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      "message": "writeback: add name to backing_dev_info\n\nThis enables us to track who does what and print info. Its main use\nis catching dirty inodes on the default_backing_dev_info, so we can\nfix that up.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe \u003cjens.axboe@oracle.com\u003e\n"
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      "message": "fs: Remove i_cindex from struct inode\n\nThe only user of the i_cindex element in the inode structure is used\nis by the firewire drivers.  As part of an attempt to slim down the\ninode structure to save memory --- since a typical Linux system will\nhave hundreds of thousands if not millions of inodes cached, a\nreduction in the size inode has high leverage.\n\nThe firewire driver does not need i_cindex in any fast path, so it\u0027s\nsimple enough to calculate when it is needed, instead of wasting space\nin the inode structure.\n\nSigned-off-by: \"Theodore Ts\u0027o\" \u003ctytso@mit.edu\u003e\nCc: krh@redhat.com\nCc: stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de\nCc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n"
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      "message": "fs: fix name overwrite in __register_chrdev_region()\n\nIt\u0027s possible to register a chrdev with a name size exactly the same as\nwas allocated in structure.  It seems it was not intended behaviour.\n\nAt least chrdev_show does not like it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Cyrill Gorcunov \u003cgorcunov@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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      "message": "[PATCH] tidy up chrdev_open\n\nUse a single goto label for chrdev_put + return error cases.\n\nSigned-off-by: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\n"
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      "message": "remove CONFIG_KMOD from fs\n\nJust always compile the code when the kernel is modular.\nConvert load_nls to use try_then_request_module to tidy\nup the code.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\n"
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      "message": "Add a comment in chrdev_open()\n\nI stared at this code for a while and almost deleted it before\nunderstanding crept into my slow brain.  Hopefully this makes life easier\nfor the next person to happen on it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet \u003ccorbet@lwn.net\u003e\n"
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      "message": "fs: remove unused fops from struct char_device_struct\n\nstruct char_device_struct::fops is no longer used: remove it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jiri Olsa \u003colsajiri@gmail.com\u003e\nCc: Greg KH \u003cgreg@kroah.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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      "message": "mm: bdi init hooks\n\nprovide BDI constructor/destructor hooks\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: compile fix]\nSigned-off-by: Peter Zijlstra \u003ca.p.zijlstra@chello.nl\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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      "message": "unregister_chrdev() return void\n\nunregister_chrdev() does not return meaningful value.  This patch makes it\nreturn void like most unregister_* functions.\n\nSigned-off-by: Akinobu Mita \u003cakinobu.mita@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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      "message": "[PATCH] remove protection of LANANA-reserved majors\n\nRevert all this.  It can cause device-mapper to receive a different major from\nearlier kernels and it turns out that the Amanda backup program (via GNU tar,\napparently) checks major numbers on files when performing incremental backups.\n\nWhich is a bit broken of Amanda (or tar), but this feature isn\u0027t important\nenough to justify the churn.\n\nCc: Ingo Molnar \u003cmingo@elte.hu\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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        "email": "akpm@linux-foundation.org",
        "time": "Tue Feb 20 13:57:48 2007 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org",
        "time": "Tue Feb 20 17:10:13 2007 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] rework reserved major handling\n\nSeveral people have reported failures in dynamic major device number handling\ndue to the recent changes in there to avoid handing out the local/experimental\nmajors.\n\nRolf reports that this is due to a gcc-4.1.0 bug.\n\nThe patch refactors that code a lot in an attempt to provoke the compiler into\nbehaving.\n\nCc: Rolf Eike Beer \u003ceike-kernel@sf-tec.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "215122e1110f97a3f478829049b9840cf8fdde57",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Andrew Morton",
        "email": "akpm@osdl.org",
        "time": "Mon Feb 12 00:51:43 2007 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org",
