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-rw-r--r--Documentation/Smack.txt42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/memory.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt14
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce212
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix42
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices167
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/writing-clients19
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt15
9 files changed, 248 insertions, 40 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/Smack.txt b/Documentation/Smack.txt
index 989c2fcd811..629c92e9978 100644
--- a/Documentation/Smack.txt
+++ b/Documentation/Smack.txt
@@ -184,14 +184,16 @@ length. Single character labels using special characters, that being anything
other than a letter or digit, are reserved for use by the Smack development
team. Smack labels are unstructured, case sensitive, and the only operation
ever performed on them is comparison for equality. Smack labels cannot
-contain unprintable characters or the "/" (slash) character.
+contain unprintable characters or the "/" (slash) character. Smack labels
+cannot begin with a '-', which is reserved for special options.
There are some predefined labels:
- _ Pronounced "floor", a single underscore character.
- ^ Pronounced "hat", a single circumflex character.
- * Pronounced "star", a single asterisk character.
- ? Pronounced "huh", a single question mark character.
+ _ Pronounced "floor", a single underscore character.
+ ^ Pronounced "hat", a single circumflex character.
+ * Pronounced "star", a single asterisk character.
+ ? Pronounced "huh", a single question mark character.
+ @ Pronounced "Internet", a single at sign character.
Every task on a Smack system is assigned a label. System tasks, such as
init(8) and systems daemons, are run with the floor ("_") label. User tasks
@@ -412,6 +414,36 @@ sockets.
A privileged program may set this to match the label of another
task with which it hopes to communicate.
+Smack Netlabel Exceptions
+
+You will often find that your labeled application has to talk to the outside,
+unlabeled world. To do this there's a special file /smack/netlabel where you can
+add some exceptions in the form of :
+@IP1 LABEL1 or
+@IP2/MASK LABEL2
+
+It means that your application will have unlabeled access to @IP1 if it has
+write access on LABEL1, and access to the subnet @IP2/MASK if it has write
+access on LABEL2.
+
+Entries in the /smack/netlabel file are matched by longest mask first, like in
+classless IPv4 routing.
+
+A special label '@' and an option '-CIPSO' can be used there :
+@ means Internet, any application with any label has access to it
+-CIPSO means standard CIPSO networking
+
+If you don't know what CIPSO is and don't plan to use it, you can just do :
+echo 127.0.0.1 -CIPSO > /smack/netlabel
+echo 0.0.0.0/0 @ > /smack/netlabel
+
+If you use CIPSO on your 192.168.0.0/16 local network and need also unlabeled
+Internet access, you can have :
+echo 127.0.0.1 -CIPSO > /smack/netlabel
+echo 192.168.0.0/16 -CIPSO > /smack/netlabel
+echo 0.0.0.0/0 @ > /smack/netlabel
+
+
Writing Applications for Smack
There are three sorts of applications that will run on a Smack system. How an
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt
index 0dab6e32c13..a30fe510572 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Suspend.txt
@@ -40,13 +40,13 @@ Resuming
Machine Support
---------------
- The machine specific functions must call the s3c2410_pm_init() function
+ The machine specific functions must call the s3c_pm_init() function
to say that its bootloader is capable of resuming. This can be as
simple as adding the following to the machine's definition:
- INITMACHINE(s3c2410_pm_init)
+ INITMACHINE(s3c_pm_init)
- A board can do its own setup before calling s3c2410_pm_init, if it
+ A board can do its own setup before calling s3c_pm_init, if it
needs to setup anything else for power management support.
There is currently no support for over-riding the default method of
@@ -74,7 +74,7 @@ statuc void __init machine_init(void)
enable_irq_wake(IRQ_EINT0);
- s3c2410_pm_init();
+ s3c_pm_init();
}
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt
index dc6045577a8..43cb1004d35 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/memory.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/memory.txt
@@ -29,7 +29,14 @@ ffff0000 ffff0fff CPU vector page.
CPU supports vector relocation (control
register V bit.)
