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2008-03-28lguest: comment documentation update.Rusty Russell
Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28lguest: Don't need comment terminator before disk section.Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28lguest: lguest.txt documentation fixPaul Bolle
Mention the config options for the Virtio drivers and move the Virtualization menu to the toplevel. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-28lguest: Add puppies which where previously missing.Tim Ansell
lguest doesn't have features, it has puppies! Signed-off-by: Timothy R Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-27x86, documentation: nmi_watchdog=2 works on x86_64Marcin Slusarz
Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-03-26x86: Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt: fix descriptionNick Andrew
The description of the interrupt routing doesn't match the (nice) diagram. Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-03-26[POWERPC] Start removing linux,network-index in favour of aliasesDavid Gibson
This patch alters the bootwrapper for a number of machines (roubhly all 4xx based cuboot or treeboot platforms) to use aliases instead of the linux,network-index hack to work out which MAC address to attach to which ethernet device node. The now obsolete linux,network-index properties are removed from the corresponding device trees. This won't break backwards compatiblity, because in cases where this fixup code is relevant, the device tree is part of the kernel image. The references to linux,network-index are removed from booting-without-of.txt. Not only is it now deprecated, but as a hack applicable only when the device tree blob and fixup code were in the same image, this property never belonged in booting-without-of.txt which describes the interface between the kernel and firmware or bootloaders which produce a device tree. By the time the device tree reaches the kernel, all the MAC addresses must be fully filled in. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2008-03-26Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras
2008-03-26[POWERPC] pseries: phyp dump: DocumentationManish Ahuja
Basic documentation for hypervisor-assisted dump. Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas <linasvepstas@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Manish Ahuja <mahuja@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-03-24hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell
Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current: - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the current code: it's a framework now, a "core" with a small sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to. Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end. - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file and better explains what this really does. Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with that important task. 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>
2008-03-24kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option betterPavel Machek
Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory. Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-22Merge branch 'upstream-net26' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/s390/net/qeth_main.c
2008-03-22Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
This reverts commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb. Borislav is working on ide-tape "light" version instead. Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted (they are layering violation and should be dealt with in the same way as done by libata - device-mapper should be used instead). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
Mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted (nowadays device-driver binding can be changed at runtime through sysfs and it can also be dealt with using per device driver parameters). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-22ide: Documentation/ide/ide.txt fixesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz
* "hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq" should be "hdx=cyls,heads,sects". * "hdx=" is for "x" from 'a' to 'u', "idex=" is for "x" from '0' to '9'. * "idex=noautotune" is long gone. * Obsoleted "ide0=" parameters were already removed from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-19fbdev: defio and MetronomefbJaya Kumar
Implement support for the E-Ink Metronome controller. It provides an mmapable interface to the controller using defio support. It was tested with a gumstix pxa255 with Vizplex media using Xfbdev and various X clients such as xeyes, xpdf, xloadimage. This patch also fixes the following bug: Defio would cause a hang on write access to the framebuffer as the page fault would be called ad-infinitum. It fixes fb_defio by setting the mapping to be used by page_mkclean. Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: ALPS - fix forward/back buttons reversed on Acer 5520-5290 Input: ALPS - put secondary device in proper place in sysfs Input: wacom - add support for Bamboo1, BambooFun, and Cintiq 12WX Input: document i8042.noloop Input: add keyboard notifier documentation Input: ads7846 - fix uninitialized var warning Input: i8042 - add SNI RM support Input: i8042 - add Lenovo 3000 N100 to nomux blacklist Input: i8042 - fix warning on non-x86 builds Input: cobalt_btns - assorted fixes
2008-03-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/rt2x00dev.c net/8021q/vlan_dev.c
2008-03-17sk98lin: remove obsolete driverStephen Hemminger
