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2005-10-28Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
2005-10-28Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2005-10-28[PATCH] 05/05 update biodoc to match new generic dispatch apiTejun Heo
Updates biodoc to reflect changes in elevator API Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2005-10-26Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-10-26Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-10-23[PATCH] kernel-parameters cleanupRandy Dunlap
Fix typos & trailing whitespace. Add blank lines in a few places. Remove "AM53C974=" option: driver does not exist. Restrict to < 80 columns in most places (but don't split formatted command-line arguments). Add a few option arguments for completeness. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-18[PATCH] bonding: fix typos in bonding documentationJohn W. Linville
Fix some simple typos in the bonding.txt file. The typos are in areas relating to loading the bonding driver multiple times. Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-13Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-10-13[CONNECTOR]: Update documentation to match reality.Evgeniy Polyakov
Updated documentation to reflect 2.6.14 netlink changes about socket options, multicasting and group number. Please concider for 2.6.14. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-11[PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanismAbhay Salunke
In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the user app dump every individual packet in to the driver. This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will change the way we do packet updates; In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file. This driver also creates a new entry in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet size here before downloading the packet file. The user should do the following: create one single file which has all the packets stacked together. echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size. echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory. This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-11Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-10-08[PATCH] Keys: Add request-key process documentationDavid Howells
The attached patch adds documentation for the process by which request-key works, including how it permits helper processes to gain access to the requestor's keyrings. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-08Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03[PATCH] libata: add ATA exceptions chapter to docTejun Heo
Hello, Jeff. This patch adds ATA errors & exceptions chapter to Documentation/DocBook/libata.tmpl. As suggested, the chapter is placed before low level driver specific chapters. Contents are unchanged from the last posting. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-10-03Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik
2005-10-03[IPV4]: Update icmp sysctl docs and disable broadcast ECHO/TIMESTAMP by defaultDavid S. Miller
It's not a good idea to be smurf'able by default. The few people who need this can turn it on. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-10-03[PATCH] Document patch subject line betterPaul Jackson
Improve explanation of the Subject line fields in Documentation/SubmittingPatches Canonical Patch Format. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-10-02[PATCH] Document from line in patch formatPaul Jackson
Document more details of patch format such as the "from" line and the "---" marker line, and provide more references for patch guidelines. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28libata: move EH docs to separate DocBook chapterJeff Garzik
2005-09-28[PATCH] libata EH document updateTejun Heo
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
2005-09-28[PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys [try #3]David Howells
The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key targets using the LSM facilities. This patch adds a second "pointer type" to key structures (struct key_ref *) that can have the bottom bit of the address set to indicate the possession of a key. This is propagated through searches from the keyring to the discovered key. It has been made a separate type so that the compiler can spot attempts to dereference a potentially incorrect pointer. The "possession" attribute can't be attached to a key structure directly as it's not an intrinsic property of a key. Pointers to keys have been replaced with struct key_ref *'s wherever possession information needs to be passed through. This does assume that the bottom bit of the pointer will always be zero on return from kmem_cache_alloc(). The key reference type has been made into a typedef so that at least it can be located in the sources, even though it's basically a pointer to an undefined type. I've also renamed the accessor functions to be more useful, and all reference variables should now end in "_ref". Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28[PATCH] fuse: add required version infoMiklos Szeredi
Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE documentation from Kconfig. Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-23[PATCH] documentation: sparse no longer uses bk, but gitHarald Welte
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22[PATCH] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in DocumentationPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
I've recently discovered the real functionality of device-mapper snapshots, and since they are not well known, I've decided to write some docs for them. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22[PATCH] USB: Update Documentation/usb/URB.txtAlan Stern
