- 21 Feb, 2007 36 commits
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Randy Dunlap authored
Add TAINT_USER description to Tainted flags in oops-tracing.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Glauber de Oliveira Costa authored
Pointers to user data should be marked with a __user hint. This one is missing. Signed-off-by: Glauber de Oliveira Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
lib/genalloc.c: In function 'gen_pool_alloc': lib/genalloc.c:151: warning: passing argument 2 of '__set_bit' from incompatible pointer type lib/genalloc.c: In function 'gen_pool_free': lib/genalloc.c:190: warning: passing argument 2 of '__clear_bit' from incompatible pointer type Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Hellwig authored
affs wants to truncate the inode when the last user goes away, currently it does that through a potentially racy i_count check in ->put_inode. But we already have a method that's called just after the we dropped the last reference, ->drop_inode. This patch implements affs_drop_inode to take advantage of this. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ian Kent authored
This problem was identified and fixed some time ago by Jeff Moyer but it fell through the cracks somehow. It is possible that a user space application could remove and re-create a directory during a request. To avoid returning a failure from lookup incorrectly when our current dentry is unhashed we need to check if another positive, hashed dentry matching this one exists and if so return it instead of a fail. Signed-off-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ian Kent authored
Jeff Moyer has identified a race between mount and expire. What happens is that during an expire the situation can arise that a directory is removed and another lookup is done before the expire issues a completion status to the kernel module. In this case, since the the lookup gets a new dentry, it doesn't know that there is an expire in progress and when it posts its mount request, matches the existing expire request and waits for its completion. ENOENT is then returned to user space from lookup (as the dentry passed in is now unhashed) without having performed the mount request. The solution used here is to keep track of dentrys in this unhashed state and reuse them, if possible, in order to preserve the flags. Additionally, this infrastructure will provide the framework for the reintroduction of caching of mount fails removed earlier in development. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Acked-by: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ian Kent authored
The current header file definitions for autofs version 5 have caused a couple of problems for application builds downstream. This fixes the problem by separating the definitions. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
nobh_prepare_write leaks data similarly to how simple_prepare_write did. Fix by not marking the page uptodate until nobh_commit_write time. Again, this could break weird use-cases, but none appear to exist in the tree. We can safely remove the set_page_dirty, because as the comment says, nobh_commit_write does set_page_dirty. If a filesystem wants to allocate backing store for a page dirtied via mmap, page_mkwrite is the suggested approach. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
simple_prepare_write leaks uninitialised kernel data. This happens because the it leaves an uninitialised "hole" over the part of the page that the write is expected to go to. This is fine, but it then marks the page uptodate, which means a concurrent read can come in and copy the uninitialised memory into userspace before it written to. Fix it by simply marking it uptodate in simple_commit_write instead, after the hole has been filled in. This could theoretically break an fs that uses simple_prepare_write and not simple_commit_write, and that relies on the incorrect simple_prepare_write behaviour. Luckily, none of those exists in the tree. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Dave Jones authored
This option is useful for all of the X86 subarchs afaik (and especially X86_GENERICARCH). Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Simon Horman authored
Patch from Mohan Kumar M to add the ppc64 portions of the kdump documentation. http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/481689/focus=3375 Cc: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com> Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Simon Horman authored
The patch below updates MAINTAIER address Individuals (Only Andrew :): osdl.org -> linux-foundation.org Lists: osdl.org -> lists.osdl.org I assume the latter will change at some stage, but at least with this change the osdl/linux-foundation lists are consistent. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Thomas Koeller authored
Signed-off-by: Thomas Koeller <thomas.koeller@baslerweb.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix 23 of these sparse warnings on x86_64 allmodconfig: include/linux/cdrom.h:942:19: error: dubious bitfield without explicit `signed' or `unsigned' Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Fix sparse warning in tty_io: drivers/char/tty_io.c:1536:34: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored
Output of a function or struct in html mode needs to include the short description from the function/struct name line in the output title line. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ben Dooks authored
This driver provides the core functionality of the SM501, which is a multi-function chip including two framebuffers, video acceleration, USB, and many other peripheral blocks. The driver exports a number of entries for the peripheral drivers to use. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Vincent Sanders <vince@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Jarek Poplawski authored
In __lock_acquire check_chain_key can turn off debug_locks, so check is needed to assure proper return code. Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Miguel Ojeda authored
