[Announcement] linux-2.0.40-rc1

[David Weinehall]

Uhhhm, ok, no big objections to -pre3 arose, but
Daniel Phillips found a naughty little bug in ext2fs. However,
Ville and Samuli have run quite a few tests with Daniel's patch,
and cannot seem to trigger the bug any longer.

Hence I'm declaring this the first release candidate for 2.0.40.
Try it out, please.

2.0.40-rc1

o	Fix possible vmalloc bug for		(Ralf Baechle)
	architectures with virtually
	indexed caches
o	Micro-optimization in vmalloc		(Ralf Baechle)
o	Fix group descriptor corruption		(Daniel Phillips,
	in ext2fs				 Ville Herva,
						 Samuli Kärkkäinen)
o	Fix some missing includes		(me)
o	Change array-size from 0 to 1 for	(me)
	two arrays in the symbol-table
	in include/linux/module.h
o	Fix type of struct timeval xtime in	(me)
	include/linux/sched.h
o	Fix warnings in include/linux/skbuff.h	(me)
o	Fix a few typos in Configure.help	(me)
o	Various small whitespace changes	(me)
	and fixes of strange indentation
	| I know some of you won't like this
	| and I don't give a damn ;-)

2.0.40-pre3

o	Fix typo in sched.c			(Tim Sutherland)
	| this time for real; I applied this
	| patch to the wrong kernel-tree last
	| time, hence the reject
o	IDE probe patch for some ATAPI drives	(Geert Van der Plas)

2.0.40-pre2

o	Make pci2000 compile			(Joseph Martin)
o	Use KERNELRELEASE in module		(me)
	installpath as well
o	Removed unused variable in		(me)
	ext2/super.c
o	Fixed warning in ext2/dir.c		(me)
o	Fix a blunder of my own in		(me)
	arch/kernel/i386/traps.c
o	Fix typo in sched.c			(Tim Sutherland)
o	Fix bug in mkdep.c			(Tim Sutherland)
o	Fix bug in autoirq.c			(Michael Deutschmann)
o	Add allocation debugging code		(Michael Deutschmann)
o	Fix bugs in the math-emu code		(Bill Metzenthen,
						 Michael Deutschmann)

2.0.40-pre1

o	Fixed the ordering of			(Philipp Rumpf)
	watchdog initialising, to make sure
	hardware watchdogs takes precedence
	over the softdog driver
o	Fix the CREDITS-entry for		(Kai Petzke)
	Kai Petzke
o	Updated the MAINTAINERS-file a little	(me)
o	Fix "dumpable"-race			(Solar Designer)
o	Fix theoretical exploit in printk	(Solar Designer)
o	Backported checkconfig.pl,		(me)
	checkhelp.pl and checkincludes.pl
	from v2.4
o	Backported support for tags and		(me)
	TAGS
o	Added an extra-version entry to		(me)
	the version#, to keep track of
	the prepatches etc.
o	Fix all occurences of			(me)
	#endif BLABLA type; don't forget
	that it should be /* BLABLA */ !!!

Regards: David Weinehall
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