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[PATCH 1/9] viafb: VIA Frame Buffer Device Driver
Hi Joseph, On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 1:55 PM, <JosephChan(a)via.com.tw> wrote: Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan(a)via.com.tw> The patch has plento of coding style problems so you probably want to run scripts/checkpatch and re-submit. Is the documentation available somewhere for this device btw? -- To unsub... 7 May 2008 07:28

[Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 1/9] viafb: VIA Frame Buffer Device Driver
Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan(a)via.com.tw> diff -Nur a/Documentation/fb/viafb.txt b/Documentation/fb/viafb.txt --- a/Documentation/fb/viafb.txt 1969-12-31 19:00:00.000000000 -0500 +++ b/Documentation/fb/viafb.txt 2008-05-06 06:46:26.000000000 -0400 @@ -0,0 +1,197 @@ + + VIA Integration Graphic ... 7 May 2008 07:28

[Linux-fbdev-devel] [PATCH 0/9] viafb: VIA Frame Buffer Device Driver
The following patches are VIA frame buffer device driver for VIA UniChrome (Pro) and Chrome9 Families. There are 9 patches which are based on linux kernel 2.6.26-rc1 Any question, please contact me. Thanks. BRs, Joseph Chan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body... 7 May 2008 07:28

[Patch] hfsplus oops on image without extends
hi, the following patch fixes an oops with a corrupted hfs+ image. see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10548 for details. Problem is that we call hfs_btree_open() from hfsplus_fill_super() to set HFSPLUS_SB(sb).[ext_tree|cat_tree] Both trees are still NULL at this moment. If hfs_btree_open() fails f... 7 May 2008 06:40

[PATCH] atmel_lcdfb: fix initialization of a pre-allocated framebuffer
Fix initialization of framebuffer not calling ioremap_writecombine() function and not using internal SRAM for at91sam9rl. This is a little rework of the "Don't initialize a pre-allocated framebuffer" patch that corrects the call to ioremap_writecombine() function. It also cuts the use of internal SRAM for at9... 7 May 2008 05:53

Freezer: Try to handle killable tasks
On Wed 2008-05-07 00:07:55, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> The introduction of TASK_KILLABLE allows the freezer to work in some situation that it could not handle before. Make the freezer handle killable tasks and add try_to_freeze() in some places where it is safe... 7 May 2008 15:04

Freezer: Introduce PF_FREEZER_NOSIG
Hi! From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw(a)sisk.pl> The freezer currently attempts to distinguish kernel threads from user space tasks by checking if their mm pointer is unset and it does not send fake signals to kernel threads. However, there are kernel threads, mostly related to networking, that behave li... 7 May 2008 08:31

possible regression of ptrace on 2.6.26-rc1
Hi, When I tried the test case (ptrace-syscall-ret) on 2.6.26-rc1 kernel, found it always fails, but could pass on previous ones. Here is the result (both in x86 and x86_64 box): [wjhuang(a)10-182-121-27 single-test]$ ./ptrace-syscall-ret ../ptrace-syscall-ret: PTRACE_CONT, pid 17315, retvalue -1: No such pro... 7 May 2008 05:53

[PATCH] perfmon: add context switch hooks for x86
Hello, Here is a first perfmon patch. It provides the following: - minimal perfmon source tree layout with a topdir perfmon for generic code and the x86 arch specific subdir in arch/x86. - the x86 perfmon context switch hooks in switch_to() and related TIF flag for both 32 and 64 bits. ... 7 May 2008 05:06

[RFC][PATCH 1/4] RTC: Class device support for persistent clock
On Wed, 2008-05-07 at 01:40 +0100, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote: +int rtc_update_persistent_clock(struct timespec now) +{ + struct rtc_device *rtc = rtc_class_open(CONFIG_RTC_HCTOSYS_DEVICE); + int err; + + if (rtc == NULL) { + printk(KERN_ERR "hctosys: unable to o... 7 May 2008 04:18