"Better late than never"

The -rc4 release was supposed to be the last -rc, but here goes.  The
RCU fixes and the swiotlb changes need an -rc for final testing.

The variable RCS_TAR_IGNORE is used in scripts/packaging/Makefile, but not
exported from the main Makefile, so it's never used.

This results in the rpm targets being very unhappy in quilted trees.

Signed-off-by: Tom Rini <trini@kernel.crashing.org>
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The following build error happens with 2.6.14-rc4 when CONFIG_KALLSYMS is
not defined.  The error message in a fragment of the output was:

  CC      arch/i386/lib/usercopy.o
  AR      arch/i386/lib/lib.a
/bin/sh: line 1: +@: command not found
make[3]: warning: jobserver unavailable: using -j1.  Add `+' to parent make rule.
  CHK     include/linux/compile.h

Signed-off-by: Mark Rustad <mrustad@mac.com>
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Avast, ye scurvy land-lubbers! Time to try out a new release.

Arrr!

Two weeks after 2.6.13: starting to calm things down.

Al Viro reported that sometimes silentoldconfig failed because
output directory was missing.
So create it unconditionally before executing conf

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency
chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting
include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke.
With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles
the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare

The dependency chain looks like this now:

prepare
  |
  +--> prepare0
         |
         +--> archprepare
                |
		+--> scripts_basic
                +--> prepare1
                       |
                       +---> prepare2
                               |
                               +--> prepare3

So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc.
This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic
are all updated before archprepare is processed.

prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the
actions performed by archprepare.

The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most
likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility.
Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>