Kernel

Add fanotify syscalls to <asm-generic/unistd.h>.
On Wednesday 11 August 2010, Chris Metcalf wrote: Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf(a)tilera.com> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd(a)arndb.de> Since I'm currently travelling, I'd prefer not to create a pull request without having the time for proper testing. Can you send the appropriate pull request together... 13 Aug 2010 00:36

[PATCH] ideapad-laptop: add new driver
ideapad-laptop is a new driver which enable hotkeys on Lenovo Ideapad laptops The driver will bind on ACPI HID:VPC2004. When hotkey pressed, the notify function will be called and query EC to tell which key pressed. Hotkeys enabled listed below: * LCD backlight switch - reports KEY_DISPLAY_OFF * One key rest... 13 Aug 2010 00:36

[PATCH] pxa: fix CI_HSYNC and CI_VSYNC MFP defines
According to PXA3xx Processor Family Developer Manuall Vol1. section "Pin Descriptions and Control", PXA30x and PXA31x Processor Alternate Function Table shows the Alt FN 0 for GPIO51 is CI_HSYNC and for GPIO52 is CI_VSYNC. This patch fixes the MFP defines and also corrects the order of MFD defines. Signed-off-by... 13 Aug 2010 00:36

linux-next: Tree for August 13
Hi all, As the merge window is open, please do not add 2.6.37 material to your linux-next included trees until after 2.6.36-rc1. Changes since 20100812: The ceph tree gained a conflict against Linus' tree. The cifs tree lost its build failure. The ocfs2 tree gained a conflict against Linus' tree. The... 12 Aug 2010 23:32

[PATCH v2 1/3] libcxgbi: common library for cxgb3i and cxgb4i
[PATCH v2 1/3] libcxgbi: common library for cxgb3i and cxgb4i From: Karen Xie <kxie(a)chelsio.com> Extracted common functions to libcxgbi. Signed-off-by: Karen Xie <kxie(a)chelsio.com> --- drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.c | 2658 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ drivers/scsi/cxgbi/libcxgbi.h | 754 +++... 12 Aug 2010 23:32

[PATCH v2 0/3] cxgbi iscsi driver
[PATCH v2 0/3] cxgbi iscsi driver From: Karen Xie <kxie(a)chelsio.com> This patchset includes: 1. added libcxgbi as the common library for both cxgb4i and cxgb3i driver 2. added cxgb4i iscsi initiator v5. 3. changed cxgb3i to use libcxgbi. The version 2 includes the following changes: - Made dbg_level stat... 12 Aug 2010 23:32

blkiocg async: Async queue per cfq_group
Muuhh, I do not understand the motivation behind making cfq_io_context per cgroup. We can extract cgroup id from bio, use that to lookup cgroup and its async queues. What am I missing? On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 8:22 PM, Munehiro Ikeda <m-ikeda(a)ds.jp.nec.com> wrote: This is the main body for async capability of bl... 13 Aug 2010 21:14

platform: Facilitate the creation of pseudo-platform buses
On 08/10/2010 04:49 PM, Patrick Pannuto wrote: (lkml.org seems to have lost August 3rd...) RFC: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1008.0/01342.html v1: http://lkml.indiana.edu/hypermail//linux/kernel/1008.0/01942.html Based on the idea and code originally proposed by Kevin Hilman: http... 12 Aug 2010 21:22

crypto/Kconfig: fix typo
Andy Isaacson <adi(a)hexapodia.org> wrote: algolithm -> algorithm Signed-off-by: Andy Isaacson <adi(a)hexapodia.org> Thanks for the patch, but this line no longer exists in crypto-2.6. Cheers, -- Email: Herbert Xu <herbert(a)gondor.apana.org.au> Home Page: http://gondor.apana.org.au/~herbert/ PGP Key: ht... 12 Aug 2010 21:22

linux-next: build failure after merge of the acpi tree
Hi Len, After merging the acpi tree, today's linux-next build (x86_64 allmodconfig) failed like this: drivers/acpi/debugfs.c: In function 'cm_write': drivers/acpi/debugfs.c:36: error: implicit declaration of function 'copy_from_user' Caused by commit c0b82d427637c7598af5d7926187a7781c03bce8 ("ACPI: introduc... 12 Aug 2010 21:21