)]}' { "log": [ { "commit": "97c18e2c7a8e36d2d83d50ee070314aadac73a11", "tree": "fbccf33515ae3bb835e90af11da18614abde847e", "parents": [ "f4efdd65b754ebbf41484d3a2255c59282720650" ], "author": { "name": "Herbert Xu", "email": "herbert@gondor.apana.org.au", "time": "Thu Apr 09 10:35:47 2009 +0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Apr 09 07:49:44 2009 -0700" }, "message": "module: try_then_request_module must wait\n\nSince the whole point of try_then_request_module is to retry\nthe operation after a module has been loaded, we must wait for\nthe module to fully load.\n\nOtherwise all sort of things start breaking, e.g., you won\u0027t\nbe able to read your encrypted disks on the first attempt.\n\nSigned-off-by: Herbert Xu \u003cherbert@gondor.apana.org.au\u003e\nTested-by: Maciej Rutecki \u003cmaciej.rutecki@gmail.com\u003e\nTested-by: Patrick McHardy \u003ckaber@trash.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "acae05156551fd7528fbb616271e672789388e3c", "tree": "71cb528037776997aea4d5a3128bd9c2ea723ba1", "parents": [ "8c8ef42aee8fcfb4128bb94c50d55c9f80ade525" ], "author": { "name": "Arjan van de Ven", "email": "arjan@linux.intel.com", "time": "Sun Feb 08 10:42:01 2009 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Tue Mar 31 13:05:35 2009 +1030" }, "message": "module: create a request_module_nowait()\n\nThere seems to be a common pattern in the kernel where drivers want to\ncall request_module() from inside a module_init() function. Currently\nthis would deadlock.\n\nAs a result, several drivers go through hoops like scheduling things via\nkevent, or creating custom work queues (because kevent can deadlock on them).\n\nThis patch changes this to use a request_module_nowait() function macro instead,\nwhich just fires the modprobe off but doesn\u0027t wait for it, and thus avoids the\noriginal deadlock entirely.\n\nOn my laptop this already results in one less kernel thread running..\n\n(Includes Jiri\u0027s patch to use enum umh_wait)\n\nSigned-off-by: Arjan van de Ven \u003carjan@linux.intel.com\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e (bool-ified)\nCc: Jiri Slaby \u003cjirislaby@gmail.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "1bfcf1304ea79c46efc3724e548b13b4b442b418", "tree": "5adbf95b25d1d9e86fc0e5d0784550ccb9bf5be9", "parents": [ "574f34cee2b6574d43bf4506f771c1cec6a5d391" ], "author": { "name": "Rafael J. Wysocki", "email": "rjw@sisk.pl", "time": "Wed Oct 15 22:01:21 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Thu Oct 16 11:21:29 2008 -0700" }, "message": "pm: rework disabling of user mode helpers during suspend/hibernation\n\nWe currently use a PM notifier to disable user mode helpers before suspend\nand hibernation and to re-enable them during resume. However, this is not\nan ideal solution, because if any drivers want to upload firmware into\nmemory before suspend, they have to use a PM notifier for this purpose and\nthere is no guarantee that the ordering of PM notifiers will be as\nexpected (ie. the notifier that disables user mode helpers has to be run\nafter the driver\u0027s notifier used for uploading the firmware).\n\nFor this reason, it seems better to move the disabling and enabling of\nuser mode helpers to separate functions that will be called by the PM core\nas necessary.\n\n[akpm@linux-foundation.org: remove unneeded ifdefs]\nSigned-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki \u003crjw@sisk.pl\u003e\nCc: Alan Stern \u003cstern@rowland.harvard.edu\u003e\nAcked-by: Pavel Machek \u003cpavel@suse.cz\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "ac331d158e198d2a91a5b0a3ec4ca9991fdb57af", "tree": "b0921e2bc8e59d5df2c554c41c3b9f04e05d6d7c", "parents": [ "f557d0996a6f9c06912528ea85e1dba0fb7d485f" ], "author": { "name": "KOSAKI Motohiro", "email": "kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com", "time": "Fri Jul 25 01:45:38 2008 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@linux-foundation.org", "time": "Fri Jul 25 10:53:28 2008 -0700" }, "message": "call_usermodehelper(): increase reliability\n\nPresently call_usermodehelper_setup() uses GFP_ATOMIC. but it can return\nNULL _very_ easily.\n\nGFP_ATOMIC is needed only when we can\u0027t sleep. and, GFP_KERNEL is robust\nand better.\n\nthus, I add gfp_mask argument to call_usermodehelper_setup().\n\nSo, its callers pass the gfp_t as below:\n\ncall_usermodehelper() and call_usermodehelper_keys():\n\tdepend on \u0027wait\u0027 argument.