-pre4:
  - Petr Vandrovec, Al Viro: dentry revalidation fixes
  - Stephen Tweedie / Manfred Spraul: kswapd and ptrace race
  - Neil Brown: nfsd/rpc/raid cleanups and fixes

-pre3:
  - Alan Cox: continued merging
  - Urban Widmark: smbfs fix (d_add on already hashed dentry - no-no).
  - Andrew Morton: 3c59x update
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver cleanups and fixes
  - Gérard Roudier: sym-ncr drivers update
  - Jens Axboe: more loop cleanups and fixes
  - David Miller: sparc update, some networking fixes

-pre2:
  - Jens Axboe: fix loop device deadlocks
  - Greg KH: USB updates
  - Alan Cox: continued merging
  - Tim Waugh: parport and documentation updates
  - Cort Dougan: PowerPC merge
  - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
  - Justin Gibbs: new and much improved aic7xxx driver 6.1.5

-pre1:
  - Chris Mason: reiserfs, another null bytes bug
  - Andrea Arkangeli: make SMP Athlon build
  - Alexander Zarochentcev: reiserfs directory fsync SMP locking fix
  - Jeff Garzik: PCI network driver updates
  - Alan Cox: continue merging
  - Ingo Molnar: fix RAID AUTORUN ioctl, scheduling improvements