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* [PATCH] inotifyRobert Love2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly its inability to scale and its terrible user interface: * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount. * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of stat structures. * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals? inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change notification: * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO. You get a single fd, which is select()-able. * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item you were watching is on was unmounted." * inotify can watch directories or files. Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure), Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects. See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt. Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org> Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> 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/lenb/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-07-12
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| * [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...Len Brown2005-07-12
| |\ | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
| | * [ACPI] generic Hot Key supportLuming Yu2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | See Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable legacy platform specific drivers. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887 Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
* | | [PATCH] v4l: DocumentationMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Card definitions updated. - Tail spaces removed. - Mark all 7135 cards as 7133. - Correct info about sync byte for MPEG-2 transport stream packets. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: hermann pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix a typoAdrian Bunk2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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] pcmcia: Documentation updateDominik Brodowski2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update PCMCIA driver changes for patches merged in 2.6.13 Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> 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/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-07-12
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| * | [PATCH] I2C: Move hwmon drivers (3/3)Jean Delvare2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Part 3: Move the drivers documentation, plus two general documentation files. Note that the patch "adds trailing whitespace", because it does move the files as-is, and some files happen to have trailing whitespace. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | [PATCH] I2C: Clarify the usage of i2c-dev.hJean Delvare2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Upon suggestion by Nils Roeder, here is an update to the i2c documentation to clarify which header files user-space applications relying on the i2c-dev interface should include. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | [PATCH] I2C: Documentation fixJan Veldeman2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix documentation to match code in include/linux/i2c-dev.h Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <jan@mind.be> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | [PATCH] I2C: minor I2C doc cleanupsdavid-b@pacbell.net2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The I2C stack has long had "id" fields, of rather dubious utility, in many data structures. This removes mention of one of them from the documentation about how to write an I2C driver, so that only drivers that really need to use them (probably old/legacy code) will have any reason to use this field. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | [PATCH] I2C: max6875 documentation updateJean Delvare2005-07-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here is a proposed documentation update for the new max6875 i2c chip driver. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | [PATCH] USB: SN9C10x driver updatesLuca Risolia2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SN9C10x driver updates. Changes: + new, - removed, * cleanup, @ bugfix @ Remove bad get_ctrl()'s * Documentation updates + Add 0x0c45/0x602d to the list of SN9C10x based devices + Add support for OV7630 image sensors Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | [PATCH] USB: Patch to make usbmon to print control setup packetsPete Zaitcev2005-07-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Make usbmon to print Setup packets of Control transfers. This is useful when debugging enumeration issues. This is a change to the trace format which is not fully compatible. A parser has to look at the data length word now. If that word is a character like 's', read setup packet before proceeding with data. I decided not to bump the API tag for this because not many such parsers exist at this point. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linusTony Luck2005-07-08
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| * | [PATCH] video doc: one more system where video works with S3Pavel Machek2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | One more system where video works with S3. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] pcmcia: deprecate ioctlDominik Brodowski2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005. A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in Linux. Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] fix for Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt?=Uwe Bugla2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt almost completely remade the text file with the following focuses: useful infos for beginners: how to load modules manually and automatically developers infos are reduced to a minimum as module loading works automatic in kernel >= 2.6.12 by loading modules bttv and dvb-bt8xx I completely erased the out of date TwinHan part dealing with additional parameters, debug parameters, and overriding autodetection Further up to date information about TwinHan + clones can be found in /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] dvb: usb: README updatePatrick Boettcher2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated the readme file to point to the DVB USB wikipage to find out which firmware necessary, + minor updates. Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | [PATCH] dvb: usb: add vp7045 IR keymapPatrick Boettcher2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add keymap for Twinhan vp7045 remote control. Signed-off-by: Michael Paxton <packo@tpg.com.au> Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@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: usb doc updatePatrick Boettcher2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | o removed device listing (they are all in the linuxtv wiki now) o misc updates Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@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] IB uverbs: add documentation fileRoland Dreier2005-07-07
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation for InfiniBand userspace verbs. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] DocumentationBob Picco2005-07-07
