From c86d90df2676d9d212c0ab1f3c64e0abdf5b4c09 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 26 Apr 2006 10:49:26 +0200 Subject: [doc] add paragraph about 'fs' subsystem to sysfs.txt Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi --- Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt index c8bce82ddcac..89b1d196ca80 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt @@ -246,6 +246,7 @@ class/ devices/ firmware/ net/ +fs/ devices/ contains a filesystem representation of the device tree. It maps directly to the internal kernel device tree, which is a hierarchy of @@ -264,6 +265,10 @@ drivers/ contains a directory for each device driver that is loaded for devices on that particular bus (this assumes that drivers do not span multiple bus types). +fs/ contains a directory for some filesystems. Currently each +filesystem wanting to export attributes must create its own hierarchy +below fs/ (see ./fuse.txt for an example). + More information can driver-model specific features can be found in Documentation/driver-model/. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 9b860b8c4bde5949b272968597d1426d53080532 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ingo Oeser Date: Tue, 18 Apr 2006 11:20:55 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids Document that we don't like to add more PCI device ids but are happy to accept PCI vendor ids for linux/include/pci_ids.h Original text from Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/pci.txt | 12 +++++++++++- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/pci.txt b/Documentation/pci.txt index 711210b38f5f..66bbbf1d1ef6 100644 --- a/Documentation/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/pci.txt @@ -259,7 +259,17 @@ on the bus need to be capable of doing it, so this is something which needs to be handled by platform and generic code, not individual drivers. -8. Obsolete functions +8. Vendor and device identifications +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +For the future, let's avoid adding device ids to include/linux/pci_ids.h. + +PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx for vendors, and a hex constant for device ids. + +Rationale: PCI_VENDOR_ID_xxx constants are re-used, but device ids are not. + Further, device ids are arbitrary hex numbers, normally used only in a + single location, the pci_device_id table. + +9. Obsolete functions ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ There are several functions which you might come across when trying to port an old driver to the new PCI interface. They are no longer present -- cgit v1.2.2 From 5bd982ed0f5ae73bfd9ff452b460a3b08108bfee Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo Ciarrocchi Date: Tue, 25 Apr 2006 22:47:51 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Added URI of "linux kernel development process" Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/HOWTO | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 6c9e746267da..915ae8c986c6 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -603,7 +603,8 @@ start exactly where you are now. ---------- -Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi who allowed the "Development Process" section +Thanks to Paolo Ciarrocchi who allowed the "Development Process" +(http://linux.tar.bz/articles/2.6-development_process) section to be based on text he had written, and to Randy Dunlap and Gerrit Huizenga for some of the list of things you should and should not say. Also thanks to Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Randy Dunlap, Kay Sievers, -- cgit v1.2.2