mmotm 2014-02-05-15-56 uploaded (no replies)
The mm-of-the-moment snapshot 2014-02-05-15-56 has been uploaded to http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ mmotm-readme.txt says README for mm-of-the-moment: http://www.ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/ This is a...
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View Articlelinux-next: build failure after merge of the fscache tree (no replies)
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View Article[RFC PATCH v2 tip 0/7] 64-bit BPF insn set and tracing filters (6 replies)
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View Article[PATCH] ieee80211: Print human-readable disassoc/deauth reason codes (no...
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View Article[PATCH] serial/uart: Add tunable RX interrupt trigger I/F of FIFO buffers (no...
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View Article[PATCH v2] slub: Do not assert not having lock in removing freed partial (no...
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View Article[RFC/ANNOUNCE] virtme, a easy way to test your kernel changes in qemu/kvm (no...
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View ArticleLinux 3.4.79 (1 reply)
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