Kernel

[PATCH v3] FLAT: tweak default stack alignment
The recent commit 1f0ce8b3dd667dca7 which moved the ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN default into the global header inadvertently broke FLAT for a bunch of systems. Blackfin systems now fail on any FLAT exec with: Unable to read code+data+bss, errno 14 When your /init is a FLAT binary, obviously this can be annoying ;). This... 6 Jun 2010 04:01

BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: ondemand/1327
On niedziela, 30 maja 2010 o 10:35:44 andrew hendry wrote: Running hdparm -tT /dev/sda gets a similar one. [ 2705.519946] BUG: using smp_processor_id() in preemptible [00000000] code: hdparm/2479 [ 2705.519948] caller is vfs_quota_sync+0x18c/0x350 [ 2705.519950] Pid: 2479, comm: hdparm Not tainted 2.... 6 Jun 2010 02:41

[PATCH] Skip looking for ioapic overrides when ioapics are not present
Avinash Kurup <kurup.avinash(a)gmail.com> writes: Hi Eric,     I get the following errors while booting into 2.6.35-rc1. I did not get these in 2.6.34 . The computer however boots and works fine, So its not serious but the following errors are displayed in dmesg. [    0.089969] ERROR: Unable to locate... 6 Jun 2010 00:32

[2.6.35-rc regression] i915: cursor corruption on Arrandale caused by 9b8c4a0b215e
My x201s (Core i7 L640 according to /proc/cpuinfo) running -rc1 exhibits cursor corruption when changing the cursor image (such as when moving out of xterm onto the desktop). Bisection pointed to 9b8c4a0b215e and reverting that on top of 03cd373981 fixed the problem. I'm running fvwm2 with xterm as my primary X c... 5 Jun 2010 23:27

Pixelview autitek syntek driver query
Hello. I have here an usb video capture stick. Pixelview PlayTV USB lsusb lists: idVendor 0x05e1 Syntek Semiconductor Co., Ltd idProduct 0x0400 and iManufacturer 1 Auvitek iProduct 2 Auvitek Is there any module I can use for it? I haven't found any usefull info ... 5 Jun 2010 21:17

LEDS: leds-input, fix sleep inside atomic
Jiri Slaby, le Sat 05 Jun 2010 23:12:22 +0200, a �crit : Fix this by changing the spinlock to mutex as it is used only in input_handler->connect and ->disconnect and it is safe to sleep there. Right. in a previous patch it was also used in interrupt context, but now it should be safe indeed. Andrew, ple... 16 Jun 2010 17:43

[Q] Perf-events callchain support on MIPS
Hi, Peter and Ingo For MIPS, recording user stack backtrace in the kernel is not quite as easy as on other platforms. Because In the kernel, we don't have frame unwinder to work on the user stack. Given the different possible compiler flags, getting the backtrace for the user stack is especially challenging. ... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

[PATCH 3/6] Kill empty function NewDelaySeconds().
Signed-off-by: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_util.c | 20 -------------------- drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_util.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_util.c b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_util.c in... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

iwl6050 firmware?
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 03:13:50PM -0700, Andy Isaacson wrote: It's been several months since iwl6050 support was merged to mainline, commit e1228374d648efe451973bc5f3d1f9a8e943ec0b Author: Jay Sternberg <jay.e.sternberg(a)linux.intel.com> Date: Mon Jan 19 15:30:34 2009 -0800 iwlwifi... 5 Jun 2010 20:13

[PATCH 1/6] More ifdefery cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Riccardo Magliocchetti <riccardo.magliocchetti(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_struct.h | 9 --------- drivers/staging/xgifb/vgatypes.h | 12 ------------ 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 21 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_struct.h b/drivers/staging/xgifb/vb_stru... 5 Jun 2010 20:13