Linux 2.2.15pre4

[Alan Cox]

Assorted further fixing/cleanups. Some driver updates. 
One small but important VM change. It should feel a lot faster and behave
better under load than older 2.2.x kernels. It might not, it might seem
worse for some loads. Feedback on this one is important, I dont want to
improve 90% of users performance and kill 10% dead.


2.2.15pre4

o	VM algorithm changes				(Rik van Riel)
o	Fix compile bug in qnxfs changes		(Leos Bitto)
o	Sparc32 KRUPS/Javastation fixes			(Peter Zaitcev)
o	Powermac fixes including OOM behaviour		(Paul Mackerras)
o	Fix 3c529 setup					(David Weinehall)
o	Remove the I2O test on Megaraid, doesn't work
	for all cases. Back to vanilla AMI code		(me)
o	Upgraded Davicom driver to v1.28		(Sten Wang)
o	SMC ircc update					(Dag Brattli)
o	Add module initialising debug stuff		(Keith Owens)
o	Fix defconfig 					(Niels Jensen)
o	3c509 PPC and SMC mca fixes			(David Monro)
o	Fixes for RIO driver for older cards		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Add Specialix SX+ support to SX driver		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Add custom divisor support to Specialix IO8+	(Nicolas Mailhot)
o	Clean up gemini PPC, turn on L2 for other cpus	(Cort Dougan)
o	QlogicFC updates				(Chris Loveland)
o	Lan Media T1/T3 card driver			(Lan Media Corp)

2.2.15pre3

o	Fix Sangoma stuff if compiled into kernel	(Mario Lorenz)
o	Fix smbfs for sparc64				(Dave Miller)
o	Specialix Rio drivers				(Specialix, Rogier Wolff)
o	Elf extra sanity checks from code audit		(Solar Designer)
o	Megaraid update to 1.07				(Dell/AMI)
o	Fix hang on boot with I2O configured megaraid	(me)
o	Fix small bug in the socket filter code		(??)
o	QNX file system updates				(Anders Larsen)
o	Intel 82559ER support in eepro100 driver	(Cobalt)
o	Workaround for 16C750 emulation bug		(Cobalt)
o	Show "preN" in make menuconfig			(Alan Ford)
o	Adaptec 29xx driver updates			(Doug Ledford)
o	Handle cross CPU TSC differences		(Ingo Molnar)
o	Update IRDA to match the 2.3.x codebase		(Dag Brattli)   

2.2.15pre2

o	Fix RTC build problem with Nautilus		(Michal Jaegermann)
o	Quieten NFS debugging messages			(me)
o	Fix bug in connect/listen handling in TCP	(Dave Miller)
o	Fix missing $(CC) cases				(Pascal DuPuis)
o	Fix SMP tcp hang				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Hopefully fixed PLIP				(me)
o	Fix sigtimedwait bug				(Christophe Blaess)
o	Updated epic100 driver				(Donald Becker)
	| If it works cool, if not we back it off
o	Sparc updates					(Dave Miller)
	| Fixes bugs with >258Mb on sun4d/sun4m
	| si_addr is set in siginfo
	| Fix signal type for FP/div events
	| DP division FPU emulation fixes
	| Fix sparc64 parport locking keyboard
	| ESP can be built as a module
o	Network fix kit					(Dave Miller and co)
	| Nagle improvements, TCP_CORK/FIN fix
	| /proc/net/tcp reports type 4 for timer
	| Fix TIME_WAIT logic
	| Clean up timer performance
	| Handle shutdown() in CLOSE_WAIT right
	| Report state change on tcp_fin after setting
	|	new state
	| Shutdown on close in write_err case 		(Paul Russell)
	
2.2.15pre1

o	Handle crossing X25 restart confirmations	(Guntram Blohm)
o	Large direct block I/O with small readahead
		could fail				(Mikulas Patocka)
o	Remove duplicate asm op				(Chris Noe)
o	IUCV Update for S/390				(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	Fixes to allow Linux/390 to run on P/390	(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	Some PPC configs didnt compile			(W Lewis)
o	Maybe fix TCP delack hang			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Missing task state change			(Natapov Gleb)
o	Fix 82596 false probes				(Richard Hirst)
o	Fix typo in ixj driver				(Tim Waugh)
o	Add AOpen PD-2 DVD to ghost list		(Rogier Wolff)
o	Masquerading site has moved			(Hugh Redelmeier)
o	Fix FAT bug					(Pavel Pisa)
o	Small NFS fixes					(HJ Lu)
o	Update ES1370 to handle rev7 chips		(Tom Sailer)
o	Use amateur radio drivers on Sparc		(Tom Sailer)
o	SCSI generic documentation updates		(Douglas Gilbert)
o	Fix clearing of NT in head.S			(Willy Tareau)
o	Add winchip2 MTRR support			(Bart Hartgers)
o	CREDITS entry for Victor 'RTLinux' Yodaiken	(Victor Yodaiken)
o	Zoltan Boszormenyi has changed address		(Zoltan Boszormenyi)
o	eepro100 updates		                (Savochkin Andrey Vladimirovich)
o	Update Davicom driver				(Davicom)

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