Re: powernow-k8 and non-standard multipliers

Langsdorf, Mark wrote: > > The standard PowerNow! driver, by design, will stop > working in this situation. I'm not going to support > a driver that allows non-standard multipliers because > it could cause a lot of hard to debug maintenance > issues. Just a follow-up to get this into the

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, David Brownell wrote: > On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > > struct gpio_desc { > >struct gpio_chip *chip; > >int pinoffset; > > }; > > Eric Miao has a different notion of "gpio_desc" more analagous to > the "irq_desc", so I'll not use

Re: [patch 06/23] Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculations.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 11:00:39PM -0800, David Miller wrote: > > I was just about to mention this and what I think we should do > instead is keep the SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculation fix in there > (it fixes a serious bug which users are hitting) and add the > fix for the second bug fix this round

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Wed, 14 Nov 2007, David Brownell wrote: > > The protection of the chip list can be converted to a mutex and > > does not need to be a spinlock at all. > > No, we still need to use a spinlock to protect table changes. > The reason for that is briefly: > > - gpio_request()/gpio_free() have so

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > struct gpio_desc { >        struct gpio_chip *chip; >        int pinoffset; > }; Eric Miao has a different notion of "gpio_desc" more analagous to the "irq_desc", so I'll not use that name for such a structure. Let me call yours a "struct

Re: [patch 16/19] x86 setup: handle boot loaders which set up the stack incorrectly

Greg KH wrote: -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: H. Peter Anvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 6b6815c6d5d1dc209701d1661a7a0e09a295db2f in mainline. Apparently some specific versions of LILO enter the kernel with a stack pointer that

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Haavard Skinnemoen wrote: > On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 00:37:57 -0800 > David Brownell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Although another point is related to "trivial": the data > > is being protected through an operation too trivial to be > > worth paying for any of that

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Wednesday 14 November 2007, Thomas Gleixner wrote: > On Mon, 12 Nov 2007, David Brownell wrote: > > > I'm still trying to understand what you've observed here. Is it the case > > > that a single gpio operation went from 6.4 up to 11.2 usecs? > > > > That was a single bitbanged I2C bit

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > All this does is prevent constant and needless checking for > > "do you want to preempt me now?" "now?" "now?" in "now?" the > > middle "now?" of "now?" i/o "now?" loops. > > Actually that's wrong. Certainly it's right for the mainstream

Re: [patch 2.6.24-rc2 1/3] generic gpio -- gpio_chip support

On Tuesday 13 November 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > But these ones > > > are raw locks rather than normal locks probably because that > > > they are trivially an innermost and correct lock. > > > > As in the $SUBJECT case, I'd say. > > > > Although another point is related to "trivial":  the

Re: [stable] warning, huge 2.6.23-stable review cycle about to start

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 09:59:02PM -0800, Greg Kroah-Hartman wrote: > Ok, I've been slacking on the -stable front for a bit here, and didn't > realize how far behind I've gotten. Everyone has been sending patches > in, which is great, but now we are facing a HUGE 114 patch release. > > As

Re: [patch 06/23] Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculations.

From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 14:29:39 +0800 > On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:20:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > > > -- > > > > From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > >

Re: OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"

From: Eric Dumazet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2007 07:29:47 +0100 > hrtime_t > ts2hrt(const timestruc_t *tsp) > { > return tsp->tv_sec * NANOSEC + tsp->tv_nsec; > } > > can be inlined as it is trivial (and much faster than Solaris version) > > movq(%rdi), %rdx >

[patch 2/3] ocfs2: fix write() performance regression

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Mark Fasheh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 4e9563fd55ff4479f2b118d0757d121dd0cfc39c in mainline. ocfs2: fix write() performance regression On file systems which don't support sparse files,

[patch 3/3] NFS: Fix a writeback race...

