Ok, I think I'm getting close to releasing a real 2.6.23. Things seem to 
have calmed down, and I think Thomas Gleixner may have found the 
suspend/resume regression that has dogged us for a while, so I'm feeling 
happy about things.

Of course, me feeling happy is usually immediately followed by some nasty 
person finding new problems, but I'll just ignore that and enjoy the 
feeling anyway, however fleeting it may be.

The shortlog really is pretty short, and I'm appending the diffstat at the 
end too in case anybody cares, but basically it's just a number of fairly 
small but real fixes, with some support for a few new chips to the sky2 
network driver..

In fact, much of the diffstat is some documentation updates and that sky2 
update. The rest tends to be a few lines, as you can tell..

		Linus

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Alan Cox (2):
      libata: Update the blacklist with a few more devices
      libata-sff: Fix documentation

Alexey Kuznetsov (1):
      [PKT_SCHED]: Fix 'SFQ qdisc crashes with limit of 2 packets'

Alexey Starikovskiy (1):
      ACPI: suspend: consolidate handling of Sx states.

Andi Kleen (1):
      x86_64: Zero extend all registers after ptrace in 32bit entry path.

Avi Kivity (1):
      KVM: Fix virtualization menu help text

Brice Goglin (1):
      myri10ge: Add support for PCI device id 9

Christoph Hellwig (1):
      [XFS] fix valid but harmless sparse warning

Dan Williams (3):
      async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes (v2)
      async_tx: fix dma_wait_for_async_tx
      raid5: fix 2 bugs in ops_complete_biofill

Davide Libenzi (1):
      signalfd simplification

Domen Puncer (1):
      phy: export phy_mii_ioctl

Eric Leblond (1):
      [NETFILTER]: nfnetlink_log: fix sending of multipart messages

Eric Sandeen (1):
      [XFS] fix filestreams on 32-bit boxes

Frans Pop (1):
      ACPI: suspend: consolidate handling of Sx states addendum

H. Peter Anvin (2):
      [x86 setup] Present the canonical video mode number to the kern...
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I don't want to be the "nasty" person, but one of my machines doesn't
like 2.6.23-rc8. Infact, 2.6.23-rc1 was the first kernel this is broken.
(I didn't get hands on this machine till now).

Since my other x86-64 machines are doing fine, I am going to blame it
on my machine specific config :)

Thanks,
Badari


elm3a242:/usr/src/linux-2.6.23-rc8 # make -j4 bzImage
  CHK     include/linux/version.h
  CHK     include/linux/utsrelease.h
  CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h
  SYSCALL arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so
/usr/lib64/gcc-lib/x86_64-suse-linux/3.3.3/../../../../x86_64-suse-
linux/bin/ld: section .text [ffffffffff700500 -> ffffffffff700797]
overlaps section .dynstr [ffffffffff7004b8 -> ffffffffff700510]
collect2: ld returned 1 exit status
make[1]: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso/vdso.so] Error 1
make: *** [arch/x86_64/vdso] Error 2
make: *** Waiting for unfinished jobs....


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<goes fishing in Andi's tree>

box:/usr/src/25> grep vdso series                          
x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-compat-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch
x86_64-mm-vdso-64bit-install-unstripped-copies-on-disk.patch
fix-discrepancy-between-vdso-based-gettimeofday-and-sys_gettimeofday.patch


x86_64-mm-vdso-text-offset.patch looks likely - can you test it please?




Increase VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET for ancient binutils

For some reason old binutils genertate larger headers so
increase the text offset of the vdso to avoid linker errors.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>

---
 arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
===================================================================
--- linux.orig/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
+++ linux/arch/x86_64/vdso/voffset.h
@@ -1 +1 @@
-#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x500
+#define VDSO_TEXT_OFFSET 0x600

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Yep. Thats what I did earlier to fix my build.

Thanks,
Badari

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