Kernel

Staging: asus_oled: asus_oled.c removed an unnessecary space, making it checkpatch clean
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 01:01:09PM +0000, Gunnar Gudvardarson wrote: This is the first linux kernel patch i have ever made, i don't even know the C programming language except reading the syntax (basic) Then I would strongly encourage you to either learn it, or not modify the code. It didn't compile on m... 9 Apr 2010 14:30

flex_array: fix the panic issue when calling flex_array_alloc() without __GFP_ZERO
On Fri, 9 Apr 2010, Changli Gao wrote: fix the panic issue when calling flex_array_alloc() without __GFP_ZERO. memset is called with the wrong address, then kernel panics. Signed-off-by: Changli Gao <xiaosuo(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes(a)google.com> -- To unsubscribe from this li... 9 Apr 2010 13:23

Users of GNU Linux are treated as pigs by ?maintainer, Theodore Ts'o
jing zhang <zj.barak(a)gmail.com> wrote: Then please read Ted'd email. [snipped 'own goal' attempt for public humiliation] Condrates on figuratively 'curling' one out on the rug in public view. Also, please remember to pick up your toys on the way out... Cheers -- Alexander Clouter ..sigmons... 9 Apr 2010 13:23

rcu: fix syntax error in rcu_dereference_check() example in comment
On Fri, Apr 09, 2010 at 10:17:17AM +0100, David Howells wrote: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: Need a logical "or" rather than a comma. Suggested-by: Yong Zhang <yong.zhang(a)windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> I'm surprised y... 9 Apr 2010 13:23

uio_pci_generic: extensions to allow access for non-privileged processes
On Friday 09 April 2010 02:58:19 am Avi Kivity wrote: On 04/02/2010 08:05 PM, Greg KH wrote: Currently kvm does device assignment with its own code, I'd like to unify it with uio, not split it off. Separate notifications for msi-x interrupts are just as useful for uio as they are f... 9 Apr 2010 13:23

frv: remove "struct file *" argument from sysctl ->proc_handler
On Fri, Apr 9, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Jan Blunck <jblunck(a)suse.de> wrote: Seems that Alexey Dobriyan missed this usage of the file argument when removing it from ->proc_handler in commit 8d65af789f3e2cf4cfbdbf71a0f7a61ebcd41d38. It wasn't missed, it was deliberately left out because I didn't understand what's going... 9 Apr 2010 13:23

[GIT PULL] please pull infiniband.git
Linus, please pull from git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband.git for-linus This will get a few small fixes that have trickled in: Chien Tung (1): RDMA/nes: Correct cap.max_inline_data assignment in nes_query_qp() Dan Carpenter (1): IB/mlx4: Check correct variable... 9 Apr 2010 13:23

intel-iommu: Don't call domain_exit if can not attach with iommu
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 19:58 +0100, Yinghai Lu wrote: --- a/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c +++ b/drivers/pci/intel-iommu.c @@ -1853,7 +1853,7 @@ static struct dmar_domain *get_domain_for_dev(struct pci_dev *pdev, int gaw) ret = iommu_attach_domain(domain, iommu); if (ret) { - ... 9 Apr 2010 12:16

lockdep, mutex: Provide mutex_lock_nest_lock
On 04/08/2010 03:17 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote: Provide the mutex_lock_nest_lock() annotation. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra<a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> Reviewed-by: Rik van Riel <riel(a)redhat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo... 9 Apr 2010 12:16

pci/dmar: remove the noisy print out about unmapping
On Thu, 2010-04-08 at 19:58 +0100, Yinghai Lu wrote: it seems this one should be removed. because map page does not have this annonyed print out. It's debug output... I'd be more inclined to add it in map_page() than remove it from here. -- David Woodhouse Open Source Technolog... 9 Apr 2010 12:16