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checkincludes: fix perlcritic warnings
This looks fine, but your $subject needs to be fixed. Thanks. -- 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/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ ... 20 Feb 2010 02:34

checkstack: fix perlcritic warnings
Stephen Hemminger wrote: Turn on strict checking. Get rid of prototypes (prototypes are broken in Perl) NAK, please check perldoc of sort(). The prototype there is needed by sort(). Fix syntax of declaration. Yeah, this is fine. BTW, your $subject needs to be fixed too. -- To unsubscribe from thi... 19 Feb 2010 22:12

get_maintainer: use references and closures
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 23:01 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: if (!$printed_novcs) { - warn("$P: No supported VCS found. Add --nogit to options?\n"); - warn("Using a git repository produces better results.\n"); - warn("Try Linus Torvalds' latest git repository using:\n"); - warn("git clone git://git.... 19 Feb 2010 22:12

get_maintainer: fix perlcritic warnings
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 23:01 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: This patch fixes most of the warnings in the get_maintainer script. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger(a)vyatta.com> Thanks Stephen. Acked-by: Joe Perches <joe(a)perches.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe li... 19 Feb 2010 22:12

get_maintainer: quote email address with period
On Thu, 2010-02-18 at 23:01 -0800, Stephen Hemminger wrote: plain text document attachment (get-maintainer-vger.patch) Picky mail systems won't accept email addresses where recipient has period in name; ie. David S. Miller <davemloft.net> will not work. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger(a)vyatt... 19 Feb 2010 22:12

git ignore *.builtin generated file
On Fri, Feb 19, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Jerome Glisse <jglisse(a)redhat.com> wrote: This patch makes git ignore any *.builtin file (best patch of the year) Signed-off-by: Jerome Glisse <jglisse(a)redhat.com> Sorry, besides "modules.builtin", what other builtin files did you see? We already exclude "modules.builtin"... 25 Feb 2010 05:50

Firmware versioning best practices II
Last year, with the help of the community we at Atheros opened up the first (to my knowledge) firmware for a device driver used on the Linux kernel. The community has been advancing the firmware and making changes and even an alternative driver with more features is being baked. We hadn't dealt with open firmware b... 23 Feb 2010 02:28

[GIT]: Networking
Some stragglers. I know it's late but I really would be remiss to not submit the sysctl fixes. 1) When we fixed a deadlock on the RTNL lock, when writing to forwarding control sysctl values while at the same time removing a device, we added a new bug. The commit was 9b8adb5ea005 ("net: Fix devinet_s... 19 Feb 2010 21:06

mm: Share the anon_vma ref counts between KSM and page migration
On 02/19/2010 04:58 PM, Mel Gorman wrote: external_refcount is about as good as I can think of to explain what's going on :/ Sounds "good" to me. Much better than giving the wrong impression that this is the only refcount for the anon_vma. -- All rights reversed. -- To unsubscribe from this list: se... 19 Feb 2010 19:59

[PATCH 17/24] Rename .text.reset to .text..reset.
Signed-off-by: Denys Vlasenko <vda.linux(a)googlemail.com> --- arch/avr32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/avr32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S b/arch/avr32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S index 9cd2bd9..5d7fe57 100644 --- a/arch/avr32/kernel/vmlinux.lds.S +++ b/arch... 19 Feb 2010 19:59