        "time": "Mon Feb 12 09:48:27 2007 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] register_chrdev_region() don\u0027t hand out the LOCAL/EXPERIMENTAL majors\n\nAs pointed out in http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id\u003d7922, dynamic\nchardev major allocation can hand out majors which LANANA has defined as being\nfor local/experimental use.\n\nCc: Torben Mathiasen \u003cdevice@lanana.org\u003e\nCc: Greg KH \u003cgreg@kroah.com\u003e\nCc: Al Viro \u003cviro@zeniv.linux.org.uk\u003e\nCc: Tomas Klas \u003ctomas.klas@mepatek.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n"
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    {
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      "author": {
        "name": "David Howells",
        "email": "dhowells@redhat.com",
        "time": "Sat Sep 30 20:52:18 2006 +0200"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Jens Axboe",
        "email": "axboe@kernel.dk",
        "time": "Sat Sep 30 20:52:18 2006 +0200"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] BLOCK: Move extern declarations out of fs/*.c into header files [try #6]\n\nCreate a new header file, fs/internal.h, for common definitions local to the\nsources in the fs/ directory.\n\nMove extern definitions that should be in header files from fs/*.c to\nfs/internal.h or other main header files where they span directories.\n\nSigned-Off-By: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Jens Axboe \u003caxboe@kernel.dk\u003e\n"
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      "commit": "cf3e43dbe0cc4a7ee7f6ab1bb5231dcfda164e02",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Jonathan Corbet",
        "email": "corbet@lwn.net",
        "time": "Fri Sep 29 02:00:44 2006 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Fri Sep 29 09:18:16 2006 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] cdev documentation\n\nAdd some documentation comments for the cdev interface.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jonathan Corbet \u003ccorbet@lwn.net\u003e\nCc: Rolf Eike Beer \u003ceike-kernel@sf-tec.de\u003e\nAcked-by: \"Randy.Dunlap\" \u003crdunlap@xenotime.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "01d553d0fe9f90a132c5ff494872be8d4126be1e",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Amos Waterland",
        "email": "apw@us.ibm.com",
        "time": "Fri Sep 29 02:00:08 2006 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Fri Sep 29 09:18:12 2006 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] Chardev checking of overlapping ranges\n\nThe code in __register_chrdev_region checks that if the driver wishing to\nregister has the same major as an existing driver the new minor range is\nstrictly less than the existing minor range.  However, it does not also\ncheck that the new minor range is strictly greater than the existing minor\nrange.  That is, if driver X has registered with major\u003dx and minor\u003d0-3,\n__register_chrdev_region will allow driver Y to register with major\u003dx and\nminor\u003d1-4.\n\nSigned-off-by: Amos Waterland \u003capw@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Linas Vepstas \u003clinas@austin.ibm.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "5da6185bca064e35aa73a7c1f27488d2b96434f4",
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      "author": {
        "name": "David Howells",
        "email": "dhowells@redhat.com",
        "time": "Wed Sep 27 01:50:16 2006 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Wed Sep 27 08:26:14 2006 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] NOMMU: Set BDI capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem\n\nSet the backing device info capabilities for /dev/mem and /dev/kmem to\npermit direct sharing under no-MMU conditions and full mapping capabilities\nunder MMU conditions.  Make the BDI used by these available to all directly\nmappable character devices.\n\nAlso comment the capabilities for /dev/zero.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: ifdef reductions]\nSigned-off-by: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "d247e2c661f28a21e5f9a8d672e1e88a7c1c5d4a",
      "tree": "cb202ad2d4f3504ff31bf0e474aae855ac3dd41a",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Rolf Eike Beer",
        "email": "eike-kernel@sf-tec.de",
        "time": "Fri Jul 14 00:24:23 2006 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Fri Jul 14 21:53:54 2006 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] add function documentation for register_chrdev()\n\nDocumentation for register_chrdev() was missing completely.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: kerneldocification]\nSigned-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer \u003ceike-kernel@sf-tec.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
    },
    {
      "commit": "6ab3d5624e172c553004ecc862bfeac16d9d68b7",
      "tree": "6d98881fe91fd9583c109208d5c27131b93fa248",
      "parents": [
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      ],
      "author": {
        "name": "Jörn Engel",
        "email": "joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de",
        "time": "Fri Jun 30 19:25:36 2006 +0200"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Adrian Bunk",
        "email": "bunk@stusta.de",
        "time": "Fri Jun 30 19:25:36 2006 +0200"
      },
      "message": "Remove obsolete #include \u003clinux/config.h\u003e\n\nSigned-off-by: Jörn Engel \u003cjoern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "ff23eca3e8f613034e0d20ff86f6a89b62f5a14e",
