- 16 11月, 2008 13 次提交
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'doc-subdirs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs: Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
A common reason for device drivers to implement their own printk macros is the lack of a printk prefix with the standard pr_xyz macros. Introduce a pr_fmt() macro that is applied for every pr_xyz macro to the format string. The most common use of the pr_fmt macro would be to add the name of the device driver to all pr_xyz messages in a source file. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs: 9p: restrict RDMA usage
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: V4L/DVB (9624): CVE-2008-5033: fix OOPS on tvaudio when controlling bass/treble V4L/DVB (9623): tvaudio: Improve debug msg by printing something more human V4L/DVB (9622): tvaudio: Improve comments and remove a unneeded prototype V4L/DVB (9621): Avoid writing outside shadow.bytes[] array V4L/DVB (9620): tvaudio: use a direct reference for chip description V4L/DVB (9619): tvaudio: update initial comments V4L/DVB (9618): tvaudio: add additional logic to avoid OOPS V4L/DVB (9617): tvtime: remove generic_checkmode callback V4L/DVB (9616): tvaudio: cleanup - group all callbacks together V4L/DVB (9615): tvaudio: instead of using a magic number, use ARRAY_SIZE V4L/DVB (9613): tvaudio: fix a memory leak
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git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: [S390] fix s390x_newuname [S390] dasd: log sense for fatal errors [S390] cpu topology: fix locking [S390] cio: Fix refcount after moving devices. [S390] ftrace: fix kernel stack backchain walking [S390] ftrace: disable tracing on idle psw [S390] lockdep: fix compile bug [S390] kvm_s390: Fix oops in virtio device detection with "mem=" [S390] sclp: emit error message if assign storage fails [S390] Fix range for add_active_range() in setup_memory()
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] dpt_i2o: fix transferred data length for scsi_set_resid() [SCSI] scsi_error regression: Fix idempotent command handling [SCSI] zfcp: Fix hexdump data in s390dbf traces [SCSI] zfcp: fix erp timeout cleanup for port open requests [SCSI] zfcp: Wait for port scan to complete when setting adapter online [SCSI] zfcp: Fix cast warning [SCSI] zfcp: Fix request list handling in error path [SCSI] zfcp: fix mempool usage for status_read requests [SCSI] zfcp: fix req_list_locking. [SCSI] zfcp: Dont clear reference from SCSI device to unit [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.01-k9. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Return a FAILED status when abort mailbox-command fails. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Do not honour max_vports from firmware for 2G ISPs and below. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Use pci_disable_rom() to manipulate PCI config space. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct Atmel flash-part handling. [SCSI] megaraid: fix mega_internal_command oops
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由 David Woodhouse 提交于
This reverts commit e51af663, which was wrongly hoovered up and submitted about a month after a better fix had already been merged. The better fix is commit cbda1ba8 ("PCI/iommu: blacklist DMAR on Intel G31/G33 chipsets"), where we do this blacklisting based on the DMI identification for the offending motherboard, since sometimes this chipset (or at least a chipset with the same PCI ID) apparently _does_ actually have an IOMMU. Signed-off-by: NDavid Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 KOSAKI Motohiro 提交于
Hugh Dickins reported show_page_path() is buggy and unsafe because - lack dput() against d_find_alias() - don't concern vma->vm_mm->owner == NULL - lack lock_page() it was only for debugging, so rather than trying to fix it, just remove it now. Reported-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NHugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: NKOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> CC: Lee Schermerhorn <Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com> CC: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
m68k allmodconfig: | drivers/misc/c2port/core.c: In function 'c2port_reset': | drivers/misc/c2port/core.c:73: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type | drivers/misc/c2port/core.c: In function 'c2port_strobe_ck': | drivers/misc/c2port/core.c:91: error: dereferencing pointer to incomplete type Include <linux/sched.h> to fix it, as m68k's local_irq_enable() needs to know about struct task_struct. Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Geert Uytterhoeven 提交于
commit 69961c37 ("[PATCH] m68k/Atari: Interrupt updates") added a BUG_ON() with an incorrect upper bound comparison, which causes an early crash on VME boards, where IRQ_USER is 8, cnt is 192 and NR_IRQS is 200. Reported-by: NStephen N Chivers <schivers@csc.com.au> Tested-by: NKars de Jong <jongk@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NGeert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev: libata: improve phantom device detection
