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* [PATCH] v4l: add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV TerminatorMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | - Add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV Terminator Signed-off-by: James R Webb <jrwebb@qwest.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] v4l: SAA7134 updates and board additionsMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | - Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h - Add new Digimatrix card and LG TAPC Mini tuner for it Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de> 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] v4l: BTTV updates and card additionsMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - Added DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card. - Added Acorp Y878F. - CodingStyle fixes. - Added tuner_addr to bttv cards structure. - linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h on bttvp.h - kernel module for acquiring RDS data from a SAA6588. - Allow multiple open() and reading calls to /dev/radio on bttv-driver.c - added i2c address for lgdt330x. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <koch@hjk-az.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> 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] v4l: common part Updates and tuner additionsMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - Included newer cards. - Added a new NEC protocol for ir based on pulse distance. - Enable ATSC support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold. - Added tuner LG NTSC (TALN mini series). - Fixed tea5767 autodetection. - Resolve more tuner types. - Commented debug function removed from mainstream. - Remove comments from mainstream. Still on development tree. - linux/version dependencies removed. - BTSC Lang1 now is set to auto_stereo mode. - New tuner standby API. - i2c-core.c uses hexadecimal for the i2c address, so it should stay consistent. Signed-off-by: Uli Luckas <luckas@musoft.de> Signed-off-by: Mac Michaels <wmichaels1@earthlink.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de> 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] dvb: dst: Updated DocumentationManu Abraham2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | Updated Documentation Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dvb: dst: ci doc updateManu Abraham2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | Updated documentation Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Anton Altaparmakov2005-09-09
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| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-08
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| | * [PATCH] USB: yealink: fix htons usage, documentation updatesHenk2005-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Henk Vergonet <henk.vergonet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| | * [PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phoneHenk2005-09-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch aggregates all modifications in the -mm tree and adds complete ringtone support. The following features are supported: - keyboard full support - LCD full support - LED full support - dialtone full support - ringtone full support - audio playback via generic usb audio diver - audio record via generic usb audio diver For driver documentation see: Documentation/input/yealink.txt For vendor documentation see: http://yealink.com Signed-off-by: Henk <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | [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>
* | Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/linux-2.6 Anton Altaparmakov2005-09-08
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| * Merge linux-2.6 with linux-acpi-2.6Len Brown2005-09-08
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| * \ Merge linux-2.6 into linux-acpi-2.6 testLen Brown2005-09-03
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| * \ \ Auto-update from upstreamLen Brown2005-08-29
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| * \ \ \ merge ibm into testLen Brown2005-08-25
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| | * | | | [ACPI] IBM ThinkPad ACPI Extras Driver v0.12Borislav Deianov2005-08-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://ibm-acpi.sf.net/ Signed-off-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sf.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | | | | Merge from-linus to-akpmLen Brown2005-08-23
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| * | | | | Merge 'acpi-2.6.12' branch into to-akpmLen Brown2005-08-15
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| | * \ \ \ \ Merge to-linus-stable into to-akpmLen Brown2005-08-15
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| * | \ \ \ \ \ Merge ../to-linusLen Brown2005-08-11
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| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge ../from-linusLen Brown2005-08-05
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| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ /home/lenb/src/to-akpm branch 'acpi-2.6.12'Len Brown2005-08-04
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| | * | | | | | | | [ACPI] update hotkey documentationIacopo Spalletti2005-07-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4903 Signed-off-by: Iacopo Spalletti <avvisi@spalletti.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | | | | | | | | NTFS: 2.1.24 release and some minor final fixes.Anton Altaparmakov2005-09-08
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* | | | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| * \ \ \ \ \ \ \ \ Merge by hand (conflicts in sd.c)James Bottomley2005-09-06
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| | * | | | | | | | | [SCSI] unexport scsi_add_timer/scsi_delete_timerChristoph Hellwig2005-09-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | | | | | | | | Merge HEAD from ../scsi-misc-2.6-tmp James Bottomley2005-08-28
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| | * | | | | | | | [SCSI] aic7xxx: upport all sequencer and core fixes from adaptec version 6.3.9James Bottomley2005-08-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch upports all relevant code fixes and bumps the driver version to 7.0 to signify starting a new tree. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-09-07
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| * | | | | | | | | | [kernel-doc] fix various DocBook build problems/warningsJeff Garzik2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Most serious is fixing include/sound/pcm.h, which breaks the DocBook build. The other stuff is just filling in things that cause warnings.