-ffc00000 fffeffff DMA memory mapping region. Memory returned
+fffe0000 fffeffff XScale cache flush area. This is used
+ in proc-xscale.S to flush the whole data
+ cache. Free for other usage on non-XScale.
+
+fff00000 fffdffff Fixmap mapping region. Addresses provided
+ by fix_to_virt() will be located here.
+
+ffc00000 ffefffff DMA memory mapping region. Memory returned
by the dma_alloc_xxx functions will be
dynamically mapped here.
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 02ea3773535..1135996bec8 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -340,7 +340,8 @@ Who: Krzysztof Piotr Oledzki <ole@ans.pl>
---------------------------
What: i2c_attach_client(), i2c_detach_client(), i2c_driver->detach_client()
-When: 2.6.29 (ideally) or 2.6.30 (more likely)
+When: 2.6.30
+Check: i2c_attach_client i2c_detach_client
Why: Deprecated by the new (standard) device driver binding model. Use
i2c_driver->probe() and ->remove() instead.
Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
@@ -355,17 +356,6 @@ Who: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
---------------------------
-What: SELinux "compat_net" functionality
-When: 2.6.30 at the earliest
-Why: In 2.6.18 the Secmark concept was introduced to replace the "compat_net"
- network access control functionality of SELinux. Secmark offers both
- better performance and greater flexibility than the "compat_net"
- mechanism. Now that the major Linux distributions have moved to
- Secmark, it is time to deprecate the older mechanism and start the
- process of removing the old code.
-Who: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
----------------------------
-
What: sysfs ui for changing p4-clockmod parameters
When: September 2009
Why: See commits 129f8ae9b1b5be94517da76009ea956e89104ce8 and
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2
index fae3495bcba..9698c396b83 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-nforce2
@@ -7,10 +7,14 @@ Supported adapters:
* nForce3 250Gb MCP 10de:00E4
* nForce4 MCP 10de:0052
* nForce4 MCP-04 10de:0034
- * nForce4 MCP51 10de:0264
- * nForce4 MCP55 10de:0368
- * nForce4 MCP61 10de:03EB
- * nForce4 MCP65 10de:0446
+ * nForce MCP51 10de:0264
+ * nForce MCP55 10de:0368
+ * nForce MCP61 10de:03EB
+ * nForce MCP65 10de:0446
+ * nForce MCP67 10de:0542
+ * nForce MCP73 10de:07D8
+ * nForce MCP78S 10de:0752
+ * nForce MCP79 10de:0AA2
Datasheet: not publicly available, but seems to be similar to the
AMD-8111 SMBus 2.0 adapter.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
index ef1efa79b1d..f889481762b 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ Supported adapters:
* Intel 82371AB PIIX4 and PIIX4E
* Intel 82443MX (440MX)
Datasheet: Publicly available at the Intel website
- * ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5, CSB6 and HT-1000 southbridges
+ * ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5, CSB6, HT-1000 and HT-1100 southbridges
Datasheet: Only available via NDA from ServerWorks
* ATI IXP200, IXP300, IXP400, SB600, SB700 and SB800 southbridges
Datasheet: Not publicly available
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b55ce57a84d
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+How to instantiate I2C devices
+==============================
+
+Unlike PCI or USB devices, I2C devices are not enumerated at the hardware
+level. Instead, the software must know which devices are connected on each
+I2C bus segment, and what address these devices are using. For this
+reason, the kernel code must instantiate I2C devices explicitly. There are
+several ways to achieve this, depending on the context and requirements.
+
+
+Method 1: Declare the I2C devices by bus number
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+This method is appropriate when the I2C bus is a system bus as is the case
+for many embedded systems. On such systems, each I2C bus has a number
+which is known in advance. It is thus possible to pre-declare the I2C
+devices which live on this bus. This is done with an array of struct
+i2c_board_info which is registered by calling i2c_register_board_info().
