Kernel

any value in running my kernel scanning scripts before release?
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010, Michal Marek wrote: On 07/15/2010 01:32 PM, Robert P. J. Day wrote: normally i wait for the merge window, then run my kernel scanning scripts and post results. any interest in me doing that earlier? i just did a quick test and found a number of incongruities like, for ... 16 Jul 2010 05:33

[PATCH] Remove 9 second reboot delay on Lenovo T400/T500
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 07:31:49PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: Or maybe we should key into whatever OSI() the ACPI firmware asked, and try first whatever shutdown path the highest version of Windows asked for by the firmware would. I've been tracing how Windows implements reboots (XP, Vista ... 16 Jul 2010 22:02

[PATCH] Drivers: net: 8139cp: Fixed 28 style errors, and 119 warnings.
... 15 Jul 2010 18:44

[PATCH] x86,setup: add serial_console_port_base in boot_params
to save the early_serial_base. Also bootloader could fill that field, so setup code could reuse it. decompress code could reuse early serial console from setup code. Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai(a)kernel.org> --- Documentation/x86/zero-page.txt | 1 + arch/x86/boot/compressed/misc.c | 25 +++... 15 Jul 2010 18:43

[PATCH] Remove 9 second reboot delay on Lenovo T400/T500
On Wed, 14 Jul 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote: There's two possibilities here: 1) Lenovo's firmware is broken and the 9-second delay is always going to be there. In that case we should try to use the ACPI reboot vector first. Or maybe we should key into whatever OSI() the ACPI firmware asked, and try ... 16 Jul 2010 22:02

[PATCH 2/3] tracing: Remove ksym tracer
The ksym (breakpoint) ftrace plugin has been superseded by perf tools that are much more poweful to use the cpu breakpoints. This tracer doesn't bring more feature. It has been deprecated for a while now, lets remove it. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.... 15 Jul 2010 18:43

[GIT PULL] tracing cleanups
Ingo, Please pull the perf/core branch that can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git perf/core Thanks, Frederic --- Frederic Weisbecker (3): tracing: Update tracing branch url tracing: Remove ksym tracer tracing: Remove letfover mar... 15 Jul 2010 18:43

[PATCH 3/3] tracing: Remove letfover markers section
Markers have been removed, but we forgot to remove their section. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> Cc: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)efficios.com> --- include/asm-generic/vmlinux.lds.h | 4 ---- 1 files ... 15 Jul 2010 18:43

video/ivtv: Convert pci_table entries to PCI_VDEVICE (if PCI_ANY_ID is used)
Am Donnerstag 15 Juli 2010 23:43:20 schrieb Andy Walls: ... use the PCI_VDEVICE macro, and thus improves readability. I have to disagree. The patch may improve typesetting, but it degrades clarity and maintainability from my perspective. ... So I'm going to NAK this for ivtv, unless someone can help m... 15 Jul 2010 18:43

[PATCH 1/3] tracing: Update tracing branch url
ftrace and perf events now use the same development branch. Don't show a stale branch to developers. Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)redhat.com> --- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) ... 15 Jul 2010 18:43