Kernel

[PATCH 08/13] drivers/block/floppy.c: Remove some unnecessary casting
Remove char/void __user * use Remove kmalloc cast Signed-off-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> --- drivers/block/floppy.c | 11 +++++------ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/block/floppy.c b/drivers/block/floppy.c index 14fefe2..5bad295 100644 --- a/drivers/block/flopp... 27 Jan 2010 16:03

[PATCH] netdev: remove more HAVE_ leftovers
On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 04:32:56PM -0800, David Miller wrote: From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan(a)gmail.com> Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 21:17:27 +0200 On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 05:18:17AM -0800, David Miller wrote: Alexey, please go through at least drivers/net and look at the other stale references t... 27 Jan 2010 16:03

[PATCH 2/5] rt-tests: Separate the #ifdef LIBNUMA_API_VERSION functions.
Separate the #ifdef LIBNUMA_API_VERSION of function rt_numa_numa_node_of_cpu, it is slightly cleaner this way. Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur(a)redhat.com> --- src/cyclictest/rt_numa.h | 13 +++++++++---- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/src/cyclictest/rt_numa.h b/src/cyclicte... 27 Jan 2010 16:03

[PATCH 0/5] rt-tests: rt_numa.h clean-ups, and dependency files
This set of patches are mostly clean-up to our new rt_numa.h file. We need to add a copyright notice in every file for some distributions. This also creates some changes to simplify and clean-up the differences between the code for the older LIBNUMA_API_VERSION and the newer ones. (or at least I hope you will think... 27 Jan 2010 16:03

[PATCH 3/3] [RFC] nmi_watchdog: config option to enable new nmi_watchdog
These are the bits that enable the new nmi_watchdog and safely isolate the old nmi_watchdog. Only one or the other can run, not both at the same time. Signed-off-by: Don Zickus <dzickus(a)redhat.com> --- arch/x86/kernel/apic/Makefile | 7 ++++++- arch/x86/kernel/traps.c | 2 ++ include/linux/nmi.h ... 27 Jan 2010 16:03

checkpatch.pl: remove the 80 charactes punch card limit
The time of 80 characters punch card and terminals are over, so i would be a good thing to set the line length limit to 120. Every display today should be able handle this. Nack. While the origins of 80 character lines dates back to punchcards there is a reason it has survived the test of time. ... 2 Feb 2010 22:11

Disable SR when more than one pipe is enabled
On Wed, 27 Jan 2010 15:19:08 +0530 David John <davidjon(a)xenontk.org> wrote: Self Refresh should be disabled on dual plane configs. Otherwise, as the SR watermark is not calculated for such configs, switching to non VGA mode causes FIFO underrun and display flicker. This fixes Korg Bug # 14897. ... 4 Feb 2010 12:18

[PATCH rt/2.6.31] [RT] kernel/sched.c: Fixup of "implicit declaration of function '_finish_arch_switch'"
From: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin(a)gmail.com> This patch fixes the following error: kernel/sched.c: In function 'finish_task_switch': kernel/sched.c:2979: error: implicit declaration of function '_finish_arch_switch' The following archs have defined their finish_arch_switch: $ grep finish_arch_switch -ur arch/... 27 Jan 2010 10:21

[PATCH 2/2] als: tsl2550: Remove spurious check against a maximum lux value.
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Cameron <jic23(a)cam.ac.uk> --- As Jean Delvare observed, this check is ineffective so lets clear it out whilst we are working on this driver. drivers/als/tsl2550.c | 5 +---- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/als/tsl2550.c b/drivers/als/tsl255... 27 Jan 2010 10:21

+ drivers-block-floppyc-remove-copyin-copyout-and-ecall-macros.patch added to -mm tree
On Wed, 2010-01-27 at 10:43 +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote: On 01/27/2010 01:37 AM, akpm(a)linux-foundation.org wrote: @@ -3145,7 +3136,9 @@ static inline int raw_cmd_copyout(int cm - COPYOUT(*ptr); + ret = copy_to_user((void __user *)param, ptr, sizeof(*ptr)); + if (ret) + return -EFAULT; [] ... 27 Jan 2010 10:21