From 3e082a910d217b2e7b186077ebf5a1126a68c62f Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matthew Wilcox Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 15:19:20 -0600 Subject: [SCSI] Add ability to scan scsi busses asynchronously Since it often takes around 20-30 seconds to scan a scsi bus, it's highly advantageous to do this in parallel with other things. The bulk of this patch is ensuring that devices don't change numbering, and that all devices are discovered prior to trying to start init. For those who build SCSI as modules, there's a new scsi_wait_scan module that will ensure all bus scans are finished. This patch only handles drivers which call scsi_scan_host. Fibre Channel, SAS, SATA, USB and Firewire all need additional work. Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ff571f9298e0..5a92ac085969 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1410,6 +1410,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file scsi_logging= [SCSI] + scsi_mod.scan= [SCSI] sync (default) scans SCSI busses as they are + discovered. async scans them in kernel threads, + allowing boot to proceed. none ignores them, expecting + user space to do the scan. + selinux [SELINUX] Disable or enable SELinux at boot time. Format: { "0" | "1" } See security/selinux/Kconfig help text. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 2db02c0fe8519bd5985c6280896f4d719a6ae801 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:35:27 +0200 Subject: [WATCHDOG] includes for sample watchdog program. Add missing includes to sample watchdog program. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck --- Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c | 2 ++ 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c index 85cf17c48669..47801bc7e742 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/watchdog-simple.c @@ -1,4 +1,6 @@ +#include #include +#include #include int main(int argc, const char *argv[]) { -- cgit v1.2.2 From deb8ee43a23d48116cb23eb8dd1de2348efb1e80 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominic Cerquetti Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2006 14:42:48 -0700 Subject: USB: xpad: dance pad support 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 Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/input/xpad.txt | 115 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------- 1 file changed, 91 insertions(+), 24 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt index b9111a703ce0..5427bdf225ed 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt @@ -3,20 +3,37 @@ xpad - Linux USB driver for X-Box gamepads This is the very first release of a driver for X-Box gamepads. Basically, this was hacked away in just a few hours, so don't expect miracles. + In particular, there is currently NO support for the rumble pack. You won't find many ff-aware linux applications anyway. -0. Status ---------- +0. Notes +-------- + +Driver updated for kernel 2.6.17.11. (Based on a patch for 2.6.11.4.) -For now, this driver has only been tested on just one Linux-Box. -This one is running a 2.4.18 kernel with usb-uhci on an amd athlon 600. +The number of buttons/axes reported varies based on 3 things: +- if you are using a known controller +- if you are using a known dance pad +- if using an unknown device (one not listed below), what you set in the + module configuration for "Map D-PAD to buttons rather than axes for unknown + pads" (module option dpad_to_buttons) -The jstest-program from joystick-1.2.15 (jstest-version 2.1.0) reports -8 axes and 10 buttons. +If you set dpad_to_buttons to 0 and you are using an unknown device (one +not listed below), the driver will map the directional pad to axes (X/Y), +if you said N it will map the d-pad to buttons, which is needed for dance +style games to function correctly. The default is Y. + +dpad_to_buttons has no effect for known pads. + +0.1 Normal Controllers +---------------------- +With a normal controller, the directional pad is mapped to its own X/Y axes. +The jstest-program from joystick-1.2.15 (jstest-version 2.1.0) will report 8 +axes and 10 buttons. -Alls 8 axes work, though they all have the same range (-32768..32767) +All 8 axes work, though they all have the same range (-32768..32767) and the zero-setting is not correct for the triggers (I don't know if that is some limitation of jstest, since the input device setup should be fine. I didn't have a look at jstest itself yet). @@ -30,16 +47,50 @@ in game functionality were OK. However, I find it rather difficult to play first person shooters with a pad. Your mileage may vary. +0.2 Xbox Dance Pads +------------------- +When using a known dance pad, jstest will report 6 axes and 14 buttons. + +For dance style pads (like the redoctane pad) several changes +have been made. The old driver would map the d-pad to axes, resulting +in the driver being unable to report when the user was pressing both +left+right or up+down, making DDR style games unplayable. + +Known dance pads automatically map the d-pad to buttons and will work +correctly out of the box. + +If your dance pad is recognized by the driver but is using axes instead +of buttons, see section 0.3 - Unknown Controllers + +I've tested this with Stepmania, and it