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From: Marcelo Tosatti
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Linux 2.4.27-pre6
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 15:33:43 -0300
Hi, 

Here goes -pre6. It contains a significant amount of USB fixes, JFS update,
netfilter/sctp fixes, CDROM driver update, tg3 update, SPARC/Alpha fixes.

And more importantly the FPU x86/x86-64 crash fix.

Summary of changes from v2.4.27-pre5 to v2.4.27-pre6
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o USB: pl2303 & input overruns

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o [CRYPTO]: Fix digest.c kmapping sg entries > page in length

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o [NETFILTER]: Small interface cleanup for {ipt,ip6t,arpt}_find_target

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o USB ftdi device ids for 2.4

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o [SCTP] Fix to not setup a new association if the endpoint is in SHUTDOWN_ACK_SENT state and recognizes that the peer has restarted.
o [SCTP] Fix to not start a new association on a 1-many style sendmsg() with MSG_EOF/MSG_ABORT flag and no data.

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o [NET]: Remove junk from packet_mmap.txt

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o Simple build fix for PPC 826x

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o USB: add Clie TH55 Support in visor kernel module

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o rwsem race fixes backported from 2.6

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o minor autofs4 fs/namei.c fix, URL update

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o i2c-matroxfb and i2c initialization order

Andi Kleen:
o Fix argument parsing in x86-64 machine check handler
o Fix LDT/TSS limit on x86-64
o Fix compilation without CONFIG_SWIOTLB on x86-64
o Fix boot loader warnings on x86-64
o Add missing memory clobber to i386
o Fix K8 machine check decoding
o Fix FPU delayed exceptions on x86-64 too

Andreas Dilger:
o [IPV4]: Fix bug in arp_tables.c fix

Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz:
o clarify help entries for Promise IDE drivers a bit
o ide: add new nForce IDE/SATA device IDs to amd74xx.c

Ben Collins:
o video1394: Bugfix for low res format7 images
o sbp2: Default sbp2_serialize_io to 1
o pcilynx: Disable LCtrl bit with IRM contender

Dave Kleikamp:
o JFS: Handle out of space errors more gracefully
o JFS: Better RAS when btstack is overrun
o JFS: Don't allow reading beyond the inode map's EOF
o JFS: Fix compilation error

David Brownell:
o EHCI fixes (byteswap, BIOS)
o EHCI fixes (byteswap, BIOS)

David S. Miller:
o [TG3]: Use HOST TXDs always
o [IPV4]: Fix unaligned accesses in arp_tables.c
o [TG3]: Chip support update and a power-save bug fix
o [TG3]: Update driver version and reldate
o [SPARC]: Report si_addr in SIGINFO more accurately

Greg Kroah-Hartman:
o USB: fix empty write issue in pl2303 driver

Harald Welte:
o [NETFILTER]: Don't assign new helper after NAT when there are already expectations present

Herbert Xu:
o Fix /proc/ide/hpt366 crash

Hideaki Yoshifuji:
o [UDPv4]: Pass correct socket to ip_mc_sf_allow

Ivan Kokshaysky:
o Alpha: don't put IDE disks in standby mode on halt
o Alpha: fix PCI bridge swizzle on takara and eiger

Jamal Hadi Salim:
o [NET]: Add ARPHRD_NONE and use it in tun driver

Jens Axboe:
o DVD-RW write support
o cdrom hardware defect mgt header length

Marcelo Tosatti:
o Cset exclude: marcelo@logos.cnet|ChangeSet|20040606231521|43962
o Thomas Winischhofer: sisfb update
o Alexander Nyberg/Andi/Sergey: Fix x86 "clear_cpu()" macro
o Changed EXTRAVERSION to -pre6
o Michael Reinelt: Add support for NetMos 9835 serial cards
o John Carlson: Remove bogus ";" from USB gadgets's usb_descriptor_fillbuf

Mike Miller:
o cciss update

Neil Brown:
o Fix hard-to-hit BUG in raid5 resync code

Nuno Monteiro:
o Fix rwsem-fix typo
o Complete rwsem typo fix

Pete Zaitcev:
o Fix USB serial race
o USB: Update mct_u232
o USB: unusual_dev.h add Sony Handycam HC-85

Sridhar Samudrala:
o [SCTP] Fix the use of cached non-zero vtag in an INIT that is resent after a stale cookie error.
o [SCTP] Fix missing VTAG validation on certain incoming packets
o [SCTP] Fix to wakeup blocking connect() after max INIT retries failed
o [SCTP] Fix poll() on a 1-1 style socket so that it returns when the association is aborted by peer.