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Trond Myklebust <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 61e930a904966cc37e0a3404276f0b73037e57ca in mainline This patch fixes a regression that was introduced by commit 44dd151d5c21234cc534c47d7382f5c28c3143cd

[patch 01/40] POWERPC: Fix platinumfb framebuffer

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Patch 4c2a54b09ba35a409afc34bd331a57a994921664 in mailine. Current kernels have a non-working platinumfb due to some resource management issues. This

[patch 03/40] hwmon/w83627hf: Fix setting fan min right after driver load

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Already in Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=c09c5184a26158da32801e89d5849d774605f0dd We need to read

[patch 16/16] zd1211rw, fix oops when ejecting install media

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Marc Pignat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch e0579d576cb894a4cf3c5af04fbf38e8c1281738 in mainline. The disconnect function can dereference the net_device structure when it is never allocated. This is

[patch 00/40] 2.6.23-stable review, driver (sans network) changes

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.23.X release. There are 40 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[patch 12/16] sky2: fix power settings on Yukon XL

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch ff35164e72648e0bf0b10ec4410c195e8607e88b in mainline. Make sure PCI register for PHY power gets set correctly. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger

[patch 07/16] Fix L2TP oopses.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: James Chapman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changeset 91781004b9c029ee55b7aa9ef950a373ba865dc6 in mainline. [PPP]: L2TP: Fix oops in transmit and receive paths Changes made on 18-sep to fix skb handling in

[patch 00/16] 2.6.23-stable review, network driver changes

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.23.X release. There are 16 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[patch 06/16] TG3: Fix performance regression on 5705.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Michael Chan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 114342f2d38439cb1a54f1f724fa38729b093c48 in mainline. A performance regression was introduced by the following commit: commit

[patch 0/3] 2.6.23-stable review, filesystem changes

This is the start of the stable review cycle for the 2.6.23.X release. There are 3 patches in this series, all will be posted as a response to this one. If anyone has any issues with these being applied, please let us know. If anyone is a maintainer of the proper subsystem, and wants to add a

[patch 1/3] minixfs: limit minixfs printks on corrupted dir i_size (CVE-2006-6058)

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Eric Sandeen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch f44ec6f3f89889a469773b1fd894f8fcc07c29cf upstream. This attempts to address CVE-2006-6058 http://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2006-6058 first

[patch 39/40] ACPI: sleep: Fix GPE suspend cleanup

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch is 9c1c6a1ba786d58bd03e27ee49f89a5685e8e07b in mainline. ACPI: sleep: Fix GPE suspend cleanup Commit 9b039330808b83acac3597535da26f47ad1862ce removed

[patch 40/40] ACPI: suspend: Wrong order of GPE restore.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Alexey Starikovskiy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> commit 1dbc1fda5d8ca907f320b806005d4a447977d26a in mainline. ACPI: suspend: Wrong order of GPE restore. acpi_leave_sleep_state() should have correct list

[patch 38/40] libata: backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA, part 2

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. P5W-DH Deluxe has ICH7R which doesn't have PMP support but SIMG 4726 hardwired to the second port of

[patch 36/40] libata: add HTS542525K9SA00 to NCQ blacklist

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch e14cbfa630cd3ab2631ee21b718b290928f47868 in mainline. Another one doing spurious NCQ completions. Blacklist it. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[patch 37/40] libata: backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Differs from mainline, but the functionality is already there. Backport ATA_FLAG_NO_SRST and ATA_FLAG_ASSUME_ATA. These are originally link flags (ATA_LFLAG_*) but

[patch 34/40] Char: moxa, fix and optimise empty timer

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch c43422053bea7a5ce09f18d0c50a606fe1a549f4 in mainline. moxa, fix and optimise empty timer don't wait and delete empty timer in empty timer function. Also fire

[patch 35/40] radeon: set the address to access the GART table on the CPU side correctly

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream as 7fc86860cf73e060ab8ed9763010dfe5b5389b1c This code relied on the CPU and GPU address for the aperture being the same, On some r5xx hardware I was

[patch 32/40] hptiop: avoid buffer overflow when returning sense data

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: HighPoint Linux Team <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 0fec02c93f60fb44ba3a24a0d3e4a52521d34d3f in mainline. avoid buffer overflow when returning sense data. With current adapter firmware the driver is

[patch 33/40] Char: rocket, fix dynamic_dev tty

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jiri Slaby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch ac6aec2f5683588361ab408cb3346b08c66bdfbe in mainline. - register_device unconditionally (non-pci dependent) to have also isa devices in /dev - unregister

