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[PATCH 2/3] perf ui browser: Add routines to compactly specify exit keys
From: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme(a)redhat.com> This makes the usual idiom for specifying a series of key codes to exit ui_browser__run() for specialized processing (search, annotate, etc) or plain exiting the browser more compact. It also abstracts away some more libnewt operations. At some point we'll also ... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

[REGRESSION 2.6.35+] 3D is broken on GeForce 8400M (NV86)
Hi, nouveau drivers used to work flawlessly (well, very slow, and without powermanagment, but otherwise very stable) Now on git master, compiz freezes after few minutes, and no traces in kernel log once that system was able to recover. Note that I had this problem before yesterday pull of NV0C support. Al... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

Upcoming cleanup patches
I am planning to submit to larger cleanup patches soonish. One of them rely on two patches, and I have asked Michal to get them upstream soonish. The first patch is actually a pseudo patch. It is a small script that convert the remaining *defconfig files so they follow the minimal format. I plan to ask Linus to... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

[REGRESSION 2.6.35+] crash (maybe kmemleak related)
I am getting this crash on boot very often on git master of Linus tree. (Note that I use kmemleak, but disable its scan thread using 'echo "scan=off" > /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak' in rc.local. <7>[ 24.438184] wlan0: authenticated <7>[ 24.441687] wlan0: associate with 00:1b:9e:d8:77:02 (try 1) <7>[ 24... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

[GIT PULL] x86/uv for 2.6.36
Hi Linus, Sorry for the late pull request. Ingo and I had a miscommunication -- he had seen failures in x86/uv and I thought he meants that he had excluded *all* of x86/uv. These are the patches that were *not* excluded and thus have had plenty of testing. I will try to have another pull for you hopefully to... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

[REGRESSION 2.6.35+] Pulseaudio fails to work with sound device
Hi, Trying to migrate to git master of kernel tree I see that my sound stopped working. Initially I though a problem in device configuration/detection in kernel driver is the issue, but its not. In just that pulseaudio refuses to work with alsa device. Since today everything is routed through pulseaudio, even a... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

Problem with commit deda2e81961e96be4f2c09328baca4710a2fd1a0
Guys, With the above commit, building an i386 version of the kernel results in the following from the build: kernel/built-in.o: In function `logarithmic_accumulation': /home/finger/linux-realtek/kernel/time/timekeeping.c:715: undefined reference to `__umoddi3' /home/finger/linux-realtek/kernel/time/timekeepin... 13 Aug 2010 08:07

ipc/shm.c: add RSS and swap size information to /proc/sysvipc/shm
On Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:13:45 +0200 Helge Deller <deller(a)gmx.de> wrote: The kernel currently provides no functionality to analyze the RSS and swap space usage of each individual sysvipc shared memory segment. This patch add this info for each existing shm segment by extending the output of /proc/sysvi... 12 Aug 2010 19:11

[tip:x86/uv] x86, UV: Make kdump avoid stack dumps - fix !CONFIG_KEXEC breakage
Commit-ID: 1d6225e8cc5598f2bc5c992f9c88b1137763e8e1 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/1d6225e8cc5598f2bc5c992f9c88b1137763e8e1 Author: Cliff Wickman <cpw(a)sgi.com> AuthorDate: Mon, 9 Aug 2010 16:11:22 -0500 Committer: H. Peter Anvin <hpa(a)linux.intel.com> CommitDate: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 12:23:55 -0700 x86,... 12 Aug 2010 16:59

2.6.36: Sound stop working
My sound card stop to work since a few commits. I tried to bisect it and ended up with this: There are only 'skip'ped commits left to test. The first bad commit could be any of: 3bcf3860a4ff9bbc522820b4b765e65e4deceb3e c1e5c954020e123d30b4abf4038ce501861bcf9f We cannot bisect more! any ideas what to do now? ... 13 Aug 2010 04:53