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2007-07-19hwmon: Improve the pwmN_enable documentationJean Delvare
The documentation of the pwmN_enable interface file is not very clear, and has been confusing several driver authors already. Make it clearer. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-07-19hwmon: Add support for newer uGuru'sHans de Goede
This patch adds a new driver for the hardware monitoring features of the third revision of the Abit uGuru chip, found on recent Abit motherboards. This is an entirely different beast then the first and second revision (its again a winbond microcontroller, but the "protocol" to talk to it and the bank addresses are very different. Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-07-19hwmon/f71805f: Add temperature-tracking fan control modePhil Endecott
Add support for the "temperature mode" fan speed control. In this mode, the user can define 3 temperature/speed trip points, and the chip will set the speed automatically according to the temperature changes. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <kernel@chezphil.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-07-19hwmon: add SCH5317 to smsc47b397 driverJuerg Haefliger
This patch adds the SMSC SCH5317 chip (device ID 0x85) as a supported device to the smsc47b397 driver. Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-07-19hwmon/it87: Add IT8726F supportRudolf Marek
Add support for IT8726F chip driver, which is just same as IT8716F with additional glue logic for AMD power sequencing. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-19hwmon: Fault files naming conventionJean Delvare
We have the following naming convention documented in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface for fault files: in[0-*]_input_fault fan[1-*]_input_fault temp[1-*]_input_fault Some drivers follow this convention (lm63, lm83, lm90, smsc47m192). However some drivers omit the "input" part and create files named fan1_fault (pc87427) or temp1_fault (dme1737). And the new "generic" libsensors follows this second (non-standard) convention, so it fails to report fault conditions for drivers which follow the standard. We want a single naming scheme, and everyone seems to prefer the shorter variant, so let's go for it. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-19hwmon/lm90: Add support for the Maxim MAX6680/MAX6681Rainer Birkenmaier
Signed-off-by: Rainer Birkenmaier <rainer.birkenmaier@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-19hwmon/dme1737: Add documentationJuerg Haefliger
Add documentation for the new SMSC DME1737 driver. Signed-off-by: Juerg Haefliger <juergh at gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-19hwmon/lm90: Spelling fix: explicitlyJean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-06-28Documentation/HOWTO: update URLs of git treesStefan Richter
Also, remove outdated 1394 tree and mention MAINTAINERS as pointer to development trees. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-27remove leftover documentation of acpi_generic_hotkeyStephen Hemminger
This looks like leftover text in the kernel parameter in documentation. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-24"volatile considered harmful"Jonathan Corbet
Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-24SM501: Add Documentation/SM501.txtBen Dooks
Add documentation for the SM501 in Documentation/SM501.txt outlining the SM501 driver. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: OHCI: Fix machine check in ohci_hub_status_data USB: Fix up bogus bInterval values in endpoint descriptors USB: cxacru: ignore error trying to start ADSL in atm_start USB: cxacru: create sysfs attributes in atm_start instead of bind USB: cxacru: add Documentation file USB: UNUSUAL_DEV: Sync up some reported devices from Ubuntu USB: usb gadgets avoid le{16,32}_to_cpup() usblp: Don't let suspend to kill ->used USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
2007-06-08Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: firmware: remove orphaned Email kobject: use the proper printk level for kobject error Driver core: kill unused code Driver core: keep PHYSDEV for old struct class_device update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
2007-06-08Documentation/atomic_ops.txt typo fixRatnadeep Joshi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08mount -t tmpfs -o mpol=: check nodes onlineHugh Dickins
Randy Dunlap reports that a tmpfs, mounted with NUMA mpol= specifying an offline node, crashes as soon as data is allocated upon it. Now restrict it to online nodes, where before it restricted to MAX_NUMNODES. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com> Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Tested-and-acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08update feature-removal-schedule.txt to include deprecated functionsAndy Whitcroft
Now that deprecated functions are detected out of Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt update this to include kernel_thread. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08document Acked-by:Andrew Morton
Explain what we use Acked-by: for, and how it differs from Signed-off-by: Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08USB: cxacru: add Documentation fileSimon Arlott
The sysfs attributes for exposing cxacru statistics/status information with possible values is now explained in Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt including information on the writable adsl_state attribute's commands and a sample of the kernel log format. Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu> Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08firmware: remove orphaned EmailMarkus Rechberger
Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got CC'ed in recent discussions about it. Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txtDavid Brownell
Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that are mostly unused except by such drivers. We probably can't escape having legacy drivers for a while (e.g. old ISA drivers), but we can at least discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-07[POWERPC] Add table of contents to booting-without-of.txtStuart Yoder
Add table of contents. Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07[POWERPC] Fix typo in booting-without-of-txt section numberingStuart Yoder
Fix typo in section numbering. Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-03Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] clean-up watchdog documentation [WATCHDOG] ks8695_wdt.c - new KS8695 watchdog driver
2007-06-02Pull osi-now into release branchLen Brown
2007-06-02Pull now into release branchLen Brown
2007-06-01timer stats: speedupsIngo Molnar
Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but not used. (this way distros can enable it more easily) Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list walk based lookup ;-) Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01Documentation: How to use GDB to decode OOPSesPekka Enberg
Adds instructions how to use GDB to figure out the exact location of an OOPS to Documentation/BUG-HUNTING. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01add a trivial patch style checkerAndy Whitcroft
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree. These detract from the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers. As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and include it in the kernel tree. Add instructions suggesting running it on submissions. This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script. Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01parse errors in ifdefsYoann Padioleau
Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to compile, due to ifdefs. Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz> Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-31ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groupsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
The initial version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface (not yet released in any stable mainline kernel) made liberal use of named sysfs groups, in order to get the attributes more organized. This proved to be a really bad design decision. Maybe if attribute groups were as flexible as a real directory, and if binary attributes were not second-class citizens, the idea of subdirs and named groups would not have been so bad. This patch makes all the thinkpad-acpi sysfs groups anonymous (thus removing the subdirs), adds the former group names as a prefix (so that hotkey/enable becomes hotkey_enable for example), and updates the documentation. These changes will make the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI a lot easier to maintain. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-05-31Merge branch 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsaLinus Torvalds
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: [ALSA] version 1.0.14 [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix STAC922x capture boost level [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix input with STAC92xx [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix pin configs for Gateway MX6453 [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for MSI K9N Ultra [ALSA] hda-codec - Add quirk for Supermicro PDSBA to alc883_cfg_tbl[] [ALSA] hda-codec - Add quirk for MSI S420 [ALSA] Fix ASoC s3c24xx-pcm spinlock bug [ALSA] hda-intel: fix ASUS M2V detection [ALSA] ali5451 - Fix possible NULL dereference [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for ASUS A8J modem [ALSA] HDA: Fix headphone mute issue on non-eapd Conexant systems [ALSA] HDA: Add more systems to Sigmatel codec [ALSA] HDA: Add support for Gateway NX860
2007-05-31Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 * 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits) [IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt. [BRIDGE]: Round off STP perodic timers. [BRIDGE]: Reduce frequency of forwarding cleanup timer in bridge. [TCP] tcp_probe: use GCC printf attribute [TCP] tcp_probe: a trivial fix for mismatched number of printl arguments. [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Fix conflicts in DEVCONF_xxx constant. [NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_complete [TCP]: Consolidate checking for tcp orphan count being too big. [SOCK]: Shrink struct sock by 8 bytes on 64-bit. [AF_PACKET]: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_SOCKET. [IPV6]: Fix build warning. [AF_PACKET]: Kill bogus CONFIG_PACKET_MULTICAST [IPV4]: Kill references to bogus non-existent CONFIG_IP_NOSIOCRT [IPSEC]: Fix panic when using inter address familiy IPsec on loopback. [NET]: parse ip:port strings correctly in in4_pton [IPV6] ROUTE: No longer handle ::/0 specially. [IPSEC]: Fix IPv6 AH calculation in outbound [XFRM]: xfrm_larval_drop sysctl should be __read_mostly. [XFRM]: Allow XFRM_ACQ_EXPIRES to be tunable via sysctl. [CASSINI]: Fix printk message typo. ...
