Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!

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+The following is a list of files and features that are going to be
+removed in the kernel source tree.  Every entry should contain what
+exactly is going away, why it is happening, and who is going to be doing
+the work.  When the feature is removed from the kernel, it should also
+be removed from this file.
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   devfs
+When:   July 2005
+Files:  fs/devfs/*, include/linux/devfs_fs*.h and assorted devfs
+        function calls throughout the kernel tree
+Why:    It has been unmaintained for a number of years, has unfixable
+        races, contains a naming policy within the kernel that is
+        against the LSB, and can be replaced by using udev.
+Who:    Greg Kroah-Hartman <greg@kroah.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   ACPI S4bios support
+When:   May 2005
+Why:    Noone uses it, and it probably does not work, anyway. swsusp is
+        faster, more reliable, and people are actually using it.
+Who:    Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   PCI Name Database (CONFIG_PCI_NAMES)
+When:   July 2005
+Why:    It bloats the kernel unnecessarily, and is handled by userspace better
+        (pciutils supports it.)  Will eliminate the need to try to keep the
+        pci.ids file in sync with the sf.net database all of the time.
+Who:    Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   io_remap_page_range() (macro or function)
+When:   September 2005
+Why:    Replaced by io_remap_pfn_range() which allows more memory space
+        addressabilty (by using a pfn) and supports sparc & sparc64
+        iospace as part of the pfn.
+Who:    Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org>