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Compile error with 2.6.34-rc5+
Hi, While compiling current git HEAD on one of my boxes I got a compile error. Current head is at 1ef6ce7a340f9ed139a73147ff9cf7ad56889414 and the compile error is drivers/built-in.o: In function `raid5_compute_sector': raid5.c:(.text+0x85a36): undefined reference to `__umoddi3' raid5.c:(.text+0x85a67): undef... 23 Apr 2010 17:42

[PATCH] perf-kvm.txt edits
asciidoc does not allow the "===" to be longer than the line above it. Also corrected a couple types and formatting errors. Signed-off-by: William Cohen <wcohen(a)redhat.com> --- tools/perf/Documentation/perf-kvm.txt | 9 +++++---- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/tools/perf/Docum... 23 Apr 2010 17:41

e100: expose broadcast_disabled as a module option
On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 13:14, Erwan Velu <erwanaliasr1(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi folks, I've been facing a very noisy network where hundreds broadcast packets were generated every second. When this traffic can't be controlled at the source, there is a side effect on some systems. I was having some idle... 26 Apr 2010 11:22

i915_do_wait_request BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at (null)
2010/4/23 Toralf F�rster <toralf.foerster(a)gmx.de>: Jesse Barnes wrote at 18:08:57 On Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:24:25 +0200 Zdenek Kabelac <zdenek.kabelac(a)gmail.com> wrote: Hi Just tried to boot current vanilla upstream kernel - and got pretty ugly oops. Here is serial console catch a... 23 Apr 2010 17:41

[PATCH] e100: expose broadcast_disabled as a module option
Hi folks, I've been facing a very noisy network where hundreds broadcast packets were generated every second. When this traffic can't be controlled at the source, there is a side effect on some systems. I was having some idle systems that will never be targeted by this broadcast traffic that got loaded just by ... 23 Apr 2010 17:41

firmware loader: embed device into firmware_priv structure
On Thu, Apr 22, 2010 at 05:01:06PM -0700, Greg KH wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 11:49:29PM -0800, Dmitry Torokhov wrote: Both these structures have the same lifetime rules so instead of allocating and managing them separately embed struct device into struct firmware_priv. Also make sure to delete sys... 23 Apr 2010 21:09

p9auth: add p9auth driver
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:29:08PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: This is a driver that adds Plan 9 style capability device implementation. See Documentation/p9auth.txt for a description of how to use this. Hm, you didn't originally write this driver, so it would be good to get some original authorship inf... 24 Apr 2010 23:49

p9auth: add CAP_GRANT_ID to authorize use of /dev/caphash
On Tue, Apr 20, 2010 at 08:28:15PM -0500, Serge E. Hallyn wrote: Granting userid capabilities to another task is a dangerous privilege. Don't just let file permissions authorize it. Define CAP_GRANT_ID as a new capability needed to write to /dev/caphash. Isn't there some man page that also needs to ... 21 Apr 2010 00:06

irq: Add CPU mask affinity hint callback framework
From: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr(a)intel.com> Date: Sun, 18 Apr 2010 21:57:41 -0700 This patch adds a callback function pointer to the irq_desc structure, along with a registration function and a read-only proc entry for each interrupt. This affinity_hint handle for each interrupt can... 30 Apr 2010 15:08

ehea: error handling improvement
From: Thomas Klein <osstklei(a)de.ibm.com> Date: Mon, 19 Apr 2010 14:08:11 +0200 Reset a port's resources only if they're actually in an error state Signed-off-by: Thomas Klein <tklein(a)de.ibm.com> --- Patch created against 2.6.34-rc4 There are several problems with these patches: 1) They are ... 23 Apr 2010 17:50