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From: Sedat Dilek <[email protected]>                                                                                                                                                            
Date: Fri, 15 Apr 2011 12:19:40 +0200                                                                                                                                                                
Subject: [PATCH 00/29] linux-2.6 post-39-rc3 patchset against next-20110415                                                                                                                          
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This patchset is against linux-next (next-20110415) and considers all commits                                                                                                                        
to linux-2.6.git#master (up to commit e38f5b745075828ac51b12c8c95c85a7be4a3ec7);                                                                                                                     
"Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git./linux/kernel/git/vapier/blackfin"                                                                                                                            
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
- Sedat Dilek -                                                                                                                                                                                      
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Alexander Clouter (1):                                                                                                                                                                               
  MAINTAINERS: add ARM/ts78xx-setup platform maintainer                                                                                                                                              
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Alexandre Bounine (2):                                                                                                                                                                               
  RapidIO: add IDT CPS-1432 switch definitions                                                                                                                                                       
  RapidIO/mpc85xx: fix possible mport registration problems                                                                                                                                          
                                                                                                                                                                                                     
Alexey Dobriyan (2):                                                                                                                                                                                 
  kstrtox: fix compile warnings in test                                                                                                                                                              
  kstrtox: simpler code in _kstrtoull()

Andi Kleen (1):
  mm: add VM counters for transparent hugepages

Antonio Ospite (1):
  leds/leds-regulator.c: fix handling of already enabled regulators

Axel Lin (1):
  drivers/rtc/rtc-mc13xxx.c: fix unterminated platform_device_id table

Ben Hutchings (1):
  mm/thp: use conventional format for boolean attributes

Bob Liu (1):
  ramfs: fix memleak on no-mmu arch

Christoph Lameter (1):
  vmstat: update comment regarding stat_threshold

Daniel Kiper (1):
  mm: optimize pfn calculation in online_page()

Eric Dumazet (1):
  memcg: fix mem_cgroup_rotate_reclaimable_page()

Hans J. Koch (1):
  MAINTAINERS: change mail adress of Hans J. Koch

Hugh Dickins (1):
  tmpfs: fix off-by-one in max_blocks checks

Jeff Mahoney (1):
  fs/fhandle.c: add <linux/personality.h> for ia64

Jiri Kosina (1):
  brk: COMPAT_BRK: fix detection of randomized brk

Joe Perches (2):
  MAINTAINERS: update m68knommu patterns
  MAINTAINERS: update various tty patterns

KOSAKI Motohiro (2):
  vmscan: all_unreclaimable() use zone->all_unreclaimable as a name
  oom-kill: remove boost_dying_task_prio()

Michael Ellerman (1):
  mm: check that we have the right vma in __access_remote_vm()

Paul Mundt (1):
  mm/page_alloc.c: silence build_all_zonelists() section mismatch

Randy Dunlap (1):
  MAINTAINERS: update STABLE BRANCH info

Richard Weinberger (2):
  um: fix call tracer and bug handler
  um: disable CONFIG_CMPXCHG_LOCAL

Sage Weil (1):
  libceph: fix linger request requeueing

Timo Warns (1):
  fs/partitions/ldm.c: fix oops caused by corrupted partition table

Wanlong Gao (1):
  drivers/misc/sgi-gru/grufile.c: fix the wrong members of gru_chip