[patch 30/40] ide: Fix siimage driver accessing beyond array boundary

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch a87a87ccdc541e0a0cc8c7d01a365be8d9153a7b in mainline. The siimage uses an incorrect construct to access the other drive of a pair, causing it to

[patch 31/40] ide: Fix cs5535 driver accessing beyond array boundary

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 15d8061bf02aa299b2447f7a22fd18b4a503ea9d in mainline. The cs5535 uses an incorrect construct to access the other drive of a pair, causing it to

[patch 28/40] ide: fix serverworks.c UDMA regression

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tony Battersby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 0c824b51b338c808de650b440ba5f9f4a725f7fc in mainline. The patch described by the following excerpt from ChangeLog-2.6.22 makes it impossible to use UDMA on

[patch 29/40] ide: Add ide_get_paired_drive() helper

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 1b678347121001c3c230c6eccfdf9f65c3ec1a4e in mainline. This adds a helper to get to the "other" drive on a pair connected to a given hwif.

[patch 26/40] i4l: Fix random hard freeze with AVM c4 card

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 1ccfd63367c1a6aaf8b33943f18856dde85f2f0b in mainline. The patch - Includes the call to capilib_data_b3_req in the spinlock. This routine in turn calls the

[patch 27/40] i4l: fix random freezes with AVM B1 drivers

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Karsten Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 9713d9e650045f7f2afd81d58a068827be306993 in mainline. This fix the same issue which was debbuged for the C4 controller for the B1 versions. The capilib_

[patch 25/40] ALSA: hda-codec - Add array terminator for dmic in STAC codec

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch f6e9852ad05fa28301c83d4e2b082620de010358 in mainline. [ALSA] hda-codec - Add array terminator for dmic in STAC codec Reported by Jan-Marek Glogowski. The

[patch 23/40] USB: add URB_FREE_BUFFER to permissible flags

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Oliver Neukum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 0b28baaf74ca04be2e0cc4d4dd2bbc801697f744 in mainline. URB_FREE_BUFFER needs to be allowed in the sanity checks to use drivers that use that flag.

[patch 24/40] USB: usbserial - fix potential deadlock between write() and IRQ

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jiri Kosina <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch acd2a847e7fee7df11817f67dba75a2802793e5d in mainline. USB: usbserial - fix potential deadlock between write() and IRQ usb_serial_generic_write() doesn't

[patch 20/40] USB: remove USB_QUIRK_NO_AUTOSUSPEND

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch a691efa9888e71232dfb4088fb8a8304ffc7b0f9 in mainline. This patch (as995) cleans up the remains of the former NO_AUTOSUSPEND quirk. Since autosuspend is

[patch 22/40] USB: mutual exclusion for EHCI init and port resets

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Alan Stern <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 32fe01985aa2cb2562f6fc171e526e279abe10db in mainline. This patch (as999) fixes a problem that sometimes shows up when host controller driver modules are

[patch 19/40] MSI: Use correct data offset for 32-bit MSI in read_msi_msg()

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch cbf5d9e6b9bcf03291cbb51db144b3e2773a8a2d in mainline. While reading the MSI code trying to find a reason why MSI wouldn't work for devices that have a

[patch 21/40] usb-gadget-ether: prevent oops caused by error interrupt race

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Benedikt Spranger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 5395353e0c8272fe73ac914acd7e4add0da2bef0 in mainline. Fix a longstanding race in the Ethernet gadget driver, which can cause an oops on device

[patch 17/40] md: fix an unsigned compare to allow creation of bitmaps with v1.0 metadata

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: NeilBrown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 85bfb4da8cad483a4e550ec89060d05a4daf895b in mainline. As page->index is unsigned, this all becomes an unsigned comparison, which almost always returns an

[patch 18/40] md: raid5: fix clearing of biofill operations

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> raid5: fix clearing of biofill operations This is the correct merge of the two upstream patches for this issue (it was mis-merged...) ops_complete_biofill() runs

[patch 15/40] dm delay: fix status

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Milan Broz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 79662d1ea37392651f2cff08626cab6a40ba3adc in mainline. Fix missing space in dm-delay target status output if separate read and write delay are configured.

