Kernel

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

BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request
On Tue, 06 May 2008 00:33:04 +0200 thomas(a)m3y3r.de wrote: See also attached config and dmesg: [ 706.684483] BUG: unable to handle kernel paging request at fa4213d8 [ 706.684488] IP: [<f8b9e4f3>] :oprofile:alloc_cpu_buffers+0x39/0xce [ 706.684496] *pde = 00000000 [ 706.684500] Oops: 0002 [#... 7 May 2008 02:43

Add a WARN() macro; this is WARN_ON() + printk arguments
Hi! On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 8:21 AM, Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)infradead.org> wrote: Subject: Add a WARN() macro; this is WARN_ON() + printk arguments From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan(a)linux.intel.com> Add a WARN() macro that acts like WARN_ON(), with the added feature that it takes a printk like argument... 7 May 2008 03:31

Reverting per-cpuset "system" (IRQ affinity) patch (was: Fix cpuset sched_relax_domain_level control file)
On Tue, 2008-05-06 at 22:52 -0500, Paul Jackson wrote: Andrew wrote: Don't worry about it. I sorted out things locally and I expect that Stephen will be able to as well. Ok ... I hesitate more than I should some times to NAQ patches, but the more I think about this one, the less willing I... 7 May 2008 02:43

m68knommu: remove example defconfig
On Wed, May 07, 2008 at 11:25:58AM +1000, Greg Ungerer wrote: Remove the old example m68knommu defconfig. ... Please use KBUILD_DEFCONFIG to define a default defconfig after this. Simply add to arch/m68knommu/Makefile KBUILD_DEFCONFIG := m5208evb_defconfig (replace m5208evb_defconfig with whichever you... 7 May 2008 08:31