Re: [PATCH] Support for OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm

2012-10-08 Thread Maxin B John
Hi Greg, On Mon, Oct 8, 2012 at 7:55 PM, Greg KH wrote: > On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 05:29:43PM -0400, Maxin B. John wrote: >> Hi Greg, >> >> This driver helps us to control the OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm device. >> >> I have tested this driver in my x86 Laptop and it works as expected >> (Some clea

[PATCH] [staging][zram] Fix handling of incompressible pages

2012-10-08 Thread Nitin Gupta
Change 130f315a introduced a bug in the handling of incompressible pages which resulted in memory allocation failure for such pages. The fix is to store the page as-is i.e. without compression if the compressed size exceeds a threshold (max_zpage_size) and request exactly PAGE_SIZE sized buffer fro

Re: [PATCH] Support for OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm

2012-10-08 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 05:29:43PM -0400, Maxin B. John wrote: > Hi Greg, > > This driver helps us to control the OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm device. > > I have tested this driver in my x86 Laptop and it works as expected > (Some clean-ups and modifications are in the pipeline, though). > > After

Re: [PATCH] Staging: android: binder: Fixed multi-line strings

2012-10-08 Thread Joe Perches
On Tue, 2012-10-09 at 00:31 +0530, Anmol Sarma wrote: > Changed all user visible multi-line stings to single line. Another patch might be to add #define pr_fmt(fmt) KBUILD_MODNAME ": " fmt before any #include and > diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c > b/drivers/staging/android/binde

[PATCH] Support for OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm

2012-10-08 Thread Maxin B. John
Hi Greg, This driver helps us to control the OWI/Maplin USB Robotic Arm device. I have tested this driver in my x86 Laptop and it works as expected (Some clean-ups and modifications are in the pipeline, though). After review process and the life in staging,I hope this driver will find it's place

[PATCH] Staging: android: binder: Fixed multi-line strings

2012-10-08 Thread Anmol Sarma
Changed all user visible multi-line stings to single line. Signed-off-by: Anmol Sarma --- drivers/staging/android/binder.c | 264 ++ 1 file changed, 99 insertions(+), 165 deletions(-) diff --git a/drivers/staging/android/binder.c b/drivers/staging/android/bi

[PATCH 11/11] staging: comedi: adq12b: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/adq12b.c | 38 ++--- 1 file changed, 7 insertion

[PATCH 10/11] staging: comedi: aio_iiro_16: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/aio_iiro_16.c | 19 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 d

[PATCH 09/11] staging: comedi: cb_pcimdas: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/cb_pcimdas.c | 94 +++-- 1 file changed, 9 insertion

[PATCH 08/11] staging: comedi: das16m1: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/das16m1.c | 31 +++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions

[PATCH 07/11] staging: comedi: dmm32at: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/dmm32at.c | 22 -- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 18 d

[PATCH 06/11] staging: comedi: ke_counter: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ke_counter.c | 44 ++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertion

[PATCH 05/11] staging: comedi: pcm3724: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcm3724.c | 32 +++- 1 file changed, 7 insertion

[PATCH 04/11] staging: comedi: pcmda12: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmda12.c | 19 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 18 delet

[PATCH 03/11] staging: comedi: pcmmio: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/pcmmio.c | 101 +++- 1 file changed, 20 insertio

[PATCH 02/11] staging: comedi: serial2002: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/serial2002.c | 16 +--- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 15 delet

[PATCH 01/11] staging: comedi: ssv_dnp: remove boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver only supports a single "boardtype". Remove the unneeded boardinfo struct and its use in the driver. Change the "driver_name" to match what the boardinfo supplied. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/ssv_dnp.c | 2

[PATCH 00/11] staging: comedi: remove unnecessary boardinfo

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
A number of comedi drivers only support a single board type so the 'boardinfo' in unnecessary. Remove the use of the 'boardinfo' in all those drivers. H Hartley Sweeten (11): staging: comedi: ssv_dnp: remove boardinfo staging: comedi: serial2002: remove boardinfo staging: comedi: pcmmio: rem

[PATCH] staging: comedi: mpc8260cpm: remove driver

2012-10-08 Thread H Hartley Sweeten
This driver is incomplete and seriously broken. It can't be enabled in the Kconfig and it's not even set up to be compiled. Just remove it. Signed-off-by: H Hartley Sweeten Cc: Ian Abbott Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- drivers/staging/comedi/drivers/mpc8260cpm.c | 164

