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2005-07-12[PATCH] inotifyRobert Love
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tglx/mtd-2.6Linus Torvalds
2005-07-07[PATCH] acl kconfig cleanupAndreas Gruenbacher
Original patch from Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-26Merge with rsync://fileserver/linuxThomas Gleixner
Update to Linus latest
2005-06-25[PATCH] kdump: Access dump file in elf format (/proc/vmcore)Vivek Goyal
From: "Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> o Support for /proc/vmcore interface. This interface exports elf core image either in ELF32 or ELF64 format, depending on the format in which elf headers have been stored by crashed kernel. o Added support for CONFIG_VMCORE config option. o Removed the dependency on /proc/kcore. From: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> This patch has been refactored to more closely match the prevailing style in the affected files. And to clearly indicate the dependency between /proc/kcore and proc/vmcore.c From: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> This patch contains the code that provides an ELF format interface to the previous kernel's memory post kexec reboot. Signed off by Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24[PATCH] xip: ext2: execute in placeCarsten Otte
These are the ext2 related parts. Ext2 now uses the xip_* file operations along with the get_xip_page aop when mounted with -o xip. Signed-off-by: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-24[PATCH] knfsd: nfsd4: reboot hashNeilBrown
For the purposes of reboot recovery we keep a directory with subdirectories each having a name that is the ascii hex representation of the md5 sum of a client identifier for an active client. This adds the code to calculate that name. We also use it for the purposes of comparing clients, so if someone ever manages to find two client names that are md5 collisions, then we'll return clid_inuse to the second. Signed-off-by: Andy Adamson <andros@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@cse.unsw.edu.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-22[PATCH] NFS: Add support for NFSv3 ACLsAndreas Gruenbacher
This adds acl support fo nfs clients via the NFSACL protocol extension, by implementing the getxattr, listxattr, setxattr, and removexattr iops for the system.posix_acl_access and system.posix_acl_default attributes. This patch implements a dumb version that uses no caching (and thus adds some overhead). (Another patch in this patchset adds caching as well.) Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-22[PATCH] NFSD: Add server support for NFSv3 ACLs.Andreas Gruenbacher
This adds functions for encoding and decoding POSIX ACLs for the NFSACL protocol extension, and the GETACL and SETACL RPCs. The implementation is compatible with NFSACL in Solaris. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Acked-by: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Trond Myklebust <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>
2005-06-21[PATCH] devfs: remove devfs from Kconfig preventing it from being builtGreg KH
Here's a much smaller patch to simply disable devfs from the build. If this goes well, and there are no complaints for a few weeks, I'll resend my big "devfs-die-die-die" series of patches that rip the whole thing out of the kernel tree. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-23[JFFS2] Use a single config option for write buffer supportAndrew Victor
This patch replaces the current CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_NAND, CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_NOR_ECC and CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DATAFLASH with a single configuration option - CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER. The only functional change of this patch is that the slower div/mod calculations for SECTOR_ADDR(), PAGE_DIV() and PAGE_MOD() are now always used when CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_WRITEBUFFER is enabled. Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2005-05-23[JFFS2] Add support for JFFS2-on-Dataflash devices.Andrew Victor
For Dataflash, can_mark_obsolete = false and the NAND write buffering code (wbuf.c) is used. Since the DataFlash chip will automatically erase pages when writing, the cleanmarkers are not needed - so cleanmarker_oob = false and cleanmarker_size = 0 DataFlash page-sizes are not a power of two (they're multiples of 528 bytes). The SECTOR_ADDR macro (added in the previous core patch) is replaced with a (slower) div/mod version if CONFIG_JFFS2_FS_DATAFLASH is selected. Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
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!