 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Peter Osterlund, (Mon Jan 8, 1:49 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, David Miller, (Mon Jan 8, 2:52 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Ken Moffat, (Mon Jan 8, 3:00 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Tim Pepper, (Mon Jan 8, 3:17 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Patrick McHardy, (Mon Jan 8, 3:33 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Peter Osterlund, (Mon Jan 8, 4:02 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Linus Torvalds, (Mon Jan 8, 4:12 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jan 8, 4:21 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Jan Engelhardt, (Mon Jan 8, 4:30 pm)
Re: OT: character encodings (was: Linux 2.6.20-rc4), Eberhard Moenkeberg, (Mon Jan 8, 4:34 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Jan 8, 5:38 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Greg KH, (Mon Jan 8, 5:56 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Mon Jan 8, 7:05 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Adrian Bunk, (Mon Jan 8, 8:42 pm)
2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Adrian Bunk, (Mon Jan 8, 10:25 pm)
2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v2), Adrian Bunk, (Mon Jan 8, 10:51 pm)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, David Woodhouse, (Tue Jan 9, 12:04 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Sylvain Munaut, (Tue Jan 9, 12:14 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Greg KH, (Tue Jan 9, 12:18 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, David Woodhouse, (Tue Jan 9, 12:28 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, David Miller, (Tue Jan 9, 12:39 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jan 9, 2:04 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jan 9, 2:07 am)
Re: Linux 2.6.20-rc4, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, (Tue Jan 9, 2:08 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jan 9, 10:58 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Malte , (Tue Jan 9, 11:08 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Linus Torvalds, (Tue Jan 9, 11:30 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Adrian Bunk, (Tue Jan 9, 1:28 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Vladimir V. Saveliev, (Wed Jan 10, 5:24 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Nick Piggin, (Wed Jan 10, 6:00 pm)
2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3), Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 10, 10:10 pm)
2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v3), Adrian Bunk, (Wed Jan 10, 10:13 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3), Nick Piggin, (Wed Jan 10, 11:43 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3), Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jan 11, 1:45 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3), Jiri Kosina, (Thu Jan 11, 3:21 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3), Adrian Bunk, (Thu Jan 11, 3:54 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v3), CIJOML, (Thu Jan 11, 4:08 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Vladimir V. Saveliev, (Thu Jan 11, 6:12 am)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v3), David Chinner, (Thu Jan 11, 2:39 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v3), Andrew Morton, (Thu Jan 11, 3:02 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known regressions with patches (v3), David Chinner, (Thu Jan 11, 4:05 pm)
Re: 2.6.20-rc4: known unfixed regressions (v2), Nick Piggin, (Thu Jan 11, 4:53 pm)