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2008-07-17netdev: Kill NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE.David S. Miller
There is no need for a feature bit for something that can be tested by simply checking the TX queue count. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-14Merge branch 'davem-next' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2008-07-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-07-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: net/netfilter/nf_conntrack_proto_tcp.c
2008-07-14wext: make sysfs bits optional and deprecate themJohannes Berg
The /sys/class/net/*/wireless/ direcory is, as far as I know, not used by anyone. Additionally, the same data is available via wext ioctls. Hence the sysfs files are pretty much useless. This patch makes them optional and schedules them for removal. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-07-11ixgb: update readme textJesse Brandeburg
Signed-off-by: Jesse Brandeburg <jesse.brandeburg@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-07-10ip: sysctl documentation cleanupStephen Hemminger
Reduced version of the spelling cleanup patch. Take out the confusing language in tcp_frto, and organize the undocumented values. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-10Documentation: clarify tcp_{r,w}mem sysctl docsJ. Bruce Fields
Fix some of the defaults and attempt to clarify some language. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08net: Delete NETDEVICES_MULTIQUEUE kconfig option.David S. Miller
Multiple TX queue support is a core networking feature. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-08sctp: Add documentation for sctp sysctl variableVlad Yasevich
Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-07netdev: remove unused S2IO_NAPIFrancois Romieu
Signed-off-by: Francois Romieu <romieu@fr.zoreil.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-05Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt drivers/net/wan/hdlc_fr.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-4965.c drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
2008-07-03ipv6 addrconf: add accept_dad sysctl to control DAD operation.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
- If 0, disable DAD. - If 1, perform DAD (default). - If >1, perform DAD and disable IPv6 operation if DAD for MAC-based link-local address has been failed (RFC4862 5.4.5). We do not follow RFC4862 by default. Refer to the netdev thread entitled "Linux IPv6 DAD not full conform to RFC 4862 ?" http://www.spinics.net/lists/netdev/msg52027.html Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-07-03ipv6: Add disable_ipv6 sysctl to disable IPv6 operaion on specific interface.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
2008-07-02Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: i2c: Fix bad hint about irqs in i2c.h i2c: Documentation: fix device matching description
2008-07-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (55 commits) net: fib_rules: fix error code for unsupported families netdevice: Fix wrong string handle in kernel command line parsing net: Tyop of sk_filter() comment netlink: Unneeded local variable net-sched: fix filter destruction in atm/hfsc qdisc destruction net-sched: change tcf_destroy_chain() to clear start of filter list ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related values mac80211: don't accept WEP keys other than WEP40 and WEP104 hostap: fix sparse warnings hostap: don't report useless WDS frames by default textsearch: fix Boyer-Moore text search bug netfilter: nf_conntrack_tcp: fixing to check the lower bound of valid ACK ipv6 route: Convert rt6_device_match() to use RT6_LOOKUP_F_xxx flags. netlabel: Fix a problem when dumping the default IPv6 static labels net/inet_lro: remove setting skb->ip_summed when not LRO-able inet fragments: fix race between inet_frag_find and inet_frag_secret_rebuild CONNECTOR: add a proc entry to list connectors netlink: Fix some doc comments in net/netlink/attr.c tcp: /proc/net/tcp rto,ato values not scaled properly (v2) include/linux/netdevice.h: don't export MAX_HEADER to userspace ...
