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2005-05-20[PATCH] x86_64: Add option to disable timer checkAndi Kleen
This works around the too fast timer seen on some ATI boards. I don't feel confident enough about it yet to enable it by default, but give users the option. Patch and debugging from Christopher Allen Wing <wingc@engin.umich.edu>, with minor tweaks (renamed the option and documented it) Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-20[PATCH] cpusets+hotplug+preepmt brokenPaul Jackson
This patch removes the entwining of cpusets and hotplug code in the "No more Mr. Nice Guy" case of sched.c move_task_off_dead_cpu(). Since the hotplug code is holding a spinlock at this point, we cannot take the cpuset semaphore, cpuset_sem, as would seem to be required either to update the tasks cpuset, or to scan up the nested cpuset chain, looking for the nearest cpuset ancestor that still has some CPUs that are online. So we just punt and blast the tasks cpus_allowed with all bits allowed. This reverts these lines of code to what they were before the cpuset patch. And it updates the cpuset Doc file, to match. The one known alternative to this that seems to work came from Dinakar Guniguntala, and required the hotplug code to take the cpuset_sem semaphore much earlier in its processing. So far as we know, the increased locking entanglement between cpusets and hot plug of this alternative approach is not worth doing in this case. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Acked-by: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Acked-by: Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] Driver Core: remove driver model detach_stateDavid Brownell
The driver model has a "detach_state" mechanism that: - Has never been used by any in-kernel drive; - Is superfluous, since driver remove() methods can do the same thing; - Became buggy when the suspend() parameter changed semantics and type; - Could self-deadlock when called from certain suspend contexts; - Is effectively wasted documentation, object code, and headspace. This removes that "detach_state" mechanism; net code shrink, as well as a per-device saving in the driver model and sysfs. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: bt8xx: updated documentationJohannes Stezenbach
updated documentation (Manu Abraham) Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: DST: reorganize Twinhan DST driver to support CIJohannes Stezenbach
- reorganize Twinhan DST driver to support CI - add support for more cards (Manu Abraham) Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: bt8xx: update documentationJohannes Stezenbach
update bt8xx documentation (Uwe Bugla) Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: tda10046: support for different firmware versionsJohannes Stezenbach
added support for different tda10046 firmware versions. tested with v20, v21 and v25. (Andreas Oberritter) Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: flexcop: readme updateJohannes Stezenbach
readme update Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: flexcop: add acknowledgementsJohannes Stezenbach
add acknowledgements Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] dvb: b2c2/flexcop driver refactoring part 2: add modular Flexcop driverJohannes Stezenbach
b2c2/flexcop driver refactoring to support PCI and USB based cards part 2: add modular Flexcop driver Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-17[PATCH] ieee1394: feature removal noticesJody McIntyre
drivers/ieee1394 feature removal notices: amdtp, cmp, legacy rawiso interface Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] update Ross Biro bouncing email addressJesper Juhl
Ross moved. Remove the bad email address so people will find the correct one in ./CREDITS. 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>
2005-05-05[PATCH] Update dontdiffMatt Porter
Additions to the dontdiff list. Signed-off-by: Matt Porter <mporter@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05[PATCH] remove BK documentationAdrian Bunk
There's no longer a reason to document the obsolete BK usage. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-04Merge of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/aoe-2.6.git/Linus Torvalds
2005-05-03[PATCH] PCI: fix stale PCI pm docsPavel Machek
This fixes u32 vs. pm_message_t confusion in documentation, and removes references to no-longer-existing (*save_state), too. With exception of USB (I hope David will fix/apply my patch), this should fix last piece of this confusion... famous last words. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03[PATCH] PCI: update PCI documentation for pci_get_slot() depreciationMatthew Wilcox
pci_find_slot() doesn't work on multiple-domain boxes so pci_get_slot() should be used instead. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: update the documentation to mention aoetoolsEd L Cashin
update the documentation to mention aoetools Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: aoe-stat should work for built-in as well as moduleEd L Cashin
aoe-stat should work for built-in as well as module Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/status.sh b/Documentation/aoe/status.sh
2005-05-03[PATCH] aoe: improve allowed interfaces configurationEd L Cashin
improve allowed interfaces configuration Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> diff -uprN a/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt b/Documentation/aoe/aoe.txt
2005-05-01[PATCH] Documentation: remove super-{nr, max} to reflect fs/super.cCosmin Nicolaescu
The patch updates the documentation for /proc. super-nr and super-max have been dropped from the kernel since 2.4.9 due to minor numbering issues. This change was not documented in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] docbook: Tell users to install xmlto, not stylesheetsSam Ravnborg
We have at least two users which were confused by these messages, myself included. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: fix html linkMartin Waitz
The start page for each book has changed from book1.html to index.html. Update our generated links acocrdingly. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] Docbook: use custom stylesheetMartin Waitz
With the custom stylesheet, functions are rendered using ANSI-C syntax and xmlto is a bit quieter. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: Use xmlto to process the DocBook files.Martin Waitz
xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex. This is much faster than using jadetex for everything. This patch also reduces the number of kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: remove obsolete templatesJeff Garzik
As the author of tulip-user and via-audio docbooks, I can say that they are out of date and should be deleted. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] DocBook: changes and extensions to the kernel documentationPavel Pisa
