Kernel

[PATCH 1/4] mfd: max8998 - fix incorrect kfree(i2c) in i2c_driver probe callback handler
The i2c_client received in probe() should not be kfree()'d. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/mfd/max8998.c | 4 +--- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/mfd/max8998.c b/drivers/mfd/max8998.c index 0d68de2..73e6f5c 100644 --- a/drivers/mfd/max8998.... 9 Aug 2010 03:35

Today's Linus.git hangs during boot: can't find the floppy controller
On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 01:17:53PM -0700, walt wrote: This commit produces the error: commit 6ee0578b4daaea01c96b172c6aacca43fd9807a6 Author: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha(a)intel.com> Date: Fri Jul 30 14:57:37 2010 -0700 workqueue: mark init_workqueues() as early_initcall() Mark ... 9 Aug 2010 05:45

x86: remove __phys_reloc_hide
Namhyung Kim <namhyung(a)gmail.com> writes: remove unnecessary use of RELOC_HIDE(). It only does simple addition of ptr and offset, and in this case, offset 0, does nothing. It does NOT do anything with linker relocation things. I could find no reason to use it. It's for the benefit of the compiler, we've h... 11 Aug 2010 15:50

Query: Patches break with Microsoft exchange server.
Hello, Mail server in ST has recently changed and now we have Microsoft exchange server. We are using thunderbird as mail client. What we observed with this server is that patch are broken now while sending as well as receiving. Tabs are replaced by spaces and may be some other too which we haven't observed. ... 12 Aug 2010 01:43

[RFC PATCH 1/2] debug_core: move all watch dog syncs to a single function
Move the various clock and watch dog syncs to a single function in advance of adding another sync for the rcu stall detector. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> --- kernel/debug/debug_core.c | 15 +++++++++------ 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/deb... 9 Aug 2010 01:26

MIPS: remove RELOC_HIDE on __pa_symbol
On 08/08/2010 12:57 PM, Namhyung Kim wrote: remove unneccessary use of RELOC_HIDE(). It does simple addition of ptr and offset and in this case (offset 0) does practically nothing. It does NOT do anything with linker relocation. Maybe you could explain in more detail the problems you are having with ... 9 Aug 2010 23:24

sparc: add pdt/of_pdt namespace to pdt code
On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Andres Salomon <dilinger(a)queued.net> wrote: For symbols still lacking namespace qualifiers, add of_pdt to non-static stuff and pdt_ to static names. Don't bother with 2 different prefixes. Just use of_pdt for everything. the static stuff just won't appear in the global na... 9 Aug 2010 01:26

[RFC PATCH 2/2] rcu,debug_core: allow the kernel debugger to reset the rcu stall timer
When returning from the kernel debugger allow a reset of the rcu jiffies_stall value to prevent the rcu stall detector from sending NMI events which stack dumps on all the cpus in the system. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel(a)windriver.com> CC: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar(a)in.ibm.com> CC: Paul E. McKenney <p... 9 Aug 2010 01:26

[RFC PATCH 0/2] RCU stall handler for kernel debugger
The purpose of this short series is to allow the kernel debugger to reset the rcu stall timer when restarting the normal kernel execution so as to prevent the rcu stall timer from issuing NMIs to print stack traces that should be ignored because the kernel went away for a while. --- Jason Wessel (2): deb... 9 Aug 2010 01:26

[PATCH] sparc64: Fix perf_arch_get_caller_regs().
After b0f82b81fe6bbcf78d478071f33e44554726bc81 ("perf: Drop the skip argument from perf_arch_fetch_regs_caller") the build broke on sparc64 due to the lack of a module symbol export of __perf_arch_fetch_caller_regs. But that assembler helper can actually be complete eliminated now that the semantics of this int... 9 Aug 2010 01:26