Kernel

Accessors for mm locking
On Thu, 5 Nov 2009, Andi Kleen wrote: My assumption was that a suitable scalable lock (or rather multi locks) would need to know about the virtual address, or at least the VMA. As in doing range locking for different address space areas. Not sure why the address would matter. The main problem right now is... 17 Nov 2009 02:52

added brightness feature to lcd class.
On Mon 2009-11-02 17:50:02, InKi Dae wrote: This patch adds brightness feature to lcd class. (kernel/driver/video/backlight/lcd.c) In the past, most of the lcd panels for embedded system was TFT-LCD Panel needing backlight device. But now AMOLED LCD Panel appeared so we should consider brightness ... 12 Nov 2009 22:59

rt2x00: add driver private field to struct rt2x00_dev
On Wednesday 04 November 2009, Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz wrote: From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier(a)gmail.com> Subject: [PATCH] rt2x00: add driver private field to struct rt2x00_dev Enhance rt2x00 infrastructure by adding driver specific field to struct rt2x00_dev. The new field will be use... 6 Nov 2009 13:40

mcp23008, gpio chip
Hi, all! In my development board, which ix custom and based on PXA270, I have GPIO extender chip mcp23008, which is I2C-based and 8-bit wide. I see drivers/gpio/mcp23s08.c, which is a driver for SPI version of this chip. Is there any ongoing work on making a driver for I2C part? All the best, S. -- To ... 5 Nov 2009 13:23

[PATCH 1/5] net/appletalk: push down BKL into a atalk_dgram_ops
Making the BKL usage explicit in appletalk makes it more obvious where it is used, reduces code size and helps getting rid of the BKL in common code. I did not analyse how to kill lock_kernel from appletalk entirely, this will involve either proving that it's not needed, or replacing with a proper mutex or spinl... 5 Nov 2009 13:23

x86-microcode: refactor microcode output messages
The patches don't properly work here. (1) For instance I got following log entries when doing suspend/resume, doing CPU offline/online test and reloading the module: microcode: original microcode versions... microcode: CPU0-3: patch_level=0x1000065 platform microcode: firmware: requesting am... 12 Nov 2009 12:52

[loongson] add basic fuloong2f support
On Wed, Nov 04, 2009 at 05:05:47PM +0800, Wu Zhangjin wrote: diff --git a/arch/mips/loongson/fuloong-2f/irq.c b/arch/mips/loongson/fuloong-2f/irq.c new file mode 100644 index 0000000..22c45fd --- /dev/null +++ b/arch/mips/loongson/fuloong-2f/irq.c @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +/* + * Copyright (C) 2007 L... 6 Nov 2009 05:57

An assortment of TuxOnIce resume panics on a Radeon KMS-running system in 2.6.31.5, lzo-related?
I'm not quite sure where to send these. LKML may not be interested 'cos TuxOnIce is out-of-tree. The tuxonice list may not be interested because these panics don't look like they're in the tuxonice code. It might be an lzo compressor bug, or even a RAM fault intermittently revealed by lzo compressor bugs yet oddly ... 5 Nov 2009 14:31

[PATCH] staging: RTL8192SU depends on USB
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> USB device driver needs to depend on USB to prevent build errors: ERROR: "usb_kill_urb" [drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192s_usb.ko] undefined! ERROR: "usb_deregister" [drivers/staging/rtl8192su/r8192s_usb.ko] undefined! ERROR: "usb_control_msg" [drivers/staging/rtl8192... 5 Nov 2009 07:46

[PATCH 40/41] rt2800: add rt2800lib (part three)
From: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier(a)gmail.com> Subject: [PATCH] rt2800: add rt2800lib (part three) Code unification. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.c | 614 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2800lib.h... 5 Nov 2009 07:45