8 files changed, 485 insertions, 93 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
index 054a7ecf64c6..6a0ad4715e9f 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \
             procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \
             kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \
             gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \
-            genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml
+            genericirq.xml s390-drivers.xml uio-howto.xml scsi.xml
 
 ###
 # The build process is as follows (targets):
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
index aa38cc5692a0..059aaf20951a 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@ X!Ilib/string.c
 !Emm/vmalloc.c
 !Imm/page_alloc.c
 !Emm/mempool.c
+!Emm/dmapool.c
 !Emm/page-writeback.c
 !Emm/truncate.c
      </sect1>
@@ -371,7 +372,6 @@ X!Iinclude/linux/device.h
 !Edrivers/base/class.c
 !Edrivers/base/firmware_class.c
 !Edrivers/base/transport_class.c
-!Edrivers/base/dmapool.c
 <!-- Cannot be included, because
      attribute_container_add_class_device_adapter
  and attribute_container_classdev_to_container
@@ -419,7 +419,13 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
 
   <chapter id="blkdev">
      <title>Block Devices</title>
-!Eblock/ll_rw_blk.c
+!Eblock/blk-core.c
+!Eblock/blk-map.c
+!Iblock/blk-sysfs.c
+!Eblock/blk-settings.c
+!Eblock/blk-exec.c
+!Eblock/blk-barrier.c
+!Eblock/blk-tag.c
   </chapter>
 
   <chapter id="chrdev">
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
index 01825ee7db64..2e9d6b41f034 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-locking.tmpl
@@ -717,7 +717,7 @@ used, and when it gets full, throws out the least used one.
     <para>
 For our first example, we assume that all operations are in user
 context (ie. from system calls), so we can sleep.  This means we can
-use a semaphore to protect the cache and all the objects within
+use a mutex to protect the cache and all the objects within
 it.  Here's the code:
     </para>
 
@@ -725,7 +725,7 @@ it.  Here's the code:
 #include &lt;linux/list.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/slab.h&gt;
 #include &lt;linux/string.h&gt;
-#include &lt;asm/semaphore.h&gt;
+#include &lt;linux/mutex.h&gt;
 #include &lt;asm/errno.h&gt;
 
 struct object
@@ -737,7 +737,7 @@ struct object
 };
 
 /* Protects the cache, cache_num, and the objects within it */
-static DECLARE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
+static DEFINE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
 static LIST_HEAD(cache);
 static unsigned int cache_num = 0;
 #define MAX_CACHE_SIZE 10
@@ -789,17 +789,17 @@ int cache_add(int id, const char *name)
         obj-&gt;id = id;
         obj-&gt;popularity = 0;
 
-        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
         __cache_add(obj);
-        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
         return 0;
 }
 
 void cache_delete(int id)
 {
-        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
         __cache_delete(__cache_find(id));
-        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 }
 
 int cache_find(int id, char *name)
@@ -807,13 +807,13 @@ int cache_find(int id, char *name)
         struct object *obj;
         int ret = -ENOENT;
 
-        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
         obj = __cache_find(id);
         if (obj) {
                 ret = 0;
                 strcpy(name, obj-&gt;name);
         }
-        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
         return ret;
 }
 </programlisting>
@@ -853,7 +853,7 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
          int popularity;
  };
 
--static DECLARE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
+-static DEFINE_MUTEX(cache_lock);
 +static spinlock_t cache_lock = SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED;
  static LIST_HEAD(cache);
  static unsigned int cache_num = 0;
@@ -870,22 +870,22 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
          obj-&gt;id = id;
          obj-&gt;popularity = 0;
 
--        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          __cache_add(obj);
--        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          return 0;
  }
 
  void cache_delete(int id)
  {
--        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        unsigned long flags;
 +
 +        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          __cache_delete(__cache_find(id));
--        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
  }
 
@@ -895,14 +895,14 @@ The change is shown below, in standard patch format: the
          int ret = -ENOENT;
 +        unsigned long flags;
 
