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2005-06-23[TCP]: Update sysctl and congestion control documentation.Stephen Hemminger
Update the documentation to remove the old sysctl values and include the new congestion control infrastructure. Includes changes to tcp.txt by Ian McDonald. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Add removal schedule of register_serial/unregister_serial to ↵Russell King
appropriate file
2005-06-23[PATCH] Introduce tty_unregister_ldisc()Alexey Dobriyan
It's a bit strange to see tty_register_ldisc call in modules' exit functions. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] add note about verify_area removal to feature-removal-schedule.txtJesper Juhl
Add note about the soon-to-come removal of verify_area() to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] Add offset.h to dontdiffMichal Schmidt
include/asm/offset.h is a generated file on x86_64 and mips. Let's add it to Documentation/dontdiff. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <xschmi00@stud.feec.vutbr.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-23[PATCH] setuid core dumpAlan Cox
Add a new `suid_dumpable' sysctl: This value can be used to query and set the core dump mode for setuid or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are 0 - (default) - traditional behaviour. Any process which has changed privilege levels or is execute only will not be dumped 1 - (debug) - all processes dump core when possible. The core dump is owned by the current user and no security is applied. This is intended for system debugging situations only. Ptrace is unchecked. 2 - (suidsafe) - any binary which normally would not be dumped is dumped readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment. (akpm: > > +EXPORT_SYMBOL(suid_dumpable); > > EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL? No problem to me. > > if (current->euid == current->uid && current->egid == current->gid) > > current->mm->dumpable = 1; > > Should this be SUID_DUMP_USER? Actually the feedback I had from last time was that the SUID_ defines should go because its clearer to follow the numbers. They can go everywhere (and there are lots of places where dumpable is tested/used as a bool in untouched code) > Maybe this should be renamed to `dump_policy' or something. Doing that > would help us catch any code which isn't using the #defines, too. Fair comment. The patch was designed to be easy to maintain for Red Hat rather than for merging. Changing that field would create a gigantic diff because it is used all over the place. ) Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-22Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds
2005-06-22Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/w1-2.6Linus Torvalds
2005-06-22[ALSA] hda-codec - More fix of ALC880 codec supportTakashi Iwai
Documentation,HDA Codec driver,HDA generic driver,HDA Intel driver - Fix some invalid configurations, typos in the last patch - Make init_verbs chainable, so that different configs can share the same init_verbs - Reorder and clean up the source codes in patch_realtek.c - Add the pin default configuration parser, used commonly in cmedia and realtek patch codes. - Add 'auto' model to ALC880 for auto-configuration from BIOS Use this model as default, and 3-stack as fallback Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-06-22[ALSA] Add documentation for HDSP MADITakashi Iwai
Documentation Added documentation for HDSP MADI driver by Winfried Ritsch. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-06-22[ALSA] Add write support to snd-page-alloc proc fileTakashi Iwai
Documentation,Memalloc module,RME HDSP driver,RME9652 driver Add the write support to snd-page-alloc proc file for buffer pre-allocation. Removed the pre-allocation codes via module options. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-06-22Merge with ↵Jaroslav Kysela
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: w83781d: remove non-i2c sensor chipsJean Delvare
This patch removes the support for the W83697HF and W83627THF chips from the w83781d driver. These chips have no I2C/SMBus interface and are better supported by the Super-I/O-based w83627hf driver. Documentation was updated to reflect the support drop. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: add new pca9539 driverbgardner@wabtec.com
This is an i2c driver for the Philips PCA9539 (16 bit I/O port). It uses the new i2c-sysfs interfaces. The patch includes documentation. It depends on the patch that renames "i2c-sysfs.h" to "hwmon-sysfs.h" Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] max6875: new i2c device driverBGardner@Wabtec.com
This patch adds support for the MAX6875/MAX6874 chips. Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: add adm9240 driver documentationGrant Coady
This patch adds adm9240 driver doc, with thanks to Rudolf Marek for review. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Acked-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: documentation update 3/3R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz
This patch adds information about available userspace utillities for system health monitoring drivers. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: documentation update 2/3R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz
This patch adds missing documentation for system health monitoring chips. I would like to thank all people, who helped me with this project. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: documentation update 1/3R.Marek@sh.cvut.cz
This patch just changes the extension of Documentation/i2c/chips/smsc47b397.txt to none - to conform with naming in i2c subsystem directory. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@sh.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: Sensors mailing list has movedJean Delvare
