ieee1394/ieee1394_core.c:static struct task_struct *khpsbpkt_thread; --

From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Hi, here is a patch against linux/drivers/dma/iop-adma.c which : 1) Remove an explicit memset(.., 0, ...) to a variable allocated with kzalloc (i.e. 'card_info' array of the structure 'instance'). Note: this patch is based on 'linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2' Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> --- --- linux/drivers/usb/atm/cxacru.c 2008-04-17 04:49:44.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/usb/atm/cxac...

Hi, Why don't you just use the vesa driver and use your stress test utility cu Dieter --

Just tried building -rc2 (then current git) and got a few errors like: drivers/built-in.o: In function `generic_set_freq': tuner-xc2028.c:(.text+0x90f42): undefined reference to `request_firmware' tuner-xc2028.c:(.text+0x91418): undefined reference to `release_firmware' A bit of digging turned up the problem: I had fw_loader configured as a module, but some drivers which need it were configured built-in. Don't ask why I had those drivers configured in at all...time to prune that .config I'...

From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Hi, here is a patch against linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c which : 1) Remove an explicit memset(.., 0, ...) to a variable allocated with kzalloc (i.e. 'listener'). Note: this patch is based on 'linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2' Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> --- --- linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm.c 2008-04-17 04:49:44.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_cm....

From: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> Schedule a removal for this driver. Alternative driver is available for a while now. Signed-off-by: Sebastian Siewior <bigeasy@linutronix.de> --- Greg is fine with this http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/4/30/561 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 ++++++++ drivers/serial/Kconfig | 6 +++++- drivers/serial/mcfserial.c | 1 + 3 files changed, 14 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --g...

From: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> Hi, here is a patch against linux/drivers/dma/iop-adma.c which : 1) Remove an explicit memset(.., 0, ...) to a variable allocated with kzalloc (i.e. 'info'). Note: this patch is based on 'linux-2.6.25.tar.bz2' Signed-off-by: Christophe Jaillet <christophe.jaillet@wanadoo.fr> --- --- linux/drivers/ata/pata_at32.c 2008-04-17 04:49:44.000000000 +0200 +++ linux/drivers/ata/pata_at32.c.cj 2008-05-12 23:07:10.000000000 +02...

This patch implements filesystem capabilities. It allows to run privileged executables without the need for suid root. Changes: - updated to 2.6.25 This patch is available at: <http://www.olafdietsche.de/linux/capability/> Regards, Olaf.

Hmm. The primary purpose of the capability mechanism, according to the POSIX P1003.1e/2c working group*, is to separate the privilege mechanism from the userid mechanism. You are now reintegrating them two mechanims, albiet differently than they were integrated before. You can already achieve this end using filesystem based capabilties and mode bits and/or ACLs, Woof. As reasonable as mode bits on ports seems, there's an awful lot of tradition associated with the privileged port model. I can s...

or put check + if (pci_probe & PCI_NOASSIGN_ROMS) { out of loop? YH --

The following patch changes the intel-iommu.c code to use the TSC instead of jiffies for detecting bad DMAR functionality. Some systems with bad bios's have been seen to hang in early boot spinning in the IOMMU_WAIT_IO macro. This patch will replace the forever spin with a call to panic. diffstat: $ diffstat patches/wait_op_tsc.patch intel-iommu.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) --mgross Signed-off-by:mark gross <mgross@linux.intel.com> Index...

In the __slab_alloc()/load_freelist:/SlabDebug(c->page) path we only use the object at the head of c->page->freelist and the tail goes back to c->page->freelist. We then set c->node = -1 to force __slab_alloc in next allocation. c->freelist therefore needs to be cleared as it is invalid at this point. Signed-off-by: Benny Halevy <bhalevy@panasas.com> --- mm/slub.c | 1 + 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) Hit while running cthon04 test from an IBM AI...

From: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> Applied, thanks. --

We want to add multiple sched_group balancing domains per sched_domains (later in the series), so we split up the current logic to make it more fine grained. This patch does not alter the general logic at all. However, it does move the initialization of some of the fields to runtime instead of declared statically in topology.h Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> --- include/asm-ia64/topology.h | 6 -- include/asm-mips/mach-ip27/topology.h | 3 - include/...

