- Jens Axboe: remove trivially dead io_request_lock usage
  - Andrea Arcangeli: softirq cleanup and ARM fixes. Slab cleanups
  - Christoph Hellwig: gendisk handling helper functions/cleanups
  - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs dead code pruning
  - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update to 1.1.18
  - firestream network driver: patch reverted on authors request
  - NIIBE Yutaka: SH architecture update
  - Paul Mackerras: PPC cleanups, PPC8xx update.
  - me: reverse broken bootdata allocation patch that went into pre5