I do hate doing -rc's for so long, but I hate releasing when not feeling
it's simmered enough even more. And the changes since -rc7 are bigger than
the changes between -rc6 and -rc7 were (partly probably because people
were still on vacation between -rc6 and -rc7, so we had something of a
small trickle come in afterwards).
That said, the changes here really aren't that big, and the shortlog is
fairly boring. So I'm pretty sure this is the last -rc, and the final
2.6.24 will probably be out next weekend or so. But in the meantime, let's
give this a final shakedown, and see if we can fix any last regressions
still.
(I also get the feeling that more people are already working on 2.6.25
features, so it's not like delaying 2.6.24 will help past some point
anyway, but let's give it a few more days).
Anyway: drivers, networking, some arch updates, and ACPI. A fair number of
really small commits. I honestly can't really improve on the appended
shortlog - there isn't any over-arching theme, except for "lots of small
boring fixes".
Which is as it should be, of course.
Linus
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Adrian Bunk (3):
[NET]: Fix netx-eth.c compilation.
scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c section fix
OSS msnd: fix array overflows
Akinobu Mita (1):
xip: fix get_zeroed_page with __GFP_HIGHMEM
Al Viro (4):
xircom_cb endianness fixes
de4x5 fixes
endianness noise in tulip_core
libata fixes for sparse-found problems
Alan Cox (5):
pl2303: Fix mode switching regression
libata-sff: PCI IRQ handling fix
pata_pdc202xx_old: Further fixups
ACPI : Not register gsi for PCI IDE controller in legacy mode
libata: correct handling of TSS DVD
Alexey Starikovskiy (2):
ACPI: EC: Enable boot EC before bus_scan
ACPI: Make sysfs interface in ACPI power optional.
Amos Waterland (1):
[IPV4] ipconfig: Fix regression in ip command line processing
Andrew Lutomirski (1):
mac80211: return an error when SIWRATE doesn't match any rate
Andrew Morton (2):
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