I happened to notice that the ibmphp hotplug driver does something
rather silly in its init routine.  It purposely calls module_put so as
to underflow its module ref count to avoid being removed from the
kernel.  This is bad practice, and wrong, since it provides a window for
subsequent module_gets to reset the refcount to zero, allowing an unload
to race in and cause all sorts of mysterious panics.  If the module is
unsafe to load, simply omitting the module_exit parameter is sufficient
to prevent the kernel from allowing the unload.

Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Certain HP machines require the full 64 bits of _SUN as allowed
by the ACPI spec. Without this change, we get name collisions in
the lower 32 bits of the _SUN returned by firmware.

Acked-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Justin Chen <justin.chen@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

This patch fixes the problem that causes an occupied slot to be turned
off even if it has a working device.

Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

What we have to check here before calling is err_handler->resume, not
->slot_reset.  Looks like a copy & paste error from report_slot_reset.

Acked-by: Yanmin Zhang <yanmin.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

Makes a Compaq 6735s boot reliably again.  It used to hang in the loop
on some boots.  Give the link one second to train, otherwise break out
of the loop and reset the previously set clock bits.

Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

In pci_create_slot(), the local variable 'slot_name' is allocated by
make_slot_name(), but never freed. We never use it after passing it to
the kobject core, so we should free it upon function exit.

Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (30 commits)
  MAINTAINERS: add netdev to ATM
  ATM: horizon, fix hrz_probe fail path
  pppol2tp: Add missing sock_put() in pppol2tp_release()
  net: Fix soft lockups/OOM issues w/ unix garbage collector
  macvlan: don't broadcast PAUSE frames to macvlan devices
  Phonet: fix oops in phonet_address_del() on non-Phonet device
  netfilter: ctnetlink: fix GFP_KERNEL allocation under spinlock
  sungem: Fix PCS_MIICTRL register write in gem_init_phy().
  net: make skb_truesize_bug() call WARN()
  net: hp-plus uses eip_poll
  net/wireless/reg.c: fix bad WARN_ON in if statement
  ath5k: disable beacon filter when station is not associated
  ath5k: fix Security issue in DebugFS part of ath5k
  ath9k: correct expected max RX buffer size
  ath9k: Fix SW-IOMMU bounce buffer starvation
  mac80211 : Fix setting ad-hoc mode and non-ibss channel
  iwlagn: fix DMA sync
  phylib: Add Vitesse VSC8221 SGMII PHY
  rose: zero length frame filtering in af_rose.c
  bridge: netfilter: fix update_pmtu crash with GRE
  ...

for fsck sake, it's used only when parsing kernel command line...

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: Andreas Petlund <andreas@petlund.no>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

* 'core-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip:
  intel-iommu: fix compile warnings