[patch 16/40] dm: fix thaw_bdev

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jun'ichi Nomura <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch ae9da83f6d800fe1f3b23bfbc8f7222ad1c5bb74 in mainline. This patch fixes a bd_mount_sem counter corruption bug in device-mapper. thaw_bdev() should be

[patch 13/40] ALSA: hdsp - Fix zero division

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 2a3988f6d2c5be9d02463097775d1c66a8290527 in mainline. Fix zero-division bug in the calculation dds offset. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[patch 14/40] libata: sync NCQ blacklist with upstream

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Synchronize NCQ blacklist with the current upstream. Based on changes already in Linus's 2.6.24-rc kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Jeff

[patch 11/40] ALSA: Fix build error without CONFIG_HAS_DMA

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 8f11551b1798170dcffdd28475075ca4f1c6c990 in mainline [ALSA] Fix build error without CONFIG_HAS_DMA The recent change of

[patch 12/40] ALSA: emu10k1 - Fix memory corruption

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 7583cb51a1e276591f57a2fae05489c878f8ef54 from mainline. [ALSA] emu10k1 - Fix memory corruption The number of mixer elements for SPDIF control don't match

[patch 09/40] ALSA: hda-codec - Avoid zero NID in line_out_pinsof STAC codecs

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Takashi Iwai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch c480f79bdca58923e605ff5e4698cfe1779bae70 in mainline [ALSA] hda-codec - Avoid zero NID in line_out_pins[] of STAC codecs The STAC codes adds line_out_pins[]

[patch 10/40] ALSA: fix selector unit bug affecting some USB speakerphones

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Russ Cox <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 38977e96cb32e658716e11a05ec7f1fc4618e0f3 in mainline. [ALSA] fix selector unit bug affecting some USB speakerphones Following the suggestion in this thread:

[patch 07/40] IB/uverbs: Fix checking of userspace object ownership

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream as cbfb50e6e2e9c580848c0f51d37c24cdfb1cb704 Commit 9ead190b ("IB/uverbs: Don't serialize with ib_uverbs_idr_mutex") rewrote how userspace objects are

[patch 08/40] IB/mthca: Use mmiowb() to avoid firmware commands getting jumbled up

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Roland Dreier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream as 76d7cc0345a037e8eea426f8abc710abd22946dd Firmware commands are sent to the HCA by writing multiple words to a command register block. Access to this

[patch 05/40] hwmon/lm87: Fix a division by zero

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Already in Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=b965d4b7f614522170af6a7e450be0333792ccd2 Missing

[patch 06/40] hwmon/lm87: Disable VID when it should be

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Already in Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=889af3d5d9586db795a06c619e416b4baee11da8 A stupid bit

[patch 02/40] i915: fix vbl swap allocation size.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> This is upstream as 54583bf4efda79388fc13163e35c016c8bc5de81 Oops... Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[EMAIL

[patch 04/40] hwmon/w83627hf: Dont assume bank 0

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jean Delvare <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Already in Linus' tree: http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commitdiff;h=d58df9cd788e6fb4962e1c8d5ba7b8b95d639a44 The bank switching

[patch 15/16] rtl8187: Fix more frag bit checking, rts duration calc

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Michael Wu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 98798f4875b7149db4eb7d0a126fc6dcd9637821 in mainline. The wrong pointer is passed to ieee80211_get_morefrag. Fix this. While we're at it, reorder things so

[patch 13/16] zd1201: avoid null ptr access of skb->dev

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 3ba72b25211217de195e3f528dd36132b38a205b in mainline. skb->dev is not set until eth_type_trans is called... Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <[EMAIL

[patch 14/16] ipw2100: send WEXT scan events

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dan Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch d20c678a450a25c1c12925f60c1b4cc040acc17d in mainline ipw2100 wasn't sending WEXT scan events at all on scan completion. And like ipw2200, the driver

[patch 11/16] sky2: ethtool register reserved area blackout

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 295b54c4902c52cd00d7c837d50a86e39e26caec in mainline. Make sure and not dump reserved areas of device space. Touching some of these causes machine

