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* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdbLinus Torvalds2008-04-18
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-kgdb: kgdb: always use icache flush for sw breakpoints kgdb: fix SMP NMI kgdb_handle_exception exit race kgdb: documentation fixes kgdb: allow static kgdbts boot configuration kgdb: add documentation kgdb: Kconfig fix kgdb: add kgdb internal test suite kgdb: fix several kgdb regressions kgdb: kgdboc pl011 I/O module kgdb: fix optional arch functions and probe_kernel_* kgdb: add x86 HW breakpoints kgdb: print breakpoint removed on exception kgdb: clocksource watchdog kgdb: fix NMI hangs kgdb: fix kgdboc dynamic module configuration kgdb: document parameters x86: kgdb support consoles: polling support, kgdboc kgdb: core uaccess: add probe_kernel_write()
| * kgdb: documentation fixesJason Wessel2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor cleanups to kgdb docs. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * kgdb: add documentationJason Wessel2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add in the kgdb documentation for kgdb. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * kgdb: document parametersJason Wessel2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | document the kgdboc module/boot parameter. Signed-off-by: Jason Wessel <jason.wessel@windriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@web.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-04-18
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/x86/linux-2.6-x86: (613 commits) x86: standalone trampoline code x86: move suspend wakeup code to C x86: coding style fixes to arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c x86: setup_trampoline() - fix section mismatch warning x86: section mismatch fixes, #1 x86: fix paranoia about using BIOS quickboot mechanism. x86: print out buggy mptable x86: use cpu_online() x86: use cpumask_of_cpu() x86: remove unnecessary tmp local variable x86: remove unnecessary memset() x86: use ioapic_read_entry() and ioapic_write_entry() x86: avoid redundant loop in io_apic_level_ack_pending() x86: remove superfluous initialisation in boot code. x86: merge mpparse_{32,64}.c x86: unify mp_register_gsi x86: unify mp_config_acpi_legacy_irqs x86: unify mp_register_ioapic x86: unify uniq_io_apic_id x86: unify smp_scan_config ...
| * | x86: extend the scheduled bzImage symlinks removalIngo Molnar2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | use of the bzImage symlinks in developer scripts is still widespread, so lets extend the removal period by 2 years. These symlinks cost us near nothing. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86: memtest bootparamYinghai Lu2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86: PAT documentationvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation about PAT related interfaces, intended usage and memory attribute relationship. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86 iommu: add more documentationPavel Machek2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix coding style in pci-dma_64.c and add stubs for documentation. I hope someone fills the rest, I understand maybe off and soft... Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86: boot protocol updatesIan Campbell2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also update field names to simply payload_{offset,length} so as to not rule out uncompressed images. Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
| * | x86: add a crc32 checksum to the kernel image.Ian Campbell2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: use ELF format in compressed images.Ian Campbell2008-04-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Ian Campbell <ijc@hellion.org.uk> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org> Cc: virtualization@lists.linux-foundation.org Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
| * | x86: add gbpages switchesIngo Molnar2008-04-17
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | These new controls toggle experimental support for a new CPU feature, the straightforward extension of largepages from the pmd level to the pud level, which allows 1GB (kernel) TLBs instead of 2MB TLBs. Turn it off by default, as this code has not been tested well enough yet. Use the CONFIG_DIRECT_GBPAGES=y .config option or gbpages on the boot line can be used to enable it. If enabled in the .config then nogbpages boot option disables it. Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* / [S390] Add debug_register_mode() function to debug feature APIMichael Holzheu2008-04-17
|/ | | | | | | | | | | The new function supports setting of permissions for the debugfs files created by the debug feature. In addition to that, the function provides uid and gid as parameters for future use. Currently only root is allowed for uid and gid. Signed-off-by: Michael Holzheu <holzheu@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-04-16
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [TCP]: Add return value indication to tcp_prune_ofo_queue(). PS3: gelic: fix the oops on the broken IE returned from the hypervisor b43legacy: fix DMA mapping leakage mac80211: remove message on receiving unexpected unencrypted frames Update rt2x00 MAINTAINERS entry Add rfkill to MAINTAINERS file rfkill: Fix device type check when toggling states b43legacy: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing ssb: Fix usage of struct device used for DMAing MAINTAINERS: move to generic repository for iwlwifi b43legacy: fix initvals loading on bcm4303 rtl8187: Add missing priv->vif assignments netconsole: only set CON_PRINTBUFFER if the user specifies a netconsole [CAN]: Update documentation of struct sockaddr_can MAINTAINERS: isdn4linux@listserv.isdn4linux.de is subscribers-only [TCP]: Fix never pruned tcp out-of-order queue. [NET_SCHED] sch_api: fix qdisc_tree_decrease_qlen() loop
