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* [PATCH] USB: documentation updateAlan Stern2005-11-30
| | | | | | | | This patch (as611) fixes a minor mistake and misspelling in the USB documentation. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* [NET]: Fix ifenslave to not fail on lack of IP informationNeil Horman2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | | Patch to ifenslave so that under older ABI versions, a failure to propogate ip information from master to slave does not result in a filure to enslave the slave device. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL correctionsRandy Dunlap2005-11-22
| | | | | | | | | Correct lots of URLs in Documentation/ Also a few minor whitespace cleanups and typo/spello fixes. Sadly there are still a lot of bad URLs remaining. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap2005-11-21
| | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in network files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2005-11-19
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| * [ARM] Fix some corner cases in new mm initialisationRussell King2005-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document that the VMALLOC_END address must be aligned to 2MB since it must align with a PGD boundary. Allocate the vectors page early so that the flush_cache_all() later will cause any dirty cache lines in the direct mapping will be safely written back. Move the flush_cache_all() to the second local_flush_cache_tlb() and remove the now redundant first local_flush_cache_tlb(). Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | [PATCH] update Documentation/00-INDEXGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the index file with descriptions of the stable_api_nonsense.txt and stable_kernel_rules.txt files. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add HOWTO do kernel development document to the Documentation directoryGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-11-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a document that describes the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development. It has gone through a number of rounds of review on the linux-kernel mailing list, and contains contributions and help from Paolo Ciarrocchi, Randy Dunlap, Gerrit Huizenga, Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Kay Sievers, Vojtech Pavlik, Jan Kara, Josh Boyer, Kees Cook, Andrew Morton, Andi Kleen, Vadim Lobanov, Jesper Juhl, Adrian Bunk, Keri Harris, Frans Pop, David A. Wheeler, Junio Hamano, Michael Kerrisk, and Alex Shepard. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] USB: Delete leftovers from bluetty driverMarcel Holtmann2005-11-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch deletes the bluetooth.txt help file of the bluetty driver and hands over its major device nodes for character devices to the RFCOMM TTY implementation of the Bluetooth subsystem. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [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] oops-tracing: mention extended VGADave Jones2005-11-15
| | | | | | | | | Something I've found handy countless times when users do this.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Update location of ll_rw_blk.c in docsBen Collins2005-11-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Picked from the ubuntu-2.6 tree The change in location for ll_rw_blk.c from drivers/block/ to block/ caused failure to generate documentation. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.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>
* Merge x86-64 update from AndiLinus Torvalds2005-11-14
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| * [PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_CHECKING and add command line option for ↵Andi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pagefault tracing CONFIG_CHECKING covered some debugging code used in the early times of the port. But it wasn't even SMP safe for quite some time and the bugs it checked for seem to be gone. This patch removes all the code to verify GS at kernel entry. There haven't been any new bugs in this area for a long time. Previously it also covered the sysctl for the page fault tracing. That didn't make much sense because that code was unconditionally compiled in. I made that a boot option now because it is typically only useful at boot. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Log machine checks from boot on Intel systemsAndi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The logging for boot errors was turned off because it was broken on some AMD systems. But give Intel EM64T systems a chance because they are supposed to be correct there. The advantage is that there is a chance to actually log uncorrected machine checks after the reset. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: New heuristics to find out hotpluggable CPUs.Andi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With a NR_CPUS==128 kernel with CPU hotplug enabled we would waste 4MB on per CPU data of all possible CPUs. The reason was that HOTPLUG always set up possible map to NR_CPUS cpus and then we need to allocate that much (each per CPU data is roughly ~32k now) The underlying problem is that ACPI didn't tell us how many hotplug CPUs the platform supports. So the old code just assumed all, which would lead to this memory wastage. This implements some new heuristics: - If the BIOS specified disabled CPUs in the ACPI/mptables assume they can be enabled later (this is bending the ACPI specification a bit, but seems like a obvious extension) - The user can overwrite it with a new additionals_cpus=NUM option - Otherwise use half of the available CPUs or 2, whatever is more. Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Some clarifications for Documention/x86_64/mm.txtAndi Kleen2005-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | I got some questions on this, so just fix up the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] DocBook: revert xmlto use for .ps and .pdf documentationMartin Waitz2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As xmlto doesn't work for print documentation, we need docbook-utils again for these targets. This patch allows the user to choose the method he wants to use. (I'm still hoping that someone will fix passivetex ;-) Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] DocBook: comment about paper typeMartin Waitz2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a comment showing how to change paper type. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] DocBook: include printk documentationMartin Waitz2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add printk documentation to kernel-api. Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] v4l: (962) Added new saa7134 card (MSI TV@anywhere plus)Ricardo Cerqueira2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added new saa7134 card (MSI TV@anywhere plus) Signed-off-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org> 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:: (936) Support for sabrent bt848 versionBill Pechter2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Support for Sabrent bt848 version. Signed-off-by: Bill Pechter <pechter@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> 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] oops-tracing: mention digital photosDiego Calleja2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] atomic: inc_not_zeroNick Piggin2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce an atomic_inc_not_zero operation. Make this a special case of atomic_add_unless because lockless pagecache actually wants atomic_inc_not_negativeone due to its offset refcount. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] atomic: cmpxchgNick Piggin2005-11-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Introduce an atomic_cmpxchg operation. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2005-11-11
