Kernel

bcm203x bluetooth dongle does not work
Hi Florian, after trying around with my ancient bcm2033 bluetooth dongle i found it not working in 2.6.24 - I debugged udev and found it loading the firmware correctly but the device seems to have problems disconnecting. I found an Ubuntu bug which mentions a patch which supposed to be 2.6.20 mater... 1 Feb 2008 00:50

CPU isolation extensions
[ You really ought to CC people :-) ] On Sun, 2008-01-27 at 20:09 -0800, maxk(a)qualcomm.com wrote: Following patch series extends CPU isolation support. Yes, most people want to virtuallize CPUs these days and I want to isolate them :). The primary idea here is to be able to use some CPU cores as dedicated ... 1 Feb 2008 00:50

2.6.22-stable causes oomkiller to be invoked
> > It was just while echo ; do cat /sys/kernel/<some file> ; done it's all in the email threads somewhere.. The patch that was posted in the thread that I mentioned earlier is here. I ran the test for 15 minutes and things are still fine. quicklist: Set tlb->need_flush ... 7 Jan 2008 23:32

[PATCH 5/5] atmel_serial: Add DMA support
From: Chip Coldwell <hskinnemoen(a)atmel.com> This patch is based on the DMA-patch by Chip Coldwell for the AT91/AT32 serial USARTS, with some tweaks to make it apply neatly on top of the other patches in this series. The RX code has been moved to a tasklet and reworked a bit. Instead of depending on the ENDRX a... 18 Dec 2007 18:06

powerpc: Add EXPORT_SYMBOL for symbols required by fs_enet and cpm_uart
Christoph Hellwig wrote: On Sun, Nov 11, 2007 at 06:01:37PM +0100, Jochen Friedrich wrote: --- a/arch/powerpc/sysdev/commproc.c +++ b/arch/powerpc/sysdev/commproc.c @@ -51,6 +51,8 @@ static void m8xx_cpm_dpinit(void); static uint host_buffer; /* One page of host buffer */ static uint host_end; ... 12 Nov 2007 12:41

2.6.23-rc8 build failure: __you_cannot_kmalloc_that_much in dmi_id_init
Hi Andrew, On Thu, 4 Oct 2007 01:48:28 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: On Tue, 2 Oct 2007 23:26:42 +0200 Jean Delvare <khali(a)linux-fr.org> wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 23:54:12 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: On Mon, 1 Oct 2007 22:54:47 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: 2.6.23-rc8 and 2.6.23-rc8-git4 fail t... 4 Oct 2007 05:53

[patch 06/10] Immediate Value - i386 Optimization
i386 optimization of the immediate values which uses a movl with code patching to set/unset the value used to populate the register used for the branch test. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers(a)polymtl.ca> --- arch/i386/kernel/Makefile | 1 arch/i386/kernel/immediate.c | 171 ++++++++++++... 3 Jul 2007 12:55

Introduce O_CLOEXEC (take >2)
On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 14:09 -0400, Ulrich Drepper wrote: diff --git a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h index c154b9d..b847741 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/fcntl.h @@ -48,6 +48,9 @@ #ifndef O_NOATIME #define O_NOATIME 01000000 #end... 9 Jun 2007 22:35

CFS scheduler, -v8
Hi, Ingo My name is Ting Yang, a graduate student from UMASS. I am currently studying the linux scheduler and virtual memory manager to solve some page swapping problems. I am very excited with the new scheduler CFS. After I read through your code, I think that you might be interested in reading this pap... 11 May 2007 16:56

Bug in current -git tree causing dbus and gnome to chew up cpu time
Hi, I've used 'git bisect' to track down a change in the latest git tree that is causing dbus-daemon to sit and spin at the time GNOME launches, preventing nautlius from ever running. The bad commit is: commit eb3dfb0cb1f4a44e2d0553f89514ce9f2a9fcaf1 Author: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen(a)suse.de> Date: Mon F... 13 Feb 2007 15:38