2.6.27.5 stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.5 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 [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 Friday, November 14, 00:00:01 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-2.6.27.5-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

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 Documentation/cciss.txt                     |    2 
 Makefile                                    |    2 
 arch/arm/mach-pxa/include/mach/reset.h      |    9 +
 arch/arm/mach-pxa/reset.c                   |    9 +
 arch/arm/mach-pxa/spitz.c                   |    2 
 arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa.c                    |    2 
 arch/arm/mm/cache-xsc3l2.c                  |    4 
 arch/x86/Kconfig                            |   20 ++++
 arch/x86/kernel/setup.c                     |   41 ++++++++
 arch/x86/kernel/tsc.c                       |    8 -
 drivers/acpi/dock.c                         |    5 -
 drivers/ata/libata-eh.c                     |   21 ++--
 drivers/block/cciss.c                       |   28 +++++
 drivers/block/cpqarray.c                    |    7 +
 drivers/dca/dca-core.c                      |    2 
 drivers/dma/ioat_dma.c                      |   11 +-
 drivers/dma/iovlock.c                       |   17 +--
 drivers/hid/hidraw.c                        |    2 
 drivers/md/linear.c                         |    2 
 drivers/md/raid10.c                         |    2 
 drivers/mmc/core/core.c                     |    6 +
 drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c         |   13 --
 drivers/mtd/chips/jedec_probe.c             |   10 --
 drivers/net/r8169.c                         |  134 ++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000-hw.h  |    7 +
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-5000.c     |   63 +------------
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c      |   57 ++++++++---
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-calib.c    |   60 ++++++++++++
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.c     |   27 +----
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-core.h     |    8 +
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-dev.h      |   15 +--
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.c    |   39 +++++++-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-power.h    |    4 
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-scan.c     |    8 -
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c |    7 +
 drivers/net/wireless/zd1211rw/zd_usb.c      |    2 
 fs/ext3/super.c                             |   11 +-
 fs/hfs/catalog.c                            |    4 
 fs/hfsplus/bitmap.c                         |   12 ++
 fs/hfsplus/catalog.c                        |    5 +
 fs/jffs2/background.c                       |   10 +-
 fs/jffs2/compr_lzo.c                        |   15 +--
 include/asm-generic/memory_model.h          |    2 
 include/linux/mtd/cfi.h                     |   22 +++-
 include/net/af_unix.h                       |    1 
 kernel/cgroup.c                             |    1 
 mm/hugetlb.c                                |   49 +++++++++-
 mm/internal.h                               |   29 ++++++
 mm/page_alloc.c                             |   28 ++++-
 net/unix/af_unix.c                          |   31 +++++-
 net/unix/garbage.c                          |   49 +++++++---
 security/keys/internal.h                    |    1 
 security/keys/process_keys.c                |    2 
 security/keys/request_key.c                 |    4 
 sound/pci/hda/patch_sigmatel.c              |   15 +--
 55 files changed, 647 insertions(+), 300 deletions(-)