6 files changed, 53 insertions, 65 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes
index 5f4828a034e3..b17580885273 100644
--- a/Documentation/Changes
+++ b/Documentation/Changes
@@ -2,13 +2,7 @@ Intro
 =====
 
 This document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
-software necessary to run the 2.6 kernels, as well as provide brief
-instructions regarding any other "Gotchas" users may encounter when
-trying life on the Bleeding Edge.  If upgrading from a pre-2.4.x
-kernel, please consult the Changes file included with 2.4.x kernels for
-additional information; most of that information will not be repeated
-here.  Basically, this document assumes that your system is already
-functional and running at least 2.4.x kernels.
+software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels.
 
 This document is originally based on my "Changes" file for 2.0.x kernels
 and therefore owes credit to the same people as that file (Jared Mauch,
@@ -22,11 +16,10 @@ Upgrade to at *least* these software revisions before thinking you've
 encountered a bug!  If you're unsure what version you're currently
 running, the suggested command should tell you.
 
-Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already
-functionally running a Linux 2.4 kernel.  Also, not all tools are
-necessary on all systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN
-hardware, for example, you probably needn't concern yourself with
-isdn4k-utils.
+Again, keep in mind that this list assumes you are already functionally
+running a Linux kernel.  Also, not all tools are necessary on all
+systems; obviously, if you don't have any ISDN hardware, for example,
+you probably needn't concern yourself with isdn4k-utils.
 
 o  Gnu C                  3.2                     # gcc --version
 o  Gnu make               3.80                    # make --version
@@ -114,12 +107,12 @@ Ksymoops
 
 If the unthinkable happens and your kernel oopses, you may need the
 ksymoops tool to decode it, but in most cases you don't.
-In the 2.6 kernel it is generally preferred to build the kernel with
-CONFIG_KALLSYMS so that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is
-(this also produces better output than ksymoops).
-If for some reason your kernel is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and
-you have no way to rebuild and reproduce the Oops with that option, then
-you can still decode that Oops with ksymoops.
+It is generally preferred to build the kernel with CONFIG_KALLSYMS so
+that it produces readable dumps that can be used as-is (this also
+produces better output than ksymoops).  If for some reason your kernel
+is not build with CONFIG_KALLSYMS and you have no way to rebuild and
+reproduce the Oops with that option, then you can still decode that Oops
+with ksymoops.
 
 Module-Init-Tools
 -----------------
@@ -261,8 +254,8 @@ needs to be recompiled or (preferably) upgraded.
 NFS-utils
 ---------
 
-In 2.4 and earlier kernels, the nfs server needed to know about any
-client that expected to be able to access files via NFS.  This
+In ancient (2.4 and earlier) kernels, the nfs server needed to know
+about any client that expected to be able to access files via NFS.  This
 information would be given to the kernel by "mountd" when the client
 mounted the filesystem, or by "exportfs" at system startup.  exportfs
 would take information about active clients from /var/lib/nfs/rmtab.
@@ -272,11 +265,11 @@ which is not always easy, particularly when trying to implement
 fail-over.  Even when the system is working well, rmtab suffers from
 getting lots of old entries that never get removed.
 
-With 2.6 we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd when it
-gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give appropriate
-export information to the kernel.  This removes the dependency on
-rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about currently
-active clients.
+With modern kernels we have the option of having the kernel tell mountd
+when it gets a request from an unknown host, and mountd can give
+appropriate export information to the kernel.  This removes the
+dependency on rmtab and means that the kernel only needs to know about
+currently active clients.
 
 To enable this new functionality, you need to:
 
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 72e238465b0b..b1c921c27519 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -583,3 +583,25 @@ Why:	Superseded by the UVCIOC_CTRL_QUERY ioctl.
 Who:    Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com>
 
 ----------------------------
+
+What:   For VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY the type field must match the device node's type.
+        If not, return -EINVAL.
+When:   3.2
+Why:    It makes no sense to switch the tuner to radio mode by calling
+        VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a video node, or to switch the tuner to tv mode by
+        calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY on a radio node. This is the first step of a
+        move to more consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
+Who:    Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
+
+----------------------------
+
+What:   Opening a radio device node will no longer automatically switch the
+        tuner mode from tv to radio.
+When:   3.3
+Why:    Just opening a V4L device should not change the state of the hardware
+        like that. It's very unexpected and against the V4L spec. Instead, you
+        switch to radio mode by calling VIDIOC_S_FREQUENCY. This is the second
+        and last step of the move to consistent handling of tv and radio tuners.
+Who:    Hans Verkuil <hans.verkuil@cisco.com>
+
+----------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
index d5c0cef38a71..873a2ab2e9f8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/nilfs2.txt
@@ -40,7 +40,6 @@ Features which NILFS2 does not support yet:
         - POSIX ACLs
         - quotas
         - fsck
-        - resize
         - defragmentation
 
