Kernel

MEMSTICK: Add driver for Ricoh R5C592 Card reader.
I see two immediate problems with this patch: 1. On cosmetic level, custom debug macros should not be employed. Device core already have this functionality (dynamic debug levels and such). Please, use dev_dbg and friends for print-outs. 2. On a structural level, I'd rather prefer host drivers to not start their... 12 Aug 2010 04:57

MEMSTICK: fix hangs on unexpected device removal in mspro_blk
--- On Tue, 3/8/10, Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky(a)gmail.com> wrote: Now that del_gendisk syncs, we better start rejecting requests right away. I don't quite see why this change is needed. My understanding is, user accessible interface should be marked as removed as early, as possible. Signed-of... 6 Aug 2010 03:54

[ANNOUNCE] TCM/LIO: v4.0.0-rc2 for v2.6.35
Greetings all, TCM/LIO v4.0.0-rc2 for v2.6.35 has been tagged and pushed to lio-core-2.6.git/lio-4.0. The change since -rc1 back on May 19th include the following major items. These include a number of cleanups recommend by hch which have shaved ~1700 LOC off so far: *) Addition of TMR LUN_RESET support to... 4 Aug 2010 03:51

How to track down abysmal performance ata - raid1 - crypto - vg/lv - xfs
Hey, on a production system I run kernel 2.6.35 and XFS (rw,relatime,nobarrier) on a lvdevice of a vgroup consisting of five dm-crypt devices (cryptsetup -c aes-lrw-benbi -s 384 create) , each of which runs on a md-raid1 device (mdadm --create --level=raid1 --raid-devices=2) on two 7... 4 Aug 2010 03:50

Merge kexec-tools into the kernel tree
On Wed, Aug 04, 2010 at 04:06:48PM +0900, Simon Horman wrote: Hi, After all the excitement of relocating kexec-tools from one location on kernel.org to another last week it was suggested to me by Michael Neuling that the merging kexec-tools into the kernel tree would be a good idea. Given that there h... 5 Aug 2010 03:44

2.6.35 vs. 2.6.33: ata_piix does not find any device after piix is loaded
Due to minor glitch in initrd generation I had both IDE and PATA drivers included: {pts/1}% lsmod | grep piix ata_piix 22460 0 libata 193241 4 ata_generic,pata_acpi,ata_piix,ahci piix 5408 1 ide_core 116373 3 ide_cd_mod,ide_pci_generic,piix ... 4 Aug 2010 03:50

new gerneric kfifo API
Hi, once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there is play plan to merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer. Greetings, Stefani -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ker... 4 Aug 2010 03:50

new gerneric kfifo API
On Wed, 04 Aug 2010 09:10:54 +0200 Stefani Seibold <stefani(a)seibold.net> wrote: Hi, once again. Kernel 2.6.35 is out and i want to know if there is play plan to merge the generic kfifo API. All complains was fixed, so there is no reason to shift the merge again. Please gibe me a short answer. S... 5 Aug 2010 05:53

[PATCH] kvm: make mmu_shrink() fit shrinker's requirement
mmu_shrink() should attempt to free @nr_to_scan entries. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c index 9c69725..1034373 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c +++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c @@ -3138,37 +3138,51 @@ static int mmu_shrink(struct shrinker *... 4 Aug 2010 03:50

[rfc] Merge kexec-tools into the kernel tree
Hi, After all the excitement of relocating kexec-tools from one location on kernel.org to another last week it was suggested to me by Michael Neuling that the merging kexec-tools into the kernel tree would be a good idea. Given that there have been a bunch of issues with kexec on power that this would resolve... 4 Aug 2010 03:50