Kernel

[GIT PULL] nilfs2 fix for 2.6.33
Hi Linus, please pull from: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ryusuke/nilfs2.git for-linus to receive a small bugfix of nilfs2, which corrects a potential data integrity issue on unmount. Thanks! Ryusuke Konishi -- The following changes since commit abe94c756c08d50566c09a65b9c7fe72f83071... 3 Feb 2010 12:51

[RFC PATCH] ARM: Change the mandatory barriers implementation
(I cc'ed LKML as well just in case I got the wrong semantics of the mandatory barriers) The mandatory barriers (mb, rmb, wmb) are used even on uniprocessor systems for things like ordering Normal Non-cacheable memory accesses with DMA transfer (via Device memory writes). The current implementation uses dmb()... 3 Feb 2010 11:42

[PATCH] obsolete config in kernel source (IP_ROUTE_PERVASIVE)
Hi all! As part of the VAMOS[0] research project at the University of Erlangen we're checking referential integrity between kernel KConfig options and in-code Conditional blocks. According to my search CONFIG_IP_ROUTE_PERVASIVE is not defined in any 2.4-2.6 kernel (not #define d and not in KConfig). However... 3 Feb 2010 11:42

Support Pixart Imaging Inc. Optical Touch Screen in Quanta TouchScreen driver
On Tue, 2 Feb 2010, Alex Neblett wrote: Added support for the Pixart Imaging Inc. Optical Touch Screen found in the MSI AE2220 and other new all in one computers to the Quanta Optical Touch dual-touch panel driver found in the latest git clone git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/next/lin... 3 Feb 2010 07:14

tree-wide: fix spelling of 'success'
On Wed, 3 Feb 2010, Daniel Mack wrote: Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel(a)caiaq.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial(a)kernel.org> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster(a)pobox.com> Hi, as you have all the typo fixes at once, could you please condense them into a signle patch and send it to me? It makes more sense to have... 3 Feb 2010 06:09

mxc: Fix Drive Strength Field in the IOMUX controller
On Tue, Feb 02, 2010 at 10:29:50PM -0800, Eric Miao wrote: On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 9:16 PM, Amit Kucheria <amit.kucheria(a)canonical.com> wrote: i.MX51 defines 4 values: 00: Low Drive Strength 01: Medium Drive Strength 10: High Drive Strength 11: Max Drive Strength Signed-off-... 3 Feb 2010 05:03

move user_enable_single_step & co prototypes to linux/ptrace.h
On Tue, Feb 2, 2010 at 13:57, Christoph Hellwig wrote: While in theory user_enable_single_step/user_disable_single_step/ user_enable_blockstep could also be provided as an inline or macro there's no good reason to do so, and having the prototype in one places keeps code size and confusion down. the only ... 3 Feb 2010 03:58

linux-next: build warning after merge of usb tree
Hi Greg, After merging the usb tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) produced these warnings: In file included from drivers/usb/gadget/mass_storage.c:64: drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c: In function 'fsg_setup': drivers/usb/gadget/f_mass_storage.c:623: warning: comparison of distinct pointer... 3 Feb 2010 01:49

SCSI: pm8001: Fix spelling of 'unknown'
Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <daniel(a)caiaq.de> Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial(a)kernel.org> Cc: Junio C Hamano <gitster(a)pobox.com> Cc: Jack Wang <jack_wang(a)usish.com> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley(a)suse.de> --- drivers/scsi/pm8001/pm8001_hwi.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --... 3 Feb 2010 00:43

x86: fix race in create_irq_nr on irq_desc
Race in create_irq_nr(): - Thread 1 loops through and calls irq_to_desc_alloc_node with new=0x66. - Thread 2 has exited the loop with irq=0x66 and calls dynamic_irq_init(0x66) setting desc->chip_data = NULL - Thread 1 then dereferences NULL via desc_new->chip_data->vector Fix by moving holding vector_loc... 3 Feb 2010 23:01