Changes from 1.3.18 to 1.3.19

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-1.3.19.gz

These are from Linus:

• new "make dep": this one is much faster and better suited to the kernel dependencies. It doesn't do dependencies recursively, but instead lets "make" take care of handling those header file inter- dependencies.

  The new dependency files are generated with a very straightforward setup, and they don't actually parse the files to any greater degree. This is actually a feature, not a bug, because it also means that the dependencies do not depend on the configuration.

  Letting "make" take care of recursive dependencies also found a few misfeatures in the header file (circular dependencies in some of the network stuff: it's perfectly ok per se, but rather ugly, imho). That made for some changes in how the network header files work: this _may_ impact on some specific system header files as well. Jim Nance.

• (related to the above): makefile changes to use more general rules and less duplication in the sub-makefiles. Jim Nance.
• IDE driver update: extensive changes to be able to more cleanly support multiple controllers (ide-cd is also made more stand-alone by this). Mark Lord.
• Various net driver module cleanup patches. Stefan Kuehnel.
• Extensive /proc filesystem cleanups. It's not perfect yet, but most of it is actually fully dynamic now (you can load and unload files from /proc, /proc/net and /proc// at run-time). There are some redundancies there still.. Linus Torvalds.

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