2.6.17-no4 "Kickin' With G's On The West Side"
Release by: cheater-conrad

An attempt to fix all the unexpected problems with 2.6.17-no3
No new features, just an attempt to cleanup and fix as much as possible, lets hope it works *crosses fingers*

-{ Background Check }-
No-sources is a kernel patchset based on Andrew Morton's -mm patchset. It contains numerous user-requested features, other
things gathered from various sources, and some of our own items. 
"No-sources was founded during the end of love-source's reign by JasonF and myself. Our intention was to create a 
patchset that would be able to continue on regardless of maintainer and still live in the spirit of -love's original -mm base 
and featureset. Given there have been numerous throughout the release, including different maintainers, but I believe through
this philosophy a useful patchset can continue to be made. " -joecool 

-{ Changelog > 2.6.17-no3 }-
* Just a little more sane and sophisticated than 2.6.17-no3
* Dropped several weird bug-fix patches
* Added a few bug-fix patches
* Dropped lockless entirely
* Dropped aio_read/write stuff as they caused problems
* unionfs seems to work fine
* the unionfs errors might have been relates to the aio stuff, those were dropped and unionfs compiles on x86 for me

-{ Suspend2 }-
 - A bug in -mm kernels is unresolved, so suspend2 can not resume. It will be added soon.

-{ Patches }-
+NoSched-0.6-2.6.17-mm6.patch | Select cpu schedulers via by defining them in Kconfig

+add-missing-ifdef-to-sysctl.patch | Fix NoSched

+initialize-atomic-loader-list.patch | New Bug Fix in -no4

+HZ-864-Kconfig-option.patch | Add the HZ value 864 as an option

+acpi-dsdt-0.8.2.patch | ACPI DSDT patch

+acpi-initialize-cm_sbs_sem.patch | Fix and improve this file, make it a mutex and more.

+config-nr-tty-devices-r2.patch | Choose number of tty devices via Kconfig

+convert_swappiness-to-mapped.patch | Con Kolivas: mapped watermark patch

+cpu-support | selectable extendable cpu selection

+daconfig-2.3.1-2.6.17-mm6.patch | DaMouse: Display kernel name in Kconfig

+fbsplash-0.9.2-r5-2.6.17-mm6.patch | Spock: Latest fbsplash

+fix-ati-build.patch | ATI is old, so we need an old definition to make it work

+fix-statistic-and-inode_diet.patch | Bug Fix for inode diet and statistic infrastructure

+ibm-fancontrol.patch | acpi fancontrol for IBM thinkpads.

+kconfig-expose-vmsplit-option.patch | Let the vmsplit option be seen, and improve descriptions

+linux-phc-0.2.5-2.6.17-mm6.patch | Speedstep improvement for P-M processors, ported to mm6

+lockdep-annotate-8390c-disable_irq-2.patch | Part 2 of a 2 part patch (only part 1 was in -mm)

+lots_watermark.patch | Con Kolivas: lots watermark

+microcode-select-fw_loader.patch | fix microcode on i386 and x86_64

+movsl-mask.patch | fix cpu-support.patch

+mtrr-cpusupport.patch | fix cpu-support.patch

+no-optimized-kconfig-opts.patch | Optimized kconfig opts for desktop usage.

+no-tag.patch | tag the latest -no relase, ROCK LIKE NINJA!

+powerpc-reverse-bogus-vsnprintf-change.patch | powerpc fix

+realtime-lsm.patch | linux security module

+shutup-false-positives.patch | Kconfig option to shutup gcc false positives

+squashfs3.0-2.6.17-no3.patch | squashfs, ported to work with kinit in recent -mm by cheater-conrad

+unionfs-20060708-2.6.17-mm6.patch | unionfs, ported to work with 2.6.17-mm6 by cheater-conrad

+usb-mouse-polling.patch | mouse polling hack

+usbxchange5.patch | load the firmware into the adaptec USBXchange/USB2Xchange USB --> SCSI converter dongle

+vesafb-tng-1.0-rc2-2.6.17-mm6.patch | Spock: display framebuffer with the video= parameter instead of vga=

+x86_64-wire-up-oops_enter_oops_exit.patch | Bug fix for x86_64 oopsing