Summary of changes for 2.2.18. A full change document will follow later


2.2.18pre26
o	Last resync of the S/390 tree with IBM		(Martin schwidefsky
	| s390_daemonize skipped, thats too ugly	 and co)
o	Swat irq leak in sbni driver		(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Update urls for Arnaldo			(Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo)
o	Small UDP mcast fix				(Dave Miller)
o	Fix TCP rto estimator for very fast long	(Dave Miller)
	paths

2.2.18pre25
o	Fix tight loop spinning reporting out of free	(Marcelo Tosatti)
	pages
	(previously fixed but missed by me)		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Back out ppa changes causing problems for a	(Tim Waugh)
	few users
o	Set master enable on UHCI USB controllers	(Erik Mouw)
o	RIO DCD fixes				(Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	3c59x.c support for 3c556B			(Andrew Morton)
o	S390 cleanups for loopsperjiffy etc		(Kurt Roeckx)
o	Fix acceleport 4 SMP hangs			(Al Borchers)
o	Fix drivers/char/Makefile buglet		(Chip Salzenberg)
o	PPC syscall table fix				(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Move HID sysctl to avoid clash in 2.4 case	(Tom Rini)
o	Small symbios check condition fix		(Gérard Roudier)
o	Fix Makefile module version check		(Eric Lammerts)
o	Fix DRM build on Sparc 				(Dave Miller)
o	Work around Dallas D4201 PCM8 audio bug		(Thomas Sailer)
o	Fix USB memory leak				(Dan Streetman)
o	Fix ioremap fencepost error			(Chip Salzenberg)


2.2.18pre24
o	Expose put_unused_fd for modules		(Andi Kleen)
o	Fix the ps/2 mouse probe I hope			(me)
o	Fix crash in cosa driver			(Jan Kasprzak)
o	Fix procfs negative seek offset error reporting (HJ Lu)
o	Fix ext2 file limit constraints			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix lockf corner cases				(Andi Kleen, me)
o	Fix NCPfs date limits				(Igor Zhbanov)
o	Update DRM					(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Fix missing Alpha includes			(Matt Wilson)
o	Fix missing symbols on alpha			(Matt Wilson)
 
2.2.18pre23
o	Fix alpha compile problem			(Herbert Xu)
o	Scan DMI bios data to find broken laptops	(me)
o	Fix megaraid module symbols			(Michael Marxmeier)
o	Fix visor/OHCI problem				(Gerg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix sysctl_jiffies compile bug			(Tomasz K³oczko)
o	Init mic input low to avoid feedback		(Pete Zaitcev)
o	Fix typo in acenic headers			(Val Henson)
o	David Woodhouse has moved			(David Woodhouse)
o	Compaq raid driver update			(Charles White)
o	Fix aha1542 scribbles on errors			(Phil Stracchino)
o	Update Advansys driver to v3.3D			(Bob Frey)
o	Fix maestro ioctl locking			(Zach Brown)
o	Formatting cleanup for setup.c			(Dave Jones)
o	Fix FAT32 bugs on Alpha				(Bill Nottingham)