--        down(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_lock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_lock_irqsave(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          obj = __cache_find(id);
          if (obj) {
                  ret = 0;
                  strcpy(name, obj-&gt;name);
          }
--        up(&amp;cache_lock);
+-        mutex_unlock(&amp;cache_lock);
 +        spin_unlock_irqrestore(&amp;cache_lock, flags);
          return ret;
  }
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl
index 1becf27ba27e..a8b88c47e809 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/rapidio.tmpl
@@ -133,9 +133,9 @@
 !Idrivers/rapidio/rio-sysfs.c
      </sect1>
      <sect1><title>PPC32 support</title>
-!Iarch/ppc/kernel/rio.c
-!Earch/ppc/syslib/ppc85xx_rio.c
-!Iarch/ppc/syslib/ppc85xx_rio.c
+!Iarch/powerpc/kernel/rio.c
+!Earch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c
+!Iarch/powerpc/sysdev/fsl_rio.c
      </sect1>
   </chapter>
 
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
index 254e769282a4..4acc73240a6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
@@ -59,7 +59,7 @@
    <title>Introduction</title>
   <para>
     This document describes the interfaces available for device drivers that
-    drive s390 based channel attached devices. This includes interfaces for
+    drive s390 based channel attached I/O devices. This includes interfaces for
     interaction with the hardware and interfaces for interacting with the
     common driver core. Those interfaces are provided by the s390 common I/O
     layer.
@@ -86,9 +86,10 @@
         The ccw bus typically contains the majority of devices available to
         a s390 system. Named after the channel command word (ccw), the basic
         command structure used to address its devices, the ccw bus contains
-        so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via subchannels,
-        visible on the css bus. A device driver, however, will never interact
-        with the subchannel directly, but only via the device on the ccw bus,
+        so-called channel attached devices. They are addressed via I/O
+        subchannels, visible on the css bus. A device driver for
+        channel-attached devices, however, will never interact  with the
+        subchannel directly, but only via the I/O device on the ccw bus,
         the ccw device.
   </para>
     <sect1 id="channelIO">
@@ -146,4 +147,15 @@
    </sect1>
   </chapter>
 