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] DVB: Clarify description text for dvb-bt8xx in KconfigMichael Krufky2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patrick Keene wrote to the linux-dvb list, asking where in menuconfig he can enable dvb-bt8xx for his AVerMedia DVB card. I pointed the following out to him: config DVB_BT8XX tristate "Nebula/Pinnacle PCTV/Twinhan PCI cards" It has been agreed upon that this description is extremely misleading. This patch changes the one-liner description text of dvb-bt8xx to something more meaningful, and adds AVerMedia to the detailed description. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] ipmi poweroff: fix chassis controlCorey Minyard2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The IPMI power control function proc_write_chassctrl was badly written, it directly used userspace pointers, it assumed that strings were NULL terminated, and it used the evil sscanf function. This converts over to using the sysctl interface for this data and changes the semantics to be a little more logical. Signed-off-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org> Cc: <viro@parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] cpusets: formalize intermediate GFP_KERNEL containmentPaul Jackson2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch makes use of the previously underutilized cpuset flag 'mem_exclusive' to provide what amounts to another layer of memory placement resolution. With this patch, there are now the following four layers of memory placement available: 1) The whole system (interrupt and GFP_ATOMIC allocations can use this), 2) The nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset (GFP_KERNEL allocations can use), 3) The current tasks cpuset (GFP_USER allocations constrained to here), and 4) Specific node placement, using mbind and set_mempolicy. These nest - each layer is a subset (same or within) of the previous. Layer (2) above is new, with this patch. The call used to check whether a zone (its node, actually) is in a cpuset (in its mems_allowed, actually) is extended to take a gfp_mask argument, and its logic is extended, in the case that __GFP_HARDWALL is not set in the flag bits, to look up the cpuset hierarchy for the nearest enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset, to determine if placement is allowed. The definition of GFP_USER, which used to be identical to GFP_KERNEL, is changed to also set the __GFP_HARDWALL bit, in the previous cpuset_gfp_hardwall_flag patch. GFP_ATOMIC and GFP_KERNEL allocations will stay within the current tasks cpuset, so long as any node therein is not too tight on memory, but will escape to the larger layer, if need be. The intended use is to allow something like a batch manager to handle several jobs, each job in its own cpuset, but using common kernel memory for caches and such. Swapper and oom_kill activity is also constrained to Layer (2). A task in or below one mem_exclusive cpuset should not cause swapping on nodes in another non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpuset, nor provoke oom_killing of a task in another such cpuset. Heavy use of kernel memory for i/o caching and such by one job should not impact the memory available to jobs in other non-overlapping mem_exclusive cpusets. This patch enables providing hardwall, inescapable cpusets for memory allocations of each job, while sharing kernel memory allocations between several jobs, in an enclosing mem_exclusive cpuset. Like Dinakar's patch earlier to enable administering sched domains using the cpu_exclusive flag, this patch also provides a useful meaning to a cpuset flag that had previously done nothing much useful other than restrict what cpuset configurations were allowed. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [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] Make the bzImage format self-terminatingH. Peter Anvin2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Frank Sorenson <frank@tuxrocks.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] Add rdinit parameter to pick early userspace initOlof Johansson2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since early userspace was added, there's no way to override which init to run from it. Some people tack on an extra cpio archive with a link from /init depending on what they want to run, but that's sometimes impractical. Changing the "init=" to also override the early userspace isn't feasible, since it is still used to indicate what init to run from disk when early userspace has completed doing whatever it's doing (i.e. load filesystem modules and drivers). Instead, introduce "rdinit=" and make it override the default "/init" if specified. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson <olof@lixom.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] dcdbas: add Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs supportDoug Warzecha2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds the Dell Systems Management Base Driver with sysfs support. This driver has been tested with Dell OpenManage. Signed-off-by: Doug Warzecha <Douglas_Warzecha@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] dell_rbu: new Dell BIOS update driverAbhay Salunke2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remote BIOS Update driver for updating BIOS images on Dell servers and desktops. See dell_rbu.txt for details. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] sonypi SPIC initialisation fixErik Waling2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Newer Sony VAIO models (VGN-S480, VGN-S460, VGN-S3XP etc) use a new method to initialize the SPIC device. The new way to initialize (and disable) the device comes directly from the AML code in the _CRS, _SRS and _DIS methods from the DSDT table. This patch adds support for the new models. Signed-off-by: Erik Waling <erikw@acc.umu.se> Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> 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>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] NMI: Update NMI users of RCU to use new APIPaul E. McKenney2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Uses of RCU for dynamically changeable NMI handlers need to use the new rcu_dereference() and rcu_assign_pointer() facilities. This change makes it clear that these uses are safe from a memory-barrier viewpoint, but the main purpose is to document exactly what operations are being protected by RCU. This has been tested on x86 and x86-64, which are the only architectures affected by this change. Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] relayfsTom Zanussi2005-09-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's the latest version of relayfs, against linux-2.6.11-mm2. I'm hoping you'll consider putting this version back into your tree - the previous rounds of comment seem to have shaken out all the API issues and the number of comments on the code itself have also steadily dwindled. This patch is essentially the same as the relayfs redux part 5 patch, with some minor changes based on reviewer comments. Thanks again to Pekka Enberg for those. The patch size without documentation is now a little smaller at just over 40k. Here's a detailed list of the changes: - removed the attribute_flags in relay open and changed it to a boolean specifying either overwrite or no-overwrite mode, and removed everything referencing the attribute flags. - added a check for NULL names in relayfs_create_entry() - got rid of the unnecessary multiple labels in relay_create_buf() - some minor simplification of relay_alloc_buf() which got rid of a couple params - updated the Documentation In addition, this version (through code contained in the relay-apps tarball linked to below, not as part of the relayfs patch) tries to make it as easy as possible to create the cooperating kernel/user pieces of a typical and common type of logging application, one where kernel logging is kicked off when a user space data collection app starts and stops when the collection app exits, with the data being automatically logged to disk in between. To create this type of application, you basically just include a header file (relay-app.h, included in the relay-apps tarball) in your kernel module, define a couple of callbacks and call an initialization function, and on the user side call a single function that sets up and continuously monitors the buffers, and writes data to files as it becomes available. Channels are created when the collection app is started and destroyed when it exits, not when the kernel module is inserted, so different channel buffer sizes can be specified for each separate run via command-line options. See the README in the relay-apps tarball for details. Also included in the relay-apps tarball are a couple examples demonstrating how you can use this to create quick and dirty kernel logging/debugging applications. They are: - tprintk, short for 'tee printk', which temporarily puts a kprobe on printk() and writes a duplicate stream of printk output to a relayfs channel. This could be used anywhere there's printk() debugging code in the kernel which you'd like to exercise, but would rather not have your system logs cluttered with debugging junk. You'd probably want to kill klogd while you do this, otherwise there wouldn't be much point (since putting a kprobe on printk() doesn't change the output of printk()). I've used this method to temporarily divert the packet logging output of the iptables LOG target from the system logs to relayfs files instead, for instance. - klog, which just provides a printk-like formatted logging function on top of relayfs. Again, you can use this to keep stuff out of your system logs if used in place of printk. The example applications can be found here: http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/dprobes/relay-apps.tar.gz?download From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> avoid lookup_hash usage in relayfs Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] swsusp: update documentationPavel Machek2005-09-07
|/ / / / / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This updates documentation a bit (mostly removing obsolete stuff), and marks swsusp as no longer experimental in config. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild Linus Torvalds2005-09-06
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| * | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] kbuild: describe Kbuild pitfallPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Whitespace is significant for make, and I just fought against this... so please apply this patch. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | | | | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-06
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| * | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] Driver core: Documentation: use S_IRUSR | ... in stead of 0644Jan Veldeman2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change filemode to use defines in stead of 0644, based on suggestions by Walter Harms and Domen Puncer. Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | | | | | | | | [PATCH] Driver core: Documentation: fix whitespace between parametersJan Veldeman2005-09-05
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix whitespace after comma between parameters. Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>