Kernel

scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c Fix warning: value computed is not used
On 3.8.2010 01:16, Justin P. Mattock wrote: The below patch fixes some warning messages Im getting when doing make nconfig make nconfig HOSTCC scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.o scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c: In function 'print_in_middle': scripts/kconfig/nconf.gui.c:170:2: warning: value computed is n... 3 Aug 2010 10:20

[PATCH] ACPI / PM: Traverse video_device_list for backlight restoration
..bind_info in active_list[] is NULL by construction - and used to determine the acpi_video_device pointer during backlight restoration during resume. Using the list instead fixes backlight restoration for systems where the BIOS doesn't do this by itself already. Signed-off-by: Matthias Hopf <mhopf(a)suse.de> --... 3 Aug 2010 07:03

[PATCH 2/2 block#for-2.6.36] bio, fs: separate out bio_types.h and define READ/WRITE constants in terms of BIO_RW_* flags
linux/fs.h hard coded READ/WRITE constants which should match BIO_RW_* flags. This is fragile and caused breakage during BIO_RW_* flag rearrangement. The hardcoding is to avoid include dependency hell. Create linux/bio_types.h which contatins definitions for bio data structures and flags and include it from bio... 3 Aug 2010 07:03

[PATCH 1/2 block#for-2.6.36] bio, fs: update RWA_MASK, READA and SWRITE to match the corresponding BIO_RW_* bits
Commit a82afdf (block: use the same failfast bits for bio and request) moved BIO_RW_* bits around such that they match up with REQ_* bits. Unfortunately, fs.h hard coded RW_MASK, RWA_MASK, READ, WRITE, READA and SWRITE as 0, 1, 2 and 3, and expected them to match with BIO_RW_* bits. READ/WRITE didn't change but BI... 3 Aug 2010 07:03

2.6.35 hangs on early boot in KVM
I have basically built 2.6.35 with make oldconfig from a working 2.6.34. Latter works fine in kvm while 2.6.35 hangs very early. I see nothing after grub (have early printk and verbose bootup enabled), just a blinking VGA cursor and CPU at 100%. Config is attached. Any ideas what options I could toggle to debug... 4 Aug 2010 07:04

[ANNOUNCE] 2.6.33.7-rt29
We are pleased to announce the next update to our new preempt-rt series. Changes from 2.6.33.6-rt28 to 2.6.33.7-rt29: c88417f: Merge stable update Changes from 2.6.33.6-rt27 to 2.6.33.6-rt28: 8a990ab: printk: Restore irqs before calling release_console_mutex() Download locations: http://www.ker... 3 Aug 2010 05:58

Getting error message "Cannot read inode bitmap". Someone able to help?
Manuel Reimer wrote: With my first try (ext2 on target disk) I got the error "Cannot read inode bitmap". The kernel reported this error for the *target* device (the brand new SATA hard drive). I did a second try and reformated the target drive to ext3 and, again, I got the same error. So I installed "sma... 3 Aug 2010 05:58

GFS2: Pull request (merge window)
Hi, Please consider pulling the following patches, Steve. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following changes since commit 540ad6b62b3a188a53b51cac81d8a60d40e29fbd: Merge branch 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwessel/linux-... 3 Aug 2010 05:58

[GIT PULL] UBI changes for 2.6.36
Hi Linus, please UBI changes. The following changes since commit 67a3e12b05e055c0415c556a315a3d3eb637e29e: Linux 2.6.35-rc1 (2010-05-30 13:21:02 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.infradead.org/ubi-2.6.git linux-next Artem Bityutskiy (8): UBI: simplify IO error codes ... 3 Aug 2010 05:58

ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
On Mon, Aug 02, 2010 at 05:09:39PM -0700, Darrick J. Wong wrote: Well... on my fsync-happy workloads, this seems to cut the barrier count down by about 20%, and speeds it up by about 20%. Care to share the test case for this? I'd be especially interesting on how it behaves with non-draining barriers / cache ... 5 Aug 2010 16:55