Re: [PATCH] sound: Don't assume i2c device probing always succeeds

2009-10-01 Thread Takashi Iwai
At Wed, 30 Sep 2009 18:55:05 +0200, Jean Delvare wrote: On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 17:15:49 +0200, Takashi Iwai wrote: Yes, indeed I prefer NULL check because the user can know the error at the right place. I share your concern about the code addition, though :) I already made a patch

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/8xx: fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite

2009-10-01 Thread Joakim Tjernlund
Benjamin Herrenschmidt b...@kernel.crashing.org wrote on 01/10/2009 00:35:59: Had a look at linus tree and there is something I don't understand. Your fix, e0908085fc2391c85b85fb814ae1df377c8e0dcb, fixes a problem that was introduced by 8d30c14cab30d405a05f2aaceda1e9ad57800f36 but

Re: [PATCH] perf_event, powerpc: Fix compilation after big perf_counter rename

2009-10-01 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: Hi Ingo, On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:25:55 +1000 Michael Ellerman mich...@ellerman.id.au wrote: Give me a day or two, I should be able to add a per-branch setting for who to send mails to without too much trouble. In the mean time I don't

Re: [PATCH] perf_event, powerpc: Fix compilation after big perf_counter rename

2009-10-01 Thread Stephen Rothwell
Hi Ingo, On Thu, 1 Oct 2009 09:42:01 +0200 Ingo Molnar mi...@elte.hu wrote: * Stephen Rothwell s...@canb.auug.org.au wrote: On Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:25:55 +1000 Michael Ellerman mich...@ellerman.id.au wrote: Give me a day or two, I should be able to add a per-branch setting for

[PATCH] powerpc/kgdb: Fix build failure caused by kgdb.c: unused variable 'acc'

2009-10-01 Thread Anton Vorontsov
'acc' isn't used anywhere and thus triggers gcc warning, which causes build error with CONFIG_PPC_DISABLE_WERROR=n (default): cc1: warnings being treated as errors arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c: In function 'gdb_regs_to_pt_regs': arch/powerpc/kernel/kgdb.c:289: warning: unused variable 'acc'

Re: [PATCH] powerpc/5200: add LocalPlus bus FIFO device driver

2009-10-01 Thread John Bonesio
Hi Albrecht, Thanks for the comments. My replies are below. - John On Wed, 2009-09-30 at 20:34 +0200, Albrecht Dreß wrote: Hi John: Cool stuff - Grant's original one also helped me a lot to get Bestcomm running for me (I use it only for read dma)! Am 29.09.09 22:43 schrieb(en) John

[PATCH 1/2] mm: add notifier in pageblock isolation for balloon drivers

2009-10-01 Thread Robert Jennings
Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not movable but could be freed to accommodate memory hotplug remove. Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the pageblock is isolated. If the migrate type is not MIGRATE_MOVABLE the isolation will not

[PATCH] powerpc/5200: make BestComm gen_bd microcode exchangeable

2009-10-01 Thread Albrecht Dreß
This patch adds a method for defining different microcodes than the pe-defined ones for the MPC52xx processor's BestComm General Buffer Descriptor (gen_db) tasks. The default microcode is still the one from bcom_gen_bd_[rt]x_task, but it can be replaced by calling

[PATCH 2/2] powerpc: Make the CMM memory hotplug aware

2009-10-01 Thread Robert Jennings
The Collaborative Memory Manager (CMM) module allocates individual pages over time that are not migratable. On a long running system this can severely impact the ability to find enough pages to support a hotplug memory remove operation. This patch adds a memory isolation notifier and a memory

Re: [PATCH 1/2] mm: add notifier in pageblock isolation for balloon drivers

2009-10-01 Thread Nathan Fontenot
Robert Jennings wrote: Memory balloon drivers can allocate a large amount of memory which is not movable but could be freed to accommodate memory hotplug remove. Prior to calling the memory hotplug notifier chain the memory in the pageblock is isolated. If the migrate type is not

patch powerpc-fix-incorrect-setting-of-__have_arch_pte_special.patch added to 2.6.31-stable tree

2009-10-01 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: powerpc: Fix incorrect setting of __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL to the 2.6.31-stable tree. Its filename is powerpc-fix-incorrect-setting-of-__have_arch_pte_special.patch A git repo of this tree can be

patch powerpc-fix-incorrect-setting-of-__have_arch_pte_special.patch added to 2.6.30-stable tree

2009-10-01 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: powerpc: Fix incorrect setting of __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL to the 2.6.30-stable tree. Its filename is powerpc-fix-incorrect-setting-of-__have_arch_pte_special.patch A git repo of this tree can be

patch powerpc-8xx-fix-regression-introduced-by-cache-coherency-rewrite.patch added to 2.6.30-stable tree

2009-10-01 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite to the 2.6.30-stable tree. Its filename is powerpc-8xx-fix-regression-introduced-by-cache-coherency-rewrite.patch A git repo of this

patch powerpc-8xx-fix-regression-introduced-by-cache-coherency-rewrite.patch added to 2.6.31-stable tree

2009-10-01 Thread gregkh
This is a note to let you know that we have just queued up the patch titled Subject: powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite to the 2.6.31-stable tree. Its filename is powerpc-8xx-fix-regression-introduced-by-cache-coherency-rewrite.patch A git repo of this

[PATCH] pasemi_mac: ethtool get settings fix

2009-10-01 Thread Valentine Barshak
Not all pasemi mac interfaces can have a phy attached. For example, XAUI has no phy and phydev is NULL for it. In this case ethtool get settings causes kernel crash. Fix it by returning -EOPNOTSUPP if there's no PHY attached. Signed-off-by: Valentine Barshak vbars...@ru.mvista.com ---

[patch 26/30] powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite

2009-10-01 Thread Greg KH
2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Rex Feany rfe...@mrv.com commit e0908085fc2391c85b85fb814ae1df377c8e0dcb upstream. After upgrading to the latest kernel on my mpc875 userspace started running incredibly slow (hours to get to

[patch 27/30] powerpc: Fix incorrect setting of __HAVE_ARCH_PTE_SPECIAL

2009-10-01 Thread Greg KH
2.6.30-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Weirich, Bernhard bernhard.weir...@riedel.net [I'm going to fix upstream differently, by having all CPU types actually support _PAGE_SPECIAL, but I prefer the simple and obvious fix for

[127/136] powerpc/8xx: Fix regression introduced by cache coherency rewrite

2009-10-01 Thread Greg KH
2.6.31-stable review patch. If anyone has any objections, please let us know. -- From: Rex Feany rfe...@mrv.com commit e0908085fc2391c85b85fb814ae1df377c8e0dcb upstream. After upgrading to the latest kernel on my mpc875 userspace started running incredibly slow (hours to get to