I have recompiled Linux kernel 2.6.11.5 documentation for me and our university students again. The documentation could be extended for more sources which are equipped by structured comments for recent 2.6 kernels. I have tried to proceed with that task. I have done that more times from 2.6.0 time and it gets boring to do same changes again and again. Linux kernel compiles after changes for i386 and ARM targets. I have added references to some more files into kernel-api book, I have added some section names as well. So please, check that changes do not break something and that categories are not too much skewed. I have changed kernel-doc to accept "fastcall" and "asmlinkage" words reserved by kernel convention. Most of the other changes are modifications in the comments to make kernel-doc happy, accept some parameters description and do not bail out on errors. Changed <pid> to @pid in the description, moved some #ifdef before comments to correct function to comments bindings, etc. You can see result of the modified documentation build at http://cmp.felk.cvut.cz/~pisa/linux/lkdb-2.6.11.tar.gz Some more sources are ready to be included into kernel-doc generated documentation. Sources has been added into kernel-api for now. Some more section names added and probably some more chaos introduced as result of quick cleanup work. Signed-off-by: Pavel Pisa <pisa@cmp.felk.cvut.cz> Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] dontdiff file sorted in alphabet orderaquynh@gmail.com
Documentation/dontdiff is a little messy. Here is a patch to sort the content of that file in alphabetical Signed-off-by: Nguyen Anh Quynh <aquynh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] Update RCU documentationPaul E. McKenney
Update the RCU documentation to allow for the new synchronize_rcu() and synchronize_sched() primitives. Fix a few other nits as well. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLPaul E. McKenney
The gpl exports need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a measured manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine. Changing these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not- fine. Here is my earlier proposal: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110520930301813&w=2 See below for a patch that puts the exports back, along with an updated version of my earlier patch that starts the process of moving them to GPL. I will also be following this message with RFC patches that introduce two (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) interfaces to replace synchronize_kernel(), which then becomes deprecated. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] s390: cio documentationCornelia Huck
Synchronize documentation with current interface. 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>
2005-05-01[PATCH] Increase number of e820 entries hard limit from 32 to 128Venkatesh Pallipadi
The specifications that talk about E820 map doesn't have an upper limit on the number of e820 entries. But, today's kernel has a hard limit of 32. With increase in memory size, we are seeing the number of E820 entries reaching close to 32. Patch below bumps the number upto 128. The patch changes the location of EDDBUF in zero-page (as it comes after E820). As, EDDBUF is not used by boot loaders, this patch should not have any effect on bootloader-setup code interface. Patch covers both i386 and x86-64. Tested on: * grub booting bzImage * lilo booting bzImage with EDID info enabled * pxeboot of bzImage Side-effect: bss increases by ~ 2K and init.data increases by ~7.5K on all systems, due to increase in size of static arrays. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-01[PATCH] doc: Locking updateNikita Danilov
Make the Locking document truer. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-24[NET]: Document ->hard_start_xmit() locking in netdevices.txtBen Greear
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-04-19Merge with kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6.git/Linus Torvalds
for 13 driver core, sysfs, and debugfs fixes.
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 9/12: add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocationecashin@coraid.com
add note about the need for deadlock-free sk_buff allocation Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 8/12: document env var for specifying numberecashin@coraid.com
document env var for specifying number of partitions per dev Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] aoe 4/12: handle distros that have a udev rulesecashin@coraid.com
handle distros that have a udev rules file instead of dir Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] kref: add link to original documentation to the kref documentation.gregkh@suse.de
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18[PATCH] kref: add documentationminyard@acm.org
Add some documentation for krefs. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-04-18lpfc: add Emulex FC driver version 8.0.28
From: James.Smart@Emulex.Com Modified for kernel import and Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-18[PATCH] remove old scsi data direction macros
these have been wrappers for the generic dma direction bits since 2.5.x. This patch converts the few remaining drivers and removes the macros. Arjan noticed there's some hunk in here that shouldn't. Updated patch below: Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-18[PATCH] qla2xxx: remove sale revision notes file
Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-04-16[PATCH] IPoIB: document conversion to debugfsRoland Dreier
Update IPoIB documentation now that multicast debugging files have moved from ipoibdebugfs to debugfs. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] Add dontdiff fileRandy.Dunlap
Add a current 'dontdiff' file for use with 'diff -X dontdiff'. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rddunlap@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] officially deprecate register_ioctl32_conversionChristoph Hellwig
These have been deprecated since ->compat_ioctl when in, thus only a short deprecation period. There's four users left: i2o_config, s390/z90crypy, s390/dasd and s390/zfcp and for the first two patches are about to be submitted to get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] power/video.txt: update documentation with more systemsPavel Machek
This updates video.txt documentation with information about few more systems. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16[PATCH] pm_message_t: more fixes in common and i386Pavel Machek
I thought I'm done with fixing u32 vs. pm_message_t ... unfortunately that turned out not to be the case as Russel King pointed out. Here are fixes for Documentation and common code (mainly system devices). Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-04-16Linux-2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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