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a small documentation patch for a boot time parameter. Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* | [IPV4]: Add LC-Trie implementation notesRobert Olsson2005-07-05
| | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | [PATCH] pcmcia: update DocumentationDominik Brodowski2005-06-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As the information is now exported via sysfs, there's no need for an userspace tool any longer. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds2005-06-30
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| * | [PATCH] Serial: Adjust serial lockingRussell King2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch changes the way serial ports are locked when getting modem status. This change is necessary because we will need to atomically read the modem status and take action depending on the CTS status. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | Remove duplicate mention of "edd" in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txtLinus Torvalds2005-06-29
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* | [PATCH] Doc/Submitting: corrections, additionsRandy Dunlap2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches} - update LANANA info. - fix some typos - update 2.2 kernel maintainer info. - update 'dontdiff' info. - update URLs for patch scripts - add Trivial Patch Monkey URL - add more references for submitting patches Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] V4L: documentation changes - mostly new cards includedMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | New cards included. V4L1 api renamed. Message included informing it is obsoleted by V4L2 API. V4L2 api included. Mark all 7135 cards as 7133. Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>. Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.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] irqpollAlan Cox2005-06-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options. Its effectiveness varies we've found in the Fedora case. Quite a few systems with misdescribed IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll. It also fixes up the VIA systems although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically). A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for. In those cases it doesn't help. Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu> 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/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds2005-06-28
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| * \ Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6Greg KH2005-06-28
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| * | | [PATCH] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table addressjayalk@intworks.biz2005-06-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I updated this to remove unnecessary variable initialization, make check_routing be inline only and not __init, switch to strtoul, and formatting fixes as per Randy Dunlap's recommendations. I updated this to change pirq_table_addr to a long, and to add a warning msg if the PIRQ table wasn't found at the specified address, as per thread with Matthew Wilcox. In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ table in the F0000h-100000h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A beneficial side-effect is that, if one's BIOS uses a static address each time for it's PIRQ table, then pirqaddr can be used to avoid the $pirq search through that address block each time at boot for normal PIRQ BIOSes. Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | Merge head 'upstream-20050628-1' of ↵Linus Torvalds2005-06-28
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| * | | [PATCH] Minor libata documentation patchEdward Falk2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I fleshed out libata.tmpl a bit while I was taking notes.
* | | | [PATCH] pcmcia: documentation fixJar2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix example hash generator in Documentation. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [PATCH] pcmcia: add some DocumentationDominik Brodowski2005-06-27
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches. Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes. With recent changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] cciss: pci id fixMike Miller2005-06-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch fixes a PCI ID I got wrong before. It also adds support for another new SAS controller due out this summer. I didn't have a marketing name prior to my last submission. Also modifies the copyright date range. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git manuallyLinus Torvalds2005-06-27
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| * \ \ Automatic merge of ↵Dmitry Torokhov2005-06-06
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| * \ \ \ Automatic merge of ↵Dmitry Torokhov2005-06-01
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| * | | | | Input: Add Fujitsu Lifebook B-series touchscreen driver.Kenan Esau2005-05-29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | From: Kenan Esau <kenan.esau@conan.de> Signed-off-by: Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* | | | | | [PATCH] CFQ io scheduler, add ioprio documentationJens Axboe2005-06-27
| |_|_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add ioprio documentation Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt: Make documentation nicerIsmail Donmez2005-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch indents dmfe.txt to look like other docs. It adds a tip about CNET cards using Davicom chipsets. Also it removes parts where it refers to how to build driver out-of-kernel which seems to be cruft from times where the driver was out of the kernel. Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@kde.org.tr> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] remove redundant info from SubmittingPatchesAdrian Bunk2005-06-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4. and 5., I removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under 'Select your CC list'. Signed-off-by: Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | Merge Christoph's freeze cleanup patchLinus Torvalds2005-06-25
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| * | | | | [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezingChristoph Lameter2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h: frozen(process) Check for frozen process freezing(process) Check if a process is being frozen freeze(process) Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator) thaw_process(process) Restart process frozen_process(process) Process is frozen now 2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all kernel sources except sched.h 3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver 4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls. 5. Some whitespace cleanup 6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check PF_FROZEN). This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe! Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removalAdrian Bunk2005-06-25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was obsolete. (trolling for IBMers) Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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