2.2.18pre22
o	Fix HZ assumption in USB hub driver		(Oleg Drokin)
o	Fix ndisc range check on ipv6			(Dave Miller)
o	Clear other fields in qcam VIDIOCGWIN return	(Damion de Soto)
o	Fix sparc64 includes for socket.h		(Solar Designer)
o	ELF platform was misset for Pentium IV		(Mikael Pettersson)
o	ADMTek 985 ident was wrong			(Lee Bradshaw)
o	Fix filemark status test on scsi tape		(Robin Miller)
o	Fix file/block when spacing to tape beginning	(Kai Maiksara)
o	Small ISDN documentation fixes			(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Resync icn driver with core isdn tree		(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix isdn loopback driver			(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix small leaks in lockd			(Trond Myklebust)
o	Add Pentium IV rep nop, ident etc		(Various folks,
							 notably HPA and
							 Linda Wang)
o	Update sparc default config			(Dave Miller)
o	Hopefully properly fix the megaraid problem	(Willy Tarreau, AMI
							 and others)
o	Resync tcp bits with Dave			(Dave Miller)
o	Make cpqarray provide randomness		(Nigel Metheringham)
o	Fix wavefront symbols bug			(Carlos E. Gorges)
o	Fix acenic jumbo handling when flushing ring	(Val Henson)
o	Fix ace_set_mac_addr for littleendian hosts	(Stephen Hack)
o	Fix assorted typos in the kernel		(Andries Brouwer)
o	EEPro100 fixes					(Dragan Stancevic)
o	Fix hisax _setup crash case			(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix small cdrom driver bugs			(Jens Axboe)
o	Fix remaining vmalloc corner cases		(Ben LaHaise)
o	Update USB maintainers				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix matroxfb doc bug				(Pavel Rabel)
o	Fix setscheduler lock inversion 		(Andrew Morton)
o	Fix scsi unload/sg ioctl oops			(Paul Clements)

2.2.18pre21
o	Environment controller update for sparc		(Eric Brower)
o	No italian translation for config.help		(Andrea Ferraris)
o	Fix type error in buz driver			(Pete Zaitcev)
o	Resnchronize Apple PowerMac codebase		(Paul Mackerras & co)
o	Merge powermac tree fixes into usb
o	Powermac input device handling changes
o	Fix console switch fonts
o	S/390 merge					(IBM S/390 folks)
					(Merge grunt work done by Kurt Roeckx)
o	Make knfsd TCP an option 			(me)
o	Drop cisco info packets (0x2000)		(Ivan Passos)
o	Add belkin USB serial cable			(William Greathouse)

2.2.18pre20
o	Fix ide-probe SMP build error			(Ian Morgan)
o	Fix appletalk physical layer ioctl handling	(Andi Kleen)
o	Sparc update					(Dave Miller)
o	Update Stephen Tweedie's contact info		(Stephen Tweedie)
o	Fix typo in esp and scsi_obsolete code		(Dave Miller)
o	Bonding ioctl check fix				(Willy Tarreau)
o	Fix ipv6 procfs bug				(Al Viro)
o	Report PIV in proc as family 15 and uname as	(me)
	model 6 as discussed
o	Redo Intel cache decodes as code not tables	(me)
	and add new ones  (based on updates by
	Asit Mallick & Andrew Ip)
o	Fix CMOS locking in machine_power_off paths	(me)
o	Create build tree symlinks only if insmod is
	new enough not to be confused by it		(Keith Owens)
o	Fix cmsg handling				(Philippe Troin)
o	Tiny xpds driver changes			(Dan Hollis)
o	Fix vmalloc sign bug				(Ben LaHaise)
o	SMBFS fixes/changes for find_next problems and	(Urban Widmark)
	to avoid truncate bug in netapps
o	Fix ntfs translation bug			(Anton Altaparmakov)
o	Fix sparc problem with some soundcards and the	(Jeff Garzik)
	_IOC magic
o	Update ppa driver to v2.05			(Tim Waugh)


2.2.18pre19
o	Fix transproxy socket lookup			(Val Henson)
o	Add ICS1893 PHY to the SiS900 driver		(Lei-Chun Chang)
o	Fix documentation error in matroxfb		(Vsevolod Sipakov)
o	Update IDE floppy maintainer			(Paul Bristow)
o	Fix remaining cmos locking			(Paul Gortmaker)
o	Fix sparc bitfield/compiler bits on sound	(Dave Miller)
o	Update Pegasus USB driver			(Petko Manolov)
o	Networking updates - move divert header		(Andi Kleen)
o	Add ETH_P_ATM* defines				(Matti Aarnio)
o	Fix one more missing GFP_KERNEL/sk->allocation	(Dave Miller)
o	Fix ISDN multilink handler bug			(Kai Germaschewski)
o	Fix ymfpci unload cases				(Kai Germaschewski)

