-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