2.6.27-stable review

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.13 release. There are 40 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 Sunday, January 25, 00:00:00 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-2.6.27.13-rc1.gz

and the diffstat can be found below.

thanks,

greg k-h

 Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt |    3 +-
 Makefile                                        |    2 +-
 arch/ia64/Kconfig                               |    1 +
 arch/powerpc/mm/slice.c                         |   11 ++-
 drivers/firmware/dell_rbu.c                     |    4 +-
 drivers/hwmon/abituguru3.c                      |    2 +-
 drivers/hwmon/hwmon-vid.c                       |    1 +
 drivers/misc/sgi-xp/xpc_sn2.c                   |    2 +-
 drivers/net/irda/irda-usb.c                     |    2 +-
 drivers/net/r6040.c                             |   17 ++-
 drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/hw.c                 |    2 +-
 drivers/net/wireless/p54/p54usb.c               |    1 +
 drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt73usb.c           |    1 +
 drivers/pci/pcie/aspm.c                         |  125 +++++++++++++++++++----
 drivers/usb/storage/libusual.c                  |    7 ++
 drivers/usb/storage/scsiglue.c                  |   31 ++++++
 drivers/usb/storage/transport.c                 |   80 +++++++++++++++
 drivers/usb/storage/unusual_devs.h              |   80 +++------------
 drivers/usb/storage/usb.c                       |    6 +
 drivers/usb/storage/usb.h                       |    4 +
 fs/fs-writeback.c                               |   92 ++++++++++-------
 fs/sync.c                                       |    2 +-
 include/linux/fs.h                              |    1 -
 include/linux/usb_usual.h                       |    5 +-
 include/linux/writeback.h                       |    1 -
 kernel/signal.c                                 |    3 +-
 kernel/time/timekeeping.c                       |   71 ++++++-------
 lib/idr.c                                       |   10 +--
 mm/filemap.c                                    |   18 +--
 mm/page-writeback.c                             |  120 ++++++++++++++++------
 net/ipv4/tcp.c                                  |    8 +-
 net/ipv6/ip6_fib.c                              |   15 ++--
 net/sched/cls_u32.c                             |    3 +-
 net/sched/sch_htb.c                             |    1 +
 net/sctp/sm_statefuns.c                         |   14 +++
 security/keys/keyctl.c                          |    1 +
 sound/pci/hda/patch_analog.c                    |   49 ++++++++-
 sound/pci/hda/patch_realtek.c                   |    1 +
 38 files changed, 550 insertions(+), 247 deletions(-)