2.2.18pre18
o	Fix off by one in net/ipv4/proc			(Dave Miller)
o	Move the fpu emu patch that got away		(Dave Miller)
o	K6 update for MTRR ability			(Dave Jones)
o	Fix raid1/vm deadlock				(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix usb mouse userspace memory accesses		(David Woodhouse)
o	Fix xpdsl if compiled in (typo)			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Rio fixes for modem handling. Fix a small (Patrick van de Lageweg)
	generic serial bug
o	IBMtr driver fixes for cable pulls, pcmcia	(Burt Silverman,
	behaviour etc					 Mike Sullivan)
o	Tidy up /dev/microcode messages			(Daniel Roesen)
o	Add arpfilter					(Andi Kleen)
o	IDE floppy updates for clik support, cleanups	(Paul Bristow)
o	Fix irongate handling on Alpha			(Soohoon Lee)
o	Fix HZ=100 assumption in aha152x.c		(me)
o	Fix power management handling in i810 audio	(me)
	(From an ALSA fix by Godmar Back)
o	Put the NFS block default back to 4K		(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix misleading comment in printk code		(Riley Williams)
o	Fix fbcon scroll back/paste bug			(Herbert Xu)
o	Fix rtc_lock for ide-probe, and hd.c		(Richard Johnson)
o	Backport of 2.4 PR_GET/SET_KEEPCAPS		(Brian Brunswick)
	(from Chris Evans 2.4 code)
o	LRU list corruption fix				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Initial gcc 2.96+ support for kernel building	(H J Lu)
	| Not a recommended compiler for production kernels...
o	ALI silence clearing fix			(Ching-Ling Lee)
o	Fix remaining old-style use of copy_strings	(Solar Designer)
o	Better pci_resource_start macro for 2.2		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix nbd deadlock				(Marcelo Tosatti)

2.2.18pre17
o	Move a few escaped m68k headers into the right	(me)
	directory
o	Backport 2.4 AF_UNIX garbage collect speedups	(Dave Miller)
o	TCP fixes for NFS 				(Saadia Khan)
o	Fix USB audio hangs				(David Woodhouse)
o	Sparc64 dcache and exec fixes			(Dave Miller)
o	Fix typing crap in divert.h			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Use pkt_type in diverter, add maintainer info	(Dave Miller)
o	Fix obscure NAT problem in FIB code		(Dave Miller)
o	Fix sk->allocation in TCP sendmsg		(Marcelo Tossati)
o	Elevator fixes					(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Allow broken_suid on NFS root			(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix net/ipv6/proc off by one bug		(Dave Miller)
o	Fix AGP oops on Alpha				(Michal Jaegermann)
o	MSR/CPUID init call fixes			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	CS4281 sound hang fixes				(Thomas Woller)
o	AX.25 comment updates, Joerg has moved email	(Joerg Reuter)

2.2.18pre16
o	Finally get the m68k tree merged		(Andrew McPherson
							 and a cast of many)
o	Bring the sparc back in line, make it build 	(Anton Blanchard)
o	USB Bluetooth fixes/docs			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix auth_null credentials bug			(Hai-Pao Fan)
o	Update cpu flag names 				(Dave Jones)
o	Console 'quiet' boot option as in 2.4		(Rusty Russell)
o	Make the sx serial driver work again	(Patrick van de Lageweg)
o	Fix negotation on the SYM53C1010		(Gerard Roudier)
o	Fix alpha loops per jiffy			(Jay Estabrook)
o	Fix pegasus to work with 2.2 kernels		(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Update plusb driver for 2.2.x			(Eric Ayers, 
							 Deti Fliegl)
o	Fix ohci to use __init				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	/sbin/hotplug support for USB as in 2.4		(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Update ksymoops url				(Keith Owens)
o	Update the changes doc about gcc 		(Petri Kaukasoina)
o	Fix AMD flag naming				(Ulrich Windl)
o	Restore old block size on devices after a
	partition scan (needed for powermac for one)	(Michael Schmitz)
o	Fix GPL naming in SubmittingDrivers		(Mike Harris)
o	NFSv3 server patches merge			(Dave Higgen)
o	CS46xx changes					(Nils Faerber)
o	Fix sys_nanosleep for >4GHz CPU changes		(me)
	(Spotted by Ben Herrenschmidt)
o	Fix pas rev D mixer				(??)
o	Fix multiple spelling errors			(André Dahlqvist)
o	ISDN updates					(Kai Germaschewski)
o	XSpeed DSL driver				(Timothy Lee, 
							 Dan Hollis)
o	IDE multi-lun/single-lun handling		(Jens Axboe)
o	Fix alpha generic trident sound support		(Rich Payne)
o	Fix PPC for loops per jiffy			(Cort Dougan)

