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Crash in wb_clear_pending()
On 05/07/10 20.20, Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 07:14:20PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: Nor does it apply to v2.6.35-rc4: It's indeed missing the two previous patches to the writeback code that I thought Jens sent to Linus aswell [1]. The race was initially found using a distro ker... 6 Jul 2010 22:14

autofs/autofs4: move compat_ioctl handling into fs
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:15:07AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Handling of autofs ioctl numbers does not need to be generic and can easily be done directly in autofs itself. This also pushes the BKL into autofs and autofs4 ioctl methods. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> Cc: H. Pete... 16 Jul 2010 08:48

v4l: convert v4l2-dev to unlocked_ioctl
On Sun, Jul 04, 2010 at 12:15:09AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: v4l2 implements two separate file operations for drivers that use locked and unlocked ioctl callbacks. Since we want to remove the ioctl file operation in favor of the unlocked variant, this separation no longer seems helpful. There is anoth... 5 Jul 2010 15:32

Bug#587665: [Pkg-sysvinit-devel] Bug#587665: Safety of early boot init of /dev/random seed
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 13:08 -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: (adding Petter Reinholdtsen to CC, stupid MUA...) On Sat, 03 Jul 2010, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Hello, We are trying to enhance the Debian support for /dev/random seeding at early boot, and we need some expert... 5 Jul 2010 15:32

Linux 2.6.32.16
I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.32.16 kernel. All users of the 2.6.32 kernel series should upgrade. The updated 2.6.32.y git tree can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/stable/linux-2.6.32.y.git and can be browsed at the normal kernel.org git web browser: http://gi... 5 Jul 2010 15:32

Linux 2.6.33.6
I'm announcing the release of the 2.6.33.6 kernel. All users of the 2.6.33 kernel series should upgrade. There will only be one more .33-stable release after this one. Everyone using the .33 series should be looking into moving to the .34 kernel tree at this point in time. Yeah, I said that for the last .33 r... 5 Jul 2010 15:32

perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
Em Mon, Jul 05, 2010 at 08:07:30PM +0200, Conny Seidel escreveu: make version 3.80 doesn't support "else ifdef" on the same line, also it doesn't support unindented nested constructs. Build fails with: Makefile:608: Extraneous text after `else' directive Makefile:611: *** only one `else' per conditio... 6 Jul 2010 05:43

[PATCH] perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
make version 3.80 doesn't support "else ifdef" on the same line, also it doesn't support unindented nested constructs. Build fails with: Makefile:608: Extraneous text after `else' directive Makefile:611: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop. This patch fixes the build for make 3.80. Signed-off-by: Con... 5 Jul 2010 14:26

Qualification Number(OG/N231/E101/BDB)
You have been officially granted £850,000 from the OXFAM GB -UK Contact Dr.Terry Williams. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FA... 5 Jul 2010 14:26

ivtv: use kthread_worker instead of workqueue
On Mon, 2010-06-28 at 23:03 +0200, Tejun Heo wrote: Upcoming workqueue updates will no longer guarantee fixed workqueue to worker kthread association, so giving RT priority to the irq worker won't work. Use kthread_worker which guarantees specific kthread association instead. This also makes setting the p... 9 Jul 2010 09:26