Changelog:

2.4.23-pac1

- Increase version number

2.4.23-rc5-pac1

- Sync with 2.4.23-rc5
- Update forcedeth driver
- Increase timeout in firmware_class.c [several people reported timeout
  related problems with Netgear WG511 cards]

2.4.23-rc1-pac1

- Sync with -rc1
- Fix compilation of the VIA DRI driver
- Add Forcedeth driver for nvnet chip

2.4.23-pre8-pac1

- Sync with 2.4.23-pre8
- Update FireWire drivers
- Update SiS Framebuffer drivers
- Minor cleanups (e.g. remove duplicate entry from Configure.help)

2.4.23-pre7-pac2

- Remove superfluous duplicate definition of CONFIG_AGP_ATI
- Update ACPI
- Fix Rocketport driver compilation
- Re-add config options for VIA, S3 and GAMMA DRM [reported not to work 
  though]

2.4.23-pre7-pac1

- Sync with 2.4.23-pre7
- Make sure everything compiles
- Update DRI (good news for SiS graphics users: If you use this
  along with XFree86 CVS, you'll have hw accelerated 3D)

2.4.23-pre4-pac2

- Sync with 2.4.22-ac3
- Update ACPI patch (20030916 from acpi.sourceforge.net)
- Don't oops if ACPI is enabled but the hardware doesn't support it
- Update device mapper
  (release 16 from http://people.sistina.com/~thornber/patches/2.4-stable/)

2.4.23-pre4-pac1

- Port to 2.4.23-pre4
- Fix build of SATA drivers
- Fix Config.in bug that prevented SATA drivers from being compiled with
  modular SCSI
- Sync DRI with xf86 tree, add ATI IGP support
- Fix taking down network devices (Patch from Jeff Garzik on LKML)
- Fix compilation of atyfb with GENERIC_LCD enabled
  ["It compiles, therefore it works(tm)" due to lack of hardware for 
  testing]

2.4.23-pre3-pac2

- Sync with 2.4.22-ac2
- Fix oops with acpi=off
- Update NTFS (from linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net)

2.4.23-pre3-pac1

- Sync with 2.4.23-pre3
- Sync with 2.4.22-ac1
- Add ACPI fixes from Andrew de Quincey and Jun Nakajima

2.4.23-pre1-pac1

- Port of 2.4.22-pac1 to 2.4.23-pre1

2.4.22-[p]ac1

- Port 2.4.22-rc2-ac3 changes to apply to 2.4.22 (me)
 
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What it brings:

fixes, lots of fixes ( http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=106415717230310&w=2 ) and :

 - ultra-scalable O(1) scheduler
 - Morse code panics

Documentation/
 - DriverFixers guys doc

mm/
 - VM overcommit-accounting

drivers/char/
 - multiport Aurora asynchronous driver(cd1865)
 - new DRM drivers
 - ALi M6117 Watchdog timer driver(alim6117_wdt)
 - Vertical blank interrupt driver for PCI devices(vblank)

drivers/cpufreq/
 - CPU Freq

drivers/hotplug/
 - IBM 20H2999 Docking Bridge Driver(tp600)

drivers/md/
 - LVM 2.0/Device-Mapper 1.0(md)

drivers/ide/
 - IDE code 7.00beta5-2.4 (20030914)

drivers/net/
- Forcedeth driver for nvnet chip(forcedeth)

drivers/net/wan/
 - Cyclades-PC300(tm) Driver(pc300)

drivers/pnp/
 - PnP BIOS services

drivers/s390/char/
 - sclp and tape drivers

drivers/scsi/
 - PATA/SATA support(libata, ata_piix)

drivers/usb/
 - USB Device Firmware Upgrade handler(usbdfu)

drivers/usb/atmel/
 - Atmel at76c503 based usb wlan adapters

fs/
 - XFS
 - NTFS
 
net/edp2/
 - Coraid EDPv2 Protocol Layer 

scripts/
 - include_deps

# EOT