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next-20250922: xe_device_sysfs.c:300:25: error: label 'cleanup' used but not defined
 2025-09-24  6:14 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PULL 00/12] Functional test patches
 2025-09-24  6:39 UTC  (11+ messages)
` [PULL 01/12] tests/functional/m68k: Use proper polling in the next-cube test
` [PULL 02/12] tests/functional/s390x/test_pxelinux: Fix warnings from pylint
` [PULL 04/12] tests/functional: Test whether the vmstate-static-checker script works fine
` [PULL 05/12] tests/data/vmstate-static-checker: Add dump files from QEMU 7.2.17
` [PULL 06/12] tests/functional: Use vmstate-static-checker.py to test data from v7.2
` [PULL 07/12] tests/functional: use self.log for all logging
` [PULL 08/12] .gitlab-ci.d/buildtest.yml: Unset CI_COMMIT_DESCRIPTION for htags
` [PULL 09/12] tests/functional/hppa: Add a CD-ROM boot test for qemu-system-hppa
` [PULL 11/12] tests/functional: retry when seeing ConnectionError exception
` [PULL 12/12] tests/functional: treat unknown exceptions as transient faults

[PATCH net-next v2 0/7] net: rework SFP capability parsing and quirks
 2025-09-24  6:42 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v2] iommu: Fix iommu selftest running test mock domain fail
 2025-09-24  6:41 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v4 00/10] man2: document "new" mount API
 2025-09-24  6:41 UTC  (7+ messages)
` [PATCH v4 04/10] man/man2/fsconfig.2: "
` [PATCH v4 09/10] man/man2/open_tree{,_attr}.2: document new open_tree_attr() API

[PATCH v4 i-g-t 0/6] Fix xe_eudebug_online@set-breakpoint-sigint-debugger
 2025-09-24  6:40 UTC  (8+ messages)
` [PATCH v4 i-g-t 4/6] lib/xe_eudebug: Improve SIGINT handling
` [PATCH v4 i-g-t 5/6] lib/xe_eudebug: Introduce xe_eudebug_debugger_kill
` [PATCH v4 i-g-t 6/6] tests/xe_eudebug_online: Improve issuing SIGINT in set-breakpoint-sigint-debugger
` ✓ Xe.CI.Full: success for Fix xe_eudebug_online@set-breakpoint-sigint-debugger (rev4)

[PATCH v2 00/14] drm/imx: dc: Use prefetch engine
 2025-09-24  6:41 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 07/14] drm/imx: dc: Add DPR channel support

[PATCH v8 0/8] Add generated modalias to modules.builtin.modinfo
 2025-09-24  6:39 UTC  (9+ messages)
` [PATCH v8 3/8] kbuild: keep .modinfo section in vmlinux.unstripped
` [PATCH v8 6/8] modpost: Add modname to mod_device_table alias
` [PATCH v8 7/8] modpost: Create modalias for builtin modules
` [PATCH v8 8/8] kbuild: vmlinux.unstripped should always depend on .vmlinux.export.o

[PATCH v2 00/26] Disable domctl-op via CONFIG_MGMT_HYPERCALLS
 2025-09-24  6:39 UTC  (6+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 04/26] xen: consolidate CONFIG_VM_EVENT

[PATCH 00/20] drm/i915/cdclk: Decouple CDCLK from state->modeset
 2025-09-24  6:38 UTC  (4+ messages)
` ✗ CI.checkpatch: warning for drm/i915/cdclk: Decouple CDCLK from state->modeset (rev2)
` ✓ CI.KUnit: success "
` ✗ CI.checksparse: warning "

[PATCH] vduse: Use fixed 4KB bounce pages for arm64 64KB page size
 2025-09-24  6:38 UTC  (7+ messages)
  `  "