2008-07-01sctp: Mark GET_PEER|LOCAL_ADDR_OLD deprecated.Vlad Yasevich
Socket options SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_OLD, SCTP_GET_PEER_ADDR_NUM_OLD, SCTP_GET_LOCAL_ADDR_OLD, and SCTP_GET_PEER_LOCAL_ADDR_NUM_OLD have been replaced by newer versions a since 2005. It's time to officially deprecate them and schedule them for removal. Signed-off-by: Vlad Yasevich <vladislav.yasevich@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-01icmp: fix units for ratelimitStephen Hemminger
Convert the sysctl values for icmp ratelimit to use milliseconds instead of jiffies which is based on kernel configured HZ. Internal kernel jiffies are not a proper unit for any userspace API. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-01ipv4: fix sysctl documentation of time related valuesStephen Hemminger
These sysctl values are time related and all use the same routine (proc_dointvec_jiffies) that internally converts from seconds to jiffies. The code is fine, the documentation is just wrong. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@vyatta.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-07-01i2c: Documentation: fix device matching descriptionBen Dooks
The matching process described for new style clients in Documentation/i2c/writing-clients is classed as out-of-date as it requires the presence of an .id_table entry in the driver's i2c_driver entry. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-06-29Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (42 commits) V4L/DVB (8108): Fix open/close race in saa7134 V4L/DVB (8100): V4L/vivi: fix possible memory leak in vivi_fillbuff V4L/DVB (8097): xc5000: check device hardware state to determine if firmware download is needed V4L/DVB (8096): au8522: prevent false-positive lock status V4L/DVB (8092): videodev: simplify and fix standard enumeration V4L/DVB (8075): stv0299: Uncorrected block count and bit error rate fixed V4L/DVB (8074): av7110: OSD transfers should not be interrupted V4L/DVB (8073): av7110: Catch another type of ARM crash V4L/DVB (8071): tda10023: Fix possible kernel oops during initialisation V4L/DVB (8069): cx18: Fix S-Video and Compsite inputs for the Yuan MPC718 and enable card entry V4L/DVB (8068): cx18: Add I2C slave reset via GPIO upon initialization V4L/DVB (8067): cx18: Fix firmware load for case when digital capture happens first V4L/DVB (8066): cx18: Fix audio mux input definitions for HVR-1600 Line In 2 and FM radio V4L/DVB (8063): cx18: Fix unintended auto configurations in cx18-av-core V4L/DVB (8061): cx18: only select tuner / frontend modules if !DVB_FE_CUSTOMISE V4L/DVB (8048): saa7134: Fix entries for Avermedia A16d and Avermedia E506 V4L/DVB (8044): au8522: tuning optimizations V4L/DVB (8043): au0828: add support for additional USB device id's V4L/DVB (8042): DVB-USB UMT-010 channel scan oops V4L/DVB (8040): soc-camera: remove soc_camera_host_class class ...
2008-06-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-06-28Merge branch 'davem-next' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2008-06-28Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl4965-base.c
2008-06-27s2io: fix documentation about intr_typeMichal Schmidt
The documentation for intr_type module parameter of the s2io driver is not consistent with the code. The comments in drivers/net/s2io.c are OK, but Documentation/networking/s2io.txt is wrong. Pointed out by Andrew Hecox. Signed-off-by: Michal Schmidt <mschmidt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-26V4L/DVB (8043): au0828: add support for additional USB device id'sMichael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2008-06-26rfkill: improve documentation for kernel driversHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Improve the documentation of how to use the rfkill class in kernel drivers, based on the doubts that came up in a thread in linux-wireless. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26rfkill: rename the rfkill_state states and add block-locked stateHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The current naming of rfkill_state causes a lot of confusion: not only the "kill" in rfkill suggests negative logic, but also the fact that rfkill cannot turn anything on (it can just force something off or stop forcing something off) is often forgotten. Rename RFKILL_STATE_OFF to RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED (transmitter is blocked and will not operate; state can be changed by a toggle_radio request), and RFKILL_STATE_ON to RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED (transmitter is not blocked, and may operate). Also, add a new third state, RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED (transmitter is blocked and will not operate; state cannot be changed through a toggle_radio request), which is used by drivers to indicate a wireless transmiter was blocked by a hardware rfkill line that accepts no overrides. Keep the old names as #defines, but document them as deprecated. This way, drivers can be converted to the new names *and* verified to actually use rfkill correctly one by one. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26rfkill: document rw rfkill switches and clarify input subsystem interactionsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Rework the documentation so as to make sure driver writers understand exactly where the boundaries are for input drivers related to rfkill switches, buttons and keys, and rfkill class drivers. Also fix a small error in the documentation: setting the state of a normal instance of the rfkill class does not affect the state of any other devices (unless they are tied by firmware/hardware somehow). Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-26rfkill: clarify meaning of rfkill statesHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
rfkill really should have been named rfswitch. As it is, one can get confused whether RFKILL_STATE_ON means the KILL switch is on (and therefore, the radio is being *blocked* from operating), or whether it means the RADIO rf output is on. Clearly state that RFKILL_STATE_ON means the radio is *unblocked* from operating (i.e. there is no rf killing going on). Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Acked-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-25thermal: Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=nRene Herman
