Kernel

Please pull git390 'for-linus' branch
Please pull from 'for-linus' branch of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6.git for-linus to receive the following updates: Documentation/s390/CommonIO | 11 -- arch/s390/Kconfig | 7 + arch/s390/kernel/compat_wrapper.S | 2 +- arch/s390/kernel/entry.S | ... 7 May 2008 04:18

[PATCH] x86: update mptable v2
make mptable to be consistent to acpi routing, so we could 1. kexec kernel with acpi=off 2. workaround BIOS that acpi routing is working, but mptable is not right. so can use kernel/kexec to start other os that doesn't have good acpi support command line: update_mptable v2: add alloc_mptable for mptable t... 7 May 2008 04:18

build issue #493 for v2.6.26-rc1-110-ga153063 :undefined reference to `pnp_get_resource'
the build (.config attached) failed, make ends with : ... CHECK include/video/sisfb.h CHECK include/video/edid.h GEN .version CHK include/linux/compile.h UPD include/linux/compile.h CC init/version.o LD init/built-in.o LD vmlinux drivers/built-in.o: In function... 7 May 2008 04:18

[PATCH] more ZERO_PAGE handling in follow_page()
Rewrote the description of patch. (no changes in the logic.) Thank you for all help. -Kame == follow_page() is called from get_user_pages(), which returns specified user page. follow_page() can return 1) a page or 2) NULL or 3)ZERO_PAGE. If NULL, handle_mm_fault() is called. Now, follow_page() to unused pte ... 7 May 2008 03:31

microblaze_v2: headers for irq
On Sun, 4 May 2008, monstr(a)seznam.cz wrote: From: Michal Simek <monstr(a)monstr.eu> +static inline void hw_resend_irq(struct hw_interrupt_type *h, unsigned int i) +{ + /* Nothing to do */ And used nowhere +} + Thanks, tglx -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-... 7 May 2008 03:31

VFS: introduce writeback_inodes_sb()
On Tue, 6 May 2008 13:35:32 +0300 Artem Bityutskiy <Artem.Bityutskiy(a)nokia.com> wrote: Let file systems to writeback their pages and inodes when needed. This is needed for UBIFS budgeting sub-system because it has to force write-back from time to time. Note, it cannot be called if one of the dirty pa... 7 May 2008 13:25

[PATCH] kbuild: escape meta characters in regular expression in make TAGS
Hi, Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan(a)gmail.com> introduced a code adds menuconfig SOMETHING in Kconfig to tags output when you did "make tags". See http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=80ff26241623875636674a31c0540a78c0fb5433 "make tags" may work fine with his code. However ... 7 May 2008 03:31

RTC: SWARM I2C board initialization
Hi Maciej, On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:40:27 +0100 (BST), Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: (...) 2. The i2c-sibyte.c BCM1250A SMBus controller driver now registers its buses as numbered so that board setup is correctly applied. Plus minor corrections. Minor corrections which would ideally belong to a separ... 7 May 2008 04:18

X86_PAT & mprotect
* Venki Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi(a)intel.com> wrote: There is a hole in mprotect, which lets the user to change the page cache type bits by-passing the kernel reserve_memtype and free_memtype wrappers. Fix the hole by not letting mprotect change the PAT bits. Some versions of X used the mprote... 7 May 2008 15:04

[RFC][PATCH 0/4] RTC: Use class devices as a persistent clock
On Wed, 7 May 2008 01:39:59 +0100 (BST) "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro(a)linux-mips.org> wrote: Hello, While investigating why Linux on the MIPS64 Broadcom BCM91250A board (the SWARM, based on the SiByte BCM1250A SOC) does not support an RTC device anymore I discovered the "wiring" of code to access /... 7 May 2008 02:43