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* [IPV4]: Updates to nfsroot documentationAmos Waterland2007-12-141-3/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | The difference between ip=off and ip=::::::off has been a cause of much confusion. Document how each behaves, and do not contradict ourselves by saying that "off" is the default when in fact "any" is the default and is descibed as being so lower in the file. Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* i2c: Delete an outdated piece of documentationJean Delvare2007-12-121-41/+4
| | | | | | | I'm amazed that this old piece of documentation managed to survive until today. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
* bonding: Add new layer2+3 hash for xor/802.3ad modesJay Vosburgh2007-12-071-2/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add new hash for balance-xor and 802.3ad modes. Originally submitted by "Glenn Griffin" <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>; modified by Jay Vosburgh to move setting of hash policy out of line, tweak the documentation update and add version update to 3.2.2. Glenn's original comment follows: Included is a patch for a new xmit_hash_policy for the bonding driver that selects slaves based on MAC and IP information. This is a middle ground between what currently exists in the layer2 only policy and the layer3+4 policy. This policy strives to be fully 802.3ad compliant by transmitting every packet of any particular flow over the same link. As documented the layer3+4 policy is not fully compliant for extreme cases such as ip fragmentation, so this policy is a nice compromise for environments that require full compliance but desire more than the layer2 only policy. Signed-off-by: "Glenn Griffin" <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
* x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI boot documentHuang, Ying2007-11-291-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds document for EFI x86_64 boot support. The setup and operation guide of EFI based system is documented in Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt. Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* The namespaces compatibility list docPavel Emelyanov2007-11-292-0/+41
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | People discuss how the namespaces are working/going-to-work together. Ted Ts'o proposed to create some document that describes what problems user may have when he/she creates some new namespace, but keeps others shared. I liked this idea, so here's the initial version of such a document with the problems I currently have in mind and can describe somewhat audibly - the "namespaces compatibility list". The Documentation/namespaces/ directory is about to contain more docs about the namespaces stuff. Thanks to Cedirc for notes and spell checks on the doc, to Daniel for additional info about IPC and User namespaces interaction and to Randy, who alluded me to using a spell checker before sending the documentation :) Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* termios: document callback more clearlyAlan Cox2007-11-291-0/+8
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-11-281-0/+8
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (25 commits) USB: s3c2410 gadget: ensure vbus pin in input mode during read USB: s3c2410 gadget: allow sharing of vbus irq USB: s3c2410 gadget: Header move fixups USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for JetFlash TS1GJF2A USB: fix up EHCI startup synchronization USB: make the microtek driver and HAL cooperate USB: uevent environment key fix USB: keep track of whether interface sysfs files exist USB: sierra: new product id USB HCD: avoid duplicate local_irq_disable() USB: mailing lists have changed USB: remove USB HUB entry from MAINTAINERS USB: fix directory references in usb/README USB: add support for an older firmware revision for the Nikon D200 USB: FIx locks and urb->status in adutux (updated) USB: power-management documenation update USB: Fix signr comment in usbdevice_fs.h usbserial: fix inconsistent lock state USB: fix usbled disconnect read race #2 USB: free memory when writing fails in usb/serial/mos7840.c ...
