The patch below fixes sem_exit() so that the BKL is always released.

Here's a simple patch to allow the bttv driver to be build with newer
binutils...

In conjunction with some of the earlier problems found in /proc code,
now it turns out that snprintf doesn't work correctly in the kernel...
Without the following patch, snprintf can return lengths greater than
the size argument passed.  The net effect is that code using the return
value from snprintf can still buffer overrun.  This is fixed by not
updating the pointer in the buffer unless there is actually space.

The following patch drops the above functions from the ARM port; we've
already removed them from the syscall table on ARM, so we can safely
remove these from the ARM build.

into home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/linux

I added ->readdir(), and a new section referring to the sb_op BKL shift
as well.

Here is some documentation to describe the interface of lower level
drivers (e.g.  aic7xxx) in the scsi subsystem.

The patch is made up of a text file: drivers/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt
and some Documentation/DocBook additions to enable html, ps and pdf
renderings.

Here's an array-based implementation.

ARM arch

m68k arch

SuperH arch

CRIS and x86-64 arches

The SYMBOL_NAME macro (and variations) have been obsolete since 2.1.0,
when the option to compile the kernel in a.out format was removed.  This
patch starts the process of removing these macros, starting with x86.

Originally by Christoph Hellwig back in February.
It recieved no objections when posted to l-k & Jens.

o remove DEVICE_REQUEST definitions - never used in blk.h itself.
o remove DEVICE_ON() - never used at all.
o define LOCAL_END_REQUEST when we do not want end_request() instead
  of other hacks.
o remove DEVICE_OFF() - only used in floppy driver, thus one now has
  a private end_request().
o use private end_request() functions for drivers not providing
  randomness.
o remove TIMEOUT_VALUE - only ever used in hd.c

Some that got lost along the way...

Uses the error codes, but doesn't include err.h

Originally from Manfred Spraul.

* dynamically grow the LDT
Every app that's linked against libpthread right now allocates a full 64
kB LDT, without proper error handling, and always from the vmalloc area

- Nuke unnecessary include.
- More infortmational debug info

Various bits mostly from 2.4
Also fix indentation of various entries to match the rest of the file.

Posted multiple times to l-k by Paul Fulghum

Posted multiple times to l-k by Paul Fulghum.

- Drop Intel P4 bits
- Update other parts in line with latest i386 bluesmoke.c

Missing loop increment.

This device returns a wrong class code which we work around at boot up time.

- printk loglevels
- request region checks.

Try to get config file distro placed in boot.

Some SiS boards won't boot without pci=bios forcing their method.
The reason for this is in the probe method, we try the BIOS method, and it
succeeds and we store the pci_ops. We then try the direct access, it fails
and we trash the old pci_ops.
The patch stores the pci_ops when BIOS method succeeds and restores it
if the direct hardware access method fails.

From Stelian, already in 2.4

We now have so many CONFIG_ options we overflow a buffer in xconfig.
Doubling the size should see us until someone either writes a replacement,
or can be bothered to make it dynamically allocate.

o   P4 thermal throttling is now compile time option
o   ifdefs cleaned up due to above
o   Only poke the LVT if thermal throttling is enabled.
o   Remove bogus cache flushing as per previous discussion.
o   Replace hard coded timer values with MCE_RATE
o   Change default polling frequency from 5 to 15 seconds
o   SMP fixes. (Don't readd timer)
o   Compile time warning fixes.
o   Add config helptext

The A20 code needs a slight tweak to work on AMD Elans.
Original patch from Robert Schwebel

This is a patch from Andreas Gruenbacher (the ext2/ext3 EA patch
maintainer) which converts the extended attribute VFS code from
using the BKL to instead use the inode semaphore; please apply.

Here's a patch for SCSI REPORT LUN scanning, including Douglas Gilbert's
recent changes to support a short INQUIRY followed by a longer INQUIRY.

Please apply, or let me know if you think it needs any modifications.

It's against linux-2.5.4. It does _not_ change the size of the linux lun.

A description of the 8 byte LUN layout can be found on page 35 of:

ftp://ftp.t10.org/t10/drafts/scc2/scc2r04.pdf

The above is a draft, but matches the layout seen on most disk arrays
(including EMC, IBM, LSI, and Hitachi). Later drafts (post SCSI-3) have
this information in the SCSI Architectural Model.

Patch description:

Adds REPORT LUN scanning.

Adds Douglas Gilbert's INQUIRY modification so broken devices that cannot handlean INQUIRY
of more than 36 bytes can be black-listed, plus saving the INQUIRY
result in Scsi_Device.

Adds scan_scsis_target function, replacing code in scan_scsis and parts
of scan_scsis_single. This cleans up the scanning code, and removes a
really ugly for loop. It would be difficult to add REPORT LUN scanning
without this change.

Adds missing scsi_release_commandblocks().

No longer sets max_dev_lun out of bounds for BLIST_FORCELUN devices.

Fixes scanning past LUN 7 for SCSI-3 devices (the patch in 2.4.17
for that fix will not cleanly apply against this code).

-- Patrick Mansfield

    Changes since 3.5.24 (20020319)
        - use Scsi_Request::upper_private_data
        - zero buffers for non-root users
    Changes since 3.5.23 (20011231)
        - change EACCES to EPERM when O_RDONLY is insufficient
        - suppress newlines in host string
        - fix xfer direction, old interface, short reply_len [Travers Carter]