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netpoll: add generic support for bridge and bonding devices
Flavio Leitner <fbl(a)sysclose.org> wrote: On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 04:16:34PM +0800, Cong Wang wrote: On 05/28/10 02:05, Flavio Leitner wrote: Hi guys! I finally could test this to see if an old problem reported on bugzilla[1] was fixed now, but unfortunately it is still there. ... 1 Jun 2010 15:18

[PATCH] drivers/mfd: kzalloc doesn't return ERR_PTR
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Use !x rather than IS_ERR(x) to test the result of kzalloc. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression x,E; @@ x = \(kmalloc\|kzalloc\|kcalloc\)(...) .... when != x = E - IS_ERR(x) + !x // </smpl> ... 28 May 2010 17:04

[git pull request] idle patches for 2.6.35-merge
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-idle-2.6.git idle-release The new intel_idle driver provides a method to use an optimized idle loop on machines without using ACPI. This will update the files shown below. thanks! Len Brown Intel Open Source Technolo... 28 May 2010 17:04

[PATCH 0/2] ACPI / ACPICA: GPE reference counting fixes
Hi Len, The following two patches fix a few problems introduced by the recent GPE reference counting changes. Please review and apply if they make sense to you. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org... 28 May 2010 17:04

[PATCH 6/6] cciss: new controller support and bump driver version
Patch 6 of 6 cciss: add new controller support This patch adds support for new controllers due out next year. HP must continue to support new controllers in older distros. All vendors require support be upstream. These controllers support only 16 commands in simple mode but can support up to 1024 in performant mod... 28 May 2010 17:04

VFS: introduce helpers for the s_dirty flag
On Tue, 25 May 2010 16:48:56 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy <dedekind1(a)gmail.com> wrote: From: Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy(a)nokia.com> This patch introduces 3 new VFS helpers: 'mark_sb_dirty()', 'mark_sb_clean()', and 'is_sb_dirty()'. The helpers simply set 'sb->s_dirt' or test 'sb->s_dirt'. The plan i... 9 Jun 2010 18:42

[PATCH 5/6] cciss: add performant mode support
Patch 5 of 6 This patch adds a mode of controller operation called Performant Mode. Even though cciss has been deprecated in favor of hpsa there are new controllers due out next year that HP must support in older vendor distros. Vendors require all fixes/features be upstream. These new controllers support only 16 ... 28 May 2010 17:04

[PATCH 2.6.27.y 0/3] ext4 fixes
Greetings, This is a second try at sending ext4 fixes to 2.6.27.y, including an important deadlock fix from kernel bugzilla #12579. The patches were dropped the first time because they depended on a vfs patch which was recently found to be broken on mainline. Now, the vfs patch is not included in this set, only ... 28 May 2010 17:04

[PATCH 4/6] cciss: make interrupt access methods return type bool
Patch 4 of 6 cciss: change return type from interrupt pending to return bool This patch change the return type of our interrupt access routines to bool from unsigned long. It makes more sense that way. From: Mike Miller <mike.miller(a)hp.com> Cc: Stephen M. Cameron <scameron(a)beardog.cce.hp.com> Signed-off-by: M... 28 May 2010 17:04

Question about SIOCGIFCONF
Le vendredi 28 mai 2010 à 13:05 -0600, Jeffrey Merkey a écrit : The code in question is net-tools/lib/interface.c function if_readproc() and associated routines. Looks like a hole. Jeff On Fri, May 28, 2010 at 1:02 PM, Jeffrey Merkey <jeffmerkey(a)gmail.com> wrote: Review of the net-tools source... 28 May 2010 17:04