2.6.25-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.25.14 release. There are 29 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 [email protected] to add your name to the list. If you want to be off the reviewer list, also email us.

Responses should be made by August 1, 12:00:00 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-2.6.25.14-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

the -stable release team

 Makefile                                      |    5 ++-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/cell/cbe_cpufreq_pmi.c |    6 ++++
 arch/sparc64/kernel/irq.c                     |   10 ++++++
 arch/sparc64/kernel/ldc.c                     |   38 +++++++++++++-------------
 arch/sparc64/kernel/time.c                    |   15 ++++++----
 arch/x86/Kconfig.cpu                          |    2 -
 arch/x86/mm/init_64.c                         |    2 -
 drivers/acpi/processor_perflib.c              |   15 ++++++++--
 drivers/ata/ahci.c                            |   15 ++++++++--
 drivers/ata/ata_generic.c                     |    6 ++++
 drivers/ata/pata_acpi.c                       |    6 ++++
 drivers/cpufreq/cpufreq.c                     |    3 ++
 drivers/ide/ide-cd.c                          |   27 +++++++++++++++---
 drivers/net/ixgbe/ixgbe_main.c                |    2 -
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c             |    5 ---
 drivers/net/wireless/b43legacy/main.c         |    2 -
 drivers/spi/mpc52xx_psc_spi.c                 |   22 ++++-----------
 fs/dquot.c                                    |   16 ++++++++++
 fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c                          |   30 ++++++++++++--------
 fs/isofs/rock.c                               |   22 +++++++++++++--
 fs/libfs.c                                    |    4 +-
 include/asm-arm/bitops.h                      |    9 +++++-
 include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h             |    4 ++
 include/asm-powerpc/pgtable-ppc64.h           |   11 +++++++
 include/asm-sparc64/io.h                      |    1 
 include/linux/cpufreq.h                       |    1 
 kernel/marker.c                               |   12 ++++++--
 kernel/sys_ni.c                               |    1 
 mm/filemap.c                                  |    2 -
 mm/hugetlb.c                                  |    6 +++-
 mm/shmem.c                                    |    3 +-
 net/ipv4/tcp_input.c                          |    3 --
 net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c        |   10 +++++-
 scripts/Makefile.modpost                      |    1 
 scripts/mod/modpost.c                         |    3 +-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c                 |    1 
 sound/pci/trident/trident_main.c              |    5 ++-
 37 files changed, 234 insertions(+), 92 deletions(-)