Kernel

[GIT PATCHES for 2.6.33] V4L/DVB fixes
Linus, Please pull from: ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6.git for_linus For the following fixes: - cx25821: fix double unlock in medusa_video_init() - dib8000: fix compilation if !DVB_DIB8000 - feature-removal-schedule: Add v4l1 drivers obsoleted by gspca s... 17 Jan 2010 09:26

[GIT PULL] perf scheduling updates: flexible/pinned groups reordering, optimizations
Ingo, Please pull the perf/scheduling branch that can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/frederic/random-tracing.git perf/scheduling It brings more progresses wrt scheduling ordering between pinned and flexible events. There is still some work to do, for example concerning context... 17 Jan 2010 08:20

drivers/char: Eliminate useless code
Julia Lawall wrote: The variable x is initialized twice to the same (side effect-free) expression. Drop one initialization. [...] --- a/drivers/char/mmtimer.c +++ b/drivers/char/mmtimer.c @@ -546,9 +546,9 @@ static void mmtimer_tasklet(unsigned long data) { int nodeid = data; struct mmtim... 17 Jan 2010 07:15

register MADV_HUGEPAGE
On Sat, Jan 16, 2010 at 07:46:42PM +0100, Andrea Arcangeli wrote: From: Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange(a)redhat.com> In order to allow early shipping transparent hugepage feature enabled only inside MADV_HUGEPAGE and not globally to diminish the risk of unexpected performance regressions on non-hypervisor rel... 17 Jan 2010 06:11

crypto: make Open Firmware device id constant
On Tue, Jan 12, 2010 at 09:01:45AM +0100, N�meth M�rton wrote: From: M�rton N�meth <nm127(a)freemail.hu> The match_table field of the struct of_device_id is constant in <linux/of_platform.h> so it is worth to make the initialization data also constant. Applied to cryptodev. Thanks. -- Visit Openswan a... 17 Jan 2010 06:11

"USB: use kfifo to buffer usb-generic serial writes" causes gobi_loader to hang
Am Sonntag, 17. Januar 2010 03:55:35 schrieb Matthew Garrett: gobi_loader writes firmware to gobi USB devices (qcserial) via the USB serial layer by writing it a megabyte at a time (matching the Windows driver behaviour). Commit 8e8dce065088833fc418bfa5fbf035cb0726c04c breaks it - strace shows the write ... 23 Feb 2010 22:44

"USB: use kfifo to buffer usb-generic serial writes" causes gobi_loader to hang
Hi Matthew, gobi_loader writes firmware to gobi USB devices (qcserial) via the USB serial layer by writing it a megabyte at a time (matching the Windows driver behaviour). Commit 8e8dce065088833fc418bfa5fbf035cb0726c04c breaks it - strace shows the write simply hanging. ssyrq-t says the backtrace i... 22 Feb 2010 17:33

[REGRESSION] "USB: use kfifo to buffer usb-generic serial writes" causes gobi_loader to hang
gobi_loader writes firmware to gobi USB devices (qcserial) via the USB serial layer by writing it a megabyte at a time (matching the Windows driver behaviour). Commit 8e8dce065088833fc418bfa5fbf035cb0726c04c breaks it - strace shows the write simply hanging. ssyrq-t says the backtrace is: Jan 17 15:37:37 loc... 16 Jan 2010 22:43

JMB363 false hotplug detections (was: ahci: AHCI and RAID mode SATA patch for Intel Cougar Point DeviceIDs)
On 01/17/2010 03:10 AM, Robert Hancock wrote: 03:00.0 SATA controller: JMicron Technologies, Inc. 20360/20363 Serial ATA Controller (rev 03) (prog-if 01 [AHCI 1.0]) Tejun, any other ideas? Can someone point me to the original thread? Thanks. -- tejun -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the ... 16 Jan 2010 21:37

[patch 0/2] sata_via: bugfixes for vt6420 and vt6421
Dear all, The following patches fix two bugs I encountered in the sata_via driver. - DMA/PIO timings for the pata slave drive on a vt6421 were not handled correctly. - ATAPI DMA corruption on a vt6420. At least for some burners, the vt6420 needs a small delay between sending the CDB and starting DMA to p... 16 Jan 2010 19:26