All the hardware supported by this driver is now supported by the skge driver. The last remaining issue was support for ancient dual port SysKonnect fiber boards, and the skge driver now does these correctly (p.s. sk98lin was always broken on these old dual port boards anyway). Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2008-03-17The ps2esdi driver was marked as BROKEN more than two years ago due to beingAdrian Bunk
no longer working for some time. A driver that had been marked as BROKEN for such a long time seems to be unlikely to be revived in the forseeable future. But if anyone wants to ever revive this driver, the code is still present in the older kernel releases. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2008-03-15ACPI: Remove ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD optionLinus Torvalds
This essentially reverts commit 71fc47a9adf8ee89e5c96a47222915c5485ac437 ("ACPI: basic initramfs DSDT override support"), because the code simply isn't ready. It did ugly things to the init sequence to populate the rootfs image early, but that just ended up showing other problems with the whole approach. The fact is, the VFS layer simply isn't initialized this early, and the relevant ACPI code should either run much later, or this shouldn't be done at all. For 2.6.25, we'll just pick the latter option. We can revisit this concept later if necessary. Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com> Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> Cc: Markus Gaugusch <dsdt@gaugusch.at> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-14Input: document i8042.noloopJiri Kosina
Document 'noloop' kernel parameter of i8042 controller driver. Pointed out in #10236. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-03-14Input: add keyboard notifier documentationSamuel Thibault
Document the keyboard notifier. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> SIgned-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2008-03-13the scheduled rc80211-simple.c removalAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13the scheduled ieee80211 softmac removalAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13the scheduled bcm43xx removalAdrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Cc: <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net> Cc: <stefano.brivio@polimi.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-13Merge branches 'release' and 'doc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-03-13Merge branches 'release', 'ejd', 'sony' and 'wmi' into releaseLen Brown
2008-03-13thermal: fix generic thermal I/F for hwmonZhang, Rui
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/Randy Dunlap
Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for pm_qos_interface.txt). Update references to moved filenames. Fix some trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12acer-wmi: Fix DSDT path in documentationCarlos Corbacho
Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/Randy Dunlap
Move laptop-mode.txt into the laptops/ sub-directory to consolidate laptop doc files there. Update references to the file's location. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-11acer-wmi: Rename mail LED correctly & remove hardcoded colourCarlos Corbacho
The mail LED name for acer-wmi currently hardcodes in the colour as green. This is wrong, since many of the newer laptops now come with an orange LED, and we have no way of telling what colour is used on a given system. Also, rename the mail LED to be inline with the current recommendations of the LED class documentation. Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-10Merge 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: USB:Update mailing list information in documentation USB: fix ehci unlink regressions USB: new ftdi_sio device id USB: Remove __KERNEL__ check from non-exported gadget.h. USB: g_printer.h does not need to be "unifdef"ed. USB: fsl_usb2_udc: fix broken Kconfig USB: option: add novatel device ids USB: usbaudio: handle kcalloc failure USB: cypress_m8: add UPS Powercom (0d9f:0002) USB: drivers/usb/storage/sddr55.c: fix uninitialized var warnings USB: fix usb-serial generic recursive lock
2008-03-10Merge 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: lguest: Do not append space to guests kernel command line lguest: Revert 1ce70c4fac3c3954bd48c035f448793867592bc0, fix real problem. lguest: Sanitize the lguest clock. lguest: fix __get_vm_area usage. lguest: make sure cpu is initialized before accessing it
2008-03-10Typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txtMasatake YAMATO
I have found a very small typo in Documentation/scheduler/sched-stats.txt. See the end of this mail. Signed-off-by: Masatake YAMATO <yamato@redhat.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10rename DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE to DEFINE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLEAndrew Morton
This macro is used to define tables, not to declare them. Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-10USB:Update mailing list information in documentationRobert P. J. Day
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@crashcourse.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-03-11lguest: Do not append space to guests kernel command linePaul Bolle
