The patch titled hpwdt: don't use static flags has been removed from the -mm tree. Its filename was hpwdt-dont-use-static-flags.patch This patch was dropped because it was merged into mainline or a subsystem tree The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: hpwdt: don't use static flags From: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Static (read: global) is potential problem. Two threads can corrupt each other's interrupt status, better avoid this. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@xxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c~hpwdt-dont-use-static-flags drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c --- a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c~hpwdt-dont-use-static-flags +++ a/drivers/watchdog/hpwdt.c @@ -420,7 +420,7 @@ static int __devinit detect_cru_service( static int hpwdt_pretimeout(struct notifier_block *nb, unsigned long ulReason, void *data) { - static unsigned long rom_pl; + unsigned long rom_pl; static int die_nmi_called; if (ulReason != DIE_NMI && ulReason != DIE_NMI_IPI) _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from adobriyan@xxxxxxxxx are origin.patch linux-next.patch git-infiniband.patch mpt-remove-unused-struct-mpt_proc_entry_t.patch cdc-acm-dont-unlock-acm-mutex-on-error-path.patch vt8623fb-fix-kernel-oops.patch proc-fix-inode-number-bogorithmetic.patch proc-switch-inode-number-allocation-to-ida.patch slb-drop-kmem-cache-argument-from-constructor-fix-fix-logfs.patch devpts-switch-to-ida.patch devpts-switch-to-ida-checkpatch-fixes.patch proc-use-non-racy-method-for-proc-page_owner-creation-page_owner.patch likely_prof-changed-to-use-proc_create.patch proc-remove-proc_root-from-drivers-likelyprof.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html