Kernel

[ath5k][leds] Ability to disable leds support. If leds support enabled do not force mac802.11 leds layer selection.
On Wed, Apr 7, 2010 at 2:58 PM, Dmytro Milinevskyy <milinevskyy(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hello! Thanks, comments inline. +config ATH5K_LEDS + � � � tristate "Atheros 5xxx wireless cards LEDs support" + � � � depends on ATH5K + � � � ---help--- + � � � � Atheros 5xxx LED support. + This can sele... 7 Jun 2010 04:12

oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check should take ->mm into account
On Mon, 31 May 2010, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: From: Oleg Nesterov <oleg(a)redhat.com> Subject: oom: select_bad_process: PF_EXITING check should take ->mm into account select_bad_process() checks PF_EXITING to detect the task which is going to release its memory, but the logic is very wrong. - a si... 1 Jun 2010 17:30

perf: add perfconfig option to specify buildid cache dir
Em Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 09:25:01PM +0200, Stephane Eranian escreveu: This patch adds the ability to specify an alternate directory to store the buildid cache (buildids, copy of binaries). By default, it is hardcoded to $HOME/.debug. This directory contains immutable data. The layout of the directory is such... 1 Jun 2010 17:30

block: Implement a blk_yield function to voluntarily give up the I/O scheduler.
Vivek Goyal <vgoyal(a)redhat.com> writes: On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 02:20:18PM -0400, Jeff Moyer wrote: This patch implements a blk_yield to allow a process to voluntarily give up its I/O scheduler time slice. This is desirable for those processes which know that they will be blocked on I/O from another p... 25 Jun 2010 16:29

[2.6.35-rc1 regression] tg3 vpd r/w failed
Booting 2.6.35-rc1 on a Sun Blade 2500 Red with builtin tg3 I get: tg3.c:v3.110 (April 9, 2010) PCI: Enabling device: (0000:00:03.0), cmd 2 .... tg3 0000:00:03.0: vpd r/w failed. This is likely a firmware bug on this device. Contact the card vendor for a firmware update. tg3 0000:00:03.0: vpd r/w failed. This... 1 Jun 2010 16:24

sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename ... XVR-600 related?
On 06/01/2010 03:57 PM, Mikael Pettersson wrote: Booting 2.6.35-rc1 on a Sun Blade 2500 Red, I'm greeted with: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0x74/0x90() sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/root/f0079a58/pci0003:00/0003:00:02.0/slot' Mod... 1 Jun 2010 16:24

[2.6.35-rc1 regression] sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename ... XVR-600 related?
Booting 2.6.35-rc1 on a Sun Blade 2500 Red, I'm greeted with: ------------[ cut here ]------------ WARNING: at fs/sysfs/dir.c:451 sysfs_add_one+0x74/0x90() sysfs: cannot create duplicate filename '/devices/root/f0079a58/pci0003:00/0003:00:02.0/slot' Modules linked in: Call Trace: [0000000000458e20] warn_slowpa... 1 Jun 2010 16:24

[PATCH] FS-Cache: Remove unneeded null checks
From: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> fscache_write_op() makes unnecessary checks of the page variable to see if it is NULL. It can't be NULL at those points as the kernel would already have crashed a little higher up where we examined page->index. Furthermore, unless radix_tree_gang_lookup_tag() can return ... 1 Jun 2010 16:24

mptsas hangs caused by ATA pass-through explained
On Mon, 26 Apr 2010 18:11:54 -0500 Ryan Kuester <rkuester(a)kspace.net> wrote: I may have an explanation for the LSI 1068 HBA hangs provoked by ATA pass-through commands, in particular by smartctl. First, my version of the symptoms. On an LSI SAS1068E B3 HBA running 01.29.00.00 firmware, with SATA disk... 3 Jun 2010 13:25

NOMMU: Add '[stack]' label to /proc/pid/maps output
On Tue, 1 Jun 2010, David Howells wrote: From: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> Add support to the NOMMU /proc/pid/maps file to show which mapping is the stack of the original thread after execve. This is largely based on the MMU code. Umm? The MMU code that we _reverted_? It turns out to b... 4 Jun 2010 18:06