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* e1000: update README for e1000Auke Kok2006-12-02
| | | | Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-01
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (103 commits) usbcore: remove unused argument in autosuspend USB: keep count of unsuspended children USB hub: simplify remote-wakeup handling USB: struct usb_device: change flag to bitflag OHCI: make autostop conditional on CONFIG_PM USB: Add autosuspend support to the hub driver EHCI: Fix root-hub and port suspend/resume problems USB: create a new thread for every USB device found during the probe sequence USB: add driver for the USB debug devices USB: added dynamic major number for USB endpoints USB: pegasus error path not resetting task's state USB: endianness fix for asix.c USB: build the appledisplay driver USB serial: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc USB: hid-core: canonical defines for Apple USB device IDs USB: idmouse cleanup USB: make drivers/usb/core/driver.c:usb_device_match() static USB: lh7a40x_udc remove double declaration USB: pxa2xx_udc recognizes ixp425 rev b0 chip usbtouchscreen: add support for DMC TSC-10/25 devices ...
| * usb: writing_usb_driver free urb cleanupMariusz Kozlowski2006-12-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Allright. As Greg KH suggested I split this big patch into smaller ones to make the changes easier to review. Having no better idea how to split that I split it on a 'patch per file' basis. All those patches clean redundant 'if' before usb_unlink/free/kill_urb(): if (urb) usb_free_urb(urb); /* unlink / free / kill */ I decided not to touch bigger 'if's like if (urb) { usb_kill_urb(urb); usb_free_urb(urb); urb = NULL; } as that would be probably too intrusive. One of patches also fixes drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c memleak I found when digging the code. All those patches are against 2.6.19-rc4. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-12-01
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits) Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/ Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move() driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent. Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static driver core: Introduce device_find_child(). sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device ...
| * | Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewriteDavid Brownell2006-12-01
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is almost a rewrite of the driver-model/platform.txt documentation; the previous text was obsolete (for several years), evidently it never got updated to match the change from being a PC "legacy_bus" to the more widely used core bus for most embedded systems. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Fix typos in doc and commentsJan Engelhardt2006-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can spell in more than one correct way, let me know. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Fix typos in /Documentation : MiscMatt LaPlante2006-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'Matt LaPlante2006-11-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letters 'U-Z'. Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again +too! Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...? Time will +tell. :) Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''Matt LaPlante2006-11-29
|/ | | | | | | | | This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* [PATCH] Documentation/rtc.txt updates (for rtc class)David Brownell2006-11-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | This updates the RTC documentation to summarize the two APIs now available: the old PC/AT one, and the new RTC class drivers. It also updates the included "rtctest.c" file to better meet Linux style guidelines, and to work with the new RTC drivers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Don't give bad kprobes example aka ") < 0))" typoAlexey Dobriyan2006-11-16
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write supportPhillip Susi2006-11-16
| | | | | | | | | | | Change Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt from saying that read/write mounts on cd media are not supported to instead state the current level of support. Specifically that it works fine on dvd+rw media and can be made to work on cd-rw media via the pktcdvd device. Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by defaultTakashi Iwai2006-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | Disable MSI support on HD-audio driver as default since there are too many broken devices. The module option is changed from disable_msi to enable_msi, too. For turning MSI support on, pass enable_msi=1, instead. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boardsAndi Kleen2006-11-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support. Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that don't have HPET, but need a timer override. We don't know yet how to handle this transparently, but at least add a command line option to force the timer override and let them boot. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
* [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctlEric W. Biederman2006-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The basic issue is that despite have been deprecated and warned about as a very bad thing in the man pages since its inception there are a few real users of sys_sysctl. It was my assumption that because sysctl had been deprecated for all of 2.6 there would be no user space users by this point, so I initially gave sys_sysctl a very short deprecation period. Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to proceed with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or two work and work with distributions that have big testing pools like fedora core to find these last remaining users. Which means that the sys_sysctl interface needs to be maintained in the meantime. Since I have provided a technical measure that allows us to add new sysctl entries without reserving more binary numbers I believe that is enough to fix the sys_sysctl binary interface maintenance problems, because there is no longer a need to change the binary interface at all. Since the sys_sysctl implementation needs to stay around for a while and the worst of the maintenance issues that caused us to occasionally break the ABI have been addressed I don't see any advantage in continuing with the removal of sys_sysctl. So instead of merely increasing the deprecation period this patch removes the deprecation of sys_sysctl and modifies the kernel to compile the code in by default. With committing to maintain sys_sysctl we get all of the advantages of a fast interface for anything that needs it. Currently sys_sysctl is about 5x faster than /proc/sys, for the same string data. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] A minor fix for set_mb() in Documentation/memory-barriers.txtOleg Nesterov2006-11-08
