Merge home.transmeta.com:/home/torvalds/v2.5/viro

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diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/porting b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
index b88f356a5919..2dcccf3d8a3a 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/porting
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/porting
@@ -230,3 +230,21 @@ anything from oops to silent memory corruption.
 	Use bdev_read_only(bdev) instead of is_read_only(kdev).  The latter
 is still alive, but only because of the mess in drivers/s390/block/dasd.c.
 As soon as it gets fixed is_read_only() will die.
+
+---
+[mandatory]
+
+	is_read_only() is gone; use bdev_read_only() instead.
+
+---
+[mandatory]
+
+	destroy_buffers() is gone; use invalidate_bdev().
+
+---
+[mandatory]
+
+	fsync_dev() is gone; use fsync_bdev().  NOTE: lvm breakage is
+deliberate; as soon as struct block_device * is propagated in a reasonable
+way by that code fixing will become trivial; until then nothing can be
+done.