Kernel

[PATCH 1/6] kconfig: print symbol type in help text
Randy suggested to print out the symbol type in gconfig. Note this change does more than Randy's suggestion, that it also affects the display of help text in other config tools. │ Symbol: BLOCK [=y] │ Type : boolean │ Prompt: Enable the block layer │ Defined at block/Kconfig:4 │ Depends on: EM... 27 Apr 2010 04:19

[PATCH 5/6] xconfig: remove unused function
Remove ConfigInfoView::setSource(). Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc | 28 ---------------------------- scripts/kconfig/qconf.h | 1 - 2 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc b/scripts/kconfig/qconf.cc index 00c5... 27 Apr 2010 04:19

[PATCH 3/6] gconfig: fix to tag NEW symbols correctly
The logic should be reversed. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- scripts/kconfig/gconf.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c index bef1041..1b18329 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfi... 27 Apr 2010 04:19

kconfig: print symbol type in help text
[PATCH 2/6] menuconfig: improive help text a bit Suggested-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- scripts/kconfig/mconf.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/mconf.c index 33f... 2 Jun 2010 10:55

lockdep: Fix redundant_hardirqs_on incremented with irqs enabled
Hi Frederic, On Thu, 15 Apr 2010 15:37:50 +0200 Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> wrote: When a path restore the flags while irqs are already enabled, we update the per cpu var redundant_hardirqs_on in a racy fashion and debug_atomic_inc() warns about this situation. In this particular case... 28 Apr 2010 03:57

Bug in hidraw When a HID Device Contains Multiple Reports
On 04/27/2010 12:34 AM, Alan Ott wrote: Make hidraw not stick an extra byte on the beginning of an IN transfer when a HID device contains multiple reports. .... I have attached a patch which seems to take care of this problem. Please let me know if I have completely misjudged the situation. Nope, your a... 27 Apr 2010 05:25

drivers/mtd/maps: Eliminate use after free
On Fri, 2010-04-02 at 14:47 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Moved the debugging message before the call to map_destroy, which frees its argument. The message is also slightly changed to reflect its new position. A simplified version of the semantic patch that finds ... 27 Apr 2010 04:19

ACPI, APEI support
This patchset adds the APEI (ACPI Platform Error Interface) support to Linux kernel. 01-06 include the basic APEI HEST parsing and EINJ support. They have been posted to mailing list before and get some reviews and ACKs. Changes since the last post are as follow. - Make APEI infrastructure and HEST parsing c... 19 May 2010 23:46

[PATCH 11/12] ACPI, APEI, Error Record Serialization Table (ERST) support
ERST is a way provided by APEI to save and retrieve hardware error record to and from some simple persistent storage (such as flash). The Linux kernel support implementation is quite simple and workable in NMI context. So it can be used to save hardware error record into flash in hardware error exception or NMI h... 27 Apr 2010 03:13

[PATCH 07/12] ACPI Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) support
Hardware Error Device (PNP0C33) is used to report some hardware errors notified via SCI, mainly the corrected errors. Some APEI Generic Hardware Error Source (GHES) may use SCI on hardware error device to notify hardware error to kernel. After receiving notification from ACPI core, it is forwarded to all listene... 27 Apr 2010 03:13