| | | | | | | | | | | set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb(). I think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches seem to do just this. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> 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/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-11-03
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: use MII hooks only if CONFIG_MII is enabled USB Storage: unusual_devs.h entry for Sony Ericsson P990i USB: xpad: additional USB id's added USB: fix compiler issues with newer gcc versions USB: HID: add blacklist AIRcable USB, little beautification USB: usblp: fix system suspend for some systems USB: failure in usblp's error path usbtouchscreen: use endpoint address from endpoint descriptor USB: sierra: Fix id for Sierra Wireless MC8755 in new table USB: new VID/PID-combos for cp2101 hid-core: big-endian fix fix USB: usb-storage: Unusual_dev update USB: add another sierra wireless device id
| * USB: HID: add blacklist AIRcable USB, little beautificationNaranjo Manuel Francisco2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch add AIRcable USBto USB-HID blacklist, makes some little changes things in the Kconfig to make AIRcable USB look as all the rest of drivers. And it removes the readme part that was on Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt because it is not needed anymore. Signed-off-by: Naranjo Manuel Francisco <naranjo.manuel@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] fix Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c buf sizeOleg Nesterov2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | getdelays reports a "fatal reply error, errno 258". We don't have enough room for multi-threaded exit (PID + TGID). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] swsusp: debuggingRafael J. Wysocki2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving. (1) # echo testproc > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5 seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU. (2) # echo test > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] docbook: merge journal-api into filesystems.tmplRandy Dunlap2006-11-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Move journal-api into filesystems.tmpl as a Chapter. Applies on top of the previous docbook: make a filesystems book patch. Remove trailing whitespace from journal-api chapter. Align some of the tags. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] update some docbook commentsRandy Dunlap2006-11-03
|/ | | | | | | | | | | Correct a few comments in kernel-doc Doc and source files. (akpm: note: the patch removes a non-ascii character and might have to be applied by hand..) Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [MIPS] Fixup migration to GENERIC_TIMEAtsushi Nemoto2006-10-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since we already moved to GENERIC_TIME, we should implement alternatives of old do_gettimeoffset routines to get sub-jiffies resolution from gettimeofday(). This patch includes: * MIPS clocksource support (based on works by Manish Lachwani). * remove unused gettimeoffset routines and related codes. * remove unised 64bit do_div64_32(). * simplify mips_hpt_init. (no argument needed, __init tag) * simplify c0_hpt_timer_init. (no need to write to c0_count) * remove some hpt_init routines. * mips_hpt_mask variable to specify bitmask of hpt value. * convert jmr3927_do_gettimeoffset to jmr3927_hpt_read. * convert ip27_do_gettimeoffset to ip27_hpt_read. * convert bcm1480_do_gettimeoffset to bcm1480_hpt_read. * simplify sb1250 hpt functions. (no need to subtract and shift) Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* [PATCH] docbook: make a filesystems bookRandy Dunlap2006-10-30
| | | | | | | | | | | Make a filesystems DocBook book/file by moving all filesystems info from kernel-api.tmpl. Will also merge journal-api.tmpl into it soon (with permission from Roger Gammans). Localizes filesystem info and reduces size of the huge (produced) kernel-api output files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.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/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds2006-10-23
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: (33 commits) [WATCHDOG] remove experimental on iTCO_wdt.c [WATCHDOG] Atmel AT91RM9200 rename. [WATCHDOG] includes for sample watchdog program. [WATCHDOG] watchdog/iTCO_wdt: fix bug related to gcc uninit warning [WATCHDOG] add ich8 support to iTCO_wdt.c (patch 2) [WATCHDOG] add ich8 support to iTCO_wdt.c [WATCHDOG] ioremap balanced with iounmap for drivers/char/watchdog/s3c2410_wdt.c [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - Kconfig patch [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - autodetect patch [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 16 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 15 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 14 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 13 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 12 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 11 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 10 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 9 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 8 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 7 [WATCHDOG] w83697hf/hg WDT driver - patch 6 ...