| * [CAN]: Update documentation of struct sockaddr_canOliver Hartkopp2008-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The struct sockaddr_can has been simplified in the code review process. This patch updates this simplification also in the associated documentation in can.txt . Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Documentation: correct overcommit caveat in hugetlbpage.txtNishanth Aravamudan2008-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As shown by Gurudas Pai recently, we can put hugepages into the surplus state (by echo 0 > /proc/sys/vm/nr_hugepages), even when /proc/sys/vm/nr_overcommit_hugepages is 0. This is actually correct, to allow the original goal (shrink the static pool to 0) to succeed (we are converting hugepages to surplus because they are in use). However, the documentation does not accurately reflect this case. Update it. Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com> Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Fix typos in Documentation/filesystems/seq_file.txtDmitri Vorobiev2008-04-15
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A couple of typos crept into the newly added document about the seq_file interface. This patch corrects those typos and simultaneously deletes unnecessary trailing spaces. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-04-11
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txt Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/ Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/ Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/ Spell out behavior of atomic_dec_and_lock() in kerneldoc Fix a typo in highres.txt Fixes to the seq_file document Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatches Add the seq_file documentation
| * | Add additional examples in Documentation/spinlocks.txtMark Fasheh2008-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Checkpatch will throw an error if code doesn't use the correct initializers for static spinlocks: ERROR: Use of SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED is deprecated: see Documentation/spinlocks.txt This is fine, but Documentation/spinlocks.txt isn't very clear on how to _use_ the new initializers for static variables. To save people time in the future, I added two small examples of how to fix old-style static initializers to be more lockdep friendly. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Move sched-rt-group.txt to scheduler/J. Bruce Fields2008-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields2008-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This file is nfs-related. (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.) Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/J. Bruce Fields2008-04-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious place for this file. Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Fix a typo in highres.txtWill Newton2008-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A small patch for the highres timers documentation: Signed-off-by: Will newton <will.newton@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Fixes to the seq_file documentJan Engelhardt2008-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | On Friday 2008-03-28 19:20, Jonathan Corbet wrote: >commit 9756ccfda31b4c4544aa010aacf71b6672d668e8 >Date: Fri Mar 28 11:19:56 2008 -0600 > > Add the seq_file documentation patch on top: - add const qualifiers - remove void* casts - use proper specifier (%Ld is not valid) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@computergmbh.de>
| * | Fill out information on patch tags in SubmittingPatchesJonathan Corbet2008-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add more information about the various patch tags in use, and try to establish a meaning for Reviewed-by: Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * | Add the seq_file documentationJonathan Corbet2008-03-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is an updated version of the document describing the seq_file interface. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | spi: documentation tweaksDavid Brownell2008-04-08
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update SPI documentation to clarify some areas of recent confusion: clock polarity takes effect when chipselect goes active; and zero length buffers are OK in certain cases. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | | cgroups: add cgroup support for enabling controllers at boot timePaul Menage2008-04-04
