O_NONBLOCK is NOOP on block devices
I'm not sure who is working on block io these days, but hopefully an active developer can steer this feedback toward folks who are as interested in io performance as I am :-) I've spent the last several years or so developing a user space distributed storage system and I've recently gotten down to some io perfor... 11 Mar 2010 03:28
sch_gpio: fix compilation warning "ignoring return value of gpiochip_remove"
Signed-off-by: Denis Turischev <denis(a)compulab.co.il> --- drivers/gpio/sch_gpio.c | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++---- 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/gpio/sch_gpio.c b/drivers/gpio/sch_gpio.c index 761071a..a89c02d 100644 --- a/drivers/gpio/sch_gpio.c +++ b/drivers/gpio/sc... 3 Mar 2010 05:09
[tip:x86/mrst] x86, mrst: Remove X86_MRST dependency on PCI_IOAPIC
Commit-ID: d8111cd91abee016d62b401e057fee66ba80be67 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/d8111cd91abee016d62b401e057fee66ba80be67 Author: Jacob Pan <jacob.jun.pan(a)linux.intel.com> AuthorDate: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 09:19:28 -0800 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> CommitDate: Tue, 2 Mar 2010 18:15:05 -0800 ... 3 Mar 2010 05:09
cassini: fix off by one
From: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> Date: Wed, 3 Mar 2010 11:22:41 +0300 There are only 6 link_modes. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> Applied. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More ma... 3 Mar 2010 10:40
more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation)
Russell, On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:30:11AM +0000, Russell King wrote: On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 08:59:44AM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote: Please pull from that location insofar as you agree to continue with the deprecation of the PCMCIA ioctl. Otherwise, I can prepare a branch _without_ this contro... 13 Mar 2010 02:08
Explicitly ignore unused return value of _hfcpci_softirq
On Wed, Mar 03, 2010 at 11:00:53AM +1100, imunsie(a)au1.ibm.com wrote: From: Ian Munsie <imunsie(a)au.ibm.com> The compiler throws the following warning during compilation: drivers/isdn/hardware/mISDN/hfcpci.c:2319: warning: ignoring return value of 'driver_for_each_device', declared with attribute warn_un... 3 Mar 2010 04:04
[git pull] more PCMCIA updates for 2.6.34 (including ioctl deprecation)
Linus, a few more PCMCIA patches for 2.6.34 are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/brodo/pcmcia-2.6.git master The diffstat and list of changes is below, the individual diffs are sent (at least) to the linux-pcmcia list. This patchset includes one controversial ... 3 Mar 2010 04:04
[RFC][PATCH] init: Open /dev/console from rootfs
To avoid potential problems with an empty /dev open /dev/console from rootfs instead of waiting to mount our root filesystem and mounting it there. This effectively guarantees that there will be a device node, and it won't be on a filesystem that we will ever unmount, so there are no issues with leaving /dev/co... 3 Mar 2010 04:04
verifying whitespace patches don't change anything was Re: [PATCH] Staging:rtl8192e: fix comments
On Thu, Feb 18, 2010 at 08:05:47AM -0800, Greg KH wrote: On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 04:35:16PM +0000, tim(a)weberpafrica.com wrote: From: Tim Schofield <tim.schofield1960(a)googlemail.com> --- drivers/staging/rtl8192e/r8180_93cx6.c | 22 ++++++++++++++-------- 1 files changed, 14 insertions(+),... 3 Mar 2010 02:58
[PATCH 1/2] perf trace/scripting: remove extraneous header read
perf_header__read() is already done in perf_session__open(), so remove it from the script gen case. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi(a)gmail.com> --- tools/perf/builtin-trace.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c b/tools/perf/builtin-trace.c i... 3 Mar 2010 02:58