Kernel

[PATCH 4/4] add example files to the kernel sample directory
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> This patch add four examples to the kernel sample directory. It shows how to handle: - a byte stream fifo - a integer type fifo - a dynamic record sized fifo - the fifo DMA functions Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> --- samples/Kconfig ... 10 Aug 2010 03:41

[PATCH 3/4] replace the old non generic API
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> This patch simple replace the whole kfifo.c and kfifo.h files by the new generic version and fix the kerneldoc API template file. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> --- Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(... 10 Aug 2010 03:41

[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: Update ARM/S3C patterns
for merged SOCs Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> Cc: Ben Dooks <ben-linux(a)fluff.org> --- MAINTAINERS | 20 +++----------------- 1 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 832f904..13a6d02 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -908,... 10 Aug 2010 03:41

[PATCH 1/4] fix kfifo miss use of nozami.c
From: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> User of the kernel fifo should never bypass the API and directly access the fifo structure. Otherwise it will be very hard to maintain the API. Signed-off-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> --- drivers/char/nozomi.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(... 10 Aug 2010 03:41

Compilation errors on latest git tree
Got the following compilation errors on the latest linus git tree (v.2.6.35-6113-gf6cec0a). CHK include/linux/version.h CHK include/generated/utsrelease.h CALL scripts/checksyscalls.sh CHK include/generated/compile.h VDSOSYM arch/x86/vdso/vdso32-int80-syms.lds VDSOSYM arch/x86/vdso/v... 10 Aug 2010 09:06

[GIT PULL] eCryptfs updates for 2.6.36
Hello Linus, The following changes since commit f6cec0ae58c17522a7bc4e2f39dae19f199ab534: Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 (2010-08-09 21:05:52 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ecryptfs/ecryptfs-2.6.git for-linu... 10 Aug 2010 02:37

vfs series, part 1
Hi Al, On Tue, 10 Aug 2010 04:35:36 +0100 Al Viro <viro(a)ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote: Assorted work from the last cycle; among other things, there's a filesystem API change (->evict_inode() series), a lot of truncate rework stuff (mostly by Chris) and a bunch of fixes. Did you remember to apply the thre... 10 Aug 2010 06:55

[git pull] vfs series, part 1
Assorted work from the last cycle; among other things, there's a filesystem API change (->evict_inode() series), a lot of truncate rework stuff (mostly by Chris) and a bunch of fixes. This is _not_ all; in particular, there's pending freeze/thaw locking rework and I would really like to see inode_lock splitup ... 10 Aug 2010 00:28

sh: remove RELOC_HIDE on exception handlers and syscall routines
2010-08-09 (월), 16:29 +0100, Stuart Menefy: Unfortunately these are necessary, although it is nothing to do with linker relocation. These functions take a struct pt_regs as a parameter (not a pointer), and modify some of the fields of that structure. We needed a way to ensure that gcc didn't optimise away t... 9 Aug 2010 23:24

linux-next: manual merge of the trivial tree with Linus' tree
Hi Jiri, Today's linux-next merge of the trivial tree got a conflict in arch/arm/mach-omap1/board-nokia770.c between commit ab6f7751905e5cf713d081dbb3b97b8f6909ab34 ("Removing dead OMAP_DSP") from Linus' tree and commit 426d31071ac476ea62c62656b242930c17b58c00 ("fix printk typo 'faild'") from the trivial tree. ... 10 Aug 2010 08:00