| * [WATCHDOG] includes for sample watchdog program.Jean Delvare2006-10-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add missing includes to sample watchdog program. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
* | [MIPS] Cleanup remaining references to mips_counter_frequency.Ralf Baechle2006-10-21
| | | | | | | | | | | | Noticed by Samium Gromoff but his patch got stale in flight ... Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* | [PATCH] doc: fixing cpu-hotplug documentationSatoru Takeuchi2006-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixing cpu-hotplug documentation as follows: - moving confusing asterisk on additional_cpus descrition - fixing some typos - unifying indentation for source code and command line example Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fix typo in memory barrier docsPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-10-20
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix cut'n'paste typo - &a and &b are used in other examples, in this one the doc uses &u and &v. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.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/gregkh/hwmon-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-10-18
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/hwmon-2.6: hwmon: Fix debug messages in w83781d hwmon: Let w83781d and lm78 load again w83627ehf: Fix the detection of fan5 k8temp: Documentation update smsc47m1: List the SMSC LPC47M112 as supported hwmon: Fix documentation typos adm9240: Update Grant Coady's email address w83791d: Fix unchecked return status
| * | k8temp: Documentation updateRudolf Marek2006-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the documentation for the k8temp driver. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek <r.marek@assembler.cz> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | smsc47m1: List the SMSC LPC47M112 as supportedJean Delvare2006-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The SMSC LPC47M112 Super-I/O chip appears to be compatible with the LPC47M10x and LPC47M13x as far as hardware monitoring is concerned. The device ID is even the same, so it's really only a documentation update. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | hwmon: Fix documentation typosJean Delvare2006-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typos in hardware monitoring documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | adm9240: Update Grant Coady's email addressGrant Coady2006-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Replace a bouncing email that I cannot recover from Mr Google. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady <gcoady.lk@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-10-18
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (22 commits) PCI Hotplug: move pci_hotplug.h to include/linux/ change pci hotplug subsystem maintainer to Kristen PCI: optionally sort device lists breadth-first cpcihp_generic: prevent loading without "bridge" parameter pci: Additional search functions PCI: quirks: switch quirks code offender to use pci_get API PCI: Update MSI-HOWTO.txt according to pci_msi_supported() PCI: Improve pci_msi_supported() comments PCI hotplug: ioremap balanced with iounmap shpchp: remove unnecessary cmd_busy member from struct controller shpchp: fix command completion check pci: Stamp out pci_find_* usage in fakephp PCI: fix pcie_portdrv_restore_config undefined without CONFIG_PM error Fix DMA resource allocation in ACPIPnP PCI: Turn pci_fixup_video into generic for embedded VGA PCI: add ICH7/8 ACPI/GPIO io resource quirks PCI: pcie-check-and-return-bus_register-errors fix PCI: VIA IRQ quirk behaviour change pciehp: Remove unnecessary check in pciehp_ctrl.c pciehp - add missing locking ...
