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The basic issue is that despite have been deprecated and warned about as a
very bad thing in the man pages since its inception there are a few real
users of sys_sysctl. It was my assumption that because sysctl had been
deprecated for all of 2.6 there would be no user space users by this point,
so I initially gave sys_sysctl a very short deprecation period.
Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to proceed
with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or two work and
work with distributions that have big testing pools like fedora core to
find these last remaining users.
Which means that the sys_sysctl interface needs to be maintained in the
meantime.
Since I have provided a technical measure that allows us to add new sysctl
entries without reserving more binary numbers I believe that is enough to
fix the sys_sysctl binary interface maintenance problems, because there is
no longer a need to change the binary interface at all.
Since the sys_sysctl implementation needs to stay around for a while and
the worst of the maintenance issues that caused us to occasionally break
the ABI have been addressed I don't see any advantage in continuing with
the removal of sys_sysctl.
So instead of merely increasing the deprecation period this patch removes
the deprecation of sys_sysctl and modifies the kernel to compile the code
in by default.
With committing to maintain sys_sysctl we get all of the advantages of a
fast interface for anything that needs it. Currently sys_sysctl is about
5x faster than /proc/sys, for the same string data.
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Fix typo in newly added feature remove schedule item.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.17.
[michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (39 commits)
Add missing maintainer countries in CREDITS
Fix bytes <-> kilobytes typo in Kconfig for ramdisk
fix a typo in Documentation/pi-futex.txt
BUG_ON conversion for fs/xfs/
BUG_ON() conversion in fs/nfsd/
BUG_ON conversion for fs/reiserfs
BUG_ON cleanups in arch/i386
BUG_ON cleanup in drivers/net/tokenring/
BUG_ON cleanup for drivers/md/
kerneldoc-typo in led-class.c
debugfs: spelling fix
rcutorture: Fix incorrect description of default for nreaders parameter
parport: Remove space in function calls
Michal Wronski: update contact info
Spelling fix: "control" instead of "cotrol"
reboot parameter in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
Fix copy&waste bug in comment in scripts/kernel-doc
remove duplicate "until" from kernel/workqueue.c
ite_gpio fix tabbage
fix file specification in comments
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Fixed trivial path conflicts due to removed files:
arch/mips/dec/boot/decstation.c, drivers/char/ite_gpio.c
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This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'F'-'G'.
Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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As per feature-removal-schedule.txt.
Signed-off-by: Yoichi Yuasa <yoichi_yuasa@tripeaks.co.jp>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Maciej has started fixing the code for these platforms.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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There are remaining users with interest in the platform after all.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of the START_ARRAY ioctl for md.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (180 commits)
V4L/DVB (4641): Trivial: use lowercase letters in hex subsystem ids
V4L/DVB (4639): Cx88: add autodetection for alternate revision of Leadtek PVR
V4L/DVB (4638): Basic DVB-T and analog TV support for the HVR1300.
V4L/DVB (4637): Add a default method for VIDIOC_G_PARM
V4L/DVB (4635): Extend bttv and saa7134 to check for both AGP and PCI PCI failure case
V4L/DVB (4634): Zr36120: implement pcipci checks
V4L/DVB (4632): Zoran: Implement pcipci failure check
V4L/DVB (4631): Av7110: remove V4L2_CAP_VBI_CAPTURE flag
V4L/DVB (4630): Av7110: FW_LOADER depemdency fixed
V4L/DVB (4629): Saa7134: add card support for Proteus Pro 2309
V4L/DVB (4628): Fix VIDIOC_ENUMSTD ioctl in videodev.c
V4L/DVB (4627): Vivi crashes with mplayer
V4L/DVB (4626): On saa7111/7113, LUMA_CTRL need a different value
V4L/DVB (4624): Tvaudio: Replaced kernel_thread() with kthread_run()
V4L/DVB (4622): Copy-paste bug in videodev.c
V4L/DVB (4620): Fix AGC configuration for MOD3000P-based boards
V4L/DVB (4619): Fixes some I2C dependencies on V4L devices
V4L/DVB (4617): Problem with dibusb-mb.c USB IDs
V4L/DVB (4616): [PATCH] Nebula DigiTV USB RC support
V4L/DVB (4614): Export symbol saa7134_tvaudio_setmute from saa7134 for saa7134-alsa
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: (48 commits)
ieee1394: raw1394: arm functions slept in atomic context
ieee1394: sbp2: enable auto spin-up for all SBP-2 devices
MAINTAINERS: updates to IEEE 1394 subsystem maintainership
ieee1394: ohci1394: check for errors in suspend or resume
set power state of firewire host during suspend
ieee1394: ohci1394: more obvious endianess handling
ieee1394: ohci1394: fix endianess bug in debug message
ieee1394: sbp2: don't prefer MODE SENSE 10
ieee1394: nodemgr: grab class.subsys.rwsem in nodemgr_resume_ne
ieee1394: nodemgr: fix rwsem recursion
ieee1394: sbp2: more help in Kconfig
ieee1394: sbp2: prevent rare deadlock in shutdown