| * USB: power-management documenation updateAlan Stern2007-11-281-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as1014) was partly written by Tilman Schmidt. It clarifies the USB power-management documentation by explaining that when a disconnect occurs, a suspend method call might not be followed by either a resume or a reset_resume call. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | UIO: add UIO documentation target to DocBook MakefileHans J Koch2007-11-281-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add the DocBook documentation for the Userspace I/O framework to the Makefile. Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | UIO: fix up the UIO documentationHans J Koch2007-11-281-58/+32
|/ | | | | | | | | | Remove references to the old uio_dummy demo module from UIO documentation. Add a small paragraph to make it clearer that UIO is not a universal driver interface. Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* plip: fix parport_register_device name parameterMikulas Patocka2007-11-261-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Plip passes a string "name" that is allocated on stack to parport_register_device. parport_register_device holds the pointer to "name" and when the registering function exits, it points nowhere. On some machine, this bug causes bad names to appear in /proc, such as /proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/devices/T^/�X^/�, on others, the plip proc node is completely missing. The patch also fixes documentation to note this requirement. Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds2007-11-261-3/+6
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus: virtio: fix net driver loop case where we fail to restart module: fix and elaborate comments virtio: fix module/device unloading lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher
| * lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcherRusty Russell2007-11-191-3/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | Thanks valgrind! Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-11-261-28/+45
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (39 commits) ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers (version 3) ACPI: EC: use printk_ratelimit(), add some DEBUG mode messages Revert "ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers" ACPI: fix two IRQ8 issues in IOAPIC mode ACPI: Add missing spaces to printk format cpuidle: fix HP nx6125 regression cpuidle: add sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event() hooks cpuidle: fix C3 for no bus-master control case ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix oops when a module parameter has no value Revert "Fix very high interrupt rate for IRQ8 (rtc) unless pnpacpi=off" ACPI: EC: Don't init EC early if it has no _INI Revert "acpi: make ACPI_PROCFS default to y" Revert "ACPI: add documentation for deprecated /proc/acpi/battery in ACPI_PROCFS" ACPI: Split out control for /proc/acpi entries from battery, ac, and sbs. ACPI: Video: Increase buffer size for writes to brightness proc file. ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers ACPI: SBS: Fix retval warning ACPI: Enable MSR (FixedHW) support for T-States ACPI: Get throttling info from BIOS only after evaluating _PDC ACPI: Use _TSS for throttling control, when present. Add error checks. ...
| * \ Pull thinkpad-2.6.24 into release branchLen Brown2007-11-201-28/+45
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| | * ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.17Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2007-11-051-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The lm-sensors 3.0.0/libsensors4 compatibility changes are reason enough to bump up the version string. Do it. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: prefer standard ACPI backlight level controlHenrique de Moraes Holschuh2007-11-051-2/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Newer Lenovo BIOSes support the standard ACPI backlight brightness interface (_BCM, _BQC, _BCL). It should be used instead of the native thinkpad backlight brightness control interface when possible. This patch disables the native brightness support in the driver by default when we detect that the standard ACPI interface is available. The local admin can still enable it using the module parameter "brightness_enable". Note that we need to detect the standard ACPI backlight interface only in boxes for which we would load the native backlight interface in the first place, and that no ThinkPad BIOS has _BCL but misses the other methods, so the detection routines can be really simple. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add brightness_force parameterHenrique de Moraes Holschuh2007-11-051-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a "brightness_enable" module parameter that allows the local admin to force the backlight support to not be enabled. It can also be used to force the backlight support to be enabled, but that is currently a no-op as the backlight support is enabled by default when available. This will be changed by a different patch. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: support 16 levels of brightness (v3)Henrique de Moraes Holschuh2007-11-051-26/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Lenovo ThinkPads often have 16 brightness levels in EC, and not just eight levels like older ThinkPads. They also have standard ACPI backlight brightness control. We detect the number of brightness levels by the presence of a BCLL package with 16 entries. If BCLL is not there, we assume eight levels (Z6*). If it is there, but it doesn't have 16 entries, we assume eight levels (T60). Otherwise we assume sixteen levels (T61, X61, etc). We don't use _BCL because it can have side-effects in thinkpads. Thanks to Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> for notifying me of this potential problem. Using the standard ACPI backlight brightness control *instead* of the native thinkpad backlight control is a better idea, though. A different patch will take care of this. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | [POWERPC] Document rgmii-rxid and rgmii-txid phy-connection-typesKim Phillips2007-11-191-2/+3
