Merge branch 'akpm' (Andrew's incoming)

Quoth Andrew:

 - Most of MM.  Still waiting for the poweroc guys to get off their
   butts and review some threaded hugepages patches.

 - alpha

 - vfs bits

 - drivers/misc

 - a few core kerenl tweaks

 - printk() features

 - MAINTAINERS updates

 - backlight merge

 - leds merge

 - various lib/ updates

 - checkpatch updates

* akpm: (127 commits)
  epoll: fix spurious lockdep warnings
  checkpatch: add a --strict check for utf-8 in commit logs
  kernel.h/checkpatch: mark strict_strto<foo> and simple_strto<foo> as obsolete
  llist-return-whether-list-is-empty-before-adding-in-llist_add-fix
  wireless: at76c50x: follow rename pack_hex_byte to hex_byte_pack
  fat: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  security: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  kgdb: follow rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib: rename pack_hex_byte() to hex_byte_pack()
  lib/string.c: fix strim() semantics for strings that have only blanks
  lib/idr.c: fix comment for ida_get_new_above()
  lib/percpu_counter.c: enclose hotplug only variables in hotplug ifdef
  lib/bitmap.c: quiet sparse noise about address space
  lib/spinlock_debug.c: print owner on spinlock lockup
  lib/kstrtox: common code between kstrto*() and simple_strto*() functions
  drivers/leds/leds-lp5521.c: check if reset is successful
  leds: turn the blink_timer off before starting to blink
  leds: save the delay values after a successful call to blink_set()
  drivers/leds/leds-gpio.c: use gpio_get_value_cansleep() when initializing
  drivers/leds/leds-lm3530.c: add __devexit_p where needed
  ...

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diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 661efd4dab6b..a0c5c5f4fce6 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -973,6 +973,9 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
         ignore_loglevel [KNL]
                         Ignore loglevel setting - this will print /all/
                         kernel messages to the console. Useful for debugging.
+                        We also add it as printk module parameter, so users
+                        could change it dynamically, usually by
+                        /sys/module/printk/parameters/ignore_loglevel.
 
         ihash_entries=  [KNL]
                         Set number of hash buckets for inode cache.
@@ -1666,6 +1669,11 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted.
                         debugging driver suspend/resume hooks).  This may
                         not work reliably with all consoles, but is known
                         to work with serial and VGA consoles.
+                        To facilitate more flexible debugging, we also add
+                        console_suspend, a printk module parameter to control
+                        it. Users could use console_suspend (usually
+                        /sys/module/printk/parameters/console_suspend) to
+                        turn on/off it dynamically.
 
         noaliencache    [MM, NUMA, SLAB] Disables the allocation of alien
                         caches in the slab allocator.  Saves per-node memory,