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Linux: 2.6.34-rc4, "Hunting A Really Annoying VM Regression"
"It's been two weeks rather than the usual one, because we've been hunting a really annoying VM regression that not a lot of people seem to have seen, but I didn't want to release an -rc4 with it," began Linux creator Linus Torvalds, announcing the 2.6.34... Read more

Linux: Properly Creating And Testing Patches
"If you're wondering why I'm taking a long time to respond to your patches,", began Theodore Ts'o on the linux-ext4 mailing list, in a thread that offered much insight into how and why to properly submit and test patches. "Patches that are accep... Read more

Linux: Memory Compaction
Mel Gorman posted the seventh version of his Memory Compaction patches asking, "are there any further obstacles to merging?" The patches, first posted in May of 2007, provide a mechanism for moving GFP_MOVABLE pages into a smaller number of pagebl... Read more

Linux: Removing The Big Kernel Lock
Arnd Bergmann noted that he's working on removing the BKL from the Linux kernel, "I've spent some time continuing the work of the people on Cc and many others to remove the big kernel lock from Linux and I now have [a] bkl-removal branch in my git tree... Read more

Linux: First Release Of nftables
Netfilter maintainer Patrick McHardy recently announced a first alpha-release of nftables, slated to eventually replace iptables as the standard Linux packet filtering engine. Nftables aims to simplify the kernel ABI, reduce code duplication, improve err... Read more
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[ANNOUNCE] Git 1.7.2.3
Junio C Hamano writes: (Summary) The latest maintenance release Git 1.7.2.3 is available at the usual places: http://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/ git-1.7.2.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (source tarball) git-htmldocs-1.7.2.3.tar.{gz,bz2} (preformatted ... Read more

[PATCH v2 0/6] ARM: pxa168: add keypad support
"Mark F. Brown" writes: (Summary) Version 1 1) Make pxa27x_keypad.h accessible to mach-mmp 2) Add a wakeup handler for pxa27x_keypad interrupts The wakeup callback fixes an issue on the pxa168 that prevents the keypad driver from being able to c... Read more

Re: [Bug 17752] 2.6.36-rc3: inconsistent lock state (iprune_sem, s ...
Stefan Richter writes: (Summary) See this earlier discussion: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/15/76 And another report, coincidentally at the same time: http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/18/108 As I understand Christoph's post on January 19, several code paths ... Read more

[PATCH] [RFC] introduce cx82310_eth: Conexant CX82310-based ADSL r ...
Ondrej Zary writes: (Summary) +} + + +static const struct driver_info cx82310_info = { + .description = "Conexant CX82310 USB ethernet", + .flags = FLAG_ETHER, + .bind = cx82310_bind, + .unbind = cx82310_unbind, + .rx_fixup = cx82310_rx_fixup, + .tx_f... Read more

[RFC/PATCH] notify user-level IRQ balancer when kernel assigns IRQ ...
Arthur Kepner writes: (Summary) +#else +static inline int irq_notify(int) +{ +} +#endif /* CONFIG_NOTIFY_USER_IRQ_BALANCER */ + +#endif /* __IRQ_NOTIFY_H */ diff --git a/kernel/irq/Makefile b/kernel/irq/Makefile index 7d04780..b74c75e 100644 --- a/kernel... Read more
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