Instead of assuming sd->group_balancer.groups is the intended group. We will use this later in the series to introduce alternate balancers. Signed-off-by: Gregory Haskins <ghaskins@novell.com> --- kernel/sched.c | 21 ++++++++++++--------- 1 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 9 deletions(-) diff --git a/kernel/sched.c b/kernel/sched.c index a8e0bd3..0bdbfe6 100644 --- a/kernel/sched.c +++ b/kernel/sched.c @@ -3288,11 +3288,12 @@ static int move_one_task(struct rq *this_rq, int this...

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> --- arch/mips/kernel/gdb-stub.c | 24 +++++++++--------------- 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 15 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/gdb-stub.c b/arch/mips/kernel/gdb-stub.c index 25f4eab..5746f74 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/gdb-stub.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/gdb-stub.c @@ -190,7 +190,6 @@ static char input_buffer[BUFMAX]; static char output_buffer[BUFMAX]; static int initialized; /* !0 means we've been initialized ...

Acked-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> --

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> --- arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c | 88 ++++++++++++++++++-------------------------- 1 files changed, 36 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) diff --git a/arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c b/arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c index 48a0393..7ca8a6b 100644 --- a/arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c +++ b/arch/frv/kernel/gdb-stub.c @@ -182,8 +182,6 @@ extern volatile u32 __attribute__((section(".bss"))) gdbstub_trace_through_excep static char input_buffer[BUFMAX];...

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/skfp/smt.c | 13 ++++++------- net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_CLUSTERIP.c | 5 ++--- 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 10 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/net/skfp/smt.c b/drivers/net/skfp/smt.c index ffbfb1b..805383b 100644 --- a/drivers/net/skfp/smt.c +++ b/drivers/net/skfp/smt.c @@ -19,6 +19,7 @@ #include "h/smc.h" #include "h/smt_p.h" #include <linux/bitrev.h> +#include <linux/kernel.h&...

Add a common hex array in hexdump.c so everyone can use it. Add a common hi/lo helper to avoid the shifting masking that is done to get the upper and lower nibbles of a byte value. Pull the pack_hex_byte helper from kgdb as it is opencoded many places in the tree that will be consolidated. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> --- Andrew, please drop the two patches in -mm titled: lib-add-ascii-hex-helper-functions.patch lib-add-ascii-hex-helper-functions-update.p...

Also use the hi/lo helpers. Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> --- drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c | 3 +-- drivers/scsi/ultrastor.c | 4 ++-- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c b/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c index 4d15a62..6765a05 100644 --- a/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c +++ b/drivers/scsi/ibmmca.c @@ -1002,12 +1002,11 @@ static char *ti_p(int dev) /* interpreter for logical device numbers (ldn) */ static char *ti_l(int val...

Signed-off-by: Harvey Harrison <harvey.harrison@gmail.com> --- drivers/ide/ide.c | 3 +-- 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/ide/ide.c b/drivers/ide/ide.c index c758dcb..916a3e6 100644 --- a/drivers/ide/ide.c +++ b/drivers/ide/ide.c @@ -789,7 +789,6 @@ static int __init stridx (const char *s, char c) static int __init match_parm (char *s, const char *keywords[], int vals[], int max_vals) { static const char *decimal = "0123456789"; - static cons...

tty has already been dereferenced at least twice in these functions, so checking for null here seems a bit unnecessary. Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk> --- drivers/char/riscom8.c | 4 ++-- 1 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/char/riscom8.c b/drivers/char/riscom8.c index f073c71..9643a49 100644 --- a/drivers/char/riscom8.c +++ b/drivers/char/riscom8.c @@ -1108,7 +1108,7 @@ static int rc_write(struct tty_struct *tty, bp = por...

May 11 08:52:08 [kernel] [ 21.052750] Clocksource tsc unstable (delta = -109466779 ns) May 11 09:42:27 [kernel] [ 1104.496819] rarian-sk-get-c[5630]: segfault at 0 ip 7f478556caf0 sp 7fff8e3fe338 error 4 in libc-2.6.1.so[7f47854f9000+136000] May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165792] May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165794] ======================================================= May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 2494.165801] [ INFO: possible circular locking dependency detected ] May 11 10:59:48 [kernel] [ 249...

Several members of the Linux Foundation's Technical Advisory Board recently got together with Andrew Morton to talk about kernel quality issues. One of the things which came out of that meeting was a desire to improve incentives for people who report bugs. Clearly, actually fixing those bugs would qualify; nobody has lost sight of that. But it was suggested that the creation and publication of statistics on bug reporting would also help. One way to do this might be for Andrew (being the only one...