Kernel

[PATCH] atlas_btns: fix mixing acpi_status and int for return value
To improve readability, this patch fixes mixing acpi_status and int for return value. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/input/misc/atlas_btns.c | 13 +++++++------ 1 files changed, 7 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/input/misc/atlas_btns.c b/drivers/input/misc/atlas... 13 Jul 2010 06:31

futex: protect against pi_blocked_on corruption during requeue PI
On Tue, 13 Jul 2010, Darren Hart wrote: Thanks to Thomas, Steven, and Mike for hashing this over me. After an IRC discussion with Thomas, I put the following together. It resolves the issue for me, Mike please test and let us know if it fixes it for you. A couple of points of discussion before we commit t... 13 Jul 2010 06:31

Fix for relocatable PowerPC kernels
On 07/13/2010 07:45 AM, Anton Blanchard wrote: Hi, PowerPC Linux kernels can now be built relocatable so we need to check for that in the loader. Anton Is building as ET_DYN supported upstream? We previously had reports of building system of some distros to be plainly borked and usualy the ... 13 Jul 2010 06:31

Staging: vt6656: Change the define FALSE and TRUE to the lower case variant.
Hi! On Mon, 2010-07-12 at 23:26 +0200, Roel Van Nyen wrote: [...] @@ -178,7 +178,7 @@ vMgrDecodeBeacon( break; case WLAN_EID_RSN_WPA: if (pFrame->pRSNWPA == NULL) { - if (WPAb_Is_RSN((PWLAN_IE_RSN_EXT)pItem) == TRUE) + if (WPAb_Is_RS... 13 Jul 2010 06:31

[PATCH] atlas_btns: adds a missing owner field for atlas_acpi_driver
The owner field provides the link between drivers and modules in sysfs. After setting the owner field, we can see which module provides which driver and vice versa by looking at /sys/bus/acpi/drivers/Atlas ACPI/module and /sys/module/atlas_btns/drivers/acpi:Atlas ACPI Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> ... 13 Jul 2010 05:26

[PATCH] usb: gadget: storage: optional SCSI WRITE FUA bit
MS Windows mounts removable storage in "Removal optimized mode" by default. All the writes to the media are synchronous which is achieved by setting FUA (Force Unit Access) bit in SCSI WRITE(10,12) commands. This prevents I/O requests aggregation in block layer dramatically decreasing performance. This patch bri... 13 Jul 2010 05:26

staging: autoconvert trivial BKL users to private mutex
Arnd Bergmann wrote: <snip> diff --git a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c index bc16fc0..73a67a8 100644 --- a/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c +++ b/drivers/staging/vme/devices/vme_user.c @@ -31,7 +31,7 @@ #include <linux/slab.h> #includ... 13 Jul 2010 05:26

perf failed with kernel 2.6.35-rc
Peter, perf doesn't work on my Nehalem EX machine. 1) The 1st start of 'perf top' is ok; 2) Kill the 1st perf and restart it. It doesn't work. No data is showed. I located below commit: commit 1ac62cfff252fb668405ef3398a1fa7f4a0d6d15 Author: Peter Zijlstra <peterz(a)infradead.org> Date: Fri Mar 26 14:08:44 2... 6 Aug 2010 01:45

drivers/media: Remove unnecessary casts of private_data
Hi Joe, On Monday 12 July 2010 22:50:03 Joe Perches wrote: Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> For uvcvideo, Acked-by: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart(a)ideasonboard.com> -- Regards, Laurent Pinchart -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body ... 13 Jul 2010 04:21

[PATCH 2/2] OCFS2: Allow huge (> 16 TiB) volumes to mount
On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 10:00:10PM -0700, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: On Mon, Jul 12, 2010 at 9:46 PM, Andreas Dilger <adilger(a)dilger.ca> wrote: On 2010-07-12, at 19:08, Patrick J. LoPresti wrote: Are you suggesting I need to do this before my patch is accepted at all? �Or is this a refactoring... 13 Jul 2010 04:21