Kernel

HID: Add Support for Setting and Getting Feature Reports from hidraw
On Mon, 7 Jun 2010 23:51:48 -0400 Alan Ott <alan(a)signal11.us> wrote: Per the HID Specification, Feature reports must be sent and received on the Configuration endpoint (EP 0) through the Set_Report/Get_Report interfaces. This patch adds two ioctls to hidraw to set and get feature reports to and from th... 16 Jun 2010 12:09

[PATCH 1/2] Add HW_ERR printk prefix for hardware error logging
This makes hardware error related log in printk log more explicit. So that the users can report it to hardware vendor instead of LKML or software vendor. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang(a)intel.com> --- include/linux/kernel.h | 7 +++++++ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/... 8 Jun 2010 03:39

kbuild: Improve version string logic - two for the price of one - No thanks
On Mon, Jun 07, 2010 at 11:18:42PM -0700, David Rientjes wrote: On Tue, 8 Jun 2010, Boaz Harrosh wrote: I already have my: VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 6 SUBLEVEL = 35 -EXTRAVERSION = -rc2 +EXTRAVERSION = -rc2-my_tree You shouldn't be using EX... 8 Jun 2010 04:44

[PATCH -v3 2/2] x86, MCE, fix MSR_IA32_MCI_CTL2 CMCI threshold setup
It is reported that CMCI is not raised when number of corrected error reaches preset threshold. After inspection, it is found that MSR_IA32_MCI_CTL2 threshold field is not setup properly. This patch fixed it. Value of MCI_CTL2_CMCI_THRESHOLD_MASK is fixed according to x86_64 Software Developer's Manual too. R... 8 Jun 2010 02:34

[PATCH -v3 0/2] x86, MCE, FIX MSR_IA32_MCI_CTL2_CMCI threshold setup (resend)
Changelog: v3: - Separate patch into 2 patches, one for renaming, the other for threshold setup fixing. v2: - Rename CMCI_EN to MCI_CTL2_CMCI_EN and CMCI_THRESHOLD_MASK to MCI_CTL2_CMCI_THRESHOLD_MASK to make naming consistent. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-k... 8 Jun 2010 02:34

[PATCH -v3 1/2] x86, MCE, rename MSR_IA32_MCx_CTL2 value
Rename CMCI_EN to MCI_CTL2_CMCI_EN and CMCI_THRESHOLD_MASK to MCI_CTL2_CMCI_THRESHOLD_MASK to make naming consistent. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang(a)intel.com> --- arch/x86/include/asm/mce.h | 4 ++++ arch/x86/include/asm/msr-index.h | 3 --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce_intel.... 8 Jun 2010 02:34

writeback: tracing and fixes V4
On Tue, Jun 08, 2010 at 10:38:01AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: Hi Linus, Can you please consider this patch series for 2.6.35? If you don't want the tracing at this stage of the release process, I can redo the series with just the bug fixes. However, given the regularity with which we break the writeb... 8 Jun 2010 19:30

Add a new structure for skb buffer from external.
On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 04:13:48PM -0700, Stephen Hemminger wrote: Still not sure this is a good idea for a couple of reasons: 1. We already have lots of special cases with skb's (frags and fraglist), and skb's travel through a lot of different parts of the kernel. So any new change like this cre... 3 Jul 2010 05:50

mptsas won't boot with 2.6.35-rc2
-----Original Message----- From: john stultz [mailto:johnstul(a)us.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2010 9:07 AM To: lkml Cc: Chris McDermott; James.Bottomley(a)suse.de; Desai, Kashyap Subject: [Regression] mptsas won't boot with 2.6.35-rc2 With 2.6.35-rc2 one of my LS21 boxes stopped booting. I... 8 Jun 2010 01:29

[PATCH 1/3] sched: fix capacity calculations for SMT4
From: Srivatsa Vaddagiri <vatsa(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> Handle cpu capacity being reported as 0 on cores with more number of hardware threads. For example on a Power7 core with 4 hardware threads, core power is 1177 and thus power of each hardware thread is 1177/4 = 294. This low power can lead to capacity for each h... 8 Jun 2010 01:29