I've been googling around but can't find a good resource for technically how UML works. I'm thinking about specifically the task of implementing a virtualization platform without kernel hooks... this lead me to dancing around checking out existing technology and noticing claims that UML can run on an unmodified kernel without special needs. In short, I'm curious about how UML works because I'm interested in knowing if it's theoretically possible to remove the UML code (i.e. compile it out) and the...

The Big Kernel Lock has been pushed down from chardev_open to misc_open, this change moves it to the individual watchdog driver open functions. As before, the change was purely mechanical, most drivers should actually not need the BKL. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Index: linux-2.6/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.orig/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c +++ linux-2.6/drivers/watchdog/acquirewdt.c @...

We are pleased to announce the 2.6.25.4-rt2 tree, which can be downloaded from the location: http://rt.et.redhat.com/download/ Information on the RT patch can be found at: http://rt.wiki.kernel.org/index.php/Main_Page Changes since 2.6.25.4-rt1 - lateral lock stealing (Gregory Haskins) - rtmutex rearrange logic (Gregory Haskins) - rtmutex remove double xchg (Steven Rostedt) - adaptive spinlocks (Gregory Haskins, Sven Deitrich, Peter Morreale, and...

Well, the BKL is still a semaphore in 25. For my hackbench runs, I have: [root@bxrhel51 c]# cat hack-test-2.6.25.4-rt2 Time: 4.937 Time: 4.842 Time: 4.877 Time: 4.905 Time: 4.924 Time: 4.781 Time: 4.927 Time: 4.871 Time: 5.181 Time: 4.866 Which is a bit slower than 2.6.24.7-rt7: [root@bxrhel51 c]# cat hack-test-2.6.24.7-rt7 Time: 4.789 Time: 4.824 Time: 4.807 Time: 4.867 Time: 4.802 Time: 4.799 Time: 4.823 Time: 4.855 Time: 4.873 Time: 4.833 But then I checked the base...

Whilst trying to discern what could possibly be in the no-source-provided version of via-agp that VIA are distributing on linux.via.com.tw, I noticed in the modinfo output that they supported an extra alias. Further digging revealed it was for PCI ID 0x0364, which we added in commit 32ddef98f232585f20bc8bdb891029a6a5f633d0 last year, but we didn't add the corresponding entry in the pci_device_id table, so it doesn't get auto-loaded on that hardware. [hopefully this is the only difference between ...

Out of curiosity, have you tried asking them nicely? ASUS seems to be pretty responsive when oversights like this are pointed out to them. Of course, if you start with a lawsuit threat you're inclined to hit the slow path (legal) rather than the fast path (support/community relations). I have no idea how responsive Phoenix is to issues like this, but a friendly request goes over much better than a shot across the bow. -- Chris --

- maintainer has not been active for years - URLs no longer exist - covered by the IDE SUBSYSTEM entry Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- 277a244cfa665db347cc0c2ec27b19d73fd0ee2a diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index af69cab..0220ce9 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -3623,13 +3623,6 @@ M: romieu@fr.zoreil.com L: netdev@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained -SIS 5513 IDE CONTROLLER DRIVER -P: Lionel Bouton -M: Lionel.Bouton@inet6.fr -W: [ message continues ]

- maintainer has not been active for years - maintainer email bounces - URL no longer exists - covered by the FRAMEBUFFER LAYER entry Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- fc7a740aef47772e5417c71f52aa9726eb5c716d diff --git a/MAINTAINERS b/MAINTAINERS index 2f74092..af69cab 100644 --- a/MAINTAINERS +++ b/MAINTAINERS @@ -1822,13 +1822,6 @@ M: zippel@linux-m68k.org L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org S: Maintained -HGA FRAMEBUFFER DRIVER -P: Ferenc Bakonyi -M: fero@drama.o...

This patch updates the URL of the bridge homepage. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- Documentation/networking/bridge.txt | 2 +- MAINTAINERS | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) 442926ef29170feab89570cbe478e8dff2946f6d diff --git a/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt b/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt index bdae2db..bec69a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/bridge.txt @@...

This patch removes a dead URL. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- deb4137671451a172bc7b9ed62cae9fbfd1decba diff --git a/arch/alpha/Kconfig b/arch/alpha/Kconfig index 729cdbd..97d58e8 100644 --- a/arch/alpha/Kconfig +++ b/arch/alpha/Kconfig @@ -224,8 +224,7 @@ config ALPHA_MIATA bool "Miata" help The Digital PersonalWorkStation (PWS 433a, 433au, 500a, 500au, 600a, - or 600au). There is an Installation HOWTO for this hardware at - <http://eijk.homelinux.org/...

This patch removes a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- 0bda44fc75018619bac248acd44c04c41b96fee9 diff --git a/include/asm-h8300/md.h b/include/asm-h8300/md.h index 1a47dc6..1b7300e 100644 --- a/include/asm-h8300/md.h +++ b/include/asm-h8300/md.h @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* $Id: md.h,v 1.1 2002/11/19 02:09:26 gerg Exp $ +/* * md.h: High speed xor_block operation for RAID4/5 * */ --

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Fix auditfilter kernel-doc misssing parameter description: Warning(lin2626-rc3//kernel/auditfilter.c:1551): No description found for parameter 'sessionid' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> --- kernel/auditfilter.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) --- lin2626-rc3.orig/kernel/auditfilter.c +++ lin2626-rc3/kernel/auditfilter.c @@ -1544,6 +1544,7 @@ static void audit_log_rule_change(uid_t * @data: payload ...

