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linux-next: Tree for July 28 (lirc #2)
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:28:55 +1000 Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi all, Changes since 20100727: When USB_SUPPORT is not enabled and MEDIA_SUPPORT is not enabled: ERROR: "lirc_dev_fop_close" [drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_streamzap.ko] undefined! ERROR: "lirc_dev_fop_open" [drivers/staging/lirc/lirc_stream... 29 Jul 2010 12:59

hw-breakpoints, kgdb, x86: add a flagtopassDIE_DEBUG notification
On 07/28/2010 12:08 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 07:13:23PM +0800, DDD wrote: Frederic Weisbecker wrote: Why? It seems to me a kernel debugger should have the highest priority over anything. In my option, the reason of kgdb set the lowest-prio fo... 28 Jul 2010 14:04

[GIT PULL] ceph fixes for 2.6.35
Hi Linus, Please pull this final set of ceph bug fixes for 2.6.35 from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sage/ceph-client.git for-linus There is a trivial Kconfig fix, a wake_up patch that fixes hanging concurrent 'sync' instances (among other things), a couple memory leaks, and some dentry l... 28 Jul 2010 14:04

staging:ti dspbridge: remove unnecessary check for NULL pointer in cmm.c
Hi Ernesto, On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:53 PM, Ramos Falcon, Ernesto <ernesto(a)ti.com> wrote: here is a better approach: remove cmm_xlator_delete altogether [...] I considered this approach before but in terms of maintainability I thought it was easier to locate where translator tables are destroy if we k... 28 Jul 2010 14:04

mm: check kmalloc() return value
On Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> wrote: kmalloc() may fail, if so return -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg(a)cs.helsinki.fi> --- �mm/vmalloc.c | � �5 ++++- �1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)... 28 Jul 2010 14:04

x86: mce: fix error handling
From: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 12:39:44PM -0400 mcheck_init_device() poorly handles errors. If any request fails unregister and free everything. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: Borislav Petkov <Borislav.Petkov(a)amd.com> -- Regards... 31 Jul 2010 16:10

[PATCH 04/10] x86: mce: fix error handling
mcheck_init_device() poorly handles errors. If any request fails unregister and free everything. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/mce.c | 24 ++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 20 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/mcheck/m... 28 Jul 2010 12:58

increase kmemleak robustness at boot
Daniel J Blueman wrote: I've consistently been experiencing kmemleak exhaust it's 400-entry early-boot buffer and disabling itself; there have been reports of this also, and I'm finding this on x86-64 with various debug options enabled. If we issue a warning and allow the buffer to wrap, we don't nee... 31 Jul 2010 06:25

[PATCH 03/10] sh: dma: check return value of create_proc_read_entry()
create_proc_read_entry() may fail, if so return -ENOMEM. Signed-off-by: Kulikov Vasiliy <segooon(a)gmail.com> --- arch/sh/drivers/dma/dma-api.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/sh/drivers/dma/dma-api.c b/arch/sh/drivers/dma/dma-api.c index 4a27722..f46848f 100644 ... 28 Jul 2010 12:58

[PATCH v3] Staging: dt3155: make local variables static
The symbols dt3155_dev_open, unique_tag, and allocatorAddr are only used in the file dt3155_drv.c and should be static. Also, as pointed out by Joe Perches, static variables do not need initialization so remove them. While here, also move the definition for allocatorAddr so that all the variables are declared at on... 28 Jul 2010 12:58