ieee1394: sbp2: update includes
ieee1394: sbp2: better handling of transport errors
ieee1394: sbp2: recheck node generation in sbp2_update
ieee1394: sbp2: safer agent reset in error handlers
ieee1394: sbp2: handle "sbp2util_node_write_no_wait failed"
CONFIG_PM=n slim: drivers/ieee1394/ohci1394.c
ieee1394: safer definition of empty macros
video1394: add poll file operation support
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Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (30 commits)
i2c: Drop unimplemented slave functions
i2c: Constify i2c_algorithm declarations, part 2
i2c: Constify i2c_algorithm declarations, part 1
i2c: Let drivers constify i2c_algorithm data
i2c-isa: Restore driver owner
i2c-viapro: Add support for the VT8237A and VT8251
i2c: Warn on i2c client creation failure
i2c-core: Drop useless bitmaskings
i2c-algo-pcf: Discard the mdelay data struct member
i2c-algo-bit: Cleanups
i2c-isa: Fail adding driver on attach_adapter error
i2c: __must_check fixes (chip drivers)
i2c-dev: attach/detach_adapter cleanups
i2c-stub: Chip address as a module parameter
i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal
i2c: New bus driver for TI OMAP boards
i2c-algo-bit: Discard the mdelay data struct member
i2c-matroxfb: Struct init conversion
i2c: Fix copy-n-paste in subsystem Kconfig
i2c-au1550: Add I2C support for Au1200
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Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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i2c: Plan i2c-isa for removal
i2c-isa doesn't make much sense in the device driver model. Drivers
relying on it are better implemented as platform drivers. We must
wait for recent versions of libsensors (2.10.0 or later) to be widely
deployed beforehand, though. This move should also make it easier to
convert i2c-core to the device driver model.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Updates feature-removal-schedule.txt to reflect the current scheduled date
to convert all V4L1 drivers to V4L2.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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This lists the /sys/devices/.../power/state file, and its internal support,
as due for removal next year.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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deprecate PHYSDEV* values in the uevent environment
These values are no longer needed and inconsistent with the
stacking of class devices. The event environment should not
carry properties of a parent device. The key PHYSDEVDRIVER is
available as DRIVER, PHYDEVBUS is indentical SUBSYSTEM. Class
devices should not carry any of these values.
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The code for frame diverter is unmaintained and has bitrotted.
The number of users is very small and the code has lots of problems.
If anyone is using it, they maybe exposing themselves to bad packet attacks.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of the force_inquiry_hack
module parameter.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.
A rationale of the patch is in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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feature-removal-schedule
Add bridge netfilter deferred output hooks to feature-removal-schedule
and disable them by default. Until their removal they will be
activated by the physdev match when needed.
Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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* HEAD:
[PATCH] hwmon: Documentation update for abituguru
[PATCH] hwmon: Fix for first generation Abit uGuru chips
[PATCH] hwmon: New maintainer for w83791d
[PATCH] pca9539: Honor the force parameter
[PATCH] i2c-algo-bit: Wipe out dead code
[PATCH] i2c: Handle i2c_add_adapter failure in i2c algorithm drivers
[PATCH] i2c: New mailing list
[PATCH] i2c-ite: Plan for removal
[PATCH] i2c-powermac: Fix master_xfer return value
[PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix the block transactions
[PATCH] scx200_acb: Fix the state machine
[PATCH] i2c-iop3xx: Avoid addressing self
[PATCH] i2c: Fix 'ignore' module parameter handling in i2c-core
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Implement the scheduled unexport of insert_resource.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Plan the i2c-ite and i2c-algo-ite drivers for removal.
These drivers never compiled since they were added to the kernel
tree 5 years ago. Also see:
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-mips&m=115040510817448
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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As announced half a year ago this patch will remove the tasklist_lock
export. The previous two patches got rid of the remaining modular users.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The recent interrupt rework introduced bit value conflicts with sparc.
Instead of introducing new architecture flags mess, move the interrupt SA_
flags out of the signal namespace and replace them by interrupt related flags.
This allows to remove the obsolete SA_INTERRUPT flag and clean up the bit
field values.
This patch:
Move the interrupt related SA_ flags out of linux/signal.h and rename them to
IRQF_ . This moves the interrupt related flags out of the signal namespace
and allows to remove the architecture dependencies.
SA_INTERRUPT is not needed by userspace and glibc so it can be removed safely.
