2.6.26.8-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.26.8 release. There are 23 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 Monday, November 10, 20:00:00 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-2.6.26.8-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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 Makefile                                       |    2 
 arch/sparc64/kernel/trampoline.S               |   18 ++-
 drivers/acpi/button.c                          |    3 
 drivers/acpi/dock.c                            |    5 -
 drivers/acpi/video.c                           |  123 ++++++++++++++-----------
 drivers/edac/cell_edac.c                       |    2 
 drivers/gpio/gpiolib.c                         |    2 
 drivers/i2c/busses/scx200_i2c.c                |    1 
 drivers/media/dvb/frontends/s5h1411.c          |   35 +++++--
 drivers/media/video/pvrusb2/pvrusb2-encoder.c  |    4 
 drivers/net/wireless/libertas/scan.c           |    4 
 drivers/scsi/qla2xxx/qla_gs.c                  |    6 +
 fs/ext2/dir.c                                  |   60 +++++++-----
 fs/ext3/dir.c                                  |   10 +-
 fs/ext4/dir.c                                  |   11 +-
 include/linux/sched.h                          |    4 
 include/math-emu/op-common.h                   |   17 ++-
 include/net/scm.h                              |    5 -
 net/core/dev.c                                 |   27 +----
 net/core/rtnetlink.c                           |    2 
 net/core/scm.c                                 |   24 ++++
 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_conntrack_l3proto_ipv4.c |    2 
 net/ipv4/netfilter/nf_nat_snmp_basic.c         |    1 
 net/ipv6/tcp_ipv6.c                            |    2 
 net/netfilter/xt_iprange.c                     |    8 -
 security/commoncap.c                           |    6 -
 sound/core/control.c                           |    4 
 27 files changed, 247 insertions(+), 141 deletions(-)