This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.25.16 release. There are 49 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: line to the patch, please respond with it. These patches are sent out with a number of different people on the Cc: line. If you wish to be a reviewer, please email stable@kernel.org to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list, also email us. Responses should be made by Wed, August 20, 17:00:00 UTC. Anything received after that time might be too late. The whole patch series can be found in one patch at: kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/stable-review/patch-2.6.25.16-rc1.gz and the diffstat can be found below. thanks, the -stable release team Makefile | 2 - arch/sparc64/kernel/signal.c | 6 ++- arch/um/Makefile | 1 arch/um/Makefile-i386 | 7 +++ arch/um/Makefile-x86_64 | 3 + arch/um/drivers/chan_user.c | 1 arch/um/drivers/cow_sys.h | 2 - arch/um/drivers/daemon_user.c | 4 +- arch/um/drivers/fd.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/mcast_user.c | 3 + arch/um/drivers/net_user.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/pcap_user.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/port_user.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/pty.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/slip_user.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/tty.c | 2 - arch/um/drivers/xterm.c | 2 - arch/um/include/init.h | 8 ++++ arch/um/include/os.h | 2 - arch/um/include/process.h | 4 +- arch/um/include/um_malloc.h | 9 +--- arch/um/kernel/mem.c | 5 ++ arch/um/kernel/time.c | 4 +- arch/um/kernel/um_arch.c | 7 ++- arch/um/os-Linux/drivers/ethertap_user.c | 4 +- arch/um/os-Linux/helper.c | 5 +- arch/um/os-Linux/main.c | 2 - arch/um/os-Linux/sigio.c | 4 +- arch/um/os-Linux/signal.c | 1 arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c | 2 - arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c | 25 ++++++++---- arch/um/os-Linux/sys-i386/task_size.c | 38 ++++++++++++++----- arch/um/os-Linux/sys-x86_64/task_size.c | 2 - arch/um/os-Linux/time.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--- arch/um/sys-x86_64/ksyms.c | 5 ++ arch/x86/boot/boot.h | 8 ++++ arch/x86/boot/cpucheck.c | 8 ---- arch/x86/boot/main.c | 4 ++ block/scsi_ioctl.c | 2 - drivers/i2c/i2c-core.c | 4 +- drivers/ide/ide-cd.c | 18 +++++---- drivers/misc/acer-wmi.c | 19 +++++++++ drivers/net/r8169.c | 6 ++- drivers/scsi/hptiop.c | 7 +++ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_attr.c | 43 ++++++++++++++------- drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_def.h | 1 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gbl.h | 2 + drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_init.c | 16 ++------ drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_os.c | 55 ++++++++++++++++++++------- drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c | 8 ++-- drivers/scsi/ses.c | 18 +++++++-- drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.c | 5 ++ drivers/usb/serial/ftdi_sio.h | 6 +++ drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.c | 1 drivers/usb/serial/pl2303.h | 4 -- drivers/usb/serial/usb-serial.c | 7 +-- drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h | 18 ++++++++- drivers/video/aty/radeon_accel.c | 12 +++++- drivers/video/matrox/matroxfb_maven.c | 2 - fs/cifs/asn1.c | 2 - fs/cifs/cifsfs.c | 2 + fs/cifs/inode.c | 1 include/asm-sparc64/futex.h | 2 - include/asm-x86/spinlock.h | 4 +- include/linux/usb/serial.h | 3 + include/video/radeon.h | 9 +++- kernel/posix-timers.c | 19 +++++++-- kernel/relay.c | 12 +++++- kernel/signal.c | 1 lib/random32.c | 48 +++++++++++++----------- mm/memory.c | 16 ++++++-- mm/mlock.c | 2 - net/dccp/proto.c | 5 ++ net/ipv4/ipvs/ip_vs_est.c | 7 ++- net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c | 2 - net/ipv6/ip6_output.c | 4 ++ 76 files changed, 464 insertions(+), 182 deletions(-) --
| Tarkan Erimer | Re: Dual-Licensing Linux Kernel with GPL V2 and GPL V3 |
| Greg Kroah-Hartman | [PATCH 004/196] Chinese: add translation of SubmittingPatches |
| Artem Bityutskiy | [PATCH 18/44 take 2] [UBI] build unit implementation |
| James Morris | Re: LSM conversion to static interface |
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| Paul Jackson | [PATCH] cpuset sched_load_balance kmalloc fix |
| Gerrit Renker | [PATCH 15/37] dccp: Set per-connection CCIDs via socket options |
| Jarek Poplawski | [PATCH] pkt_sched: Destroy gen estimators under rtnl_lock(). |
| Linus Torvalds | Re: [GIT]: Networking |
