Kernel

[git pull] FireWire fixes
Linus, please pull from the for-linus branch at git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6.git for-linus to receive fixes for two bugs which prevented FireWire audio drivers in userspace (FFADO) to run on the newer firewire kernel stack. This affects very specific functionality o... 27 Nov 2009 20:01

Problem? intel_iommu=off; perf top shows acpi_os_read_port as extremely busy
Having given up for now on VT-D, I rebooted 2.6.38 rc8 with intel_iommu=off. Whilst my myriad of broken bios issues cleared, I now see in perf top acpi_os_read_port as continually the busiest function. With intel_iommu enabled, _spin_lock was always on top, and nothing else was notable. This seems odd to me,... 30 Nov 2009 00:30

V4L/DVB updates
Hi On Friday 27 November 2009, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: Hi Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git for_linus For the following drivers and building fixes: - radio-gemtek-pci: fix double mutex_lock - v4l: add more ... 10 Dec 2009 10:05

[PATCH] pata_rdc: MWDMA0 is unsupported
MWDMA0 timings cannot be met with the PIIX based controller programming interface. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier(a)gmail.com> --- drivers/ata/pata_rdc.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: b/drivers/ata/pata_rdc.c ===============================================... 27 Nov 2009 14:27

What are the goals for the architecture of an in-kernel IR system?
Hi Jon, on 27 Nov 09 at 10:57, Jon Smirl wrote: [...] But I'm still a bit hesitant about the in-kernel decoding. Maybe it's just because I'm not familiar at all with input layer toolset. [...] I hope it helps for you to better understand how this works. So the plan is to have two ways o... 8 Dec 2009 18:40

[PATCH 2/3] sched: make tunable scaling style configurable
From: Christian Ehrhardt <ehrhardt(a)linux.vnet.ibm.com> As scaling now takes place on all kind of cpu add/remove events a user that configures values via proc should be able to configure if his set values are still rescaled or kept whatever happens. As the comments state that log2 was just a second guess that wo... 27 Nov 2009 09:57

debugging oops after disconnecting Nexio USB touchscreen
Hello, I have problems debbugging an oops. It happens when Nexio USB touchscreen (using my new code http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/11/25/568) is disconnected: BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000048 IP: [<f7c38afd>] start_unlink_async+0xb2/0x160 [ehci_hcd] *pde = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SM... 11 Dec 2009 16:56

linux-next: Tree for November 27
Hi all, Changes since 20091126: New tree: logfs Changed tree: kbuild has a new maintainer Removed tree: kbuild-current (pending the new maintainer's input) The sparc tree still has a build failure for which I reverted a commit. The rr tree gained a conflict against the kbuild tree. The osd tree gai... 27 Nov 2009 03:23

[PATCH 00/03] mmc: A few trivial changes for tmio-mmc
mmc: A few trivial changes for tmio-mmc [PATCH 01/03] mmc: Let tmio-mmc use dev_name() with request_irq() [PATCH 02/03] mmc: Remove const from tmio-mmc platform data V2 [PATCH 03/03] mmc: Balance tmio-mmc cell enable()/disable() calls These patches contain a few trivial changes for the tmio-mmc driver. Nothin... 27 Nov 2009 01:13

[PATCH 03/03] mmc: Balance tmio-mmc cell enable()/disable() calls
From: Magnus Damm <damm(a)opensource.se> This patch adds cell->disable() calls to the tmio-mmc probe() error handling and the remove() function. Signed-off-by: Magnus Damm <damm(a)opensource.se> --- drivers/mmc/host/tmio_mmc.c | 10 ++++++++-- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) --- 0016/drive... 27 Nov 2009 01:13