Kernel

[04/11] md/raid10: fix deadlock with unaligned read during resync
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: NeilBrown <neilb(a)suse.de> commit 51e9ac77035a3dfcb6fc0a88a0d80b6f99b5edb1 upstream. If the 'bio_split' path in raid10-read is used while resync/recovery is happening it is possible to deadlock. Fix this... 11 Aug 2010 20:15

[009/111] PCI: disable MSI on VIA K8M800
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> commit 549e15611b4ac1de51ef0e0a79c2704f50a638a2 upstream. MSI delivery from on-board ahci controller doesn't work on K8M800. At this point, it's unclear whether the culprit is ... 11 Aug 2010 20:15

[001/111] ata_piix: fix locking around SIDPR access
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Tejun Heo <tj(a)kernel.org> commit 213373cf974fe69e78ec894b07f45ae2f5a3a078 upstream. SIDPR window registers are shared across ports and as each access is done in two steps, accesses to different ports und... 11 Aug 2010 20:15

[09/11] xen: drop xen_sched_clock in favour of using plain wallclock time
2.6.27-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy.fitzhardinge(a)citrix.com> commit 8a22b9996b001c88f2bfb54c6de6a05fc39e177a upstream. xen_sched_clock only counts unstolen time. In principle this should be useful to the Linux ... 11 Aug 2010 20:14

[003/111] nvram: Fix write beyond end condition; prove to gcc copy is safe
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)zytor.com> commit a01c7800420d2c294ca403988488a635d4087a6d upstream. In nvram_write, first of all, correctly handle the case where the file pointer is already beyond the end; we shoul... 11 Aug 2010 20:14

[027/111] USB: option: Huawei ETS 1220 support added
2.6.32-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. ------------------ From: Pavel Kazlou <p.i.kazlou(a)gmail.com> commit b972302b0a13aaddc9e90da2b4b52722e5d0e776 upstream. The patch adds Huawei ETS 1220 product id into the list of supported devices in 'option' usb serial driver. ... 11 Aug 2010 20:14

[[PATCH 05/11]] viafb: enable second display channel at central place
viafb: enable second display channel at central place Move the enabling of the second display channel to the generic output routing function and do it exactly if something is using it. This unifies a zoo of variants how to do it and does no longer disable it if LCD is not on the second display which is much saner... 11 Aug 2010 20:14

[00/11] 2.6.27.51-stable review
This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.27.51 release. There are 11 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a Signed-off-by: lin... 11 Aug 2010 20:14

Problems Compile Misc Module Example
Hello everyone, I'm studying how to build kernel modules. Right now I have found some strange errors and nothing solutions in the web. I compiled my kernel module "driver_ase" whose files are driver_ase.h, driver_ase.c. No errors in compilation, the module is also loaded correctly. I wrote a small service "... 12 Aug 2010 13:40

mmotm 2010-08-11-16-10 uploaded
The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2010-08-11-16-10 has been uploaded to http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ and will soon be available at git://zen-kernel.org/kernel/mmotm.git It contains the following patches against 2.6.35: origin.patch kernel-kfifoc-add-handling-of-chained-scatterlists.patch ac... 11 Aug 2010 20:14