2007-05-31SLUB: More documentationChristoph Lameter
Update documentation to describe how to read a SLUB error report. Add slub parameters to Documentation/kernel-parameters. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-31[IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt.David S. Miller
And use it to document new xfrm_acq_expires sysctl. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31[ALSA] HDA: Add support for Gateway NX860Tobin Davis
This patch adds support for the Gateway NX860 system. Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2007-05-29ACPI: extend "acpi_osi=" boot optionLen Brown
The boot option "acpi_osi=" has always disabled Linux _OSI support, thus disabling all OS Interface strings which are advertised by Linux to the BIOS. Now... acpi_osi="string" adds the interface string, and acpi_osi="!string" invalidates the pre-defined interface string eg. acpi_osi="!Windows 2006" would disable Linux's claim of Vista compatibility. Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-05-29Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] megaraid_sas: intercept cmd timeout and throttle io [SCSI] fusion: Fix |/|| confusion [SCSI] aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus should fail if the cleared task does not complete [SCSI] aic7xxx: fix aicasm build failure with gcc-3.4.6 [SCSI] aacraid: apply commit config for reset_devices flag [SCSI] sd: fix refcounting regression in suspend/resume routines [SCSI] aacraid: fix panic on short Inquiry [SCSI] aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1) [SCSI] NCR53C9x: correct spelling mistake in deprecation notice [SCSI] tgt: fix a rdma indirect transfer error bug [SCSI] MegaRAID: Update MAINTAINERS email-id [SCSI] stex: minor cleanup and version update [SCSI] stex: fix reset recovery for console device [SCSI] stex: extend hard reset wait time [SCSI] stex: fix id mapping issue [SCSI] ipr: Proper return codes for eh_dev_reset for SATA devices [SCSI] zfcp: IO stall after deleting and path checker changes after reenabling zfcp devices [SCSI] zfcp: avoid clutter in erp_dbf
2007-05-24[WATCHDOG] clean-up watchdog documentationAlan Cox
Random sampling of some URLs in the Documentation tree to see how many were stale found that one watchdog driver was now a porn site. In fact if the watchdogs document directory was any older it would be written in latin Clean it up somewhat and add Last reviewed headers, something all the Documentation could do with IMHO. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-05-24Documentation: Fix up docs still talking about i_semJosef 'Jeff' Sipek
.. it got changed to 'i_mutex' some time ago. Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24Revert "HOWTO: bug report addition" (or "HOWTO: mention bughunting")Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 722385f75efd82d9f480f0765a1e97a4d83cac0d (or commit 3f27100872b21e4cc70d07b96eeb3611b30bce63, it's your choice ;), since the same patch to Documentation/HOWTO got added twice because it just kept applying cleanly. Noted by Qi Yong. Cc: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com> Acked-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23boot documentation: clarificationsH. Peter Anvin
Textual clarifications (and fix an off-by-one error) based on feedback mostly from Jeremy Fitzhardinge. Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: various fixesJarek Poplawski
Fix various grammatical issues in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt. Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl> Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23document clocksourcesRandy Dunlap
Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into the correct (alpha) location in the file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> 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>
2007-05-23documentation: Documentation/initrd.txtDomenico Andreoli
Final clearification of the pivot_root mechanism, which brings this document really up-to-date. Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@dandreoli.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23update dontdiff fileRandy Dunlap
Update dontdiff file by adding entries from many .gitignore files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23Documentation: fix the explanation of Kconfig filesRobert P. J. Day
Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files. Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23genhd: expose AN to user spaceKristen Carlson Accardi
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of media changes. This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags", which is documented in (insert file name). This sysfs file will export all disk capabilities flags to user space. We also define a new flag to define the media change notification capability. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23spi doc update: describe clock mode bitsDavid Brownell
Update the SPI documentation to cover a few points that have proven to be confusing or unclear; most notably the two clock mode bits. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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