Kernel

[PATCH] DMAENGINE: add a slave buffer prep call
This makes it possible for engines to implement slave transfers to be done to/from a simple kmalloc():ed memory buffer and not just from scatterlists. Cc: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer(a)pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij(a)stericsson.com> --- Sacha: this has similarities to you i.MX setup_single()... 10 Aug 2010 18:01

[GIT PATCH] TTY patches for 2.6.36, try 2
Here's the tty patches for the .36 merge window, with the change that you requested of removing the BLK from the tty layer completly. I pounded on this the past weekend and all looked good with my testing here. Please pull from: master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/tty-2.6.git/ These patches ... 10 Aug 2010 18:01

[PULL REQ] IXP4xx (ARM) for 2.6.36
Linus, This is the stuff which didn't make it to 2.6.35 for some reason. IXP4xx fixes and additional platform support. It's based on 2.6.34-final but merges cleanly and works correctly. Please pull, thanks. The following changes since commit 9fe6206f400646a2322096b56c59891d530e8d51: Linux 2.6.35 (2010-08-0... 10 Aug 2010 18:01

[BUG] USB no longer works for APCUPS
Hi, I'm getting this in my logs with the latest -git7/8/9 kernels. Thw apcups is not defective, it works flawlessly with 2.6.34.X. Aug 10 23:01:44 liesel apcupsd[7687]: apcupsd FATAL ERROR in linux-usb.c at line 609 Cannot find UPS device -- For a link to detailed USB trouble shooting information, please see <... 10 Aug 2010 18:01

Low cache usage, lots of free mem :-(
Hi, I have a weird problem. My free -m output is: root(a)mkslnx002:/proc/sys/vm# free -m              total       used       free     shared    buffers     cached Mem:           987        388        599          0         10        171 ... 10 Aug 2010 16:55

ARM: 2.6.3[45] PCI regression (IXP4xx and PXA?)
Hi, Noticed this problem a bit late :-( 6fee48cd330c68332f9712bc968d934a1a84a32a broke pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() on IXP4xx and most probably PXA. Affected devices are e.g. IDE controller (CS5536-based: disk inaccessible) and e1000 ethernet ("Detected Tx Unit Hang"). The attached patch makes it work agai... 13 Aug 2010 19:03

asm/vga.h (was: Re: drm: Add support for platform devices to register as DRM devices)
On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 01:59, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel(a)vger.kernel.org> wrote: Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/linus/dcdb167402cbdca1d021bdfa5f63995ee0a79317 Commit:     dcdb167402cbdca1d021bdfa5f63995ee0a79317 Parent:     01d73a6967f12fe6c4bbde1834a9fe662264a2eb Author:     Jordan Crouse ... 10 Aug 2010 16:55

char: mxser.c, tty->driver_data is not set, kernel 2.6.33.7
On 08/10/2010 04:21 PM, Alexander wrote: Hello, tty->driver_data is not initialized in drivers/char/mxser.c, so it results in something like this: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 0000007c IP: [<d098753f>] mxser_change_speed+0x1f/0x5e0 [mxser] ... Could you resen... 10 Aug 2010 16:55

hugetlb: move definition of is_vm_hugetlb_page() to hugepage_inline.h
> > +#ifndef _LINUX_HUGETLB_INLINE_H +#define _LINUX_HUGETLB_INLINE_H 1 + Just #define __LINUX_HUGETLB_INLINE_H is fine. No need for the 1 +#ifdef CONFIG_HUGETLBFS + Should be CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE With those corrections; Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel(a)csn.ul.ie> Both fix... 10 Aug 2010 16:55

[PATCH 1/9] perf ui: Shorten ui_browser member names
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <new-submission> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> --- tools/perf/util/newt.c | 36 +++++++++++++------------- tools/perf/util/ui/browser.c | 57 ++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- tools/perf/util/ui/brows... 10 Aug 2010 16:55