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      ],
      "author": {
        "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman",
        "email": "gregkh@suse.de",
        "time": "Mon Jun 20 21:15:16 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman",
        "email": "gregkh@suse.de",
        "time": "Mon Jun 26 12:25:08 2006 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree\n\nAlso fixes up all files that #include it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n"
    },
    {
      "commit": "68eef3b4791572ecb70249c7fb145bb3742dd899",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Joe Korty",
        "email": "joe.korty@ccur.com",
        "time": "Fri Mar 31 02:30:32 2006 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Fri Mar 31 12:18:53 2006 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] Simplify proc/devices and fix early termination regression\n\nMake baby-simple the code for /proc/devices.  Based on the proven design\nfor /proc/interrupts.\n\nThis also fixes the early-termination regression 2.6.16 introduced, as\ndemonstrated by:\n\n    # dd if\u003d/proc/devices bs\u003d1\n    Character devices:\n      1 mem\n    27+0 records in\n    27+0 records out\n\nThis should also work (but is untested) when /proc/devices \u003e4096 bytes,\nwhich I believe is what the original 2.6.16 rewrite fixed.\n\n[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups, simplifications]\nSigned-off-by: Joe Korty \u003cjoe.korty@ccur.com\u003e\nCc: Neil Horman \u003cnhorman@tuxdriver.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "4b6f5d20b04dcbc3d888555522b90ba6d36c4106",
      "tree": "420f271eaef7d3def7d4433b151c3cb6d7a54770",
      "parents": [
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      ],
      "author": {
        "name": "Arjan van de Ven",
        "email": "arjan@infradead.org",
        "time": "Tue Mar 28 01:56:42 2006 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Tue Mar 28 09:16:06 2006 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] Make most file operations structs in fs/ const\n\nThis is a conversion to make the various file_operations structs in fs/\nconst.  Basically a regexp job, with a few manual fixups\n\nThe goal is both to increase correctness (harder to accidentally write to\nshared datastructures) and reducing the false sharing of cachelines with\nthings that get dirty in .data (while .rodata is nicely read only and thus\ncache clean)\n\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@infradead.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "99ac48f54a91d02140c497edc31dc57d4bc5c85d",
      "tree": "68719391694a6914191bdf73d2071875f7653f6f",
      "parents": [
        "ec1b9466cb4f6ae6d950bd67055d9410d1056d2a"
      ],
      "author": {
        "name": "Arjan van de Ven",
        "email": "arjan@infradead.org",
        "time": "Tue Mar 28 01:56:41 2006 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Tue Mar 28 09:16:05 2006 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] mark f_ops const in the inode\n\nMark the f_ops members of inodes as const, as well as fix the\nripple-through this causes by places that copy this f_ops and then \"do\nstuff\" with it.\n\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@infradead.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan \u003cadobriyan@gmail.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "11b0b5abb2097a63c1081d9b7e825b987b227972",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Oliver Neukum",
        "email": "neukum@fachschaft.cup.uni-muenchen.de",
        "time": "Sat Mar 25 03:08:13 2006 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Sat Mar 25 08:23:00 2006 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] use kzalloc and kcalloc in core fs code\n\nSigned-off-by: Oliver Neukum \u003coliver@neukum.name\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
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      "author": {
        "name": "Jes Sorensen",
        "email": "jes@sgi.com",
        "time": "Mon Feb 06 14:12:43 2006 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman",
        "email": "gregkh@suse.de",
        "time": "Mon Mar 20 13:42:58 2006 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] kobj_map semaphore to mutex conversion\n\nConvert the kobj_map code to use a mutex instead of a semaphore.  It\nconverts the single two users as well, genhd.c and char_dev.c.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jes Sorensen \u003cjes@sgi.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "7170be5f586b59bdcdab082778a5d9203ba7b667",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Neil Horman",
        "email": "nhorman@redhat.com",
        "time": "Sat Jan 14 13:20:38 2006 -0800"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Sat Jan 14 18:25:19 2006 -0800"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] convert /proc/devices to use seq_file interface\n\nA Christoph suggested that the /proc/devices file be converted to use the\nseq_file interface.  This patch does that.\n\nI\u0027ve obxerved one or two installation that had sufficiently large sans that\nthey overran the 4k limit on /proc/devices.\n\nSigned-off-by: Neil Horman \u003cnhorman@redhat.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "7da6844cf7bc44dcda548a0a0aebf85f3a1c1485",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Brian King",