[patch 10/16] sky2: status ring race fix

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch ab5adecb2d02f3688719dfb5936a82833fcc3955 in mainline. The D-Link PCI-X board (and maybe others) can lie about status ring entries. It seems it will

[patch 09/16] skge: XM PHY handling fixes

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 501fb72d052d2a302b423bef7dec98d9d98c8a36 in mainline. Change how PHY is managed on SysKonnect fibre based boards. Poll for PHY coming up 1 per second,

[patch 08/16] skge: fix ram buffer size calculation

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Stephen Hemminger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 7fb7ac241162dc51ec0f7644d4a97b2855213c32 in mainline. This fixes problems with transmit hangs on older fiber based SysKonnect boards. Adjust ram buffer

[patch 03/16] ehea: 64K page kernel support fix

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jan-Bernd Themann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> based on 2c69448bbcedebeb8409ddb05fbc7d3fe1cfbda7 in mainline. The current eHEA module compiled for 64K page kernels can not be loaded with insmod due to bad

[patch 04/16] forcedeth msi bugfix

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Manfred Spraul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch a7475906bc496456ded9e4b062f94067fb93057a in mainline. pci_enable_msi() replaces the INTx irq number in pci_dev->irq with the new MSI irq number. The

[patch 01/16] libertas: more endianness breakage

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> based on patch 8362cd413e8116306fafbaf414f0419db0595142 in mainline. domain->header.len is le16 and has just been assigned cpu_to_le16(arithmetical

[patch 05/16] forcedeth: add MCP77 device IDs

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ayaz Abdulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 96fd4cd3e40e240f0c385af87f58e74da8b7099a in mainline. Signed-off-by: Ayaz Abdulla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

[patch 04/13] param_sysfs_builtin memchr argument fix

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Dave Young <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch faf8c714f4508207a9c81cc94dafc76ed6680b44 in mainline. If memchr argument is longer than strlen(kp->name), there will be some weird result. It will casuse

[patch 02/16] libertas: fix endianness breakage

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 5707708111ca6c4e9a1160acffdc98a98d95e462 in mainline. wep->keytype[] is u8 Signed-off-by: Al Viro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

[patch 03/13] Remove broken ptrace() special-case code from file mapping

stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- The kernel has for random historical reasons allowed ptrace() accesses to access (and insert) pages into the page cache above the size of the file. However, Nick broke that by mistake when doing the new

Re: OT: Does Linux have any "Perfect Code"

Russell Leighton a écrit : Bryan Cantrill of Sun (ala DTrace) has a notion of perfect code: http://blogs.sun.com/bmc/entry/on_i_dreaming_in_code He also has some examples (from bottom comment section of above): Can you list a small number of examples of "software perfection"? Posted

Re: [patch 06/23] Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculations.

On Wed, Nov 14, 2007 at 10:20:22PM -0800, Greg KH wrote: > -stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. > > -- > > From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > patch deea84b0ae3d26b41502ae0a39fe7fe134e703d0 in mainline. > > [NET]: Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD

[patch 22/23] mac80211: only honor IW_SCAN_THIS_ESSID in STA, IBSS, and AP modes

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch d114f399b4da6fa7f9da3bbf1fb841370c11e788 in mainline. The previous IW_SCAN_THIS_ESSID patch left a hole allowing scan requests on interfaces in

[patch 23/23] mac80211: make ieee802_11_parse_elems return void

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 67a4cce4a89718d252b61aaf58882c69c0e2f6e3 in mainline. Some APs send management frames with junk padding after the last IE. We already account for a

[patch 21/23] mac80211: honor IW_SCAN_THIS_ESSID in siwscan ioctl

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Bill Moss <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 107acb23ba763197d390ae9ffd347f3e2a524d39 in mainline. This patch fixes the problem of associating with wpa_secured hidden AP. Please try out. The original

[patch 19/23] mac80211: store channel info in sta_bss_list

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 65c107ab3befc37b21d1c970a6159525bc0121b8 in mainline. Some AP equipment "in the wild" uses the same BSSID on multiple channels (particularly "a" vs.

