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libata updates
On Tue, 6 May 2008, Jeff Garzik wrote: +config PATA_SCH + tristate "Intel SCH PATA support" + depends on PCI + help + This option enables support for Intel SCH PATA on the Intel + SCH (US15W, US15L, UL11L) series host controllers. + + If unsure, say N. I think it would generall... 6 May 2008 23:27

ACPI: kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from freed memory (f7c12ec6)
Hi, Running kmemcheck on top of v2.6.26-rc1 gives the following (never before seen) warning: Linux Plug and Play Support v0.97 (c) Adam Belay pnp: PnP ACPI init ACPI: bus type pnp registered kmemcheck: Caught 16-bit read from freed memory (f7c12ec6) Pid: 1, comm: swapper Not tainted (2.6.26-rc1-00010-g7966... 7 May 2008 15:53

[patch 8/8] guest page hinting light
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> Use the existing arch_alloc_page/arch_free_page callbacks to do the guest page state transitions between stable and unused. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> --- arch/s390/Kconfig | 7 +++ arch/s390/mm/Makefile | ... 6 May 2008 23:27

[patch 7/8] tty3270: fix put_char fail/success conversion.
From: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens(a)de.ibm.com> The wrong function got coverted ;) CC drivers/s390/char/tty3270.o drivers/s390/char/tty3270.c:1747: warning: initialization from incompatible pointer type Cc: Alan Cox <alan(a)redhat.com> Cc: Peter Oberparleiter <peter.oberparleiter(a)de.ibm.com> Signed-... 6 May 2008 23:27

[patch 0/8] s390 patches for 2.6.26-rc1
The current s390 patch queue for 2.6.26-rc1. The most interesting patch is the guest page hinting patch for unused pages. It is purely s390 so it should be fine to push this even after -rc1, no? Christian Borntraeger (1): [S390] s390-kvm: leave sie context on work. Removes preemption requirement Heiko Ca... 6 May 2008 23:27

SWARM IDE: Fix up following changes to ide_hwif_t
On Tuesday 06 May 2008, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: Following recent changes to ide_hwif_t update the SWARM IDE driver to use hw_regs_t to initialize port mapping. Plus minor layout adjustments along the lines of other drivers. Signed-off-by: Maciej W. Rozycki <macro(a)linux-mips.org> thanks, applied ... 6 May 2008 23:27

[patch 5/8] s390mach compile warning
From: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> Fix the following compile warning: drivers/s390/s390mach.c: In function 's390_collect_crw_info': drivers/s390/s390mach.c:77: warning: ignoring return value of 'down_interruptibl Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> --- drivers/s390/s... 6 May 2008 23:27

make ide-iops.c:SELECT_MASK() static
On Monday 05 May 2008, Adrian Bunk wrote: SELECT_MASK() can now become static. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk(a)kernel.org> 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 majordomo info at http://vger.kernel... 6 May 2008 23:27

[patch 6/8] compat ptrace cleanup
From: Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com> This removes redundant arch code for generic ptrace requests already handled by ptrace_request and compat_ptrace_request. It simplifies things to just have the standard entry points, and use the generic compat_sys_ptrace. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland(a)redhat.com... 6 May 2008 23:27

[patch 4/8] cio: Fix parsing mechanism for blacklisted devices.
From: Michael Ernst <mernst(a)de.ibm.com> New format cssid.ssid.devno is now parsed correctly. Signed-off-by: Michael Ernst <mernst(a)de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky(a)de.ibm.com> --- drivers/s390/cio/blacklist.c | 324 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 170 i... 6 May 2008 23:27