One of the goals of the whole new modversions implementation:
export-objs is gone for good!

Makefiles no longer need to include Rules.make, which is currently an
empty file.  This patch removes it from the drivers tree Makefiles.

Attached is a patch, that updates the 2.5.50 to the latest pnp
version.  It includes all 9 of the previously submitted patches.

Highlights are as follows:
-PnP BIOS fixes
-Several new macros
-PnP Card Services
-Various bug fixes
-more drivers converted to the new APIs

This patch addresses a few minor issues for the Linux Plug and Play Rewrite.  It
is against 2.5.44.

They are as follows.

1.) fix Config.in file - from Adrian Bunk and Roman Zippel
2.) if unable to activate a device the match should fail.  This can be done now
that the driver model matching bug has been corrected.
3.) move compat.c to isapnp directory and fix everything accordingly - suggested
by Stelian Pop.  This fixes a compile error if ISAPNP is disabled.
4.) fix a typo in pnp.h - patch from Skip Ford

Please Apply,
Adam

The included patch is essentially a Linux Plug and Play Support rewrite.  It
contains many significant improvements, including the following:


1.)  A Global Plug and Play Layer
    - Now drivers do not have to worry about which plug and play
      protocol they are using.  Calls are made directly to the Linux
      Plug and Play Layer and then forwarded to the appropriate
      protocol.
    - This will make it very easy to integrate ACPI PnP support when
      it's ready


2.)  A complete Plug and Play BIOS driver
    - The Plug and Play BIOS now supports reading and writing of
      resource configurations.
    - It is now possible to enable disabled PNPBIOS devices.  Therefore
      the user can safely enable PnP OS support in their BIOS.


3.)  Driver Model Integration
    - The entire plug and play layer is integrated into the driver model
    - The user interface is housed here
    - PnP protocols are listed under the bus "pnp"


4.)  A powerful global resource configuration interface
    - The user can use this to activate PnP devices for legacy and
      user-level drivers
    - See the documentation for how to configure devices.

5.)  Automatic resource allocation for needed devices


6.)  A PnP device name database

And many more improvements.

This patch also adds me to the maintainers list, considering the current
PnP maintainer has been inactive for over 2 years now.

We currently decide whether we need to descend into the subdirs of
drivers/ in drivers/Makefile, but link the resulting objects from
the top-level Makefile.

Making these two decisions at the same time (in drivers/Makefile) cleans
up the top-level Makefile quite a bit.

Link order does not change at all apart from sound/, which is now linked
last.

objects in $(list-multi), instead of $(multi-objs)

- Doug Ledford: i810 audio driver update
- Evgeniy Polyakov: update various SCSI drivers to new locking
- David Howells: syscall latency improvement, try 2
- Francois Romieu: dscc4 driver update
- Patrick Mochel: driver model fixes
- Andrew Morton: clean up a few details in ext3 inode initialization
- Pete Wyckoff: make x86 machine check print out right address..
- Hans Reiser: reiserfs update
- Richard Gooch: devfs update
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Dave Jones: PNPBIOS
- Nathan Scott: extended attributes
- Corey Minyard: clean up zlib duplication (triplication..)

  - Kai Germaschewski: Makefile dependency fixes. ISDN update
  - Chris Mason: another reiserfs tail writing fix
  - unify pte/pmd allocation
  - undo some VIA PCI fixups - conflicting behaviour