2.2.18pre15
o	Default msdos behaviour to old (small) letters	(me)
	| An option 'big' goes with 'small'
o	Fix define collision in cpqfc			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix case where scripts/kwhich isnt executable	(me)
o	Alpha FPU divide fix				(Richard Henderson)
o	Add ADMtek985 to the tulip list			(J Katz)
o	Lose excess ymfpci debugging			(Rob Landley)
o	Fix i2c bus id clash				(Russell King)
o	Update the ARM vidc driver			(Russell King)
o	Update the ARM am79c961a driver			(Russell King)
o	Fix parport_pc build with no PCI		(Russell King)
o	Fix ARM memzero					(Russell King)
o	Update ARM for __init and __setup		(Russell King)
o	Update ARM to loops_per_jiffy			(Russell King)
o	Remove arm ecard debug messages			(Russell King)
o	Fix ARM makefiles				(Russell King)
o	Fix iph5526 driver to use mdelay		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix epca, dtlk, aha152x loops_per_sec bits	(Philipp Rumpf)
o	Fix smp tlb invalidate and bogomip printing	(Philipp Rumpf)
o	Fix NLS warnings				(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix wavfront conversion to loops_per_jiffies	(me)
o	Fix an audio problem and a sanyo changer 	(Jens Axboe)
	problem
o	Fix include bug with divert			(me)
	| Alternate fix to Willy Tarreau's
o	Fix Alpha for loops_per_jiffy			(Willy Tarreau)

2.2.18pre14
o	Reorder attributes in drm to work with gcc272	(me)
o	GNU cross compilers are foo-bar-gcc 		(Russell King)
o	Add extra strange pcnet32 ident			(Willy Tarreau)
o	Since no vendor can get which right.. use a	(Miquel van Smoorenburg)
	shell script instead
	| Please nobody tell me this fails in some bash version!
o	Should be using bash not bash2 (escaped debug)	(Petri Kaukasoina)
o	spin_unlock_irq wrong debug mode printk		(Willy Tarreau)
o	Fix pcxx for the loops changes			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix ov511/via-rhine name clash			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix bridge compile with loops_per_sec change	(Mitch Adair)
o	8139too driver added				(Jeff Garzik)

2.2.18pre13
o	Change udelay to use loops_per tick		(Philipp Rumpf)
	| Otherwise we bomb out at 2GHz which isnt far enough
	| away with 1.4/1.6GHz stuff due out RSN
o	Fix drivers using big delays to use mdelay	(me)
o	Fix drivers that used loops_per_sec		(Philipp Rumpf, me)
o	Fix yamaha PCI sound SMP bug			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Change to preferred USB init fix		(David Rees)
o	Fix rio fix					(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Catch the VT but no mouse case in init/main.c	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix the 'which' compiler stuff			(Horst von Brand,
							 Peter Samuelson)
	| Can someone verify for me this works on Slackware and
	| on Caldera ?
o	Add devfs include. Devfs wont be going into 2.2 (Richard Gooch)
	but this again makes it easier to do 2.2/2.4
	drivers.

