53 files changed, 316 insertions, 265 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
index 1ce5ae329c04..5210a51c90fd 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci
@@ -64,7 +64,6 @@ Description:
                 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
                 force a rescan of all PCI buses in the system, and
                 re-discover previously removed devices.
-                Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
 What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../msi_irqs/
 Date:           September, 2011
@@ -90,7 +89,6 @@ Contact:	Linux PCI developers <linux-pci@vger.kernel.org>
 Description:
                 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
                 hot-remove the PCI device and any of its children.
-                Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
 What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../pci_bus/.../rescan
 Date:           May 2011
@@ -99,7 +97,7 @@ Description:
                 Writing a non-zero value to this attribute will
                 force a rescan of the bus and all child buses,
                 and re-discover devices removed earlier from this
-                part of the device tree.  Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
+                part of the device tree.
 
 What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../rescan
 Date:           January 2009
@@ -109,7 +107,6 @@ Description:
                 force a rescan of the device's parent bus and all
                 child buses, and re-discover devices removed earlier
                 from this part of the device tree.
-                Depends on CONFIG_HOTPLUG.
 
 What:           /sys/bus/pci/devices/.../reset
 Date:           July 2009
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO
index a9f288ff54f9..27faae3e3846 100644
--- a/Documentation/HOWTO
+++ b/Documentation/HOWTO
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ required reading:
 
     Other excellent descriptions of how to create patches properly are:
         "The Perfect Patch"
-                http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
+                http://kerneltrap.org/node/3737
         "Linux kernel patch submission format"
                 http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
 
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
index dc0e33210d7e..2b7e32dfe00d 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
+++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -105,5 +105,5 @@ kernel patches.
     same time, just various/random combinations of them]:
 
     CONFIG_SMP, CONFIG_SYSFS, CONFIG_PROC_FS, CONFIG_INPUT, CONFIG_PCI,
-    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_HOTPLUG, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
+    CONFIG_BLOCK, CONFIG_PM, CONFIG_MAGIC_SYSRQ,
     CONFIG_NET, CONFIG_INET=n (but latter with CONFIG_NET=y)
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index 9f401350f502..0efd1b905b9d 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ A: When doing make defconfig, Enable CPU hotplug support
 
    "Processor type and Features" -> Support for Hotpluggable CPUs
 
-Make sure that you have CONFIG_HOTPLUG, and CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
+Make sure that you have CONFIG_SMP turned on as well.
 
 You would need to enable CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU for SMP suspend/resume support
 as well.
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
index 843751c41fea..46286460462b 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/submitting-patches
@@ -27,8 +27,7 @@ increase the chances of your change being accepted.
   explicitly below the patch header.
 
 * If your patch (or the driver) is affected by configuration options such as
-  CONFIG_SMP or CONFIG_HOTPLUG, make sure it compiles for all configuration
-  variants.
+  CONFIG_SMP, make sure it compiles for all configuration variants.
 
 
 2. Adding functionality to existing drivers
diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
index 3f429ed8b3b8..213859e69e88 100644
--- a/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kbuild/kconfig.txt
@@ -165,7 +165,7 @@ Searching in menuconfig:
         Example:
                 /hotplug
                 This lists all config symbols that contain "hotplug",
-                e.g., HOTPLUG, HOTPLUG_CPU, MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
+                e.g., HOTPLUG_CPU, MEMORY_HOTPLUG.
 
         For search help, enter / followed TAB-TAB-TAB (to highlight
         <Help>) and Enter.  This will tell you that you can also use
diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
index 4c945716a660..6424b130485c 100644
--- a/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/usb/hotplug.txt