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Introduce and use printk pointer extension %pV
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 04:02:32 -0700 Recursive printk can reduce the total image size of an x86 defconfig about 1% by reducing duplicated KERN_<level> strings and centralizing the functions used by macros in new separate functions. Joe Perches (4): vsprintf:... 4 Jul 2010 14:27

slab: fix caller tracking on !CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB && CONFIG_TRACING
On Wed, 30 Jun 2010, Xiaotian Feng wrote: In slab, all __xxx_track_caller is defined on CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB || CONFIG_TRACING, thus caller tracking function should be worked for CONFIG_TRACING. But if CONFIG_DEBUG_SLAB is not set, include/linux/slab.h will define xxx_track_caller to __xxx() without consider... 4 Jul 2010 13:22

Removing dead OMAP_MUX_ERRORS
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:54:42PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: OMAP_MUX_ERRORS doesn't exist in Kconfig, therefore removing all references for it from the source code. IIUC, CONFIG_OMAP_MUX_WARNINGS should be used here instead of it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <siccegge(a)cs.fau.de> --- arch/ar... 5 Jul 2010 04:34

Removing dead MSM7X00A_IDLE
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 05:55:03PM +0200, Christoph Egger wrote: MSM7X00A_IDLE doesn't exist in Kconfig, therefore removing all references for it from the source code. It was removed in commit 1637de0c9. I'm not sure if it's correct. Brian Swetland added to CC list. Signed-off-by: Christoph Egger <sicc... 30 Jun 2010 16:29

[PATCH] ipc/sem.c: Bugfix for semop() not reporting successful operation
Hi Andrew, On 06/29/2010 09:08 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:42:42 -0500 (CDT) Christoph Lameter<cl(a)linux-foundation.org> wrote: This is a patch from Manfred. Required to make 2.6.35-rc3 work. My current version of the patch is below. I believe that Luca ... 30 Jun 2010 16:29

[PATCH -rt 2/2] Make sure d_kill sets d_parent to null
Patch against currrent 2.6.33-rt tree. This patch is an alternative fix to the select_parent panic that was suggested by Nick Piggin. It resolves the issue by making sure d_parent is set to null so that the dentry ascending code in select_parent will restart if the child or next dentry was dkilled while the lo... 30 Jun 2010 15:21

net/neighbour.h: fix typo
From: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 20:08:15 +0400 'Shoul' must be 'should'. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> Applied, thanks. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.or... 30 Jun 2010 15:21

pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-06-30
David, Here are a few more fixes intended for 2.6.35. Included are a couple of small regression fixes for iwlwifi, one that causes connection stalls with 802.11n on some devices and another which could disable multicast traffic. Also included is an ath9k fix which avoids a null pointer dereference resulting fro... 30 Jun 2010 15:21

ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
On 2010-06-30, at 07:54, Ric Wheeler wrote: On 06/30/2010 09:44 AM, tytso(a)mit.edu wrote: We track whether or not there is any metadata updates associated with the inode already; if it does, we force a journal commit, and this implies a barrier operation. The case we're talking about here is one ... 30 Jun 2010 15:21

pull request: wireless-2.6 2010-06-30
From: "John W. Linville" <linville(a)tuxdriver.com> Date: Wed, 30 Jun 2010 14:53:20 -0400 Here are a few more fixes intended for 2.6.35. Included are a couple of small regression fixes for iwlwifi, one that causes connection stalls with 802.11n on some devices and another which could disable multicast traffi... 30 Jun 2010 15:21