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The effects of cgroup_disable=foo are: - foo isn't auto-mounted if you mount all cgroups in a single hierarchy - foo isn't visible as an individually mountable subsystem As a result there will only ever be one call to foo->create(), at init time; all processes will stay in this group, and the group will never be mounted on a visible hierarchy. Any additional effects (e.g. not allocating metadata) are up to the foo subsystem. This doesn't handle early_init subsystems (their "disabled" bit isn't set be, but it could easily be extended to do so if any of the early_init systems wanted it - I think it would just involve some nastier parameter processing since it would occur before the command-line argument parser had been run. Hugh said: Ballpark figures, I'm trying to get this question out rather than processing the exact numbers: CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR adds 15% overhead to the affected paths, booting with cgroup_disable=memory cuts that back to 1% overhead (due to slightly bigger struct page). I'm no expert on distros, they may have no interest whatever in CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR=y; and the rest of us can easily build with or without it, or apply the cgroup_disable=memory patches. Unix bench's execl test result on x86_64 was == just after boot without mounting any cgroup fs.== mem_cgorup=off : Execl Throughput 43.0 3150.1 732.6 mem_cgroup=on : Execl Throughput 43.0 2932.6 682.0 == [lizf@cn.fujitsu.com: fix boot option parsing] Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org> Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Cc: Sudhir Kumar <skumar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: YAMAMOTO Takashi <yamamoto@valinux.co.jp> Cc: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | doc: fix typo in SubmittingPatchesJim Meyering2008-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Jim Meyering <meyering@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Fix typos in Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txtDmitri Vorobiev2008-04-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch deletes a couple of superfluous word occurrences in the document Documentation/unaligned-memory-access.txt. Thanks to Sebastien Dugue for the remark about English usage. Signed-off-by: Dmitri Vorobiev <dmitri.vorobiev@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2008-04-02
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (45 commits) [VLAN]: Proc entry is not renamed when vlan device name changes. [IPV6]: Fix ICMP relookup error path dst leak [ATM] drivers/atm/iphase.c: compilation warning fix IPv6: do not create temporary adresses with too short preferred lifetime IPv6: only update the lifetime of the relevant temporary address bluetooth : __rfcomm_dlc_close lock fix bluetooth : use lockdep sub-classes for diffrent bluetooth protocol [ROSE/AX25] af_rose: rose_release() fix mac80211: correct use_short_preamble handling b43: Fix PCMCIA IRQ routing b43: Add DMA mapping failure messages mac80211: trigger ieee80211_sta_work after opening interface [LLC]: skb allocation size for responses [IP] UDP: Use SEQ_START_TOKEN. [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt [ATM] atm/idt77252.c: Make 2 functions static [ATM]: Make atm/he.c:read_prom_byte() static [IPV6] MCAST: Ensure to check multicast listener(s). [LLC]: Kill llc_station_mac_sa symbol export. forcedeth: fix locking bug with netconsole ...
| * | [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txtAdrian Bunk2008-03-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the driver is gone there's no point in keeping the documentation. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org> Acked-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | ACPI PM: Restore the 2.6.24 suspend orderingRafael J. Wysocki2008-04-01
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Some time ago it turned out that our suspend code ordering broke some NVidia-based systems that hung if _PTS was executed with one of the PCI devices, specifically a USB controller, in a low power state. Then, it was noticed that the suspend code ordering was not compliant with ACPI 1.0, although it was compliant with ACPI 2.0 (and later), and it was argued that the code had to be changed for that reason (ref. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9528). So we did, but evidently we did wrong, because it's now turning out that some systems have been broken by this change. Refs: http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10340 https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217#c16 [ I said at that time that something like this might happend, but the majority of people involved thought that it was improbable due to the necessity to preserve the compliance of hardware with ACPI 1.0. ] This actually is a quite serious regression from 2.6.24. Moreover, the ACPI 1.0 ordering of suspend code introduced another issue that I have only noticed recently. Namely, if the suspend of one of devices fails, the already suspended devices will be resumed without executing _WAK before, which leads to problems on some systems (for example, in such situations thermal management is broken on my HP nx6325). Consequently, it also breaks suspend debugging on the affected systems. Note also, that the requirement to execute _PTS before suspending devices does not really make sense, because the device in question may be put into a low power state at run time for a reason unrelated to a system-wide suspend. For the reasons outlined above, the change of the suspend ordering should be reverted, which is done by the patch below. [ Felix Möller: "I am the reporter from the original Novell Bug: https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=374217 I just tried current git head (two hours ago) with the patch (the one from the beginning of this thread) from Rafael and without it. With the patch my MacBook does suspend without it does not." ] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Tested-by: Felix Möller <felix@derklecks.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | lguest: comment documentation update.Rusty Russell2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Took some cycles to re-read the Lguest Journey end-to-end, fix some rot and tighten some phrases. Only comments change. No new jokes, but a couple of recycled old jokes. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | lguest: Don't need comment terminator before disk section.Rusty Russell2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | lguest: lguest.txt documentation fixPaul Bolle2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mention the config options for the Virtio drivers and move the Virtualization menu to the toplevel. Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | lguest: Add puppies which where previously missing.Tim Ansell2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | lguest doesn't have features, it has puppies! Signed-off-by: Timothy R Ansell <mithro@mithis.com> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
