1. 15 May, 2004 40 commits
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] floppy.c: better floppy_init error handling · 794b6dd5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      From: "Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino" <lcapitulino@prefeitura.sp.gov.br>
      
      Adds a better audit for floppy_init().  Fixes one real bug (in calling
      blk_queue_max_sectors()).
      794b6dd5
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      [PATCH] Export `laptop_mode' for XFS · 2d976592
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: <bart@samwel.tk>
      
      XFS needs `laptop_mode'.
      2d976592
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      [PATCH] Remove old sh-sci driver · ff60dd36
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
      
      The old drivers/char sh-sci driver is no long used by anyone, both sh and
      h8300 are using the drivers/serial version at this point, so we can get rid
      of the old one entirely.
      ff60dd36
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      [PATCH] Fix x86_64 allmodconfig with gcc-3.4.0 · b620063c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
      
      *** Warning: "memcmp" [drivers/atm/zatm.ko] undefined!
      
      gcc 3.4 specific problem.  This patch should fix it.  Actually it would be
      better to move all these EXPORT_SYMBOLs into lib/string.c, it is silly that
      each arch has to duplicate all that.
      b620063c
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      [PATCH] remove driver model code in mwave driver · 63ad39dc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
      
      Someone blindly added sysfs support to the driver long time ago without
      understanding the implications (and if they were understood the driver
      would need half a rewrite for it).  Herber Xu recently noticed the problems
      this causes on unload, so let's if 0 out all that code and get the driver
      working again.
      63ad39dc
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      [PATCH] Make /proc/sysrq-trigger ignore sysrq_enabled · dd3871ec
      Andrew Morton authored
      It's silly that writing to /proc/sysrq-trigger does nothing if you haven't
      enabled /proc/sys/kernel/sysrq.  So provide a new __handle_sysrq() which
      ignores the sysrq_enabled check.
      
      The patch also withdraws __handle_sysrq_nolock() from the kernel API.  It had
      no callers.
      dd3871ec
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      [PATCH] x86_64 msr.c warning fix · 04229e50
      Andrew Morton authored
      arch/x86_64/kernel/msr.c:1:10: warning: extra tokens at end of #ident directive
      04229e50
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      [PATCH] fix aic7xxx_old.c for !PCI · 4167d41d
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c: In function `aic7xxx_release':
      drivers/scsi/aic7xxx_old.c:10971: warning: implicit declaration of function `pci_release_regions'
      4167d41d
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      [PATCH] fix tlan.c for !PCI · b2efc82c
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      drivers/net/tlan.c: In function `tlan_remove_one':
      drivers/net/tlan.c:449: warning: implicit declaration of function `pci_release_regions'
      b2efc82c
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      [PATCH] fix cyclades compile with !PCI · b618744f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@fs.tum.de>
      
      drivers/char/cyclades.c: In function `cy_cleanup_module':
      drivers/char/cyclades.c:5638: warning: implicit declaration of function `pci_release_regions'
      b618744f
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      [PATCH] Fix endianess in modpost when cross-compiling for sparc on i386 · 42f0e8f2
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Mathieu Chouquet-Stringer <mchouque@online.fr>
      
      This patch makes the following code work again:
      
      #ifdef STT_REGISTER
                      if (info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARC ||
                          info->hdr->e_machine == EM_SPARCV9) {
                              /* Ignore register directives. */
                              if (ELF_ST_TYPE(sym->st_info) == STT_REGISTER)
                                      break;
                      }
      #endif
      
      This portion of code is sparc specific and nothing else in modpost.c uses
      e_machine meaning cross-compiling for sparc on i386 (or any little endian
      machine) is the only way to experience the bug.
      
