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* [PATCH] Validate and sanitze itimer timeval from userspaceThomas Gleixner2006-03-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | According to the specification the timevals must be validated and an errorcode -EINVAL returned in case the timevals are not in canonical form. This check was never done in Linux. The pre 2.6.16 code converted invalid timevals silently. Negative timeouts were converted by the timeval_to_jiffies conversion to the maximum timeout. hrtimers and the ktime_t operations expect timevals in canonical form. Otherwise random results might happen on 32 bits machines due to the optimized ktime_add/sub operations. Negative timeouts are treated as already expired. This might break applications which work on pre 2.6.16. To prevent random behaviour and API breakage the timevals are checked and invalid timevals sanitized in a simliar way as the pre 2.6.16 code did. Invalid timevals are reported with a per boot limited number of kernel messages so applications which use this misfeature can be corrected. After a grace period of one year the sanitizing should be replaced by a correct validation check. This is also documented in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt The validation and sanitizing is done inside do_setitimer so all callers (sys_setitimer, compat_sys_setitimer, osf_setitimer) are catched. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] deprecate the tasklist_lock exportChristoph Hellwig2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Drivers have no business looking at the task list and thus using this lock. The only possibly modular users left are: arch/ia64/kernel/mca.c drivers/edac/edac_mc.c fs/binfmt_elf.c which I'll send out fixes for soon. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] deprecate the kernel_thread exportChristoph Hellwig2006-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | Announce that the kernel_thread export will be removed in half a year, after all it's users have been converted to the kthread_ API, which I plan to do over the next month. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] PCI: the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROCAdrian Bunk2006-03-23
| | | | | | | This patch contains the scheduled removal of PCI_LEGACY_PROC. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] add EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL_FUTURE() to USB subsystemGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-03-20
| | | | | | | | The USB core symbols will be converted to GPL-only in a few years. Mark this as such and update the documentation explaining why, and provide a pointer for developers to receive help if they need it. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2006-03-11
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| * [MIPS] Threaten removal of code for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards.Ralf Baechle2006-03-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | What: Support for NEC DDB5074 and DDB5476 evaluation boards. When: June 2006 Why: Board specific code doesn't build anymore since ~2.6.0 and no users have complained indicating there is no more need for these boards. This should really be considered a last call. Who: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* | Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2006-02-23
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| * Revert mount/umount uevent removalGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-02-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This change reverts the 033b96fd30db52a710d97b06f87d16fc59fee0f1 commit from Kay Sievers that removed the mount/umount uevents from the kernel. Some older versions of HAL still depend on these events to detect when a new device has been mounted. These events are not correctly emitted, and are broken by design, and so, should not be relied upon by any future program. Instead, the /proc/mounts file should be polled to properly detect this kind of event. A feature-removal-schedule.txt entry has been added, noting when this interface will be removed from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'viro'Jeff Garzik2006-02-09
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| * [PATCH] hwmon: Fix reboot on it87 driver loadJean Delvare2006-02-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Only scan I2C address 0x2d. This is the default address and no IT87xxF chip was ever seen on I2C at a different address. These chips are better accessed through their ISA interface anyway. This fixes bug #5889, although it doesn't address the whole class of problems. We'd need the ability to blacklist arbitrary I2C addresses on systems known to contain I2C devices which behave badly when probed. Plan the I2C interface for removal as well. If nobody complains within a year, it will confirm my impression that the I2C interface isn't actually needed by anyone. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik2006-02-07
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| * [PATCH] pci: Schedule removal of pci_module_initRichard Knutsson2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Scheduled the removal of pci_module_init. Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson <ricknu-0@student.ltu.se> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * [PATCH] PCI: schedule PCI_LEGACY_PROC for removalAdrian Bunk2006-01-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | PCI_LEGACY_PROC is deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8). Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [netdrvr] schedule eepro100 for removalBunk2006-02-07
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* [PATCH] When CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE, allow gcc4 to control inliningIngo Molnar2006-01-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | If optimizing for size (CONFIG_CC_OPTIMIZE_FOR_SIZE), allow gcc4 compilers to decide what to inline and what not - instead of the kernel forcing gcc to inline all the time. This requires several places that require to be inlined to be marked as such, previous patches in this series do that. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge ../torvalds-2.6/Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-01-06
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| * Merge with http://kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.gitJody McIntyre2005-11-18
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| * | Remove amdtp, cmp drivers.Jody McIntyre2005-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove the Audio and Music Data Transmission Protocol driver and the Connection Management Procedures driver. These are incomplete, have never worked, and are better implemented in userland via raw1394 (see http://freebob.sourceforge.net/ for example.) Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | | [PATCH] hwmon: remove deprecated sysfs names of adm1025 and adm1026Grant Coady2006-01-06