+
+Example (from omap2 h4):
+
+static struct i2c_board_info __initdata h4_i2c_board_info[] = {
+ {
+ I2C_BOARD_INFO("isp1301_omap", 0x2d),
+ .irq = OMAP_GPIO_IRQ(125),
+ },
+ { /* EEPROM on mainboard */
+ I2C_BOARD_INFO("24c01", 0x52),
+ .platform_data = &m24c01,
+ },
+ { /* EEPROM on cpu card */
+ I2C_BOARD_INFO("24c01", 0x57),
+ .platform_data = &m24c01,
+ },
+};
+
+static void __init omap_h4_init(void)
+{
+ (...)
+ i2c_register_board_info(1, h4_i2c_board_info,
+ ARRAY_SIZE(h4_i2c_board_info));
+ (...)
+}
+
+The above code declares 3 devices on I2C bus 1, including their respective
+addresses and custom data needed by their drivers. When the I2C bus in
+question is registered, the I2C devices will be instantiated automatically
+by i2c-core.
+
+The devices will be automatically unbound and destroyed when the I2C bus
+they sit on goes away (if ever.)
+
+
+Method 2: Instantiate the devices explicitly
+--------------------------------------------
+
+This method is appropriate when a larger device uses an I2C bus for
+internal communication. A typical case is TV adapters. These can have a
+tuner, a video decoder, an audio decoder, etc. usually connected to the
+main chip by the means of an I2C bus. You won't know the number of the I2C
+bus in advance, so the method 1 described above can't be used. Instead,
+you can instantiate your I2C devices explicitly. This is done by filling
+a struct i2c_board_info and calling i2c_new_device().
+
+Example (from the sfe4001 network driver):
+
+static struct i2c_board_info sfe4001_hwmon_info = {
+ I2C_BOARD_INFO("max6647", 0x4e),
+};
+
+int sfe4001_init(struct efx_nic *efx)
+{
+ (...)
+ efx->board_info.hwmon_client =
+ i2c_new_device(&efx->i2c_adap, &sfe4001_hwmon_info);
+
+ (...)
+}
+
+The above code instantiates 1 I2C device on the I2C bus which is on the
+network adapter in question.
+
+A variant of this is when you don't know for sure if an I2C device is
+present or not (for example for an optional feature which is not present
+on cheap variants of a board but you have no way to tell them apart), or
+it may have different addresses from one board to the next (manufacturer
+changing its design without notice). In this case, you can call
+i2c_new_probed_device() instead of i2c_new_device().
+
+Example (from the pnx4008 OHCI driver):
+
+static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x2c, 0x2d, I2C_CLIENT_END };
+
+static int __devinit usb_hcd_pnx4008_probe(struct platform_device *pdev)
+{
+ (...)
+ struct i2c_adapter *i2c_adap;
+ struct i2c_board_info i2c_info;
+
+ (...)
+ i2c_adap = i2c_get_adapter(2);
+ memset(&i2c_info, 0, sizeof(struct i2c_board_info));
+ strlcpy(i2c_info.name, "isp1301_pnx", I2C_NAME_SIZE);
+ isp1301_i2c_client = i2c_new_probed_device(i2c_adap, &i2c_info,
+ normal_i2c);
+ i2c_put_adapter(i2c_adap);
+ (...)
+}
+
+The above code instantiates up to 1 I2C device on the I2C bus which is on
+the OHCI adapter in question. It first tries at address 0x2c, if nothing
+is found there it tries address 0x2d, and if still nothing is found, it
+simply gives up.
+
+The driver which instantiated the I2C device is responsible for destroying
+it on cleanup. This is done by calling i2c_unregister_device() on the
+pointer that was earlier returned by i2c_new_device() or
+i2c_new_probed_device().
+
+
+Method 3: Probe an I2C bus for certain devices
+----------------------------------------------
+
+Sometimes you do not have enough information about an I2C device, not even
+to call i2c_new_probed_device(). The typical case is hardware monitoring
+chips on PC mainboards. There are several dozen models, which can live
+at 25 different addresses. Given the huge number of mainboards out there,
+it is next to impossible to build an exhaustive list of the hardware
+monitoring chips being used. Fortunately, most of these chips have
+manufacturer and device ID registers, so they can be identified by
+probing.