2.2.18pre12
o	Fix cyrix MTRR handling bug 			(IIZUKA Daisuke)
o	Fix ymfpci poll					(me, Arjan)
o	Update radio-maestro, add Configure.help	(Adam Tla/lka>
o	Fix rio/generic serial build bug		(Marcelo Tossati)
o	USB build bug fix				(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix missing ac97_codec.c return value		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix several warnings				(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Made the PS/2 reconnect behaviour optional	(me)
	| Its now 'psaux-reconnect' on the boot line
o	Allow for newer Hauppauge with 4 ports		(Krischan Jodies)
o	Switch sound drivers from library to object	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Kill the not working ac97 lock on the 810	(me)
o	Automatically select older compilers for kernel
	builds on Debian and RH				(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Start volumes higher on ac97, teach the driver  (Rui Sousa)
	about 5bit and 6bit codec precision and use
	the mute bit.

2.2.18pre11
o	Kill bogus codec_id assignment			(Linus Torvalds)
o	Update codec init code to handle id right	(me)
o	Fix dead/clashing define for NFS		(Trond Myklebust)
o	Remove the find_vga crap from bttv		(me)
o	Fix return on probe failure for cadet		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Add missing configure.help stuff from 2.4test	(Alan Ford)
o	Fix inia100/megaraid define clash		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	__xchg marked as taking volatiles		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix vwsnd warning in sound core			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	wdt_pci driver should return -EIO on error	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix init_adfs_fs warning			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix the joystick driver option parsing		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Update mkdep to handle // commenting		(Mike Klar)
o	Thunderlan driver typo fixes			(Torben Mathiasen)
o	Add KX133/KT133 stuff to the AGP/DRM 		(Jeff Nguyen)
o	FIx multiple card bug in eepro driver		(Aristeu Filho)
o	Initial YMF PCI native driver			(Pete Zaitcev)
	| Based on Jaroslav's ALSA driver and I've tweaked it
	| a bit and maybe broken it 8)
o	Fix procfs unlink bugs				(Willy Tarreau)
o	X.25 bugfix backport				(Henner Eisen)
o	Fix incorrect free_dma on DMAless boxes		(Boria)
o	Fix via audio driver merge			(Nick Lamb)
o	Update plusb driver to 2.4 one			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Put description info in wacom driver		(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Update both UHCI drivers to match 2.4test	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Masquerade cleanup/warning fixes		(Horst von Brand)

2.2.18pre10
o	Add printk level to partition printk messages	(me)
o	Fix bluesmoke address report/serialize		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Add 2.4pre CPUID/MSR docs to 2.2.18pre		(Adrian Bunk)
o	Update to the 2.4pre via audio driver		(Jeff Garzik)
o	Fix small SMP race in set_current_state		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix __KERNEL__ checks in sparc headers		(Dave Miller)
o	Fix ADFS root directory bug added in pre9	(Russell King)
o	Trap incorrect swap partition sizes		(Andries Brouwer)
o	Fix nfsroot bootp/dhcp on sparc64		(Dave Miller)
o	Tidy up tcp opt parsing				(Dave Miller)
o	Check range on port range sysctl		(Dave Miller)
o	Back out erroneous i2c.h change			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix trident hangs due to over zealous addition	(Eric Brombaugh)
	of midi support
o	Fix big endian/macro bug in ext2fs		(Andi Kleen)
o	Bring dabusb driver into line with 2.4		(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Bring event drivers into line with 2.4		(Franz Sirl,
							 Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix usb help texts				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Generic frame diverter				(Benoit Locher)
o	Bring USB serial back into line with 2.4	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix DVD driver rpc state bug			(Jens Axboe)
o	Fix extra sunrpc printk				(Tim Mann)
o	USB init tidy up				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Allow PlanB video on generic PPC		(Michel Lanners)
o	Doc fixes/trim cvs logs on isdn drivers		(Kai Germaschewski)
o	USB hid, hub, ibmcam, dsbr100 devices updates	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Return EAFNOSUPPORT for out of range families
o	Fix SMP locking on floppy driver		(Jonathan Corbet)
o	Add module author info to acm.c			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Update CREDITS to reflect all the USB guys	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
 
o	ipfw wrong allocation flag fix			(Rusty Russell)
o	Implement Sun style lockf/nfs cache barriers	(Trond Myklebust)
o	Updated ISI serial driver			(Multitech)
	| You may well need their newer firmware set/loader for the
	| later cards too