The problem comes when ks0108/cfag12864b are built-in and no parallel port is present. ks0108_init() is called first, as it should be, but fails to load (as there is no parallel port to use). After that, cfag12864b_init() gets called, without knowing anything about ks0108 failed, and calls ks0108_writecontrol(), which dereferences an uninitialized pointer. Init order is OK, I think. The problem is how to stop cfag12864b_init() being called if ks0108 failed to load. modprobe does it for us, but, how when built-in? Signed-off-by: Miguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Aneesh Kumar K.V authored
Signed-off-by: "Aneesh Kumar K.V" <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Alexey Dobriyan authored
Flags from spin_lock_irqsave() are saved into global variable and restored from it. My gut feeling this is very racy. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Gerhard Dirschl authored
Fixes http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7810 - a silly copy-paste bug introduced by the latest change. Signed-off-by: Gerhard Dirschl <gd@spherenet.de> Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Akinobu Mita authored
There is no prompt for CONFIG_STACKTRACE, so FAULT_INJECTION cannot be selected without LOCKDEP enabled. (found by Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso) In order to fix such broken Kconfig dependency, this patch splits up the stacktrace filter support for fault injection by new Kconfig option, which enables to use fault injection on the architecture which doesn't have general stacktrace support. Cc: "Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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OGAWA Hirofumi authored
If the DIO write on FAT is expanding the size, it will be fail by -EINVAL, because FAT can't handle it now. This patch fallback it to the normal buffered-write and would return success. Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Acked-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Srinivasa Ds authored
This patch lists all active probes in the system by scanning through kprobe_table[]. It takes care of aggregate handlers and prints the type of the probe. Letter "k" for kprobes, "j" for jprobes, "r" for kretprobes. It also lists address of the instruction,its symbolic name(function name + offset) and the module name. One can access this file through /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list. Output looks like this ===================== llm40:~/a # cat /sys/kernel/debug/kprobes/list c0169ae3 r sys_read+0x0 c0169ae3 k sys_read+0x0 c01694c8 k vfs_write+0x0 c0167d20 r sys_open+0x0 f8e658a6 k reiserfs_delete_inode+0x0 reiserfs c0120f4a k do_fork+0x0 c0120f4a j do_fork+0x0 c0169b4a r sys_write+0x0 c0169b4a k sys_write+0x0 c0169622 r vfs_read+0x0 ================================= [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup] [ananth@in.ibm.com: sparc build fix] Signed-off-by: Srinivasa DS <srinivasa@in.ibm.com> Cc: Prasanna S Panchamukhi <prasanna@in.ibm.com> Cc: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Cc: Anil S Keshavamurthy <anil.s.keshavamurthy@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nick Piggin authored
Andrew noticed that unlocking the page before submitting all buffers for writeout could cause problems if the IO completes before we've finished messing around with the page buffers, and they subsequently get freed. Even if there were no bug, it is a good idea to bring the error case into line with the common case here. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Eric W. Biederman authored
The current ipc shared memory code runs into several problems because it does not quite use files like the rest of the kernel. With the option of backing ipc shared memory with either hugetlbfs or ordinary shared memory the problems got worse. With the added support for ipc namespaces things behaved so unexpected that we now have several bad namespace reference counting bugs when using what appears at first glance to be a reasonable idiom. So to attack these problems and hopefully make the code more maintainable this patch simply uses the files provided by other parts of the kernel and builds it's own files out of them. The shm files are allocated in do_shmat and freed when their reference count drops to zero with their last unmap. The file and vm operations that we don't want to implement or we don't implement completely we just delegate to the operations of our backing file. This means that we now get an accurate shm_nattch count for we have a hugetlbfs inode for backing store, and the shm accounting of last attach and last detach time work as well. This means that getting a reference to the ipc namespace when we create the file and dropping the referenece in the release method is now safe and correct. This means we no longer need a special case for clearing VM_MAYWRITE as our file descriptor now only has write permissions when we have requested write access when calling shmat. Although VM_SHARED is now cleared as well which I believe is harmless and is mostly likely a minor bug fix. By using the same set of operations for both the hugetlb case and regular shared memory case shmdt is not simplified and made slightly more correct as now the test "vma->vm_ops == &shm_vm_ops" is 100% accurate in spotting all shared memory regions generated from sysvipc shared memory. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
The alien cache is a per cpu per node array allocated for every slab on the system. Currently we size this array for all nodes that the kernel does support. For IA64 this is 1024 nodes. So we allocate an array with 1024 objects even if we only boot a system with 4 nodes. This patch uses "nr_node_ids" to determine the number of possible nodes supported by a hardware configuration and only allocates an alien cache sized for possible nodes. The initialization of nr_node_ids occurred too late relative to the bootstrap of the slab allocator and so I moved the setup_nr_node_ids() into free_area_init_nodes(). Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
