Kernel

acpi: add backlight support to the sony_acpi driver
On Sun, Oct 01, 2006 at 05:19:12PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 19:08:10 +0200 Alessandro Guido <alessandro.guido(a)gmail.com> wrote: Make the sony_acpi use the backlight subsystem to adjust brightness value instead of using the /proc/sony/brightness file. (Other settings will ... 29 Oct 2006 13:30

[patch 14/21] clockevents: core
From: Thomas Gleixner <tglx(a)linutronix.de> Add a framework to manage clock event devices. We have two types of clock event devices: - global events (one device per system) - local events (one device per cpu) We assign the various time(r) related interrupts to those devices: - global tick (advances jiffies... 1 Oct 2006 19:43

patch needed in traps.c for linux-abi
Sirs, Trying to keep the linux-abi (a patch to the linux kernel that allows a linux system to run foreign binaries see sourceforge.net/projects/linux-abi) run with current kernels, a change must be done to arch/i386/kernel/traps.c. the patch commit 522e93e3fcdbf00ba85c72fde6df28cfc0486a65 modified descrip... 29 Sep 2006 10:11

async scsi scanning, version 12
Matthew Wilcox wrote: Hopefully the final version ... I've addressed all the comments I received on version 11. Please review the implementation of shost_for_each_device_safe. Add ability to scan scsi busses asynchronously Since it often takes around 20-30 seconds to scan a scsi bus, it's hig... 28 Sep 2006 17:13

New asynchronous crypto layer (acrypto) release.
Evgeniy Polyakov wrote: Hello. I'm pleased to announce asynchronous crypto layer (acrypto) [1] release for 2.6.18 kernel tree. Acrypto allows to handle crypto requests asynchronously in hardware. Combined patchset includes: * acrypto core * IPsec ESP4 port to acrypto * dm-crypt port... 29 Sep 2006 07:26

2.6.18-mm2
Hi, On 28/09/06, Andrew Morton <akpm(a)osdl.org> wrote: ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.18/2.6.18-mm2/ ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.18-mm2 #1 --------------------------------------... 30 Sep 2006 16:51

Put the BUG __FILE__ and __LINE__ info out of line
On Wed, 27 Sep 2006 23:00:03 -0700 Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy(a)goop.org> wrote: When CONFIG_DEBUG_BUGVERBOSE is enabled, the embedded file and line information makes a disassembler very unhappy, because it tries to parse them as instructions (it probably makes the CPU's instruction decoder a little unhap... 28 Sep 2006 16:09

Network problem with 2.6.18-mm1 ?
I am unable to get networking to work with 2.6.18-mm1 on my system. But 2.6.18 kernel on same system works fine. Here is some info about the system/debug attempts. Attached are the lspci output and config. Appreciate any help. Please let me know if you need more info. Suka System info: x326, 2 CPU... 2 Oct 2006 19:29

driver for mcs7830 (aka DeLOCK) USB ethernet adapter
On Saturday 16 September 2006 4:02 pm, Arnd Bergmann wrote: This driver adds support for the DeLOCK USB ethernet adapter and potentially others based on the MosChip MCS7830 chip. It is based on the usbnet and asix drivers as well as the original device driver provided by MosChip, which in turn was ba... 7 Oct 2006 15:03

forcedeth - WOL
Hi to LKML, I'm experiencing some troubles with WOL with my nForce NIC. The problem is simple - after setting WOL mode to magic packet my PC won't wake up. I've noticed there were some changes about this in new kernel, but no luck for me. I'm using 2.6.18 kernel, vanilla. I've tried this with Windows Vista RC1... 27 Sep 2006 17:51