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firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder
H.S. wrote: Stefan Richter wrote: <SNIP> The patch was generated against the latest kernel sources but is applicable with harmless line offsets to the 2.6.32.y stable kernel series too. Hence it should be applicable to Debian's 2.6.32 sources as well. H. S., could you please test this? ... 2 Jun 2010 15:22

Frontswap (was Transcendent Memory): overview
On 05/28/2010 11:10 PM, Dan Magenheimer wrote: [PATCH V2 0/4] Frontswap (was Transcendent Memory): overview Changes since V1: - Rebased to 2.6.34 (no functional changes) - Convert to sane types (per Al Viro comment in cleancache thread) - Define some raw constants (Konrad Wilk) - Performance analy... 31 May 2010 20:46

firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder
> Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later. If not force a compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM. This was implemented in the older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core. While I don't have an IRM that featur... 30 May 2010 14:21

[PATCH] firewire: core: check for 1394a compliant IRM, fix inaccessibility of Sony camcorder
Per IEEE 1394 clause 8.4.2.3, a contender for the IRM role shall check whether the current IRM complies to 1394a-2000 or later. If not force a compliant node (e.g. itself) to become IRM. This was implemented in the older ieee1394 driver but not yet in firewire-core. An older Sony camcorder (Sony DCR-TRV25) whic... 30 May 2010 14:21

[2.6.35] MFD pull request
On Fri, 28 May 2010, Samuel Ortiz wrote: This is the MFD pull request for the 2.6.35 merge window. Samuel - this adds the CONFIG_MFD thing, with absolutely _no_ explanation. So now people see this totally incomprehensible question: Enable Multifunction device drivers? (Y/n) with no sane way to de... 30 May 2010 18:41

x86 platform driver updates for 2.6.35
This doesn't seem to have the proper sign-off chains, so I'm not pulling it. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at ... 31 May 2010 11:57

Exclude DAHDI devices from being probed by netjet
> 2. I don't have more precise data than the PCI ID tables in the drivers. Does this run the risk of excluding some actual Netjet ISDN cards? Is there a reason you are seeing so many different vendor values - surely you should see a single 'Digium' subvendor, and various subdevice values ? + switch (pd... 30 May 2010 11:05

[PATCH 1/2] drivers/scsi: Use GFP_ATOMIC when a lock is held
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> The function adpt_i2o_post_wait is called from several places, in some of which, such as adpt_abort, a lock may be held. The functions adpt_i2o_reparse_lct and adpt_i2o_lct_get are called from several places, including adpt_rescan where a lock may be held. The semantic patc... 30 May 2010 10:01

What happened to mount option "noextents"
On Ubuntu 9.04 it is possible to mount an ext4 file system with the mount option "noextents" but on Ubuntu 10.04 it gives the error message: Ext4: Unrecognized mount option "noextents" in dmesg. _________________________________________________________________ Surfa tryggt med Internet Explorer 8 htt... 30 May 2010 14:21

current git kernel crashes UML system during boot
2010/5/27 Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster(a)gmx.de>: I bisected it to this : There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test. The first bad commit could be any of: 4677d4a53e0d565742277e8913e91c821453e63e d61931d89be506372d01a90d1755f6d0a9fafe2d 1527bc8b928dd1399c3d3467dd47d9ede210978a c59bd5688299c... 30 May 2010 12:11