2.2.18pre9
o	Fix usb module load oops			(Thomas Sailer)
o	Bring USB boot drivers in line with 2.4t8	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB print drivers				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB Rio driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB dc2xx driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	And USB mdc800 driver				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	NFSv3 support and NFS updates			(Trond Myklebust and co)
o	Compaq 64bit/66Mhz PCI Fibrechannel driver	(Amy Vanzant-Hodge)
o	Disable microtouch driver (doesnt work in 2.2	(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
	currently)
o	Update ADFS support				(Russell King)
o	Update ARM arch specific code and includes	(Russell King)
o	Update ARM specific drivers 			(Russell King)
o	Use both fast and slow A20 gating on boot	(Kira Brown)
	| if your box doesnt boot I want to know about it...
	| Needed for stuff like the AMD Elan

2.2.18pre8
o	Fix mtrr compile bug				(Peter Blomgren)
o	Alpha PCI boot up fix				(Michal Jaegermann)
o	Fix vt/keyboard dependancy in USB config	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix sound hangs on cs4281			(Tom Woller)
o	Fix Alpha vmlinuz.lds				(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix CDROMPLAYTRKIND bug, allow root to open	(Jens Axboe)
	the cd door whenver.
o	Update ov511 to match 2.4			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Further devio.c fix				(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Update NR_TASKS comment				(Jarkko Kovala)
o	Further sparc64 ioctl translator fixes		(Andi Kleen)

2.2.18pre7
o	Fix the AGP compile in bug			(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Revert old incorrect syncppp state change	(Ivan Passos)
o	Fix i810 rng to actually get built in		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Megaraid compile fix, joystick, mkiss fixes	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Kawasaki USB ethernet depends on net		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Compaq cpqarray update				(Charles White)
o	Fix usb problem with no USB unit found		(Oleg Drokin)
o	Driver for the radio on some maestro cards	(Adam Tlalka)
o	Additional shared map support needed for sparc64(Dave Miller)
o	Fix wdt_pci when compiled in			(me, Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix usb missing symbol when non modular		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Identify chip and also handle MTRR for the 	(me)
	Cyrix III
o	Allow binding to all ports multicast		(Andi Kleen)
o	Bring USB docs up to date			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Bring USB devio up to date			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	pci_resource_len null function for non PCI case	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix synchronous write off end of disk bug	(Jari Ruusu)

2.2.18pre6
o	Fix the IDE PCI not compiling bug		(Dag Wieers)
o	Kill an escaped reference to vger.rutgers	(Dave Miller)
o	Small rtl8139 fixups				(Jeff Garzik)
o	Add USB bluetooth driver			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Fix oops in visor driver			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Remove some unneeded ext2 includes,fix a bug	(Andreas Dilger)
	in the UFS code
o	Fix rtc race between timer and rtc irq		(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Fix slow gettimeofday SMP race			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Check lost_ticks in settimeofday to be more	(Andrea Arcangeli)
	precise

