[ACTIVITY] Week of May 16th

[Nicolas Pitre]

== Upstream oriented activities ==

* Reviewpatch series consolidating Marvell Orion/Kirkwood/Dove from 
Andrew Lunn

* Git pull request to RMK for the above and the generic IRQ chip 
changes.

i Review patch to fix highmem detection when using SPARSEMEM.

* Review patch to indicate thumbness of the kernel build and investigate 
alternatives.

* Couple email responses related to ARM subarchitecture maintainership.

* Initial work for removing a lot of machine specific memory.h 
files by always relying on the p2v patching. So far the stats are:
55 files changed, 113 insertions(+), 1330 deletions(-).

* Review of Paul McKenney's LWN article on Linaro/ARM kernel work.

== Linaro kernel activities ==

* Merged the following:

  * v2.6.38.6
  * smsc95xx: fix reset check
  * ptrace: Prepare to fix racy accesses on task breakpoints
  * arm, hw_breakpoints: Fix racy access to ptrace breakpoints
  * mmc: omap: Fix possible NULL pointer deref
  * ARM: 6890/1: memmap: only free allocated memmap entries when using SPARSEMEM
  * ARM: 6870/1: The mandatory barrier rmb() must be a dsb() in for device accesses
  * branch 'rsalveti-andy-for-nicolas' of git://kernel.ubuntu.com/rsalveti/linux-linaro-2.6.38
  * fix highmem detection when using SPARSEMEM
  * Add unwinding support for division functions
  * v2.6.38.7