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由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
We don't want to get rid of the futexes just at exit() time, we want to drop them when doing an execve() too, since that gets rid of the previous VM image too. Doing it at mm_release() time means that we automatically always do it when we disassociate a VM map from the task. Reported-by: pageexec@freemail.hu Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Brad Spengler <spender@grsecurity.net> Cc: Alex Efros <powerman@powerman.name> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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由 Miquel van Smoorenburg 提交于
dpt_i2o.c::adpt_i2o_to_scsi() reads the value at (reply+5) which should contain the length in bytes of the transferred data. This would be correct if reply was a u32 *. However it is a void * here, so we need to read the value at (reply+20) instead. The value at (reply+5) is usually 0xff0000, which is apparently 'large enough' and didn't cause any trouble until 2.6.27 where commit 427e59f0 Author: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> Date: Sat Mar 8 18:24:17 2008 -0600 [SCSI] make use of the residue value caused this to become visible through e.g. iostat -x . Signed-off-by: NMiquel van Smoorenburg <mikevs@xs4all.net> Cc: Stable Tree <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
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- 15 11月, 2008 24 次提交
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由 Tejun Heo 提交于
Currently libata uses four methods to detect device presence. 1. PHY status if available. 2. TF register R/W test (only promotes presence, never demotes) 3. device signature after reset 4. IDENTIFY failure detection in SFF state machine Combination of the above works well in most cases but recently there have been a few reports where a phantom device causes unnecessary delay during probe. In both cases, PHY status wasn't available. In one case, it passed #2 and #3 and failed IDENTIFY with ATA_ERR which didn't qualify as #4. The other failed #2 but as it passed #3 and #4, it still caused failure. In both cases, phantom device reported diagnostic failure, so these cases can be safely worked around by considering any !ATA_DRQ IDENTIFY failure as NODEV_HINT if diagnostic failure is set. Signed-off-by: NTejun Heo <tj@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: NJeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
linux-next: Make 9p's RDMA option depend on INET since it uses Infiniband rdma_* functions and that code depends on INET. Otherwise 9p can try to use symbols which don't exist. ERROR: "rdma_destroy_id" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! ERROR: "rdma_connect" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! ERROR: "rdma_create_id" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! ERROR: "rdma_create_qp" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! ERROR: "rdma_resolve_route" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! ERROR: "rdma_disconnect" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! ERROR: "rdma_resolve_addr" [net/9p/9pnet_rdma.ko] undefined! I used an if/endif block so that the menu items would remain presented together. Also correct an article adjective. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NEric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
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由 Randy Dunlap 提交于
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it. Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory. Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/. Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/. Update all relevant 00-INDEX files. Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files. Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
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由 Martin Schwidefsky 提交于
The uname system call for 64 bit compares current->personality without masking the upper 16 bits. If e.g. READ_IMPLIES_EXEC is set the result of a uname system call will always be s390x even if the process uses the s390 personality. Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Stefan Haberland 提交于
The logging of sense data for fatal errors was accidentally removed during Hyper PAV implementation. Signed-off-by: NStefan Haberland <stefan.haberland@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
cpu_coregroup_map used to grab a mutex on s390 since it was only called from process context. Since c7c22e4d "block: add support for IO CPU affinity" this is not true anymore. It now also gets called from softirq context. To prevent possible deadlocks change this in architecture code and use a spinlock instead of a mutex. Cc: stable@kernel.org Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Cornelia Huck 提交于
In ccw_device_move_to_orphanage(), a replacing ccw_device is searched via get_{disc,orphaned}_ccwdev_by_dev_id() which obtain a reference on the returned ccw_device. This reference must be given up again after the device has been moved to its new parent. Signed-off-by: NCornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
