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[PATCH] m68knommu: Freescale/Motorola Coldfire QSPI driver
Add support for the QSPI controller found some on Freescale/Motorola Coldfire MCUs. Full duplex, active high cs, spi modes 0-3 and word sizes 8-16 bits are supported. The hardware drives the MISO, MOSI and SCLK lines, but the chip selects are managed via GPIO and must be configured by the board code. The QSPI... 11 Jan 2010 16:30

[PATCH 1/7] sysfs: Serialize updates to the vfs inode
From: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm(a)aristanetworks.com> The way the vfs is structured only calls to the filesystem methods actually update the vfs inode. We add to the normal number of places where the vfs inode is updated by also updating the vfs inode in sysfs_refresh_inode. Grabbing the inode mutex in sysfs_... 11 Jan 2010 16:30

[PATCH 2/2] spinlock: Fix some indentation problems in spinlock.h
Signed-off-by: John Kacur <jkacur(a)redhat.com> --- include/linux/spinlock.h | 20 ++++++++++---------- 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/spinlock.h b/include/linux/spinlock.h index 8608821..d2df17b 100644 --- a/include/linux/spinlock.h +++ b/include/linux/spinlock.... 11 Jan 2010 16:30

[PATCH] gfs2: Fix refcnt leak on gfs2_follow_link() error path
If ->follow_link handler return the error, it should decrement nd->path refcnt. This patch fix it. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi(a)mail.parknet.co.jp> --- fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN fs/gfs2/ops_inode.c~namei-gfs2-follow_link-fix fs/... 11 Jan 2010 14:15

[PATCH] ecryptfs: Fix refcnt leak on ecryptfs_follow_link() error path
If ->follow_link handler return the error, it should decrement nd->path refcnt. But, ecryptfs_follow_link() doesn't decrement. This patch fix it by using usual nd_set_link() style error handling, instead of playing with nd->path. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi(a)mail.parknet.co.jp> --- fs/ecryptfs... 11 Jan 2010 14:15

List per-process file descriptor consumption when hitting file-max
On 2010-01-11, at 05:38, Alexander Shishkin wrote: When a file descriptor limit is hit, display the top consumers of descriptors so that it is possible to identify and fix those which leak them. Two new sysctl tunables are introduced: * file-max-consumers -- number of processes to display (defaults ... 13 Jan 2010 18:53

[RFC] [PATCH 5/7] X86 Support for Uprobes
[PATCH] x86 support for Uprobes Signed-off-by: Jim Keniston <jkenisto(a)us.ibm.com> --- arch/x86/Kconfig | 1 + arch/x86/include/asm/uprobes.h | 27 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 28 insertions(+) Index: new_uprobes.git/arch/x86/Kconfig ========================================... 11 Jan 2010 07:33

wm8350 fiix incorrect test for failed platform device allocation
On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:12:51AM -0700, Todd Fischer wrote: Signed-off-by: Todd Fischer <todd.fischer(a)ridgerun.com> Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie(a)opensource.wolfsonmicro.com> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo(a)vger.kernel.org More... 10 Jan 2010 19:40

[Bug #14742] 2.6.32 new menu idle governor causes very high CPU temp
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know (either way). Bug-Entr... 10 Jan 2010 18:34

[Bug #14747] bisected 2.6.32 regression: synaptics touchpad doesn't work
This message has been generated automatically as a part of a report of regressions introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. The following bug entry is on the current list of known regressions introduced between 2.6.31 and 2.6.32. Please verify if it still should be listed and let me know (either way). Bug-Entr... 10 Jan 2010 18:34