2.6.27.7-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.7 release. There are 22 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, Nov 17, 2008, 06:00:00 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-2.6.27.7-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

 Makefile                                  |    2 +-
 arch/arm/mm/cache-feroceon-l2.c           |    4 +-
 arch/powerpc/include/asm/mpic.h           |    2 +
 arch/powerpc/platforms/85xx/mpc85xx_ds.c  |    3 +-
 arch/powerpc/platforms/86xx/pic.c         |    3 +-
 arch/powerpc/sysdev/mpic.c                |   59 +++++++++++++++++++++++--
 block/blk-merge.c                         |   19 +++++++-
 drivers/acpi/ec.c                         |   13 ++++-
 drivers/acpi/system.c                     |   25 +++++++---
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_msghandler.c       |   20 +++++----
 drivers/char/ipmi/ipmi_si_intf.c          |   16 ++++---
 drivers/hwmon/ibmaem.c                    |   18 ++++---
 drivers/input/mouse/alps.c                |    1 +
 drivers/misc/sony-laptop.c                |    6 ++-
 drivers/net/Kconfig                       |    1 +
 drivers/net/bnx2x_init.h                  |    9 ++--
 drivers/net/bnx2x_main.c                  |    6 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c         |   67 +++++++++++++++--------------
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.h         |    3 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/hw.c           |   22 +++------
 drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/initvals.c     |    2 +
 drivers/net/wireless/hostap/hostap_wlan.h |    5 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c    |    6 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/rtl8187_dev.c        |    3 +
 fs/namespace.c                            |    7 +++-
 include/linux/bio.h                       |    7 +++
 mm/hugetlb.c                              |    5 +-
 mm/page_isolation.c                       |    5 +-
 scripts/package/builddeb                  |   24 +++++++++-
 29 files changed, 251 insertions(+), 112 deletions(-)