This patch (as564) updates Documentation/usb/URB.txt, bringing it roughly up to the current level. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21[PATCH] fixup Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmplChristoph Hellwig
__FUNCTION__ is the prefered kernel idiom, __func__ is not supported by gcc 2.95 (we actually map __FUNCTION__ to __func__ for more recent compilers, but it should never be used directly) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17[PATCH] CodingStyle: memory allocationPekka J Enberg
This patch adds a new chapter on memory allocation to Documentation/CodingStyle. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17[PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixesAbhay Salunke
BUG fixes: The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been fixed in this patch. The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid entry in image_type. The fix is to only print a warning message and not the buffer. Usability enhancements: It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver. This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to image_type. This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17[PATCH] relayfs documentation typoMarcelo Tosatti
Small typo in relayfs documentation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-16[IA64] Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txtKeith Owens
Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txt, an ad-hoc collection of notes on IA64 MCA and INIT processing. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-13Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current Linus Torvalds
2005-09-13[PATCH] feature removal of io_remap_page_range()Randy Dunlap
As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the io_remap_page_range() kernel API. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txtVivek Goyal
Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel, as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules. Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] Tell people not to use pm_register()Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)Randy Dunlap
Update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: - add descriptions of 3 more "Tainted" flags; - fix some typos; Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] cciss: new controller pci/subsystem idsMike Miller
This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec. It also include a name change for one controller. I know there's a lot of duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations. Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms, standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13[PATCH] dontdiff: add asm_offsetsMichal Piotrowski
We seem to use both asm-offsets.* and asm_offsets.* Signed-off-by: Michal K. K. Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 Linus Torvalds
2005-09-12Merge ../torvalds-2.6/ Greg KH
2005-09-12[PATCH] USB: proc_usb_info.txt: add blank linesRandy Dunlap
Update Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt: - remove some trailing whitespace - add a blank line before each T: line to match current kernel and to make the text more readable. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-12[PATCH] USB: add apple usb touchpad driverStelian Pop
This is a driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on post-February 2005 Apple PowerBooks. This driver is derived from Johannes Berg's appletrackpad driver [1], but it has been improved in some areas: * appletouch is a full kernel driver, no userspace program is necessary * appletouch can be interfaced with the synaptics X11 driver[2], in order to have touchpad acceleration, scrolling, two/three finger tap, etc. This driver has been tested by the readers of the 'debian-powerpc' mailing list for a few weeks now and I believe it is now ready for inclusion into the mainline kernel. Credits go to Johannes Berg for reverse-engineering the touchpad protocol, Frank Arnold for further improvements, and Alex Harper for some additional information about the inner workings of the touchpad sensors. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-12[PATCH] x86-64: i386/x86-64: Fix time going twice as fast problem on ATI ↵Chuck Ebbert
Xpress chipsets Original patch from Bertro Simul This is probably still not quite correct, but seems to be the best solution so far. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12[PATCH] x86-64: Add command line option to set machine check tolerance levelAndi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12[ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - othersTakashi Iwai
Documentation,SA11xx UDA1341 driver,Generic drivers,MPU401 UART,OPL3 OPL4,Digigram VX core,I2C cs8427,I2C lib core,I2C tea6330t,L3 drivers AK4114 receiver,AK4117 receiver,PDAudioCF driver,PPC PMAC driver SPARC AMD7930 driver,SPARC cs4231 driver,Synth,Common EMU synth USB generic driver,USB USX2Y Replace kcalloc(1,..) with kzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12[ALSA] intel8x0 - Add buggy_semaphore optionTakashi Iwai
Documentation,Intel8x0 driver Added buggy_semaphore module option to snd-intel8x0 driver for a workaround for hardwards with buggy codec semaphores. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12[ALSA] pcm-oss - Add bugg-yptr optionTakashi Iwai
Documentation,ALSA<-OSS emulation Added 'buggy-ptr' proc option to switch the behavior of GETOPTR ioctl. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12[ALSA] Update/fix ALSA documentTakashi Iwai
Documentation Update/fix ALSA document. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12[ALSA] ad1889: add AD1889 driver docsClemens Ladisch
Documentation move the AD1889 driver docs to the kernel tree, too Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>