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A h/w bug requires we program the PHY in RGMII mode for internal delay on the receive or transmit side only; document the new property values. Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
* | feature-removal-schedule: remove SA_* flags entryAdrian Bunk2007-11-141-9/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | No reason to keep the feature-removal-schedule.txt entry after the code was removed. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Linux Kernel Markers: document format stringMathieu Desnoyers2007-11-141-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Describes the format string standard further: Use of field names before the type specifiers.. Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | make getdelays cgroupstats awareBalbir Singh2007-11-141-1/+42
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the getdelays utility to become cgroupstats aware. A new -C option has been added. It takes in a control group path and prints out a summary of the states of tasks in the control group Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | rtc: tweak driver documentation for rtc periodicMike Frysinger2007-11-141-3/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The max_user_freq member is not really meant for RTC drivers to modify, so update the rtc documentation so drivers writers know what is expected of them when handling periodic events. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6Linus Torvalds2007-11-131-0/+31
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: hwmon: (i5k_amb) Convert macros to C functions hwmon: (w83781d) Add missing curly braces hwmon: (abituguru3) Identify ABit IP35 Pro as such hwmon: (f75375s) pwmX_mode sysfs files writable for f75375 variant hwmon: (f75375s) On n2100 systems, set fans to full speed on boot hwmon: (f75375s) Allow setting up fans with platform_data hwmon: (f75375s) Add new style bindings hwmon: (lm70) Convert semaphore to mutex hwmon: (applesmc) Add support for Mac Pro 2 x Quad-Core hwmon: (abituguru3) Add support for 2 new motherboards hwmon: (ibmpex) Change printk to dev_{info,err} macros hwmon: (i5k_amb) New memory temperature sensor driver hwmon: (f75375s) fix pwm mode setting hwmon: (ibmpex.c) fix NULL dereference hwmon: (sis5595) Split sis5595_attributes_opt hwmon: (sis5595) Add individual alarm files hwmon: (w83627hf) push nr+1 offset into *_REG_FAN macros and simplify hwmon: (w83627hf) hoist nr-1 offset out of show-store-temp-X hwmon: Add power meter spec to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
| * | hwmon: Add power meter spec to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interfaceDarrick J. Wong2007-11-081-0/+31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the hwmon sysfs interface documentation to include a specification for power meters. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
* | | [NET]: Remove references to net-modules.txt.Adrian Bunk2007-11-121-2/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When I removed net-modules.txt because it only contained ancient information I missed that many Kconfig entries pointed to this ancient information. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizesRusty Russell2007-11-121-4/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be aligned to an N-byte boundary. But as Anthony Liguori points out, the free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest). So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | | lguest: Fix lguest virtio-blk backend size computationAnthony Liguori2007-11-121-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This seems like an obvious typo but it's worked in the past because the virtio blk frontend just ignores the length field on completion. Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-11-091-2/+273
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (37 commits) [POWERPC] EEH: Make sure warning message is printed [POWERPC] Make altivec code in swsusp_32.S depend on CONFIG_ALTIVEC [POWERPC] windfarm: Fix windfarm thread freezer interaction [POWERPC] Fix si_addr value on low level hash failures [POWERPC] Refresh ppc64_defconfig and enable pasemi-related options [POWERPC] pasemi: Update defconfig [POWERPC] iSeries: Fix ref counting in vio setup [POWERPC] ] Fix memset size error [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig [POWERPC] iSeries_init_IRQ non-PCI tidy [POWERPC] Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc [POWERPC] EEH: Avoid crash on null device [POWERPC] EEH: Drivers that need reset trump others [POWERPC] EEH: Clean up comments [POWERPC] Fix off-by-one error in setting decrementer on Book E/4xx (v2) [POWERPC] Fix switch_slb handling of 1T ESID values [POWERPC] Fix build failure when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined [POWERPC] Include udbg.h when using udbg_printf [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion [POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMac ...
