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[Bug #15893] Alps: No edge-scrolling since 2.6.34-rc5
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a summary report of recent regressions. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions from 2.6.33. Please verify if it still should be listed and let the tracking team know (either way). Bug-Entry : http://bugzilla.kernel.org/s... 4 May 2010 19:04

Instant shutdown with startx on 2.6.34-rc6-00106-gd93ac51
Hello folks! I've now seen that sometimes (!) if I startup the system with latest linux-2.6 series kernels that my systems shuts down (i.e. no halt, directly to power off) when I startx. With this kernel I've seen it some minutes ago. The shutdown situation happened after the suspend issues (i.e. rebooted aft... 7 May 2010 16:44

[PATCH] TPM: ACPI/PNP dependency removal
This patch pushes the ACPI dependency into the device driver code itself. Now, even without ACPI/PNP enabled, the device can be registered using the TIS specified memory space. This will however result in the lack of access to the bios event log, being the only implication of such ACPI removal. Signed-off-by: Ra... 4 May 2010 17:58

net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 23:26:31 Stephen Hemminger wrote: The new versions of the rcu_dereference() APIs requires that any pointers passed to one of these APIs be fully defined. The ->br_port field in struct net_device points to a struct net_bridge_port, which is an incomplete type. This commit the... 6 May 2010 10:46

net: Make accesses to ->br_port safe for sparse RCU
On Tue, 4 May 2010 13:19:38 -0700 "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: The new versions of the rcu_dereference() APIs requires that any pointers passed to one of these APIs be fully defined. The ->br_port field in struct net_device points to a struct net_bridge_port, which is an incom... 4 May 2010 17:58

perf: record TRACE_INFO only if using tracepoints and SAMPLE_RAW
Em Tue, May 04, 2010 at 07:06:45PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker escreveu: On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 11:00:05AM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote: From: Tom Zanussi <tzanussi(a)gmail.com> The current perf code implicitly assumes SAMPLE_RAW means tracepoints are being used, but doesn't check for tha... 5 May 2010 00:38

rcu: define __rcu address space modifier for sparse
On Tuesday 04 May 2010 22:19:41 Paul E. McKenney wrote: This patch defines an __rcu annotation that permits sparse to check for correct use of RCU-protected pointers. If a pointer that is annotated with __rcu is accessed directly (as opposed to via rcu_dereference(), rcu_assign_pointer(), or one of their v... 4 May 2010 17:57

vgacon: use request_region(), not request_resource(), to set BUSY
On Tue, 04 May 2010 13:14:11 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa(a)zytor.com> wrote: On 05/04/2010 12:16 PM, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: On Tuesday, May 04, 2010 01:09:46 pm Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, 4 May 2010, Bjorn Helgaas wrote: Drivers normally use request_region() to mark the region busy so it w... 18 May 2010 18:08

[PATCH tip/core/rcu 46/48] kernel: __rcu annotations
From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> This adds annotations for RCU operations in core kernel components Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro(a)ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe(a)oracle.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@... 4 May 2010 16:49

[PATCH tip/core/rcu 24/48] rcu: make SRCU usable in modules
Add a #include for mutex.h to allow SRCU to be more easily used in kernel modules. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs(a)cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> --- include/linux/srcu.h | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/... 4 May 2010 16:49