works quite well. + + +0.3 Unkown Controllers +---------------------- +If you have an unkown xbox controller, it should work just fine with +the default settings. + +HOWEVER if you have an unknown dance pad not listed below, it will not +work UNLESS you set "dpad_to_buttons" to 1 in the module configuration. + +PLEASE if you have an unkown controller, email Dom with +a dump from /proc/bus/usb and a description of the pad (manufacturer, country, +whether it is a dance pad or normal controller) so that we can add your pad +to the list of supported devices, ensuring that it will work out of the +box in the future. + + 1. USB adapter -------------- Before you can actually use the driver, you need to get yourself an -adapter cable to connect the X-Box controller to your Linux-Box. +adapter cable to connect the X-Box controller to your Linux-Box. You +can buy these online fairly cheap, or build your own. -Such a cable is pretty easy to build. The Controller itself is a USB compound -device (a hub with three ports for two expansion slots and the controller -device) with the only difference in a nonstandard connector (5 pins vs. 4 on -standard USB connector). +Such a cable is pretty easy to build. The Controller itself is a USB +compound device (a hub with three ports for two expansion slots and +the controller device) with the only difference in a nonstandard connector +(5 pins vs. 4 on standard USB connector). You just need to solder a USB connector onto the cable and keep the yellow wire unconnected. The other pins have the same order on both @@ -51,36 +102,36 @@ original one. You can buy an extension cable and cut that instead. That way, you can still use the controller with your X-Box, if you have one ;) -2. driver installation +2. Driver Installation ---------------------- Once you have the adapter cable and the controller is connected, you need to load your USB subsystem and should cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. There should be an entry like the one at the end [4]. -Currently (as of version 0.0.4), the following three devices are included: +Currently (as of version 0.0.6), the following devices are included: original Microsoft XBOX controller (US), vendor=0x045e, product=0x0202 + smaller Microsoft XBOX controller (US), vendor=0x045e, product=0x0289 original Microsoft XBOX controller (Japan), vendor=0x045e, product=0x0285 InterAct PowerPad Pro (Germany), vendor=0x05fd, product=0x107a + RedOctane Xbox Dance Pad (US), vendor=0x0c12, product=0x8809 -If you have another controller that is not listed above and is not recognized -by the driver, please drop me a line with the appropriate info (that is, include -the name, vendor and product ID, as well as the country where you bought it; -sending the whole dump out of /proc/bus/usb/devices along would be even better). +The driver should work with xbox pads not listed above as well, however +you will need to do something extra for dance pads to work. -In theory, the driver should work with other controllers than mine -(InterAct PowerPad pro, bought in Germany) just fine, but I cannot test this -for I only have this one controller. +If you have a controller not listed above, see 0.3 - Unknown Controllers If you compiled and installed the driver, test the functionality: > modprobe xpad > modprobe joydev > jstest /dev/js0 -There should be a single line showing 18 inputs (8 axes, 10 buttons), and -it's values should change if you move the sticks and push the buttons. +If you're using a normal controller, there should be a single line showing +18 inputs (8 axes, 10 buttons), and its values should change if you move +the sticks and push the buttons. If you're using a dance pad, it should +show 20 inputs (6 axes, 14 buttons). -It works? Voila, your done ;) +It works? Voila, you're done ;) 3. Thanks @@ -111,6 +162,22 @@ I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=58(unk. ) Sub=42 Prot=00 Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl= 10ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl= 10ms +5. /proc/bus/usb/devices - dump from Redoctane Xbox Dance Pad (US): + +T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=09 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 10 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 +D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 +P: Vendor=0c12 ProdID=8809 Rev= 0.01 +S: Product=XBOX DDR +C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA +I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=58(unk. ) Sub=42 Prot=00 Driver=xpad +E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl=4ms +E: Ad=02(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl=4ms + -- Marko Friedemann 2002-07-16 + - original doc + +Dominic Cerquetti +2005-03-19 + - added stuff for dance pads, new d-pad->axes mappings -- cgit v1.2.2 From 9b10fe5b70878fb4b7e3e1b300f1bff0c73d4e2e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Cornelia Huck Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 18:30:55 +0200 Subject: [S390] cio: update documentation. Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky --- Documentation/s390/CommonIO | 2 +- Documentation/s390/cds.txt | 52 +++++++++++++++++-------------------- Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt | 3 +++ 3 files changed, 28 insertions(+), 29 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO index 59d1166d41ee..d684a6ac69a8 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO +++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ Command line parameters When a device is un-ignored, device recognition and sensing is performed and the device driver will be notified if possible, so the device will become - available to the system. + available to the system. Note that un-ignoring is performed asynchronously. You can also add ranges of devices to be ignored by piping to /proc/cio_ignore; "add , , ..." will ignore the diff --git a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt index d80e5733827d..32a96cc39215 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/cds.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/cds.txt @@ -174,14 +174,10 @@ read_dev_chars() - Read Device Characteristics This routine returns the characteristics for the device specified. -The function is meant to be called with an irq handler in place; that is, +The function is meant to be called with the device already enabled; that is, at earliest during set_online() processing. -While the request is processed synchronously, the device interrupt -handler is called for final ending status. In case of error situations the -interrupt handler may recover appropriately. The device irq handler can -recognize the corresponding interrupts by the interruption parameter be -0x00524443. The ccw_device must not be locked prior to calling read_dev_chars(). +The ccw_device must not be locked prior to calling read_dev_chars(). The function may be called enabled or disabled. @@ -410,26 +406,7 @@ individual flag meanings. Usage Notes : -Prior to call ccw_device_start() the device driver must assure disabled state, -i.e. the I/O mask value in the PSW must be disabled. This can be accomplished -by calling local_save_flags( flags). The current PSW flags are preserved and -can be restored by local_irq_restore( flags) at a later time. - -If the device driver violates this rule while running in a uni-processor -environment an interrupt might be presented prior to the ccw_device_start() -routine returning to the device driver main path. In this case we will end in a -deadlock situation as the interrupt handler will try to obtain the irq -lock the device driver still owns (see below) ! - -The driver must assure to hold the device specific lock. This can be -accomplished by - -(i) spin_lock(get_ccwdev_lock(cdev)), or -(ii) spin_lock_irqsave(get_ccwdev_lock(cdev), flags) - -Option (i) should be used if the calling routine is running disabled for -I/O interrupts (see above) already. Option (ii) obtains the device gate und -puts the CPU into I/O disabled state by preserving the current PSW flags. +ccw_device_start() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. The device driver is allowed to issue the next ccw_device_start() call from within its interrupt handler already. It is not required to schedule a @@ -488,7 +465,7 @@ int ccw_device_resume(struct ccw_device *cdev); cdev - ccw_device the resume operation is requested for -The resume_IO() function returns: +The ccw_device_resume() function returns: 0 - suspended channel program is resumed -EBUSY - status pending @@ -507,6 +484,8 @@ a long-running channel program or the device might require to initially issue a halt subchannel (HSCH) I/O command. For those purposes the ccw_device_halt() command is provided. +ccw_device_halt() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. + int ccw_device_halt(struct ccw_device *cdev, unsigned long intparm); @@ -517,7 +496,7 @@ intparm : interruption parameter; value is only used if no I/O The ccw_device_halt() function returns : - 0 - successful completion or request successfully initiated + 0 - request successfully initiated -EBUSY - the device is currently busy, or status pending. -ENODEV - cdev invalid. -EINVAL - The device is not operational or the ccw device is not online. @@ -533,6 +512,23 @@ can then perform an appropriate action. Prior to interrupt of an outstanding read to a network device (with or without PCI flag) a ccw_device_halt() is required to end the pending operation. +ccw_device_clear() - Terminage I/O Request Processing + +In order to terminate all I/O processing at the subchannel, the clear subchannel +(CSCH) command is used. It can be issued via ccw_device_clear(). + +ccw_device_clear() must be called disabled and with the ccw device lock held. + +int ccw_device_clear(struct ccw_device *cdev, unsigned long intparm); + +cdev: ccw_device the clear operation is requested for +intparm: interruption parameter (see ccw_device_halt()) + +The ccw_device_clear() function returns: + + 0 - request successfully initiated +-ENODEV - cdev invalid +-EINVAL - The device is not operational or the ccw device is not online. Miscellaneous Support Routines diff --git a/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt b/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt index 62c082387aea..77bf450ec39b 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/driver-model.txt @@ -239,6 +239,9 @@ status - Can be 'online' or 'offline'. type - The physical type of the channel path. +shared - Whether the channel path is shared. + +cmg - The channel measurement group. 