With CONFIG_IRQSOFF_TRACER the trace_hardirqs_off() function includes a call to __builtin_return_address(1). But we calltrace_hardirqs_off() from early entry code. There we have just a single stack frame. So this results in a kernel stack backchain walk that would walk beyond the kernel stack. Following the NULL terminated backchain this results in a lowcore read access. To fix this we simply call trace_hardirqs_off_caller() and pass the current instruction pointer. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Disable tracing on idle psw. Otherwise it would give us huge preempt off times for idle. Which is rather pointless. Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
arch/s390/kernel/built-in.o: In function `cleanup_io_leave_insn': mem_detect.c:(.text+0x10592): undefined reference to `lockdep_sys_exit' Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Christian Borntraeger 提交于
The current virtio model on s390 has the descriptor page above the main memory. The guest virtio detection will oops if the mem= parameter is used to reduce/change the memory size. We have to use real_memory_size instead of max_pfn to detect the virtio descriptor pages. Signed-off-by: NChristian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com>
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由 Heiko Carstens 提交于
Signed-off-by: NHeiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Gerald Schaefer 提交于
add_active_range() expects start_pfn + size as end_pfn value, i.e. not the pfn of the last page frame but the one behind that. We used the pfn of the last page frame so far, which can lead to a BUG_ON in move_freepages(), when the kernelcore parameter is specified (page_zone(start_page) != page_zone(end_page)). Signed-off-by: NGerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMartin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
This bug were supposed to be fixed by 5ba2f67a, where a call to NULL happens. Not all tvaudio chips allow controlling bass/treble. So, the driver has a table with a flag to indicate if the chip does support it. Unfortunately, the handling of this logic were broken for a very long time (probably since the first module version). Due to that, an OOPS were generated for devices that don't support bass/treble. This were the resulting OOPS message before the patch, with debug messages enabled: tvaudio' 1-005b: VIDIOC_S_CTRL BUG: unable to handle kernel NULL pointer dereference at 00000000 IP: [<00000000>] *pde = 22fda067 *pte = 00000000 Oops: 0000 [#1] SMP Modules linked in: snd_hda_intel snd_seq_dummy snd_seq_oss snd_seq_midi_event snd_seq snd_seq_device snd_pcm_oss snd_mixer_oss snd_pcm snd_timer snd_hwdep snd soundcore tuner_simple tuner_types tea5767 tuner tvaudio bttv bridgebnep rfcomm l2cap bluetooth it87 hwmon_vid hwmon fuse sunrpc ipt_REJECT nf_conntrack_ipv4 iptable_filter ip_tables ip6t_REJECT xt_tcpudp nf_conntrack_ipv6 xt_state nf_conntrack ip6table_filter ip6_tables x_tables ipv6 dm_mirrordm_multipath dm_mod configfs videodev v4l1_compat ir_common 8139cp compat_ioctl32 v4l2_common 8139too videobuf_dma_sg videobuf_core mii btcx_risc tveeprom i915 button snd_page_alloc serio_raw drm pcspkr i2c_algo_bit i2c_i801 i2c_core iTCO_wdt iTCO_vendor_support sr_mod cdrom sg ata_generic pata_acpi ata_piix libata sd_mod scsi_mod ext3 jbdmbcache uhci_hcd ohci_hcd ehci_hcd [last unloaded: soundcore] Pid: 15413, comm: qv4l2 Not tainted (2.6.25.14-108.fc9.i686 #1) EIP: 0060:[<00000000>] EFLAGS: 00210246 CPU: 0 EIP is at 0x0 EAX: 00008000 EBX: ebd21600 ECX: e2fd9ec4 EDX: 00200046 ESI: f8c0f0c4 EDI: f8c0f0c4 EBP: e2fd9d50 ESP: e2fd9d2c DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 Process qv4l2 (pid: 15413, ti=e2fd9000 task=ebe44000 task.ti=e2fd9000) Stack: f8c0c6ae e2ff2a00 00000d00 e2fd9ec4 ebc4e000 e2fd9d5c f8c0c448 00000000 f899c12a e2fd9d5c f899c154 e2fd9d68 e2fd9d80 c0560185 e2fd9d88 f8f3e1d8 f8f3e1dc ebc4e034 f8f3e18c e2fd9ec4 00000000 e2fd9d90 f899c286 c008561c Call Trace: [<f8c0c6ae>] ? chip_command+0x266/0x4b6 [tvaudio] [<f8c0c448>] ? chip_command+0x0/0x4b6 [tvaudio] [<f899c12a>] ? i2c_cmd+0x0/0x2f [i2c_core] [<f899c154>] ? i2c_cmd+0x2a/0x2f [i2c_core] [<c0560185>] ? device_for_each_child+0x21/0x49 [<f899c286>] ? i2c_clients_command+0x1c/0x1e [i2c_core] [<f8f283d8>] ? bttv_call_i2c_clients+0x14/0x16 [bttv] [<f8f23601>] ? bttv_s_ctrl+0x1bc/0x313 [bttv] [<f8f23445>] ? bttv_s_ctrl+0x0/0x313 [bttv] [<f8b6096d>] ? __video_do_ioctl+0x1f84/0x3726 [videodev] [<c05abb4e>] ? sock_aio_write+0x100/0x10d [<c041b23e>] ? kmap_atomic_prot+0x1dd/0x1df [<c043a0c9>] ? enqueue_hrtimer+0xc2/0xcd [<c04f4fa4>] ? copy_from_user+0x39/0x121 [<f8b622b9>] ? __video_ioctl2+0x1aa/0x24a [videodev] [<c04054fd>] ? do_notify_resume+0x768/0x795 [<c043c0f7>] ? getnstimeofday+0x34/0xd1 [<c0437b77>] ? autoremove_wake_function+0x0/0x33 [<f8b62368>] ? video_ioctl2+0xf/0x13 [videodev] [<c048c6f0>] ? vfs_ioctl+0x50/0x69 [<c048c942>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x239/0x24c [<c048c995>] ? sys_ioctl+0x40/0x5b [<c0405bf2>] ? syscall_call+0x7/0xb [<c0620000>] ? cpuid4_cache_sysfs_exit+0x3d/0x69 ======================= Code: Bad EIP value. EIP: [<00000000>] 0x0 SS:ESP 0068:e2fd9d2c Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Before the patch, the used ioctl were printed as an hexadecimal code, hard to be understand without consulting the way _IO macros work. Instead, use the V4L default handler for printing such errors into a way that would be easier to understand. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Some comments are not clear enough. Improve it to allow a better understanding of the driver behavior. While there, remove an unneeded struct prototype. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
