Kernel

ISDN patches for 2.6.36
From: Tilman Schmidt <tilman(a)imap.cc> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 2010 02:18:32 +0200 (CEST) Karsten, David, following are a series of patches to the Gigaset driver I'd like to see included in kernel release 2.6.36. Do they have any dependencies on the two patch set of fixes you just sent out for net-2.6? ... 6 Jul 2010 04:38

Staging: dt3155: fix coding style issues in dt3155_drv.c
On Tue, Jul 06, 2010 at 12:02:25AM +0200, Joe Eloff wrote: From eba804d73097793329e857bebb31bd1de39cad5c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Joe Eloff <kagen101(a)gmail.com> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 23:53:36 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 2/2] Staging: dt3155: fix coding style issues in dt3155_drv.c This is a patch... 11 Jul 2010 06:08

[PATCH 1/5] perf tools: Fix fallback to cplus_demangle() when bfd_demangle() is not available
From: Conny Seidel <conny.seidel(a)amd.com> 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 t... 5 Jul 2010 22:10

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Fix EDAC-I7CORE file patterns
File patterns are one per line. Fixed include file location. Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index a07a49d..5884812 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -2121,7 +2121,9 @@ M: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab(a)redhat.com> L: linux-edac(a)vger.kernel... 5 Jul 2010 22:10

[PATCH 3/5] perf probe: Support "string" type
From: Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat(a)redhat.com> Support string type casting to event argument. If perf-probe finds an argument casted as string, it ensures the target variable is "(unsigned/signed) char *(or []). perf-probe also adds dereference if the target is a pointer. So, both of 'char buf[10];' and 'char *bu... 5 Jul 2010 22:10

drivers/net: correct valid flag
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 17:07:15 +0200 (CEST) From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Elsewhere in the "optimized" functions, the "2" constants are used. NV_TX_VALID and NV_TX2_VALID have the same value. Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> --- diff --... 6 Jul 2010 01:25

[PATCH 2/2] sched: make sched_param arugment static variables in some sched_setscheduler() caller
Andrew Morton pointed out almost sched_setscheduler() caller are using fixed parameter and it can be converted static. it reduce runtume memory waste a bit. Reported-by: Andrew Morton <akpm(a)linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> --- include/linux/sched.h |... 5 Jul 2010 21:05

[PATCH 1/2] security: add const to security_task_setscheduler()
All security modules shouldn't change sched_param parameter of security_task_setscheduler(). This is not only meaningless, but also make harmful result if caller pass static variable. This patch add const to it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> --- include/linux/security.h | ... 5 Jul 2010 21:05

2.6.34 FSAVE floating point instruction causes BUG! condition memory allocation from coprocessor interrupt context
The function "save_npx" below will trigger the coprocessor exception interrupt to allocate memory from a bad context and report a bug. Shows up under extremely heavy load, but normally does not happen. Does not crash the system just spills out garbage into the dmesg logs. Definitely a bug in Linux in how the co... 5 Jul 2010 21:05

[PATCH 11/11] isdn/gigaset: remove EXPERIMENTAL tag from GIGASET_CAPI
The CAPI variant of the Gigaset drivers can, in combination with capidrv, now fully replace the legacy ISDN4Linux variant. All reported problems have been fixed. So remove the EXPERIMENTAL tag from the Kconfig option selecting it, and adapt the documentation accordingly to encourage users to switch to it. Impact... 5 Jul 2010 21:05