The following patch updates all references to the sensors mailing list, so as to reflect the fact that the list recently moved to a new home and changed addresses. I'll work out a similar patch for Linux 2.4 soon. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: sysfs names: rename to cpu0_vid, take 3Grant Coady
This small patch changes two drivers, adm1025 and adm1026, to report vid as cpu0_vid sysfs name as used by the other drivers. Added duplicated names and six month warning for old names to be removed as requested. Compile tested. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] I2C: Kill address ranges in non-sensors i2c chip driversJean Delvare
Some months ago, you killed the address ranges mechanism from all sensors i2c chip drivers (both the module parameters and the in-code address lists). I think it was a very good move, as the ranges can easily be replaced by individual addresses, and this allowed for significant cleanups in the i2c core (let alone the impressive size shrink for all these drivers). Unfortunately you did not do the same for non-sensors i2c chip drivers. These need the address ranges even less, so we could get rid of the ranges here as well for another significant i2c core cleanup. Here comes a patch which does just that. Since the process is exactly the same as what you did for the other drivers set already, I did not split this one in parts. A documentation update is included. The change saves 308 bytes in the i2c core, and an average 1382 bytes for chip drivers which use I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD, 126 bytes for those which do not. This change is required if we want to merge the sensors and non-sensors i2c code (and we want to do this). Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Index: gregkh-2.6/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients ===================================================================
2005-06-21[PATCH] w1: Updates the w1 documentation (w1.generic)Evgeniy Polyakov
Updates the w1 documentation (w1.generic) Signed-off-by: Ben Gardner <bgardner@wabtec.com> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-21[PATCH] intelfb documentationSylvain Meyer
Add a small documentation of the driver parameters. Signed-off-by: Sylvain Meyer <sylvain.meyer@worldonline.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] isofs: show hidden files, add granularity for assoc/hidden files flagsJeremy White
The current isofs treatment of hidden files is flawed in two ways. First, it does not provide sufficient granularity; it hides both 'hidden' files and 'associated' files (resource fork for Mac files). Second, the default behavior to completely strip hidden files, while an admirable implementation of the spec, is a poor choice given the real world use of hidden files as a poor mans copy protection scheme for MSDOS and Windows based systems. A longer description of this is available here: http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0205.3/0267.html This patch was originally built after a few private conversations with Alan Cox; I shamefully failed to persist in seeing it go forward, I hope to make amends now. This patch introduces granularity by allowing explicit control for both hidden and associated files. It also reverses the default so that by default, hidden files are treated as regular files on the iso9660 file system. This allow Wine to process Windows CDs, including those that are hybrid Mac/Windows CDs properly and completely, without our having to go muck up peoples fstabs as we do now. (I have tested this with such a hybrid + hidden CD and have verified that this patch works as claimed). Signed-off-by: Jeremy White <jwhite@codeweavers.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] s390: cio documentationCornelia Huck
Some clarifications in the cio documentation. Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] ioc4: Core driver rewriteBrent Casavant
This series of patches reworks the configuration and internal structure of the SGI IOC4 I/O controller device drivers. These changes are motivated by several factors: - The IOC4 chip PCI resources are of mixed use between functions (i.e. multiple functions are handled in the same address range, sometimes within the same register), muddling resource ownership and initialization issues. Centralizing this ownership in a core driver is desirable. - The IOC4 chip implements multiple functions (serial, IDE, others not yet implemented in the mainline kernel) but is not a multifunction PCI device. In order to properly handle device addition and removal as well as module insertion and deletion, an intermediary IOC4-specific driver layer is needed to handle these operations cleanly. - All IOC4 drivers are currently enabled by a single CONFIG value. As not all systems need all IOC4 functions, it is desireable to enable these drivers independently. - The current IOC4 core driver will trigger loading of all function-level drivers, as it makes direct calls to them. This situation should be reversed (i.e. function-level drivers cause loading of core driver) in order to maintain a clear and least-surprise driver loading model. - IOC4 hardware design necessitates some driver-level dependency on the PCI bus clock speed. Current code assumes a 66MHz bus, but the speed should be autodetected and appropriate compensation taken. This patch series effects the above changes by a newly and better designed IOC4 core driver with which the function-level drivers can register and deregister themselves upon module insertion/removal. By tracking these modules, device addition/removal is also handled properly. PCI resource management and ownership