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: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.4/linux-2.4.4.tar.gz

-final:
                   - Andrea Arkangeli: raw-io fixes
                   - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
                   - reiserfs update
                   - Al Viro: fsync/umount race fix
                   - Rusty Russell: netfilter sync

                  -pre8:
                   - Al Viro: fix d_flags race between low-level fs and VFS layer.
                   - David Miller: sparc updates
                   - S390 update

                  -pre7:
                   - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
                   - David Howells: more rw-sem stuff
                   - David Miller: network callback cleanups and fixes
                   - Jan Harkes: make Coda use the proper VFS layer interfaces, so that it can use
                     "non-traditional-unix" filesystems without inode numbers for backing store.

                  -pre6:
                   - Chris Mason: daemonize reiserfs commit thread
                   - Alan Cox: syncup (AFFS might even work, and official VIA workarounds)
                   - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
                   - Paul Mackerras: PPP update
                   - David Howells: more rw-sem cleanups, updates. Slowly getting somewhere.

                  -pre5:
                   - Mike Phillips: olympic driver update
                   - Alan Cox: continued resyncing (lots of small stuff, big NTFS merge from Anton)
                   - Martin Dalecki: cleanup (remove unused and unnecessary get_hardblocksize)
                   - Chris Mason: fix potential reiserfs journal overflow
                   - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
                   - David Miller: sparc fixes, some network cleanups

                  -pre4:
                   - David Miller: sparc rw semaphores moved over
                   - Alan Cox: yet more resyncs
                   - NIIBE Yutaka: Super-H driver update
                   - David Howells: more rw-sem cleanups, updates
                   - USB updates
                   - Al Viro: filesystem init cleanup

                  -pre3:
                   - Hui-Fen Hsu: sis900 driver update
                   - NIIBE Yutaka: Super-H update
                   - Alan Cox: more resyncs (ARM down, but more to go)
                   - David Miller: network zerocopy, Sparc sync, qlogic,FC fix, etc.
                   - David Miller/me: get rid of various drivers hacks to do mmap
                     alignment behind the back of the VM layer. Create a real
                     protocol for it.

                  -pre2:
                   - Ingo Molnar/Al Viro: don't use bforget() on ext2 (and minix) metadata
                     where we may not be the only owner of the buffer! FS corruption.
                   - Andi Kleen: IPv6 packet re-assembly fix.
                   - David Howells: fix up rwsem implementation
                   - Alan Cox: more merging (S/390 down, ARM to go).
                   - Jens Axboe: LVM and loop fixes

                  -pre1:
                   - Bob Tracy: Cyrix MTRR setup fix (don't make it twice as big as asked
                     for)
                   - Trond Myklebust: rpciod needs to be PF_MEMALLOC to avoid deadlocks on
                     memory allocation when writing out NFS data under low memory conditions.
                     Fix up BKL and RPC interactions.
                   - Jeff Garzik: tulip network driver update
                   - fix truncate to call down to the filesystem with the kernel lock.
                   - David Mosberger: ia64 update
                   - David Mosberger: simplify ELF program header generation.
                   - Alan Cox: merge from -ac series
                   - Jeff Garzik: make serial.c recognize modem devices properly'