| * | | PCI: optionally sort device lists breadth-firstMatt Domsch2006-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Problem: New Dell PowerEdge servers have 2 embedded ethernet ports, which are labeled NIC1 and NIC2 on the chassis, in the BIOS setup screens, and in the printed documentation. Assuming no other add-in ethernet ports in the system, Linux 2.4 kernels name these eth0 and eth1 respectively. Many people have come to expect this naming. Linux 2.6 kernels name these eth1 and eth0 respectively (backwards from expectations). I also have reports that various Sun and HP servers have similar behavior. Root cause: Linux 2.4 kernels walk the pci_devices list, which happens to be sorted in breadth-first order (or pcbios_find_device order on i386, which most often is breadth-first also). 2.6 kernels have both the pci_devices list and the pci_bus_type.klist_devices list, the latter is what is walked at driver load time to match the pci_id tables; this klist happens to be in depth-first order. On systems where, for physical routing reasons, NIC1 appears on a lower bus number than NIC2, but NIC2's bridge is discovered first in the depth-first ordering, NIC2 will be discovered before NIC1. If the list were sorted breadth-first, NIC1 would be discovered before NIC2. A PowerEdge 1955 system has the following topology which easily exhibits the difference between depth-first and breadth-first device lists. -[0000:00]-+-00.0 Intel Corporation 5000P Chipset Memory Controller Hub +-02.0-[0000:03-08]--+-00.0-[0000:04-07]--+-00.0-[0000:05-06]----00.0-[0000:06]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC2, 2.4 kernel name eth1, 2.6 kernel name eth0) +-1c.0-[0000:01-02]----00.0-[0000:02]----00.0 Broadcom Corporation NetXtreme II BCM5708S Gigabit Ethernet (labeled NIC1, 2.4 kernel name eth0, 2.6 kernel name eth1) Other factors, such as device driver load order and the presence of PCI slots at various points in the bus hierarchy further complicate this problem; I'm not trying to solve those here, just restore the device order, and thus basic behavior, that 2.4 kernels had. Solution: The solution can come in multiple steps. Suggested fix #1: kernel Patch below optionally sorts the two device lists into breadth-first ordering to maintain compatibility with 2.4 kernels. It adds two new command line options: pci=bfsort pci=nobfsort to force the sort order, or not, as you wish. It also adds DMI checks for the specific Dell systems which exhibit "backwards" ordering, to make them "right". Suggested fix #2: udev rules from userland Many people also have the expectation that embedded NICs are always discovered before add-in NICs (which this patch does not try to do). Using the PCI IRQ Routing Table provided by system BIOS, it's easy to determine which PCI devices are embedded, or if add-in, which PCI slot they're in. I'm working on a tool that would allow udev to name ethernet devices in ascending embedded, slot 1 .. slot N order, subsort by PCI bus/dev/fn breadth-first. It'll be possible to use it independent of udev as well for those distributions that don't use udev in their installers. Suggested fix #3: system board routing rules One can constrain the system board layout to put NIC1 ahead of NIC2 regardless of breadth-first or depth-first discovery order. This adds a significant level of complexity to board routing, and may not be possible in all instances (witness the above systems from several major manufacturers). I don't want to encourage this particular train of thought too far, at the expense of not doing #1 or #2 above. Feedback appreciated. Patch tested on a Dell PowerEdge 1955 blade with 2.6.18. You'll also note I took some liberty and temporarily break the klist abstraction to simplify and speed up the sort algorithm. I think that's both safe and appropriate in this instance. Signed-off-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | PCI: Update MSI-HOWTO.txt according to pci_msi_supported()Brice Goglin2006-10-18
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update MSI-HOWTO.txt according to pci_msi_supported(). Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin <brice@myri.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-10-18
|\ \ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: driver core: kmalloc() failure check in driver_probe_device Driver core: bus: remove indentation level Driver core: Don't ignore error returns from probing Driver core: Don't leak 'old_class_name' in drivers/base/core.c::device_rename() driver core fixes: sysfs_create_group() retval in topology.c driver core fixes: device_create_file() retval check in dmapool.c driver core fixes: device_add() cleanup on error driver core fixes: bus_add_device() cleanup on error driver core fixes: bus_add_attrs() retval check driver core fixes: sysfs_create_link() retval check in class.c sysfs: update obsolete comment in sysfs_update_file sysfs: remove duplicated dput in sysfs_update_file HOWTO: bug report addition Fix dev_printk() is now GPL-only Driver core: plug device probe memory leak Documentation: feature-removal-schedule typo
| * | | HOWTO: bug report additionDiego Calleja2006-10-18
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I suspect that not many people is subscribed to the bugzilla mailing list, not surprising since the URLs doesn't seem to be in the tree :) After fixing my english, I wonder if the following patch could be applied... Signed-off-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | Documentation: feature-removal-schedule typoDominik Brodowski2006-10-18
