Kernel

[PATCH] powerpc/BSR: fix device_create() return value check
From: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula(a)nokia.com> Use IS_ERR() instead of comparing to NULL. Signed-off-by: Jani Nikula <ext-jani.1.nikula(a)nokia.com> --- NOTE: I'm afraid I'm unable to test this; please consider this more a bug report than a complete patch. --- drivers/char/bsr.c | 2 +- 1 files chang... 11 Mar 2010 12:17

fs: fat: use pack_hex_byte() instead of custom one
Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko(a)gmail.com> writes: From: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> Looks good to me. Acked-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi(a)mail.parknet.co.jp> (From 1/4 with previous patch, I guess it's series of... 13 Mar 2010 06:27

arch/powerpc/platforms/pseries: Use kasprintf
Julia Lawall wrote: From: Julia Lawall <julia(a)diku.dk> kasprintf combines kmalloc and sprintf, and takes care of the size calculation itself. The semantic patch that makes this change is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression a,flag; expression list args;... 11 Mar 2010 11:09

tcp: bugs and cleanup for 2.6.34-rc1
Le jeudi 11 mars 2010 à 06:35 -0500, William Allen Simpson a écrit : I'd have thought that there would be greater interest about patching crashing bugs, signed versus unsigned (underflow) bugs, TCP DoS bugs, TCP data corruption, and TCP performance problems.... There's been ample warning. Zero-day secu... 13 Mar 2010 01:03

[PATCHv2] fs: fat: use pack_hex_byte() instead of custom one
From: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <ext-andriy.shevchenko(a)nokia.com> --- fs/fat/dir.c | 14 +++++--------- 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/fat/dir.c b/fs/fat/dir.c index 530b4ca..5de1a70 100644 --- a/fs/fat/dir.c +++ b/f... 11 Mar 2010 11:09

[tip:x86/uv] x86, UV: Clean up UV headers for MMR definitions
Commit-ID: 6f4edd69e40aba4f45bf9558c1e9a950d79ab4e4 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6f4edd69e40aba4f45bf9558c1e9a950d79ab4e4 Author: Jack Steiner <steiner(a)sgi.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:44:58 -0600 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 14:11:26 +0100 x86, UV: ... 11 Mar 2010 10:01

MEMORY MANAGEMENT: Remove deprecated memclear_highpage_flush().
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 08:49:21AM -0500, Robert P. J. Day wrote: Since this routine is all of static, deprecated and unreferenced, it seems safe to delete it. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday(a)crashcourse.ca> Acked-by: Johannes Weiner <hannes(a)cmpxchg.org> diff --git a/include/linux/highm... 11 Mar 2010 10:01

[tip:sched/core] sched: Implement group scheduler statistics in one struct
Commit-ID: 41acab8851a0408c1d5ad6c21a07456f88b54d40 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/41acab8851a0408c1d5ad6c21a07456f88b54d40 Author: Lucas De Marchi <lucas.de.marchi(a)gmail.com> AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 23:37:45 -0300 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:22:28 +0100... 11 Mar 2010 10:01

[tip:sched/core] sched: Cleanup: remove unused variable in try_to_wake_up()
Commit-ID: ab3b3aa5dd01b3aaa6b15caee113b21b1b6520c4 Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/ab3b3aa5dd01b3aaa6b15caee113b21b1b6520c4 Author: Dan Carpenter <error27(a)gmail.com> AuthorDate: Sat, 6 Mar 2010 14:17:52 +0300 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 13:59:59 +0100 sched: ... 11 Mar 2010 10:01

[tip:sched/core] sched: Fix pick_next_highest_task_rt() for cgroups
Commit-ID: 3d07467b7aa91623b31d7b5888a123a2c8c8e9cc Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/3d07467b7aa91623b31d7b5888a123a2c8c8e9cc Author: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra(a)chello.nl> AuthorDate: Wed, 10 Mar 2010 17:07:24 +0100 Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo(a)elte.hu> CommitDate: Thu, 11 Mar 2010 15:21:50 +0100 ... 11 Mar 2010 10:01