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2008-04-08spi: documentation tweaksDavid Brownell
Update SPI documentation to clarify some areas of recent confusion: clock polarity takes effect when chipselect goes active; and zero length buffers are OK in certain cases. 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>
2008-04-07[SCSI] st: show options currently set in sysfsKai Makisara
Show the current binary tape driver and mode options is sysfs. A file (options) is created in each directory in /sys/class/scsi_tape. The files contain masks showing the options. The mask bit definitions are the same as used when setting the options using the MTSETDRVBUFFER function in the MTIOCTOP ioctl (defined in include/linux/mtio.h). For example: > cat /sys/class/scsi_tape/nst0/options 0x00000d07 [jejb: updated doc with correction from Randy Dunlap] Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-07[SCSI] st: add option to use SILI in variable block readsKai Makisara
Add new option MT_ST_SILI to enable setting the SILI bit in reads in variable block mode. If SILI is set, reading a block shorter than the byte count does not result in CHECK CONDITION. The length of the block is determined using the residual count from the HBA. Avoiding the REQUEST SENSE command for every block speeds up some real applications considerably. Signed-off-by: Kai Makisara <kai.makisara@kolumbus.fi> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-04-04cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot timePaul Menage
The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init time; all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never be mounted on a visible hierarchy. Any additional effects (e.g. not allocating metadata) are up to the foo subsystem. This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't set be, but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init systems wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter processing since it would occur before the command-line argument parser had been run. Hugh said: Ballpark figures, I'm trying to get this question out rather than processing the exact numbers: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR adds 15% overhead to the affected paths, booting with cgroup_disable=memory cuts that back to 1% overhead (due to slightly bigger struct page). I'm no expert on distros, they may have no interest whatever in CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y; and the rest of us can easily build with or without it, or apply the cgroup_disable=memory patches. Unix bench's execl test result on x86_64 was == just after boot without mounting any cgroup fs.== mem_cgorup=off : Execl Throughput 43.0 3150.1 732.6 mem_cgroup=on : Execl Throughput 43.0 2932.6 682.0 == [lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: fix boot option parsing] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-04[IA64] Kernel parameter for max number of concurrent global TLB purgesFenghua Yu
The patch defines kernel parameter "nptcg=". The parameter overrides max number of concurrent global TLB purges which is reported from either PAL_VM_SUMMARY or SAL PALO. Signed-off-by: Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2008-04-03Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
2008-04-02Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/s2io.c
2008-04-02doc: fix typo in SubmittingPatchesJim Meyering
Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txtDmitri Vorobiev
This patch deletes a couple of superfluous word occurrences in the document Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt. Thanks to Sebastien Dugue for the remark about English usage. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-02Merge 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: (45 commits) [VLAN]: Proc entry is not renamed when vlan device name changes. [IPV6]: Fix ICMP relookup error path dst leak [ATM] drivers/atm/iphase.c: compilation warning fix IPv6: do not create temporary adresses with too short preferred lifetime IPv6: only update the lifetime of the relevant temporary address bluetooth : __rfcomm_dlc_close lock fix bluetooth : use lockdep sub-classes for diffrent bluetooth protocol [ROSE/AX25] af_rose: rose_release() fix mac80211: correct use_short_preamble handling b43: Fix PCMCIA IRQ routing b43: Add DMA mapping failure messages mac80211: trigger ieee80211_sta_work after opening interface [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses [IP] UDP: Use SEQ_START_TOKEN. [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt [ATM] atm/idt77252.c: Make 2 functions static [ATM]: Make atm/he.c:read_prom_byte() static [IPV6] MCAST: Ensure to check multicast listener(s). [LLC]: Kill llc_station_mac_sa symbol export. forcedeth: fix locking bug with netconsole ...
2008-04-01ACPI PM: Restore the 2.6.24 suspend orderingRafael J. Wysocki
Some time ago it turned out that our suspend code ordering broke some NVidia-based systems that hung if _PTS was executed with one of the PCI devices, specifically a USB controller, in a low power state. Then, it was noticed that the suspend code ordering was not compliant with ACPI 1.0, although it was compliant with ACPI 2.0 (and later), and it was argued that the code had to be changed for that reason (ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528). So we did, but evidently we did wrong, because it's now turning out that some systems have been broken by this change. Refs: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217#c16 [ I said at that time that something like this might happend, but the majority of people involved thought that it was improbable due to the necessity to preserve the compliance of hardware with ACPI 1.0. ] This actually is a quite serious regression from 2.6.24. Moreover, the ACPI 1.0 ordering of suspend code introduced another issue that I have only noticed recently. Namely, if the suspend of one of devices fails, the already suspended devices will be resumed without executing _WAK before, which leads to problems on some systems (for example, in such situations thermal management is broken on my HP nx6325). Consequently, it also breaks suspend debugging on the affected systems. Note also, that the requirement to execute _PTS before suspending devices does not really make sense, because the device in question may be put into a low power state at run time for a reason unrelated to a system-wide suspend. For the reasons outlined above, the change of the suspend ordering should be reverted, which is done by the patch below. [ Felix Möller: "I am the reporter from the original Novell Bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217 I just tried current git head (two hours ago) with the patch (the one from the beginning of this thread) from Rafael and without it. With the patch my MacBook does suspend without it does not." ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: Felix Möller <felix@derklecks.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-03-31[NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txtAdrian Bunk
Since the driver is gone there's no point in keeping the documentation. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-03-30Fix a typo in highres.txtWill Newton
A small patch for the highres timers documentation: Signed-off-by: Will newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-30Fixes to the seq_file documentJan Engelhardt
On Friday 2008-03-28 19:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >commit 9756ccfda31b4c4544aa010aacf71b6672d668e8 >Date: Fri Mar 28 11:19:56 2008 -0600 > > Add the seq_file documentation patch on top: - add const qualifiers - remove void* casts - use proper specifier (%Ld is not valid) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
2008-03-30Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatchesJonathan Corbet
Add more information about the various patch tags in use, and try to establish a meaning for Reviewed-by: Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-03-30Add the seq_file documentationJonathan Corbet
This is an updated version of the document describing the seq_file interface. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
2008-03-24hw_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>