Kernel

[PATCH] get_maintainer.pl: ignore non-maintainer tags
Using --git to determine who to send a patch to, it is not reasonable to include people that only reported an issue or tested a patch. Thus we restrict the candidates to be the one's listed with Reviewed-By, Signed-Off-By and Acked-By tags. The Acked-By: is questionable also, but as people listed with this tag t... 7 May 2010 03:29

[PATCH 1/2] DMA ENGINE: Do not reset 'private' of channel
The member 'private' of 'struct dma_chan' is meant for passing data between client and the controller driver. The DMA client driver may point it to platform specific stuff after acquiring the channel. So, it is the responsiblity of the same code to reset it, if it must. The DMA engine doesn't set it and hence,... 7 May 2010 03:29

Check kmalloc return value before use the buffer
Hi Liu, Hi,linus.walleij Check kmalloc return value before use the buffer Signed-off-by: LiuQi <lingjiujianke(a)gmail.com> --- arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c | 5 +++++ 1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/arm/mach-u300/dummyspichip.c ... 10 May 2010 18:47

Two small fixes for 2.6.34
On Fri, May 07 2010, Jens Axboe wrote: Hi Linus, Two small fixes for 2.6.34. One fixes a typo in drbd, and the other fixes a missing RCU lock in the block cgroup code. Please pull. git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block.git for-linus Jens Axboe (1): Merge branch 'for-jens' of git:... 7 May 2010 03:29

[GIT PULL] tracing: various fixes
* Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> wrote: Ingo, Please pull the latest tip/tracing/core tree, which can be found at: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace.git tip/tracing/core Li Zefan (1): tracing: Make the documentation clear on trace_e... 7 May 2010 03:29

perf: Fix check at end of event search
* Steven Rostedt <rostedt(a)goodmis.org> wrote: Ingo, I just notice that I had this patch laying around and never pushed it out. I first had it in my ftrace branches but then realized that it was a perf change. I moved it there, but got distracted and unfortunately, forgot about it. I rebased i... 7 May 2010 03:29

[PATCH v2 5/8] gconfig: fix to tag NEW symbols correctly
The logic should be reversed. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> --- scripts/kconfig/gconf.c | 2 +- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c b/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c index bef1041..1b18329 100644 --- a/scripts/kconfig/gconf.c +++ b/scripts/kconfi... 7 May 2010 02:24

[PATCH v2 3/8] kconfig: fix to tag NEW symbols correctly
Those configs are not new: $ cat .config ... CONFIG_NAMESPACES=y ... CONFIG_BLOCK=y ... But are tagged as NEW: $ yes "" | make config > myconf $ cat myconf | grep '(NEW)' Namespaces support (NAMESPACES) [Y/?] (NEW) y ... Enable the block layer (BLOCK) [Y/?] (NEW) y ... You ... 7 May 2010 02:24

[PATCH v2 2/8] kconfig: print the range of integer/hex symbol in help text
Without this patch, one has to refer to the Kconfig file to find out the range of an integer/hex symbol. │ Symbol: NR_CPUS [=4] │ Type : integer │ Range : [2 8] │ Prompt: Maximum number of CPUs │ Defined at arch/x86/Kconfig:761 │ Depends on: SMP [=y] && !MAXSMP [=n] │ Location: │ -... 7 May 2010 02:24

[PATCH v2 6/8] gconfig: fix null pointer warning
In gconfig if you enable "Show all options", you'll see some "(null)" config options, and clicking those options triggers a warning: (gconf:9368): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_text_buffer_insert_with_tags: assertion `text != NULL' failed Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf(a)cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap... 7 May 2010 02:24