2.2.18pre5
o	Added older VIA ide chipsets to the not to be	(me)
	autotuned list
o	Fix crash on boot problem with __setup stuff	(me)
o	Small acenic fix				(Matt Domsch)
o	Fix hfc_pci isdn driver				(Jens David)
o	Fix smbfs configuration problem			(Urban Widmark)
o	Emu10K wrapper/build fixes			(Rui Sousa)
o	Small cleanups					(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix sparc32 build bug				(Horst von Brand)
o	Fix quota oops					(Martin Diehl)
o	Add i810 random number driver			(Jeff Garzik)
o	Clear suid bits on ext2 truncate as per SuS	(Andi Kleen)
o	Fix illegal use of section attributes		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Documentation for nmi watchdog			(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix uninitialised variable warnings		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Save DR6 condition into the TSS			(Ryan Wallach)
o	Add additional __init's to the kernel	(Andrzej M. Krzysztofowicz)
o	Backport 2.4 wdt_pci driver			(JP Nollman, me)
o	AGP i810 fixes					(Chip Salzenberg)
o	UDMA support for ALI1543 & 1543C IDE devices	(ALI)
o	2.4 MSR/CPUID driver backport			(Dave Jones, 
								H Peter Anvin)
o	Fix incorrect use of kernel v user ptr in NCPfs	(Petr Vandrovec)
o	Updated scsi tape driver			(Kai Makisara)

2.2.18pre4
o	Remove the aacraid driver again, having looked	(me)
	at what is needed to make it acceptable and 
	debug it - Im dumping it back on Adaptec
o	DAC960 update					(Leonard Zubkoff)
o	Add setup vmlinuz.lds changes for Sparc		(Arjan van den Ven)
o	Sparc updates for drm, ioctl and other		(Dave Miller)
o	Megaraid driver update				(Peter Jarrett)
o	Add cd volume 0 to the amp power off on the
	crystal cs46xx					(Bill Nottingham)
o	Fix IPV6 fragment and kfree bugs		(Alexey Kuznetsov)
o	Fix emu10k build bug				(me)
o	Emu10K driver upgrade. Adds emu-aps support	(Rui Sousa)
o	Updated IBM serveraid driver to 4.20		(IBM)
o	Ext2 block handling cleanup from 2.4		(Al Viro)
o	Make the ATI128 driver modular			(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix megaraid build bug with gcc 2.7.2		(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix some of the dquot races			(Jan Kara)
o	x86 setup code cleanup				(Dave Jones)
o	Implement 2.4 compatible __setup and __initcall	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Tidy up smp_call_function stuff			(Keitaro Yosimura)
o	Remove 2.4 compat glue from cs4281 driver	(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Fix minor bugs in bluesmoke now someone actually
	has a faulty CPU and logs			(me)
o	Fix definition of IPV6_TLV_ROUTERALERT		(Dave Miller)
o	Fix in6_addr, ip_decrease_ttl, other		(Dave Miller)
	minor bits
o	cp932 fixes					(Kazuki Yasumatsu)
o	Updated gdth driver				(Andreas Koepf)
o	Acenic update					(Jes Sorensen)
o	Update USB serial drivers			(Greg Kroah-Hartman)
o	Move pci_resource_len into pci compat		(Marcelo Tosatti)

2.2.18pre3  (versus 2.2.17pre20)
o	Clean up most of the compatibility macros	(me)
	that various people use. I've systematically
	moved the 100% correct ones to the headers
	used in 2.4
o	Fix newly introduced bug in kmem_cache_shrink	(Daniel Roesen)
o	Further updates to symbios drivers		(Gerhard Roudier)
o	Remove emu10K warning and mtrr warning		(Daniel Roesen)
o	Fix symbol clash between cs4281 and esssolo1	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix acenic non modular/module build issues	(Arjan van de Ven)
o	Fix bug in alpha csum_partial_copy that could	(Herbert Xu)
	cause spurious EFAULTs
o	Yet another eepro100 variant sighted		(Torben Mathiasen)
o	Minor microcode.c final tweak			(Daniel Roesen)
o	Document that ATIFB is now modular		(Marcelo Tosatti)
o	Parport update					(Tim Waugh)
o	First set of ext2 updates/fixes			(Al Viro)
o	Bring smbfs back into line with 2.2		(Urban Widmark)
	| This should make OS/2 work again
o	Fix S/390 _stext (still doesnt build dasd)	(Kurt Roeckx)
o	Remove unused vars in arch/i386/kernel/bios32.c	(Daniel Roesen)
o	Update the DHCP initrd support			(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Allow opening empty scsi removables like IDE
	with O_NONBLOCK (needed for some ioctls)	(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Back out vibra mixer change
o	Fix error returns in sbni driver		(Dawson Engler)
o	Initial merge of the aacraid driver		(Adaptec)
	| Much deuglification left to be done here
o	Report megaraid: on obscure megaraid error	(Daniel Deimert)
	strings
o	Add another CS4299 id string			(Mulder Tjeerd)