[PATCH 1/7] sched_ext: Use rhashtable_lookup() instead of rhashtable_lookup_fast()
 2025-09-24  6:38 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v2 00/34] VF migration redesign
 2025-09-24  6:36 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 33/34] drm/xe/vf: Rebase CCS save/restore BB GGTT addresses

[android-common:android11-5.4 1/1] drivers/net/wireless/marvell/libertas/cfg.c:1106:18: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types ('typeof (ssid_eid[1]) *' (aka 'const unsigned char *') and 'typeof (32) *' (aka 'int *'))
 2025-09-24  6:34 UTC 

[f2fs-dev] [PATCH v3] f2fs: readahead node blocks in F2FS_GET_BLOCK_PRECACHE mode
 2025-09-24  6:34 UTC  (4+ messages)
  `  "

[PATCH] net/net.c: add tap device fd validity check to prevent abort on deleted device
 2025-09-24  6:32 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v2 rdma-rc] RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a potential memory leak in destroy_gsi_sqp
 2025-09-24  6:33 UTC 

[PATCH] bpf: Mark kfuncs as __noclone
 2025-09-24  6:32 UTC  (2+ messages)

[GSoC][PATCH] builtin/refs: add 'get' subcommand
 2025-09-24  6:32 UTC  (6+ messages)

[PATCH] net: qed: Remove redundant NULL checks after list_first_entry()
 2025-09-24  3:02 UTC 

[syzbot] [fs?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in bus_remove_driver
 2025-09-24  6:31 UTC 

[PATCH v2] fbdev/radeon: Remove stale product link in Kconfig/FB_RADEON
 2025-09-24  6:30 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v5 0/3] uart: Introduce uart driver for the Loongson family
 2025-09-24  6:29 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH v5 1/3] dt-bindings: serial: 8250: Add Loongson uart compatible
` [PATCH v5 2/3] serial: 8250: Add Loongson uart driver support
` [PATCH v5 3/3] LoongArch: dts: Add uart new compatible string

[PATCH v3] drm/i915/gvt: Improve intel_vgpu_ioctl hdr error handling
 2025-09-24  6:28 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v2 0/1] alienware-wmi-wmax: Add AWCC support to Dell G15 5530
 2025-09-24  6:27 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 1/1] alienware-wmi-wmax:Add "

[RFC 00/18] add hinic3 PMD driver
 2025-09-24  6:27 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [V12 00/18] add-hinic3-PMD-driver
    ` 回复: "

[PATCH v2] block: plug attempts to batch allocate tags multiple times
 2025-09-24  5:34 UTC  (2+ messages)
  ` [PATCH] "

[PATCH v3 0/5] Add tests to help verify VF migration
 2025-09-24  6:26 UTC  (2+ messages)
` ✗ Xe.CI.Full: failure for Add tests to help verify VF migration (rev3)

[PATCH v2 0/4] KVM: SVM: Add Page Modification Logging (PML) support
 2025-09-24  6:26 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 4/4] KVM: SVM: Add Page modification logging support

[BUG] Failed to obtain stack trace via bpf_get_stackid on ARM64 architecture
 2025-09-24  6:25 UTC  (2+ messages)

Multi-Kernel Architecture Proposed For The Linux Kernel
 2025-09-24  6:26 UTC 

[PATCH] qemuriscv: Use RVA23S64 profile for cpu
 2025-09-24  6:24 UTC 

[PATCH] drm/shmem-helper: Add huge page fault handler
 2025-09-24  6:23 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH net-next v3 00/11] virtio_net: Add ethtool flow rules support
 2025-09-24  6:22 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH net-next v3 01/11] virtio-pci: Expose generic device capability operations

[PATCH v7 i-g-t 0/1] tests/intel/xe_compute_preempt: Compute preemption check
 2025-09-24  6:19 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v7 i-g-t 1/1] "

[GSoC][PATCH v3 0/9] Add refs optimize subcommand
 2025-09-24  6:18 UTC  (6+ messages)
` [GSoC][PATCH v4 "
  ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 1/9] refs: add a generic 'optimize' API
  ` [GSoC][PATCH v4 5/9] builtin/pack-refs: factor out core logic into a shared library

