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2008-01-24kobject: update the kobject/kset documentationGreg Kroah-Hartman
This provides a much-needed kobject and kset documentation update. Thanks to Kay Sievers, Alan Stern, Jonathan Corbet, Randy Dunlap, Jan Engelhardt, and others for reviewing and providing help with this document. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kobject: remove old, outdated documentation.Greg Kroah-Hartman
As we are replacing the documentation, it's easier to do this in a two stage pass, delete the old file and add the new one. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24kset: move /sys/slab to /sys/kernel/slabGreg Kroah-Hartman
/sys/kernel is where these things should go. Also updated the documentation and tool that used this directory. Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Acked-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Documentation: Replace obsolete "driverfs" with "sysfs".Robert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of CodingstyleZhang Le
Signed-off-by: Zhang Le <r0bertz@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of sparse.txtLi Yang
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of volatile-considered-harmful.txtBryan Wu
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of stable_kernel_rules.txtTripleX Chung
Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung <triplex@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of oops-tracing.txtDave Young
Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of SubmittingDriversLi Yang
Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: add translation of SubmittingPatchesTripleX Chung
Signed-off-by: TripleX Chung <triplex@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: Change man-pages maintainer address in HOWOTOLi Yang
The email address of the man-pages maintainer has changed. Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: rephrase English introduction in HOWTOLi Yang
Rephrase the introduction as suggested by Jesper Juhl. Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-24Chinese: Add the known_regression URI to the HOWTOLi Yang
Update translation for commit be3884943674f8ee7656b1d8b71c087ec900c836. Signed-off-by: Li Yang <leo@zh-kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-01-22Fix file references in documentation and KconfigJohann Felix Soden
Fix typo in arch/powerpc/boot/flatdevtree_env.h. There is no Documentation/networking/ixgbe.txt. README.cycladesZ is now in Documentation/. wavelan.p.h is now in drivers/net/wireless/. HFS.txt is now Documentation/filesystems/hfs.txt. OSS-files are now in sound/oss/. Signed-off-by: Johann Felix Soden <johfel@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-01-18Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (31 commits) Replace cpmac fix dl2k: the rest dl2k: MSCR, MSSR, ESR, PHY_SCR fixes dl2k: BMSR fixes dl2k: ANAR, ANLPAR fixes dl2k: BMCR_t fixes 3c574, 3c515 bitfields abuse sbni endian fixes wan/lmc bitfields fixes dscc4 endian fixes S2io: Fixed synchronization between scheduling of napi with card reset and close atl1: fix frame length bug Documentation: add a guideline for hard_start_xmit method Revert "sky2: remove check for PCI wakeup setting from BIOS" e1000e Kconfig: remove ref to nonexistant docs bonding: Don't hold lock when calling rtnl_unlock bonding: fix lock ordering for rtnl and bonding_rwsem bonding: Fix up parameter parsing bonding: release slaves when master removed via sysfs bonding: fix locking during alb failover and slave removal ...
