28 files changed, 1282 insertions, 861 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..1b629622d883
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394_legacy_isochronous
@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+What:           legacy isochronous ABI of raw1394 (1st generation iso ABI)
+Date:           June 2007 (scheduled), removed in kernel v2.6.23
+Contact:        linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+Description:
+        The two request types RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN have
+        been deprecated for quite some time.  They are very inefficient as they
+        come with high interrupt load and several layers of callbacks for each
+        packet.  Because of these deficiencies, the video1394 and dv1394 drivers
+        and the 3rd-generation isochronous ABI in raw1394 (rawiso) were created.
+
+Users:
+        libraw1394 users via the long deprecated API raw1394_iso_write,
+        raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv, raw1394_stop_iso_rcv
+
+        libdc1394, which optionally uses these old libraw1394 calls
+        alternatively to the more efficient video1394 ABI
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
index 028614cdd062..e07f2530326b 100644
--- a/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt
@@ -664,109 +664,6 @@ It is that simple.
 Well, not for some odd devices.  See the next section for information
 about that.
 
-        DAC Addressing for Address Space Hungry Devices
-
-There exists a class of devices which do not mesh well with the PCI
-DMA mapping API.  By definition these "mappings" are a finite
-resource.  The number of total available mappings per bus is platform
-specific, but there will always be a reasonable amount.
-
-What is "reasonable"?  Reasonable means that networking and block I/O
-devices need not worry about using too many mappings.
-
-As an example of a problematic device, consider compute cluster cards.
-They can potentially need to access gigabytes of memory at once via
-DMA.  Dynamic mappings are unsuitable for this kind of access pattern.
-
-To this end we've provided a small API by which a device driver
-may use DAC cycles to directly address all of physical memory.
-Not all platforms support this, but most do.  It is easy to determine
-whether the platform will work properly at probe time.
-
-First, understand that there may be a SEVERE performance penalty for
-using these interfaces on some platforms.  Therefore, you MUST only
-use these interfaces if it is absolutely required.  %99 of devices can
-use the normal APIs without any problems.
-
-Note that for streaming type mappings you must either use these
-interfaces, or the dynamic mapping interfaces above.  You may not mix
-usage of both for the same device.  Such an act is illegal and is
-guaranteed to put a banana in your tailpipe.
-
-However, consistent mappings may in fact be used in conjunction with
-these interfaces.  Remember that, as defined, consistent mappings are
-always going to be SAC addressable.
-
-The first thing your driver needs to do is query the PCI platform
-layer if it is capable of handling your devices DAC addressing
-capabilities:
-
-        int pci_dac_dma_supported(struct pci_dev *hwdev, u64 mask);
-
-You may not use the following interfaces if this routine fails.
-
-Next, DMA addresses using this API are kept track of using the
-dma64_addr_t type.  It is guaranteed to be big enough to hold any
-DAC address the platform layer will give to you from the following
-routines.  If you have consistent mappings as well, you still
-use plain dma_addr_t to keep track of those.
-
-All mappings obtained here will be direct.  The mappings are not
-translated, and this is the purpose of this dialect of the DMA API.
-
-All routines work with page/offset pairs.  This is the _ONLY_ way to 
-portably refer to any piece of memory.  If you have a cpu pointer
-(which may be validly DMA'd too) you may easily obtain the page
-and offset using something like this:
-
-        struct page *page = virt_to_page(ptr);
-        unsigned long offset = offset_in_page(ptr);
-
-Here are the interfaces:
-
-        dma64_addr_t pci_dac_page_to_dma(struct pci_dev *pdev,
-                                         struct page *page,
-                                         unsigned long offset,
-                                         int direction);
-
-The DAC address for the tuple PAGE/OFFSET are returned.  The direction
-argument is the same as for pci_{map,unmap}_single().  The same rules
-for cpu/device access apply here as for the streaming mapping
-interfaces.  To reiterate:
-
-        The cpu may touch the buffer before pci_dac_page_to_dma.
-        The device may touch the buffer after pci_dac_page_to_dma
-        is made, but the cpu may NOT.
-
-When the DMA transfer is complete, invoke:
-
-        void pci_dac_dma_sync_single_for_cpu(struct pci_dev *pdev,
-                                             dma64_addr_t dma_addr,
-                                             size_t len, int direction);
-
-This must be done before the CPU looks at the buffer again.
-This interface behaves identically to pci_dma_sync_{single,sg}_for_cpu().
-
-And likewise, if you wish to let the device get back at the buffer after
-the cpu has read/written it, invoke:
-
-        void pci_dac_dma_sync_single_for_device(struct pci_dev *pdev,
-                                                dma64_addr_t dma_addr,
-                                                size_t len, int direction);
-
-before letting the device access the DMA area again.
-
-If you need to get back to the PAGE/OFFSET tuple from a dma64_addr_t
-the following interfaces are provided:
-
-        struct page *pci_dac_dma_to_page(struct pci_dev *pdev,
-                                         dma64_addr_t dma_addr);
-        unsigned long pci_dac_dma_to_offset(struct pci_dev *pdev,
-                                            dma64_addr_t dma_addr);
-
-This is possible with the DAC interfaces purely because they are
-not translated in any way.
-
                 Optimizing Unmap State Space Consumption
 
 On many platforms, pci_unmap_{single,page}() is simply a nop.
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
index 38f88b6ae405..46bcff2849bd 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl
@@ -643,4 +643,70 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c
 !Edrivers/spi/spi.c
   </chapter>
 
+  <chapter id="i2c">
+     <title>I<superscript>2</superscript>C and SMBus Subsystem</title>
+
+     <para>
+        I<superscript>2</superscript>C (or without fancy typography, "I2C")
+        is an acronym for the "Inter-IC" bus, a simple bus protocol which is
+        widely used where low data rate communications suffice.
+        Since it's also a licensed trademark, some vendors use another
+        name (such as "Two-Wire Interface", TWI) for the same bus.
+        I2C only needs two signals (SCL for clock, SDA for data), conserving
+        board real estate and minimizing signal quality issues.
+        Most I2C devices use seven bit addresses, and bus speeds of up
+        to 400 kHz; there's a high speed extension (3.4 MHz) that's not yet
+        found wide use.
+        I2C is a multi-master bus; open drain signaling is used to
+        arbitrate between masters, as well as to handshake and to
+        synchronize clocks from slower clients.
+     </para>
+
+     <para>
+        The Linux I2C programming interfaces support only the master
+        side of bus interactions, not the slave side.
+        The programming interface is structured around two kinds of driver,
+        and two kinds of device.
+        An I2C "Adapter Driver" abstracts the controller hardware; it binds
+        to a physical device (perhaps a PCI device or platform_device) and
+        exposes a <structname>struct i2c_adapter</structname> representing
+        each I2C bus segment it manages.
+        On each I2C bus segment will be I2C devices represented by a
+        <structname>struct i2c_client</structname>.  Those devices will
+        be bound to a <structname>struct i2c_driver</structname>,
+        which should follow the standard Linux driver model.
+        (At this writing, a legacy model is more widely used.)
+        There are functions to perform various I2C protocol operations; at
+        this writing all such functions are usable only from task context.
+     </para>
+
+     <para>
+        The System Management Bus (SMBus) is a sibling protocol.  Most SMBus
+        systems are also I2C conformant.  The electrical constraints are
+        tighter for SMBus, and it standardizes particular protocol messages
+        and idioms.  Controllers that support I2C can also support most
+        SMBus operations, but SMBus controllers don't support all the protocol
+        options that an I2C controller will.
+        There are functions to perform various SMBus protocol operations,
+        either using I2C primitives or by issuing SMBus commands to
+        i2c_adapter devices which don't support those I2C operations.
+     </para>
+
+!Iinclude/linux/i2c.h
+!Fdrivers/i2c/i2c-boardinfo.c i2c_register_board_info
+!Edrivers/i2c/i2c-core.c
+  </chapter>
+
+  <chapter id="splice">
+      <title>splice API</title>
+  <para>)
+        splice is a method for moving blocks of data around inside the
+        kernel, without continually transferring it between the kernel
+        and user space.
+  </para>
+!Iinclude/linux/splice.h
+!Ffs/splice.c
+  </chapter>
+
+
 </book>
diff --git a/Documentation/blackfin/kgdb.txt b/Documentation/blackfin/kgdb.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..84f6a484ae9a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/blackfin/kgdb.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+                        A Simple Guide to Configure KGDB
+
+                        Sonic Zhang <sonic.zhang@analog.com>
+                                Aug. 24th 2006
+
+
+This KGDB patch enables the kernel developer to do source level debugging on
+the kernel for the Blackfin architecture.  The debugging works over either the
+ethernet interface or one of the uarts.  Both software breakpoints and
+hardware breakpoints are supported in this version.
+http://docs.blackfin.uclinux.org/doku.php?id=kgdb
+
+
+2 known issues:
+1. This bug:
+       http://blackfin.uclinux.org/tracker/index.php?func=detail&aid=544&group_id=18&atid=145
+   The GDB client for Blackfin uClinux causes incorrect values of local
+   variables to be displayed when the user breaks the running of kernel in GDB.
+2. Because of a hardware bug in Blackfin 533 v1.0.3:
+       05000067 - Watchpoints (Hardware Breakpoints) are not supported
+   Hardware breakpoints cannot be set properly.
+
+
+Debug over Ethernet:
+ 
+1. Compile and install the cross platform version of gdb for blackfin, which
+   can be found at $(BINROOT)/bfin-elf-gdb.
+
+2. Apply this patch to the 2.6.x kernel.  Select the menuconfig option under
+   "Kernel hacking" -> "Kernel debugging" -> "KGDB: kernel debug with remote gdb".
+   With this selected, option "Full Symbolic/Source Debugging support" and 
+   "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" are also selected.
+
+3. Select option "KGDB: connect over (Ethernet)".  Add "kgdboe=@target-IP/,@host-IP/" to
+   the option "Compiled-in Kernel Boot Parameter" under "Kernel hacking".
+
+4. Connect minicom to the serial port and boot the kernel image.
+
+5. Configure the IP "/> ifconfig eth0 target-IP"
+
+6. Start GDB client "bfin-elf-gdb vmlinux".
+
+7. Connect to the target "(gdb) target remote udp:target-IP:6443".
+
+8. Set software breakpoint "(gdb) break sys_open".
+
+9. Continue "(gdb) c".
+
+10. Run ls in the target console "/> ls".
+
+11. Breakpoint hits. "Breakpoint 1: sys_open(..."
+
+12. Display local variables and function paramters.
+    (*) This operation gives wrong results, see known issue 1.
+
+13. Single stepping "(gdb) si".
+
+14. Remove breakpoint 1. "(gdb) del 1"
+
+15. Set hardware breakpoint "(gdb) hbreak sys_open".
+
+16. Continue "(gdb) c".
+
+17. Run ls in the target console "/> ls".
+
+18. Hardware breakpoint hits. "Breakpoint 1: sys_open(...".
+    (*) This hardware breakpoint will not be hit, see known issue 2.
+
+19. Continue "(gdb) c".
+
+20. Interrupt the target in GDB "Ctrl+C".
+
+21. Detach from the target "(gdb) detach".
+
+22. Exit GDB "(gdb) quit".
+
+
+Debug over the UART:
+
+1. Compile and install the cross platform version of gdb for blackfin, which
+   can be found at $(BINROOT)/bfin-elf-gdb.
+
+2. Apply this patch to the 2.6.x kernel.  Select the menuconfig option under
+   "Kernel hacking" -> "Kernel debugging" -> "KGDB: kernel debug with remote gdb".
+   With this selected, option "Full Symbolic/Source Debugging support" and 
+   "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" are also selected.
+
+3. Select option "KGDB: connect over (UART)".  Set "KGDB: UART port number" to be
+   a different one from the console.  Don't forget to change the mode of
+   blackfin serial driver to PIO.  Otherwise kgdb works incorrectly on UART.
+ 
+4. If you want connect to kgdb when the kernel boots, enable
+   "KGDB: Wait for gdb connection early" 
+
+5. Compile kernel.
+
+6. Connect minicom to the serial port of the console and boot the kernel image.
+
+7. Start GDB client "bfin-elf-gdb vmlinux".
+
+8. Set the baud rate in GDB "(gdb) set remotebaud 57600".
+
+9. Connect to the target on the second serial port "(gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS1".
+
+10. Set software breakpoint "(gdb) break sys_open".
+
+11. Continue "(gdb) c". 
+
+12. Run ls in the target console "/> ls". 
+
+13. A breakpoint is hit. "Breakpoint 1: sys_open(..."
+
+14. All other operations are the same as that in KGDB over Ethernet. 
+
+
+Debug over the same UART as console:
+
+1. Compile and install the cross platform version of gdb for blackfin, which
+   can be found at $(BINROOT)/bfin-elf-gdb.
+
+2. Apply this patch to the 2.6.x kernel.  Select the menuconfig option under
+   "Kernel hacking" -> "Kernel debugging" -> "KGDB: kernel debug with remote gdb".
+   With this selected, option "Full Symbolic/Source Debugging support" and 
+   "Compile the kernel with frame pointers" are also selected.
+
+3. Select option "KGDB: connect over UART".  Set "KGDB: UART port number" to console.
+   Don't forget to change the mode of blackfin serial driver to PIO.
+   Otherwise kgdb works incorrectly on UART.
+ 
+4. If you want connect to kgdb when the kernel boots, enable
+   "KGDB: Wait for gdb connection early" 
+
+5. Connect minicom to the serial port and boot the kernel image. 
+
+6. (Optional) Ask target to wait for gdb connection by entering Ctrl+A. In minicom, you should enter Ctrl+A+A.
+
+7. Start GDB client "bfin-elf-gdb vmlinux".
+
+8. Set the baud rate in GDB "(gdb) set remotebaud 57600".
+
+9. Connect to the target "(gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0".
+
+10. Set software breakpoint "(gdb) break sys_open".
+
+11. Continue "(gdb) c". Then enter Ctrl+C twice to stop GDB connection.
+
+12. Run ls in the target console "/> ls". Dummy string can be seen on the console.
+
+13. Then connect the gdb to target again. "(gdb) target remote /dev/ttyS0".
+    Now you will find a breakpoint is hit. "Breakpoint 1: sys_open(..."
+
+14. All other operations are the same as that in KGDB over Ethernet.  The only
+    difference is that after continue command in GDB, please stop GDB
+    connection by 2 "Ctrl+C"s and connect again after breakpoints are hit or
+    Ctrl+A is entered.
diff --git a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt
index a272c3db8094..7d279f2f5bb2 100644
--- a/Documentation/block/barrier.txt
+++ b/Documentation/block/barrier.txt
@@ -82,23 +82,12 @@ including draining and flushing.
 typedef void (prepare_flush_fn)(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq);
 
 int blk_queue_ordered(request_queue_t *q, unsigned ordered,
-                      prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn,
-                      unsigned gfp_mask);
-
-int blk_queue_ordered_locked(request_queue_t *q, unsigned ordered,
-                             prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn,
-                             unsigned gfp_mask);
-
-The only difference between the two functions is whether or not the
-caller is holding q->queue_lock on entry.  The latter expects the
-caller is holding the lock.
+                      prepare_flush_fn *prepare_flush_fn);
 
 @q                      : the queue in question
 @ordered                : the ordered mode the driver/device supports
 @prepare_flush_fn       : this function should prepare @rq such that it
                           flushes cache to physical medium when executed
-@gfp_mask               : gfp_mask used when allocating data structures
-                          for ordered processing
 
 For example, SCSI disk driver's prepare_flush_fn looks like the
 following.
@@ -106,9 +95,10 @@ following.
 static void sd_prepare_flush(request_queue_t *q, struct request *rq)
 {
         memset(rq->cmd, 0, sizeof(rq->cmd));
-        rq->flags |= REQ_BLOCK_PC;
+        rq->cmd_type = REQ_TYPE_BLOCK_PC;
         rq->timeout = SD_TIMEOUT;
         rq->cmd[0] = SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE;
+        rq->cmd_len = 10;
 }
 
 The following seven ordered modes are supported.  The following table
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 7d3f205b0ba5..0599a0c7c026 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -49,16 +49,6 @@ Who:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:   raw1394: requests of type RAW1394_REQ_ISO_SEND, RAW1394_REQ_ISO_LISTEN
-When:   June 2007
-Why:    Deprecated in favour of the more efficient and robust rawiso interface.
-        Affected are applications which use the deprecated part of libraw1394
-        (raw1394_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_write, raw1394_start_iso_rcv,
-        raw1394_stop_iso_rcv) or bypass libraw1394.
-Who:    Dan Dennedy <dan@dennedy.org>, Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:   old NCR53C9x driver
 When:   October 2007
 Why:    Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
@@ -258,14 +248,6 @@ Who:	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:   sk98lin network driver
-When:   July 2007
-Why:    In kernel tree version of driver is unmaintained. Sk98lin driver
-        replaced by the skge driver. 
-Who:    Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:   Compaq touchscreen device emulation
 When:   Oct 2007
 Files:  drivers/input/tsdev.c
@@ -280,25 +262,6 @@ Who:	Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
 
 ---------------------------
 
-What:   Multipath cached routing support in ipv4
-When:   in 2.6.23
-Why:    Code was merged, then submitter immediately disappeared leaving
-        us with no maintainer and lots of bugs.  The code should not have
-        been merged in the first place, and many aspects of it's
-        implementation are blocking more critical core networking
-        development.  It's marked EXPERIMENTAL and no distribution
-        enables it because it cause obscure crashes due to unfixable bugs
-        (interfaces don't return errors so memory allocation can't be
-        handled, calling contexts of these interfaces make handling
-        errors impossible too because they get called after we've
-        totally commited to creating a route object, for example).
-        This problem has existed for years and no forward progress
-        has ever been made, and nobody steps up to try and salvage
-        this code, so we're going to finally just get rid of it.
-Who:    David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
-
----------------------------
-
 What:   read_dev_chars(), read_conf_data{,_lpm}() (s390 common I/O layer)
 When:   December 2007
 Why:    These functions are a leftover from 2.4 times. They have several
@@ -348,3 +311,18 @@ Who:  Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
+What:   Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips)
+When:   November 2007
+Why:    Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers.
+Who:    Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:   iptables SAME target
+When:   1.1. 2008
+Files:  net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h
+Why:    Obsolete for multiple years now, NAT core provides the same behaviour.
+        Unfixable broken wrt. 32/64 bit cleanness.
+Who:    Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
+
+---------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c b/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c
index 4994f1f28f8c..fba943aacf93 100644
--- a/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c
+++ b/Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_firmware_class.c
@@ -78,6 +78,7 @@ static CLASS_DEVICE_ATTR(loading, 0644,
                          firmware_loading_show, firmware_loading_store);
 
 static ssize_t firmware_data_read(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                  struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
                                   char *buffer, loff_t offset, size_t count)
 {
         struct class_device *class_dev = to_class_dev(kobj);
@@ -88,6 +89,7 @@ static ssize_t firmware_data_read(struct kobject *kobj,
         return count;
 }
 static ssize_t firmware_data_write(struct kobject *kobj,
+                                   struct bin_attribute *bin_attr,
                                    char *buffer, loff_t offset, size_t count)
 {
         struct class_device *class_dev = to_class_dev(kobj);
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801
index c34f0db78a30..fe6406f2f9a6 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801
@@ -5,8 +5,8 @@ Supported adapters:
     '810' and '810E' chipsets)
   * Intel 82801BA (ICH2 - part of the '815E' chipset)
   * Intel 82801CA/CAM (ICH3)
-  * Intel 82801DB (ICH4) (HW PEC supported, 32 byte buffer not supported)
-  * Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) (HW PEC supported, 32 byte buffer not supported)
+  * Intel 82801DB (ICH4) (HW PEC supported)
+  * Intel 82801EB/ER (ICH5) (HW PEC supported)
   * Intel 6300ESB
   * Intel 82801FB/FR/FW/FRW (ICH6)
   * Intel 82801G (ICH7)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
index 7cbe43fa2701..fa0c786a8bf5 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-piix4
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Supported adapters:
     Datasheet: Publicly available at the Intel website
   * ServerWorks OSB4, CSB5, CSB6 and HT-1000 southbridges
     Datasheet: Only available via NDA from ServerWorks
-  * ATI IXP200, IXP300, IXP400 and SB600 southbridges
+  * ATI IXP200, IXP300, IXP400, SB600 and SB700 southbridges
     Datasheet: Not publicly available
   * Standard Microsystems (SMSC) SLC90E66 (Victory66) southbridge
     Datasheet: Publicly available at the SMSC website http://www.smsc.com
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-taos-evm b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-taos-evm
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9146e33be6dd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-taos-evm
@@ -0,0 +1,46 @@
+Kernel driver i2c-taos-evm
+
+Author: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+This is a driver for the evaluation modules for TAOS I2C/SMBus chips.
+The modules include an SMBus master with limited capabilities, which can
+be controlled over the serial port. Virtually all evaluation modules
+are supported, but a few lines of code need to be added for each new
+module to instantiate the right I2C chip on the bus. Obviously, a driver
+for the chip in question is also needed.
+
+Currently supported devices are:
+
+* TAOS TSL2550 EVM
+
+For addtional information on TAOS products, please see
+  http://www.taosinc.com/
+
+
+Using this driver
+-----------------
+
+In order to use this driver, you'll need the serport driver, and the
+inputattach tool, which is part of the input-utils package. The following
+commands will tell the kernel that you have a TAOS EVM on the first
+serial port:
+
+# modprobe serport
+# inputattach --taos-evm /dev/ttyS0
+
+
+Technical details
+-----------------
+
+Only 4 SMBus transaction types are supported by the TAOS evaluation
+modules:
+* Receive Byte
+* Send Byte
+* Read Byte
+* Write Byte
+
+The communication protocol is text-based and pretty simple. It is
+described in a PDF document on the CD which comes with the evaluation
+module. The communication is rather slow, because the serial port has
+to operate at 1200 bps. However, I don't think this is a big concern in
+practice, as these modules are meant for evaluation and testing only.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875 b/Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875
index 96fec562a8e9..a0cd8af2f408 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@ And then read the data
 
   or
 
-  count = i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(fd, 0x84, buffer);
+  count = i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(fd, 0x84, 16, buffer);
 
 The block read should read 16 bytes.
 0x84 is the block read command.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/x1205 b/Documentation/i2c/chips/x1205
deleted file mode 100644
index 09407c991fe5..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/i2c/chips/x1205
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,38 +0,0 @@
-Kernel driver x1205
-===================
-
-Supported chips:
-  * Xicor X1205 RTC
-    Prefix: 'x1205'
-    Addresses scanned: none
-    Datasheet: http://www.intersil.com/cda/deviceinfo/0,1477,X1205,00.html
-
-Authors:
-        Karen Spearel <kas11@tampabay.rr.com>,
-        Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
-
-Description
------------
-
-This module aims to provide complete access to the Xicor X1205 RTC.
-Recently Xicor has merged with Intersil, but the chip is
-still sold under the Xicor brand.
-
-This chip is located at address 0x6f and uses a 2-byte register addressing.
-Two bytes need to be written to read a single register, while most
-other chips just require one and take the second one as the data
-to be written. To prevent corrupting unknown chips, the user must
-explicitely set the probe parameter.
-
-example:
-
-modprobe x1205 probe=0,0x6f
-
-The module supports one more option, hctosys, which is used to set the
-software clock from the x1205. On systems where the x1205 is the
-only hardware rtc, this parameter could be used to achieve a correct
-date/time earlier in the system boot sequence.
-
-example:
-
-modprobe x1205 probe=0,0x6f hctosys=1
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/summary b/Documentation/i2c/summary
index aea60bf7e8f0..003c7319b8c7 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/summary
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/summary
@@ -67,7 +67,6 @@ i2c-proc: The /proc/sys/dev/sensors interface for device (client) drivers
 Algorithm drivers
 -----------------
 
-i2c-algo-8xx:    An algorithm for CPM's I2C device in Motorola 8xx processors (NOT BUILT BY DEFAULT)
 i2c-algo-bit:    A bit-banging algorithm
 i2c-algo-pcf:    A PCF 8584 style algorithm
 i2c-algo-ibm_ocp: An algorithm for the I2C device in IBM 4xx processors (NOT BUILT BY DEFAULT)
@@ -81,6 +80,5 @@ i2c-pcf-epp:     PCF8584 on a EPP parallel port (uses i2c-algo-pcf) (NOT mkpatch
 i2c-philips-par: Philips style parallel port adapter (uses i2c-algo-bit)
 i2c-adap-ibm_ocp: IBM 4xx processor I2C device (uses i2c-algo-ibm_ocp) (NOT BUILT BY DEFAULT)
 i2c-pport:       Primitive parallel port adapter (uses i2c-algo-bit)
-i2c-rpx:         RPX board Motorola 8xx I2C device (uses i2c-algo-8xx) (NOT BUILT BY DEFAULT)
 i2c-velleman:    Velleman K8000 parallel port adapter (uses i2c-algo-bit)
 
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 3d8d36b0ad12..2c170032bf37 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -571,7 +571,7 @@ SMBus communication
                                         u8 command, u8 length,
                                         u8 *values);
   extern s32 i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(struct i2c_client * client,
-                                           u8 command, u8 *values);
+                                           u8 command, u8 length, u8 *values);
 
 These ones were removed in Linux 2.6.10 because they had no users, but could
 be added back later if needed:
diff --git a/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt b/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt
index c04a421f4a7c..75b3680c41eb 100644
--- a/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt
+++ b/Documentation/i386/zero-page.txt
@@ -37,6 +37,7 @@ Offset	Type		Description
 0x1d0   unsigned long   EFI memory descriptor map pointer
 0x1d4   unsigned long   EFI memory descriptor map size
 0x1e0   unsigned long   ALT_MEM_K, alternative mem check, in Kb
+0x1e4   unsigned long   Scratch field for the kernel setup code
 0x1e8   char            number of entries in E820MAP (below)
 0x1e9   unsigned char   number of entries in EDDBUF (below)
 0x1ea   unsigned char   number of entries in EDD_MBR_SIG_BUFFER (below)
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index af50f9bbe68e..4d880b3d1f35 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -1014,49 +1014,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
 
         mga=            [HW,DRM]
 
-        migration_cost=
-                        [KNL,SMP] debug: override scheduler migration costs
-                        Format: <level-1-usecs>,<level-2-usecs>,...
-                        This debugging option can be used to override the
-                        default scheduler migration cost matrix. The numbers
-                        are indexed by 'CPU domain distance'.
-                        E.g. migration_cost=1000,2000,3000 on an SMT NUMA
-                        box will set up an intra-core migration cost of
-                        1 msec, an inter-core migration cost of 2 msecs,
-                        and an inter-node migration cost of 3 msecs.
-
-                        WARNING: using the wrong values here can break
-                        scheduler performance, so it's only for scheduler
-                        development purposes, not production environments.
-
-        migration_debug=
-                        [KNL,SMP] migration cost auto-detect verbosity
-                        Format=<0|1|2>
-                        If a system's migration matrix reported at bootup
-                        seems erroneous then this option can be used to
-                        increase verbosity of the detection process.
-                        We default to 0 (no extra messages), 1 will print
-                        some more information, and 2 will be really
-                        verbose (probably only useful if you also have a
-                        serial console attached to the system).
-
-        migration_factor=
-                        [KNL,SMP] multiply/divide migration costs by a factor
-                        Format=<percent>
-                        This debug option can be used to proportionally
-                        increase or decrease the auto-detected migration
-                        costs for all entries of the migration matrix.
-                        E.g. migration_factor=150 will increase migration
-                        costs by 50%. (and thus the scheduler will be less
-                        eager migrating cache-hot tasks)
-                        migration_factor=80 will decrease migration costs
-                        by 20%. (thus the scheduler will be more eager to
-                        migrate tasks)
-
-                        WARNING: using the wrong values here can break
-                        scheduler performance, so it's only for scheduler
-                        development purposes, not production environments.
-
         mousedev.tap_time=
                         [MOUSE] Maximum time between finger touching and
                         leaving touchpad surface for touch to be considered
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
index 153d84d281e6..d63f480afb74 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/networking/00-INDEX
@@ -96,9 +96,6 @@ routing.txt
         - the new routing mechanism
 shaper.txt
         - info on the module that can shape/limit transmitted traffic.
-sk98lin.txt
-        - Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx compliant Gigabit
-          Ethernet Adapter family driver info
 skfp.txt
         - SysKonnect FDDI (SK-5xxx, Compaq Netelligent) driver info.
 smc9.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index af6a63ab9026..09c184e41cf8 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -874,8 +874,7 @@ accept_redirects - BOOLEAN
 accept_source_route - INTEGER
         Accept source routing (routing extension header).
 
-        > 0: Accept routing header.
-        = 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
+        >= 0: Accept only routing header type 2.
         < 0: Do not accept routing header.
 
         Default: 0
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt b/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..2451f551c505
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/l2tp.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,169 @@
+This brief document describes how to use the kernel's PPPoL2TP driver
+to provide L2TP functionality. L2TP is a protocol that tunnels one or
+more PPP sessions over a UDP tunnel. It is commonly used for VPNs
+(L2TP/IPSec) and by ISPs to tunnel subscriber PPP sessions over an IP
+network infrastructure.
+
+Design
+======
+
+The PPPoL2TP driver, drivers/net/pppol2tp.c, provides a mechanism by
+which PPP frames carried through an L2TP session are passed through
+the kernel's PPP subsystem. The standard PPP daemon, pppd, handles all
+PPP interaction with the peer. PPP network interfaces are created for
+each local PPP endpoint.
+
+The L2TP protocol http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc2661.html defines L2TP
+control and data frames. L2TP control frames carry messages between
+L2TP clients/servers and are used to setup / teardown tunnels and
+sessions. An L2TP client or server is implemented in userspace and
+will use a regular UDP socket per tunnel. L2TP data frames carry PPP
+frames, which may be PPP control or PPP data. The kernel's PPP
+subsystem arranges for PPP control frames to be delivered to pppd,
+while data frames are forwarded as usual.
+
+Each tunnel and session within a tunnel is assigned a unique tunnel_id
+and session_id. These ids are carried in the L2TP header of every
+control and data packet. The pppol2tp driver uses them to lookup
+internal tunnel and/or session contexts. Zero tunnel / session ids are
+treated specially - zero ids are never assigned to tunnels or sessions
+in the network. In the driver, the tunnel context keeps a pointer to
+the tunnel UDP socket. The session context keeps a pointer to the
+PPPoL2TP socket, as well as other data that lets the driver interface
+to the kernel PPP subsystem.
+
+Note that the pppol2tp kernel driver handles only L2TP data frames;
+L2TP control frames are simply passed up to userspace in the UDP
+tunnel socket. The kernel handles all datapath aspects of the
+protocol, including data packet resequencing (if enabled).
+
+There are a number of requirements on the userspace L2TP daemon in
+order to use the pppol2tp driver.
+
+1. Use a UDP socket per tunnel.
+
+2. Create a single PPPoL2TP socket per tunnel bound to a special null
+   session id. This is used only for communicating with the driver but
+   must remain open while the tunnel is active. Opening this tunnel
+   management socket causes the driver to mark the tunnel socket as an
+   L2TP UDP encapsulation socket and flags it for use by the
+   referenced tunnel id. This hooks up the UDP receive path via
+   udp_encap_rcv() in net/ipv4/udp.c. PPP data frames are never passed
+   in this special PPPoX socket.
+
+3. Create a PPPoL2TP socket per L2TP session. This is typically done
+   by starting pppd with the pppol2tp plugin and appropriate
+   arguments. A PPPoL2TP tunnel management socket (Step 2) must be
+   created before the first PPPoL2TP session socket is created.
+
+When creating PPPoL2TP sockets, the application provides information
+to the driver about the socket in a socket connect() call. Source and
+destination tunnel and session ids are provided, as well as the file
+descriptor of a UDP socket. See struct pppol2tp_addr in
+include/linux/if_ppp.h. Note that zero tunnel / session ids are
+treated specially. When creating the per-tunnel PPPoL2TP management
+socket in Step 2 above, zero source and destination session ids are
+specified, which tells the driver to prepare the supplied UDP file
+descriptor for use as an L2TP tunnel socket.
+
+Userspace may control behavior of the tunnel or session using
+setsockopt and ioctl on the PPPoX socket. The following socket
+options are supported:-
+
+DEBUG     - bitmask of debug message categories. See below.
+SENDSEQ   - 0 => don't send packets with sequence numbers
+            1 => send packets with sequence numbers
+RECVSEQ   - 0 => receive packet sequence numbers are optional
+            1 => drop receive packets without sequence numbers
+LNSMODE   - 0 => act as LAC.
+            1 => act as LNS.
+REORDERTO - reorder timeout (in millisecs). If 0, don't try to reorder.
+
+Only the DEBUG option is supported by the special tunnel management
+PPPoX socket.
+
+In addition to the standard PPP ioctls, a PPPIOCGL2TPSTATS is provided
+to retrieve tunnel and session statistics from the kernel using the
+PPPoX socket of the appropriate tunnel or session.
+
+Debugging
+=========
+
+The driver supports a flexible debug scheme where kernel trace
+messages may be optionally enabled per tunnel and per session. Care is
+needed when debugging a live system since the messages are not
+rate-limited and a busy system could be swamped. Userspace uses
+setsockopt on the PPPoX socket to set a debug mask.
+
+The following debug mask bits are available:
+
+PPPOL2TP_MSG_DEBUG    verbose debug (if compiled in)
+PPPOL2TP_MSG_CONTROL  userspace - kernel interface
+PPPOL2TP_MSG_SEQ      sequence numbers handling
+PPPOL2TP_MSG_DATA     data packets
+
+Sample Userspace Code
+=====================
+
+1. Create tunnel management PPPoX socket
+
+        kernel_fd = socket(AF_PPPOX, SOCK_DGRAM, PX_PROTO_OL2TP);
+        if (kernel_fd >= 0) {
+                struct sockaddr_pppol2tp sax;
+                struct sockaddr_in const *peer_addr;
+
+                peer_addr = l2tp_tunnel_get_peer_addr(tunnel);
+                memset(&sax, 0, sizeof(sax));
+                sax.sa_family = AF_PPPOX;
+                sax.sa_protocol = PX_PROTO_OL2TP;
+                sax.pppol2tp.fd = udp_fd;       /* fd of tunnel UDP socket */
+                sax.pppol2tp.addr.sin_addr.s_addr = peer_addr->sin_addr.s_addr;
+                sax.pppol2tp.addr.sin_port = peer_addr->sin_port;
+                sax.pppol2tp.addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
+                sax.pppol2tp.s_tunnel = tunnel_id;
+                sax.pppol2tp.s_session = 0;     /* special case: mgmt socket */
+                sax.pppol2tp.d_tunnel = 0;
+                sax.pppol2tp.d_session = 0;     /* special case: mgmt socket */
+
+                if(connect(kernel_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sax, sizeof(sax) ) < 0 ) {
+                        perror("connect failed");
+                        result = -errno;
+                        goto err;
+                }
+        }
+
+2. Create session PPPoX data socket
+
+        struct sockaddr_pppol2tp sax;
+        int fd;
+
+        /* Note, the target socket must be bound already, else it will not be ready */
+        sax.sa_family = AF_PPPOX;
+        sax.sa_protocol = PX_PROTO_OL2TP;
+        sax.pppol2tp.fd = tunnel_fd;
+        sax.pppol2tp.addr.sin_addr.s_addr = addr->sin_addr.s_addr;
+        sax.pppol2tp.addr.sin_port = addr->sin_port;
+        sax.pppol2tp.addr.sin_family = AF_INET;
+        sax.pppol2tp.s_tunnel  = tunnel_id;
+        sax.pppol2tp.s_session = session_id;
+        sax.pppol2tp.d_tunnel  = peer_tunnel_id;
+        sax.pppol2tp.d_session = peer_session_id;
+
+        /* session_fd is the fd of the session's PPPoL2TP socket.
+         * tunnel_fd is the fd of the tunnel UDP socket.
+         */
+        fd = connect(session_fd, (struct sockaddr *)&sax, sizeof(sax));
+        if (fd < 0 )    {
+                return -errno;
+        }
+        return 0;
+
+Miscellanous
+============
+
+The PPPoL2TP driver was developed as part of the OpenL2TP project by
+Katalix Systems Ltd. OpenL2TP is a full-featured L2TP client / server,
+designed from the ground up to have the L2TP datapath in the
+kernel. The project also implemented the pppol2tp plugin for pppd
+which allows pppd to use the kernel driver. Details can be found at
+http://openl2tp.sourceforge.net.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..00b60cce2224
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/networking/multiqueue.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+
+                HOWTO for multiqueue network device support
+                ===========================================
+
+Section 1: Base driver requirements for implementing multiqueue support
+Section 2: Qdisc support for multiqueue devices
+Section 3: Brief howto using PRIO or RR for multiqueue devices
+
+
+Intro: Kernel support for multiqueue devices
+---------------------------------------------------------
+
+Kernel support for multiqueue devices is only an API that is presented to the
+netdevice layer for base drivers to implement.  This feature is part of the
+core networking stack, and all network devices will be running on the
+multiqueue-aware stack.  If a base driver only has one queue, then these
+changes are transparent to that driver.
+
+
+Section 1: Base driver requirements for implementing multiqueue support
+-----------------------------------------------------------------------
+
+Base drivers are required to use the new alloc_etherdev_mq() or
+alloc_netdev_mq() functions to allocate the subqueues for the device.  The
+underlying kernel API will take care of the allocation and deallocation of
+the subqueue memory, as well as netdev configuration of where the queues
+exist in memory.
+
+The base driver will also need to manage the queues as it does the global
+netdev->queue_lock today.  Therefore base drivers should use the
+netif_{start|stop|wake}_subqueue() functions to manage each queue while the
+device is still operational.  netdev->queue_lock is still used when the device
+comes online or when it's completely shut down (unregister_netdev(), etc.).
+
+Finally, the base driver should indicate that it is a multiqueue device.  The
+feature flag NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE should be added to the netdev->features
+bitmap on device initialization.  Below is an example from e1000:
+
+#ifdef CONFIG_E1000_MQ
+        if ( (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_82571) ||
+             (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_82572) ||
+             (adapter->hw.mac.type == e1000_80003es2lan))
+                netdev->features |= NETIF_F_MULTI_QUEUE;
+#endif
+
+
+Section 2: Qdisc support for multiqueue devices
+-----------------------------------------------
+
+Currently two qdiscs support multiqueue devices.  A new round-robin qdisc,
+sch_rr, and sch_prio. The qdisc is responsible for classifying the skb's to
+bands and queues, and will store the queue mapping into skb->queue_mapping.
+Use this field in the base driver to determine which queue to send the skb
+to.
+
+sch_rr has been added for hardware that doesn't want scheduling policies from
+software, so it's a straight round-robin qdisc.  It uses the same syntax and
+classification priomap that sch_prio uses, so it should be intuitive to
+configure for people who've used sch_prio.
+
+The PRIO qdisc naturally plugs into a multiqueue device.  If PRIO has been
+built with NET_SCH_PRIO_MQ, then upon load, it will make sure the number of
+bands requested is equal to the number of queues on the hardware.  If they
+are equal, it sets a one-to-one mapping up between the queues and bands.  If
+they're not equal, it will not load the qdisc.  This is the same behavior
+for RR.  Once the association is made, any skb that is classified will have
+skb->queue_mapping set, which will allow the driver to properly queue skb's
+to multiple queues.
+
+
+Section 3: Brief howto using PRIO and RR for multiqueue devices
+---------------------------------------------------------------
+
+The userspace command 'tc,' part of the iproute2 package, is used to configure
+qdiscs.  To add the PRIO qdisc to your network device, assuming the device is
+called eth0, run the following command:
+
+# tc qdisc add dev eth0 root handle 1: prio bands 4 multiqueue
+
+This will create 4 bands, 0 being highest priority, and associate those bands
+to the queues on your NIC.  Assuming eth0 has 4 Tx queues, the band mapping
+would look like:
+
+band 0 => queue 0
+band 1 => queue 1
+band 2 => queue 2
+band 3 => queue 3
+
+Traffic will begin flowing through each queue if your TOS values are assigning
+traffic across the various bands.  For example, ssh traffic will always try to
+go out band 0 based on TOS -> Linux priority conversion (realtime traffic),
+so it will be sent out queue 0.  ICMP traffic (pings) fall into the "normal"
+traffic classification, which is band 1.  Therefore pings will be send out
+queue 1 on the NIC.
+
+Note the use of the multiqueue keyword.  This is only in versions of iproute2
+that support multiqueue networking devices; if this is omitted when loading
+a qdisc onto a multiqueue device, the qdisc will load and operate the same
+if it were loaded onto a single-queue device (i.e. - sends all traffic to
+queue 0).
+
+Another alternative to multiqueue band allocation can be done by using the
+multiqueue option and specify 0 bands.  If this is the case, the qdisc will
+allocate the number of bands to equal the number of queues that the device
+reports, and bring the qdisc online.
+
+The behavior of tc filters remains the same, where it will override TOS priority
+classification.
+
+
+Author: Peter P. Waskiewicz Jr. <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
index ce1361f95243..37869295fc70 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/netdevices.txt
@@ -20,6 +20,30 @@ private data which gets freed when the network device is freed. If
 separately allocated data is attached to the network device
 (dev->priv) then it is up to the module exit handler to free that.
 
+MTU
+===
+Each network device has a Maximum Transfer Unit. The MTU does not
+include any link layer protocol overhead. Upper layer protocols must
+not pass a socket buffer (skb) to a device to transmit with more data
+than the mtu. The MTU does not include link layer header overhead, so
+for example on Ethernet if the standard MTU is 1500 bytes used, the
+actual skb will contain up to 1514 bytes because of the Ethernet
+header. Devices should allow for the 4 byte VLAN header as well.
+
+Segmentation Offload (GSO, TSO) is an exception to this rule.  The
+upper layer protocol may pass a large socket buffer to the device
+transmit routine, and the device will break that up into separate
+packets based on the current MTU.
+
+MTU is symmetrical and applies both to receive and transmit. A device
+must be able to receive at least the maximum size packet allowed by
+the MTU. A network device may use the MTU as mechanism to size receive
+buffers, but the device should allow packets with VLAN header. With
+standard Ethernet mtu of 1500 bytes, the device should allow up to
+1518 byte packets (1500 + 14 header + 4 tag).  The device may either:
+drop, truncate, or pass up oversize packets, but dropping oversize
+packets is preferred.
+
 
 struct net_device synchronization rules
 =======================================
@@ -43,16 +67,17 @@ dev->get_stats:
 
 dev->hard_start_xmit:
         Synchronization: netif_tx_lock spinlock.
+
         When the driver sets NETIF_F_LLTX in dev->features this will be
         called without holding netif_tx_lock. In this case the driver
         has to lock by itself when needed. It is recommended to use a try lock
-        for this and return -1 when the spin lock fails. 
+        for this and return NETDEV_TX_LOCKED when the spin lock fails.
         The locking there should also properly protect against 
-        set_multicast_list
-        Context: Process with BHs disabled or BH (timer).
-        Notes: netif_queue_stopped() is guaranteed false
-               Interrupts must be enabled when calling hard_start_xmit.
-                (Interrupts must also be enabled when enabling the BH handler.)
+        set_multicast_list.
+
+        Context: Process with BHs disabled or BH (timer),
+                 will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
+
         Return codes: 
         o NETDEV_TX_OK everything ok. 
         o NETDEV_TX_BUSY Cannot transmit packet, try later 
@@ -74,4 +99,5 @@ dev->poll:
         Synchronization: __LINK_STATE_RX_SCHED bit in dev->state.  See
                 dev_close code and comments in net/core/dev.c for more info.
         Context: softirq
+                 will be called with interrupts disabled by netconsole.
 
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
deleted file mode 100644
index 8590a954df1d..000000000000
--- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,568 +0,0 @@
-(C)Copyright 1999-2004 Marvell(R).
-All rights reserved
-===========================================================================
-
-sk98lin.txt created 13-Feb-2004
-
-Readme File for sk98lin v6.23
-Marvell Yukon/SysKonnect SK-98xx Gigabit Ethernet Adapter family driver for LINUX
-
-This file contains
- 1  Overview
- 2  Required Files
- 3  Installation
-    3.1  Driver Installation
-    3.2  Inclusion of adapter at system start
- 4  Driver Parameters
-    4.1  Per-Port Parameters
-    4.2  Adapter Parameters
- 5  Large Frame Support
- 6  VLAN and Link Aggregation Support (IEEE 802.1, 802.1q, 802.3ad)
- 7  Troubleshooting
-
-===========================================================================
-
-
-1  Overview
-===========
-
-The sk98lin driver supports the Marvell Yukon and SysKonnect 
-SK-98xx/SK-95xx compliant Gigabit Ethernet Adapter on Linux. It has 
-been tested with Linux on Intel/x86 machines.
-***
-
-
-2  Required Files
-=================
-
-The linux kernel source.
-No additional files required.
-***
-
-
-3  Installation
-===============
-
-It is recommended to download the latest version of the driver from the 
-SysKonnect web site www.syskonnect.com. If you have downloaded the latest
-driver, the Linux kernel has to be patched before the driver can be 
-installed. For details on how to patch a Linux kernel, refer to the 
-patch.txt file.
-
-3.1  Driver Installation
-------------------------
-
-The following steps describe the actions that are required to install
-the driver and to start it manually. These steps should be carried
-out for the initial driver setup. Once confirmed to be ok, they can
-be included in the system start.
-
-NOTE 1: To perform the following tasks you need 'root' access.
-
-NOTE 2: In case of problems, please read the section "Troubleshooting" 
-        below.
-
-The driver can either be integrated into the kernel or it can be compiled 
-as a module. Select the appropriate option during the kernel 
-configuration.
-
-Compile/use the driver as a module
-----------------------------------
-To compile the driver, go to the directory /usr/src/linux and
-execute the command "make menuconfig" or "make xconfig" and proceed as 
-follows:
-
-To integrate the driver permanently into the kernel, proceed as follows:
-
-1. Select the menu "Network device support" and then "Ethernet(1000Mbit)"
-2. Mark "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx family support" 
-   with (*) 
-3. Build a new kernel when the configuration of the above options is 
-   finished.
-4. Install the new kernel.
-5. Reboot your system.
-
-To use the driver as a module, proceed as follows:
-
-1. Enable 'loadable module support' in the kernel.
-2. For automatic driver start, enable the 'Kernel module loader'.
-3. Select the menu "Network device support" and then "Ethernet(1000Mbit)"
-4. Mark "Marvell Yukon Chipset / SysKonnect SK-98xx family support" 
-   with (M)
-5. Execute the command "make modules".
-6. Execute the command "make modules_install".
-   The appropriate modules will be installed.
-7. Reboot your system.
-
-
-Load the module manually
-------------------------
-To load the module manually, proceed as follows:
-
-1. Enter "modprobe sk98lin".
-2. If a Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx adapter is installed in 
-   your computer and you have a /proc file system, execute the command:
-   "ls /proc/net/sk98lin/" 
-   This should produce an output containing a line with the following 
-   format:
-   eth0   eth1  ...
-   which indicates that your adapter has been found and initialized.
-   
-   NOTE 1: If you have more than one Marvell Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx 
-           adapter installed, the adapters will be listed as 'eth0', 
-                   'eth1', 'eth2', etc.
-                   For each adapter, repeat steps 3 and 4 below.
-
-   NOTE 2: If you have other Ethernet adapters installed, your Marvell
-           Yukon or SysKonnect SK-98xx adapter will be mapped to the 
-                   next available number, e.g. 'eth1'. The mapping is executed 
-                   automatically.
-           The module installation message (displayed either in a system
-           log file or on the console) prints a line for each adapter 
-           found containing the corresponding 'ethX'.
-
-3. Select an IP address and assign it to the respective adapter by 
-   entering:
-   ifconfig eth0 <ip-address>
-   With this command, the adapter is connected to the Ethernet. 
-   
-   SK-98xx Gigabit Ethernet Server Adapters: The yellow LED on the adapter 
-   is now active, the link status LED of the primary port is active and 
-   the link status LED of the secondary port (on dual port adapters) is 
-   blinking (if the ports are connected to a switch or hub).
-   SK-98xx V2.0 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters: The link status LED is active.
-   In addition, you will receive a status message on the console stating
-   "ethX: network connection up using port Y" and showing the selected 
-   connection parameters (x stands for the ethernet device number 
-   (0,1,2, etc), y stands for the port name (A or B)).
-
-   NOTE: If you are in doubt about IP addresses, ask your network
-         administrator for assistance.
-  
-4. Your adapter should now be fully operational.
-   Use 'ping <otherstation>' to verify the connection to other computers 
-   on your network.
-5. To check the adapter configuration view /proc/net/sk98lin/[devicename].
-   For example by executing:    
-   "cat /proc/net/sk98lin/eth0" 
-
-Unload the module
------------------
-To stop and unload the driver modules, proceed as follows:
-
-1. Execute the command "ifconfig eth0 down".
-2. Execute the command "rmmod sk98lin".
-
-3.2  Inclusion of adapter at system start
------------------------------------------
-
-Since a large number of different Linux distributions are 
-available, we are unable to describe a general installation procedure
-for the driver module.
-Because the driver is now integrated in the kernel, installation should
-be easy, using the standard mechanism of your distribution.
-Refer to the distribution's manual for installation of ethernet adapters.
-
-***
-
-4  Driver Parameters
-====================
-
-Parameters can be set at the command line after the module has been 
-loaded with the command 'modprobe'.
-In some distributions, the configuration tools are able to pass parameters
-to the driver module.
-
-If you use the kernel module loader, you can set driver parameters
-in the file /etc/modprobe.conf (or /etc/modules.conf in 2.4 or earlier).
-To set the driver parameters in this file, proceed as follows:
-
-1. Insert a line of the form :
-   options sk98lin ...
-   For "...", the same syntax is required as described for the command
-   line parameters of modprobe below.
-2. To activate the new parameters, either reboot your computer
-   or 
-   unload and reload the driver.
-   The syntax of the driver parameters is:
-
-        modprobe sk98lin parameter=value1[,value2[,value3...]]
-
-   where value1 refers to the first adapter, value2 to the second etc.
-
-NOTE: All parameters are case sensitive. Write them exactly as shown 
-      below.
-
-Example:
-Suppose you have two adapters. You want to set auto-negotiation
-on the first adapter to ON and on the second adapter to OFF.
-You also want to set DuplexCapabilities on the first adapter
-to FULL, and on the second adapter to HALF.
-Then, you must enter:
-
-        modprobe sk98lin AutoNeg_A=On,Off DupCap_A=Full,Half
-
-NOTE: The number of adapters that can be configured this way is
-      limited in the driver (file skge.c, constant SK_MAX_CARD_PARAM).
-      The current limit is 16. If you happen to install
-      more adapters, adjust this and recompile.
-
-
-4.1  Per-Port Parameters
-------------------------
-
-These settings are available for each port on the adapter.
-In the following description, '?' stands for the port for
-which you set the parameter (A or B).
-
-Speed
------
-Parameter:    Speed_?
-Values:       10, 100, 1000, Auto
-Default:      Auto
-
-This parameter is used to set the speed capabilities. It is only valid 
-for the SK-98xx V2.0 copper adapters.
-Usually, the speed is negotiated between the two ports during link 
-establishment. If this fails, a port can be forced to a specific setting
-with this parameter.
-
-Auto-Negotiation
-----------------
-Parameter:    AutoNeg_?
-Values:       On, Off, Sense
-Default:      On
-  
-The "Sense"-mode automatically detects whether the link partner supports
-auto-negotiation or not.
-
-Duplex Capabilities
--------------------
-Parameter:    DupCap_?
-Values:       Half, Full, Both
-Default:      Both
-
-This parameters is only relevant if auto-negotiation for this port is 
-not set to "Sense". If auto-negotiation is set to "On", all three values
-are possible. If it is set to "Off", only "Full" and "Half" are allowed.
-This parameter is useful if your link partner does not support all
-possible combinations.
-
-Flow Control
-------------
-Parameter:    FlowCtrl_?
-Values:       Sym, SymOrRem, LocSend, None
-Default:      SymOrRem
-
-This parameter can be used to set the flow control capabilities the 
-port reports during auto-negotiation. It can be set for each port 
-individually.
-Possible modes:
-   -- Sym      = Symmetric: both link partners are allowed to send 
-                  PAUSE frames
-   -- SymOrRem = SymmetricOrRemote: both or only remote partner 
-                  are allowed to send PAUSE frames
-   -- LocSend  = LocalSend: only local link partner is allowed 
-                  to send PAUSE frames
-   -- None     = no link partner is allowed to send PAUSE frames
-  
-NOTE: This parameter is ignored if auto-negotiation is set to "Off".
-
-Role in Master-Slave-Negotiation (1000Base-T only)
---------------------------------------------------
-Parameter:    Role_?
-Values:       Auto, Master, Slave
-Default:      Auto
-
-This parameter is only valid for the SK-9821 and SK-9822 adapters.
-For two 1000Base-T ports to communicate, one must take the role of the
-master (providing timing information), while the other must be the 
-slave. Usually, this is negotiated between the two ports during link 
-establishment. If this fails, a port can be forced to a specific setting
-with this parameter.
-
-
-4.2  Adapter Parameters
------------------------
-
-Connection Type (SK-98xx V2.0 copper adapters only)
----------------
-Parameter:    ConType
-Values:       Auto, 100FD, 100HD, 10FD, 10HD
-Default:      Auto
-
-The parameter 'ConType' is a combination of all five per-port parameters
-within one single parameter. This simplifies the configuration of both ports
-of an adapter card! The different values of this variable reflect the most 
-meaningful combinations of port parameters.
-
-The following table shows the values of 'ConType' and the corresponding
-combinations of the per-port parameters:
-
-    ConType   |  DupCap   AutoNeg   FlowCtrl   Role             Speed
-    ----------+------------------------------------------------------
-    Auto      |  Both     On        SymOrRem   Auto             Auto
-    100FD     |  Full     Off       None       Auto (ignored)   100
-    100HD     |  Half     Off       None       Auto (ignored)   100
-    10FD      |  Full     Off       None       Auto (ignored)   10
-    10HD      |  Half     Off       None       Auto (ignored)   10
-
-Stating any other port parameter together with this 'ConType' variable
-will result in a merged configuration of those settings. This due to 
-the fact, that the per-port parameters (e.g. Speed_? ) have a higher
-priority than the combined variable 'ConType'.
-
-NOTE: This parameter is always used on both ports of the adapter card.
-
-Interrupt Moderation
---------------------
-Parameter:    Moderation
-Values:       None, Static, Dynamic
-Default:      None
-
-Interrupt moderation is employed to limit the maximum number of interrupts
-the driver has to serve. That is, one or more interrupts (which indicate any
-transmit or receive packet to be processed) are queued until the driver 
-processes them. When queued interrupts are to be served, is determined by the
-'IntsPerSec' parameter, which is explained later below.
-
-Possible modes:
-
-   -- None - No interrupt moderation is applied on the adapter card. 
-      Therefore, each transmit or receive interrupt is served immediately
-      as soon as it appears on the interrupt line of the adapter card.
-
-   -- Static - Interrupt moderation is applied on the adapter card. 
-      All transmit and receive interrupts are queued until a complete
-      moderation interval ends. If such a moderation interval ends, all
-      queued interrupts are processed in one big bunch without any delay.
-      The term 'static' reflects the fact, that interrupt moderation is
-      always enabled, regardless how much network load is currently 
-      passing via a particular interface. In addition, the duration of
-      the moderation interval has a fixed length that never changes while
-      the driver is operational.
-
-   -- Dynamic - Interrupt moderation might be applied on the adapter card,
-      depending on the load of the system. If the driver detects that the
-      system load is too high, the driver tries to shield the system against 
-      too much network load by enabling interrupt moderation. If - at a later
-      time - the CPU utilization decreases again (or if the network load is 
-      negligible) the interrupt moderation will automatically be disabled.
-
-Interrupt moderation should be used when the driver has to handle one or more
-interfaces with a high network load, which - as a consequence - leads also to a
-high CPU utilization. When moderation is applied in such high network load 
-situations, CPU load might be reduced by 20-30%.
-
-NOTE: The drawback of using interrupt moderation is an increase of the round-
-trip-time (RTT), due to the queueing and serving of interrupts at dedicated
-moderation times.
-
-Interrupts per second
----------------------
-Parameter:    IntsPerSec
-Values:       30...40000 (interrupts per second)
-Default:      2000
-
-This parameter is only used if either static or dynamic interrupt moderation
-is used on a network adapter card. Using this parameter if no moderation is
-applied will lead to no action performed.
-
-This parameter determines the length of any interrupt moderation interval. 
-Assuming that static interrupt moderation is to be used, an 'IntsPerSec' 
-parameter value of 2000 will lead to an interrupt moderation interval of
-500 microseconds. 
-
-NOTE: The duration of the moderation interval is to be chosen with care.
-At first glance, selecting a very long duration (e.g. only 100 interrupts per 
-second) seems to be meaningful, but the increase of packet-processing delay 
-is tremendous. On the other hand, selecting a very short moderation time might
-compensate the use of any moderation being applied.
-
-
-Preferred Port
---------------
-Parameter:    PrefPort
-Values:       A, B
-Default:      A
-
-This is used to force the preferred port to A or B (on dual-port network 
-adapters). The preferred port is the one that is used if both are detected
-as fully functional.
-
-RLMT Mode (Redundant Link Management Technology)
-------------------------------------------------
-Parameter:    RlmtMode
-Values:       CheckLinkState,CheckLocalPort, CheckSeg, DualNet
-Default:      CheckLinkState
-
-RLMT monitors the status of the port. If the link of the active port 
-fails, RLMT switches immediately to the standby link. The virtual link is 
-maintained as long as at least one 'physical' link is up. 
-
-Possible modes:
-
-   -- CheckLinkState - Check link state only: RLMT uses the link state
-      reported by the adapter hardware for each individual port to 
-      determine whether a port can be used for all network traffic or 
-      not.
-
-   -- CheckLocalPort - In this mode, RLMT monitors the network path 
-      between the two ports of an adapter by regularly exchanging packets
-      between them. This mode requires a network configuration in which 
-      the two ports are able to "see" each other (i.e. there must not be 
-      any router between the ports).
-
-   -- CheckSeg - Check local port and segmentation: This mode supports the
-      same functions as the CheckLocalPort mode and additionally checks 
-      network segmentation between the ports. Therefore, this mode is only
-      to be used if Gigabit Ethernet switches are installed on the network
-      that have been configured to use the Spanning Tree protocol. 
-
-   -- DualNet - In this mode, ports A and B are used as separate devices. 
-      If you have a dual port adapter, port A will be configured as eth0 
-      and port B as eth1. Both ports can be used independently with 
-      distinct IP addresses. The preferred port setting is not used. 
-      RLMT is turned off.
-   
-NOTE: RLMT modes CLP and CLPSS are designed to operate in configurations 
-      where a network path between the ports on one adapter exists. 
-      Moreover, they are not designed to work where adapters are connected
-      back-to-back.
-***
-
-
-5  Large Frame Support
-======================
-
-The driver supports large frames (also called jumbo frames). Using large 
-frames can result in an improved throughput if transferring large amounts 
-of data.
-To enable large frames, set the MTU (maximum transfer unit) of the 
-interface to the desired value (up to 9000), execute the following 
-command:
-      ifconfig eth0 mtu 9000
-This will only work if you have two adapters connected back-to-back
-or if you use a switch that supports large frames. When using a switch, 
-it should be configured to allow large frames and auto-negotiation should  
-be set to OFF. The setting must be configured on all adapters that can be 
-reached by the large frames. If one adapter is not set to receive large 
-frames, it will simply drop them.
-
-You can switch back to the standard ethernet frame size by executing the 
-following command:
-      ifconfig eth0 mtu 1500
-
-To permanently configure this setting, add a script with the 'ifconfig' 
-line to the system startup sequence (named something like "S99sk98lin" 
-in /etc/rc.d/rc2.d).
-***
-
-
-6  VLAN and Link Aggregation Support (IEEE 802.1, 802.1q, 802.3ad)
-==================================================================
-
-The Marvell Yukon/SysKonnect Linux drivers are able to support VLAN and 
-Link Aggregation according to IEEE standards 802.1, 802.1q, and 802.3ad. 
-These features are only available after installation of open source 
-modules available on the Internet:
-For VLAN go to: http://www.candelatech.com/~greear/vlan.html
-For Link Aggregation go to: http://www.st.rim.or.jp/~yumo
-
-NOTE: SysKonnect GmbH does not offer any support for these open source 
-      modules and does not take the responsibility for any kind of 
-      failures or problems arising in connection with these modules.
-
-NOTE: Configuring Link Aggregation on a SysKonnect dual link adapter may 
-      cause problems when unloading the driver.
-
-
-7  Troubleshooting
-==================
-
-If any problems occur during the installation process, check the 
-following list:
-
-
-Problem:  The SK-98xx adapter cannot be found by the driver.
-Solution: In /proc/pci search for the following entry:
-             'Ethernet controller: SysKonnect SK-98xx ...'
-          If this entry exists, the SK-98xx or SK-98xx V2.0 adapter has 
-          been found by the system and should be operational.
-          If this entry does not exist or if the file '/proc/pci' is not 
-          found, there may be a hardware problem or the PCI support may 
-          not be enabled in your kernel.
-          The adapter can be checked using the diagnostics program which 
-          is available on the SysKonnect web site:
-          www.syskonnect.com
-          
-          Some COMPAQ machines have problems dealing with PCI under Linux.
-          This problem is described in the 'PCI howto' document
-          (included in some distributions or available from the
-          web, e.g. at 'www.linux.org'). 
-
-
-Problem:  Programs such as 'ifconfig' or 'route' cannot be found or the 
-          error message 'Operation not permitted' is displayed.
-Reason:   You are not logged in as user 'root'.
-Solution: Logout and login as 'root' or change to 'root' via 'su'.
-
-
-Problem:  Upon use of the command 'ping <address>' the message
-          "ping: sendto: Network is unreachable" is displayed.
-Reason:   Your route is not set correctly.
-Solution: If you are using RedHat, you probably forgot to set up the 
-          route in the 'network configuration'.
-          Check the existing routes with the 'route' command and check 
-          if an entry for 'eth0' exists, and if so, if it is set correctly.
-
-
-Problem:  The driver can be started, the adapter is connected to the 
-          network, but you cannot receive or transmit any packets; 
-          e.g. 'ping' does not work.
-Reason:   There is an incorrect route in your routing table.
-Solution: Check the routing table with the command 'route' and read the 
-          manual help pages dealing with routes (enter 'man route').
-
-NOTE: Although the 2.2.x kernel versions generate the routing entry 
-      automatically, problems of this kind may occur here as well. We've 
-      come across a situation in which the driver started correctly at 
-      system start, but after the driver has been removed and reloaded,
-      the route of the adapter's network pointed to the 'dummy0'device 
-      and had to be corrected manually.
-
-
-Problem:  Your computer should act as a router between multiple 
-          IP subnetworks (using multiple adapters), but computers in 
-          other subnetworks cannot be reached.
-Reason:   Either the router's kernel is not configured for IP forwarding 
-          or the routing table and gateway configuration of at least one 
-          computer is not working.
-
-Problem:  Upon driver start, the following error message is displayed:
-          "eth0: -- ERROR --
-          Class: internal Software error
-          Nr:    0xcc
-          Msg:   SkGeInitPort() cannot init running ports"
-Reason:   You are using a driver compiled for single processor machines 
-          on a multiprocessor machine with SMP (Symmetric MultiProcessor) 
-          kernel.
-Solution: Configure your kernel appropriately and recompile the kernel or
-          the modules.
-
-
-
-If your problem is not listed here, please contact SysKonnect's technical
-support for help (linux@syskonnect.de).
-When contacting our technical support, please ensure that the following 
-information is available:
-- System Manufacturer and HW Informations (CPU, Memory... )
-- PCI-Boards in your system
-- Distribution
-- Kernel version
-- Driver version
-***
-
-
-
-***End of Readme File***
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt b/Documentation/networking/spider_net.txt
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+
+            The Spidernet Device Driver
+            ===========================
+
+Written by Linas Vepstas <linas@austin.ibm.com>
+
+Version of 7 June 2007
+
+Abstract
+========
+This document sketches the structure of portions of the spidernet
+device driver in the Linux kernel tree. The spidernet is a gigabit
+ethernet device built into the Toshiba southbridge commonly used
+in the SONY Playstation 3 and the IBM QS20 Cell blade.
+
+The Structure of the RX Ring.
+=============================
+The receive (RX) ring is a circular linked list of RX descriptors,
+together with three pointers into the ring that are used to manage its
+contents.
+
+The elements of the ring are called "descriptors" or "descrs"; they
+describe the received data. This includes a pointer to a buffer
+containing the received data, the buffer size, and various status bits.
+
+There are three primary states that a descriptor can be in: "empty",
+"full" and "not-in-use".  An "empty" or "ready" descriptor is ready
+to receive data from the hardware. A "full" descriptor has data in it,
+and is waiting to be emptied and processed by the OS. A "not-in-use"
+descriptor is neither empty or full; it is simply not ready. It may
+not even have a data buffer in it, or is otherwise unusable.
+
+During normal operation, on device startup, the OS (specifically, the
+spidernet device driver) allocates a set of RX descriptors and RX
+buffers. These are all marked "empty", ready to receive data. This
+ring is handed off to the hardware, which sequentially fills in the
+buffers, and marks them "full". The OS follows up, taking the full
+buffers, processing them, and re-marking them empty.
+
+This filling and emptying is managed by three pointers, the "head"
+and "tail" pointers, managed by the OS, and a hardware current
+descriptor pointer (GDACTDPA). The GDACTDPA points at the descr
+currently being filled. When this descr is filled, the hardware
+marks it full, and advances the GDACTDPA by one.  Thus, when there is
+flowing RX traffic, every descr behind it should be marked "full",
+and everything in front of it should be "empty".  If the hardware
+discovers that the current descr is not empty, it will signal an
+interrupt, and halt processing.
+
+The tail pointer tails or trails the hardware pointer. When the
+hardware is ahead, the tail pointer will be pointing at a "full"
+descr. The OS will process this descr, and then mark it "not-in-use",
+and advance the tail pointer.  Thus, when there is flowing RX traffic,
+all of the descrs in front of the tail pointer should be "full", and
+all of those behind it should be "not-in-use". When RX traffic is not
+flowing, then the tail pointer can catch up to the hardware pointer.
+The OS will then note that the current tail is "empty", and halt
+processing.
+
+The head pointer (somewhat mis-named) follows after the tail pointer.
+When traffic is flowing, then the head pointer will be pointing at
+a "not-in-use" descr. The OS will perform various housekeeping duties
+on this descr. This includes allocating a new data buffer and
+dma-mapping it so as to make it visible to the hardware. The OS will
+then mark the descr as "empty", ready to receive data. Thus, when there
+is flowing RX traffic, everything in front of the head pointer should
+be "not-in-use", and everything behind it should be "empty". If no
+RX traffic is flowing, then the head pointer can catch up to the tail
+pointer, at which point the OS will notice that the head descr is
+"empty", and it will halt processing.
+
+Thus, in an idle system, the GDACTDPA, tail and head pointers will
+all be pointing at the same descr, which should be "empty". All of the
+other descrs in the ring should be "empty" as well.
+
+The show_rx_chain() routine will print out the the locations of the
+GDACTDPA, tail and head pointers. It will also summarize the contents
+of the ring, starting at the tail pointer, and listing the status
+of the descrs that follow.
+
+A typical example of the output, for a nearly idle system, might be
+
+net eth1: Total number of descrs=256
+net eth1: Chain tail located at descr=20
+net eth1: Chain head is at 20
+net eth1: HW curr desc (GDACTDPA) is at 21
+net eth1: Have 1 descrs with stat=x40800101
+net eth1: HW next desc (GDACNEXTDA) is at 22
+net eth1: Last 255 descrs with stat=xa0800000
+
+In the above, the hardware has filled in one descr, number 20. Both
+head and tail are pointing at 20, because it has not yet been emptied.
+Meanwhile, hw is pointing at 21, which is free.
+
+The "Have nnn decrs" refers to the descr starting at the tail: in this
+case, nnn=1 descr, starting at descr 20. The "Last nnn descrs" refers
+to all of the rest of the descrs, from the last status change. The "nnn"
+is a count of how many descrs have exactly the same status.
+
+The status x4... corresponds to "full" and status xa... corresponds
+to "empty". The actual value printed is RXCOMST_A.
+
+In the device driver source code, a different set of names are
+used for these same concepts, so that
+
+"empty" == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_CARDOWNED == 0xa
+"full"  == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_FRAME_END == 0x4
+"not in use" == SPIDER_NET_DESCR_NOT_IN_USE == 0xf
+
+
+The RX RAM full bug/feature
+===========================
+
+As long as the OS can empty out the RX buffers at a rate faster than
+the hardware can fill them, there is no problem. If, for some reason,
+the OS fails to empty the RX ring fast enough, the hardware GDACTDPA
+pointer will catch up to the head, notice the not-empty condition,
+ad stop. However, RX packets may still continue arriving on the wire.
+The spidernet chip can save some limited number of these in local RAM.
+When this local ram fills up, the spider chip will issue an interrupt
+indicating this (GHIINT0STS will show ERRINT, and the GRMFLLINT bit
+will be set in GHIINT1STS).  When the RX ram full condition occurs,
+a certain bug/feature is triggered that has to be specially handled.
+This section describes the special handling for this condition.
+
+When the OS finally has a chance to run, it will empty out the RX ring.
+In particular, it will clear the descriptor on which the hardware had
+stopped. However, once the hardware has decided that a certain
+descriptor is invalid, it will not restart at that descriptor; instead
+it will restart at the next descr. This potentially will lead to a
+deadlock condition, as the tail pointer will be pointing at this descr,
+which, from the OS point of view, is empty; the OS will be waiting for
+this descr to be filled. However, the hardware has skipped this descr,
+and is filling the next descrs. Since the OS doesn't see this, there
+is a potential deadlock, with the OS waiting for one descr to fill,
+while the hardware is waiting for a different set of descrs to become
+empty.
+
+A call to show_rx_chain() at this point indicates the nature of the
+problem. A typical print when the network is hung shows the following:
+
+net eth1: Spider RX RAM full, incoming packets might be discarded!
+net eth1: Total number of descrs=256
+net eth1: Chain tail located at descr=255
+net eth1: Chain head is at 255
+net eth1: HW curr desc (GDACTDPA) is at 0
+net eth1: Have 1 descrs with stat=xa0800000
+net eth1: HW next desc (GDACNEXTDA) is at 1
+net eth1: Have 127 descrs with stat=x40800101
+net eth1: Have 1 descrs with stat=x40800001
+net eth1: Have 126 descrs with stat=x40800101
+net eth1: Last 1 descrs with stat=xa0800000
+
+Both the tail and head pointers are pointing at descr 255, which is
+marked xa... which is "empty". Thus, from the OS point of view, there
+is nothing to be done. In particular, there is the implicit assumption
+that everything in front of the "empty" descr must surely also be empty,
+as explained in the last section. The OS is waiting for descr 255 to
+become non-empty, which, in this case, will never happen.
+
+The HW pointer is at descr 0. This descr is marked 0x4.. or "full".
+Since its already full, the hardware can do nothing more, and thus has
+halted processing. Notice that descrs 0 through 254 are all marked
+"full", while descr 254 and 255 are empty. (The "Last 1 descrs" is
+descr 254, since tail was at 255.) Thus, the system is deadlocked,
+and there can be no forward progress; the OS thinks there's nothing
+to do, and the hardware has nowhere to put incoming data.
+
+This bug/feature is worked around with the spider_net_resync_head_ptr()
+routine. When the driver receives RX interrupts, but an examination
+of the RX chain seems to show it is empty, then it is probable that
+the hardware has skipped a descr or two (sometimes dozens under heavy
+network conditions). The spider_net_resync_head_ptr() subroutine will
+search the ring for the next full descr, and the driver will resume
+operations there.  Since this will leave "holes" in the ring, there
+is also a spider_net_resync_tail_ptr() that will skip over such holes.
+
+As of this writing, the spider_net_resync() strategy seems to work very
+well, even under heavy network loads.
+
+
+The TX ring
+===========
+The TX ring uses a low-watermark interrupt scheme to make sure that
+the TX queue is appropriately serviced for large packet sizes.
+
+For packet sizes greater than about 1KBytes, the kernel can fill
+the TX ring quicker than the device can drain it. Once the ring
+is full, the netdev is stopped. When there is room in the ring,
+the netdev needs to be reawakened, so that more TX packets are placed
+in the ring. The hardware can empty the ring about four times per jiffy,
+so its not appropriate to wait for the poll routine to refill, since
+the poll routine runs only once per jiffy.  The low-watermark mechanism
+marks a descr about 1/4th of the way from the bottom of the queue, so
+that an interrupt is generated when the descr is processed. This
+interrupt wakes up the netdev, which can then refill the queue.
+For large packets, this mechanism generates a relatively small number
+of interrupts, about 1K/sec. For smaller packets, this will drop to zero
+interrupts, as the hardware can empty the queue faster than the kernel
+can fill it.
+
+
+ ======= END OF DOCUMENT ========
+
diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt
index d38261b67905..7754f5aea4e9 100644
--- a/Documentation/pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/pci.txt
@@ -113,9 +113,6 @@ initialization with a pointer to a structure describing the driver
                 (Please see Documentation/power/pci.txt for descriptions
                 of PCI Power Management and the related functions.)
 
-        enable_wake     Enable device to generate wake events from a low power
-                        state.
-
         shutdown        Hook into reboot_notifier_list (kernel/sys.c).
                         Intended to stop any idling DMA operations.
                         Useful for enabling wake-on-lan (NIC) or changing
@@ -299,7 +296,10 @@ If the PCI device can use the PCI Memory-Write-Invalidate transaction,
 call pci_set_mwi().  This enables the PCI_COMMAND bit for Mem-Wr-Inval
 and also ensures that the cache line size register is set correctly.
 Check the return value of pci_set_mwi() as not all architectures
-or chip-sets may support Memory-Write-Invalidate.
+or chip-sets may support Memory-Write-Invalidate.  Alternatively,
+if Mem-Wr-Inval would be nice to have but is not required, call
+pci_try_set_mwi() to have the system do its best effort at enabling
+Mem-Wr-Inval.
 
 
 3.2 Request MMIO/IOP resources
diff --git a/Documentation/power/pci.txt b/Documentation/power/pci.txt
index e00b099a4b86..dd8fe43888d3 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/pci.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/pci.txt
@@ -164,7 +164,6 @@ struct pci_driver:
 
         int  (*suspend) (struct pci_dev *dev, pm_message_t state);
         int  (*resume) (struct pci_dev *dev);
-        int  (*enable_wake) (struct pci_dev *dev, pci_power_t state, int enable);
 
 
 suspend
@@ -251,42 +250,6 @@ The driver should update the current_state field in its pci_dev structure in
 this function, except for PM-capable devices when pci_set_power_state is used.
 
 
-enable_wake
------------
-
-Usage:
-
-if (dev->driver && dev->driver->enable_wake)
-        dev->driver->enable_wake(dev,state,enable);
-
-This callback is generally only relevant for devices that support the PCI PM
-spec and have the ability to generate a PME# (Power Management Event Signal)
-to wake the system up. (However, it is possible that a device may support 
-some non-standard way of generating a wake event on sleep.)
-
-Bits 15:11 of the PMC (Power Mgmt Capabilities) Register in a device's
-PM Capabilities describe what power states the device supports generating a 
-wake event from:
-
-+------------------+
-|  Bit  |  State   |
-+------------------+
-|  11   |   D0     |
-|  12   |   D1     |
-|  13   |   D2     |
-|  14   |   D3hot  |
-|  15   |   D3cold |
-+------------------+
-
-A device can use this to enable wake events:
-
-         pci_enable_wake(dev,state,enable);
-
-Note that to enable PME# from D3cold, a value of 4 should be passed to 
-pci_enable_wake (since it uses an index into a bitmask). If a driver gets
-a request to enable wake events from D3, two calls should be made to 
-pci_enable_wake (one for both D3hot and D3cold).
-
 
 A reference implementation
 -------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/power_supply_class.txt b/Documentation/power_supply_class.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..9758cf433c06
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/power_supply_class.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,167 @@
+Linux power supply class
+========================
+
+Synopsis
+~~~~~~~~
+Power supply class used to represent battery, UPS, AC or DC power supply
+properties to user-space.
+
+It defines core set of attributes, which should be applicable to (almost)
+every power supply out there. Attributes are available via sysfs and uevent
+interfaces.
+
+Each attribute has well defined meaning, up to unit of measure used. While
+the attributes provided are believed to be universally applicable to any
+power supply, specific monitoring hardware may not be able to provide them
+all, so any of them may be skipped.
+
+Power supply class is extensible, and allows to define drivers own attributes.
+The core attribute set is subject to the standard Linux evolution (i.e.
+if it will be found that some attribute is applicable to many power supply
+types or their drivers, it can be added to the core set).
+
+It also integrates with LED framework, for the purpose of providing
+typically expected feedback of battery charging/fully charged status and
+AC/USB power supply online status. (Note that specific details of the
+indication (including whether to use it at all) are fully controllable by
+user and/or specific machine defaults, per design principles of LED
+framework).
+
+
+Attributes/properties
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Power supply class has predefined set of attributes, this eliminates code
+duplication across drivers. Power supply class insist on reusing its
+predefined attributes *and* their units.
+
+So, userspace gets predictable set of attributes and their units for any
+kind of power supply, and can process/present them to a user in consistent
+manner. Results for different power supplies and machines are also directly
+comparable.
+
+See drivers/power/ds2760_battery.c and drivers/power/pda_power.c for the
+example how to declare and handle attributes.
+
+
+Units
+~~~~~
+Quoting include/linux/power_supply.h:
+
+  All voltages, currents, charges, energies, time and temperatures in µV,
+  µA, µAh, µWh, seconds and tenths of degree Celsius unless otherwise
+  stated. It's driver's job to convert its raw values to units in which
+  this class operates.
+
+
+Attributes/properties detailed
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+
+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~  Charge/Energy/Capacity - how to not confuse  ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
+~                                                                       ~
+~ Because both "charge" (µAh) and "energy" (µWh) represents "capacity"  ~
+~ of battery, this class distinguish these terms. Don't mix them!       ~
+~                                                                       ~
+~ CHARGE_* attributes represents capacity in µAh only.                  ~
+~ ENERGY_* attributes represents capacity in µWh only.                  ~
+~ CAPACITY attribute represents capacity in *percents*, from 0 to 100.  ~
+~                                                                       ~
+~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~
+
+Postfixes:
+_AVG - *hardware* averaged value, use it if your hardware is really able to
+report averaged values.
+_NOW - momentary/instantaneous values.
+
+STATUS - this attribute represents operating status (charging, full,
+discharging (i.e. powering a load), etc.). This corresponds to
+BATTERY_STATUS_* values, as defined in battery.h.
+
+HEALTH - represents health of the battery, values corresponds to
+POWER_SUPPLY_HEALTH_*, defined in battery.h.
+
+VOLTAGE_MAX_DESIGN, VOLTAGE_MIN_DESIGN - design values for maximal and
+minimal power supply voltages. Maximal/minimal means values of voltages
+when battery considered "full"/"empty" at normal conditions. Yes, there is
+no direct relation between voltage and battery capacity, but some dumb
+batteries use voltage for very approximated calculation of capacity.
+Battery driver also can use this attribute just to inform userspace
+about maximal and minimal voltage thresholds of a given battery.
+
+CHARGE_FULL_DESIGN, CHARGE_EMPTY_DESIGN - design charge values, when
+battery considered full/empty.
+
+ENERGY_FULL_DESIGN, ENERGY_EMPTY_DESIGN - same as above but for energy.
+
+CHARGE_FULL, CHARGE_EMPTY - These attributes means "last remembered value
+of charge when battery became full/empty". It also could mean "value of
+charge when battery considered full/empty at given conditions (temperature,
+age)". I.e. these attributes represents real thresholds, not design values.
+
+ENERGY_FULL, ENERGY_EMPTY - same as above but for energy.
+
+CAPACITY - capacity in percents.
+CAPACITY_LEVEL - capacity level. This corresponds to
+POWER_SUPPLY_CAPACITY_LEVEL_*.
+
+TEMP - temperature of the power supply.
+TEMP_AMBIENT - ambient temperature.
+
+TIME_TO_EMPTY - seconds left for battery to be considered empty (i.e.
+while battery powers a load)
+TIME_TO_FULL - seconds left for battery to be considered full (i.e.
+while battery is charging)
+
+
+Battery <-> external power supply interaction
+~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
+Often power supplies are acting as supplies and supplicants at the same
+time. Batteries are good example. So, batteries usually care if they're
+externally powered or not.
+
+For that case, power supply class implements notification mechanism for
+batteries.
+
+External power supply (AC) lists supplicants (batteries) names in
+"supplied_to" struct member, and each power_supply_changed() call
+issued by external power supply will notify supplicants via
+external_power_changed callback.
+
+
+QA
+~~
+Q: Where is POWER_SUPPLY_PROP_XYZ attribute?
+A: If you cannot find attribute suitable for your driver needs, feel free
+   to add it and send patch along with your driver.
+
+   The attributes available currently are the ones currently provided by the
+   drivers written.
+
+   Good candidates to add in future: model/part#, cycle_time, manufacturer,
+   etc.
+
+
+Q: I have some very specific attribute (e.g. battery color), should I add
+   this attribute to standard ones?
+A: Most likely, no. Such attribute can be placed in the driver itself, if
+   it is useful. Of course, if the attribute in question applicable to
+   large set of batteries, provided by many drivers, and/or comes from
+   some general battery specification/standard, it may be a candidate to
+   be added to the core attribute set.
+
+
+Q: Suppose, my battery monitoring chip/firmware does not provides capacity
+   in percents, but provides charge_{now,full,empty}. Should I calculate
+   percentage capacity manually, inside the driver, and register CAPACITY
+   attribute? The same question about time_to_empty/time_to_full.
+A: Most likely, no. This class is designed to export properties which are
+   directly measurable by the specific hardware available.
+
+   Inferring not available properties using some heuristics or mathematical
+   model is not subject of work for a battery driver. Such functionality
+   should be factored out, and in fact, apm_power, the driver to serve
+   legacy APM API on top of power supply class, uses a simple heuristic of
+   approximating remaining battery capacity based on its charge, current,
+   voltage and so on. But full-fledged battery model is likely not subject
+   for kernel at all, as it would require floating point calculation to deal
+   with things like differential equations and Kalman filters. This is
+   better be handled by batteryd/libbattery, yet to be written.
diff --git a/Documentation/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/sched-design-CFS.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..16feebb7bdc0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sched-design-CFS.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+
+This is the CFS scheduler.
+
+80% of CFS's design can be summed up in a single sentence: CFS basically
+models an "ideal, precise multi-tasking CPU" on real hardware.
+
+"Ideal multi-tasking CPU" is a (non-existent  :-))  CPU that has 100%
+physical power and which can run each task at precise equal speed, in
+parallel, each at 1/nr_running speed. For example: if there are 2 tasks
+running then it runs each at 50% physical power - totally in parallel.
+
+On real hardware, we can run only a single task at once, so while that
+one task runs, the other tasks that are waiting for the CPU are at a
+disadvantage - the current task gets an unfair amount of CPU time. In
+CFS this fairness imbalance is expressed and tracked via the per-task
+p->wait_runtime (nanosec-unit) value. "wait_runtime" is the amount of
+time the task should now run on the CPU for it to become completely fair
+and balanced.
+
+( small detail: on 'ideal' hardware, the p->wait_runtime value would
+  always be zero - no task would ever get 'out of balance' from the
+  'ideal' share of CPU time. )
+
+CFS's task picking logic is based on this p->wait_runtime value and it
+is thus very simple: it always tries to run the task with the largest
+p->wait_runtime value. In other words, CFS tries to run the task with
+the 'gravest need' for more CPU time. So CFS always tries to split up
+CPU time between runnable tasks as close to 'ideal multitasking
+hardware' as possible.
+
+Most of the rest of CFS's design just falls out of this really simple
+concept, with a few add-on embellishments like nice levels,
+multiprocessing and various algorithm variants to recognize sleepers.
+
+In practice it works like this: the system runs a task a bit, and when
+the task schedules (or a scheduler tick happens) the task's CPU usage is
+'accounted for': the (small) time it just spent using the physical CPU
+is deducted from p->wait_runtime. [minus the 'fair share' it would have
+gotten anyway]. Once p->wait_runtime gets low enough so that another
+task becomes the 'leftmost task' of the time-ordered rbtree it maintains
+(plus a small amount of 'granularity' distance relative to the leftmost
+task so that we do not over-schedule tasks and trash the cache) then the
+new leftmost task is picked and the current task is preempted.
+
+The rq->fair_clock value tracks the 'CPU time a runnable task would have
+fairly gotten, had it been runnable during that time'. So by using
+rq->fair_clock values we can accurately timestamp and measure the
+'expected CPU time' a task should have gotten. All runnable tasks are
+sorted in the rbtree by the "rq->fair_clock - p->wait_runtime" key, and
+CFS picks the 'leftmost' task and sticks to it. As the system progresses
+forwards, newly woken tasks are put into the tree more and more to the
+right - slowly but surely giving a chance for every task to become the
+'leftmost task' and thus get on the CPU within a deterministic amount of
+time.
+
+Some implementation details:
+
+ - the introduction of Scheduling Classes: an extensible hierarchy of
+   scheduler modules. These modules encapsulate scheduling policy
+   details and are handled by the scheduler core without the core
+   code assuming about them too much.
+
+ - sched_fair.c implements the 'CFS desktop scheduler': it is a
+   replacement for the vanilla scheduler's SCHED_OTHER interactivity
+   code.
+
+   I'd like to give credit to Con Kolivas for the general approach here:
+   he has proven via RSDL/SD that 'fair scheduling' is possible and that
+   it results in better desktop scheduling. Kudos Con!
+
+   The CFS patch uses a completely different approach and implementation
+   from RSDL/SD. My goal was to make CFS's interactivity quality exceed
+   that of RSDL/SD, which is a high standard to meet :-) Testing
+   feedback is welcome to decide this one way or another. [ and, in any
+   case, all of SD's logic could be added via a kernel/sched_sd.c module
+   as well, if Con is interested in such an approach. ]
+
+   CFS's design is quite radical: it does not use runqueues, it uses a
+   time-ordered rbtree to build a 'timeline' of future task execution,
+   and thus has no 'array switch' artifacts (by which both the vanilla
+   scheduler and RSDL/SD are affected).
+
+   CFS uses nanosecond granularity accounting and does not rely on any
+   jiffies or other HZ detail. Thus the CFS scheduler has no notion of
+   'timeslices' and has no heuristics whatsoever. There is only one
+   central tunable:
+
+         /proc/sys/kernel/sched_granularity_ns
+
+   which can be used to tune the scheduler from 'desktop' (low
+   latencies) to 'server' (good batching) workloads. It defaults to a
+   setting suitable for desktop workloads. SCHED_BATCH is handled by the
+   CFS scheduler module too.
+
+   Due to its design, the CFS scheduler is not prone to any of the
+   'attacks' that exist today against the heuristics of the stock
+   scheduler: fiftyp.c, thud.c, chew.c, ring-test.c, massive_intr.c all
+   work fine and do not impact interactivity and produce the expected
+   behavior.
+
+   the CFS scheduler has a much stronger handling of nice levels and
+   SCHED_BATCH: both types of workloads should be isolated much more
+   agressively than under the vanilla scheduler.
+
+   ( another detail: due to nanosec accounting and timeline sorting,
+     sched_yield() support is very simple under CFS, and in fact under
+     CFS sched_yield() behaves much better than under any other
+     scheduler i have tested so far. )
+
+ - sched_rt.c implements SCHED_FIFO and SCHED_RR semantics, in a simpler
+   way than the vanilla scheduler does. It uses 100 runqueues (for all
+   100 RT priority levels, instead of 140 in the vanilla scheduler)
+   and it needs no expired array.
+
+ - reworked/sanitized SMP load-balancing: the runqueue-walking
+   assumptions are gone from the load-balancing code now, and
+   iterators of the scheduling modules are used. The balancing code got
+   quite a bit simpler as a result.
+
diff --git a/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt b/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..42861bb0bc9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/sysfs-rules.txt
@@ -0,0 +1,166 @@
+Rules on how to access information in the Linux kernel sysfs
+
+The kernel exported sysfs exports internal kernel implementation-details
+and depends on internal kernel structures and layout. It is agreed upon
+by the kernel developers that the Linux kernel does not provide a stable
+internal API. As sysfs is a direct export of kernel internal
+structures, the sysfs interface can not provide a stable interface eighter,
+it may always change along with internal kernel changes.
+
+To minimize the risk of breaking users of sysfs, which are in most cases
+low-level userspace applications, with a new kernel release, the users
+of sysfs must follow some rules to use an as abstract-as-possible way to
+access this filesystem. The current udev and HAL programs already
+implement this and users are encouraged to plug, if possible, into the
+abstractions these programs provide instead of accessing sysfs
+directly.
+
+But if you really do want or need to access sysfs directly, please follow
+the following rules and then your programs should work with future
+versions of the sysfs interface.
+
+- Do not use libsysfs
+  It makes assumptions about sysfs which are not true. Its API does not
+  offer any abstraction, it exposes all the kernel driver-core
+  implementation details in its own API. Therefore it is not better than
+  reading directories and opening the files yourself.
+  Also, it is not actively maintained, in the sense of reflecting the
+  current kernel-development. The goal of providing a stable interface
+  to sysfs has failed, it causes more problems, than it solves. It
+  violates many of the rules in this document.
+
+- sysfs is always at /sys
+  Parsing /proc/mounts is a waste of time. Other mount points are a
+  system configuration bug you should not try to solve. For test cases,
+  possibly support a SYSFS_PATH environment variable to overwrite the
+  applications behavior, but never try to search for sysfs. Never try
+  to mount it, if you are not an early boot script.
+
+- devices are only "devices"
+  There is no such thing like class-, bus-, physical devices,
+  interfaces, and such that you can rely on in userspace. Everything is
+  just simply a "device". Class-, bus-, physical, ... types are just
+  kernel implementation details, which should not be expected by
+  applications that look for devices in sysfs.
+
+  The properties of a device are:
+    o devpath (/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:1d.1/usb2/2-2/2-2:1.0)
+      - identical to the DEVPATH value in the event sent from the kernel
+        at device creation and removal
+      - the unique key to the device at that point in time
+      - the kernels path to the device-directory without the leading
+        /sys, and always starting with with a slash
+      - all elements of a devpath must be real directories. Symlinks
+        pointing to /sys/devices must always be resolved to their real
+        target, and the target path must be used to access the device.
+        That way the devpath to the device matches the devpath of the
+        kernel used at event time.
+      - using or exposing symlink values as elements in a devpath string
+        is a bug in the application
+
+    o kernel name (sda, tty, 0000:00:1f.2, ...)
+      - a directory name, identical to the last element of the devpath
+      - applications need to handle spaces and characters like '!' in
+        the name
+
+    o subsystem (block, tty, pci, ...)
+      - simple string, never a path or a link
+      - retrieved by reading the "subsystem"-link and using only the
+        last element of the target path
+
+    o driver (tg3, ata_piix, uhci_hcd)
+      - a simple string, which may contain spaces, never a path or a
+        link
+      - it is retrieved by reading the "driver"-link and using only the
+        last element of the target path
+      - devices which do not have "driver"-link, just do not have a
+        driver; copying the driver value in a child device context, is a
+        bug in the application
+
+    o attributes
+      - the files in the device directory or files below a subdirectories
+        of the same device directory
+      - accessing attributes reached by a symlink pointing to another device,
+        like the "device"-link, is a bug in the application
+
+  Everything else is just a kernel driver-core implementation detail,
+  that should not be assumed to be stable across kernel releases.
+
+- Properties of parent devices never belong into a child device.
+  Always look at the parent devices themselves for determining device
+  context properties. If the device 'eth0' or 'sda' does not have a
+  "driver"-link, then this device does not have a driver. Its value is empty.
+  Never copy any property of the parent-device into a child-device. Parent
+  device-properties may change dynamically without any notice to the
+  child device.
+
+- Hierarchy in a single device-tree
+  There is only one valid place in sysfs where hierarchy can be examined
+  and this is below: /sys/devices.
+  It is planned, that all device directories will end up in the tree
+  below this directory.
+
+- Classification by subsystem
+  There are currently three places for classification of devices:
+  /sys/block, /sys/class and /sys/bus. It is planned that these will
+  not contain any device-directories themselves, but only flat lists of
+  symlinks pointing to the unified /sys/devices tree.
+  All three places have completely different rules on how to access
+  device information. It is planned to merge all three
+  classification-directories into one place at /sys/subsystem,
+  following the layout of the bus-directories. All buses and
+  classes, including the converted block-subsystem, will show up
+  there.
+  The devices belonging to a subsystem will create a symlink in the
+  "devices" directory at /sys/subsystem/<name>/devices.
+
+  If /sys/subsystem exists, /sys/bus, /sys/class and /sys/block can be
+  ignored. If it does not exist, you have always to scan all three
+  places, as the kernel is free to move a subsystem from one place to
+  the other, as long as the devices are still reachable by the same
+  subsystem name.
+
+  Assuming /sys/class/<subsystem> and /sys/bus/<subsystem>, or
+  /sys/block and /sys/class/block are not interchangeable, is a bug in
+  the application.
+
+- Block
+  The converted block-subsystem at /sys/class/block, or
+  /sys/subsystem/block will contain the links for disks and partitions
+  at the same level, never in a hierarchy. Assuming the block-subsytem to
+  contain only disks and not partition-devices in the same flat list is
+  a bug in the application.
+
+- "device"-link and <subsystem>:<kernel name>-links
+  Never depend on the "device"-link. The "device"-link is a workaround
+  for the old layout, where class-devices are not created in
+  /sys/devices/ like the bus-devices. If the link-resolving of a
+  device-directory does not end in /sys/devices/, you can use the
+  "device"-link to find the parent devices in /sys/devices/. That is the
+  single valid use of the "device"-link, it must never appear in any
+  path as an element. Assuming the existence of the "device"-link for
+  a device in /sys/devices/ is a bug in the application.
+  Accessing /sys/class/net/eth0/device is a bug in the application.
+
+  Never depend on the class-specific links back to the /sys/class
+  directory.  These links are also a workaround for the design mistake
+  that class-devices are not created in /sys/devices. If a device
+  directory does not contain directories for child devices, these links
+  may be used to find the child devices in /sys/class. That is the single
+  valid use of these links, they must never appear in any path as an
+  element. Assuming the existence of these links for devices which are
+  real child device directories in the /sys/devices tree, is a bug in
+  the application.
+
+  It is planned to remove all these links when when all class-device
+  directories live in /sys/devices.
+
+- Position of devices along device chain can change.
+  Never depend on a specific parent device position in the devpath,
+  or the chain of parent devices. The kernel is free to insert devices into
+  the chain. You must always request the parent device you are looking for
+  by its subsystem value. You need to walk up the chain until you find
+  the device that matches the expected subsystem. Depending on a specific
+  position of a parent device, or exposing relative paths, using "../" to
+  access the chain of parents, is a bug in the application.
+