Subject: Linux 2.6.9-ac6
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/alan/linux-2.6/2.6.9/

2.6.9-ac6
o	Fix problem with -ac5 msdos changes		(Vojtech Pavlik)

2.6.9-ac5
o	Fix oops in and enable IT8212 driver		(me)
o	Minor delkin driver fix				(Mark Lord)
o	Fix NFS mount hangs with long FQDN		(Jan Kasprzak)
	| I've used this version as its clearly correct for 2.6.9 
	| although it might not be the right future solution
o	Fix overstrict FAT checks stopping reading of	(Vojtech Pavlik)
	some devices like Nokia phones
o	Fix misdetection of some drives as MRW capable	(Peter Osterlund)
o	Fix promise 20267 hang with very long I/O's	(Krzysztof Chmielewski)
o	Fix a case where serial break was not sent for	(Paul Fulghum)
	the right time.
o	Fix S/390 specific SACF hole			(Martin Schwidefsky)
o	NVidia ACPI timer override			(Andi Kleen)
o	Correct VIA PT880 PCI ident (and AGP ident)	(Dave Jones)
o	Fix EDID/E820 corruption 			(Venkatesh Pallipadi)
o	Tighten security on TIOCCONS			(od@suse.de)
o	Fix incorrect __init s that could cause crash	(Randy Dunlap)

2.6.9-ac4
o	Fix minor DoS bug in visor USB driver		(Greg Kroah-Hartmann)
o	Delkin cardbus IDE support			(Mark Lord)
o	Fix SMP hang with IDE unregister		(Mark Lord)
o	Fix proc file removal with IDE unregister	(Mark Lord)
o	Fix aic7xxx sleep with locks held and debug	(Luben Tuikov)
	spew
o	First take at HPT372N problem fixing		(Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac3
o	Fix syncppp/async ppp problems with new hangup	(Paul Fulghum)
o	Fix broken parport_pc unload			(Andrea Arcangeli)
o	Security fix for smbfs leak/overrun		(Urban Widmark)
o	Stop i8xx_tco making some boxes reboot on load	(wim@iguana)
o	Fix cpia/module tools deadlock			(Peter Pregler)
o	Fix missing suid_dumpable export		(Alan Cox)

2.6.9-ac2
o	Fix invalid kernel version stupidity		(Adrian Bunk)
o	Compiler ICE workaround/fixup			(Linus Torvalds)
o	Fix network DoS bug in 2.6.9			(Herbert Xu)
	| Suggested by Sami Farin
o	Flash lights on panic as in 2.4			(Andi Kleen)

2.6.9-ac1

Security Fixes
o	Set VM_IO on areas that are temporarily		(Alan Cox)
	marked PageReserved (Serious bug)
o	Lock ide-proc against driver unload		(Alan Cox)
	(very low severity)

Bug Fixes
o	Working IDE locking				(Alan Cox)
	| And a great deal of review by Bartlomiej
o	Handle E7xxx boxes with USB legacy flaws	(Alan Cox)
	
Functionality
o	Allow booting with "irqpoll" or "irqfixup"	(Alan Cox)
	on systems with broken IRQ tables.
o	Support for setuid core dumping in some		(Alan Cox)
	environments (off by default)
o	Support for drives that don't report geometry
o	IT8212 support (raid and passthrough)		(Alan Cox)
o	Allow IDE to grab all unknown generic IDE	(Alan Cox)
	devices (boot with "all-generic-ide")
o	Restore PWC driver				(Luc Saillard)

Other
o	Small pending tty clean-up to moxa		(Alan Cox)
o	Put VIA Velocity (tm) adapters under gigabit	(VIA)

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