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| * | earlyuserspace/README: fix homonym errJim Cromie2005-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jim Cromie <jim.cromie@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-11-11
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| * \ \ Merge by hand (whitespace conflicts in libata.h)James Bottomley2005-11-10
| |\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | | [SCSI] remove Scsi_Device typedefChristoph Hellwig2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | | [SCSI] remove Scsi_Host_Template typedefChristoph Hellwig2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | | Merge by hand (conflicts between pending drivers and kfree cleanups)James Bottomley2005-11-08
| |\ \ \ \ | | |_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | | [SCSI] cciss: scsi error handlingmike.miller@hp.com2005-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds SCSI error handling code to the SCSI portion of the cciss driver. Signed-off-by: Stephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | | [SCSI] remove the obsolete SCSI qlogicisp driverAdrian Bunk2005-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SCSI qlogicisp driver is both marked BROKEN and superseded by the qla1280 driver. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| | * | | [SCSI] Documentation: typo in scsi/scsi_eh.txtStefan Richter2005-11-06
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | undefined symbol in Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | | | | [TCP]: Appropriate Byte Count supportStephen Hemminger2005-11-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control. The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little change after leaving slow start. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | [DCCP]: Create Documentation/networking/dccp.txtIan McDonald2005-11-10
| |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch is a first go at some documentation. Please advise if gmail has mangled patch and I will revert to an attachment: Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-11-09
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| * | | | [PATCH] i2c-viapro: Some adjustmentsJean Delvare2005-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The big i2c-viapro SMBus driver update which went into 2.6.14-git1 introduced a few minor issues. Nothing critical, but I would like a few adjustments to be merged in to fix the following problems: * VIA should not be spelled Via. * Frodo Looijaard and Philip Edelbrock did not write the i2c-viapro driver. * When debugging is disabled, half of messages would be logged. * Drop an unneeded masking. * Some port reads can be avoided now that the transaction size is passed as a parameter to vt596_transaction(). * SMBus Receive Byte transactions are used for probing too (for EEPROMs), so hide errors on these too. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | [PATCH] i2c: writing-client doc update complementJean Delvare2005-11-08
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | My latest update to the writing-clients i2c documentation file was incomplete, here's the complement. Large parts of this file are still way out-of-date, but at least now the memory allocation and freeing instructions are consistent. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-11-09
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| * \ \ \ Merge rsync://bughost.org/repos/ipw-delta/Jeff Garzik2005-11-09
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| | * | | Updated READMEs and MAINTAINERS for the ipw2100 and ipw2200 drivers.James Ketrenos2005-11-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: James Ketrenos <jketreno@linux.intel.com>
* | | | | [PATCH] md: document sysfs usage of md, and make a couple of small refinementsNeilBrown2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document in Documentation/md.txt the files that now appear in sysfs, and make a couple of small refinements to exactly when 'level' and 'raid_disks' are empty, to make it match the documentation. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] fbcon: Console Rotation - Add framebuffer console documentationAntonino A. Daplas2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation as Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt describing the framebuffer console and its boot options. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] sched: resched and cpu_idle reworkNick Piggin2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce confusion, and make their semantics rigid. Improves efficiency of resched_task and some cpu_idle routines. * In resched_task: - TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the task's runqueue lock held, and as we hold it during resched_task, then there is no need for an atomic test and set there. The only other time this should be set is when the task's quantum expires, in the timer interrupt - this is protected against because the rq lock is irq-safe. - If TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, then we don't need to do anything. It won't get unset until the task get's schedule()d off. - If we are running on the same CPU as the task we resched, then set TIF_NEED_RESCHED and no further action is required. - If we are running on another CPU, and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is *not* set after TIF_NEED_RESCHED has been set, then we need to send an IPI. Using these rules, we are able to remove the test and set operation in resched_task, and make clear the previously vague semantics of POLLING_NRFLAG. * In idle routines: - Enter cpu_idle with preempt disabled. When the need_resched() condition becomes true, explicitly call schedule(). This makes things a bit clearer (IMO), but haven't updated all architectures yet. - Many do a test and clear of TIF_NEED_RESCHED for some reason. According to the resched_task rules, this isn't needed (and actually breaks the assumption that TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the runqueue lock held). So remove that. Generally one less locked memory op when switching to the idle thread. - Many idle routines clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, and only set it in the inner most polling idle loops. The above resched_task semantics allow it to be set until before the last time need_resched() is checked before going into a halt requiring interrupt wakeup. Many idle routines simply never enter such a halt, and so POLLING_NRFLAG can be always left set, completely eliminating resched IPIs when rescheduling the idle task. POLLING_NRFLAG width can be increased, to reduce the chance of resched IPIs. Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org> 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] V4L: 915: fixes compilation problems due removal of media/id.h and ↵Hans Verkuil2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | i2c-algo-bit Fixes compilation problems due removal of media/id.h and I2C_ALGO_BIT Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl> 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: 909: updated cardlist and strip trailing whitespaceMichael Krufky2005-11-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated CARDLIST and strip trailing whitespace. 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>
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