blackbird-op-linux/Documentation/ABI/obsolete, branch master

selinux: deprecate disabling SELinux and runtime

2020-01-07T15:19:43+00:00

Deprecate the CONFIG_SECURITY_SELINUX_DISABLE functionality. The code was originally developed to make it easier for Linux distributions to support architectures where adding parameters to the kernel command line was difficult. Unfortunately, supporting runtime disable meant we had to make some security trade-offs when it came to the LSM hooks, as documented in the Kconfig help text: NOTE: selecting this option will disable the '__ro_after_init' kernel hardening feature for security hooks. Please consider using the selinux=0 boot parameter instead of enabling this option. Fortunately it looks as if that the original motivation for the runtime disable functionality is gone, and Fedora/RHEL appears to be the only major distribution enabling this capability at build time so we are now taking steps to remove it entirely from the kernel. The first step is to mark the functionality as deprecated and print an error when it is used (what this patch is doing). As Fedora/RHEL makes progress in transitioning the distribution away from runtime disable, we will introduce follow-up patches over several kernel releases which will block for increasing periods of time when the runtime disable is used. Finally we will remove the option entirely once we believe all users have moved to the kernel cmdline approach. Acked-by: Casey Schaufler Acked-by: Ondrej Mosnacek Acked-by: Stephen Smalley Signed-off-by: Paul Moore

docs: gpio: add sysfs interface to the admin-guide

2019-07-15T14:03:03+00:00

While this is stated as obsoleted, the sysfs interface described there is still valid, and belongs to the admin-guide. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Linus Walleij

ABI: better identificate tables

2019-06-14T16:17:12+00:00

When parsing via script, it is important to know if the script should consider a description as a literal block that should be displayed as-is, or if the description can be considered as a normal text. Change descriptions to ensure that the preceding line of a table ends with a colon. That makes easy to identify the need of a literal block. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge tag 'batadv-next-for-davem-20190328' of git://git.open-mesh.org/linux-merge

2019-03-28T16:52:42+00:00

Simon Wunderlich says: ==================== This feature/cleanup patchset includes the following patches: - Drop license boilerplate (obsoleted by SPDX license IDs), by Sven Eckelmann - Drop documentation for sysfs and debugfs Documentation, by Sven Eckelmann (2 patches) - Mark sysfs as optional and deprecated, by Sven Eckelmann (3 patches) - Update MAINTAINERS Tree, Chat and Bugtracker, by Sven Eckelmann (3 patches) - Rename batadv_dat_send_data, by Sven Eckelmann - update DAT entries with incoming ARP replies, by Linus Luessing - add multicast-to-unicast support for limited destinations, by Linus Luessing ==================== Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

batman-adv: ABI: Mark sysfs files as deprecated

2019-03-25T09:01:12+00:00

The sysfs files are replaced by the batadv generic netlink family. The old sysfs configuration interface was frowned upon by other kernel developers. But the files cannot be removed immediately because userspace tools might still depend on it. Instead schedule for its removal in 2021. Signed-off-by: Sven Eckelmann Signed-off-by: Simon Wunderlich

device-dax: Add /sys/class/dax backwards compatibility

2019-01-07T05:41:57+00:00

On the expectation that some environments may not upgrade libdaxctl (userspace component that depends on the /sys/class/dax hierarchy), provide a default / legacy dax_pmem_compat driver. The dax_pmem_compat driver implements the original /sys/class/dax sysfs layout rather than /sys/bus/dax. When userspace is upgraded it can blacklist this module and switch to the dax_pmem driver going forward. CONFIG_DEV_DAX_PMEM_COMPAT and supporting code will be deleted according to the dax_pmem entry in Documentation/ABI/obsolete/. Signed-off-by: Dan Williams

usb: typec: Bus type for alternate modes

2018-07-02T15:42:36+00:00

Introducing a simple bus for the alternate modes. Bus allows binding drivers to the discovered alternate modes the partners support. Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus Tested-by: Hans de Goede Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: fix broken references with multiple hints

2018-06-15T21:10:01+00:00

The script: ./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix Gives multiple hints for broken references on some files. Manually use the one that applies for some files. Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) Acked-by: James Morris Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'gpio-v4.15-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio

2017-11-15T01:23:44+00:00

Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij: "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle: Core: - Fix the semantics of raw GPIO to actually be raw. No inversion semantics as before, but also no open draining, and allow the raw operations to affect lines used for interrupts as the caller supposedly knows what they are doing if they are getting the big hammer. - Rewrote the __inner_function() notation calls to names that make more sense. I just find this kind of code disturbing. - Drop the .irq_base() field from the gpiochip since now all IRQs are mapped dynamically. This is nice. - Support for .get_multiple() in the core driver API. This allows us to read several GPIO lines with a single register read. This has high value for some usecases: it can be used to create oscilloscopes and signal analyzers and other things that rely on reading several lines at exactly the same instant. Also a generally nice optimization. This uses the new assign_bit() macro from the bitops lib that was ACKed by Andrew Morton and is implemented for two drivers, one of them being the generic MMIO driver so everyone using that will be able to benefit from this. - Do not allow requests of Open Drain and Open Source setting of a GPIO line simultaneously. If the hardware actually supports enabling both at the same time the electrical result would be disastrous. - A new interrupt chip core helper. This will be helpful to deal with "banked" GPIOs, which means GPIO controllers with several logical blocks of GPIO inside them. This is several gpiochips per device in the device model, in contrast to the case when there is a 1-to-1 relationship between a device and a gpiochip. New drivers: - Maxim MAX3191x industrial serializer, a very interesting piece of professional I/O hardware. - Uniphier GPIO driver. This is the GPIO block from the recent Socionext (ex Fujitsu and Panasonic) platform. - Tegra 186 driver. This is based on the new banked GPIO infrastructure. Other improvements: - Some documentation improvements. - Wakeup support for the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller. - Reset line support on the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller. - Several non-critical bug fixes and improvements for the Broadcom BRCMSTB driver. - Misc non-critical bug fixes like exotic errorpaths, removal of dead code etc. - Explicit comments on fall-through switch() statements" * tag 'gpio-v4.15-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (65 commits) gpio: tegra186: Remove tegra186_gpio_lock_class gpio: rcar: Add r8a77995 (R-Car D3) support pinctrl: bcm2835: Fix some merge fallout gpio: Fix undefined lock_dep_class gpio: Automatically add lockdep keys gpio: Introduce struct gpio_irq_chip.first gpio: Disambiguate struct gpio_irq_chip.nested gpio: Add Tegra186 support gpio: Export gpiochip_irq_{map,unmap}() gpio: Implement tighter IRQ chip integration gpio: Move lock_key into struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irq_valid_mask into struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irq_nested into struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irq_chained_parent to struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irq_default_type to struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irq_handler to struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irqdomain into struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Move irqchip into struct gpio_irq_chip gpio: Introduce struct gpio_irq_chip pinctrl: armada-37xx: remove unused variable ...

Documentation: fix ref to gpio.txt

2017-10-19T20:32:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij