8 files changed, 254 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index 6e9c4050a41b..8d556707bb68 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -227,6 +227,8 @@ kref.txt
         - docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
 laptop-mode.txt
         - how to conserve battery power using laptop-mode.
+laptops/
+        - directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
 ldm.txt
         - a brief description of LDM (Windows Dynamic Disks).
 leds-class.txt
@@ -351,10 +353,6 @@ sh/
         - directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture.
 smart-config.txt
         - description of the Smart Config makefile feature.
-sony-laptop.txt
-        - Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme.
-sonypi.txt
-        - info on Linux Sony Programmable I/O Device support.
 sound/
         - directory with info on sound card support.
 sparc/
@@ -385,8 +383,6 @@ sysrq.txt
         - info on the magic SysRq key.
 telephony/
         - directory with info on telephony (e.g. voice over IP) support.
-thinkpad-acpi.txt
-        - information on the (IBM and Lenovo) ThinkPad ACPI Extras driver.
 time_interpolators.txt
         - info on time interpolators.
 tipar.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index ce9503c892b5..4d3aa519eadf 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -111,15 +111,6 @@ Who:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:   CONFIG_FORCED_INLINING
-When:   June 2006
-Why:    Config option is there to see if gcc is good enough. (in january
-        2006). If it is, the behavior should just be the default. If it's not,
-        the option should just go away entirely.
-Who:    Arjan van de Ven
-
----------------------------
-
 What:   eepro100 network driver
 When:   January 2007
 Why:    replaced by the e100 driver
@@ -304,3 +295,14 @@ Why:	The support code for the old firmware hurts code readability/maintainabilit
         and slightly hurts runtime performance. Bugfixes for the old firmware
         are not provided by Broadcom anymore.
 Who:    Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   Solaris/SunOS syscall and binary support on Sparc
+When:   2.6.26
+Why:    Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused.  File system
+        layering used to divert library and dynamic linker searches to
+        /usr/gnemul is extremely buggy and unfixable.  Making it work
+        is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
+        trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
+Who:    David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX b/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..729c2c062e10
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+00-INDEX
+        - This file
+acer-wmi.txt
+        - information on the Acer Laptop WMI Extras driver.
+sony-laptop.txt
+        - Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme.
+sonypi.txt
+        - info on Linux Sony Programmable I/O Device support.
+thinkpad-acpi.txt
+        - information on the (IBM and Lenovo) ThinkPad ACPI Extras driver.
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..b06696329cff
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/acer-wmi.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,202 @@
+Acer Laptop WMI Extras Driver
+http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi
+Version 0.1
+9th February 2008
+
+Copyright 2007-2008 Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
+
+acer-wmi is a driver to allow you to control various parts of your Acer laptop
+hardware under Linux which are exposed via ACPI-WMI.
+
+This driver completely replaces the old out-of-tree acer_acpi, which I am
+currently maintaining for bug fixes only on pre-2.6.25 kernels. All development
+work is now focused solely on acer-wmi.
+
+Disclaimer
+**********
+
+Acer and Wistron have provided nothing towards the development acer_acpi or
+acer-wmi. All information we have has been through the efforts of the developers
+and the users to discover as much as possible about the hardware.
+
+As such, I do warn that this could break your hardware - this is extremely
+unlikely of course, but please bear this in mind.
+
+Background
+**********
+
+acer-wmi is derived from acer_acpi, originally developed by Mark
+Smith in 2005, then taken over by Carlos Corbacho in 2007, in order to activate
+the wireless LAN card under a 64-bit version of Linux, as acerhk[1] (the
+previous solution to the problem) relied on making 32 bit BIOS calls which are
+not possible in kernel space from a 64 bit OS.
+
+[1] acerhk: http://www.cakey.de/acerhk/
+
+Supported Hardware
+******************
+
+Please see the website for the current list of known working hardare:
+
+http://code.google.com/p/aceracpi/wiki/SupportedHardware
+
+If your laptop is not listed, or listed as unknown, and works with acer-wmi,
+please contact me with a copy of the DSDT.
+
+If your Acer laptop doesn't work with acer-wmi, I would also like to see the
+DSDT.
+
+To send me the DSDT, as root/sudo:
+
+cat /sys/firmware/acpi/DSDT > dsdt
+
+And send me the resulting 'dsdt' file.
+
+Usage
+*****
+
+On Acer laptops, acer-wmi should already be autoloaded based on DMI matching.
+For non-Acer laptops, until WMI based autoloading support is added, you will
+need to manually load acer-wmi.
+
+acer-wmi creates /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi, and fills it with various
+files whose usage is detailed below, which enables you to control some of the
+following (varies between models):
+
+* the wireless LAN card radio
+* inbuilt Bluetooth adapter
+* inbuilt 3G card
+* mail LED of your laptop
+* brightness of the LCD panel
+
+Wireless
+********
+
+With regards to wireless, all acer-wmi does is enable the radio on the card. It
+is not responsible for the wireless LED - once the radio is enabled, this is
+down to the wireless driver for your card. So the behaviour of the wireless LED,
+once you enable the radio, will depend on your hardware and driver combination.
+
+e.g. With the BCM4318 on the Acer Aspire 5020 series:
+
+ndiswrapper: Light blinks on when transmitting
+bcm43xx/b43: Solid light, blinks off when transmitting
+
+Wireless radio control is unconditionally enabled - all Acer laptops that support
+acer-wmi come with built-in wireless. However, should you feel so inclined to
+ever wish to remove the card, or swap it out at some point, please get in touch
+with me, as we may well be able to gain some data on wireless card detection.
+
+To read the status of the wireless radio (0=off, 1=on):
+cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To enable the wireless radio:
+echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To disable the wireless radio:
+echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To set the state of the wireless radio when loading acer-wmi, pass:
+wireless=X (where X is 0 or 1)
+
+Bluetooth
+*********
+
+For bluetooth, this is an internal USB dongle, so once enabled, you will get
+a USB device connection event, and a new USB device appears. When you disable
+bluetooth, you get the reverse - a USB device disconnect event, followed by the
+device disappearing again.
+
+Bluetooth is autodetected by acer-wmi, so if you do not have a bluetooth module
+installed in your laptop, this file won't exist (please be aware that it is
+quite common for Acer not to fit bluetooth to their laptops - so just because
+you have a bluetooth button on the laptop, doesn't mean that bluetooth is
+installed).
+
+For the adventurously minded - if you want to buy an internal bluetooth
+module off the internet that is compatible with your laptop and fit it, then
+it will work just fine with acer-wmi.
+
+To read the status of the bluetooth module (0=off, 1=on):
+cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/wireless
+
+To enable the bluetooth module:
+echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/bluetooth
+
+To disable the bluetooth module:
+echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/bluetooth
+
+To set the state of the bluetooth module when loading acer-wmi, pass:
+bluetooth=X (where X is 0 or 1)
+
+3G
+**
+
+3G is currently not autodetected, so the 'threeg' file is always created under
+sysfs. So far, no-one in possession of an Acer laptop with 3G built-in appears to
+have tried Linux, or reported back, so we don't have any information on this.
+
+If you have an Acer laptop that does have a 3G card in, please contact me so we
+can properly detect these, and find out a bit more about them.
+
+To read the status of the 3G card (0=off, 1=on):
+cat /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg
+
+To enable the 3G card:
+echo 1 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg
+
+To disable the 3G card:
+echo 0 > /sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/threeg
+
+To set the state of the 3G card when loading acer-wmi, pass:
+threeg=X (where X is 0 or 1)
+
+Mail LED
+********
+
+This can be found in most older Acer laptops supported by acer-wmi, and many
+newer ones - it is built into the 'mail' button, and blinks when active.
+
+On newer (WMID) laptops though, we have no way of detecting the mail LED. If
+your laptop identifies itself in dmesg as a WMID model, then please try loading
+acer_acpi with:
+
+force_series=2490
+
+This will use a known alternative method of reading/ writing the mail LED. If
+it works, please report back to me with the DMI data from your laptop so this
+can be added to acer-wmi.
+
+The LED is exposed through the LED subsystem, and can be found in:
+
+/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/leds/acer-mail:green/
+
+The mail LED is autodetected, so if you don't have one, the LED device won't
+be registered.
+
+If you have a mail LED that is not green, please report this to me.
+
+Backlight
+*********
+
+The backlight brightness control is available on all acer-wmi supported
+hardware. The maximum brightness level is usually 15, but on some newer laptops
+it's 10 (this is again autodetected).
+
+The backlight is exposed through the backlight subsystem, and can be found in:
+
+/sys/devices/platform/acer-wmi/backlight/acer-wmi/
+
+Credits
+*******
+
+Olaf Tauber, who did the real hard work when he developed acerhk
+http://www.informatik.hu-berlin.de/~tauber/acerhk
+All the authors of laptop ACPI modules in the kernel, whose work
+was an inspiration in the early days of acer_acpi
+Mathieu Segaud, who solved the problem with having to modprobe the driver
+twice in acer_acpi 0.2.
+Jim Ramsay, who added support for the WMID interface
+Mark Smith, who started the original acer_acpi
+
+And the many people who have used both acer_acpi and acer-wmi.
diff --git a/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt b/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt
index 7a5c1a81905c..8b2bc1572d98 100644
--- a/Documentation/sony-laptop.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/sony-laptop.txt
@@ -114,4 +114,3 @@ Bugs/Limitations:
   sonypi driver (through /dev/sonypi) does not try to use the
   sony-laptop driver. In the future, spicctrl could try sonypi first,
   and if it isn't present, try sony-laptop instead.
-
diff --git a/Documentation/sonypi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
index 4857acfc50f1..4857acfc50f1 100644
--- a/Documentation/sonypi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/sonypi.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 6c2477754a2a..6c2477754a2a 100644
--- a/Documentation/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
index 8984a5396271..dc8801d4e944 100644
--- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt
@@ -41,6 +41,7 @@ show up in /proc/sys/kernel:
 - pid_max
 - powersave-nap               [ PPC only ]
 - printk
+- randomize_va_space
 - real-root-dev               ==> Documentation/initrd.txt
 - reboot-cmd                  [ SPARC only ]
 - rtsig-max
@@ -280,6 +281,34 @@ send before ratelimiting kicks in.
 
 ==============================================================
 
+randomize-va-space:
+
+This option can be used to select the type of process address
+space randomization that is used in the system, for architectures
+that support this feature.
+
+0 - Turn the process address space randomization off by default.
+
+1 - Make the addresses of mmap base, stack and VDSO page randomized.
+    This, among other things, implies that shared libraries will be
+    loaded to random addresses. Also for PIE-linked binaries, the location
+    of code start is randomized.
+
+    With heap randomization, the situation is a little bit more
+    complicated.
+    There a few legacy applications out there (such as some ancient
+    versions of libc.so.5 from 1996) that assume that brk area starts
+    just after the end of the code+bss. These applications break when
+    start of the brk area is randomized. There are however no known
+    non-legacy applications that would be broken this way, so for most
+    systems it is safe to choose full randomization. However there is
+    a CONFIG_COMPAT_BRK option for systems with ancient and/or broken
+    binaries, that makes heap non-randomized, but keeps all other
+    parts of process address space randomized if randomize_va_space
+    sysctl is turned on.
+
+==============================================================
+
 reboot-cmd: (Sparc only)
 
 ??? This seems to be a way to give an argument to the Sparc