pre6: - Asit Mallick: mtrr update - Patrick Mochel: split up kernel/device.c into drivers/base - Mikael Pettersson/Al Viro: fix missing in-core inode initialization in ext2 introduced by Al's inode trimming - David Miller: sparc and network updates - Frank Davis: firewire video mmap page remapping fix - me: fix configure help scripts to fix breakage noticed by Dave Jones - Greg KH: USB updates - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN fixes, Config.help entries - Douglas Gilbert: SCSI doc update - Ingo Molnar: x86 taskswitch optimizations, scheduler updates - Mikael Pettersson: make APIC work on old external setups - Al Viro: more inode trimming pre5: - Patrick Mochel: devicefs locking cleanups, refcount fixes - Brian Gerst: apic timer cleanup - Adam Richter: fix loop over block device bio breakage, ipfwadm compile fix - me: split up Configure.help over the subdirectories where it is used - Peter Anvin: bootproto v2.03 - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update pre4: - Patrick Mochel: initcall levels - Patrick Mochel: devicefs updates, add PCI devices into the hierarchy - Denis Oliver Kropp: neomagic fb driver - David Miller: sparc64 and network updates - Kai Mäkisara: scsi tape update - Al Viro: more inode trimming, VFS cleanup - Greg KH: USB update - proper urb allocations - Eric Raymond: kdev_t updates for fb devices pre3: - Al Viro: VFS inode allocation moved down to filesystem, trim inodes - Greg KH: USB update, hotplug documentation - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update - Ingo Molnar: scheduler tweaking ("J2") - Arnaldo: emu10k kdev_t updates - Ben Collins: firewire updates - Björn Wesen: cris arch update - Hal Duston: ps2esdi driver bio/kdev_t fixes - Jean Tourrilhes: move wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless, update wireless API #1 - Richard Gooch: devfs race fix - OGAWA Hirofumi: FATFS update pre2: - David Howells: abtract out "current->need_resched" as "need_resched()" - Frank Davis: ide-tape update for bio - various: header file fixups - Jens Axboe: fix up bio/ide/highmem issues - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update - Greg KH: USB and Compaq PCI hotplug updates - Tim Waugh: parport update pre1: - Al Viro: fix up silly problem in swapfile filp cleanups in 2.5.2 - Tachino Nobuhiro: fix another error return for swapfile filp code - Robert Love: merge some of Ingo's scheduler fixes - David Miller: networking, sparc and some scsi driver fixes - Tim Waugh: parport update - OGAWA Hirofumi: fatfs cleanups and bugfixes - Roland Dreier: fix vsscanf buglets. - Ben LaHaise: include file cleanup - Andre Hedrick: IDE taskfile update