+  <chapter id="genericinterfaces">
+   <title>Generic interfaces</title>
+  <para>
+        Some interfaces are available to other drivers that do not necessarily
+        have anything to do with the busses described above, but still are
+        indirectly using basic infrastructure in the common I/O layer.
+        One example is the support for adapter interrupts.
+  </para>
+!Edrivers/s390/cio/airq.c
+  </chapter>
+
 </book>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..f299ab182bbe
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/scsi.tmpl
@@ -0,0 +1,409 @@
+<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
+<!DOCTYPE book PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.1.2//EN"
+        "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.1.2/docbookx.dtd" []>
+
+<book id="scsimid">
+  <bookinfo>
+    <title>SCSI Interfaces Guide</title>
+
+    <authorgroup>
+      <author>
+        <firstname>James</firstname>
+        <surname>Bottomley</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address>
+            <email>James.Bottomley@steeleye.com</email>
+          </address>
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+
+      <author>
+        <firstname>Rob</firstname>
+        <surname>Landley</surname>
+        <affiliation>
+          <address>
+            <email>rob@landley.net</email>
+          </address>
+        </affiliation>
+      </author>
+
+    </authorgroup>
+
+    <copyright>
+      <year>2007</year>
+      <holder>Linux Foundation</holder>
+    </copyright>
+
+    <legalnotice>
+      <para>
+        This documentation is free software; you can redistribute
+        it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public
+        License version 2.
+      </para>
+
+      <para>
+        This program is distributed in the hope that it will be
+        useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied
+        warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.
+        For more details see the file COPYING in the source
+        distribution of Linux.
+      </para>
+    </legalnotice>
+  </bookinfo>
+
+  <toc></toc>
+
+  <chapter id="intro">
+    <title>Introduction</title>
+    <sect1 id="protocol_vs_bus">
+      <title>Protocol vs bus</title>
+      <para>
+        Once upon a time, the Small Computer Systems Interface defined both
+        a parallel I/O bus and a data protocol to connect a wide variety of
+        peripherals (disk drives, tape drives, modems, printers, scanners,
+        optical drives, test equipment, and medical devices) to a host
+        computer.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        Although the old parallel (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI bus has largely
+        fallen out of use, the SCSI command set is more widely used than ever
+        to communicate with devices over a number of different busses.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        The <ulink url='http://www.t10.org/scsi-3.htm'>SCSI protocol</ulink>
+        is a big-endian peer-to-peer packet based protocol.  SCSI commands
+        are 6, 10, 12, or 16 bytes long, often followed by an associated data
+        payload.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        SCSI commands can be transported over just about any kind of bus, and
+        are the default protocol for storage devices attached to USB, SATA,
+        SAS, Fibre Channel, FireWire, and ATAPI devices.  SCSI packets are
+        also commonly exchanged over Infiniband,
+        <ulink url='http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/faq.php'>I20</ulink>, TCP/IP
+        (<ulink url='http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISCSI'>iSCSI</ulink>), even
+        <ulink url='http://cyberelk.net/tim/parport/parscsi.html'>Parallel
+        ports</ulink>.
+      </para>
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1 id="subsystem_design">
+      <title>Design of the Linux SCSI subsystem</title>
+      <para>
+        The SCSI subsystem uses a three layer design, with upper, mid, and low
+        layers.  Every operation involving the SCSI subsystem (such as reading
+        a sector from a disk) uses one driver at each of the 3 levels: one
+        upper layer driver, one lower layer driver, and the SCSI midlayer.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        The SCSI upper layer provides the interface between userspace and the
+        kernel, in the form of block and char device nodes for I/O and
+        ioctl().  The SCSI lower layer contains drivers for specific hardware
+        devices.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        In between is the SCSI mid-layer, analogous to a network routing
+        layer such as the IPv4 stack.  The SCSI mid-layer routes a packet
+        based data protocol between the upper layer's /dev nodes and the
+        corresponding devices in the lower layer.  It manages command queues,
+        provides error handling and power management functions, and responds
+        to ioctl() requests.
+      </para>
+    </sect1>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="upper_layer">
+    <title>SCSI upper layer</title>
+    <para>
+      The upper layer supports the user-kernel interface by providing
+      device nodes.
+    </para>
+    <sect1 id="sd">
+      <title>sd (SCSI Disk)</title>
+      <para>sd (sd_mod.o)</para>
+<!-- !Idrivers/scsi/sd.c -->
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1 id="sr">
+      <title>sr (SCSI CD-ROM)</title>
+      <para>sr (sr_mod.o)</para>
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1 id="st">
+      <title>st (SCSI Tape)</title>
+      <para>st (st.o)</para>
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1 id="sg">
+      <title>sg (SCSI Generic)</title>
+      <para>sg (sg.o)</para>
+    </sect1>
+    <sect1 id="ch">
+      <title>ch (SCSI Media Changer)</title>
+      <para>ch (ch.c)</para>
+    </sect1>
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="mid_layer">
+    <title>SCSI mid layer</title>
+
+    <sect1 id="midlayer_implementation">
+      <title>SCSI midlayer implementation</title>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_device.h">
+        <title>include/scsi/scsi_device.h</title>
+        <para>
+        </para>
+!Iinclude/scsi/scsi_device.h
+      </sect2>
+
+      <sect2 id="scsi.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi.c</title>
+        <para>Main file for the SCSI midlayer.</para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsicam.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsicam.c</title>
+        <para>
+          <ulink url='http://www.t10.org/ftp/t10/drafts/cam/cam-r12b.pdf'>SCSI
+          Common Access Method</ulink> support functions, for use with
+          HDIO_GETGEO, etc.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsicam.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_error.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_error.c</title>
+        <para>Common SCSI error/timeout handling routines.</para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_error.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_devinfo.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c</title>
+        <para>
+          Manage scsi_dev_info_list, which tracks blacklisted and whitelisted
+          devices.
+        </para>
+!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_devinfo.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_ioctl.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c</title>
+        <para>
+          Handle ioctl() calls for SCSI devices.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_ioctl.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_lib.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c</title>
+        <para>
+          SCSI queuing library.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_lib.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_lib_dma.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_lib_dma.c</title>
+        <para>
+          SCSI library functions depending on DMA
+          (map and unmap scatter-gather lists).
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_lib_dma.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_module.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_module.c contains legacy support for
+          old-style host templates.  It should never be used by any new driver.
+        </para>
