Kernel

V4L/DVB fixes, crash in af9005_usb_module_init()
* Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab(a)redhat.com> wrote: Hi Ingo, On Fri, 26 Dec 2008 10:02:20 +0100 Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> wrote: Please test the enclosed patch. thanks Mauro - i've reverted all my local drivers/media/dvb/ hacks (see them below) and applied your fix, and st... 26 Dec 2008 08:47

[PATCH 5/5] VFS: DazukoFS, stackable-fs, file access control
Patch 5: Creates /dev/dazukofs.ign as an (optional) mechanism for any processes to hide themselves from DazukoFS file access control. Patched against 2.6.28-rc9. Signed-off-by: John Ogness <dazukocode(a)ogness.net> --- Documentation/filesystems/dazukofs.txt | 24 ++ fs/dazukofs/Makefile ... 21 Dec 2008 10:55

dmaengine: introduce dma_request_channel and private channels
Guennadi Liakhovetski : Another problem I encountered with my framebuffer is the initialisation order. You initialise dmaengine per subsys_initcall(), whereas the only way to guarantee the order: dmaengine dma-device driver framebuffer when they are all linked into the kernel was to switc... 2 Dec 2008 12:31

ERROR 'syntax error' at token 'typeattribute'
After spending a few days trying to load the latest refpolicy,I decided to do a git-pull, so after loading everything seems pretty good, except I now receive a syntax error when compiling the refpolicy policy/modules/apps/yam.te":11:ERROR 'syntax error' at token 'typeattribute' on line 2615741: #line 11 ... 1 Dec 2008 21:43

[PATCH 13/18] ide-disk: factor out generic disk handling code to ide-gd.c
While at it: - IDEDISK_VERSION -> IDE_GD_VERSION - ide_cacheflush_p() -> ide_disk_flush() - init_idedisk_capacity() -> ide_disk_init_capacity() - idedisk_set_doorlock() -> ide_disk_set_doorlock() - idedisk_setup() -> ide_disk_setup() - ide_disk_capacity() -> ide_gd_capacity() - ide_disk_remove() -> ide_gd_remo... 7 Sep 2008 18:50

init: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT requires explicit root= param
On Monday 01 September 2008, Tejun Heo wrote: DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT shuffles SCSI and IDE device numbers and root device number set using rdev become meaningless. Root devices should be explicitly specified using textual names. Warn about it if root can't be found and DEBUG_BLOCK_EXT_DEVT is enabled. Also... 1 Sep 2008 13:08

scalable classic RCU implementation
* Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: +#define MAX_RCU_LEVELS 3 +#if NR_CPUS <= CONFIG_RCU_FANOUT +#define NUM_RCU_LEVELS 1 +#define NUM_RCU_LEVEL_1 1 +#define NUM_RCU_LEVEL_2 NR_CPUS +#define NUM_RCU_LEVEL_3 0 +#define NUM_RCU_LEVEL_4 0 +#define NUM_RCU_NODES NUM_RCU_LEVEL_... 27 Aug 2008 17:42

Keyboard Jammed error patch 2.4.35-pre4
Hello! The changes that were made on 04-25-2007 as "[PATCH 2.4.35-pre4] fix 'pc_keyb: controller jammed (0xA7)' error" have broken the ability to compile with no keyboard and no VT support. This mainly affects Cobalt machines which do not have dmi present as these use a flashrom to boot with and not a typical... 30 Jul 2008 07:10

What to do with `kswapd0: page allocation failure. ` ?
Hello, Found a few of these logged. See below. What are they? Harmfull? Bug? Kind regards, Udo Jul 20 18:39:03 testboard kernel: kswapd0: page allocation failure. order:2, mode:0x20 Jul 20 18:39:03 testboard kernel: Pid: 235, comm: kswapd0 Not tainted 2.6.25.6 #8 Jul 20 18:39:03 testboard kernel: Jul ... 27 Jul 2008 02:18

[PATCH net-next] atl1e: Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet driver
From: Jie Yang <jie.yang(a)atheros.com> Full patch for the Atheros L1E Gigabit Ethernet driver. Supportring AR8121, AR8113 and AR8114 Signed-off-by: Jie Yang <jie.yang @atheros.com> --- update on comments: 1) Remove dup MACRO already defined in linux/ethtool.h 2) Remove pci_using_64 logic for the reason as a... 18 Jul 2008 00:03