\ncall_usermodehelper_pipe():\n\talways GFP_KERNEL because always run under process context.\norderly_poweroff():\n\tpass to GFP_ATOMIC because may run under interrupt context.\n\nSigned-off-by: KOSAKI Motohiro \u003ckosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com\u003e\nCc: \"Paul Menage\" \u003cmenage@google.com\u003e\nReviewed-by: Li Zefan \u003clizf@cn.fujitsu.com\u003e\nAcked-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003candi@firstfloor.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@linux-foundation.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@linux-foundation.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "a1ef5adb4cad43460ebba23c5a78cf4a55bb6a5b", "tree": "1556b41ff7a03a6941cb363d97204bfef501f9c4", "parents": [ "a00caa1fa954c734f4214a074727a329a9ba6568" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Tue Jul 08 19:00:17 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Tue Jul 22 19:24:31 2008 +1000" }, "message": "remove CONFIG_KMOD from core kernel code\n\nAlways compile request_module when the kernel allows modules.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "df648c9fbebb4de50e7a6e76cc253c7cb0421f9b", "tree": "909e31ce61020e65b45f2c0caef3492b9a376b4a", "parents": [ "a81792f668c20540c336af4242ba1400763eb14f" ], "author": { "name": "Johannes Berg", "email": "johannes@sipsolutions.net", "time": "Tue Jul 08 19:00:18 2008 +0200" }, "committer": { "name": "Rusty Russell", "email": "rusty@rustcorp.com.au", "time": "Tue Jul 22 19:24:29 2008 +1000" }, "message": "rework try_then_request_module to do less in non-modular kernels\n\nThis reworks try_then_request_module to only invoke the \"lookup\"\nfunction \"x\" once when the kernel is not modular.\n\nSigned-off-by: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "86313c488a6848b7ec2ba04e74f25f79dd32a0b7", "tree": "3b190f7afc338362470573b563f65a1eb83795ac", "parents": [ "10a0a8d4e3f6bf2d077f94344441909abe670f5a" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@xensource.com", "time": "Tue Jul 17 18:37:03 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@goop.org", "time": "Wed Jul 18 08:47:40 2007 -0700" }, "message": "usermodehelper: Tidy up waiting\n\nRather than using a tri-state integer for the wait flag in\ncall_usermodehelper_exec, define a proper enum, and use that. I\u0027ve\npreserved the integer values so that any callers I\u0027ve missed should\nstill work OK.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nCc: James Bottomley \u003cJames.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com\u003e\nCc: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Christoph Hellwig \u003chch@infradead.org\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Paul Mackerras \u003cpaulus@samba.org\u003e\nCc: Johannes Berg \u003cjohannes@sipsolutions.net\u003e\nCc: Ralf Baechle \u003cralf@linux-mips.org\u003e\nCc: Bjorn Helgaas \u003cbjorn.helgaas@hp.com\u003e\nCc: Joel Becker \u003cjoel.becker@oracle.com\u003e\nCc: Tony Luck \u003ctony.luck@intel.com\u003e\nCc: Kay Sievers \u003ckay.sievers@vrfy.org\u003e\nCc: Srivatsa Vaddagiri \u003cvatsa@in.ibm.com\u003e\nCc: Oleg Nesterov \u003coleg@tv-sign.ru\u003e\nCc: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "0ab4dc92278a0f3816e486d6350c6652a72e06c8", "tree": "84bc321c94ca86a3b5eafa308c8dba9af85a725c", "parents": [ "d84d1cc7647c7e4f77d517e2d87b4a106a0420d9" ], "author": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@xensource.com", "time": "Tue Jul 17 18:37:02 2007 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Jeremy Fitzhardinge", "email": "jeremy@goop.org", "time": "Wed Jul 18 08:47:40 2007 -0700" }, "message": "usermodehelper: split setup from execution\n\nRather than having hundreds of variations of call_usermodehelper for\nvarious pieces of usermode state which could be set up, split the\ninfo allocation and initialization from the actual process execution.\n\nThis means the general pattern becomes:\n info \u003d call_usermodehelper_setup(path, argv, envp); /* basic state */\n call_usermodehelper_\u003cSET EXTRA STATE\u003e(info, stuff...);\t/* extra state */\n call_usermodehelper_exec(info, wait);\t/* run process and free info */\n\nThis patch introduces wrappers for all the existing calling styles for\ncall_usermodehelper_*, but folds their implementations into one.