2.2.18pre2  (versus 2.2.17pre20)

o	Fix the compile problems with microcode.c	(Dave Jones, 
							 Daniel Roesen)
o	GDTH driver update 				(Achim Leubner)
o	Fix mathsemu miuse of casting with asm		(??)
o	Make msnd_pinnacle driver build on Alpha
o	Acenic 0.45 fixes				(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Compaq CISS driver (SA 5300)			(Charles White, 
	+ cleanups					 me)
	+ gcc 2.95 fixup
o	Modularise pm2fb and atyfb
o	Upgrade AMI Megaraid driver to 1.09		(AMI)
o	Add DEC HSG80 and COMPAQ 'logical volume' to
	scsi multilun list
o	SK PCI FDDI driver support			(Schneider & Koch)
o	Linux 2.2 USB backport				(Vojtech Pavlik)
	backport 3 + further fixes from the USB list
	+ mm/slab.c fix for cache destroy
o	AGP driver backport				(XFree86, Precision
	DRM driver backport				 Insight, XiG, HJ Lu, 
							 VA Linux, 
							 and others)

2.2.18pre1  (versus 2.2.17pre20)

o	Update symbios/ncr driver to 1.7.0/3.4.0	(Gerhard Roudier)
o	Updated ATP870U driver				(ACard)
o	Avoid running tq_scheduler stuff sometimes with	(Andrea Arcangeli)
	interrupts off
o	Futher cpu setup updates			(me)
o	IBM MCA scsi driver updates			(Michael Lang)
o	Fix incorrect out of memory handling in bttv	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix incorrect out of memory handling in buz	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix incorrect out of memory handling in qpmouse	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in ipddp		(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in sdla		(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in softoss	(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in ixj 		(Dawson Engler)
o	Fix error handling memory leak in ax25		(Dawson Engler)
o	Merge the microcode driver from 2.4 into 2.2	(Tigran Aivazian)
o	Fix skbuff handling bug in the smc9194 driver	(Arnaldo Melo)
o	Make vfat use the same generation rules as	(H. Kawaguchi,
	in windows 9x					 Chip Salzenberg)
o	Fix oops in the CPQ array driver		(Arnaldo Melo)
o	Fix ac97 codec not setting the id field		(Bill Nottingham)
o	Further work on the cs46xx/CD power bits	(me)
o	Synclink updates 				(Paul Fulgham)
o	Synclink init bug fix				(Arnaldo Melo)
o	Handle odd interrupts from toshiba floppies	(Alain Knaff)
o	Fix trident driver build on nautilus Alpha	(Peter Petrakis)
o	Add later sb16 imix support tot he sb driver	(Massimo Dal Zotto)
o	Ignore luns that report can be connected, but	(Matt Domsch)
	not currently
o	Fix dereference after kfree in uart401.c	(Dawson Engler)
o	Return correct SuS error code for an unknown	(Herbert Xu)
	socket family
o	Add sub window clipping to the bttv driver	(Thomas Jacob)
o	Fix nfs cache locked messages			(Trond Myklebust)
o	Fix the modutils misdocumentation		(Martin Douda)
o	Remove bogus biosparm code from seagate.c	(Andries Brouwer)
o	Return correct error code on failed fasync set	(Chip Salzenberg)
o	Handle dcc resume with newer irc clients when	(Scottie Shore)
	doing an irq masq