The lguest launcher appends a space to the kernel command line (if kernel arguments are specified on its command line). This space is unneeded. More importantly, this appended space will make Red Hat's nash script interpreter (used in a Fedora style initramfs) add an empty argument to init's command line. This empty argument will make kernel arguments like "init=/bin/bash" fail (because the shell will try to execute a script with an empty name). This could be considered a bug in nash, but is easily fixed in the lguest launcher too. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2008-03-07Merge branch 'slab-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm * 'slab-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/christoph/vm: slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txt slab: NUMA slab allocator migration bugfix slub: Do not cross cacheline boundaries for very small objects slab - use angle brackets for include of kmalloc_sizes.h slab numa fallback logic: Do not pass unfiltered flags to page allocator slub statistics: Fix check for DEACTIVATE_REMOTE_FREES
2008-03-07ide: update references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt (v2)Randy Dunlap
Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt. Add/update ide/00-INDEX file. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-07ide: move ide.txt to Documentation/ide/Randy Dunlap
Cleanup some of Documentation directory: Move Documentation/ide.txt to the ide/ sub-directory. Fix trailing whitespace while there. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-06slub: fix typo in Documentation/vm/slub.txtItaru Kitayama
slub_debug=,dentry is correct, not dentry_cache. Signed-off-by: Itaru Kitayama <i-kitayama@ap.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2008-03-06mac80211: add documentation bookJohannes Berg
Quite a while ago I started this book. The required kernel-doc patches have since gone into the tree so it is now possible to build the book in mainline. The actual documentation is still rather incomplete and not all things are linked into the book, but this enables us to edit the documentation collaboratively, hopefully driver authors can add documentation based on their experience with mac80211. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-03-05Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (27 commits) [SCSI] mpt fusion: don't oops if NumPhys==0 [SCSI] iscsi class: regression - fix races with state manipulation and blocking/unblocking [SCSI] qla4xxx: regression - add start scan callout [SCSI] qla4xxx: fix host reset dpc race [SCSI] tgt: fix build errors when dprintk is defined [SCSI] tgt: set the data length properly [SCSI] tgt: stop zero'ing scsi_cmnd [SCSI] ibmvstgt: set up scsi_host properly before __scsi_alloc_queue [SCSI] docbook: fix fusion source files [SCSI] docbook: fix scsi source file [SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.02.00-k9. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct usage of inconsistent timeout values while issuing ELS commands. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct discrepancies during OVERRUN handling on FWI2-capable cards. [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct needless clean-up resets during shutdown. [SCSI] arcmsr: update version and changelog [SCSI] ps3rom: disable clustering [SCSI] ps3rom: fix wrong resid calculation bug [SCSI] mvsas: fix phy sas address [SCSI] gdth: fix to internal commands execution [SCSI] gdth: bugfix for the at-exit problems ...
2008-03-04Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: pci: hotplug: pciehp: fix error code path in hpc_power_off_slot PCI: Add DECLARE_PCI_DEVICE_TABLE macro PCI: fix up error messages for pci_bus registering PCI: fix section mismatch warning in pci_scan_child_bus PCI: consolidate duplicated MSI enable functions PCI: use dev_printk in quirk messages
2008-03-04Memory controller: rename to Memory Resource ControllerBalbir Singh
Rename Memory Controller to Memory Resource Controller. Reflect the same changes in the CONFIG definition for the Memory Resource Controller. Group together the config options for Resource Counters and Memory Resource Controller. Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-04Kprobes: move kprobe examples to samples/Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli
Move kprobes examples from Documentation/kprobes.txt to under samples/. Patch originally by Randy Dunlap. o Updated the patch to apply on 2.6.25-rc3 o Modified examples code to build on multiple architectures. Currently, the kprobe and jprobe examples code works for x86 and powerpc o Cleaned up unneeded #includes o Cleaned up Kconfig per Sam Ravnborg's suggestions to fix build break on archs that don't have kretprobes o Implemented suggestions by Mathieu Desnoyers on CONFIG_KRETPROBES o Included Andrew Morton's cleanup based on x86-git o Modified kretprobe_example to act as a arch-agnostic module to determine routine execution times: Use 'modprobe kretprobe_example func=<func_name>' to determine execution time of func_name in nanoseconds. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ananth N Mavinakayanahalli <ananth@in.ibm.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>
2008-03-04gpio: <linux/gpio.h> and "no GPIO support here" stubsDavid Brownell
Add a <linux/gpio.h> defining fail/warn stubs for GPIO calls on platforms that don't support the GPIO programming interface. That includes the arch-specific implementation glue otherwise. This facilitates a new model for GPIO usage: drivers that can use GPIOs if they're available, but don't require them. One example of such a driver is NAND driver for various FreeScale chips. On platforms update with GPIO support, they can be used instead of a worst-case delay to verify that the BUSY signal is off. (Also includes a couple minor unrelated doc updates.) 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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