* | x86, documentation: nmi_watchdog=2 works on x86_64Marcin Slusarz2008-03-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Marcin Slusarz <marcin.slusarz@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
* | x86: Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt: fix descriptionNick Andrew2008-03-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The description of the interrupt routing doesn't match the (nice) diagram. Signed-off-by: Nick Andrew <nick@nick-andrew.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
* | hw_random doc updatesDavid Brownell2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update documentation for the hw_random support to be current: - Documentation/hw_random.txt has been updated to reflect the current code: it's a framework now, a "core" with a small sysfs interface, that hardware-specific drivers plug in to. Text specific to Intel hardware is now at the end. - Kconfig now references the Documentation/hw_random.txt file and better explains what this really does. Both chunks of documentation now higlight the fact that the kernel entropy pool is maintained by "rngd", and this driver has nothing directly to do with that important task. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | kernel-parameters.txt: document memmap option betterPavel Machek2008-03-24
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Provide example for memmap exclude option (it is slightly strange and non-trivial) and provide nice small HOWTO for people with bad memory. Signed-off-by: Jan-Simon Moeller <dl9pf@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Revert "ide-tape: schedule driver for removal after 6 months"Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commit d48567dd43868b3d2e1fcc33ee76dc2d38a1ddeb. Borislav is working on ide-tape "light" version instead. Cc: Borislav Petkov <petkovbb@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | ide: mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark "hdx=remap" and "hdx=remap63" kernel parameters as obsoleted (they are layering violation and should be dealt with in the same way as done by libata - device-mapper should be used instead). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | ide: mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoletedBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Mark "hdx=[driver_name]" and "hdx=scsi" kernel parameters as obsoleted (nowadays device-driver binding can be changed at runtime through sysfs and it can also be dealt with using per device driver parameters). Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | ide: Documentation/ide/ide.txt fixesBartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz2008-03-22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * "hdx=cyls,heads,sects,wpcom,irq" should be "hdx=cyls,heads,sects". * "hdx=" is for "x" from 'a' to 'u', "idex=" is for "x" from '0' to '9'. * "idex=noautotune" is long gone. * Obsoleted "ide0=" parameters were already removed from the documentation. Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
* | fbdev: defio and MetronomefbJaya Kumar2008-03-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Implement support for the E-Ink Metronome controller. It provides an mmapable interface to the controller using defio support. It was tested with a gumstix pxa255 with Vizplex media using Xfbdev and various X clients such as xeyes, xpdf, xloadimage. This patch also fixes the following bug: Defio would cause a hang on write access to the framebuffer as the page fault would be called ad-infinitum. It fixes fb_defio by setting the mapping to be used by page_mkclean. Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayakumar.lkml@gmail.com> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2008-03-18
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: ALPS - fix forward/back buttons reversed on Acer 5520-5290 Input: ALPS - put secondary device in proper place in sysfs Input: wacom - add support for Bamboo1, BambooFun, and Cintiq 12WX Input: document i8042.noloop Input: add keyboard notifier documentation Input: ads7846 - fix uninitialized var warning Input: i8042 - add SNI RM support Input: i8042 - add Lenovo 3000 N100 to nomux blacklist Input: i8042 - fix warning on non-x86 builds Input: cobalt_btns - assorted fixes
| * | Input: document i8042.noloopJiri Kosina2008-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document 'noloop' kernel parameter of i8042 controller driver. Pointed out in #10236. Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
| * | Input: add keyboard notifier documentationSamuel Thibault2008-03-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document the keyboard notifier. Signed-off-by: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz> SIgned-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>