Kernel

Missing boot messages with VESAFB after VT initialization
On Sunday 18 April 2010, you wrote: On Sat, 2010-04-17 at 17:18 +0200, Frans Pop wrote: Initially all messages from init scripts are displayed correctly, but after the init script to set up the VT1-VT6 is run, messages from init scripts are no longer displayed. Instead the display is blank with o... 30 Apr 2010 15:08

Considerations on sched APIs under RT patch
On Mon, 2010-04-19 at 22:48 +0200, Primiano Tucci wrote: Yesterday days I found a strange behavior of the scheduler API's using the RT patch, in particular the pthread_setaffinity_np (that stands on sched_setaffinity). I think the main problem is that sched_setaffinity makes use of a rwlock, but rwlo... 20 Apr 2010 16:07

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[PATCH] spi: spidev_test gives error upon 1-byte transfer
The sample application spidev_test.c is using SPI_IOC_MESSAGE ioctl to do an SPI transfer. This ioctl returns the number of bytes successfully transmitted or a negative error code upon erroneous completion. The application however is returning an error if the result of the ioclt if the return value is 1. This make... 20 Apr 2010 16:07

[PATCH] module: drop the lock while waiting for module to complete initialization.
This fixes "gave up waiting for init of module libcrc32c." which happened at boot time due to multiple parallel module loads. The problem was a deadlock: we wait for a module to finish initializing, but we keep the module_lock mutex so it can't complete. In particular, this could reasonably happen if a module doe... 20 Apr 2010 16:07

[GIT]: Sparc
Please pull to get these sparc bug fixes. Including a IRQ tracing trap return blunder I've been tracking down for 2 weeks :-) Thanks! The following changes since commit 13bd8e4673d527a9e48f41956b11d391e7c2cfe0: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/.../anholt/drm-i... 20 Apr 2010 16:07

[PATCH] Mass Storage Gadget: Handle eject request
From: Fabien Chouteau <fabien.chouteau(a)barco.com> Handle eject request + sysfs entries to detect ejected LUN and suspended gadget. Signed-off-by: Fabien Chouteau <fabien.chouteau(a)barco.com> --- drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c | 75 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/usb/gadget/storage_common.c |... 20 Apr 2010 16:07

RCU: don't turn off lockdep when find suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage
On Tue, 2010-04-20 at 16:23 +0800, Lai Jiangshan wrote: One variable per usage, so, Now, we can get multiple complaint when we detect multiple different suspicious rcu_dereference_check() usage. Ah indeed, very nice. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in ... 2 May 2010 01:14

uml: Remove unused variable from line driver
On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 11:53:04PM +0200, Jan Kiszka wrote: Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka(a)web.de> Acked-by: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong(a)gmail.com> --- arch/um/drivers/line.c | 1 - 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/um/drivers/line.c b/arch/um/drivers/line... 20 Apr 2010 16:09

Kmemcheck issue
On 19 April 2010 15:23, naveen yadav <yad.naveen(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi, á á á I áam átrying to á run áKmemcheck on á a áCortex ( ARM-v7) board árunning áLinux 2.6.30.9 At boot-up time, áas ásoon áas áTimer-device is áenabled, á I áfind that á timer ágets ádisabled ábecause ásystem gets spurious á... 20 Apr 2010 16:07