Kernel

SUNRPC auth: add context argument to shrinker callback
On Wed, Jul 21, 2010 at 09:41:35AM +0200, Marc Kleine-Budde wrote: Hello, I found this regression in the current mainline tree. The fix is already in Linus' current git tree (commit 567c7b0edec0200c5c6613f07c3d3b4034fdc836 ("mm: add context argument to shrinker callback to remaining shrinkers"). Thanks f... 22 Jul 2010 03:47

lkdtm: use generic_file_llseek in debugfs
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:40:05PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: When the default llseek behavior gets changed to not allowing seek, all file operations that rely on the current behaviour need to use an explicit .llseek operation. The files that lkdtm uses in debugfs are regular files and they get r... 21 Jul 2010 20:14

check name_len before down_read xattr_sem and sb_read in ext2_xattr_get
2010/7/22 Jan Kara <jack(a)suse.cz>: Hi,        I walked through ext2_xattr_get, and felt that we can do some optimization on it. For name_len check, it's done after down xattr_sem and sb_read, both of which are time consuming operation compared with strlen:          down_read(&EXT2_I(inode)->xatt... 25 Jul 2010 09:43

viotape: use noop_llseek
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:40:17PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: Some applications try to seek on tape devices and fail if they return an error. Since we want to change the default llseek action to no_llseek, viotape needs to be changed to use noop_llseek explicitly. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <ar... 21 Jul 2010 20:14

raw: use explicit llseek file operations
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 11:40:14PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: The raw_fops may need to seek, so there should be an explicit reference to default_llseek. raw_ctl_fops does not contain a read or write method, so we use noop_llseek to ignore seeking requests without an error. Signed-off-by: Arnd Ber... 21 Jul 2010 20:14

[PATCH 2/5] of: Merge of_platform_bus_type with platform_bus_type
of_platform_bus was being used in the same manner as the platform_bus. The only difference being that of_platform_bus devices are generated from data in the device tree, and platform_bus devices are usually statically allocated in platform code. Having them separate causes the problem of device drivers having to b... 21 Jul 2010 20:14

[PATCH 4/5] of: remove asm/of_platform.h
Only thing left in it is of_instantiate_rtc() which can be moved to asm/prom.h on PowerPC and is unused in microblaze. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> --- arch/microblaze/include/asm/of_platform.h | 19 ------------------- arch/powerpc/include/asm/of_platform.h | 16 --------------... 21 Jul 2010 20:13

[PATCH 0/5] Eliminate of_platform_bus_type
This series eliminates the OF platform bus type and moves all users over to the platform bus. There is still work to be done to remove the of_platform_driver references the affected drivers and then remove the transitional code, but with this series those changes can be done piecewise. These changes have been te... 21 Jul 2010 20:13

[PATCH 5/5] of: remove asm/of_device.h
It is mostly unused now. Sparc has a few defines left in it, but they can be moved to other headers. Removing this header means that new architectures adding CONFIG_OF support don't need to also add this header file. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely(a)secretlab.ca> --- arch/microblaze/include/asm/of_d... 21 Jul 2010 20:13

Fwd: PRO/AH/EDR> Undiagnosed die-off, penguins - Brazil: RFI
FYI Hello to all of You, time to say THANK YOU for all Your great work all over these Years!! BTW got this news from the promed-mailinglist today. Of course this does'nt matter to linux any way. But maybe we all should be interested. Any reactions inside/outside the communities? Regards, J. Feldn... 21 Jul 2010 20:13