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staging Patch 03/04: Crystal HD
... 2 Jan 2010 16:05

staging Patch 02/04: Crystal HD
... 2 Jan 2010 16:05

staging Patch 02/03: Crystal HD
... 2 Jan 2010 13:53

reiserfs broken in 2.6.32 was Re: [GIT PULL] reiserfs fixes
> I only have reiserfs partitions in my laptop and my testbox, nothing else. And that because I'm now maintaining it de facto. AFAIK it's widely used in SUSE installations. It was the default for a long time. And right now as in 2.6.32 it's in a state of "may randomly explode/deadlock". And no clear path out... 6 Jan 2010 08:56

[PATCH -next] libs: force lzma_wrapper to be retained
From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap(a)oracle.com> When CONFIG_SQUASHFS=m and CONFIG_DECOMPRESS_LZMA=m, decompress_lzma is built but then discarded from the library because no built-in code uses it, so change it from a lib- to an obj- to force it to be kept in the library. ERROR: "unlzma" [fs/squashfs/squashfs.ko] u... 1 Jan 2010 21:45

[PATCH][RFC] e1000e: Add basic runtime PM support (rev. 3) (was: [PATCH 0/12] PCI run-time PM support (rev. 2))
On Friday 01 January 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Friday 01 January 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: On Sunday 27 December 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: Hi, The following (updated) series of patches provides preliminary run-time power management support for PCI devices through A... 1 Jan 2010 17:23

[PATCH] sysfs: Cache the last sysfs_dirent to improve readdir scalability
When sysfs_readdir stops short we now cache the next sysfs_dirent to return to user space in filp->private_data. There is no impact on the rest of sysfs by doing this and in the common case it allows us to pick up exactly where we left off with no seeking. Additionally I drop and regrab the sysfs_mutex around ... 1 Jan 2010 09:44

[PATCH] mm, lockdep: annotate reclaim context to zone reclaim too
Commit cf40bd16fd (lockdep: annotate reclaim context) introduced reclaim context annotation. But it didn't annotate zone reclaim. This patch do it. Signed-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro(a)jp.fujitsu.com> --- mm/vmscan.c | 2 ++ 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/mm/vmsca... 1 Jan 2010 05:26

[PATCH] sunrpc: fix peername failed on closed listener
There're some warnings of "nfsd: peername failed (err 107)!" socket error -107 means Transport endpoint is not connected. This warning message was outputed by svc_tcp_accept() [net/sunrpc/svcsock.c], when kernel_getpeername returns -107. This means socket might be CLOSED. And svc_tcp_accept was called by svc_recv... 30 Dec 2009 22:02

[PATCH 4/5] reiserfs: Safely acquire i_mutex from reiserfs_for_each_xattr
Relax the reiserfs lock before taking the inode mutex from reiserfs_for_each_xattr() to avoid the usual bad dependencies: ======================================================= [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] 2.6.32-atom #179 ------------------------------------------------------- rm/32... 30 Dec 2009 16:29