Kernel

transmit timed out on module reload
Hi there. We have a machine here which can trig the following warning if we remove its network module (sis900) and let ifplugd reload it: """ WARNING: at net/sched/sch_generic.c:222 dev_watchdog+0xfa/0x120() Modules linked in: sis900 ip_set fuse af_packet snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_se... 20 Jun 2008 11:12

ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled
* Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Ingo, Can you see if this patch solves your problem? There might be other functions that needs this guard as well, though. I wonder if maybe this test should just be included at the top of every driver that uses ACPI in some way. But I'm pret... 26 Jun 2008 15:39

"r/o bind mounts" patch in 2.6.26-rc6 changes (breaks?) error behaviour
On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 12:16 +0200, Jens Rottmann wrote: I noticed the following change in the error behaviour when attempting to delete nonexisting files/dirs from R/O-mounted directories: Linux 2.6.25.7: rm /RO_mounted_path/nonexisting_file ==> "No such file or directory" Linux 2.6.26-rc6... 20 Jun 2008 12:14

Unify crashkernel reservation for 32 and 64 bit
* Bernhard Walle <bwalle(a)suse.de> wrote: This patch moves the reserve_crashkernel() to setup.c and removes the architecture-specific version. Both versions were more or less the same. famous last words :) can you see any functionality difference between them? If yes, that should be declared. ... 20 Jun 2008 11:12

[PATCH] ACPI: don't walk tables if ACPI was disabled
Hi Ingo, Can you see if this patch solves your problem? There might be other functions that needs this guard as well, though. I wonder if maybe this test should just be included at the top of every driver that uses ACPI in some way. But I'm pretty sure that this lack of initialization is the root of your problem... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

[PATCH] kbuild: sparse needs CF not CHECKFLAGS
Documentation/sparse.txt tells to use: make C=2 CHECKFLAGS="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" However, this still doesn't enable endian checks. The correct syntax is: make C=2 CF="-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__" This documentation bug was introduced by the following commit: commit 1c7bafe7206d928eaccbcbd08d868733e0fb7... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

remove irqs_disabled warning from local_bh_enable
* Johannes Berg <johannes(a)sipsolutions.net> wrote: Subject: clean up and comment local_bh_enable code There's no need to use local_irq_save() over local_irq_disable() in the local_bh_enable code since it is a bug to call it with irqs disabled and do_softirq will enable irqs if there is any pending... 27 Jun 2008 07:00

[PATCH] Unify crashkernel reservation for 32 and 64 bit
This patch moves the reserve_crashkernel() to setup.c and removes the architecture-specific version. Both versions were more or less the same. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle(a)suse.de> --- arch/x86/kernel/setup.c | 61 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/x86/kernel/setup_32.c | 53 --... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

af_unix: fix 'poll for write'/connected DGRAM sockets
From: Rainer Weikusat <rweikusat(a)mssgmbh.com> For n:1 'datagram connections' (eg /dev/log), the unix_dgram_sendmsg routine implements a form of receiver-imposed flow control by comparing the length of the receive queue of the 'peer socket' with the max_ack_backlog value stored in the corresponding sock structure,... 20 Jun 2008 10:11

[RFC 3/3 v2] s390: use virtio_console for KVM on s390
This patch enables virtio_console as the default console on kvm for s390. We currently use the same notify hack as lguest for early console output. I will try to address this for lguest and s390 later. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger(a)de.ibm.com> --- arch/s390/Kconfig | 1 + arc... 20 Jun 2008 10:11