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | drivers, hwmon, adm1025 and adm1026: remove deprecated sysfs names. these names have been listed for removal for six months, time for them to go Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [MIPS] feature-removal-schedule.txt: Schedule au1x00_uart for removal.Ralf Baechle2005-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an issue. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* | [PATCH] md: mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a dateNeilBrown2005-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This was marked deprecated "after 2.6" back in the 2.5 days. But now it seems there isn't going to be any "after 2.6", and we deprecate by date now. So set a date. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] V4L: removal schedule for V4L1 APIMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | States a date for removing V4L1 API Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] sanitize lookup_hash prototypeChristoph Hellwig2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ->permission and ->lookup have a struct nameidata * argument these days to pass down lookup intents. Unfortunately some callers of lookup_hash don't actually pass this one down. For lookup_one_len() we don't have a struct nameidata to pass down, but as this function is a library function only used by filesystem code this is an acceptable limitation. All other callers should pass down the nameidata, so this patch changes the lookup_hash interface to only take a struct nameidata argument and derives the other two arguments to __lookup_hash from it. All callers already have the nameidata argument available so this is not a problem. At the same time I'd like to deprecate the lookup_hash interface as there are better exported interfaces for filesystem usage. Before it can actually be removed I need to fix up rpc_pipefs. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removalAdrian Bunk2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules: panic_timeoutAdrian Bunk2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using. Give panic_timeout the twelve-month treatment. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] __deprecated_for_modules: insert_resourceAdrian Bunk2005-11-07
|/ | | | | | | | This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using. Give insert_resource the twelve-month treatment. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] feature removal of io_remap_page_range()Randy Dunlap2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the io_remap_page_range() kernel API. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove ACPI S4bios supportPavel Machek2005-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_ once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in feature-removal for a long time, and it should have been removed before. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] PCI: remove CONFIG_PCI_NAMESAdrian Bunk2005-09-08
| | | | | | | This patch removes CONFIG_PCI_NAMES. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] remove verify_area(): remove or edit references to verify_area in ↵Jesper Juhl2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | Documentation/ Remove (or edit) remaining references to the now dead verify_area() function from files in Documentation/. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] remove register_ioctl32_conversion and unregister_ioctl32_conversionAdrian Bunk2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | All users have been converted. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [SERIAL] feature-removal-schedule.txt: remove {,un}register_serial entryAdrian Bunk2005-09-03
| | | | | | | | If the feature is removed, there's no need to keep the entry in feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* [NETFILTER]: Add "nfnetlink_queue" netfilter queue handler over nfnetlinkHarald Welte2005-08-29
| | | | | | | | | | - Add new nfnetlink_queue module - Add new ipt_NFQUEUE and ip6t_NFQUEUE modules to access queue numbers 1-65535 - Mark ip_queue and ip6_queue Kconfig options as OBSOLETE - Update feature-removal-schedule to remove ip[6]_queue in December Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Serial: Move deprecation of register_serial forward to SeptemberRussell King2005-07-16
| | | | | | | | | I think it's about time to make the build a little more vocal about the expiry of these functions. Due to recent discussions with problems in the console initialisation vs power manglement, I'd like to move the date forward to September. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* [PATCH] pcmcia: deprecate ioctlDominik Brodowski2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005. A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in Linux. Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removalAdrian Bunk2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was obsolete. (trolling for IBMers) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add removal schedule of register_serial/unregister_serial to ↵Russell King2005-06-23
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* [PATCH] add note about verify_area removal to feature-removal-schedule.txtJesper Juhl2005-06-23
| | | | | | | | | Add note about the soon-to-come removal of verify_area() to Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt. Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml@dif.dk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] I2C: sysfs names: rename to cpu0_vid, take 3Grant Coady2005-06-22
| | | | | | | | | | | This small patch changes two drivers, adm1025 and adm1026, to report vid as cpu0_vid sysfs name as used by the other drivers. Added duplicated names and six month warning for old names to be removed as requested. Compile tested. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [PATCH] ieee1394: feature removal noticesJody McIntyre2005-05-17
| | | | | | | | | drivers/ieee1394 feature removal notices: amdtp, cmp, legacy rawiso interface Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@steamballoon.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] kernel/rcupdate.c: make the exports EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPLPaul E. McKenney2005-05-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The gpl exports need to be put back. Moving them to GPL -- but in a measured manner, as I proposed on this list some months ago -- is fine. Changing these particular exports precipitously is most definitely -not- fine. Here is my earlier proposal: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=110520930301813&w=2 See below for a patch that puts the exports back, along with an updated version of my earlier patch that starts the process of moving them to GPL. I will also be following this message with RFC patches that introduce two (EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL) interfaces to replace synchronize_kernel(), which then becomes deprecated. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] officially deprecate register_ioctl32_conversionChristoph Hellwig2005-04-16
| | | | | | | | | | These have been deprecated since ->compat_ioctl when in, thus only a short deprecation period. There's four users left: i2o_config, s390/z90crypy, s390/dasd and s390/zfcp and for the first two patches are about to be submitted to get rid of it. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Linux-2.6.12-rc2v2.6.12-rc2Linus Torvalds2005-04-16
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history, even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about 3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good infrastructure for it. Let it rip!
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