[PATCH v2 00/12] accel/tcg: Improve tb_flush usage
 2025-09-24  6:17 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 04/12] target/riscv: Record misa_ext in TCGTBCPUState.cs_base

[PATCH v2] crypto: zero initialize memory allocated via sock_kmalloc
 2025-09-24  6:01 UTC 

[tiL6.12 PATCH 0/4] UPSTREAM: AM62D2-EVM updates
 2025-09-24  6:16 UTC 

[PATCH 06/20] drm/i915/cdclk: Extract dg2_power_well_count()
 2025-09-24  6:16 UTC  (2+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 "

[PATCH v3 00/16] TDX: Enable Dynamic PAMT
 2025-09-24  6:15 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v3 08/16] x86/virt/tdx: Optimize tdx_alloc/free_page() helpers

[PATCH v2 rdma-rc] RDMA/bnxt_re: Fix a potential memory leak in destroy_gsi_sqp
 2025-09-24  6:14 UTC 

[PATCH] PCI: xilinx-xdma: Enable legacy interrupts
 2025-09-24  6:13 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v2] PCI: xilinx-xdma: Enable INTx interrupts

[scarthgap][PATCH 00/24] Scarthgap pull request
 2025-09-24  6:13 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [oe] "

[PATCH v1 0/3] Add OP-TEE based RPMB driver for UFS devices
 2025-09-24  6:12 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v1 1/3] rpmb: move rpmb_frame struct and constants to common header

[PATCH V3 1/2] PCI/ASPM: Add host-bridge API to override default ASPM/CLKPM link state
 2025-09-24  6:12 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH net-next v5 0/8] TUN/TAP & vhost_net: netdev queue flow control to avoid ptr_ring tail drop
 2025-09-24  6:12 UTC  (11+ messages)
` [PATCH net-next v5 3/8] TUN, TAP & vhost_net: Stop netdev queue before reaching a full ptr_ring
` [PATCH net-next v5 4/8] TUN & TAP: Wake netdev queue after consuming an entry

[PATCH 0/2] block: Expose block limits in monitor and qemu-img info
 2025-09-24  6:10 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/2] block: Expose block limits for images in QMP

[PATCH] clk: rockchip: rk3588: Add PLL rate for 1500 MHz
 2025-09-24  6:09 UTC 

[PATCH net] xdp: use multi-buff only if receive queue supports page pool
 2025-09-24  6:08 UTC 

[PATCH] drm/tiny: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
 2025-09-24  6:07 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH 0/2] clk: en7523: reset-controller support for EN7523 SoC
 2025-09-24  6:05 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH 1/2] dt-bindings: clock: airoha: Add reset support to EN7523 clock binding
` [PATCH 2/2] clk: en7523: Add reset-controller support for EN7523 SoC

[PATCH v1 00/21] Control coprocessor reset for AST2700
 2025-09-24  6:03 UTC  (6+ messages)
` [PATCH v1 08/21] hw/arm/ast27x0: Add SCU alias for SSP and ensure correct device realization order
  ` [SPAM] "

[PATCH v4 0/2] dc395x: fix compiler warnings and improve formatting of the macros
 2025-09-24  6:02 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH v4 1/2] scsi: dc395x: correctly discard the return value in certain reads
` [PATCH v4 2/2] scsi: dc395x: improve code formatting for the macros