      Without it, e_machine has the wrong value and modpost then generates a lot
      of "*** Warning: \"symbol\" [filename.ko] undefined" messages.
      42f0e8f2
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      [PATCH] m68k: use print_modules() · 7d0c5f9a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
      7d0c5f9a
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      [PATCH] implement print_modules() · 22e1c5c4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>,
            Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      The patch below resolves the "Not Yet Implemented" print_modules() thing.
      This is a really useful feature for distros; it allows us to do statistical
      analysis on which modules are present how often in oopses compared to how
      often they are used normally.  In addition it helps to spot candidates for
      certain bugs without having to go back to the customer asking for this
      information.
      22e1c5c4
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      [PATCH] Fix reiserfs oom crash · d0980c12
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Oleg Drokin <green@linuxhacker.ru>
      
      Thanks to Standford guys, a case where reiserfs can dereference NULL
      pointer if memory allocation fail during mount was identified.
      d0980c12
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      [PATCH] fix block layer ioctl bug · deb2ae4a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      
      The block layer checks for -EINVAL from block layer driver ioctls.  This is
      wrong - ENOTTY is unknown and some drivers correctly use this.  I suspect
      for an internal ioctl 2.7 should change to -ENOIOCTLCMD and bitch about old
      style returns
      
      This is conservative fix for the 2.6 case, it keeps the bogus -EINVAL to
      avoid breaking stuff
      deb2ae4a
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] fix linux doc errors · 4539d2e4
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
      4539d2e4
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      [PATCH] security: minor cleanups in capability.c · 5671b0c5
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      Remove confusing error message when loading as secondary module, and ditch
      conditional MY_NAME macro.
      5671b0c5
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      [PATCH] security: remove empty build of capability.o · fc3a7889
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
      
      The build includes capability.c when CONFIG_SECURITY=n, yet the whole file is
      ifdef'd out.  Remove unnecessary build step as well as superfluous ifdefs.
      fc3a7889
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      [PATCH] PCI debug compile fix in sis_router_probe() · cd8d1252
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Pavel Roskin <proski@gnu.org>
      
      I get a compile error when I define "DEBUG" in arch/i386/pci/pci.h.  Variable
      rt is not defined in sis_router_probe(), file arch/i386/pci/irq.c.
      cd8d1252
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      [PATCH] calculate NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK from PAGE_SIZE · 7dd692fc
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Greg Edwards <edwardsg@sgi.com>
      
      On ia64, EXEC_PAGESIZE (max page size) is 65536, but the default page size is
      16k.  This results in NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK in include/linux/sched.h being
      calculated incorrectly when the page size is anything other than 64k.  For
      example, on a 16k page size kernel, a setgroups() call with a gidsetsize of
      65536 will end up walking over memory since only 1/4 of the needed pages were
      allocated for the blocks[] array in the group_info struct.
      
      Patch below calculates NGROUPS_PER_BLOCK from PAGE_SIZE instead.
      7dd692fc
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      [PATCH] dquot_release oops fix · ee4c48c0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
      
      Fix a null-pointer-deref oops in the quota code.
      ee4c48c0
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      [PATCH] videodev: handle class_register() failure · 252a94e9
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      From: <WHarms@bfs.de>(Walter Harms)
      
      (acked by Gerd)
      252a94e9
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Update laptop mode control script with XFS_HZ=100 · 19bee149
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Bart Samwel <bart@samwel.tk>
      
      The laptop mode control script incorrectly guesses XFS_HZ=1000.  This is
      incorrect, since the patches that made XFS use USER_HZ went into 2.6.6 as
      well.  This changes XFS_HZ to 100 and removes the warning from the doc about
      checking XFS_HZ.
      19bee149
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] Watchdog timer for Intel IXP4xx CPUs · e82512d7
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
      
      Following patch adds a driver for the watchdogs on the Intel IXP4xx family of
      network processors (ARM).
      e82512d7
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      [PATCH] Fix AladdinCard entry in parport_pc · b604c400
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Christian Groessler <cpg@aladdin.de>
      
      Our AladdinCard also uses the oxsemi_840 chips and locks up when ecp mode
      is enabled.
      b604c400
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] create_workqueue locking fix · 4d103436
      Andrew Morton authored
      Fix some silliness in there.
      4d103436
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] laptop-mode documentation fix · 15c2165e
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Sau Dan Lee <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
      
      The script /etc/acpi/actions/battery.sh in the document doesn't run,
      because of a wrong name.
      15c2165e
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      [PATCH] ib700wdt watchdog driver fix #2 · c793ef32
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Patrice Bouchand <PBouchand@cyberdeck.com>
      
      The value written in the WDT_STOP register is not important.  As soon as
      something is written, the watchdog timer stops.  But things will be cleaner
      if we use the following patch.
      c793ef32
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      [PATCH] ib700wdt watchdog driver fix · 4020f4a0
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Patrice Bouchand <PBouchand@cyberdeck.com>
      
      ibwdt_ping(): we should write the current timeout's index into the holdoff
      register, not the timeout's value in seconds.
      4020f4a0
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      [PATCH] expose backing dev max read-ahead · a50376bd
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      
      Expose the blockdev's VM readahead in /sys/block/hda/queue/read_ahead_kbytes
      
      This duplicates `blockdev --setra', but we're trying to get away from
      ioctls.
      
