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* [CONNECTOR]: Update documentation to match reality.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-10-13
| | | | | | | | | Updated documentation to reflect 2.6.14 netlink changes about socket options, multicasting and group number. Please concider for 2.6.14. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] dell_rbu: changes in packet update mechanismAbhay Salunke2005-10-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In the current dell_rbu code ver 2.0 the packet update mechanism makes the user app dump every individual packet in to the driver. This adds in efficiency as every packet update makes the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading and data files to disappear and reappear again. Thus the user app needs to wait for the files to reappear to dump another packet. This slows down the packet update tremendously in case of large number of packets. I am submitting a new patch for dell_rbu which will change the way we do packet updates; In the new method the user app will create a new single file which has already packetized the rbu image and all the packets are now staged in this file. This driver also creates a new entry in /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size ; the user needs to echo the packet size here before downloading the packet file. The user should do the following: create one single file which has all the packets stacked together. echo the packet size in to /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/packet_size. echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading cat the packetfile > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading The driver takes the file which came through /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/data and takes chunks of paket_size data from it and place in contiguous memory. This makes packet update process very efficient and fast. As all the packet update happens in one single operation. The user can still read back the downloaded file from /sys/devices/platform/dell_rbu/data. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <abhay_salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Keys: Add request-key process documentationDavid Howells2005-10-08
| | | | | | | | | The attached patch adds documentation for the process by which request-key works, including how it permits helper processes to gain access to the requestor's keyrings. Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [IPV4]: Update icmp sysctl docs and disable broadcast ECHO/TIMESTAMP by defaultDavid S. Miller2005-10-03
| | | | | | | It's not a good idea to be smurf'able by default. The few people who need this can turn it on. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] Document patch subject line betterPaul Jackson2005-10-03
| | | | | | | | Improve explanation of the Subject line fields in Documentation/SubmittingPatches Canonical Patch Format. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Document from line in patch formatPaul Jackson2005-10-02
| | | | | | | | | Document more details of patch format such as the "from" line and the "---" marker line, and provide more references for patch guidelines. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys [try #3]David Howells2005-09-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key targets using the LSM facilities. This patch adds a second "pointer type" to key structures (struct key_ref *) that can have the bottom bit of the address set to indicate the possession of a key. This is propagated through searches from the keyring to the discovered key. It has been made a separate type so that the compiler can spot attempts to dereference a potentially incorrect pointer. The "possession" attribute can't be attached to a key structure directly as it's not an intrinsic property of a key. Pointers to keys have been replaced with struct key_ref *'s wherever possession information needs to be passed through. This does assume that the bottom bit of the pointer will always be zero on return from kmem_cache_alloc(). The key reference type has been made into a typedef so that at least it can be located in the sources, even though it's basically a pointer to an undefined type. I've also renamed the accessor functions to be more useful, and all reference variables should now end in "_ref". Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fuse: add required version infoMiklos Szeredi2005-09-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities to Documentation/Changes. Also add pointer to this and to FUSE documentation from Kconfig. Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] documentation: sparse no longer uses bk, but gitHarald Welte2005-09-23
| | | | | | Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in DocumentationPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2005-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | I've recently discovered the real functionality of device-mapper snapshots, and since they are not well known, I've decided to write some docs for them. Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] USB: Update Documentation/usb/URB.txtAlan Stern2005-09-22
| | | | | | | | | This patch (as564) updates Documentation/usb/URB.txt, bringing it roughly up to the current level. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] fixup Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmplChristoph Hellwig2005-09-21
| | | | | | | | | | __FUNCTION__ is the prefered kernel idiom, __func__ is not supported by gcc 2.95 (we actually map __FUNCTION__ to __func__ for more recent compilers, but it should never be used directly) Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] CodingStyle: memory allocationPekka J Enberg2005-09-17
| | | | | | | | | This patch adds a new chapter on memory allocation to Documentation/CodingStyle. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixesAbhay Salunke2005-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | BUG fixes: The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been fixed in this patch. The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid entry in image_type. The fix is to only print a warning message and not the buffer. Usability enhancements: It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver. This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to image_type. This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage. Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] relayfs documentation typoMarcelo Tosatti2005-09-17
| | | | | | | Small typo in relayfs documentation. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [IA64] Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txtKeith Owens2005-09-16
| | | | | | | | Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txt, an ad-hoc collection of notes on IA64 MCA and INIT processing. Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current Linus Torvalds2005-09-13
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| * [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - othersTakashi Iwai2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation,SA11xx UDA1341 driver,Generic drivers,MPU401 UART,OPL3 OPL4,Digigram VX core,I2C cs8427,I2C lib core,I2C tea6330t,L3 drivers AK4114 receiver,AK4117 receiver,PDAudioCF driver,PPC PMAC driver SPARC AMD7930 driver,SPARC cs4231 driver,Synth,Common EMU synth USB generic driver,USB USX2Y Replace kcalloc(1,..) with kzalloc(). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * [ALSA] intel8x0 - Add buggy_semaphore optionTakashi Iwai2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation,Intel8x0 driver Added buggy_semaphore module option to snd-intel8x0 driver for a workaround for hardwards with buggy codec semaphores. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * [ALSA] pcm-oss - Add bugg-yptr optionTakashi Iwai2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation,ALSA<-OSS emulation Added 'buggy-ptr' proc option to switch the behavior of GETOPTR ioctl. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * [ALSA] Update/fix ALSA documentTakashi Iwai2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation Update/fix ALSA document. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
