Kernel

Introduction to sk_buff state checking
This is the second time you've submitted this patch set, it is also the second time that: 1) Your email client has emitted these strange "linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org"@cisco.com addresses. I saw that you were specifically notified about this problem during the previous submission. What did... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

kvm, ept: remove the default write bit
On Fri, Jun 11, 2010 at 07:30:50PM +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: When ept enabled, current code set shadow_base_present_pte including the write bit, thus all pte entries have writabe bit, and it means guest os can always write to any mapped page (even VMM maps RO pages for the guest.) We always use ... 13 Jun 2010 05:04

kstrto*: converting strings to integers done (hopefully) right
On Thu, 10 Jun 2010 00:46:17 +0300 Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan(a)gmail.com> wrote: 1. simple_strto*() suck because they do not contain overflow checks and crufty, libc way to indicate failure. 2. strict_strto*() also do not have overflow checks but the name and comments pretend they do. 3. Both hav... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

[GIT PULL] PM fix for 2.6.35
[Sorry for the duplicate, forgot to send to the lists.] Hi Linus, Please pull an x86 resume fix from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6.git pm-fixes This fixes a nasty crash occuring during resume on boxes that wake up with MWAIT disabled. arch/x86/include/asm/suspend_32... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

MAINTAINERS: Remove section WAVELAN NETWORK DRIVER & WIRELESS EXTENSIONS
On Wed, 9 Jun 2010 12:38:37 -0700 Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> wrote: commit 1d794e3b353b50ab5d9d46f7c15607f9ec8c78e0 removed it grump. Sentences start with capital letters and end with full-stops. The preferred way of referring to a commit ID is 1d794e3b353b50ab5d9d46f7c15607f9ec8c78e0 ("Staging: ... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

[PATCH] [ath5k][leds] Ability to disable leds support. If leds support enabled do not force mac802.11 leds layer selection.
On Wed, 2010-06-09 at 17:43 +0300, Dmytro Milinevskyy wrote: Hi, Bob. For instance I don't use 802.11 leds layer and trigger leds from userspace according to my purposes. Without the LED stuff in sysfs, how do you do that? johannes -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linu... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

AMD errata checking framework
On 06/11/2010 06:25 AM, Hans Rosenfeld wrote: + if (static_cpu_has(X86_FEATURE_OSVW) && static_cpu_has() is only well-defined for code that is only executed after alternatives execution; that would not seem to be the case for this code. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe l... 15 Jun 2010 15:23

[GIT] Networking
1) As alluded to in the previous networking pull, for correct operation r8169 needs a post-mdio-read delay just as it needs one for post-mdio-write. From Timo Ter�s. 2) 8139 driver's NAPI completion is racy, the sequence for completing a NAPI poll should be: napi_complete() reenable_interrupts(d... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

linux-next-20100608 will /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied
On 11.6.2010 17:13, Takeo Tung wrote: Dear All, I using linux-next-20100608 kernel, but if re-complier the kernel will found this messages. root(a)kernel-x86:/usr/src/linux# make oldconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep /bin/sh: scripts/basic/fixdep: Permission denied make[1]: *** [scripts/... 11 Jun 2010 17:01

drivers/net/e1000/e1000_main.c: Fix message logging defect
On Thu, Jun 10, 2010 at 23:29, Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> wrote: commit 675ad47375c76a7c3be4ace9554d92cd55518ced removed the capability to use ethtool.set_msglevel to control the types of messages emitted by the driver. That commit should probably be reverted. If not, then this patch fixes a mes... 11 Jun 2010 15:54