3. System devices ----------------- -- cgit v1.2.2 From 0cc2b3763e06e84ae5a90b63e03cc1d585a109d0 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Brice Goglin Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:24:42 +0200 Subject: PCI: Update MSI-HOWTO.txt according to pci_msi_supported() Update MSI-HOWTO.txt according to pci_msi_supported(). Signed-off-by: Brice Goglin Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 63 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 62 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt index c70306abb7b2..5c34910665d1 100644 --- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -470,7 +470,68 @@ LOC: 324553 325068 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -6. FAQ +6. MSI quirks + +Several PCI chipsets or devices are known to not support MSI. +The PCI stack provides 3 possible levels of MSI disabling: +* on a single device +* on all devices behind a specific bridge +* globally + +6.1. Disabling MSI on a single device + +Under some circumstances, it might be required to disable MSI on a +single device, It may be achived by either not calling pci_enable_msi() +or all, or setting the pci_dev->no_msi flag before (most of the time +in a quirk). + +6.2. Disabling MSI below a bridge + +The vast majority of MSI quirks are required by PCI bridges not +being able to route MSI between busses. In this case, MSI have to be +disabled on all devices behind this bridge. It is achieves by setting +the PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI flag in the pci_bus->bus_flags of the bridge +subordinate bus. There is no need to set the same flag on bridges that +are below the broken brigde. When pci_enable_msi() is called to enable +MSI on a device, pci_msi_supported() takes care of checking the NO_MSI +flag in all parent busses of the device. + +Some bridges actually support dynamic MSI support enabling/disabling +by changing some bits in their PCI configuration space (especially +the Hypertransport chipsets such as the nVidia nForce and Serverworks +HT2000). It may then be required to update the NO_MSI flag on the +corresponding devices in the sysfs hierarchy. To enable MSI support +on device "0000:00:0e", do: + + echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:0e/msi_bus + +To disable MSI support, echo 0 instead of 1. Note that it should be +used with caution since changing this value might break interrupts. + +6.3. Disabling MSI globally + +Some extreme cases may require to disable MSI globally on the system. +For now, the only known case is a Serverworks PCI-X chipsets (MSI are +not supported on several busses that are not all connected to the +chipset in the Linux PCI hierarchy). In the vast majority of other +cases, disabling only behind a specific bridge is enough. + +For debugging purpose, the user may also pass pci=nomsi on the kernel +command-line to explicitly disable MSI globally. But, once the appro- +priate quirks are added to the kernel, this option should not be +required anymore. + +6.4. Finding why MSI cannot be enabled on a device + +Assuming that MSI are not enabled on a device, you should look at +dmesg to find messages that quirks may output when disabling MSI +on some devices, some bridges or even globally. +Then, lspci -t gives the list of bridges above a device. Reading +/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:0e/msi_bus will tell you whether MSI +are enabled (1) or disabled (0). In 0 is found in a single bridge +msi_bus file above the device, MSI cannot be enabled. + +7. FAQ Q1. Are there any limitations on using the MSI? -- cgit v1.2.2 From 6b4b78fed47e7380dfe9280b154e8b9bfcd4c86c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt Domsch Date: Fri, 29 Sep 2006 15:23:23 -0500 Subject: PCI: optionally sort device lists breadth-first 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 5 +++++ 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ff571f9298e0..dd00fd556a60 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -1231,6 +1231,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file machine check when some devices' config space is read. But various workarounds are disabled and some IOMMU drivers will not work. + bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + This sorting is done to get a device + order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. + nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 pd. [PARIDE] -- cgit v1.2.2 From acbd39fbc5d8757aa920c6045399374df7a6dd68 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dominik Brodowski Date: Sat, 30 Sep 2006 22:41:43 -0400 Subject: Documentation: feature-removal-schedule typo Fix typo in newly added feature remove schedule item. