Linux 2.6.27-rc8

Linus Torvalds
2008-09-29T22:39:22Z

So yet another week, another -rc. This one should be the last one: we're
certainly not running out of regressions, but at the same time, at some
point I just have to pick some point, and on the whole the regressions
don't look _too_ scary. And -rc8 obviously does fix more of them.

Most of the changes since -rc7 are pretty small, and there aren't even a
whole lot of them. The shortlog (appended) is just a couple of pages, and
the diffstat is even smaller, but since the dirstat is a dense overview,
I'll just put that here instead:

4.6% arch/m32r/kernel/
5.7% arch/m32r/
9.5% arch/mips/pci/
10.4% arch/mips/
4.2% arch/x86/kernel/
4.4% arch/x86/
26.0% arch/
3.5% drivers/usb/storage/
10.4% drivers/usb/
3.6% drivers/watchdog/
23.8% drivers/
11.5% fs/xfs/
13.5% fs/
3.7% kernel/
9.8% net/9p/
10.6% net/
5.4% scripts/kconfig/
5.9% scripts/
7.4% sound/soc/codecs/
8.4% sound/soc/
10.1% sound/

and it's actually more spread out than usual. Arch and drivers are just
half of the patch even when combined.

Give it a try,

Linus

---
Adrian Bunk (5):
m32r: remove the unused NOHIGHMEM option
m32r: don't offer CONFIG_ISA
m32r: export empty_zero_page
m32r: export __ndelay
m32r/kernel/: cleanups

Adrian Hunter (2):
UBIFS: TNC / GC race fixes
UBIFS: remove incorrect assert

Akinobu Mita (2):
[WATCHDOG] ibmasr: remove unnecessary spin_unlock()
ibmasr: remove unnecessary spin_unlock()

Alan Cox (1):
pcmcia: Fix broken abuse of dev->driver_data

Alan Stern (2):
USB: unusual_devs addition for RockChip MP3 player
USB: revert recovery from transient errors

Alex Chiang (1):
[IA64] Ski simulator doesn't need check_sal_cache_flush

Alexander Beregalov (1):
UBIFS: fix printk format warnings

Alexander Duyck (1):
netdev: simple_tx_hash shouldn't hash inside fragments

Andrea Righi (1):
x86, oprofile: BUG scheduling while atomic

Andreas Bombe (1):
usb-serial: Add Siemens EF81 to PL-2303 hack triggers

Andreas Herrmann (1):
x86: c1e_idle: don't mark TSC unstable if CPU has invariant TSC

Andrew Morton (2):
Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh description
USB: drivers/usb/musb/: disable it on SuperH

Andrew Vasquez (1):
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Defer enablement of RISC interrupts until ISP initialization completes.

Anti Sullin (1):
atmel_serial: update the powersave handler to match serial core

Atsuo Igarashi (1):
kgdb: could not write to the last of valid memory with kgdb

Aurelien Jarno (2):
[MIPS] BCM47xx: Fix build error due to missing PCI functions
[SSB] Initialise dma_mask for SSB_BUSTYPE_SSB devices

Balbir Singh (1):
mm owner: fix race between swapoff and exit

Ben Dooks (1):
[WATCHDOG] wdt285: fix sparse warnings

Boaz Harrosh (2):
[SCSI] qlogicpti: fix sg list traversal error in continuation entries
scsi: fix fall out of sg-chaining patch in qlogicpti

Borislav Petkov (1):
ide-tape: fix vendor strings

Bruno Randolf (2):
[MIPS] au1000: Fix gpio direction
[MIPS] au1000: Make sure GPIO value is zero or one

Chris Adams (1):
usb serial: ti_usb_3410_5052 obviously broken by firmware changes

Craig Shelley (1):
USB: SERIAL CP2101 add device IDs

Daisuke Nishimura (1):
memcg: check under limit at shrink_usage

David Almaroad (1):
usb: unusual devs patch for Nokia 5310 Music Xpress

David Brownell (3):
USB: ehci: fix some ehci hangs and crashes
usb gadget: fix omap_udc DMA regression
USB: fix EHCI periodic transfers

David Howells (3):
MN10300: Move asm-arm/cnt32_to_63.h to include/linux/
MN10300: Make sched_clock() report time since boot
ARM: Delete ARM's own cnt32_to_63.h

David S. Miller (2):
sparc64: Fix disappearing PCI devices on e3500.
sparc64: Fix missing devices due to PCI bridge test in of_create_pci_dev().

Eric Van Hensbergen (1):
9p: fix put_data error handling

Felipe Balbi (1):
usb: musb: fix include path

Filip Joelsson (1):
USB: Fixing Nokia 3310c in storage mode

Gaetan Carlier (1):
usb: ftdi_sio: add support for Domintell devices

Geoff Levand (1):
USB: fix hcd interrupt disabling

Greg Kroah-Hartman (1):
PCI: fix compiler warnings in pci_get_subsys()

Haavard Skinnemoen (1):
ALSA: ASoC: Fix at32-pcm build breakage with PM enabled

Henrik Rydberg (1):
Input: bcm5974 - switch back to normal mode when closing

Ingo Molnar (1):
timers: fix build error in !oneshot case

Jack Tan (1):
[MIPS] Fixe the definition of PTRS_PER_PGD

James Bottomley (1):
[SCSI] Fix hang with split requests

Jaroslav Kysela (1):
USB: ftdi_sio: Add 0x5050/0x0900 USB IDs (Papouch Quido USB 4/4)