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_proc.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c</title>
+        <para>
+          The functions in this file provide an interface between
+          the PROC file system and the SCSI device drivers
+          It is mainly used for debugging, statistics and to pass
+          information directly to the lowlevel driver.
+
+          I.E. plumbing to manage /proc/scsi/*
+        </para>
+!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_proc.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_netlink.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c</title>
+        <para>
+          Infrastructure to provide async events from transports to userspace
+          via netlink, using a single NETLINK_SCSITRANSPORT protocol for all
+          transports.
+
+          See <ulink url='http://marc.info/?l=linux-scsi&amp;m=115507374832500&amp;w=2'>the
+          original patch submission</ulink> for more details.
+        </para>
+!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_netlink.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_scan.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c</title>
+        <para>
+          Scan a host to determine which (if any) devices are attached.
+
+          The general scanning/probing algorithm is as follows, exceptions are
+          made to it depending on device specific flags, compilation options,
+          and global variable (boot or module load time) settings.
+
+          A specific LUN is scanned via an INQUIRY command; if the LUN has a
+          device attached, a scsi_device is allocated and setup for it.
+
+          For every id of every channel on the given host, start by scanning
+          LUN 0.  Skip hosts that don't respond at all to a scan of LUN 0.
+          Otherwise, if LUN 0 has a device attached, allocate and setup a
+          scsi_device for it.  If target is SCSI-3 or up, issue a REPORT LUN,
+          and scan all of the LUNs returned by the REPORT LUN; else,
+          sequentially scan LUNs up until some maximum is reached, or a LUN is
+          seen that cannot have a device attached to it.
+        </para>
+!Idrivers/scsi/scsi_scan.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_sysctl.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_sysctl.c</title>
+        <para>
+          Set up the sysctl entry: "/dev/scsi/logging_level"
+          (DEV_SCSI_LOGGING_LEVEL) which sets/returns scsi_logging_level.
+        </para>
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_sysfs.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c</title>
+        <para>
+          SCSI sysfs interface routines.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_sysfs.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="hosts.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/hosts.c</title>
+        <para>
+          mid to lowlevel SCSI driver interface
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/hosts.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="constants.c">
+        <title>drivers/scsi/constants.c</title>
+        <para>
+          mid to lowlevel SCSI driver interface
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/constants.c
+      </sect2>
+    </sect1>
+
+    <sect1 id="Transport_classes">
+      <title>Transport classes</title>
+      <para>
+        Transport classes are service libraries for drivers in the SCSI
+        lower layer, which expose transport attributes in sysfs.
+      </para>
+      <sect2 id="Fibre_Channel_transport">
+        <title>Fibre Channel transport</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c defines transport attributes
+          for Fibre Channel.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_fc.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="iSCSI_transport">
+        <title>iSCSI transport class</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c defines transport
+          attributes for the iSCSI class, which sends SCSI packets over TCP/IP
+          connections.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_iscsi.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="SAS_transport">
+        <title>Serial Attached SCSI (SAS) transport class</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c defines transport
+          attributes for Serial Attached SCSI, a variant of SATA aimed at
+          large high-end systems.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          The SAS transport class contains common code to deal with SAS HBAs,
+          an aproximated representation of SAS topologies in the driver model,
+          and various sysfs attributes to expose these topologies and managment
+          interfaces to userspace.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          In addition to the basic SCSI core objects this transport class
+          introduces two additional intermediate objects:  The SAS PHY
+          as represented by struct sas_phy defines an "outgoing" PHY on
+          a SAS HBA or Expander, and the SAS remote PHY represented by
+          struct sas_rphy defines an "incoming" PHY on a SAS Expander or
+          end device.  Note that this is purely a software concept, the
+          underlying hardware for a PHY and a remote PHY is the exactly
+          the same.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          There is no concept of a SAS port in this code, users can see
+          what PHYs form a wide port based on the port_identifier attribute,
+          which is the same for all PHYs in a port.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_sas.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="SATA_transport">
+        <title>SATA transport class</title>
+        <para>
+          The SATA transport is handled by libata, which has its own book of
+          documentation in this directory.
+        </para>
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="SPI_transport">
+        <title>Parallel SCSI (SPI) transport class</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c defines transport
+          attributes for traditional (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI busses.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_spi.c
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="SRP_transport">
+        <title>SCSI RDMA (SRP) transport class</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c defines transport
+          attributes for SCSI over Remote Direct Memory Access.
+        </para>
+!Edrivers/scsi/scsi_transport_srp.c
+      </sect2>
+    </sect1>
+
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="lower_layer">
+    <title>SCSI lower layer</title>
+    <sect1 id="hba_drivers">
+      <title>Host Bus Adapter transport types</title>
+      <para>
+        Many modern device controllers use the SCSI command set as a protocol to
+        communicate with their devices through many different types of physical
+        connections.
+      </para>
+      <para>
+        In SCSI language a bus capable of carrying SCSI commands is
+        called a "transport", and a controller connecting to such a bus is
+        called a "host bus adapter" (HBA).
+      </para>
+      <sect2 id="scsi_debug.c">
+        <title>Debug transport</title>
+        <para>
+          The file drivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c simulates a host adapter with a
+          variable number of disks (or disk like devices) attached, sharing a
+          common amount of RAM.  Does a lot of checking to make sure that we are
+          not getting blocks mixed up, and panics the kernel if anything out of
+          the ordinary is seen.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          To be more realistic, the simulated devices have the transport
+          attributes of SAS disks.
+        </para>
+        <para>
+          For documentation see
+          <ulink url='http://www.torque.net/sg/sdebug26.html'>http://www.torque.net/sg/sdebug26.html</ulink>
+        </para>
+<!-- !Edrivers/scsi/scsi_debug.c -->
+      </sect2>
+      <sect2 id="todo">
+        <title>todo</title>
+        <para>Parallel (fast/wide/ultra) SCSI, USB, SATA,
+        SAS, Fibre Channel, FireWire, ATAPI devices, Infiniband,
+        I20, iSCSI, Parallel ports, netlink...
+        </para>
+      </sect2>
+    </sect1>
+  </chapter>
+</book>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
index c119484258b8..fdd7f4f887b7 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/uio-howto.tmpl
@@ -30,6 +30,12 @@
 
