[ 3.8.y.z extended stable ] Linux 3.8.13.9 stable review (4 replies)
This is the start of the review cycle for the Linux 3.8.13.9 stable kernel. This version contains 24 new patches, summarized below. The new patches are posted as replies to this message and also...
View Article[PATCH] ar5523: Add USB ID of D-Link WUA-2340 rev A1 (no replies)
Signed-off-by: Albert Pool <albertpool@solcon.nl> Reported-by: Michael Landrum <landrummd@gmail.com> --- drivers/net/wireless/ath/ar5523/ar5523.c | 1 + 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+) diff...
View Article[PATCH 1/2] m68k: Add infrastructure for machine-specific get_cycles() (2...
Currently get_cycles() always returns zero. As get_cycles() is called to add entropy to the random number generator pool, security can be increased by adding a hook where platforms can provide their...
View Article[PATCH] perf/x86: fix uncore PCI fixed counter handling (no replies)
There was a bug in the handling of SNB-EP/IVB-EP uncore PCI fixed counters, e.g., IMC. It would cause erratic values to be returned for the IMC clockticks event. This was due to a bogus hwc->config...
View ArticleTrailing slash with symlinks and rmdir/rename (no replies)
Hi, I have noticed that if X is a symlink to a directory Y, doing "rmdir X/" or "mv X/ Z" does not behave how I expect. My reading of POSIX 2008 (and the behaviour of FreeBSD and OpenIndiana) is that...
View ArticleTPMs and random numbers (no replies)
It recently came to my attention that there are no standards whatsoever for random number generated by TPMs. In fact, there *are* TPMs where random numbers are generated by an encrypted nonvolatile...
View Article[PATCH 2/5] ARM64: Move some signal code to a seperate file to be reused by...
Since the ILP32 ABI uses similar signal code as the LP64 ABI, it makes sense to reuse rather than copy the same code. Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com> ---...
View Article[PATCH 3/5] FS: Export poll_select_copy_remaining and rename...
Hi, The ILP32 ABI in ARM64 uses a slightly different pselect from either the compat or even the native LP64 ABI. We would want to reuse some of the code path that are used as the size of the timespec...
View Article[PATCH 1/5] ARM64: Split out CONFIG_ARM64_AARCH32 from CONFIG_COMPAT....
Right now CONFIG_COMPAT means enabling AARCH32 support in the ARM64 traget, which we want to split out so we can it to mean any 32bit ABI support instead. --- arch/arm64/Kconfig | 6 +++++-...
View Article[RFC PATCH] mount: Add a flag to not follow symlink at the end of mount point...
I have a requirement where I want to make sure that mount() fails if mount point is a symlink. Hence introducing a new mount flag MS_NOSYMLINK. Following is little more info on what I am trying to do....
View Article[GIT PULL] clk: changes for 3.12 (1 reply)
The following changes since commit 3b2f64d00c46e1e4e9bd0bb9bb12619adac27a4b: Linux 3.11-rc2 (2013-07-21 12:05:29 -0700) are available in the git repository at:...
View Article[PATCH v3] Introduce page fault tracepoint (no replies)
Change from v2 - Print entry->ip instead of entry->regs->ip to avoid kernel crash. - Use %pf instead of 0x%lx to print address and ip. This patch introduces page fault tracepoints to x86...
View Article[PATCH] MAINTAINERS: update email for Dan Williams (no replies)
Returned to intel.com Cc: Vinod Koul <vinod.koul@intel.com> Cc: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org> Cc: Jon Mason <jon.mason@intel.com> Cc: Dave Jiang...
View Article[PATCH] target: Update copyright ownership/year information to 2013 (no replies)
From: Nicholas Bellinger <nab@linux-iscsi.org> Update copyright ownership/year information for target-core, loopback, iscsi-target, tcm_qla2xx, vhost and iser-target. Signed-off-by: Nicholas...
View Article[GIT PULL 1/3] ARM: SoC drivers for v3.12 (no replies)
This branch contains ARM SoC related driver updates for v3.12. The only thing this cycle are core PM updates and CPUidle support for ARM's TC2 big.LITTLE development platform. Conflicts: One...
View Article[GIT PULL 0/3] ARM: SoC: Second round of changes for v3.12 (5 replies)
Hi Linus, Here's a 2nd round of changes from ARM SoC land. The main thing of note (or of potential annoyance factor) here is the handful of conflicts in PULL 2/3 coming from platform changes...
View Article[PATCH 2/2] ARM: msm: Create a common board-dt and config ARCH_MSM_DT (1 reply)
Create a config ARCH_MSM_DT and common board-dt.c to encapsulate the MSM DT based targets. Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani <rvaswani@codeaurora.org> --- arch/arm/mach-msm/Kconfig | 13 +++++++----...
View Article[PATCH 1/2] ARM: msm: Remove irqs-*.h files for DT based targets (no replies)
From: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> We don't want or need the irqs.h files from the DT based MSM targets. Remove these header files and select sparse irq so that we don't try to include...
View Article[PATCH] clk: clean up everything on debugfs error (no replies)
If CONFIG_COMMON_CLK_DEBUG is defined, clk_debug_create_one() is called to populate a debugfs directory with a few entries that are common for all clock types. If an error happens after creating the...
View Article[PATCHv2 2/2] ARM: msm: Create a common board-dt and config ARCH_MSM_DT (1...
Create a config ARCH_MSM_DT and common board-dt.c to encapsulate the MSM DT based targets. Reviewed-by: Stephen Boyd <sboyd@codeaurora.org> Signed-off-by: Rohit Vaswani...
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