Jason Wessel (4):
kgdb, x86, arm, mips, powerpc: ignore user space single stepping
kgdb, x86_64: gdb serial has BX and DX reversed
kgdb, x86_64: fix PS CS SS registers in gdb serial
kgdboc,tty: Fix tty polling search to use name correctly

Jay Lan (1):
[IA64] kexec fails on systems with blocks of uncached memory

Jean Delvare (2):
i2c: Fix mailing lists in two MAINTAINERS entries
ALSA: ASoC: Fix another cs4270 error path

Jeremy Katz (1):
x86: disable apm on the olpc

Joerg Roedel (2):
AMD IOMMU: set iommu sunc flag after command queuing
AMD IOMMU: protect completion wait loop with iommu lock

Jonathan Steel (1):
kexec: fix segmentation fault in kimage_add_entry

Julia Lawall (1):
9p: introduce missing kfree

Julien Brunel (1):
9p: use an IS_ERR test rather than a NULL test

Kevin Lloyd (3):
USB Storage: Sierra: Non-configurable TRU-Install
USB Serial: Sierra: Device addition & version rev
USB Serial: Sierra: Add MC8785 VID/PID

Kirill A. Shutemov (1):
smb.h: do not include linux/time.h in userspace

Kristoffer Ericson (1):
Input: jornada720_ts - fix build error ( LONG() usage )

Lachlan McIlroy (2):
[XFS] Fix extent list corruption in xfs_iext_irec_compact_full().
[XFS] Remove xfs_iext_irec_compact_full()

Liam Girdwood (1):
ALSA: ASoC: maintainers - update email address for Liam Girdwood

Linus Torvalds (2):
Fix NULL pointer dereference in proc_sys_compare
Linux 2.6.27-rc8

Luis R. Rodriguez (1):
ath9k: disable MIB interrupts to fix interrupt storm

Marc Dionne (1):
x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online, fix

Marcel Holtmann (3):
[Bluetooth] Fix I/O errors on MacBooks with Broadcom chips
[Bluetooth] Fix wrong URB handling of btusb driver
[Bluetooth] Fix USB disconnect handling of btusb driver

Marin Mitov (1):
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changes

Michael Kerrisk (1):
sys_paccept: disable paccept() until API design is resolved

Márton Németh (1):
cdrom: update ioctl documentation

Nick Piggin (1):
mm: tiny-shmem fix lock ordering: mmap_sem vs i_mutex

Oliver Neukum (1):
USB: update of Documentation/usb/anchors.txt

Otavio Salvador (1):
USB: serial: add ZTE CDMA Tech id to option driver

Peter Korsgaard (1):
USB: fsl_usb2_udc: fix VDBG() format string

Rakib Mullick (1):
sched: fix init_hrtick() section mismatch warning

Ralf Baechle (2):
[MIPS] IP27: Switch to dynamic interrupt routing avoding panic on error.
Swarm: Fix crash due to missing initialization

Randy Dunlap (1):
kernel-doc: allow structs whose members are all private

Ravikiran G Thirumalai (1):
x86: fix 27-rc crash on vsmp due to paravirt during module load

Richard Nauber (1):
USB: Fix the Nokia 6300 storage-mode.

Roland Dreier (1):
IPoIB: Fix crash when path record fails after path flush

Sebastian Siewior (1):
UBIFS: create the name of the background thread in every case

Senthil Balasubramanian (2):
ath9k: connectivity is lost after Group rekeying is done
ath9k: Fix IRQ nobody cared issue with ath9k

Sitsofe Wheeler (1):
PCI: Fix pcie_aspm=force

Sven Wegener (1):
i2c-dev: Return correct error code on class_create() failure

Takashi Iwai (2):
ALSA: fix locking in snd_pcm_open*() and snd_rawmidi_open*()
ALSA: remove unneeded power_mutex lock in snd_pcm_drop

Tejun Heo (7):
9p: implement proper trans module refcounting and unregistration
9p-trans_fd: fix trans_fd::p9_conn_destroy()
9p-trans_fd: clean up p9_conn_create()
9p-trans_fd: don't do fs segment mangling in p9_fd_poll()
9p-trans_fd: fix and clean up module init/exit paths
ide: note that IDE generic may prevent other drivers from attaching
sata_nv: reinstate nv_hardreset() for non generic controllers

Thomas Gleixner (6):
clockevents: prevent cpu online to interfere with nohz
x86: prevent stale state of c1e_mask across CPU offline/online
clockevents: prevent stale tick_next_period for onlining CPUs
clockevents: check broadcast device not tick device
clockevents: prevent mode mismatch on cpu online
x86: prevent C-states hang on AMD C1E enabled machines

Timur Tabi (1):
ALSA: make the CS4270 driver a new-style I2C driver

Tony Murray (1):
USB: Correct Sierra Wireless USB EVDO Modem Device ID

Uwe Kleine-König (1):
i2c-powermac: Fix section for probe and remove functions

Wim Van Sebroeck (1):
[WATCHDOG] unlocked_ioctl changes

Yasuyuki Kozakai (1):
netfilter: ip6t_{hbh,dst}: Rejects not-strict mode on rule insertion

born.into.silence@gmail.com (1):
wireless: zd1211rw: add device ID fix wifi dongle "trust nw-3100"

zippel@linux-m68k.org (2):
kconfig: fix silentoldconfig
kconfig: readd lost change count