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Staging: vt6656: fix brace coding style issue in 80211mgr.c This is a patch to the 80211mgr.c file that fixes up a brace warning found by the checkpatch.pl tool Signed-off-by: Timofey Trofimov <tumoxep@gmail.com>
Hello Timofey, I think the message you send should have the Signed-off-by in the body, as well as the long description of the patch. On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 08:42:54PM +0400, Timofey Trofimov wrote: --- drivers/staging/vt6656/80211mgr.c | 514 ++++++++++++++++++------------------- 1 files changed, 251... 24 May 2010 15:42

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[regression] fib6_del() bug from 2.6.34-rc1 still present in 2.6.34
Hi, [subscribed to lkml but not netdev, Cc me on replies] I'm seeing a warning in fib6_del() that is very close to what was reported by Emil S Tantilov back in march/april for 2.6.34-rc1: <http://kerneltrap.org/mailarchive/linux-netdev/2010/4/9/6274401/thread> It looks like there hasn't been a fix, other t... 22 May 2010 12:44

linux-next: build warning after merge of the final tree (Linus' tree related)
On Sat, May 22, 2010 at 04:46:44PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Greg, After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allnoconfig) produced this warning: lib/kobject_uevent.c:86: warning: 'kobj_bcast_filter' defined but not used Introduced by commit 5f71a29629b4717445f8b7... 22 May 2010 11:38

[PATCH -mm 1/1] ptrace: PTRACE_GETFDPIC: fix the unsafe usage of child->mm
Now that Mike Frysinger unified the FDPIC ptrace code, we can fix the unsafe usage of child->mm in ptrace_request(PTRACE_GETFDPIC). We have the reference to task_struct, and ptrace_check_attach() verified the tracee is stopped. But nothing can protect from SIGKILL after that, we must not assume child->mm != NULL.... 22 May 2010 11:38

[PATCH -mm 0/1] (Was: ptrace: unify FDPIC implementations)
On 05/21, Roland McGrath wrote: This looks unsafe. What protect child->mm if ptrace() races with SIGKILL ? Of course, I do not blame this patch, the code was copied from arch/, but I think we need another patch which checks ->mm != NULL under task_lock() on top of this one? Agreed, unl... 22 May 2010 11:38

input: mt: Document the MT event slot protocol (rev3)
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 12:38 +0200, Henrik Rydberg wrote: Getting serious, it is anyone's guess what will happen next, but I was picturing a table, with a large multitouch screen and buttons along the side of the table. Sure, we can do "ABS_BTN_0", "ABS_BTN_1", etc, but with slots in place, it seems more nat... 22 May 2010 17:07

drivers/scsi: Use memdup_user
On Sat, 2010-05-22 at 10:22 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use memdup_user when user data is immediately copied into the allocated region. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression from... 25 May 2010 19:04

[PATCH] NUC900: add maintainer entries for Wan ZongShun.
Dear Andrew, I want to add some files entries in MAINTAINER files for Winbond/Nuvoton ARM platform. Could you help me merge this patch? Thanks a lot. From 4e5326dbfbfdad58eb2c333df91c15993bce6c47 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: zswan <zswan(a)zswan-marvell.(none)> Date: Sat, 22 May 2010 21:56:26 +0800 Subj... 22 May 2010 10:32

[PATCH]: bunzip2: Fix warning in get_next_block()
Fix checkstack compile warning in get_next_block(): lib/decompress_bunzip2.c: In function `get_next_block': lib/decompress_bunzip2.c:511: warning: the frame size of 1920 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes Signed-off-by: Prarit Bhargava <prarit(a)redhat.com> diff --git a/lib/decompress_bunzip2.c b/lib/decompress_bu... 22 May 2010 10:32