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<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Bernhard has moved</title>
<updated>2009-02-18T23:37:56+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Bernhard Walle</name>
<email>bernhard.walle@gmx.de</email>
</author>
<published>2009-02-18T22:48:40+00:00</published>
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Since I don't work for SUSE any more and the bwalle@suse.de address is
invalid, correct it in the copyright headers and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle &lt;bernhard.walle@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Since I don't work for SUSE any more and the bwalle@suse.de address is
invalid, correct it in the copyright headers and documentation.

Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle &lt;bernhard.walle@gmx.de&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>DMI: Introduce dmi_first_match to make the interface more flexible</title>
<updated>2009-01-27T07:15:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Rafael J. Wysocki</name>
<email>rjw@sisk.pl</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-19T19:55:50+00:00</published>
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Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to
spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5.
This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the
last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the
kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS.
This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times.

To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems
using DMI information.  However, only the on-board controlles should
be blacklisted and their PCI slot numbers can be used for this
purpose.  Unfortunately the existing interface for checking DMI
information of the system is not very convenient for this purpose,
because to use it, we would have to define special callback functions
or create a separate struct dmi_system_id table for each blacklisted
system.

To overcome this difficulty introduce a new function
dmi_first_match() returning a pointer to the first entry in an array
of struct dmi_system_id elements that matches the system DMI
information.  Then, we can use this pointer to access the entry's
.driver_data field containing the additional information, such as
the PCI slot number, allowing us to do the desired blacklisting.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Some notebooks from HP have the problem that their BIOSes attempt to
spin down hard drives before entering ACPI system states S4 and S5.
This leads to a yo-yo effect during system power-off shutdown and the
last phase of hibernation when the disk is first spun down by the
kernel and then almost immediately turned on and off by the BIOS.
This, in turn, may result in shortening the disk's life times.

To prevent this from happening we can blacklist the affected systems
using DMI information.  However, only the on-board controlles should
be blacklisted and their PCI slot numbers can be used for this
purpose.  Unfortunately the existing interface for checking DMI
information of the system is not very convenient for this purpose,
because to use it, we would have to define special callback functions
or create a separate struct dmi_system_id table for each blacklisted
system.

To overcome this difficulty introduce a new function
dmi_first_match() returning a pointer to the first entry in an array
of struct dmi_system_id elements that matches the system DMI
information.  Then, we can use this pointer to access the entry's
.driver_data field containing the additional information, such as
the PCI slot number, allowing us to do the desired blacklisting.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki &lt;rjw@sisk.pl&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dell_rbu: use scnprintf() instead of less secure sprintf()</title>
<updated>2009-01-17T22:27:18+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Pavel Roskin</name>
<email>proski@gnu.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-17T18:33:03+00:00</published>
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Reading 0 bytes from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type or
/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size by an ordinary user causes an
oops.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin &lt;proski@gnu.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Reading 0 bytes from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/image_type or
/sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size by an ordinary user causes an
oops.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Roskin &lt;proski@gnu.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Make various things static</title>
<updated>2009-01-08T16:31:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Roel Kluin</name>
<email>roel.kluin@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-08T02:09:15+00:00</published>
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Building an allnoconfig kernel, sparse asked whether these could be
static, so I checked, and they are only used in the file where they are
declared.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Building an allnoconfig kernel, sparse asked whether these could be
static, so I checked, and they are only used in the file where they are
declared.

Signed-off-by: Roel Kluin &lt;roel.kluin@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dcdbas: export functionality for use in other drivers</title>
<updated>2009-01-08T16:31:12+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Matthew Garrett</name>
<email>mjg59@srcf.ucam.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-08T02:08:54+00:00</published>
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The dcdbas code allows calls to be made into the firmware on Dell systems.
 Exporting this to other drivers allows them to implement Dell-specific
functionality in a safe way.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<pre>
The dcdbas code allows calls to be made into the firmware on Dell systems.
 Exporting this to other drivers allows them to implement Dell-specific
functionality in a safe way.

Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Cc: Matt Domsch &lt;Matt_Domsch@dell.com&gt;
Cc: Greg KH &lt;greg@kroah.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6</title>
<updated>2009-01-07T01:02:07+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-07T01:02:07+00:00</published>
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<content type='text'>
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (60 commits)
  uio: make uio_info's name and version const
  UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handling
  UIO: Pass information about ioports to userspace (V2)
  UIO: uio_pdrv_genirq: allow custom irq_flags
  UIO: use pci_ioremap_bar() in drivers/uio
  arm: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  libata: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  avr: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  dmi: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  gadget: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  gpio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  gpu: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  hwmon: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  i2o: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  IA64: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  i7300_idle: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  infiniband: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  ISDN: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  ...
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (60 commits)
  uio: make uio_info's name and version const
  UIO: Documentation for UIO ioport info handling
  UIO: Pass information about ioports to userspace (V2)
  UIO: uio_pdrv_genirq: allow custom irq_flags
  UIO: use pci_ioremap_bar() in drivers/uio
  arm: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  libata: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  avr: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  block: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  chris: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  dmi: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  gadget: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  gpio: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  gpu: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  hwmon: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  i2o: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  IA64: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  i7300_idle: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  infiniband: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  ISDN: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>dmi: fix kernel-doc notation</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T23:59:19+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>randy.dunlap@oracle.com</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T22:41:40+00:00</published>
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Add missing kernel-doc notation:

drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:475: No description found for parameter 'str'
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:592: No description found for parameter 'f'
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:592: No description found for parameter 'str'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Add missing kernel-doc notation:

drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:475: No description found for parameter 'str'
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:592: No description found for parameter 'f'
drivers/firmware/dmi_scan.c:592: No description found for parameter 'str'

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>dmi: struct device - replace bus_id with dev_name(), dev_set_name()</title>
<updated>2009-01-06T18:44:42+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Kay Sievers</name>
<email>kay.sievers@vrfy.org</email>
</author>
<published>2009-01-06T18:44:42+00:00</published>
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CC: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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CC: Lennart Poettering &lt;mzxreary@0pointer.de&gt;
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers &lt;kay.sievers@vrfy.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman &lt;gregkh@suse.de&gt;
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>DMI: add dmi_match</title>
<updated>2008-12-29T12:39:34+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Slaby</name>
<email>jirislaby@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-10T13:07:21+00:00</published>
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Add a wrapper for testing system_info which will handle also NULL
system infos.

This will be used by the ata PIIX driver.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandru Romanescu &lt;a_romanescu@yahoo.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
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Add a wrapper for testing system_info which will handle also NULL
system infos.

This will be used by the ata PIIX driver.

Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby &lt;jirislaby@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Alexandru Romanescu &lt;a_romanescu@yahoo.co.uk&gt;
Cc: Tejun Heo &lt;tj@kernel.org&gt;
Cc: Alan Cox &lt;alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik &lt;jgarzik@redhat.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6</title>
<updated>2008-12-28T20:49:40+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2008-12-28T20:49:40+00:00</published>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI &amp; Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1429 commits)
  net: Allow dependancies of FDDI &amp; Tokenring to be modular.
  igb: Fix build warning when DCA is disabled.
  net: Fix warning fallout from recent NAPI interface changes.
  gro: Fix potential use after free
  sfc: If AN is enabled, always read speed/duplex from the AN advertising bits
  sfc: When disabling the NIC, close the device rather than unregistering it
  sfc: SFT9001: Add cable diagnostics
  sfc: Add support for multiple PHY self-tests
  sfc: Merge top-level functions for self-tests
  sfc: Clean up PHY mode management in loopback self-test
  sfc: Fix unreliable link detection in some loopback modes
  sfc: Generate unique names for per-NIC workqueues
  802.3ad: use standard ethhdr instead of ad_header
  802.3ad: generalize out mac address initializer
  802.3ad: initialize ports LACPDU from const initializer
  802.3ad: remove typedef around ad_system
  802.3ad: turn ports is_individual into a bool
  802.3ad: turn ports is_enabled into a bool
  802.3ad: make ntt bool
  ixgbe: Fix set_ringparam in ixgbe to use the same memory pools.
  ...

Fixed trivial IPv4/6 address printing conflicts in fs/cifs/connect.c due
to the conversion to %pI (in this networking merge) and the addition of
doing IPv6 addresses (from the earlier merge of CIFS).
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