 Mount options
diff --git a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
index 1565eefd6fd5..61815483efa3 100644
--- a/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
+++ b/Documentation/laptops/thinkpad-acpi.txt
@@ -534,6 +534,8 @@ Events that are never propagated by the driver:
 0x2404          System is waking up from hibernation to undock
 0x2405          System is waking up from hibernation to eject bay
 0x5010          Brightness level changed/control event
+0x6000          KEYBOARD: Numlock key pressed
+0x6005          KEYBOARD: Fn key pressed (TO BE VERIFIED)
 
 Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
 
@@ -545,6 +547,8 @@ Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
 0x3006          Bay hotplug request (hint to power up SATA link when
                 the optical drive tray is ejected)
 0x4003          Undocked (see 0x2x04), can sleep again
+0x4010          Docked into hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
+0x4011          Undocked from hotplug port replicator (non-ACPI dock)
 0x500B          Tablet pen inserted into its storage bay
 0x500C          Tablet pen removed from its storage bay
 0x6011          ALARM: battery is too hot
@@ -552,6 +556,7 @@ Events that are propagated by the driver to userspace:
 0x6021          ALARM: a sensor is too hot
 0x6022          ALARM: a sensor is extremely hot
 0x6030          System thermal table changed
+0x6040          Nvidia Optimus/AC adapter related (TO BE VERIFIED)
 
 Battery nearly empty alarms are a last resort attempt to get the
 operating system to hibernate or shutdown cleanly (0x2313), or shutdown
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
index d3d653a5f9b9..bfe924217f24 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
+++ b/Documentation/networking/ip-sysctl.txt
@@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ tcp_orphan_retries - INTEGER
         when RTO retransmissions remain unacknowledged.
         See tcp_retries2 for more details.
 
-        The default value is 7.
+        The default value is 8.
         If your machine is a loaded WEB server,
         you should think about lowering this value, such sockets
         may consume significant resources. Cf. tcp_max_orphans.
diff --git a/Documentation/spinlocks.txt b/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
index 2e3c64b1a6a5..9dbe885ecd8d 100644
--- a/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
+++ b/Documentation/spinlocks.txt
@@ -13,18 +13,8 @@ static DEFINE_SPINLOCK(xxx_lock);
 The above is always safe. It will disable interrupts _locally_, but the
 spinlock itself will guarantee the global lock, so it will guarantee that
 there is only one thread-of-control within the region(s) protected by that
-lock. This works well even under UP. The above sequence under UP
-essentially is just the same as doing
-
-        unsigned long flags;
-
-        save_flags(flags); cli();
-         ... critical section ...
-        restore_flags(flags);
-
-so the code does _not_ need to worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks
-work correctly under both (and spinlocks are actually more efficient on
-architectures that allow doing the "save_flags + cli" in one operation).
+lock. This works well even under UP also, so the code does _not_ need to
+worry about UP vs SMP issues: the spinlocks work correctly under both.
 
    NOTE! Implications of spin_locks for memory are further described in:
 
@@ -36,27 +26,7 @@ The above is usually pretty simple (you usually need and want only one
 spinlock for most things - using more than one spinlock can make things a
 lot more complex and even slower and is usually worth it only for
 sequences that you _know_ need to be split up: avoid it at all cost if you
-aren't sure). HOWEVER, it _does_ mean that if you have some code that does
-
-        cli();
-        .. critical section ..
-        sti();
-
-and another sequence that does
-
-        spin_lock_irqsave(flags);
-        .. critical section ..
-        spin_unlock_irqrestore(flags);
-
-then they are NOT mutually exclusive, and the critical regions can happen
-at the same time on two different CPU's. That's fine per se, but the
-critical regions had better be critical for different things (ie they
-can't stomp on each other).
-
-The above is a problem mainly if you end up mixing code - for example the
-routines in ll_rw_block() tend to use cli/sti to protect the atomicity of
-their actions, and if a driver uses spinlocks instead then you should
-think about issues like the above.
+aren't sure).
 
 This is really the only really hard part about spinlocks: once you start
 using spinlocks they tend to expand to areas you might not have noticed
@@ -120,11 +90,10 @@ Lesson 3: spinlocks revisited.
 
 The single spin-lock primitives above are by no means the only ones. They
 are the most safe ones, and the ones that work under all circumstances,
-but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are
-much faster than a generic global cli/sti pair, but slower than they'd
-need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts (which is just a
-single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one - and on other
-architectures it can be worse).
+but partly _because_ they are safe they are also fairly slow. They are slower
+than they'd need to be, because they do have to disable interrupts
+(which is just a single instruction on a x86, but it's an expensive one -
+and on other architectures it can be worse).
 
 If you have a case where you have to protect a data structure across
 several CPU's and you want to use spinlocks you can potentially use