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 24f3c63b3017..1ac3c74646e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -255,7 +255,7 @@ Who: Stephen Hemminger What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment -When: Oktober 2008 +When: October 2008 Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and inconsistent. Class devices should not carry any of these properties, and bus -- cgit v1.2.2 From 722385f75efd82d9f480f0765a1e97a4d83cac0d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Diego Calleja Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2006 22:37:10 +0200 Subject: HOWTO: bug report addition 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 Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/HOWTO | 20 ++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 20 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index d6f3dd1a3464..8d51c148f721 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -395,6 +395,26 @@ bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) +Managing bug reports +-------------------- + +One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing +bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel +more stable, you'll learn to fix real world problems and you will improve +your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing +bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. + +To work in the already reported bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org. +If you want to be advised of the future bug reports, you can subscribe to the +bugme-new mailing list (only new bug reports are mailed here) or to the +bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) + + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors + + + Mailing lists ------------- -- cgit v1.2.2 From 2ca7b961c3c9f072d307293aad0f9705522e916a Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Grant Coady Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:57:41 +0200 Subject: adm9240: Update Grant Coady's email address Replace a bouncing email that I cannot recover from Mr Google. Signed-off-by: Grant Coady Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 b/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 index 35f618f32896..2c6f1fed4618 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Authors: Frodo Looijaard , Philip Edelbrock , Michiel Rook , - Grant Coady with guidance + Grant Coady with guidance from Jean Delvare Interface -- cgit v1.2.2 From 15fe25ca67234514d7cf41af28096c1330f44950 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 21:59:54 +0200 Subject: hwmon: Fix documentation typos Fix typos in hardware monitoring documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/hwmon/f71805f | 2 +- Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf | 6 +++--- 2 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f b/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f index 28c5b7d1eb90..2ca69df669c3 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Thanks to Kris Chen from Fintek for answering technical questions and providing additional documentation. Thanks to Chris Lin from Jetway for providing wiring schematics and -anwsering technical questions. +answering technical questions. Description diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf index fae3b781d82d..caa610a297e8 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ fan control mode). Temperatures are measured in degrees Celsius and measurement resolution is 1 degC for temp1 and 0.5 degC for temp2 and temp3. An alarm is triggered when the temperature gets higher than high limit; it stays on until the temperature -falls below the Hysteresis value. +falls below the hysteresis value. Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (rotations per minute). An alarm is triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit. Fan @@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ Thermal Cruise mode If the temperature is in the range defined by: -pwm[1-4]_target - set target temperature, unit millidegree Celcius +pwm[1-4]_target - set target temperature, unit millidegree Celsius (range 0 - 127000) -pwm[1-4]_tolerance - tolerance, unit millidegree Celcius (range 0 - 15000) +pwm[1-4]_tolerance - tolerance, unit millidegree Celsius (range 0 - 15000) there are no changes to fan speed. Once the temperature leaves the interval, fan speed increases (temp is higher) or decreases if lower than desired. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 6091780eba5d195213747b515a62211ac97641f1 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jean Delvare Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:00:44 +0200 Subject: smsc47m1: List the SMSC LPC47M112 as supported 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 | 4 +++- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 b/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 index c15bbe68264e..04a11124f667 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 @@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ Kernel driver smsc47m1 ====================== Supported chips: - * SMSC LPC47B27x, LPC47M10x, LPC47M13x, LPC47M14x, LPC47M15x and LPC47M192 + * SMSC LPC47B27x, LPC47M112, LPC47M10x, LPC47M13x, LPC47M14x, + LPC47M15x and LPC47M192 Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space Prefix: 'smsc47m1' Datasheets: http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47b27x.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m10x.pdf + http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m112.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/tools/discontinued/47m13x.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m14x.