2.5.1-dj1

[Dave Jones]

Judging by the interest the last patch (which wasn't announced so publically)
got, and the supportive emails I recieved, I figure there's enough
interest for me to keep this up at least until Linus is ready to resync.
(plus, Linus seems interested in me keeping this stuff in a ready-to-merge
 state, which is good enough reason as any. 8)

Patch is available from:
http://www.codemonkey.org.uk/patches/2.5/patch-2.5.1-dj1.diff.bz2

On with the changelog..

This syncs up 2.5 right up to 2.4.17rc1.
Merge a few of the more trivial "2.5 material" salvaged from the last -ac tree,
a few fixes from the kernel list, and a few other pending bits..
Some of these fixes haven't found their way back to Marcelo yet, but should
show up in 2.4.17-rc2 / 2.4.18pre1 with any luck.

2.5.1-dj1
o   Resync with 2.5.1
    | drop reiserfs changes. 2.4's look to be more complete.
o   Fix potential sysvfs oops.				(Christoph Hellwig)
o   Loopback driver deadlock fix.			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o   __devexit cleanups in drivers/net/			(Daniel Chen,
    synclink, wdt_pci & via82cxxx_audio 		 John Tapsell)
o   Configure.help updates				(Eric S. Raymond)
o   Make reiserfs compile again.				(Me)
o   bio changes for ide floppy					(Me)
    | handle with care, compiles, but is unfinished.
o   Make x86 identify_cpu() happen earlier			(Me)
    | PPro errata workaround & APIC setup got a little
    | cleaner as a result.
o   Blink keyboard LEDs on panic				(From 2.4.13-ac)
o   Change current->state frobbing to set_current_state()	(From 2.4.13-ac)
o   Add MODULE_LICENSE tags for acpi,md.c,fmvj18x,		(From 2.4.13-ac)
    atyfb & fbmem.

2.5.1pre11-dj2
o   Merge with 2.4.17rc1
o   Activate out of order stores on IDT Winchips.		(From 2.4.13-ac)
o   ICH2 APIC support						(From 2.4.13-ac)
o   Activate Simple boot flag support				(From 2.4.13-ac)
    | was merged in -dj1, but not mentioned.
o   Remove matroxfb PLL debugging message.			(Me)

2.5.1pre11-dj1
o   Merge with 2.4.17pre8
    Drop devfs changes. (Newer version in 2.5)
o   Make ncr53c8xx bio aware.					(Me)

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