| * [ALSA] ad1889: add AD1889 driver docsClemens Ladisch2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation move the AD1889 driver docs to the kernel tree, too Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
* | [PATCH] feature removal of io_remap_page_range()Randy Dunlap2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the io_remap_page_range() kernel API. 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] More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txtVivek Goyal2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel, as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules. Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Tell people not to use pm_register()Pavel Machek2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | 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] Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)Randy Dunlap2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt: - add descriptions of 3 more "Tainted" flags; - fix some typos; 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] cciss: new controller pci/subsystem idsMike Miller2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec. It also include a name change for one controller. I know there's a lot of duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations. Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms, standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] dontdiff: add asm_offsetsMichal Piotrowski2005-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | We seem to use both asm-offsets.* and asm_offsets.* Signed-off-by: Michal K. K. Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.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/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-12
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| * | [SCSI] scsi: Error handler description documentTejun Heo2005-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds Documentation/scsi/scs_eh.txt. I've chosen plain text over DocBook as most other scsi docs are in plain text and it's more accessible. Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-12
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| * | | [NET]: Add netlink connector.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-11
| | |/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional message bus using netlink as it's backend. Connector was created to eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus direction. Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as one of it's backends netlink based network. One must register callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called. From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward: socket(); bind(); send(); recv(); But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff handling... Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly easier way: int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *)); void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask); struct cb_id { __u32 idx; __u32 val; }; idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in connector.h for in-kernel usage. void (*callback) (void *) - is a callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val will be received by connector core. Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's users. Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket. [ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and Andrew Morton -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-12
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| * \ \ Merge ../torvalds-2.6/ Greg KH2005-09-12
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| * \ \ \ Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 Greg KH2005-09-09
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| * | | | | [PATCH] printk : Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.cChristophe Lucas2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | | [PATCH] aoe [1/2]: support 16 AoE slot addresses per AoE shelfEd L Cashin2005-09-09
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the number of supported AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf address to 16. Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | [PATCH] USB: proc_usb_info.txt: add blank linesRandy Dunlap2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt: - remove some trailing whitespace - add a blank line before each T: line to match current kernel and to make the text more readable. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | [PATCH] USB: add apple usb touchpad driverStelian Pop2005-09-12
| |_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on post-February 2005 Apple PowerBooks. This driver is derived from Johannes Berg's appletrackpad driver [1], but it has been improved in some areas: * appletouch is a full kernel driver, no userspace program is necessary * appletouch can be interfaced with the synaptics X11 driver[2], in order to have touchpad acceleration, scrolling, two/three finger tap, etc. This driver has been tested by the readers of the 'debian-powerpc' mailing list for a few weeks now and I believe it is now ready for inclusion into the mainline kernel. Credits go to Johannes Berg for reverse-engineering the touchpad protocol, Frank Arnold for further improvements, and Alex Harper for some additional information about the inner workings of the touchpad sensors. Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | [PATCH] x86-64: i386/x86-64: Fix time going twice as fast problem on ATI ↵Chuck Ebbert2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Xpress chipsets Original patch from Bertro Simul This is probably still not quite correct, but seems to be the best solution so far. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] x86-64: Add command line option to set machine check tolerance levelAndi Kleen2005-09-12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] i810fb: Update i810fb documentationAntonino A. Daplas2005-09-11
| |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update i810fb documentation to describe new features and configuration changes. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | kbuild: rename prepare to archprepare to fix dependency chainSam Ravnborg2005-09-11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke. With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare The dependency chain looks like this now: prepare | +--> prepare0 | +--> archprepare | +--> scripts_basic +--> prepare1 | +---> prepare2 | +--> prepare3 So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc. This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic are all updated before archprepare is processed. prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the actions performed by archprepare. The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility. Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input Linus Torvalds2005-09-10
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| * \ \ \ Manual merge with LinusDmitry Torokhov2005-09-09
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| * | | | | Input: i8042 - add i8042.nokbd module option to allow supressingDmitry Torokhov2005-09-04
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | creation of keyboard port. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* | | | | | [PATCH] remove ACPI S4bios supportPavel Machek2005-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_ once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in feature-removal for a long time, and it should have been removed before. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] merge some from Rusty's trivial patchesAdrian Bunk2005-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches: - spelling fixes - remove duplicate includes Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] Spelling fixes for Documentation/Tobias Klauser2005-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/ - double "the" - Several misspellings of function/functionality - infomation - memeory - Recieved - wether and possibly others which I forgot ;-) Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted. Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] Add kerneldoc reference to CodingStylePekka J Enberg2005-09-10
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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