Linux 2.5.67-ac1

Switch the IDE I/O layers to taskfile. This uses the BIO traverse code to fix various outstanding problems, cleans up the IDE code a ton and opens the door to yet further tidying. I had planned to leave this for 2.7 but Bartlomiej has done all the work ready for 2.6

Handle with care, no naked flames, do not inhale....

Linux 2.5.67-ac1
o Fix the problem with Serverworks bootup when (Robert Hentosh,
the BIOS forced PIO modes me)
o BIO walking functions (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz &
o BIO walking code documentation Suparna Bhattacharya)
o Fix ide taskfile for new prehandlers (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o Fix ide taskfile DMA read/write (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o Remove old style non taskfile PIO (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o Clean up duplicated IDE code (Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz)
o Huge update to DVB (Martin Hunold)
| This reconciles a large fork in DVB development
o Fix build for PC164 Alpha (Marc Zyngier)
o Clean up PCI_INTERRUPT_LINE in IDE (me)
o Fix mdelay problem on PPC (Paul Mackerras)
o Add pc9800.h header (Osamu Tomita)
o Add pc9800 uni map files (not console code) (Osamu Tomita)
o Resync 2.4 and 2.5 opl3sa2 support (Daniel Ritz)
o Fix missing include for copy*user in cpufreq (me)
o Fix slip for new module locking on ldisc (me)
o Update lp486e to new style locking etc (me)
o Update 3c574_cs to new style locking (me)
o Clean up scc locking for 2.5 (me)
o Merge 2.5.67
o Fix mtd build (me)
o FIx 3c505 build (me)

Linux 2.5.66-ac2
o Resync with Linus -bk8
o Fix modules build (me)
o Fix arch syscalls to return long (Randy Dunlap)
o USBfs kerneldoc (David Brownell)
o More i2c updates (Greg Kroah Hartmann)
| FIxes several driver compiles
o Fix IDE locking/phase handling on timeout (Manfred Spraul)
o C99 initialisers for DMAsound (Maciej Soltysiak)
o C99 initialisers for OSS audio (Maciej Soltysiak)
o C99 intialisers for emu10k1 (Maciej Soltysiak)
o Move dead MOD_ calls from floppy driver (Bob Miller)
o Fix macmace abuse of GFP_DMA (Matthew Wilcox)
o Improve hpt kconfig entry (Adrian Bunk)
o Generic HDLC updates (Krzysztof Halasa)
o Fix es968 kmalloc parameters (Pablo Meinchini)
o Fix als100 kmalloc parameters (Pablo Meinchini)
o PC98xx updates to existing merge (Osamu Tomita)
| Keyboard, ALSA, floppy
o Fix misc_register fail path for upd4990a (Stephan Maciej)
o Fix pegasus endian bug (Paul Mackerras)
o Wireless needs __init (Paul Mackerras)
o Fix gus compilation when built in (lock (Peter Waechtler)
clash)
o Sony PI driver update (Stelian Pop)
o Spelling fixes for Alpha (Steven Cole)
o Spelling fixes for x86-64 (Steven Cole)
o Add a "blank now" key mapping (Pavel Machek)
o Remove 23 bogus includes of version.h (Burton Windle)
o Fix cs4232 build (Daniel Ritz)
o Update v850 architecture (Miles Bader)
o Fix taint mishandling for AMD CPU (Manfred Spraul)
o Fix compile of dt019x audio (John Kim)
o Kill "compatmac" (Adrian Bunk)
o Fix via82cxxx_audio build (me)
o Fix acpi build (me)
o Resync with bk9
o Fix oprofile build (John Levon)
o PnP updates (Adam Belay)
o Fix visws framebuffer compile (Andrey Panin)
o Avoid LBA48 modes on disks that don't need (Jens Axboe)
them (saves a 2nd command cycle on each I/O as suggested by Mark Lord)
o Clean up ide list handling for drives (Alexander Atanasov)
o Remove present check from drivers (now (Alexander Atanasov)
handled by the list stuff)
o Fix SMP boot timer oops (me)
| Thanks to Steven Cole for pinning this down to | 5 lines of change
o Port ltpc driver to spinlocks (me)
o Fix cadet driver missing symbol (me)
o Fix cops driver locking (me)
o Fix arcnet.c locking (me)

Linux 2.5.66-ac1
o Fix up ESI handling in esp.c (me)
| Lots more needs fixing in this driver yet
o Merge Linus 2.5.66
o Fix cramfs compile problems (Jeremy Brown, me)
o Fix mad16 breakage (Adrian Bunk)
o Iphase fixes port to 2.5 (Chas Williams,
Eric Leblond)
o Fix ipc/msg race (Manfred Spraul)
o Let hdparm know about speed change fails (Jens Axboe)
o Don't issue WIN_SET_MAX on older drivers (Jens Axboe)
(Breaks some Samsung)
o Resync with Linus bk3 snapshot

With CONFIG_DEVFS_FS enabled compilation of 2.5.67-ac1 fails as follows:

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...
gcc -Wp,-MD,drivers/mtd/.mtdblock.o.d -D__KERNEL__ -Iinclude -Wall
-Wstrict-prototypes -Wno-trigraphs -O2 -fno-strict-aliasing -fno-common -pipe -mpreferred-stack-boundary=2 -march=k6 -Iinclude/asm-i386/mach-default -nostdinc -iwithprefix include -DKBUILD_BASENAME=mtdblock -DKBUILD_MODNAME=mtdblock -c -o drivers/mtd/mtdblock.o drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c: In function `mtd_notify_add':
drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:531: `name' undeclared (first use in this function) drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:531: (Each undeclared identifier is reported only once drivers/mtd/mtdblock.c:531: for each function it appears in.) make[2]: *** [drivers/mtd/mtdblock.o] Error 1

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Please _remove_ the following patch from -ac:

@@ -523,7 +523,6 @@
 static void mtd_notify_add(struct mtd_info* mtd)
 {
 	struct gendisk *disk;
-        char name[16];
 
         if (!mtd || mtd->type == MTD_ABSENT)
                 return;

cu
Adrian

       "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out
        of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days.
       "Only a promise," Lao Er said.
                                       Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed

No 8) - but I will look a tmoving the name var somewhere to sort that out