kernel news – 12.03.2013
-David Miller and networking: 1) Missing cancel of work items in mac80211 MLME, from Ben Greear. 2) Fix DMA mapping handling in iwlwifi by using coherent DMA for command headers, from Johannes Berg. 3)...
View Articlekernel news – 15.03.2013
-Jan Kara has ext2, ext3, quota fixes for -rc3: [...]a fix for regression in ext2, and a fix of one possibly exploitable format string issue in ext3. The rest isn’t too serious. -Greg KH announces...
View Articlekernel news – 30.03.2013
-Steven Rostedt announces kernel 3.6.11.1, Nicolas Ferre has a “tiny cleanup” for at91, and Vineet Gupta has arch/arc fixes for 3.9: his pull request contains ARC fixes for 3.9 cycle. It includes fix...
View Articlekernel news – 31.03.2013
-Nicholas A. Bellinger has target-pending fixes for -rc5: This includes the bug-fix for a >= v3.8-rc1 regression specific to iscsi-target persistent reservation conflict handling (CC’ed to stable),...
View Articlekernel news – 05.04.2013
-Rafael J. Wysocki has ACPI and PM fixes for -rc5: - Revert of a recent cpuidle change that caused Nehalem machines to hang on boot from Alex Shi. - USB power management fix addressing a crash in the...
View Articlekernel news – 06.04.2013
-Greg Kroah-Hartman announces kernels 3.8.6, 3.4.39 and 3.0.72 . -David Miller and networking updates: 1) Fix erroneous sock_orphan() leading to crashes and double kfree_skb() in NFC protocol. From...
View Articlekernel news – 08.04.2013
-Chanwoo Choi adds extcon fixes for -rc6: MAX77693 extcon driver - Add ‘static’ keryword to internal data structure - Fix return value using ‘ret’ instead of hardcoding MAX8997 extcon driver - Use...
View Articlekernel news – 12.04.2013
-Rafael J. Wysocki has PM fixes for -rc7: Included are: - System reboot/halt fix that prevents some systems from crashing during reboot due to a violation of ordering between syscore_shutdown() and...
View Articlekernel news – 15.04.2013
-Linus Torvalds announces kernel 3.9-rc7: Another week, another -rc. This is mostly random one-liners, with a few slightly larger driver fixes. The most interesting (to me, probably to nobody else) fix...
View Articlekernel news – 19.04.2013
-Matt Fleming has a EFI pull request : As discussed previously, please consider pulling this into a new topic branch, to potentially merge for v3.10. The changes move all the code in...
View Articlekernel news – 22.04.2013
-H. Peter Anvin has x86 and x86/kdump for 3.9: Three groups of fixes: 1. Make sure we don’t execute the early microcode patching if family < 6, since it would touch MSRs which don't exist on those...
View Articlekernel news – 23.04.2013
-Nicolas Ferre and at91: Another (late) round of SoC patches for 3.10 (or, of course 3.11). I would totally understand if you delay this series to 3.11 as the merge window is opening in one week. I...
View Articlekernel news – 29.04.2013
-Linus Torvalds announces the release of kernel 3.9: So the last week was much quieter than the preceding ones, which makes me suspect that one reason -rc7 was bigger than I liked was that people were...
View Articlekernel news – 01.05.2013
-Mauro Carvalho Chehab has media updates for 3.10-rc1: - OF documentation and patches at core and drivers, to be used by for embedded media systems; - some I2C drivers used on go7007 were...
View Articlekernel news – 06.04.2013
-Gleb Natapov announces KVM updates for 3.10 merge window: Highlights of the updates are: general: – new emulated device API – legacy device assignment is now optional – irqfd interface is more generic...
View Articlekernel news – 10.05.2013
-Firewire fixes by Stefan Richter: - fix controller removal when controller is in suspended state – fix video reception on VIA VT6306 with gstreamer, MythTV, and maybe dv4l – fix a startup issue with...
View Articlekernel news – 13.05.2013
-Greg KH announces the release of kernels 3.0.78, 3.4.45, 3.8.13 (“I’m announcing the release of the 3.8.13 kernel. NOTE, this is the LAST 3.8.y kernel release, please move to the 3.9.y kernel series...
View Articlekernel news – 14.05.2013
-David Miller and networking: Several small bug fixes all over: 1) be2net driver uses wrong payload length when submitting MAC list get requests to the chip. From Sathya Perla. 2) Fix mwifiex memory...
View Articlekernel news – 16.05.2013
-Thomas Gleixner has core, perf, timer and x86 fixes: * Two fixlets for the fallout of the generic idle task conversion * Documentation update...
View Articlekernel news – 21.05.2012
-Guenter Roeck has hwmon fixes for -rc2: This pull request adds two more patches to the request I sent out last week. If there is a reason for not accepting it, I would appreciate if you would let me...
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