Kernel

2.6.35 Regression: Ages spent discarding blocks that weren't used!
On Wed, Aug 4, 2010 at 2:22 PM, Nigel Cunningham <nigel(a)tuxonice.net> wrote: On 04/08/10 22:44, Mark Lord wrote: Looks to me like more and more things are using the block discard functionality, and as predicted it is slowing things down enormously. The problem is that we still only discard tiny b... 7 Aug 2010 19:05

linux-next: build failure after merge of the final tree (cifs tree related)
Hi Steve, After merging the final tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc allyesconfig) failed like this: net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c: In function 'init_dns_resolver': net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c:170: error: implicit declaration of function 'IS_ERR' net/dns_resolver/dns_key.c:171: error: implicit declaration of ... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PATCH 2/2] lp3971: remove redundant checking for count in lp3971_i2c_read()
We already check count value before calling i2c_smbus_read_byte_data(), no need to check it again. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/regulator/lp3971.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c b/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c inde... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PULL] modules
I'm pretty happy with this; there have been no complaints since that initial flurry of fixes. The following changes since commit 3cfc2c42c1cbc8e238bb9c0612c0df4565e3a8b4: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/.../jikos/trivial are available in the git repository at: ... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

PM: Compress hibernation image with LZO
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 13:08 +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: Compress hibernation image with LZO in order to save on I/O and therefore time to hibernate/thaw. Oh, and I'm not on the list, so please CC me if you wish to reply. -- Bojan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kern... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PATCH 1/2] lp3971: remove unnecessary ret value checking in lp3971_i2c_write()
i2c_smbus_write_byte_data() returns zero or negative value, therefore no need to check if ret is greater than zero or not. Signed-off-by: Axel Lin <axel.lin(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/regulator/lp3971.c | 8 +------- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/regulator/lp3971.c b/dr... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PULL] virtio
The following changes since commit 3cfc2c42c1cbc8e238bb9c0612c0df4565e3a8b4: Linus Torvalds (1): Merge branch 'for-next' of git://git.kernel.org/.../jikos/trivial are available in the git repository at: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus.git virtio Christop... 5 Aug 2010 00:31

[PATCH] Documentation/padata.txt: fix typos etc.
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Fix typos & grammar. Use CPU instead of cpu in text. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> Cc: Steffen Klassert <steffen.klassert(a)secunet.com>, Herbert Xu <herbert(a)gondor.apana.org.au>, Dan Kruchinin <dkruchinin(a)acm.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm(a)lin... 4 Aug 2010 23:27

[PATCH 2/2] PM: Compress hibernation image with LZO
Given that hibernation image is compressed, we need the data here and now in order to decompress it, so a flag to read synchronously is redundant (i.e. we always read synchronously). Signed-off-by: Bojan Smojver <bojan(a)rexursive.com> --- kernel/power/power.h | 4 ---- kernel/power/snapshot.c | 5 ---... 4 Aug 2010 23:27

linux-next: manual merge of the tty tree with the kgdb tree
Hi Greg, Today's linux-next merge of the tty tree got a conflict in drivers/char/vt.c between commit be6f9f80724e1684987c486c33c4eb882ba50680 ("vt,console,kdb: automatically set kdb LINES variable") from the kgdb tree and commit 46ca223803ae544fb5460bc81d961244866fcdc4 ("vt: clean up the code - use kernel librar... 5 Aug 2010 12:27