+
+In that case, I2C devices are neither declared nor instantiated
+explicitly. Instead, i2c-core will probe for such devices as soon as their
+drivers are loaded, and if any is found, an I2C device will be
+instantiated automatically. In order to prevent any misbehavior of this
+mechanism, the following restrictions apply:
+* The I2C device driver must implement the detect() method, which
+ identifies a supported device by reading from arbitrary registers.
+* Only buses which are likely to have a supported device and agree to be
+ probed, will be probed. For example this avoids probing for hardware
+ monitoring chips on a TV adapter.
+
+Example:
+See lm90_driver and lm90_detect() in drivers/hwmon/lm90.c
+
+I2C devices instantiated as a result of such a successful probe will be
+destroyed automatically when the driver which detected them is removed,
+or when the underlying I2C bus is itself destroyed, whichever happens
+first.
+
+Those of you familiar with the i2c subsystem of 2.4 kernels and early 2.6
+kernels will find out that this method 3 is essentially similar to what
+was done there. Two significant differences are:
+* Probing is only one way to instantiate I2C devices now, while it was the
+ only way back then. Where possible, methods 1 and 2 should be preferred.
+ Method 3 should only be used when there is no other way, as it can have
+ undesirable side effects.
+* I2C buses must now explicitly say which I2C driver classes can probe
+ them (by the means of the class bitfield), while all I2C buses were
+ probed by default back then. The default is an empty class which means
+ that no probing happens. The purpose of the class bitfield is to limit
+ the aforementioned undesirable side effects.
+
+Once again, method 3 should be avoided wherever possible. Explicit device
+instantiation (methods 1 and 2) is much preferred for it is safer and
+faster.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 6b9af7d479c..c1a06f989cf 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -207,15 +207,26 @@ You simply have to define a detect callback which will attempt to
identify supported devices (returning 0 for supported ones and -ENODEV
for unsupported ones), a list of addresses to probe, and a device type
(or class) so that only I2C buses which may have that type of device
-connected (and not otherwise enumerated) will be probed. The i2c
-core will then call you back as needed and will instantiate a device
-for you for every successful detection.
+connected (and not otherwise enumerated) will be probed. For example,
+a driver for a hardware monitoring chip for which auto-detection is
+needed would set its class to I2C_CLASS_HWMON, and only I2C adapters
+with a class including I2C_CLASS_HWMON would be probed by this driver.
+Note that the absence of matching classes does not prevent the use of
+a device of that type on the given I2C adapter. All it prevents is
+auto-detection; explicit instantiation of devices is still possible.
Note that this mechanism is purely optional and not suitable for all
devices. You need some reliable way to identify the supported devices
(typically using device-specific, dedicated identification registers),
otherwise misdetections are likely to occur and things can get wrong
-quickly.
+quickly. Keep in mind that the I2C protocol doesn't include any
+standard way to detect the presence of a chip at a given address, let
+alone a standard way to identify devices. Even worse is the lack of
+semantics associated to bus transfers, which means that the same
+transfer can be seen as a read operation by a chip and as a write
+operation by another chip. For these reasons, explicit device
+instantiation should always be preferred to auto-detection where
+possible.
Device Deletion
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 6b979d1d09a..be3bde51b56 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -836,6 +836,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
If specified, z/VM IUCV HVC accepts connections
from listed z/VM user IDs only.
+ i2c_bus= [HW] Override the default board specific I2C bus speed
+ or register an additional I2C bus that is not
+ registered from board initialization code.
+ Format:
+ <bus_id>,<clkrate>
+
i8042.debug [HW] Toggle i8042 debug mode
i8042.direct [HW] Put keyboard port into non-translated mode
i8042.dumbkbd [HW] Pretend that controller can only read data from
@@ -2024,15 +2030,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
If enabled at boot time, /selinux/disable can be used
later to disable prior to initial policy load.
- selinux_compat_net =
- [SELINUX] Set initial selinux_compat_net flag value.
- Format: { "0" | "1" }
- 0 -- use new secmark-based packet controls
- 1 -- use legacy packet controls
- Default value is 0 (preferred).
- Value can be changed at runtime via
- /selinux/compat_net.
-
serialnumber [BUGS=X86-32]
shapers= [NET]