[PATCH v5] dma-debug: New interfaces to debug dma mapping errors

2012-10-08 Thread Shuah Khan
Add dma-debug interface debug_dma_mapping_error() to debug drivers that fail to check dma mapping errors on addresses returned by dma_map_single() and dma_map_page() interfaces. This interface clears a flag set by debug_dma_map_page() to indicate that dma_mapping_error() has been called by the driv

Re: [PATCH v4] dma-debug: New interfaces to debug dma mapping errors

2012-10-08 Thread Shuah Khan
On Fri, 2012-10-05 at 15:51 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > > Still seems overly complicated to me, but whatev. > > I think the way to handle this is pretty simple: set a flag in the dma > entry when someone runs dma_mapping_error() and, if that flag wasn't > set at unmap time, emit a loud warning

Re: [stable 2.6.36+] lirc_sir: make device registration work

2012-10-08 Thread Greg KH
On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 03:31:54PM -0300, Mauro Carvalho Chehab wrote: > Hi Greg, > > Em Thu, 27 Sep 2012 11:18:40 -0700 > Greg KH escreveu: > > > On Wed, Aug 01, 2012 at 03:51:09PM +0200, Stefan Lippers-Hollmann wrote: > > > Hi > > > > > > Please consider adding "[media] lirc_sir: make device

RE: [PATCH 1/1] Drivers: scsi: storvsc: Account for in-transit packets in the RESET path

2012-10-08 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: K. Y. Srinivasan [mailto:k...@microsoft.com] > Sent: Tuesday, October 02, 2012 2:04 PM > To: gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; oher...@suse.com; jbottom...@parallels.com; > h...@infradead.org; linux-s...@

Re: [RFC PATCH 0/7] Improve swiotlb performance by using physical addresses

2012-10-08 Thread Alexander Duyck
On 10/06/2012 10:57 AM, Andi Kleen wrote: >> Inlining everything did speed things up a bit, but I still didn't reach >> the same speed I achieved using the patch set. However I did notice the >> resulting swiotlb code was considerably larger. > Thanks. So your patch makes sense, but imho should pu

RE: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver

2012-10-08 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Rusty Russell [mailto:ru...@ozlabs.org] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:46 AM > To: KY Srinivasan; gre...@linuxfoundation.org; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; > devel@linuxdriverproject.org; o...@aepfle.de; a...@canonical.com; > a...@linux-foundation.org; a..

[PATCH] staging: ste_rmi4: use module_i2c_driver to simplify the code

2012-10-08 Thread Wei Yongjun
From: Wei Yongjun Use the module_i2c_driver() macro to make the code smaller and a bit simpler. dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch. (https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun --- drivers/staging/ste_rmi4/synaptics_i2c_rmi4.c | 24 +--- 1 fi

RE: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as

2012-10-08 Thread KY Srinivasan
> -Original Message- > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 9:36 AM > To: KY Srinivasan > Cc: o...@aepfle.de; linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; a...@firstfloor.org; > a...@canonical.com; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; a...@linux-foundation.org > Su

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: Export vm_committed_as

2012-10-08 Thread Greg KH
On Mon, Oct 08, 2012 at 03:35:50AM +, KY Srinivasan wrote: > > > > -Original Message- > > From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@linuxfoundation.org] > > Sent: Sunday, October 07, 2012 8:44 PM > > To: KY Srinivasan > > Cc: linux-ker...@vger.kernel.org; devel@linuxdriverproject.org; > > o...@ae

[PATCH] [media] staging :go700: use module_i2c_driver to simplify the code

2012-10-08 Thread Wei Yongjun
From: Wei Yongjun Use the module_i2c_driver() macro to make the code smaller and a bit simpler. dpatch engine is used to auto generate this patch. (https://github.com/weiyj/dpatch) Signed-off-by: Wei Yongjun --- drivers/staging/media/go7007/wis-uda1342.c| 13 + drivers/staging

Re: [PATCH 2/2] Drivers: hv: Add Hyper-V balloon driver

2012-10-08 Thread Rusty Russell
"K. Y. Srinivasan" writes: > +static int hot_add; > + > +module_param(hot_add, int, S_IRUGO); > +MODULE_PARM_DESC(hot_add, "If set attempt memory hot_add"); I think this should be a 'bool', but I can't tell, since it's not used in this patch. Cheers, Rusty. __