| * \ \ Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of ↵Paul Mackerras2007-11-081-0/+261
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge
| | * | | [POWERPC] Device tree bindings for Xilinx devicesGrant Likely2007-11-011-0/+261
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
| * | | | [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusionBenjamin Herrenschmidt2007-11-081-2/+12
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We had an historical confusion in the kernel between cache line and cache block size. The former is an implementation detail of the L1 cache which can be useful for performance optimisations, the later is the actual size on which the cache control instructions operate, which can be different. For some reason, we had a weird hack reading the right property on powermac and the wrong one on any other 64 bits (32 bits is unaffected as it only uses the cputable for cache block size infos at this stage). This fixes the booting-without-of.txt documentation to mention the right properties, and fixes the 64 bits initialization code to look for the block size first, with a fallback to the line size if the property is missing. Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | | | [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/pt.txtAdrian Bunk2007-11-072-60/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's no no point in keeping documentation for a driver that was removed many years ago. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/routing.txtAdrian Bunk2007-11-072-48/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This file is so outdated that I can't see any value in keeping it. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnetAdrian Bunk2007-11-072-18/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Newsflash: There once was a version of NCSA telnet that had some bug. Spotted by Pekka Pietikainen. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | [NET]: Remove comx driver docs.Adrian Bunk2007-11-074-990/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The drivers have already been removed 3.5 years ago. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/ConfigurableAdrian Bunk2007-11-072-36/+0
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | After more than 11 years this file does no longer contain much useful information. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | local_t Documentation updateMathieu Desnoyers2007-11-051-0/+23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to local_ops.txt. "Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful." Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca> Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | V4L/DVB (6390): Updates missing entries at CARDLIST.em28xxMauro Carvalho Chehab2007-11-041-0/+3
|/ / | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | add SubmittingPatches to Documentation/ja_JPKeiichi Kii2007-10-301-0/+556
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds SubmittingPatches translated into Japanese to Documentation/ja_JP directory. I attach the patch because there is a possibility that MUA will change the character encoding sometimes. Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | fix typo in SubmittingPatchesKeiichi Kii2007-10-301-2/+2
|/ | | | | | | | | | Fix typo. Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Cc: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2007-10-291-5/+0
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (26 commits) cpuidle: remove unused exports acpi: remove double mention of Support for ACPI option ACPI: use select POWER_SUPPLY for AC, BATTERY and SBS ACPI: Battery: Allow extract string from integer ACPI: battery: Support for non-spec name for LiIon technology ACPI: battery: register power_supply subdevice only when battery is present suspend: MAINTAINERS update ACPI: update MAINTAINERS fujitsu-laptop.c: remove dead code cpuidle: unexport tick_nohz_get_sleep_length ACPI: battery: Update battery information upon sysfs read. fujitsu-laptop: make 2 functions static ACPI: EC: fix use-after-free ACPI: battery: remove dead code ACPI: Fan: Drop force_power_state acpi_device option ACPI: Fan: fan device does not need own structure ACPI: power: don't cache power resource state ACPI: EC: Output changes to operational mode ACPI: EC: Add workaround for "optimized" controllers ACPI: EC: Don't re-enable GPE for each transaction. ...
| * Pull alexey-fixes into release branchLen Brown2007-10-291-5/+0
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| | * ACPI: EC: auto select interrupt modeAlexey Starikovskiy2007-10-251-5/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Start in POLL mode, and if we receive confirmation GPE, switch to INT mode. If confirmations are not sent, switch back to POLL. Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <astarikovskiy@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | x86 boot: document for 32 bit boot protocolHuang, Ying2007-10-302-95/+65
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch documents the 32-bit boot protocol of x86. It has been used by Kexec and LinuxBIOS. This patch is based on the proposal of Peter Anvin. Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | [libata] Link power management infrastructureKristen Carlson Accardi2007-10-291-0/+19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Device Initiated Power Management, which is defined in SATA 2.5 can be enabled for disks which support it. This patch enables DIPM when the user sets the link power management policy to "min_power". Additionally, libata drivers can define a function (enable_pm) that will perform hardware specific actions to enable whatever power management policy the user set up for Host Initiated Power management (HIPM). This power management policy will be activated after all disks have been enumerated and intialized. Drivers should also define disable_pm, which will turn off link power management, but not change link power management policy. Documentation/scsi/link_power_management_policy.txt has additional information. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
* | [NET]: Document some simple rules for actionsJamal Hadi Salim2007-10-261-0/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds documentation on what is expected of an action which branches away from the action-graph or when it needs to trample on actins. It also describes what is expected of users of such actions. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [TCP]: Fix inconsistency of terms.Ryousei Takano2007-10-251-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix inconsistency of terms: 1) D-SACK 2) F-RTO Signed-off-by: Ryousei Takano <takano-ryousei@aist.go.jp> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguestLinus Torvalds2007-10-251-72/+106
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-lguest: lguest: documentation update lguest: Add to maintainers file. lguest: build fix lguest: clean up lguest_launcher.h lguest: remove unused "wake" element from struct lguest lguest: use defines from x86 headers instead of magic numbers lguest: example launcher header cleanup.
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