The existing SA_ constants are kept for easy transition and will be
removed after a 6 month grace period.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
Cc: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de>
Cc: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Cc: Ben Collins <bcollins@debian.org>
Cc: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <B.Zolnierkiewicz@elka.pw.edu.pl>
Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Greg Ungerer <gerg@uclinux.org>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/devfs-2.6: (22 commits)
[PATCH] devfs: Remove it from the feature_removal.txt file
[PATCH] devfs: Last little devfs cleanups throughout the kernel tree.
[PATCH] devfs: Rename TTY_DRIVER_NO_DEVFS to TTY_DRIVER_DYNAMIC_DEV
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the tty_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the line_driver devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the videodevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the gendisk devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the miscdevice devfs_name field as it's no longer needed
[PATCH] devfs: Remove the devfs_fs_kernel.h file from the tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_remove() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_cdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_bdev() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_symlink() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_mk_dir() function from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs_*_tape() functions from the kernel tree
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the sound subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the ide subsystem.
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs support from the serial subsystem
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the init code
[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs from the partition code
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As usual fixes would be prefered.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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The driver has been removed a while ago already.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Temporarily add EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL and EXPORT_UNUSED_SYMBOL_GPL. These
will be used as a transition measure for symbols that aren't used in the
kernel and are on the way out. When a module uses such a symbol, a warning
is printk'd at modprobe time.
The main reason for removing unused exports is size: eacho export takes
roughly between 100 and 150 bytes of kernel space in the binary. This
patch gives users the option to immediately get this size gain via a config
option.
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This file was created due to the issue regarding how to notify people
that devfs was going to be removed. Finally remove the entry as it has
served its purpose.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Remove synchronize_kernel() (deprecated 2-APR-2005 in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/11) and makes the RCU API inaccessible to
non-GPL Linux kernel modules (as was announced more than one year ago in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/3/8). Tested on x86 and ppc64.
Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bcollins/linux1394-2.6: (28 commits)
eth1394: replace __constant_htons by htons
ieee1394: adjust code formatting in highlevel.c
ieee1394: hl_irqs_lock is taken in hardware interrupt context
ieee1394_core: switch to kthread API
ieee1394: sbp2: Kconfig fix
ieee1394: add preprocessor constant for invalid csr address
sbp2: fix deregistration of status fifo address space
[PATCH] eth1394: endian fixes
Fix broken suspend/resume in ohci1394
sbp2: use __attribute__((packed)) for on-the-wire structures
sbp2: provide helptext for CONFIG_IEEE1394_SBP2_PHYS_DMA and mark it experimental
Update feature removal of obsolete raw1394 ISO requests.
sbp2: fix S800 transfers if phys_dma is off
sbp2: remove ohci1394 specific constant
ohci1394: make phys_dma parameter read-only
ohci1394: set address range properties
ieee1394: extend lowlevel API for address range properties
sbp2: log number of supported concurrent logins
sbp2: remove manipulation of inquiry response
ieee1394: save RAM by using a single tlabel for broadcast transactions
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As warned several times before.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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As warned several times before.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
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Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@modernduck.com>
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
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Grand unification of the three types of workarounds we have so far.
The "skip mode page 8" workaround is now limited to devices which
pretend to be of TYPE_DISK instead of TYPE_RBC. This workaround is no
longer enabled for Initio bridges.
Patch update in anticipation of more workarounds:
- Add module parameter "workarounds".
- Deprecate parameter "force_inquiry_hack".
- Compose the blacklist of a compound type for better readability and
extensibility.
- Remove a now unused #define.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Update the schedule for the removal of drivers depending on
OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER as follows:
- adjust OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencie
- from the release of 2.6.16 till the release of 2.6.17:
approx. two months for users to report problems with the ALSA
drivers for the same hardware
- after the release of 2.6.17 (and before 2.6.18):
remove the subset of drivers marked at OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER without
known regressions in the ALSA drivers for the same hardware
Additionally, correct some OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencies.
A rationale of the changes is in
http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/28/135
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Implement the scheduled unexport of panic_timeout.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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As announced, lookup_hash() can now become static.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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find_trylock_page() is an odd interface in that it doesn't take a reference
like the others. Now that XFS no longer uses it, and its last remaining
caller actually wants an elevated refcount, opencode that callsite and
schedule find_trylock_page() for removal.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an
errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form.
This check was never done in Linux.
The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently. Negative timeouts
were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout.
hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form.
Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the
optimized ktime_add/sub operations. Negative timeouts are treated as
already expired. This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16.
To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and
invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did.
Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel
messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected.
After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a
correct validation check. This is also documented in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers
(sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock.
The only possibly modular users left are:
arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c
drivers/edac/edac_mc.c
fs/binfmt_elf.c
which I'll send out fixes for soon.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year,
after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan
to do over the next month.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROC.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The USB core symbols will be converted to GPL-only in a few years. Mark
this as such and update the documentation explaining why, and provide a
pointer for developers to receive help if they need it.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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