There were no check about the limits of shadow.bytes array. This offers a risk of writing values outside the limits, overriding other data areas. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Instead of storing the pointer for the proper entry at chip description table, the driver were storing an indirect reference, by using an index. Better to reference directly the data. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
A driver used on several bttv boards since 2000 is not experimental anymore ;) Remove it from the comments. While there, update copyrights addind a quick note about the "recent" updates since 2005. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
This patch checks for volume, bass, treble, set mode and get mode callbacks before actually enabling the code that would use them. Instead of aborting the driver for load, this patch will allow it to load with a reduced number of functionatities. This prevents OOPS if some board entry is missing a needed callback. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
generic_checkmode() were called, via a callback, for some tvaudio chips. There's just one callback code used on all those boards. So, it makes no sense on keeping this as a callback. Since there were some OOPS reported on tvaudio on kerneloops.org, this patch removes this callback, adding the code at the only place were it is called: inside chip_tread. A flag were added to indicate the need for a kernel thread to set stereo mode on cards that needs it. Using this more direct approach simplifies the code, making it more robust against human errors. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Also, the default standard is the first one. So, fix the comment at the array. Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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由 Mauro Carvalho Chehab 提交于
Signed-off-by: NMauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
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- 14 11月, 2008 3 次提交
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (25 commits) USB: net: asix: add support for Cables-to-Go USB Ethernet adapter USB: gadget: cdc-acm deadlock fix USB: EHCI: fix divide-by-zero bug USB: EHCI: fix handling of dead controllers usb: r8a66597-hcd: fix wrong data access in SuperH on-chip USB ub: stub pre_reset and post_reset to fix oops USB: SISUSB2VGA driver: add 0x0711, 0x0903 usb: unusual devs patch for Nokia 7610 Supernova USB: remove optional bus bindings in isp1760, fixing runtime warning + usb-serial-cp2101-add-enfora-gsm2228.patch added to -mm tree USB: storage: adjust comment in Kconfig USB: Fix PS3 USB shutdown problems USB: unusual_devs entry for Argosy USB mass-storage interface USB: cdc-acm.c: fix recursive lock in acm_start_wb error path USB: CP2101 Add device ID for AMB2560 USB: mention URB_FREE_BUFFER in usb_free_urb documentation USB: Add YISO u893 usb modem vendor and product IDs to option driver usb: musb: fix BULK request on different available endpoints usb: musb: fix debug global variable name usb: musb: Removes compilation warning in gadget mode ...
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm由 Linus Torvalds 提交于
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: dm: avoid destroying table in dm_any_congested dm: move pending queue wake_up end_io_acct dm mpath: warn if args ignored dm mpath: avoid attempting to activate null path dm stripe: fix init failure dm raid1: flush workqueue before destruction
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由 Chandra Seetharaman 提交于
dm_any_congested() just checks for the DMF_BLOCK_IO and has no code to make sure that suspend waits for dm_any_congested() to complete. This patch adds such a check. Without it, a race can occur with dm_table_put() attempting to destroying the table in the wrong thread, the one running dm_any_congested() which is meant to be quick and return immediately. Two examples of problems: 1. Sleeping functions called from congested code, the caller of which holds a spin lock. 2. An ABBA deadlock between pdflush and multipathd. The two locks in contention are inode lock and kernel lock. Signed-off-by: NChandra Seetharaman <sekharan@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: NMikulas Patocka <mpatocka@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: NAlasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
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