We frequently need the maximum number of possible processors in order to allocate arrays for all processors. So far this was done using highest_possible_processor_id(). However, we do need the number of processors not the highest id. Moreover the number was so far dynamically calculated on each invokation. The number of possible processors does not change when the system is running. We can therefore calculate that number once. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Christoph Lameter authored
highest_possible_node_id() is currently used to calculate the last possible node idso that the network subsystem can figure out how to size per node arrays. I think having the ability to determine the maximum amount of nodes in a system at runtime is useful but then we should name this entry correspondingly, it should return the number of node_ids, and the the value needs to be setup only once on bootup. The node_possible_map does not change after bootup. This patch introduces nr_node_ids and replaces the use of highest_possible_node_id(). nr_node_ids is calculated on bootup when the page allocators pagesets are initialized. [deweerdt@free.fr: fix oops] Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Frederik Deweerdt <frederik.deweerdt@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
allnoconfig: mm/mincore.c: In function 'do_mincore': mm/mincore.c:122: warning: unused variable 'entry' Yet another entry in the why-macros-are-wrong encyclopedia. Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki authored
bind_zonelist() can create zero-length zonelist if there is a memory-less-node. This patch checks the length of zonelist. If length is 0, returns -EINVAL. tested on ia64/NUMA with memory-less-node. Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
Several people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling due to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental majors. Rolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug. The patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into behaving. Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andries Brouwer authored
Somehow we got the layout of the v3 superblock wrong, which causes crashes due to overindexing of the buffer_head array in statfs on large fielsystems. Cc: "Cedric Augonnet" <cedric.augonnet@gmail.com> Cc: "Daniel Aragones" <danarag@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Andrew Morton authored
fs/xfs/linux-2.6/xfs_super.c:903: warning: 'noinline' attribute ignored Cc: David Chinner <dgc@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Ralf Baechle authored
If one of clear_bit, change_bit or set_bit is defined as a do { } while (0) function usage of these functions in parenthesis like (foo_bit(23, &var)) while be expaned to something like (do { ... } while (0)}). resulting in a build error. This patch removes the useless parenthesis. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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- 20 Feb, 2007 4 commits
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-arm: [ARM] 4165/1: S3C24XX: Select CONFIG_NO_IOPORT [ARM] Fix s3c2410 ALSA audio for typedef elimination [ARM] Fix ARM AACI ALSA driver [ARM] fix mach-at91 build breakage [ARM] Fix jornada720 build errors [ARM] Fix iop13xx build error [ARM] Fix build error caused by move of apm [ARM] 4223/1: ixdp2351 : Fix for a define error [ARM] 4187/1: iop: unify time implementation across iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx [ARM] 4186/1: iop: remove cp6_enable/disable routines [ARM] 4185/2: entry: introduce get_irqnr_preamble and arch_ret_to_user
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Russell King authored
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Linus Torvalds authored
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (21 commits) natsemi: Support Aculab E1/T1 PMXc cPCI carrier cards natsemi: Add support for using MII port with no PHY skge: race with workq and RTNL Replace local random function with random32() s2io: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock 8139too: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock sis190: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock r8169: RTNL and flush_scheduled_work deadlock [PATCH] ieee80211softmac: Fix setting of initial transmit rates [PATCH] bcm43xx: OFDM fix for rev 1 cards [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix for 4311 and 02/07/07 specification changes [PATCH] prism54: correct assignment of DOT1XENABLE in WE-19 codepaths [PATCH] zd1211rw: Readd zd_addr_t cast [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix for oops on resume [PATCH] bcm43xx: Ignore ampdu status reports [PATCH] wavelan: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate [PATCH] hostap: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate [PATCH] misc-wireless: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate [PATCH] ipw2100: Use ARRAY_SIZE macro when appropriate [PATCH] bcm43xx: Janitorial change - remove two unused variables ...
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git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlightLinus Torvalds authored
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-backlight: backlight: Remove bogus SYSFS dependency backlight: simplify corgi_bl locking backlight: Separate backlight properties from backlight ops pointers backlight: Clean up pmac_backlight handling backlight: Improve backlight selection for fbdev drivers backlight: Rework backlight/fb interaction simplifying, lots backlight: Remove unneeded backlight update_status calls backlight: Remove uneeded update_status call from chipsfb.c backlight/fbcon: Add FB_EVENT_CONBLANK backlight: Fix Kconfig entries backlight: Remove uneeded nvidia set_power calls backlight: Convert semaphore -> mutex backlight: Fix external uses of backlight internal semaphore backlight: Minor code cleanups for hp680_bl.c backlight: Minor code cleanups for corgi_bl.c backlight: Remove excessive (un)likelys backlight: Remove unneeded owner field backlight: Fix error handling backlight: Add Frontpath ProGear HX1050+ driver backlight: Add maintainer entry
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