Minor Gems
Many further minor, but by no means insignificant, changes can be found in the list below, which contains the commit headers referring to the respective change. Like many of the references in the text above, the links point to the relevant commit in the web front end of the Git branch for the "official" kernel sources maintained by Linus Torvalds at kernel.org. The commit comments available at these links and the patches themselves provide extensive further information on the respective changes.
Filesystems: Btrfs
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] Btrfs: add/fix comments/documentation for send/receive - [
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] Btrfs: delay block group item insertion - [
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] btrfs: extended inode refs - [
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] Btrfs: extended inode refs support for send mechanism - [
Filesystems: Ext-Familiy
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D
] ext4: add max_dir_size_kb mount option - [
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] ext4: completed_io locking cleanup - [
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] ext4: make the zero-out chunk size tunable - [
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Filesystems: Various
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] CIFS: Add open/close file support for SMB2 - [
C 1
] CIFS: Enable signing in SMB2 - [
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] CIFS: Request SMB2.1 leases - [
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] Documentation: Chinese translation of Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt - [
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] fs/jfs: TRIM support for JFS Filesystem - [
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D
] NFS: Add nfs4_unique_id boot parameter - [
DN
] nfsd: document kernel interfaces for nfsd configuration - [
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] NFS: Discover NFSv4 server trunking when mounting - [
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] NFSv4: Add ACCESS operation to OPEN compound - [
D
] rbd: add an rbd features field - [
D
] rbd: define rbd_dev_image_id() - [
D
] rbd: kill create_snap sysfs entry - [
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C
] UBI: add max_beb_per1024 to attach ioctl - [
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Storage: Libata
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C DN1
] ata: add platform driver for Calxeda AHCI controller - [
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] pata_arasan: add Device Tree probing capability - [
D
] SCSI: libata: reset once
Storage: SCSI
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] SCSI: be2iscsi: Added Logging mechanism for the driver. - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add diagnostic port (D-Port) support - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add PowerPC support and enable PCIE AER handling. - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add support for FC Arbitrated Loop topology. - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add support for IO throttling at port level - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add support for max target ports discovery - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add support to read/update the FRU data. - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Add support to register node symbolic name with name server - [
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] SCSI: bfa: Make changes to FCXP resource management. - [
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] SCSI: Documentation: Add lesb/ to path for LESB attributes in FCoE bus documentation - [
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] SCSI: libsas: suspend / resume support - [
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] SCSI: lpfc 8.3.33: Tie parallel I/O queues into separate MSIX vectors - [
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] SCSI: lpfc 8.3.34: Add LOGO support after ABTS compliance - [
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] SCSI: megaraid_sas: Add throttlequeuedepth module parameter - [
D
] SCSI: megaraid_sas: Version and Changelog update - [
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] SCSI: megaraid_sas: Version, Changelog, Copyright update - [
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] SCSI: mvumi: Add support for Marvell SAS/SATA RAID-on-Chip(ROC) 88RC9580 - [
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] SCSI: qla2xxx: Changes for ISP83xx loopback support. - [
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] SCSI: qla2xxx: IDC implementation for ISP83xx. - [
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] SCSI: qla2xxx: Implementation of bidirectional. - [
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] SCSI: qla2xxx: Implemetation of mctp. - [
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] SCSI: st: raise device limit - [
Storage: Various
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] aoe: become I/O request queue handler for increased user control - [
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] aoe: for performance support larger packet payloads - [
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] aoe: kernel thread handles I/O completions for simple locking - [
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] aoe: update documentation to better reflect aoe-plus-udev usage - [
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] aoe: update documentation with new URL and VM settings reference - [
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] blockdev: turn a rw semaphore into a percpu rw semaphore - [
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] block: Kill bi_destructor - [
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] block: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - [
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] DM RAID: Add rebuild capability for RAID10 - [
C N2
] dm thin: move bio_prison code to separate module - [
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] drivers/block: remove CONFIG_EXPERIMENTAL - [
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] target: Remove unused target_core_fabric_ops.get_fabric_sense_len method - [
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] target: Simplify fabric sense data length handling - [
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] UBI: Add fastmap core - [
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] UBI: Add fastmap stuff to attach.c - [
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] UBI: Add fastmap support to the WL sub-system - [
C
] UBI: allow specifying bad PEBs limit using module parameter - [
C
] UBI: introduce new bad PEB limit - [
C
] UBI: use the whole MTD device size to get bad_peb_limit - [
C
] UBI: Wire-up fastmap
Every link is preceded by various letters and numbers in square brackets. The letter "C" identifies patches that modify Kconfig files, which contain the help texts and configuration options displayed by "make menuconfig", "make xconfig" and similar tools during kernel configuration. "D" is used for patches that modify the documentation available under Documentation/ in the kernel branch. "N" identifies changes which create a new file. The numbers provide a rough idea of the patch size: For instance, "1" is used for changes between 10 and 20 KBytes including comment, "2" for patches between 20 and 30 KBytes; changes without a number are less than 10 KBytes, while patches marked "9" are 90 KBytes or more.
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