 <revhistory>
         <revision>
+        <revnumber>0.4</revnumber>
+        <date>2007-11-26</date>
+        <authorinitials>hjk</authorinitials>
+        <revremark>Removed section about uio_dummy.</revremark>
+        </revision>
+        <revision>
         <revnumber>0.3</revnumber>
         <date>2007-04-29</date>
         <authorinitials>hjk</authorinitials>
@@ -94,6 +100,26 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
         user space. This simplifies development and reduces the risk of
         serious bugs within a kernel module.
         </para>
+        <para>
+        Please note that UIO is not an universal driver interface. Devices
+        that are already handled well by other kernel subsystems (like
+        networking or serial or USB) are no candidates for an UIO driver.
+        Hardware that is ideally suited for an UIO driver fulfills all of
+        the following:
+        </para>
+<itemizedlist>
+<listitem>
+        <para>The device has memory that can be mapped. The device can be
+        controlled completely by writing to this memory.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+        <para>The device usually generates interrupts.</para>
+</listitem>
+<listitem>
+        <para>The device does not fit into one of the standard kernel
+        subsystems.</para>
+</listitem>
+</itemizedlist>
 </sect1>
 
 <sect1 id="thanks">
@@ -174,8 +200,9 @@ interested in translating it, please email me
         For cards that don't generate interrupts but need to be
         polled, there is the possibility to set up a timer that
         triggers the interrupt handler at configurable time intervals.
-        See <filename>drivers/uio/uio_dummy.c</filename> for an
-        example of this technique.
+        This interrupt simulation is done by calling
+        <function>uio_event_notify()</function>
+        from the timer's event handler.
         </para>
 