\n\nSigned-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge \u003cjeremy@xensource.com\u003e\nCc: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nCc: Rusty Russell \u003crusty@rustcorp.com.au\u003e\nCc: David Howells \u003cdhowells@redhat.com\u003e\nCc: Bj?rn Steinbrink \u003cB.Steinbrink@gmx.de\u003e\nCc: Randy Dunlap \u003crandy.dunlap@oracle.com\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "dfff0a0671baf4e69fc676bf8150635407548288", "tree": "a477399030ef79029b7c8ef064a2695ea5f07c56", "parents": [ "82f0cf9b7c42684c29189ddb6d0bc86eb1137fc4" ], "author": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Fri Feb 23 14:54:57 2007 -0800" }, "committer": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Fri Feb 23 14:54:57 2007 -0800" }, "message": "Revert \"Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent\"\n\nThis reverts commit c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f.\n\nIt turns out that we end up with a loop trying to load the unix\nmodule and calling netfilter to do that. Will redo the patch\nlater to not have this loop.\n\nAcked-by: Kay Sievers \u003ckay.sievers@vrfy.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "c353c3fb0700a3c17ea2b0237710a184232ccd7f", "tree": "7b5fd590bd9b0a08bee8425ad074e993629683d1", "parents": [ "89790fd789e024b23eb1fbccedd84a2015441ce0" ], "author": { "name": "Kay Sievers", "email": "kay.sievers@vrfy.org", "time": "Fri Feb 02 16:39:12 2007 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "Greg Kroah-Hartman", "email": "gregkh@suse.de", "time": "Fri Feb 16 15:19:15 2007 -0800" }, "message": "Driver core: let request_module() send a /sys/modules/kmod/-uevent\n\nOn recent systems, calls to /sbin/modprobe are handled by udev depending\non the kind of device the kernel has discovered. This patch creates an\nuevent for the kernels internal request_module(), to let udev take control\nover the request, instead of forking the binary directly by the kernel.\nThe direct execution of /sbin/modprobe can be disabled by setting:\n /sys/module/kmod/mod_request_helper (/proc/sys/kernel/modprobe)\nto an empty string, the same way /proc/sys/kernel/hotplug is disabled on an\nudev system.\n\nSigned-off-by: Kay Sievers \u003ckay.sievers@vrfy.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman \u003cgregkh@suse.de\u003e\n\n" }, { "commit": "e239ca540594cff00adcce163dc332b27015d8e5", "tree": "8dfb5c0be4864d738df5a5282e56d9e57ce8261f", "parents": [ "d6cbd281d189977b38eac7eb2a4678de19b6b483" ], "author": { "name": "Andi Kleen", "email": "ak@suse.de", "time": "Sat Sep 30 23:29:27 2006 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@g5.osdl.org", "time": "Sun Oct 01 00:39:33 2006 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Create call_usermodehelper_pipe()\n\nA new member in the ever growing family of call_usermode* functions is\nborn. The new call_usermodehelper_pipe() function allows to pipe data to\nthe stdin of the called user mode progam and behaves otherwise like the\nnormal call_usermodehelp() (except that it always waits for the child to\nfinish)\n\nSigned-off-by: Andi Kleen \u003cak@suse.de\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Andrew Morton \u003cakpm@osdl.org\u003e\nSigned-off-by: Linus Torvalds \u003ctorvalds@osdl.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "62c4f0a2d5a188f73a94f2cb8ea0dba3e7cf0a7f", "tree": "e85ca2d0dd43f90dccf758338764c3caa55f333f", "parents": [ "089f26d5e31b7bf42a9a8fefec08b30cd27f4b0e" ], "author": { "name": "David Woodhouse", "email": "dwmw2@infradead.org", "time": "Wed Apr 26 12:56:16 2006 +0100" }, "committer": { "name": "David Woodhouse", "email": "dwmw2@infradead.org", "time": "Wed Apr 26 12:56:16 2006 +0100" }, "message": "Don\u0027t include linux/config.h from anywhere else in include/\n\nSigned-off-by: David Woodhouse \u003cdwmw2@infradead.org\u003e\n" }, { "commit": "7888e7ff4ee579442128d7d12a9c9dbf2cf7de6a", "tree": "abe428ecb966e1dae07fce17f38e3e0c0ab4f134", "parents": [ "76d8aeabfeb1c42641a81c44280177b9a08670d8" ], "author": { "name": "David Howells", "email": "dhowells@redhat.com", "time": "Thu Jun 23 22:00:51 2005 -0700" }, "committer": { "name": "Linus Torvalds", "email": "torvalds@ppc970.osdl.org", "time": "Fri Jun 24 00:05:18 2005 -0700" }, "message": "[PATCH] Keys: Pass session keyring to call_usermodehelper()\n\nThe attached patch makes it possible to pass a session keyring through to the\nprocess spawned by call_usermodehelper(). This allows patch 3/3 to pass an\nauthorisation key through to /sbin/request-key, thus permitting better access\ncontrols when doing just-in-time key creation.\n\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" }, { "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" } ] }