[PATCH v1 00/10] perf vendor events intel update
 2025-09-24  6:02 UTC  (11+ messages)
` [PATCH v1 01/10] perf vendor events intel: Update alderlake events to v1.34
` [PATCH v1 02/10] perf vendor events intel: Update arrowlake events to v1.13
` [PATCH v1 03/10] perf vendor events intel: Update emeraldrapids events to v1.20
` [PATCH v1 04/10] perf vendor events intel: Update grandridge events to v1.10
` [PATCH v1 05/10] perf vendor events intel: Update graniterapids events to v1.15
` [PATCH v1 06/10] perf vendor events intel: Update lunarlake events to v1.18
` [PATCH v1 07/10] perf vendor events intel: Update meteorlake events to v1.17
` [PATCH v1 08/10] perf vendor events intel: Update pantherlake events to v1.00
` [PATCH v1 09/10] perf vendor events intel: Update sapphirerapids events to v1.35
` [PATCH v1 10/10] perf vendor events intel: Update sierraforest events to v1.12

[powerpc:next-test] BUILD SUCCESS ef104054a312608deab266f95945057fa73eeaad
 2025-09-24  5:59 UTC 

[PATCH v2 0/7] Support VBOOTROM to ast2700fc machine
 2025-09-24  5:56 UTC  (16+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 1/7] hw/arm/aspeed: Move aspeed_board_init_flashes() to common SoC code
` [PATCH v2 2/7] hw/arm/aspeed: Move write_boot_rom "
` [PATCH v2 3/7] hw/arm/aspeed: Move aspeed_install_boot_rom "
` [PATCH v2 4/7] hw/arm/aspeed: Move aspeed_load_vbootrom "
` [PATCH v2 5/7] hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0-fc: Replace error_abort with local errp
` [PATCH v2 6/7] hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0-fc: Map FMC0 flash contents into CA35 boot ROM
` [PATCH v2 7/7] hw/arm/aspeed_ast27x0-fc: Add VBOOTROM support

[PATCH] rawdev: fix device ID retrieval function prototype
 2025-09-24  5:56 UTC 

[RFC PATCH v3 1/1] vfio/pci: add PCIe TPH device ioctl
 2025-09-24  5:56 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH] libwpe: upgrade 1.16.2 -> 1.16.3
 2025-09-24  5:55 UTC 

[PATCH v3 0/8] refs/reftable: add consistency checks
 2025-09-24  5:54 UTC  (9+ messages)
` [PATCH v3 3/8] reftable: check for trailing newline in 'tables.list'
` [PATCH v3 4/8] reftable: ensure tables in a stack use sequential update indices
` [PATCH v3 7/8] reftable: add code to facilitate consistency checks
` [PATCH v3 8/8] refs/reftable: add fsck check for checking the table name

[PATCH V6 00/19] virtio_ring in order support
 2025-09-24  5:53 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH V6 19/19] virtio_ring: add "

[PATCH 1/2] lib: add crc16 support
 2025-09-24  5:51 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH iwl-next 0/5] idpf: add XSk support
 2025-09-24  5:51 UTC  (15+ messages)
` [PATCH iwl-next 1/5] idpf: add virtchnl functions to manage selected queues
    ` [Intel-wired-lan] "
` [PATCH iwl-next 3/5] idpf: implement XSk xmit
    ` [Intel-wired-lan] "
` [PATCH iwl-next 4/5] idpf: implement Rx path for AF_XDP
    ` [Intel-wired-lan] "
` [PATCH iwl-next 5/5] idpf: enable XSk features and ndo_xsk_wakeup
    ` [Intel-wired-lan] "
  ` [Intel-wired-lan] [PATCH iwl-next 0/5] idpf: add XSk support

[Patch v3 0/2] mm_slot: fix the usage of mm_slot_entry
 2025-09-24  5:51 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [Patch v3 2/2] mm/khugepaged: remove definition of struct khugepaged_mm_slot

[bcachefs:bcachefs-testing 429/433] fs/bcachefs/io_write.c:1489:2: warning: label followed by a declaration is a C23 extension
 2025-09-24  5:50 UTC 

[asahilinux:bits/000-devicetree 29/140] arch/arm64/boot/dts/apple/t8112-j413.dtb: usb@382280000 (apple,t8112-dwc3): iommus: [[110, 0], [111, 1]] is too long
 2025-09-24  5:50 UTC 

