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Documentation update broken web addresses.
On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Justin P. Mattock wrote: any ideas on the status of this? I have now applied it. Please keep in mind, for your future submissions, to make sure that you handle UTF-8 correctly. I had to manually fix your patch for files in Japaneese, Korean and Chineese languages. Thanks, -- Jir... 9 Aug 2010 05:45

CRED: Fix __task_cred()'s lockdep check and banner comment
On 08/03, Linus Torvalds wrote: On Tue, Aug 3, 2010 at 2:34 AM, David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> wrote: A previous patch: � � � �commit 8f92054e7ca1d3a3ae50fb42d2253ac8730d9b2a � � � �Author: David Howells <dhowells(a)redhat.com> � � � �Date: � Thu Jul 29 12:45:55 2010 +0100 � ... 5 Aug 2010 14:40

Fix spelling contorller -> controller in comments
On Tue, 3 Aug 2010, Stefan Weil wrote: Cc: Jiri Kosina <trivial(a)kernel.org> Cc: linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org Signed-off-by: Stefan Weil <weil(a)mail.berlios.de> --- drivers/dma/fsldma.c | 2 +- drivers/net/sh_eth.c | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/... 4 Aug 2010 09:13

[GIT] kbuild: misc changes
Hi Linus, these are the kbuild changes that did not fit anywhere else. The most interesting part is integration of the coccinelle tool into the kernel build, see Documentation/coccinelle.txt for the details. With this, further semantic patches should appear below scripts/coccinelle and not in the changelog messa... 4 Aug 2010 09:13

trivial: fix typo "choosed" -> "chosen"
On Fri, 30 Jul 2010, Uwe Kleine-König wrote: Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <u.kleine-koenig(a)pengutronix.de> --- fs/ext4/mballoc.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ext4/mballoc.c b/fs/ext4/mballoc.c index 12b3bc0..0e83dfd 100644 --- a/fs/ext4/mball... 4 Aug 2010 09:13

[PATCH] [RFC] notify userspace about time changes
Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or ntpd) might want to be notified when some other application changes the system time. It might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between its own and somebody else's time changes. This patch implements a notification interf... 4 Aug 2010 09:13

[GIT] kbuild: packaging
Hi Linus, this is the packaging part. Just a couple of updates to the debian packaging script this time. Michal The following changes since commit 9fe6206f400646a2322096b56c59891d530e8d51: Linux 2.6.35 (2010-08-01 15:11:14 -0700) are available in the git repository at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/... 4 Aug 2010 09:13

[RFC] notify userspace about time changes
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Alexander Shishkin <virtuoso(a)slind.org> wrote: Certain userspace applications (like "clock" desktop applets or ntpd) might want to be notified when some other application changes the system time. It might also be important for an application to be able to distinguish between ... 6 Aug 2010 20:23

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (nfs tree related)
On Wed, 2010-08-04 at 14:54 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote: Hi Trond, After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (sparc defconfig) failed like this: `rpc_destroy_authunix' referenced in section `.init.text' of net/built-in.o: defined in discarded section `.exit.text' of net/built-in.o ... 4 Aug 2010 09:13

[GIT] kbuild: kconfig changes
Hi Linus, this is the kconfig part of kbuild. We have four new *config targets: * oldnoconfig: set all new options to 'n' * listnewconfig: list all unset config options * alldefconfig: set all options to their defaults specified in Kconfig files * savedefconfig: write a defconfig file with only the difference... 4 Aug 2010 09:13