Kernel

how to (really) cleanly shutdown the system when root is on multiple stacked block devices
Hi. I'm currently investigating in Debian's boot process with the goal to allow having the root-fs on perhaps even multiple stacked block devices (e.g. something like disk->md/raid->lvm2->dm-crypt->fs or disk->md/raid->dm-crypt->lvm2->fs). For booting this works in principle quite fine via initramfs images ... 26 Jun 2010 23:54

PC Beeps not working with HDA Intel module
Dear all, The problem is on a computer with an HDA Intel sound card, Intel G45 DEVCTG chip and appears will all version s of the kernel. Running e.g. beep 440 produces a beep whose audible frequency is very low, definitely not 440 Hz. However, it is worth notiing that grub is able to produce a beep of the ... 3 Aug 2010 08:08

bmp085: add inline and ABI documentation
The following two patches document the userspace interface of the bmp086 driver. The first patch adds a file to Documentation/ABI/testing which describes the sysfs files created by the driver. The second patch adds some more documentation to the comment header of the driver code itself. It also includes a link to the... 26 Jun 2010 07:35

2.6.34-rc3 BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000000000000048 cifs_show_options
From 2.6.34-rc3 Can't reliably reproduce, this was once after a resume over a few days normal use. The No response for cmds lines are normal as NAS takes a while to spin up after resume. System was unstable after message so couldn't collect more state [18446744028.633263] r8169 0000:0b:02.0: eth0: link up [184... 26 Jun 2010 07:35

V4L/uvcvideo: Add support for Suyin Corp. Lenovo Webcam
Hi Laurent, On ven 2010-06-25 @ 09-29-28 +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: # Hi Nils, # # On Thursday 24 June 2010 20:19:41 Nils Radtke wrote: # > On Wed 2010-06-23 @ 02-45-53PM +0200, Laurent Pinchart wrote: # > # On Wednesday 23 June 2010 11:23:16 Nils Radtke wrote: # > # > From: Nils Radtke <lkml(a)Think-Fut... 26 Jun 2010 14:07

arch/tile: Miscellaneous cleanup changes.
On Friday 25 June 2010, Chris Metcalf wrote: This commit is primarily changes caused by reviewing "sparse" and "checkpatch" output on our sources, so is somewhat noisy, since things like "printk() -> pr_err()" (or whatever) throughout the codebase tend to get tedious to read. Rather than trying to tease ... 27 Jun 2010 13:55

cache last free vmap_area to avoid restarting beginning
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 05:40:22PM -0400, Bob Peterson wrote: On 2010-05-25 8:43:23, Nick Piggin wrote: Hey Nick, I spotted what seems to be a regression in this patch. The spin_lock was moved before the try loop: spin_lock(&vmap_area_lock); retry: But later, after the overflow label, ... 26 Jun 2010 05:27

late Gigaset fixes for 2.6.35
From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman(a)imap.cc> Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2010 01:54:04 +0200 (CEST) following are five patches to the Gigaset driver fixing reported problems with two CAPI applications (Asterisk and capifax). They fix serious bugs, though not technically regressions, and I would therefore appreciate if th... 26 Jun 2010 01:10

[PATCH for stable] tracing: Consolidate protection of reader access to the ring buffer
On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:36:44AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: On Tue, 2010-06-22 at 06:28 -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Jun 22, 2010 at 09:23:03AM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: Greg, Johannes has been hitting a bug in 2.6.33 that we believe is fixed with the following patch. The bu... 25 Jun 2010 19:46

cifs: define inode-level cache object and register them
On Fri, Jun 25, 2010 at 5:26 PM, Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)samba.org> wrote: On Fri, 25 Jun 2010 22:46:38 +0100 David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> wrote: Jeff Layton <jlayton(a)samba.org> wrote: Looks like it mostly uses the ctime. IMO, the mtime would be a better choice since it changes l... 25 Jun 2010 19:46