This patch removes a CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- ecbe2e714c6f467a94d2240223dfa335cdfb501e diff --git a/kernel/dma.c b/kernel/dma.c index d2c60a8..f903189 100644 --- a/kernel/dma.c +++ b/kernel/dma.c @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -/* $Id: dma.c,v 1.7 1994/12/28 03:35:33 root Exp root $ +/* * linux/kernel/dma.c: A DMA channel allocator. Inspired by linux/kernel/irq.c. * * Written by Hennus Bergman, 1992. --...

This patch removes an CVS keyword that wasn't updated for a long time from a comment. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- 023ddaa65448ffc93a3f90c1ff37d39c0af3cfa4 diff --git a/include/linux/mount.h b/include/linux/mount.h index 4374d1a..f526b78 100644 --- a/include/linux/mount.h +++ b/include/linux/mount.h @@ -5,8 +5,6 @@ * * Author: Marco van Wieringen <mvw@planets.elm.net> * - * Version: $Id: mount.h,v 2.0 1996/11/17 16:48:14 mvw Exp mvw $ - * */ #ifn...

Once upon a time, the MTD repository was using CVS. This patch therefore removes all usages of the no longer updated CVS keywords from the MTD code. This also includes code that printed them to the user. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- drivers/mtd/Kconfig | 2 -- drivers/mtd/afs.c | 2 -- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0001.c | 2 -- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0002.c | 3 --- drivers/mtd/chips/cfi_cmdset_0020.c | 2 ...

This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time from comments. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.h | 1 - include/linux/cpufreq.h | 3 --- 2 files changed, 4 deletions(-) e557db8138882bb0961d6e4b940cd9b59e4dd721 diff --git a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.h b/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7.h index f8a63b3..35fb4ea 100644 --- a/arch/x86/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k7....

I did only the clear-cut cases in this batch (we even have several keywords containing 2007 dates, and if someone actually maintains his code in CVS that's legitimate usage), but I'll reduce them further in cu Adrian -- "Is there not promise of rain?" Ling Tan asked suddenly out of the darkness. There had been need of rain for many days. "Only a promise," Lao Er said. Pearl S. Buck - Dragon Seed --

On Tue, May 20, 2008 at 01:03:16AM +0300, Adrian Bunk wrote: > This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time > from comments. Indeed. We haven't maintained cpufreq in CVS since around about that time. I'll queue this up. Thanks. Dave -- http://www.codemonkey.org.uk --

Makes sense. Applied, thanks. -- Jiri Kosina SUSE Labs --

This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time from comments. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- drivers/pcmcia/hd64465_ss.c | 2 -- drivers/pcmcia/i82092.c | 2 -- drivers/pcmcia/i82092aa.h | 2 -- 3 files changed, 6 deletions(-) c13f3943a1ca0edb90019a5e003e56664043fcb8 diff --git a/drivers/pcmcia/hd64465_ss.c b/drivers/pcmcia/hd64465_ss.c index f2e810f..6045e4b 100644 --- a/drivers/pcmcia/hd64465_ss.c +++ b/drivers/pcmcia/hd6446...

This patch removes CVS keyword that weren't updated for a long time. One of them was printed as part of a printk, which also doesn't make much sense for a 5 year old and no longer updated keyword. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- drivers/net/irda/donauboe.c | 6 +----- drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.c | 1 - drivers/net/irda/smsc-ircc2.h | 1 - 3 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 7 deletions(-) 4898fd57aec7b22ced1a1472aa1736d43d587cc1 diff --git a/drivers/net/...

Applied, thanks. In future, please cc linux-pci@vger.kernel.org on PCI patches though. Thanks, Jesse --

This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time from comments. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- drivers/usb/core/devices.c | 2 -- drivers/usb/core/devio.c | 2 -- drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.c | 2 -- drivers/usb/gadget/rndis.h | 2 -- drivers/usb/misc/emi62.c | 2 -- drivers/usb/serial/digi_acceleport.c | 2 -- drivers/usb/serial/keyspan_pda.S | 2 +- drivers/usb/serial...

This patch removes CVS keywords that weren't updated for a long time from comments. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> --- sound/oss/msnd.c | 2 -- sound/oss/msnd.h | 2 -- sound/oss/msnd_classic.h | 2 -- sound/oss/msnd_pinnacle.c | 5 ----- sound/oss/msnd_pinnacle.h | 2 -- 5 files changed, 13 deletions(-) 3e09e1037df3edf6fe54ac9ee8ad6be14d2474f4 diff --git a/sound/oss/msnd.c b/sound/oss/msnd.c index ba38d62..e4282d9 100644 --- a/soun...

On Tue, 20 May 2008 00:59:22 +0300 Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Again will run via the big serial/tty rework tree. --