2008-01-18[WATCHDOG] clarify watchdog operation in documentationAndrew Dyer
It was not clear what the difference is/was between the nowayout feature and the Magic Close feature. Signed-off-by: "Andrew Dyer" <amdyer@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2008-01-18Documentation: add a guideline for hard_start_xmit methodMatti Linnanvuori
Add a guideline not to modify SKBs. Signed-off-by: Matti Linnanvuori <mattilinnanvuori@yahoo.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-17Revert "local_t Documentation update"Li Zefan
This reverts commit e1265205c0ee3919c3f2c750662630154c8faab2. It's a duplicate commit of commit 74beb9db77930be476b267ec8518a642f39a04bf, resulting in a duplicate section. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-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>
2008-01-10Update kernel parameter document for libata DMA mode setting knobs.FD Cami
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-01-08[IPV4] ipconfig: Fix regression in ip command line processingAmos Waterland
The recent changes for ip command line processing fixed some problems but unfortunately broke some common usage scenarios. In current 2.6.24-rc6 the following command line results in no IP address assignment, which is surely a regression: ip=10.0.2.15::10.0.2.2:255.255.255.0::eth0:off Please find below a patch that works for all cases I can find. Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-01-03Console is utf-8 by defaultSamuel Thibault
The console is now by default in UTF-8 mode. Fix the documentation on the default value, so that we can explain behaviour that otherwise causes bug-reports like this: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9319 Also add the needed "vt." prefix, so that the boot-time config options to switch back to the legacy 8-bit mode is actually documented correctly. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-26[IPV4]: Fix ip command line processing.Simon Horman
Recently the documentation in Documentation/nfsroot.txt was update to note that in fact ip=off and ip=::::::off as the latter is ignored and the default (on) is used. This was certainly a step in the direction of reducing confusion. But it seems to me that the code ought to be fixed up so that ip=::::::off actually turns off ip autoconfiguration. This patch also notes more specifically that ip=on (aka ip=::::::on) is the default. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-17Documentation: update hugetlb informationNishanth Aravamudan
The hugetlb documentation has gotten a bit out of sync with the current code. Updated the sysctl file to refer to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. Update that file to contain the current state of affairs (with the newer named sysctl in place). Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com> Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com> Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17Fix lguest documentationSheela
Share net is not supported, Rusty is an "idiot" . Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira <sheela.sequeira@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org> Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected add stable_api_nonsense.txt in korean HOWTO: change addresses of maintainer and lxr url for Korean HOWTO Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files HOWTO: Change man-page maintainer address for Japanese HOWTO tipar: remove obsolete module kobject: fix the documentation of how kobject_set_name works
2007-12-17HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrectedbarrios
Signed-off-by: barrios <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17add stable_api_nonsense.txt in koreanbarrios
Signed-off-by: barrios <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17HOWTO: change addresses of maintainer and lxr url for Korean HOWTOminchan kim
So sorry. again My mail is set with EUC-kR. I'll resend with UTF-8. Signed-off-by: barrios <minchan.kim@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs filesDhaval Giani
This patch adds documentation about /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share to Documentation/ABI. Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17HOWTO: Change man-page maintainer address for Japanese HOWTOTsugikazu Shibata
Below is a patch to change email address of man-page maintainer for Japanese HOWTO document (Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO). This is for sync to Documentation/HOWTO that Michael Kerrisk mentioned to me. From: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17tipar: remove obsolete moduleRomain Liévin
tipar: remove obsolete module The tipar character driver was used to implement bit-banging access to Texas Instruments parallel link cable. A user-land method now exists thru PPDEV & PARPORT. Signed-off-by: Romain Liévin <roms@lpg.ticalc.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-14[IPV4]: Updates to nfsroot documentationAmos Waterland
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>
2007-12-12i2c: Delete an outdated piece of documentationJean Delvare
I'm amazed that this old piece of documentation managed to survive until today. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-12-07bonding: Add new layer2+3 hash for xor/802.3ad modesJay Vosburgh
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>
2007-11-29x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI boot documentHuang, Ying
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>
2007-11-29The namespaces compatibility list docPavel Emelyanov
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>
2007-11-29termios: document callback more clearlyAlan Cox
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>
2007-11-28Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 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 ...
2007-11-28USB: power-management documenation updateAlan Stern
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>
2007-11-28UIO: add UIO documentation target to DocBook MakefileHans J Koch
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>
2007-11-28UIO: fix up the UIO documentationHans J Koch
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>
2007-11-26plip: fix parport_register_device name parameterMikulas Patocka
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>
2007-11-26Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linusLinus Torvalds
* 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
2007-11-26Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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. ...
2007-11-20Pull thinkpad-2.6.24 into release branchLen Brown
2007-11-19[POWERPC] Document rgmii-rxid and rgmii-txid phy-connection-typesKim Phillips
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>
2007-11-19lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcherRusty Russell
Thanks valgrind! Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-14feature-removal-schedule: remove SA_* flags entryAdrian Bunk
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>
2007-11-14Linux Kernel Markers: document format stringMathieu Desnoyers
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>
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