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drivers/net/wireless/libertas: Adjust confusing if indentation
On Thu, 2010-08-05 at 22:23 +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> At the point of the patched code, err has already been tested, so it is only worthwhile to test it again in the if branches where it is changed. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (htt... 5 Aug 2010 18:03

[GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.36
Here's the tty patches for the .36 merge window. This contains the big BKL removal of the tty layer, which has been worked on now for a long time by Alan and Arnd. Other than that, there's a few new serial drivers, and minor changes around the tty area. Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kern... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

[GIT PULL] Initial Tegra ARM support
Hi Linus, The following changes since commit 9fe6206f400646a2322096b56c59891d530e8d51: Linus Torvalds (1): Linux 2.6.35 are available in the git repository at: git://android.kernel.org/kernel/tegra.git for-linus This code has received review on linux-arm-kernel and has been in for-next since ... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

drivers/net/ixgbe: Adjust confusing if indentation
On Thu, Aug 5, 2010 at 13:19, Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Both ifs and assignments to autoc seem similar enough that they are both put in the if branch indicated by their indentation. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccin... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

drivers/mmc/host: Adjust confusing if indentation
On Thursday 05 August 2010 22:19:52 Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> .... Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Acked-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa(a)cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Good catch. --- drivers/mmc/host/imxmmc.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff ... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

drivers/media/video/bt8xx: Adjust confusing if indentation
On Thursday 05 August 2010 22:51:12 Luca Tettamanti wrote: diff --git a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c index 685d659..695765c 100644 --- a/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c +++ b/drivers/media/video/bt8xx/bttv-i2c.c @@ -123,7 +123,7 @@ bttv_i2c_wa... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

i2c: cyttsp i2c and spi touchscreen driver init submit
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 02:15:44AM +0530, Trilok Soni wrote: + +/* ************************************************************************ + * The cyttsp_xy_worker function reads the XY coordinates and sends them to + * the input layer. It is scheduled from the interrupt (or timer). + * *****... 9 Aug 2010 21:13

drivers/media/video/bt8xx: Adjust confusing if indentation
From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Indent the branch of an if. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @r disable braces4@ position p1,p2; statement S1,S2; @@ ( if (...) { ... } | if (...) S1(a)p1 S2(a)p2 ) @script:python@ p1 << r.p1; p2 << ... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

Performance impact of CONFIG_DEBUG? direct-io test case
How large is the performance impact of CONFIG_DEBUG? Well, for the test workload I've been working with lately, dd if=<device> of=/dev/zero bs=8k count=100000 iflag=direct where <device> is a dm-crypted LVM volume consisting of several partitions on a notebook pata harddisk, I get the following results: 1)... 5 Aug 2010 18:02

Performance impact of CONFIG_SCHED_MC? direct-io test case
How large is the performance impact of CONFIG_SCHED_MC -- for which there is a warning that it comes "at a cost of slightly increased overhead in some places."? Well, for the test workload I've been working with lately, dd if=<device> of=/dev/zero bs=8k count=100000 iflag=direct where <device> is a dm-crypted... 5 Aug 2010 18:02