Kernel

efi: add and expose efi_partition_by_guid
From: Will Drewry <wad(a)chromium.org> Date: Mon, 2 Aug 2010 14:17:03 -0500 +int efi_partition_by_guid(struct block_device *bdev, efi_guid_t *guid) { Please put the openning brace on a new line. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@v... 3 Aug 2010 15:51

drivers/net/wan/farsync.c: Use standard pr_<level>
From: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Date: Sun, 01 Aug 2010 20:20:17 -0700 Remove locally defined equivalents Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Applied, thanks Joe. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.o... 2 Aug 2010 20:15

USB-serial dummy cable driver
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 08:00:07AM +0200, Marek Vasut wrote: This driver is used to implement USB-serial like behaviour over dummy USB cables. These are used in the following devices: Funsoft Serial USB driver Genesys Logic GL620USB USB Laplink cable HP4x (48/49) Serial cable Motorola phones S... 3 Aug 2010 15:51

vhost-net patchset for 2.6.36
From: "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst(a)redhat.com> Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:32:31 +0300 The following changes since commit 4cfa580e7eebb8694b875d2caff3b989ada2efac: r6040: Fix args to phy_mii_ioctl(). (2010-07-21 21:10:49 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/l... 2 Aug 2010 19:09

Additional fix : (was [v2]printk: fix delayed messages from CPU hotplug events)
On Tue, 29 Jun 2010 14:22:26 +0530 "Shilimkar, Santosh" <santosh.shilimkar(a)ti.com> wrote: Hi, I have faced similar issue as what is being described in below with latest kernel. ------------------------------------------------ https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/103347/ When a secondary C... 4 Aug 2010 12:30

linux-next: manual merge of the staging-next tree with the pcmcia tree
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 01:57:46PM +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Greg, Today's linux-next merge of the staging-next tree got a conflict in drivers/staging/wlags49_h2/wl_cs.c between commits 9b3efec734d2d79d82a6f5cef25a618d41a6b2c5 ("pcmcia: do not use io_req_t after call to pcmcia_request_io()") ... 2 Aug 2010 19:09

[PATCH] perf, powerpc: fsl_emb: Restore setting perf_sample_data.period
Commit 6b95ed345b9faa4ab3598a82991968f2e9f851bb changed from a struct initializer to perf_sample_data_init(), but the setting of the .period member was left out. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood(a)freescale.com> --- arch/powerpc/kernel/perf_event_fsl_emb.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deleti... 2 Aug 2010 19:09

CPU Hotplug add/remove optimizations
Hi, We are trying to use cpu hotplug to turn off a cpu when it is not in use to improve power management. I am trying to optimize the cpu hotplug add and cpu hotplug remove timings. Currently cpu hotplug add takes around 250ms and cpu hotplug remove takes 190 ms. For the current purposes we want to assume ... 6 Aug 2010 17:06

[PATCH 4/4] Checkpatch: warn about unexpectedly long msleep's
As explained in Documentation/timers/timers-howto.txt, msleep's of < 20ms may sleep for as long as 20ms. Caller's of msleep(1) or msleep(2), etc are likely not to expect this quirky behavior - warn them. Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto(a)codeaurora.org> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 7 +++++++ 1 files... 2 Aug 2010 19:09

[PATCH 3/4] Checkpatch: prefer usleep_range over udelay
When possible, sleeping is (usually) better than delaying; however, don't bother callers of udelay < 10us, as those cases are generally not worth the switch to usleep Signed-off-by: Patrick Pannuto <ppannuto(a)codeaurora.org> --- scripts/checkpatch.pl | 8 ++++++++ 1 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 0 deletion... 2 Aug 2010 19:09