Kernel

[PATCH 0/6] [STAGING] More xgifb cleanup
Hello Arnaud, a few more patches for cleaning up the xgifb driver, please apply. Riccardo Magliocchetti (6): More ifdefery cleanup. kill osdef.h Kill empty function NewDelaySeconds(). Kill unused header Kill udelay wrapper Use standard types instead of typedefs. drivers/staging/xgifb/XGI.h ... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

[PATCH 4/6] Kill unused header
Signed-off-by: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/xgifb/XGI.h | 10 ---------- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 drivers/staging/xgifb/XGI.h diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/XGI.h b/drivers/staging/xgifb/XGI.h deleted file mode ... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

broadsheetfb and fbcon
Greetings lkml and Jaya, I've been using the broadsheetfb graphics driver for a while now. I've been trying to get it working with the fbcon console driver. Has anyone had any success with that? While it "works", its performance is unusable as a console. It redraws the whole screen every new line, which may ... 8 Jun 2010 17:12

[PATCH v2 2/3] kernel/power/block_io.c: do not use end_swap_bio_read
The swap checksum patches will change end_swap_bio_read to also verify the page's checksum. This is not compatible with its use at submit() from kernel/power/block_io.c. Make kernel/power/block_io.c use a private copy of end_swap_bio_read, and modify it to not say "Read-error" if the error was on a write. Chan... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

[PATCH v2 1/3] mm/swapfile.c: better messages for swap_info_get
swap_info_get() is used for more than swap_free(). Use "swap_info_get:" instead of "swap_free:" in the error messages. Signed-off-by: Cesar Eduardo Barros <cesarb(a)cesarb.net> --- mm/swapfile.c | 8 ++++---- 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/swapfile.c b/mm/swapfile.c inde... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

Proposal for a new algorithm for reading & writing a hibernation image.
Hi. On 05/06/10 22:59, Theodore Tso wrote: On Jun 4, 2010, at 8:05 PM, Nigel Cunningham wrote: 2mb pages will probably present a problem, as will bat mappings on powerpc. I have the idea that 2MB pages are only used for the kernel text and read only data. Is that right? If so, perhaps they can jus... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

[ANNOUNCE] Merkey's Kernel Debugger 2.6.34
Located at: http://merkeydebugger.googlecode.com/files/mdb-2.6.34-06-05-10.patch7 Have not tested the APIC IPI calls yet but should work. Let me know if there are problems. I disable the hw_breakpoints interface with MDB is loaded because it is not well designed and to be honest, virtualizing DR6 and trying ... 5 Jun 2010 19:07

[PATCH] APIC: Remove unused variable
base is never used in this file. --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c | 6 ------ 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c index 425e53a..770262b 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c +++ b/arch/x86/kernel/apic... 5 Jun 2010 18:00

[PATCH] APIC: Remove unused variable
base is never used in this file. Signed-off-by: Richard Weinberger <richard(a)nod.at> --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c | 2 -- 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c b/arch/x86/kernel/apic/es7000_32.c index 425e53a..ef34391 100644 --- a/arch/x86/k... 5 Jun 2010 18:00

hp_sdc_rtc: fix broken ioctl conversion
Commit 55929332c92 "drivers: Push down BKL into various drivers" introduced a regression in hp_sdc_rtc, caused by a missing change of the .unlocked_ioctl pointer to the newly introduced function. On Saturday 05 June 2010, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: Something went wrong with this one: | drivers/input/misc... 6 Jun 2010 08:19