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix typo in newly added feature remove schedule item. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* / / [S390] cio: update documentation.Cornelia Huck2006-10-18
|/ / | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
* | USB: xpad: dance pad supportDominic Cerquetti2006-10-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds support for dance pads to the xpad driver. Dance pads require the d-pad to be mapped to four buttons instead of two axes, so that combinations of up/down and left/right can be hit simultaneously. Known dance pads are detected, and there is a module parameter added to default unknown xpad devices to map the d-pad to buttons if this is desired. (dpad_to_buttons). Minor modifications were made to port the changes in the original patch to a newer kernel version. This patch was originally from Dominic Cerquetti originally written for kernel 2.6.11.4, with minor modifications (API changes for USB, spelling fixes to the documentation added in the original patch) made to apply to the current kernel. I have modified Dominic's original patch per some suggestions from Dmitry Torokhov. (There was nothing in the patch format description about multiple From: lines, so I haven't added myself.) [akpm@osdl.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Adam Buchbinder <adam.buchbinder@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-10-15
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (28 commits) ACPI: check battery status on resume for un/plug events during sleep ACPICA: Fix incorrect handling of PCI Express Root Bridge _HID ACPI: asus_acpi: don't printk on writing garbage to proc files ACPI: asus_acpi: fix proc files parsing ACPI: SCI interrupt source override ACPI: fix printk format warnings ACPI: fix section for CPU init functions ACPI: update comments in motherboard.c ACPI: acpi_pci_link_set() can allocate with either GFP_ATOMIC or GFP_KERNEL ACPI: fix potential OOPS in power driver with CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG ACPI: ibm_acpi: delete obsolete documentation ACPI: created a dedicated workqueue for notify() execution ACPI: Remove deferred execution from global lock acquire wakeup path MSI S270 Laptop support: backlight, wlan, bluetooth states ACPI: EC: export ec_transaction() for msi-laptop driver ACPI: EC: Simplify acpi_hw_low_level*() with inb()/outb(). ACPI: EC: Unify poll and interrupt gpe handlers ACPI: EC: Unify poll and interrupt mode transaction functions ACPI: EC: Remove unused variables and duplicated code ACPI: EC: Remove unnecessary delay added by previous transation patch. ...
| * | ACPI: ibm_acpi: delete obsolete documentationPavel Machek2006-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As this module is now part of the kernel tree, there is no need for instructions on how to download it and build an external module. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | ACPI: ibm_acpi: Documentation the wan feature.Stefan Schmidt2006-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the wan feature Jeremy Fitzhardinge added to ibm_acpi. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| * | ACPI: ibm_acpi: Update documentation for brightness and volume.Stefan Schmidt2006-10-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the change of the experimental flag for brightness and volume. Signed-off-by: Stefan Schmidt <stefan@datenfreihafen.org> Acked-by: Borislav Deianov <borislav@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | V4L/DVB (4692): Add WinTV-HVR3000 DVB-T supportSteven Toth2006-10-13
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The WinTV-HVR3000 is currently defined for analog support only. This patch adds full DVB-T support. (DVB-S support will be added soon) Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
* | [PATCH] fix lockdep-design.txtAneesh Kumar2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was looking at lockdep-desing.txt and i guess i am confused with the changes with respect to fd7bcea35e7efb108c34ee2b3840942a3749cadb. It says + '.' acquired while irqs enabled + '+' acquired in irq context + '-' acquired in process context with irqs disabled + '?' read-acquired both with irqs enabled and in irq context + But the get_usage_chars() function does this for '-' if (class->usage_mask & LOCKF_ENABLED_HARDIRQS) *c1 = '-'; So i guess what would be correct would be '.' acquired while irqs disabled '+' acquired in irq context '-' acquired with irqs enabled '?' read acquired in irq context with irqs enabled. Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] document the core-dump-to-a-pipe patchMatthias Urlichs2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The pipe-a-coredump-to-a-program feature was undocumented. *Grumble*. NB: a good enhancement to that patch would be: save all the stuff that a core file can get from the %x expansions in the environment. Signed-off-by: Matthias Urlichs <matthias@urlichs.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txtDave Kleikamp2006-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This file, ext4.txt, was put together with information from Andrew Morton, Andreas Dilger, Suparna Bhattacharya, and Ted Ts'o. I copied the mount options, with the exception of "extents", from ext3.txt, so if anyone is aware of anything out-of-date, please let me know. Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com> Cc: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Suparna Bhattacharya <suparna@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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