issues are centralized in this core driver, and IOC4-wide configuration actions such as bus speed detection are also handled in this core driver. This patch: The SGI IOC4 I/O controller chip implements multiple functions, though it is not a multi-function PCI device. Additionally, various PCI resources of the IOC4 are shared by multiple hardware functions, and thus resource ownership by driver is not clearly delineated. Due to the current driver design, all core and subordinate drivers must be loaded, or none, which is undesirable if not all IOC4 hardware features are being used. This patch reorganizes the IOC4 drivers so that the core driver provides a subdriver registration service. Through appropriate callbacks the subdrivers can now handle device addition and removal, as well as module insertion and deletion (though the IOC4 IDE driver requires further work before module deletion will work). The core driver now takes care of allocating PCI resources and data which must be shared between subdrivers, to clearly delineate module ownership of these items. Signed-off-by: Brent Casavant <bcasavan@sgi.com> Acked-by: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com Acked-by: Jeremy Higdon <jeremy@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21[PATCH] shmem: restore superblock infoHugh Dickins
To improve shmem scalability, we allowed tmpfs instances which don't need their blocks or inodes limited not to count them, and not to allocate any sbinfo. Which was okay when the only use for the sbinfo was accounting blocks and inodes; but since then a couple of unrelated projects extending tmpfs want to store other data in the sbinfo. Whether either extension reaches mainline is beside the point: I'm guilty of a bad design decision, and should restore sbinfo to make any such future extensions easier. So, once again allocate a shmem_sb_info for every shmem/tmpfs instance, and now let max_blocks 0 indicate unlimited blocks, and max_inodes 0 unlimited inodes. Brent Casavant verified (many months ago) that this does not perceptibly impact the scalability (since the unlimited sbinfo cacheline is repeatedly accessed but only once dirtied). And merge shmem_set_size into its sole caller shmem_remount_fs. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-21Merge with /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitJaroslav Kysela
2005-06-20[PATCH] Driver core: Documentation: update device attribute callbacksYani Ioannou
Signed-off-by: Yani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] Driver Core: driver model doc updateDavid Brownell
This updates some driver data documentation: - removes references to some fields that haven't been there for a long time now, e.g. pre-kobject or even older; - giving more information about the probe() method; - adding an example of how platform_data is used Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-20[PATCH] fix "make mandocs" after class_simple.c removalAdrian Bunk
Due to the removal of class_simple.c, "make mandocs" no longer works. This patch fixes this issue. 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>
2005-06-18Manual merge of ↵Linus Torvalds
rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6.git This is a fixed-up version of the broken "upstream-2.6.13" branch, where I re-did the manual merge of drivers/net/r8169.c by hand, and made sure the history is all good.
2005-06-17merge by hand (fix up qla_os.c merge error)James Bottomley
2005-06-17[SCSI] allow sleeping in ->eh_host_reset_handler()Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-17[SCSI] allow sleeping in ->eh_bus_reset_handler()Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-17[SCSI] allow sleeping in ->eh_device_reset_handler()Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-17[SCSI] allow sleeping in ->eh_abort_handler()Jeff Garzik
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-06-13Update DCO ("signoff") rules to 1.1Linus Torvalds
This adds a clause that notes explicitly that the person doing the sign-off knows that the project (and his sign-off) is public and will possibly get archived and re-distributed.
2005-06-13[NET]: Move the netdev list to vger.kernel.org.Ralf Baechle
From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> There are archives of the old list at http://oss.sgi.com/archives/netdev Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-06-04Automatic merge of /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch remove-drivers
2005-06-04Automatic merge of /spare/repo/netdev-2.6 branch hdlc
2005-06-02Automatic merge of /spare/repo/linux-2.6/.git branch HEAD
2005-05-31[PATCH] cpufreq-stats driver documentationVenkatesh Pallipadi
Documentation for cpufreq stats. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2005-05-31libata: more docs updatesJeff Garzik
2005-05-30libata: doc updatesJeff Garzik
2005-05-30libata: more doc updatesJeff Garzik
Document recently-added ata_port_operations hooks. Fill several doc stubs in libata-core.c.
2005-05-30libata: minor DocBook updateJeff Garzik
2005-05-29[ALSA] ice1724 - Add support of Chaintech AV-710Takashi Iwai
Documentation,ICE1724 driver Add the support of Chaintech AV-710 to ice1724 driver. The patch includes the WM-codec initialization fix by Jaanus Kivistik <jaanus@no.spam.ee>. Since both AV-710 and AMP Audio2000 have the same SSID, initialize WM codecs as default for both devices. In case it breaks Audio2000, you can pass 'model=amp2000' option to avoid WM codec initialization. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-05-29[ALSA] [doc] Fix a comment about dxs_support for via82xx driverTakashi Iwai
Documentation Fixed/improved a comment about dxs_support option for via82xx driver. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>