While waaaaay overdue, "fixes and sparse annotations" tree is finally
going public.  This version is basically a starting point - there will be
much more stuff to merge.

        Right now it builds with allmodconfig[1] on the following set:
alpha (UP and SMP), amd64 (UP and SMP), arm (RPC, versatile), i386, ia64,
m32r, m68k (sans sun3), ppc (6xx, 44x, chestnut), ppc64, sparc, sparc64,
s390 (31 and 64bit) and uml (i386 and amd64)[2].

        Amount of sparse and gcc4 warnings is moderate on all of the
above - there's no "drowns everything in noise" stuff left.  There _are_
nasty areas (drm, some of the sata, several mem* helpers with constant
arguments), but at least that's easy to isolate.  Tracking build log
changes for regressions had been fairly easy so far; quite a few chunks
in there (as well as already merged stuff) had been found that way,
so for now I'd say that it's usable.

        Current patchset is on ftp.linux.org.uk/pub/people/viro/ -
patch-2.6.13-git3-bird1.bz2 is combined patch, patchset/* is the splitup.
Long description of patches is in patchset/set*, short log is in the end of
this posting.  Current build and sparse logs are in logs/*/{log17b,S-log17b}.
Eventually I'll probably have to use rcs for them - they are large and change
slowly...

        Patchset will change pretty fast; for one thing, most of the stuff
in there is easily mergable, for another - sparse patches here are just
dealing with the most annoying noise sources.  There will be more and folks
are more than welcome to send sane annotation patches for merge.

        Have fun - it's just getting started...

[1] configs being tracked are of allmodconfig-with-fixed-subset variety; e.g.
alpha-UP is "set as much as possible to y or m, with CONFIG_SMP not set", etc.
See config/* for currently tracked ones.

[2] toolkit for cross-toolchains will be re-posted on anonftp pretty soon;
ditto for details on cross-build setups, etc.

Short log of the current patchset follows:
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
linus-delta     Changes in Linus' tree since -git3

Infrastructure:

I0-kconfig      Teaches allmodconfig to pin a set of options in given
                state [NB: rz has another variant; this is just a temporary]
I1-CHECKFLAGS   Allows to add stuff to CHECKFLAGS from command line
I2-disable-DI   disables CONFIG_DEBUG_INFO for test builds

Kconfig fixes:

B2-rio          rio is too broken to mess with; marked as such
B7-floppy       sanitized and fixed floppy dependencies
B12-broken-on-big-endian        new kconfig symbol: BROKEN_ON_BIG_ENDIAN.
B17-m32r-smc    combination of M32R, SMC91X and ISA is broken
B22-mtd-xip     MTD_XIP is there only for two subarchitectures of ARM - PXA
                and SA1100 [not for merge; cleaner variant needed]
B23-8390        8390 fixes - part 1 (generic and arm/etherh)
B33-m68k-8390   8390 fixes - part 2 (m68k ones)
B41-s390-phy    PHYLIB is broken on s390
B42-mga         drm/mga is broken if AGP is not enabled

Pure compile fixes:

C0-envctrl      envctrl fixes
C15-mv643xx_eth mv643xx_eth ifdefs [not for merge; dwmw2 has objections]
C32-segment     missed gratitious includes of asm/segment.h
B40-mxser-sparc32 more sparc32 dependencies fallout
C33-mxser       another missed asm/segment.h, real fix for problem B40 marks
C34-uli526x     missing include in uli526x.c
C35-ipw2200     missing include (ipw2200)
C36-sunsu       sunsu compile fixes

Misc bug fixes:
F6-zatm         dereference of uninitialized pointer in zatm

Crap spotted by gcc and sparse:

O3-s2io-u64     s2io u64 use for uintptr_t
S0-chelsio      chelsio sparse annotations
S1-e1000        iomem annotations (e1000)
S2-s2io-iomem   iomem annotations (s2io)
S3-ipw2100      iomem annotations, NULL noise removal (ipw2100)
S4-scsi-ch      __user annotations (drivers/scsi/ch.c)
S5-ahci         iomem annotations (ahci)
S6-sata_nv      iomem annotations (sata_nv)
S7-sata_sx4     iomem annotations (sata_sx4)
S8-sata_qstor   enum safety (sata_qstor)
S9-aaci         iomem annotations (aaci)
S10-ethtool     __user annotations (ethtool)
S14-m32r-user   basic __user annotations (m32r)
S15-armv-iomem  basic iomem annotations (arm-versatile)
S16-m32r-iomem  missing basic iomem annotations (m32r)
S17-ia64-user   missing basic __user annotations (ia64)
S18-rpc-iomem   saner casts in arm-rpc IOMEM() 
S19-sparse-m32r pass definition of __BIG_ENDIAN__ to sparse (m32r)

m68k patches:

C16-dmasound-lvalues    lvalues abuse in dmasound
C17-dmasound-extern     compile fixes for dmsound (static vs. extern)
C18-sun3ints    static vs. extern in sun3ints.h
C19-sun3_pgtable        bogus function argument types (sun3_pgtable.h)
C20-amigaints   static vs. extern in amigaints.h
C21-atyfb-typo  dumb typo in atyfb
C22-mac8390     lvalues abuse in mac8390
C23-lance       lvalues abuse in lance
C24-82596-apricot       wrong ifdefs in 82596
C25-scc         static vs. extern in scc
C26-m68k-reset  memory input should be an lvalue (mac/misc.c)
C27-m68k-mul    broken constraints on mulu.l
C28-isa_type    isa_{type,sex} should be exported (m68k)
B34-oktagon     oktagon makefile fix
B35-82596       Kconfig fix (82596)
B36-mac-fonts   Kconfig fix (mac vs. FONTS)
T0-task_thread_info     task_thread_info - part 1/5
T1-other-helpers        task_thread_info - part 2/5
T2-includes     task_thread_info - part 3/5
T3-m68k         task_thread_info - part 4/5
T4-m68k-flags   task_thread_info - part 5/5
m68k-adb.patch  ADBREQ_RAW missing declaration (from m68k CVS)
S11-m68k-iomem  basic iomem annotations (m68k)
S13-m68k-user   basic __user annotations (m68k)
C37-amigahw     gratitious namespace pollution in amigahw

UML patches:
jd1 -- jd9      Pending patches from jdike's 9-patch set
S12-uml-user    basic __user annotations (uml)
UM1-stubs       [UML] segv_stubs fixes
UM2-signal      [UML] copy_sc_..._user_tt() fixes
UM4-uml-checker [UML] getting sparse to work for uml
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