Kernel

Initcall ordering problem (TTY vs modprobe vs MD5) and cryptomgr problem
On Fri, Aug 06, 2010 at 12:50:04AM -0400, Kyle Moffett wrote: You should also realize that crypto drivers are very much *NOT* in the same situation as most other drivers. Without this test, adding a new crypto hardware driver to the kernel is a completely unsafe operation, because it could completely break... 6 Aug 2010 04:59

drivers/scsi: Adjust confusing if indentation
This should go to Nick Cheng. He would know about the arcmsr driver. regards, dan carpenter On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:19:36PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> Outdent the code following the if. The semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://... 6 Aug 2010 06:04

typo in crypto kconfig ?
While configuring the kernel v2.6.35-3797-gfc1caf6 I read this : .... Cryptographic API (CRYPTO) [Y/m/?] y * * Crypto core or helper * Cryptographic algorithm manager (CRYPTO_MANAGER) [M/y/?] m Run algolithms' self-tests (CRYPTO_MANAGER_TESTS) [Y/n/?] (NEW) and wonder now whether it should be spe... 6 Aug 2010 06:04

arm: msm: Add MSM IOMMU support.
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:36:44PM -0700, Stepan Moskovchenko wrote: +/** + * struct msm_iommu_dev - a single IOMMU hardware instance + * name Human-readable name given to this IOMMU HW instance + * clk Name of the AXI clock used for the config space of this IOMMU + * clk_rate Rate to set for the AXI c... 12 Aug 2010 11:28

[PATCH] tracing: extend recordmcount to better support Blackfin mcount
The mcount call on Blackfin systems includes some stack manipulation around the actual call site, so extend the build time perl script to support this. This way we can avoid doing the calculation at runtime. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier(a)gentoo.org> --- scripts/recordmcount.pl | 7 ++++++- 1 files ... 6 Aug 2010 03:54

drivers/net/bnx2x: Adjust confusing if indentation
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 10:26:38PM +0200, Julia Lawall wrote: --- This patch doesn't change the semantics of the code. But it might not be what is intended. I think there may have been some if statements which were removed before the code was merged into the kernel? Here is another one from that same... 6 Aug 2010 03:54

drm: Fix support for PCI domains
On Fre, 2010-08-06 at 13:55 +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote: (For some reason I thought that went in ages ago ...) This fixes support for PCI domains in what should hopefully be a backward compatible way along with a change to libdrm. When the interface version is set to 1.4, we assume userspac... 12 Aug 2010 21:21

ext4: Don't send extra barrier during fsync if there are no dirty pages.
On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 12:45:04PM -0400, Ted Ts'o wrote: P.S. If it wasn't clear, I'm still in favor of trying to coordinate barriers across the whole file system, since that is much more likely to help use cases that arise in real life. Ok. I have a rough sketch of a patch to do that, and I was going to... 9 Aug 2010 15:41

SATA / AHCI: Do not play with the link PM during suspend to RAM
Hi Tejun, On Thursday 05 August 2010, 18:08:02 Tejun Heo wrote: Can you please try the following patch and see whether the problem goes away? <snip> to which revision does the patch apply? I didn't get it to apply cleanly to Linus' kernel HEAD or the 2.6.34 stable tag. Maybe I am missing something, since... 6 Aug 2010 06:04

kconfig: fix make oldconfig
> [PATCH] kconfig: fix make oldconfig Linus wrote: This seems to make "make oldconfig" a _lot_ more verbose than it used to be. In a very annoying way. I just did a quick git bisect. It's introduced by commit 4062f1a4c030 ("kconfig: use long options in conf") by Sam Ravnborg. Apparently tha... 6 Aug 2010 14:53