Kernel

UBIFS: Oops while rebooting 2.6.34-rc6
Hi, We've had a kernel Oops today when rebooting an ARM PXA based machine while file I/O via SSH was outstanding. Daniel # reboot # [ 671.190085] UBIFS: un-mount UBI device 0, volume 1 The system is going down NOW! Sent SIGTERM to all processes [ 672.083833] Unable to handle kernel NULL pointer derefere... 5 Jun 2010 08:08

Driver for a SmartCard interface on a SoC
Hi, most SmartCard readers are external devices, connected via USB or serial lines. So, they do not need special in-kernel drivers. My SmartCard interface is part of a SoC (i.MX25 CPU). So, I need an in-kernel driver. Where would be the best place in the kernel tree, to add a driver for this kind of device?... 13 May 2010 07:11

tracing: Remove per event trace registering
"Frederic Weisbecker" <fweisbec(a)gmail.com> wrote: On Mon, May 03, 2010 at 11:40:48PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote: From: Steven Rostedt <srostedt(a)redhat.com> This patch removes the register functions of TRACE_EVENT() to enable and disable tracepoints. The registering of a event is now down directly i... 7 May 2010 10:01

[PULL REQUEST] two small fixes for md for 2.6.34
Hi Linus, please consider pulling these two bug fixes for md for 2.6.34. They are not very serious bugs but can lead to unexpected behaviour and in one case doesn't protect your data quite as much as you would like is certain cases. Thanks, NeilBrown The following changes since commit 722154e4cacf015... 7 May 2010 07:49

Weird timer handler used with LAPIC selected
Hi all, I have configured my kernel (2.6.31.6) so that I get periodic ticks from the timer interrupt (i.e. tickless is not configured) with a rate determined by the HZ value. I have also selected the "Local APIC support on uniprocessors" option so that the LAPIC timer is used as a tick source. The problem is that... 13 May 2010 16:02

ath5k deadlock w/ blob transfer
Hi, Guess, this is better suited in here: - ath5k: when starting a blob transfer eg. ssh summer.jpg to the notebook with the ath5k driver running, the wNIC freezes almost immediately! Dead device. This is unfortunately too easily reproducible. In fact, this is a blocker, wireless blob... 8 May 2010 11:12

gic: Add set_type callback
2010/1/27 <adharmap(a)codeaurora.org>: From: Abhijeet Dharmapurikar <adharmap(a)quicinc.com> Add gic_set_type callback to set an irq as level or edge triggered type Abhijeet, will you pursue this patchset? Else we will pick it up and propose our solution for the U8500 needs which are similar. Yours, ... 7 May 2010 07:49

Check kmalloc return value before use the bigrxbuf_virtual and kfree the bigtxbuf_virtual
Hi. On 07/05/10 20:04, Steven Liu wrote: Check kmalloc return value before use the bigrxbuf_virtual ,when bigrxbuf_virtual is NULL, kfree bigtxbuf_virtual and out Signed-off-by: LiuQi<lingjiujianke(a)gmail.com> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel(a)tuxonice.net> --- arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichi... 7 May 2010 06:43

mn10300: removing redundant ifdef
Jiri Olsa <jolsa(a)redhat.com> wrote: Signed-off-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa(a)redhat.com> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majord... 7 May 2010 06:43

[PATCH 2/2] hwmon: (coretemp) Get TjMax value from MSR
The MSR IA32_TEMPERATURE_TARGET contains the TjMax value in the newer processers. Signed-off-by: Huaxu Wan <huaxu.wan(a)linux.intel.com> --- drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c | 45 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 files changed, 44 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/hwmon/coretemp.c b... 7 May 2010 06:43