Changes from 1.3.12 to 1.3.13

These changes are archived on ftp.crynwr.com:pub/kchanges and http://www.crynwr.com/kchanges. I cannot answer questions about Linux -- I merely summarize the kernel patches after reading them. I try to make them useful to everyone, but kernel hackers should take them with a grain of salt and read the patches themselves. The patch file is patch-1.3.13.gz

These are from Linus:

• fixes a few silly axp compilation problems (you still need the axp-specific diffs for 1.3.10 for a full axp kernel)
• unaligned faults on axp send SIGBUS, not SIGSEGV
• ps/2 mouse driver updated to not sleep during initialization.
• ppp shouldn't crash any more if the line is lost at a bad time.
• /proc/scsi updates and eata_dma.c driver updates.
• hpfs memory leak fixed (lost one page for every unsuccessful directory lookup)
• getitimer() fixed (if you got several SIGALRM's from one alarm() call, this was due to the broken getitimer in 1.3.11-12)
• limit the number of times we print out "idle task may not sleep", so that if some driver is broken we won't fill up all the logs..

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