         <para>
@@ -263,63 +290,11 @@ offset = N * getpagesize();
 </sect1>
 </chapter>
 
-<chapter id="using-uio_dummy" xreflabel="Using uio_dummy">
-<?dbhtml filename="using-uio_dummy.html"?>
-<title>Using uio_dummy</title>
-        <para>
-        Well, there is no real use for uio_dummy. Its only purpose is
-        to test most parts of the UIO system (everything except
-        hardware interrupts), and to serve as an example for the
-        kernel module that you will have to write yourself.
-        </para>
-
-<sect1 id="what_uio_dummy_does">
-<title>What uio_dummy does</title>
-        <para>
-        The kernel module <filename>uio_dummy.ko</filename> creates a
-        device that uses a timer to generate periodic interrupts. The
-        interrupt handler does nothing but increment a counter. The
-        driver adds two custom attributes, <varname>count</varname>
-        and <varname>freq</varname>, that appear under
-        <filename>/sys/devices/platform/uio_dummy/</filename>.
-        </para>
-
-        <para>
-        The attribute <varname>count</varname> can be read and
-        written.  The associated file
-        <filename>/sys/devices/platform/uio_dummy/count</filename>
-        appears as a normal text file and contains the total number of
-        timer interrupts. If you look at it (e.g. using
-        <function>cat</function>), you'll notice it is slowly counting
-        up.
-        </para>
-
-        <para>
-        The attribute <varname>freq</varname> can be read and written.
-        The content of
-        <filename>/sys/devices/platform/uio_dummy/freq</filename>
-        represents the number of system timer ticks between two timer
-        interrupts. The default value of <varname>freq</varname> is
-        the value of the kernel variable <varname>HZ</varname>, which
-        gives you an interval of one second. Lower values will
-        increase the frequency. Try the following:
-        </para>
-<programlisting format="linespecific">
-cd /sys/devices/platform/uio_dummy/
-echo 100 > freq
-</programlisting>
-        <para>
-        Use <function>cat count</function> to see how the interrupt
-        frequency changes.
-        </para>
-</sect1>
-</chapter>
-
 <chapter id="custom_kernel_module" xreflabel="Writing your own kernel module">
 <?dbhtml filename="custom_kernel_module.html"?>
 <title>Writing your own kernel module</title>
         <para>
-        Please have a look at <filename>uio_dummy.c</filename> as an
+        Please have a look at <filename>uio_cif.c</filename> as an
         example. The following paragraphs explain the different
         sections of this file.
         </para>
@@ -354,9 +329,8 @@ See the description below for details.
 interrupt, it's your modules task to determine the irq number during
 initialization. If you don't have a hardware generated interrupt but
 want to trigger the interrupt handler in some other way, set
-<varname>irq</varname> to <varname>UIO_IRQ_CUSTOM</varname>. The
-uio_dummy module does this as it triggers the event mechanism in a timer
-routine. If you had no interrupt at all, you could set
+<varname>irq</varname> to <varname>UIO_IRQ_CUSTOM</varname>.
+If you had no interrupt at all, you could set
 <varname>irq</varname> to <varname>UIO_IRQ_NONE</varname>, though this
 rarely makes sense.
 </para></listitem>
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl
index b629da33951d..b3d93ee27693 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/videobook.tmpl
@@ -96,7 +96,6 @@ static struct video_device my_radio
 {
         "My radio",
         VID_TYPE_TUNER,
-        VID_HARDWARE_MYRADIO,
         radio_open.
         radio_close,
         NULL,                /* no read */
@@ -119,13 +118,6 @@ static struct video_device my_radio
         way to change channel so it is tuneable.
   </para>
   <para>
-        The VID_HARDWARE_ types are unique to each device. Numbers are assigned by
-        <email>alan@redhat.com</email> when device drivers are going to be released. Until then you
-        can pull a suitably large number out of your hat and use it. 10000 should be
-        safe for a very long time even allowing for the huge number of vendors
-        making new and different radio cards at the moment.
-  </para>
-  <para>
         We declare an open and close routine, but we do not need read or write,
         which are used to read and write video data to or from the card itself. As
         we have no read or write there is no poll function.
@@ -844,7 +836,6 @@ static struct video_device my_camera
         "My Camera",
         VID_TYPE_OVERLAY|VID_TYPE_SCALES|\
         VID_TYPE_CAPTURE|VID_TYPE_CHROMAKEY,
-        VID_HARDWARE_MYCAMERA,
         camera_open.
         camera_close,
         camera_read,      /* no read */