      It would be nice to have a readahead-setting mechanism which also allows,
      say, NFS to be tuned.  But there is no common exposure point for
      backing_dev_infos.  One option might be per-superblock:
      
      	mount -o remount,read_ahead_kbytes=64
      
      but the generic remount code also has no visibility of the backing_dev, so it
      would need a new super_block operation.  One which doesn't accidentally modify
      default_backing_dev_info.
      a50376bd
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      [PATCH] efivars: check that it's enabled · 0575b04a
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: "Randy.Dunlap" <rddunlap@osdl.org>
      
      EFI-enabled kernels crash on non-EFI machines.  efivars_init() and
      efivars_exit() need to check efi_enabled instead of assuming that the
      system is using EFI.
      0575b04a
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      [PATCH] make buildcheck · 8f1ee1b3
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
      
      the patch below adds a "make buildcheck" target which checks for the "uses
      exit in init" bug using Keith Owen's script.  In the future other similar
      sanity checks can be added to this target, but even just this one has been
      quite useful already.  I use it in the kernel rpm build process for
      example, and I'm sure the OSDL build testers can/want to use it too.
      
      From: Keith Owens <kaos@ocs.com.au>
      
        They commented out the progress print statements, I prefer to have them
        present but no big deal.  The licence is missing.
      8f1ee1b3
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      [PATCH] Include Aliases in kallsyms · 53d20202
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      Kallsyms discards symbols with the same address, but these are sometimes
      useful.  Skip this minor optimization and make kallsyms_lookup deal with
      aliases
      53d20202
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      [PATCH] show last kernel-image symbol in /proc/kallsyms · bfb288f1
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
      
      The current code doesn't show the last symbol (usually _einittext) in
      /proc/kallsyms.  The reason for this is subtle: s_start() returns an empty
      string for position 0 (ignored by s_show()), and s_next() returns the first
      symbol for position 1.
      
      What should happen is that update_iter() for position 0 should fill in the
      first symbol.  Unfortunately, the get_ksymbol_core() fills in the symbol
      information, *and* updates the iterator: we have to split these functions,
      which we do by making it return the length of the name offset.
      
      Then we can call get_ksymbol_core() without moving the iterator, meaning
      that we can call it at position 0 (ie.  s_start()).
      bfb288f1
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      [PATCH] slabify iocontext + request_queue · 017474ed
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
      
      Move both request_queue and io_context allocation to a slab cache.
      
      This is mainly a space-saving exercise.  Some setups have a lot of disks
      and the kmalloc rounding-up can consume significant amounts of memory.
      017474ed
    • Andrew Morton's avatar
      [PATCH] i2o_proc module owner fix · 65706959
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Warren Togami <wtogami@redhat.com>
      65706959
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      [PATCH] Fix i2o_proc kernel panic on access of /proc/i2o/iop0/lct · 5bb8577f
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>
      
      The patch converts i2o_proc to seq_file, thereby fixing a bug in the
      i2o_proc.c module, where the kernel panics, if you access /proc/i2o/iop0/lct
      and read more then 1024 bytes of it.
      5bb8577f
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      [PATCH] fbdev: Q40 fbdev updates. · c36b18ac
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
      
      It ports this driver to sysfs api and fixes a colormap issue.
      c36b18ac
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      [PATCH] fbdev: Fix fbcon and unimap · 29c968d6
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: Fabrice Menard <menard.fabrice@wanadoo.fr>
      
      Trying to solve my latin1 char problems with the framebuffer console, I
      found that fbcon doesn't set a unicode map.
      29c968d6
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      [PATCH] fbdev: New Asiliant framebuffer driver. · 30b18257
      Andrew Morton authored
      From: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org>
      
      This is the new asiliant framebuffer driver.
      30b18257