Kernel

Treat as urgent and important.
Dear Sir, I received instruction from Mr. Suthachai Yimprasert to find someone, a foreigner who can assist him protect his remaining fund and investment in Thailand. Mr. Suthachai Yimprasert is presently under arrest in Thailand and some of his assets have been frozen by the Government of Thailand over his act... 14 Jun 2010 11:45

vmlinux.lds.h: Include *(.text.*) in TEXT_TEXT
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010, Matt Fleming wrote: Many architectures collect text sections beginning with '.text.' in their .text section, so move this pattern into TEXT_TEXT to stop them all having to duplicate the pattern in their arch/ linker scripts. Hi Matt, I think this change could result in problems suc... 17 Jun 2010 16:45

Uprobes Implementation
On Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:59:03 +0530 Srikar Dronamraju wrote: diff --git a/arch/Kconfig b/arch/Kconfig index 16541af..995f7f2 100644 --- a/arch/Kconfig +++ b/arch/Kconfig @@ -58,6 +58,16 @@ config USER_BKPT This service is used by components such as uprobes. If in doubt, say "N". +c... 15 Jun 2010 08:41

ACPI: video: DMI workaround broken Acer 5710 BIOS enabling display brightness
On Mon, Jun 14, 2010 at 10:17:44AM +0300, Ozan Çağlayan wrote: Acer Aspire 5710 suffers from a similar ACPI problem reported at: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=13121 Bleah. Is this really necessary? If we set maximum brightness and then read back something other than maximum brightness, then tha... 14 Jun 2010 12:53

[PATCH -v2] Only honor the FIGETBSZ ioctl for regular files and directories
FIGETBSZ has an ioctl number of _IO(0x00,2) == 2, which can conflict with device driver ioctls. Let's avoid the potential for problems by only honoring the ioctl number for files where this ioctl is likely going to be useful: regular files, directories, and symlinks. Thanks to Johannes Stezenbach for pointing th... 14 Jun 2010 10:38

Help with pdflush latency / congestion on older kernel (2.6.18)
Hi all, First of all I must apologise that this relates to an older kernel version. This kernel is used on a satellite top-box with a closed source module of it's vendor that handles the specific hardware, so we cannot use a new kernel, sadly. The good news is that the problem has nothing to do with the closed s... 14 Jun 2010 10:38

[regression] 2.6.34-rc1 to -rc3 on zaurus: no longer boots
On Monday, June 14, 2010, Pavel Machek wrote: Hi! I can boot successfully on my akita/corgi with my 2.6.35-rc3 kernel. I'll find some time to test v2.6.34 though. This one is long solved. 2.6.34 works for me, as does 2.6.35-rc2. OK, thanks for the info. Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this... 14 Jun 2010 10:38

[PATCH -v3] Only honor the FIGETBSZ ioctl for regular files and directories
From: Theodore Ts'o <tytso(a)mit.edu> FIGETBSZ has an ioctl number of _IO(0x00,2) == 2, which can conflict with device driver ioctls. Let's avoid the potential for problems by only honoring the ioctl number for files where this ioctl is likely going to be useful: for regular files and directories Thanks to Joha... 14 Jun 2010 10:38

[PATCH -v3] Only honor the FIGETBSZ ioctl for regular files and directories
FIGETBSZ has an ioctl number of _IO(0x00,2) == 2, which can conflict with device driver ioctls. Let's avoid the potential for problems by only honoring the ioctl number for files where this ioctl is likely going to be useful: for regular files and directories Thanks to Johannes Stezenbach for pointing this conse... 14 Jun 2010 10:38

open("a/",O_NOFOLLOW) fails with ELOOP if "a" is a symbolic link to a directory.
On Monday, June 14, 2010, Jan Kara wrote: On Sun 13-06-10 16:48:58, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.33 and 2.6.34. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions introduce... 14 Jun 2010 10:38