A bug in libsensors <= 2.10.6 is exposed when this new hwmon I/F is enabled. Create CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=n until some time after libsensors 2.10.7 ships so those users can run the latest kernel. libsensors 3.x is already fixed -- those users can use CONFIG_THERMAL_HWMON=y now. Signed-off-by: Rene Herman <rene.herman@gmail.com> Acked-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-06-24DM9000: Add documentation for the driver.Ben Dooks
Add Documentation/networking/dm9000.txt for the DM9000 network driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-24kgdb: documentation update - remove kgdboeJason Wessel
kgdboe is not presently included kgdb, and there should be no references to it. Also fix the tcp port terminal connection example. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com>
2008-06-21Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: hwmon: (lm75) sensor reading bugfix hwmon: (abituguru3) update driver detection hwmon: (w83791d) new maintainer hwmon: (abituguru3) Identify Abit AW8D board as such hwmon: Update the sysfs interface documentation hwmon: (adt7473) Initialize max_duty_at_overheat before use hwmon: (lm85) Fix function RANGE_TO_REG()
2008-06-19hwmon: Update the sysfs interface documentationJean Delvare
* Document the characteristics of libsensors 3.0.0 and 3.0.1. * The sysfs interface is no longer subject to changes. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2008-06-19cpuset: limit the input of cpuset.sched_relax_domain_levelLi Zefan
We allow the inputs to be [-1 ... SD_LV_MAX), and return -EINVAL for inputs outside this range. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-18bonding: Allow setting max_bonds to zeroJay Vosburgh
Permit bonding to function rationally if max_bonds is set to zero. This will load the module, but create no master devices (which can be created via sysfs). Requires some change to bond_create_sysfs; currently, the netdev sysfs directory is determined from the first bonding device created, but this is no longer possible. Instead, an interface from net/core is created to create and destroy files in net_class. Based on a patch submitted by Phil Oester <kernel@linuxaces.com>. Modified by Jay Vosburgh to fix the sysfs issue mentioned above and to update the documentation. Signed-off-by: Phil Oester <kernel@linuxace.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-18bonding: Rework / fix multiple gratuitous ARP supportJay Vosburgh
Support for sending multiple gratuitous ARPs during failovers was added by commit: commit 7893b2491a2d5f716540ac5643d78d37a7f6628b Author: Moni Shoua <monis@voltaire.com> Date: Sat May 17 21:10:12 2008 -0700 bonding: Send more than one gratuitous ARP when slave takes over This change modifies that support to remove duplicated code, add support for ARP monitor (the original only supported miimon), clear the grat ARP counter in bond_close (lest a later "ifconfig up" immediately start spewing ARPs), and add documentation for the module parameter. Also updated driver version to 3.3.0. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-06-14Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-06-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: fixup write combine comment in pci_mmap_resource x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfs x86, pci-dma.c: don't always add __GFP_NORETRY to gfp suspend-vs-iommu: prevent suspend if we could not resume x86: pci-dma.c: use __GFP_NO_OOM instead of __GFP_NORETRY pci, x86: add workaround for bug in ASUS A7V600 BIOS (rev 1005) PCI: use dev_to_node in pci_call_probe PCI: Correct last two HP entries in the bfsort whitelist
2008-06-14mac80211_hwsim: Clean up documentationJouni Malinen
Clean up the introduction and fix a typo. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-14mac80211_hwsim: 802.11 radio simulator for mac80211Jouni Malinen
mac80211_hwsim is a Linux kernel module that can be used to simulate arbitrary number of IEEE 802.11 radios for mac80211 on a single device. It can be used to test most of the mac80211 functionality and user space tools (e.g., hostapd and wpa_supplicant) in a way that matches very closely with the normal case of using real WLAN hardware. From the mac80211 view point, mac80211_hwsim is yet another hardware driver, i.e., no changes to mac80211 are needed to use this testing tool. Signed-off-by: Jouni Malinen <j@w1.fi> Acked-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-06-13Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/smc911x.c
2008-06-12cciss: add new hardware supportMike Miller
Add support for the next generation of HP Smart Array SAS/SATA controllers. Shipping date is late Fall 2008. Bump the driver version to 3.6.20 to reflect the new hardware support from patch 1 of this set. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-06-12Merge branch 'pci-for-jesse' of ↵Jesse Barnes
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-tip into for-linus
2008-06-12x86: PAT export resource_wc in pci sysfsvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
For the ranges with IORESOURCE_PREFETCH, export a new resource_wc interface in pci /sysfs along with resource (which is uncached). Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-06-11Merge 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: kobject: Documentation Spelling Patch dev_set_name: fix missing kernel-doc
2008-06-11kobject: Documentation Spelling PatchDavid Brigada
Signed-off-by: David Brigada <brigad@rpi.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-06-11thinkpad-acpi: SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL renameHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL in thinkpad-acpi code and docs, following 5adad0133907790c50283bf03271d920d6897043 "Input: rename SW_RADIO to SW_RFKILL_ALL". Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-06-10Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/tg3.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c net/mac80211/ieee80211_i.h