patch: patch-2.4.17-rc1.gz


rc1:

- Finish MODULE_LICENSE fixups for fs/nls       (Mark Hymers)
- Console race fix                              (Andrew Morton/Robert Love)
- Configure.help update                         (Eric S. Raymond)
- Correctly fix Direct IO bug                   (Linus Benedict Torvalds)
- Turn off aacraid debugging                    (Alan Cox)
- Added missing spinlocking in do_loopback()    (Alexander Viro)
- Added missing __devexit_p() in i82092
  pcmcia driver                                 (Keith Owens)
- ns83820 zerocopy bugfix                       (Benjamin LaHaise)
- Fix VM problems where cache/buffers didn't get
  freed                                         (me)