This is the Logical Volume Manager version 0.8final patch against Linux 2.3.45.
It supports the recent request queue changes.


The patch changes the following files for the mentioned reasons:

CREDITS                         8*)
MAINTAINERS                     8*)
Documentation/Configure.help    block device configuration support
Documentation/LVM-HOWTO         8*)
drivers/block/Config.in         block device configuration support
drivers/block/Makefile                          "
drivers/block/README.lvm        pointer to user space tools etc.
drivers/block/ll_rw_blk.c       change of usage in __ll_rw_block() of
                                q->make_request_fn() to remap in a stack
drivers/block/lvm.c             driver
drivers/block/lvm-snap.c        snapshot support code
fs/block_dev.c                  avoided static definition of
                                blkdev_close() and block_fsync()
fs/partitions/check.c           /proc/partition support
include/linux/fs.h              blkdev_close()/block_fsync() definitions
include/linux/lvm.h             driver header
include/linux/major.h           addition of driver majors
kernel/ksyms.c                  addition of function pointer variables


The change in ll_rw_blk.c should be very helpful for stacking
volume drivers on top of each other (for eg. LVM on MD).
Because of the broken MD state in 2.3.45 i wasn't able to test this.