[3.11.y.z extended stable] Linux 3.11.10.5 (1 reply)
I am announcing the release of the Linux 3.11.10.5 kernel. The updated 3.11.y tree can be found at: git://kernel.ubuntu.com/ubuntu/linux.git linux-3.11.y and can be browsed at:...
View ArticleBuild regressions/improvements in v3.14-rc4 (1 reply)
Below is the list of build error/warning regressions/improvements in v3.14-rc4[1] compared to v3.13[2]. Summarized: - build errors: +7/-29 - build warnings: +190/-70 JFYI, when comparing v3.14-rc4[1]...
View Article[PATCH] pinctrl: sh-pfc: r8a7791: SD1_CLK fix (no replies)
From: Magnus Damm <damm@opensource.se> Fix the SD1_CLK handling for r8a7791. Without this patch it is impossible to request all pins needed for SDHI1 on the Koelsch board. Signed-off-by: Magnus...
View Article[PATCH] ia64: select CONFIG_TTY for use of tty_write_message in unaligned (no...
arch/ia64/kernel/unaligned.c uses tty_write_message to print an unaligned access exception to the TTY of the current user process. Enable TTY to prevent a build error. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett...
View Article[PATCH v7 0/9] ARM: brcmstb: Add Broadcom STB SoC support (10 replies)
This patchset contains the board support package for the Broadcom BCM7445 ARM-based SoC [1]. These changes contain a minimal set of code needed for a BCM7445-based board to boot the Linux kernel....
View Article[PATCH] rtc: fix chardev initialization races (no replies)
In many rtc modules, the chardevice file in rtc module probe is being created prematurely. If the probe fails after the chardevice file has been created (e.g. after rtc_device_register), it's possible...
View Article[PATCH v5 0/2] hyperv-fb: add support for generation 2 virtual machines (2...
Hi, This patch series adds support for uefi-based gen2 virtual machines to the hyperv-fb driver. It depends on a few vmbus changes which are staged in Greg's char-misc tree (and linux-next). Patch #1...
View Article[PATCH 03/16] DAC960: remove sleep_on usage (no replies)
sleep_on and its variants are going away. The use of sleep_on() in DAC960_V2_ExecuteUserCommand seems to be bogus because the command by the time we get there, the command has completed already and we...
View Article[PATCH 11/16] atm: firestream: fix interruptible_sleep_on race (no replies)
interruptible_sleep_on is racy and going away. This replaces the one use in the firestream driver with the appropriate wait_event_interruptible variant. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann...
View Article[PATCH 07/16] [media] radio-cadet: avoid interruptible_sleep_on race (no...
interruptible_sleep_on is racy and going away. This replaces one use in the radio-cadet driver with an wait_event_interruptible call that lets us check the condition under the mutex but sleep without...
View Article[PATCH 16/16] NOTYET: sched: remove sleep_on() and friends (no replies)
Do not apply yet, we first have to wait for the other patches in the series to get merged. Comments appreciated. 8<---- We probably should have done this 15 years ago. I have created patches for...
View Article[PATCH 00/16] sleep_on removal, second try (12 replies)
It's been a while since the first submission of these patches, but a lot of them have made it into linux-next already, so here is the stuff that is not merged yet, hopefully addressing all the...
View Article[PATCH] video: pwm backlight: power off when necessary (no replies)
The pwm backlight should be powered off only in two cases: 1) pwm polarity is normal and brightness is zero. 2) pwm polarity is inversed and brightness is maximal, that is, 100% duty. This patch...
View Article[PATCH v2 0/2] KVM: x86: more xsave and mpx improvements (2 replies)
Here are the patches I mentioned while reviewing Liu Jinsong's MPX series. Patch 1 is a further cleanup of xcr0 handling, and patch 2 introduces nested virtualization support for MPX. Please review....
View Article[GIT PULL] UBIFS changes for 3.14-rc5 (no replies)
Hi Linus, The following changes since commit 38dbfb59d1175ef458d006556061adeaa8751b72: Linus 3.14-rc1 (2014-02-02 16:42:13 -0800) are available in the git repository at:...
View Article[PATCHv8 0/6] add compressing abstraction and multi stream support (6 replies)
This patchset introduces zcomp compression backend abstraction adding ability to support compression algorithms other than LZO; support for multi compression streams, making parallel compressions...
View Article[PATCH 1/5] ARM: davinci: remove tnetv107x support (no replies)
The tnetv107x support does not compile, and seems to have been broken for a while with nobody caring to fix it. So far everyone I asked said it's probably dead and completely unused and will never...
View Article[PATCH 4/5] mfd: remove obsolete ti-ssp driver (1 reply)
The tnetv107x platform is getting removed, so this driver is not needed any more. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Samuel Ortiz <sameo@linux.intel.com> Cc: Lee Jones...
View Article[PATCH 5/5] input: remove obsolete tnetv107x drivers (no replies)
The tnetv107x platform is getting removed, so the touchscreen and keypad drivers for this platform will no longer be needed either. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Cc: Dmitry...
View Article[PATCH 0/5] ARM: davinci: tnetv107x removal (3 replies)
This series removes the TI davinci/tnetv107x platform that has evidently bitrotted to the point where it's completely useless. While we could probably fix it and add a defconfig, it appears that there...
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