[patch 20/23] mac80211: store SSID in sta_bss_list

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: John W. Linville <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch cffdd30d20d163343b1c6de25bcb0cc978a1ebf9 in mainline. Some AP equipment "in the wild" services multiple SSIDs using the same BSSID. This patch changes

[patch 17/23] ieee80211: fix TKIP QoS bug

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch e797aa1b7da6bfcb2e19a10ae5ead9aa7aea732b in mainline. The commit 65b6a277 titled "ieee80211: Fix header->qos_ctl endian issue" *introduced* an endianness

[patch 18/23] mac80211: reorder association debug output

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 1dd84aa213d0f98a91a1ec9be2f750f5f48e75a0 in mainline. There's no reason to warn about an invalid AID field when the association was denied. Signed-off-by:

[patch 15/23] Fix netlink timeouts.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [NETLINK]: Fix unicast timeouts [ Upstream commit: c3d8d1e30cace31fed6186a4b8c6b1401836d89c ] Commit ed6dcf4a in the history.git tree broke netlink_unicast

[patch 16/23] NETFILTER: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection reopening

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Jozsef Kadlecsik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Upstream commits: 17311393 + bc34b841 merged together. Merge done by Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection

[patch 13/23] Fix SET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD error return.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch fffe470a803e7f7b74c016291e542a0162761209 in mainline. [VLAN]: Fix SET_VLAN_INGRESS_PRIORITY_CMD ioctl Based on report and patch by Doug Kehn <[EMAIL

[patch 14/23] Fix crypto_alloc_comp() error checking.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [IPSEC]: Fix crypto_alloc_comp error checking [ Upstream commit: 4999f3621f4da622e77931b3d33ada6c7083c705 ] The function crypto_alloc_comp returns an errno instead

[patch 10/23] Fix TEQL oops.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Evgeniy Polyakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [PKT_SCHED]: Fix OOPS when removing devices from a teql queuing discipline [ Upstream commit: 4f9f8311a08c0d95c70261264a2b47f2ae99683a ] tecl_reset() is

[patch 11/23] Fix endianness bug in U32 classifier.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Radu Rendec <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> changeset 543821c6f5dea5221426eaf1eac98b100249c7ac in mainline. [PKT_SCHED] CLS_U32: Fix endianness problem with u32 classifier hash masks. While trying to

[patch 12/23] Fix VLAN address syncing.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch d932e04a5e7b146c5f9bf517714b986a432a7594 in mainline. [PATCH] [VLAN]: Don't synchronize addresses while the vlan device is down While the VLAN device

[patch 08/23] softmac: fix wext MLME request reason code endianness

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Johannes Berg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 94e10bfb8a7372df3ef2759c9ec2a37de2f24aca in mainline. The MLME request reason code is host-endian and our passing it to the low level functions is

[patch 09/23] Fix error returns in sys_socketpair()

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: David Miller <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch bf3c23d171e35e6e168074a1514b0acd59cfd81a in mainline. [NET]: Fix error reporting in sys_socketpair(). If either of the two sock_alloc_fd() calls fail, we

[patch 06/23] Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculations.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Herbert Xu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch deea84b0ae3d26b41502ae0a39fe7fe134e703d0 in mainline. [NET]: Fix SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD calculation The calculation in SKB_WITH_OVERHEAD is incorrect in that it

[patch 07/23] Fix kernel_accept() return handling.

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Tony Battersby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch fa8705b00aeca19d91a1437b8a5cf865999b28f6 in mainline. [NET]: sanitize kernel_accept() error path If kernel_accept() returns an error, it may pass back a

[patch 04/23] Fix advertised packet scheduler timer resolution

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Patrick McHardy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 3c0cfc135829b98f7a4894938652f9ef78e24237 in mainline The fourth parameter of /proc/net/psched is supposed to show the timer resultion and is used by HTB

[patch 05/23] Fix 9P protocol build

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Ingo Molnar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 092e9d93b3728d484a4e73df9852dc4002cf9923 in mainline. [9P]: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL found via make randconfig build testing: net/built-in.o: In

[patch 02/23] mac80211: Improve sanity checks on injected packets

-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Andy Green <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> patch 9b8a74e3482f9fc077a88c13fa0ceca8feb0b772 in mainline. Michael Wu noticed that the skb length checking is not taken care of enough when a packet is presented on

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