- Remove an unused parameter from lowlevel read/write functions
- FADT initialization cleanups

- Fix for big-endian arcitectures

- Walking a list in the ISR is now required, so add a spinlock
- Add core support for GPE Block devices
- Change GPE interface accordingly

  - Add acpi_walk_resource support (Bjorn Helgaas)
  - Add S4BIOS support (Pavel Machek)
  - Rewrite GPE code to deal with future GPE block devices
  - Fix a bug that caused long delays when receiving SCIs
  - Fix a bug that causes oopses when battery strings are ""

- Improved ACPI mode switching (Kochi Takayoshi)
- Improved namespace handling of parent operator "^^"
- Changed the names of some proprocessor macros
- Other improvements

Improved error checking on hw accesses
Moved arch specific macros to arch/asm/acpi.h

add support for GPE fields to be in any address space, not just IO.
comment and debug print cleanups

This is the update to the core interpreter code.

  - Michael Warfield: computone serial driver update
  - Alexander Viro: cdrom module race fixes
  - David Miller: Acenic driver fix
  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
  - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
  - Tim Waugh: parport update
  - David Woodhouse: JFFS garbage collect sleep

  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update
  - Al Viro: block devices..
  - Andrea Arcangeli: fix list manipulation bogosity
  - Trond Myklebust: 64-bit file locking fixes
  - Brad Hards: USB CDC ethernet
  - Chris Mason: reiserfs speedup
  - Robert Love: re-merge AMD 761 GART support that was lost in -ac merge
  - Adam Richter: check pci_module_init() return value

  - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update (bluetooth and serial)
  - Andrew Grover: ACPI update for _real_ this time.
  - Neil Brown: md update
  - Keith Owens: kbuild script fix, do_softirq versioning fix
  - David Miller: sparc and portability updates

  - Get non-cpuid Cyrix probing right (it's not a NexGen)
  - Jens Axboe: cdrom tray status and queing cleanups
  - AGP GART: don't disable VIA, and allow i815 with external AGP
  - Coda: use iget4() in order to have big inode numbers without clashes.
  - Fix UDF writepage() page locking
  - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update
  - Martin Diehl and others: SiS pirq routing fixes
  - Andy Grover: ACPI update
  - Andrea Arkangeli: LVM update
  - Ingo Molnar: RAID cleanups
  - David Miller: sparc and networking updates
  - Make NFS really be able to handle large files

  - got a few too-new R128 #defines in the Radeon merge. Fix.
  - tulip driver update from Jeff Garzik
  - more cpq and DAC elevator fixes from Jens. Looks good.
  - Petr Vandrovec: nicer ncpfs behaviour
  - Andy Grover: APCI update
  - Cort Dougan: PPC update
  - David Miller: sparc updates
  - David Miller: networking updates
  - Neil Brown: RAID5 fixes