        "email": "brking@us.ibm.com",
        "time": "Tue Jul 12 13:58:30 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org",
        "time": "Tue Jul 12 16:01:02 2005 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] cdev: cdev_put oops\n\nWhile fixing an oops in the st driver in a dirty release path, I\nencountered an oops in cdev_put for cdevs allocated using cdev_alloc.  If\ncdev_del is called when the cdev kobject still has an open user, when the\nlast cdev_put is called, the cdev_put will call kobject_put, which will end\nup ultimately releasing the cdev in cdev_dynamic_release.  Patch fixes the\noops by preventing cdev_put from accessing freed memory.\n\nSigned-off-by: Brian King \u003cbrking@us.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: \u003cviro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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      "author": {
        "name": "Wen-chien Jesse Sung",
        "email": "jesse@cola.voip.idv.tw",
        "time": "Tue Jun 28 20:44:41 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org",
        "time": "Tue Jun 28 21:20:29 2005 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] fix semaphore handling in __unregister_chrdev_region\n\nThis up() should be down() instead.\n\nSigned-off-by: Wen-chien Jesse Sung \u003cjesse@cola.voip.idv.tw\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
      "commit": "ac20427ef6aa63da663bdc88b71d16f7394f5e23",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Neil Horman",
        "email": "nhorman@redhat.com",
        "time": "Thu Jun 23 00:09:11 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org",
        "time": "Thu Jun 23 09:45:19 2005 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] add check to /proc/devices read routines\n\nPatch to add check to get_chrdev_list and get_blkdev_list to prevent reads\nof /proc/devices from spilling over the provided page if more than 4096\nbytes of string data are generated from all the registered character and\nblock devices in a system\n\nSigned-off-by: Neil Horman \u003cnhorman@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@lst.de\u003e\nCc: \u003cviro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
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    {
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      "tree": "45a64d1c9bb71d7093db3a11e0f21465c2e3dec6",
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      "author": {
        "name": "Adrian Bunk",
        "email": "bunk@stusta.de",
        "time": "Thu May 05 16:16:09 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org",
        "time": "Thu May 05 16:36:47 2005 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] make some things static\n\nThis patch makes some needlessly global identifiers static.\n\nSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk \u003cbunk@stusta.de\u003e\nAcked-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjanv@infradead.org\u003e\nAcked-by: Trond Myklebust \u003ctrond.myklebust@fys.uio.no\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n"
    },
    {
      "commit": "1d4d5b325315f064e8cd4efaefbe50cdda0357c7",
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      "author": {
        "name": "David Brownell",
        "email": "david-b@pacbell.net",
        "time": "Sun Apr 17 10:57:20 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org",
        "time": "Sun Apr 17 10:57:20 2005 -0700"
      },
      "message": "[PATCH] revert fs/char_dev.c CONFIG_BASE_FULL change\n\nThis reverts a fs/char_dev.c patch that was merged into BK on March 3.\n\nThe problem is that it breaks things ... __register_chrdev_region() has\na block of code, commented \"temporary\" for over two years now, which\nfails rudely during PCMCIA initialization or other register_chrdev()\ncalls, because it doesn\u0027t \"degrade to linked list\".  This keeps whole\nsubsystems from working.\n\nA real fix to that \"temporary\" code should be possible, using some better\nscheme to allocate major numbers, but it\u0027s not something I want to spend\ntime on just now.\n\nSigned-off-by: David Brownell \u003cdbrownell@users.sourceforge.net\u003e\nAcked-by: Matt Mackall \u003cmpm@selenic.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n\n"
    },
    {
      "commit": "1da177e4c3f41524e886b7f1b8a0c1fc7321cac2",
      "tree": "0bba044c4ce775e45a88a51686b5d9f90697ea9d",
      "parents": [],
      "author": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org",
        "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700"
      },
      "committer": {
        "name": "Linus Torvalds",
        "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org",
        "time": "Sat Apr 16 15:20:36 2005 -0700"
      },
      "message": "Linux-2.6.12-rc2\n\nInitial git repository build. I\u0027m not bothering with the full history,\neven though we have it. We can create a separate \"historical\" git\narchive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it\u0027s about\n3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early\ngit days unnecessarily complicated, when we don\u0027t have a lot of good\ninfrastructure for it.\n\nLet it rip!\n"
    }
  ]
}