[PATCH] net: enetc: fix the deadlock of enetc_mdio_lock
 2025-09-24  5:47 UTC 

[PATCH v6 0/2] rust: zpool: add API for C and Rust
 2025-09-24  5:46 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [syzbot ci] "

[PATCH 0/5] drm/i915/dp: Work around a DSC pixel throughput issue
 2025-09-24  5:44 UTC  (4+ messages)
` ✗ Xe.CI.BAT: failure for drm/i915/dp: Work around a DSC pixel throughput issue (rev3)

Fwd: [GSoC] Checkpointing files on Detached mounts
 2025-09-24  5:43 UTC  (2+ messages)
  `  "

[PATCH] lib/intel_blt.c: Fix MEM_COPY instruction for xe2+ platforms
 2025-09-24  5:38 UTC  (2+ messages)
` ✗ Xe.CI.Full: failure for "

[PATCH v2 0/4] enhance string-list API to fix sign compare warnings
 2025-09-24  5:36 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 2/4] string-list: replace negative index encoding with "exact_match" parameter

[syzbot] [sound?] KASAN: slab-use-after-free Read in snd_usbmidi_error_timer (2)
 2025-09-24  5:35 UTC 

[PATCH v18 0/3] Add ASPEED AST2600 I2C controller driver
 2025-09-24  5:31 UTC  (7+ messages)
` [PATCH v18 1/3] dt-bindings: i2c: aspeed,i2c.yaml: add transfer-mode and global-regs properties and update example

[PATCH v2 0/5] drm/i915/irq: display irq refactoring
 2025-09-24  5:29 UTC  (2+ messages)
` ✗ i915.CI.Full: failure for drm/i915/irq: display irq refactoring (rev2)

[PATCH] ABI: sysfs-devices-power: Document time units for *_time
 2025-09-24  5:28 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH net] ptr_ring: drop duplicated tail zeroing code
 2025-09-24  5:27 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH 0/2] Add Aspeed AST2700 ehci support
 2025-09-24  5:27 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH 2/2] usb: ehci: Add Aspeed AST2700 support

[PATCH V2 0/4] 9p: convert to the new mount API
 2025-09-24  5:25 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v3] rust: aref: make `AlwaysRefCounted::inc_ref` an associated function
 2025-09-24  5:24 UTC 

[PATCH] clk: at91: sam9x7: Use kmalloc_array() instead of kmalloc()
 2025-09-24  5:23 UTC 

0-Based indexes for git log
 2025-09-24  5:22 UTC  (2+ messages)

[robh:for-next 69/71] htmldocs: Warning: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek-mdp.txt references a file that doesn't exist: Documentation/devicetree/bindings/media/mediatek-vpu.txt
 2025-09-24  5:19 UTC 

[PATCH] net: tipc: adjust tipc_nodeid2string() to return string length
 2025-09-24  5:20 UTC  (2+ messages)

[paulmck-rcu:dev.2025.09.18a] BUILD SUCCESS fb763a0d3223e685ecb2af4f1fa5d10e9a222d09
 2025-09-24  5:19 UTC 

[PATCH] qemu/osdep: align memory allocations to 2M on RISC-V
 2025-09-24  5:18 UTC 

[PATCH] clk: qcom: gcc-sm8750: Add a new frequency for sdcc2 clock
 2025-09-24  5:19 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH mm-new 1/1] mm: clean up is_guard_pte_marker()
 2025-09-24  5:19 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH 2/4] sched/fair: Still look for the idlest cpu with no matching cookie
 2025-09-24  5:18 UTC 

[PATCH 0/9] Add QPIC SPI NAND support for IPQ5424 and IPQ5332 platforms
 2025-09-24  5:16 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH 3/9] dma: qcom: bam_dma: Fix command element mask field for BAM v1.6.0+

[paulmck-rcu:next.2025.09.23a] BUILD SUCCESS 1d289fc5691c7a970a285bc53292bac9e37c89a6
 2025-09-24  5:14 UTC 

[GIT PULL] nvme updates for linux 6.18
 2025-09-24  5:13 UTC  (2+ messages)

format-patch: why are the Range-diff: and Interdiff: headers translated?
 2025-09-24  5:11 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH v2] HID: intel-thc-hid: intel-quickspi: Add ARL PCI Device Id's
 2025-09-24  5:10 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH v2 0/3] fixes/improvements for top of docs/build-script
 2025-09-24  5:05 UTC  (3+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 1/3] tools/docs: sphinx-build-wrapper: fix compat with recent Tumbleweed

[PATCH RFC 0/3] Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatorty
 2025-09-24  5:03 UTC  (8+ messages)
` [PATCH v6 0/9] Introduce Rust and announce that it will become mandatory
  ` [PATCH v6 7/9] BreakingChanges: announce Rust becoming mandatory

pull-request: bpf-next 2025-09-23
 2025-09-24  5:03 UTC 

[PATCH net-next 0/3] dns_resolver docs formatting cleanup
 2025-09-24  5:00 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH net-next 2/3] net: dns_resolver: Move dns_query() explanation out of code block

[PATCH v3 0/7] Do not unparent in instance_finalize()
 2025-09-24  4:57 UTC  (2+ messages)

[PATCH 2/2] dts: aspeed: Add a dts for the nvidia msx4 hpm
 2025-09-24  4:56 UTC 

[PATCH v3 1/3] input: mouse: trackpoint: Add doubletap enable/disable support
 2025-09-24  4:55 UTC  (4+ messages)

[PATCH net v2 0/2] net: stmmac: Minor fixes for stmmac EST implementation
 2025-09-24  4:54 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH net v2 2/2] net: stmmac: Consider Tx VLAN offload tag length for maxSDU

[PATCH RESEND 00/62] initrd: remove classic initrd support
 2025-09-23 19:48 UTC  (3+ messages)

[PATCH] sound: soc: qcom: use sa8775p/ subdir for QCS9100 / QCS9075
 2025-09-24  4:53 UTC  (2+ messages)

[ndctl PATCH v2] cxl/list: remove libtracefs build dependency for --media-errors
 2025-09-24  4:52 UTC 

[PATCH 0/4] builtin/repo: introduce stats subcommand
 2025-09-24  4:48 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH 4/4] builtin/repo: add nul format for stats

[PATCH v2 00/23] tegra-video: add CSI support for Tegra20 and Tegra30
 2025-09-24  4:47 UTC  (4+ messages)
` [PATCH v2 16/23] staging: media: tegra-video: tegra20: simplify format align calculations

[v6 00/15] mm: support device-private THP
 2025-09-24  4:47 UTC  (6+ messages)
` [v6 05/15] mm/migrate_device: handle partially mapped folios during collection

[PATCH] Documentation: iio: ade9000, adis*, adx*: Convert IIO subsystem cross-references
 2025-09-24  4:46 UTC  (2+ messages)

[ndctl PATCH] cxl/list: remove libtracefs build dependency for --media-errors
 2025-09-24  4:46 UTC  (3+ messages)

[oe][meta-networking][walnascar][PATCH 1/1] tcpreplay: upgrade 4.5.1 -> 4.5.2
 2025-09-24  4:45 UTC 

[PATCH v4 0/7] Do not unparent in instance_finalize()
 2025-09-24  4:37 UTC  (5+ messages)
` [PATCH v4 3/7] hw/core/register: "
` [PATCH v4 4/7] hv-balloon: "
` [PATCH v4 6/7] vfio: "
` [PATCH v4 7/7] hw/xen: "

[PATCH] Net: psock_tpacket: Fix null argument warning in walk_tx
 2025-09-24  4:41 UTC 


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