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/tools/discontinued/47m15x.pdf -- cgit v1.2.2 From 4660cb354a1dacbbc9c96f94eceedc38fe542fe2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rudolf Marek Date: Sun, 8 Oct 2006 22:01:26 +0200 Subject: k8temp: Documentation update Update the documentation for the k8temp driver. Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/hwmon/k8temp | 13 ++++++++----- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp b/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp index bab445ab0f52..30d123b8d920 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Kernel driver k8temp ==================== Supported chips: - * AMD K8 CPU + * AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron CPUs Prefix: 'k8temp' Addresses scanned: PCI space Datasheet: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/32559.pdf @@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ Contact: Rudolf Marek Description ----------- -This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8 CPUs. -Official documentation says that it works from revision F of K8 core, but -in fact it seems to be implemented for all revisions of K8 except the first -two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3). +This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8 +family CPUs (Athlon64/FX, Opteron). Official documentation says that it works +from revision F of K8 core, but in fact it seems to be implemented for all +revisions of K8 except the first two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3). + +Please note that you will need at least lm-sensors 2.10.1 for proper userspace +support. There can be up to four temperature sensors inside single CPU. The driver will auto-detect the sensors and will display only temperatures from -- cgit v1.2.2 From 3fda982c501c6a8baa3fa79aaea1bfa7bb2a5def Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:28:19 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] fix typo in memory barrier docs 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 Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 994355b0cd19..7f790f66ec68 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@ queue before processing any further requests: smp_wmb(); - p = &b; q = p; + p = &v; q = p; -- cgit v1.2.2 From ca926e80dcfd18adaf7c4304935da4cc8ded8364 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Satoru Takeuchi Date: Thu, 19 Oct 2006 23:29:06 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] doc: fixing cpu-hotplug documentation 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 Cc: Ashok Raj Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 148 +++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- 1 file changed, 74 insertions(+), 74 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index bc107cb157a8..4868c34f7509 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info. -additional_cpus*=n Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets +additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus (*) Option valid only for following architectures @@ -101,15 +101,15 @@ cpu_possible_map/for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate. Never use anything other than cpumask_t to represent bitmap of CPUs. -#include + #include -for_each_possible_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_map -for_each_online_cpu - Iterate over cpu_online_map -for_each_present_cpu - Iterate over cpu_present_map -for_each_cpu_mask(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask. + for_each_possible_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_map + for_each_online_cpu - Iterate over cpu_online_map + for_each_present_cpu - Iterate over cpu_present_map + for_each_cpu_mask(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask. -#include -lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug(): + #include + lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug(): The above calls are used to inhibit cpu hotplug operations. While holding the cpucontrol mutex, cpu_online_map will not change. If you merely need to avoid @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ will work as long as stop_machine_run() is used to take a cpu down. CPU Hotplug - Frequently Asked Questions. -Q: How to i enable my kernel to support CPU hotplug? +Q: How to enable my kernel to support CPU hotplug? A: When doing make defconfig, Enable CPU hotplug support "Processor type and Features" -> Support for Hotpluggable CPUs @@ -141,39 +141,39 @@ A: You should now notice an entry in sysfs. Check if sysfs is mounted, using the "mount" command. You should notice an entry as shown below in the output. -.... -none on /sys type sysfs (rw) -.... + .... + none on /sys type sysfs (rw) + .... -if this is not mounted, do the following. +If this is not mounted, do the following. -#mkdir /sysfs -#mount -t sysfs sys /sys + #mkdir /sysfs + #mount -t sysfs sys /sys -now you should see entries for all present cpu, the following is an example +Now you should see entries for all present cpu, the following is an example in a 8-way system. -#pwd -#/sys/devices/system/cpu -#ls -l -total 0 -drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 . -drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 19 07:45 .. -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu0 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu1 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu2 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu3 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu4 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu5 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu6 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:48 cpu7 + #pwd + #/sys/devices/system/cpu + #ls -l + total 0 + drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 . + drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 19 07:45 .. + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu0 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu1 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu2 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu3 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu4 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu5 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu6 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:48 cpu7 Under each directory you would find an "online" file which is the control file to logically online/offline a processor. Q: Does hot-add/hot-remove refer to physical add/remove of cpus? A: The usage of hot-add/remove may not be very consistently used in the code. -CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enables logical online/offline capability in the kernel. +CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU enables logical online/offline capability in the kernel. To support physical addition/removal, one would need some BIOS hooks and the platform should have something like an attention button in PCI hotplug. CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU enables ACPI support for physical add/remove of CPUs. @@ -181,17 +181,17 @@ CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU enables ACPI support for physical add/remove of CPUs. Q: How do i logically offline a CPU? A: Do the following. -#echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online + #echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online -once the logical offline is successful, check +Once the logical offline is successful, check -#cat /proc/interrupts + #cat /proc/interrupts -you should now not see the CPU that you removed. Also online file will report +You should now not see the CPU that you removed. Also online file will report the state as 0 when a cpu if offline and 1 when its online. -#To display the current cpu state. -#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online + #To display the current cpu state. + #cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online Q: Why cant i remove CPU0 on some systems? A: Some architectures may have some special dependency on a certain CPU. @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ Q: If i have some kernel code that needs to be aware of CPU arrival and departure, how to i arrange for proper notification? A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications. - #include - static int __cpuinit foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, + #include + static int __cpuinit foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) { unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu; @@ -279,10 +279,10 @@ Q: I don't see my action being called for all CPUs already up and running? A: Yes, CPU notifiers are called only when new CPUs are on-lined or offlined. If you need to perform some action for each cpu already in the system, then - for_each_online_cpu(i) { + for_each_online_cpu(i) { foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier, CPU_UP_PREPARE, i); - foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar-cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, i); - } + foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, i); + } Q: If i would like to develop cpu hotplug support for a new architecture, what do i need at a minimum? @@ -307,38 +307,38 @@ Q: I need to ensure that a particular cpu is not removed when there is some work specific to this cpu is in progress. A: First switch the current thread context to preferred cpu - int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu) - { - cpumask_t saved_mask, new_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE; - int curr_cpu, err = 0; - - saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed; - cpu_set(cpu, new_mask); - err = set_cpus_allowed(current, new_mask); - - if (err) - return err; - - /* - * If we got scheduled out just after the return from - * set_cpus_allowed() before running the work, this ensures - * we stay locked. - */ - curr_cpu = get_cpu(); - - if (curr_cpu != cpu) { - err = -EAGAIN; - goto ret; - } else { - /* - * Do work : But cant sleep, since get_cpu() disables preempt - */ - } - ret: - put_cpu(); - set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask); - return err; - } + int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu) + { + cpumask_t saved_mask, new_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE; + int curr_cpu, err = 0; + + saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed; + cpu_set(cpu, new_mask); + err = set_cpus_allowed(current, new_mask); + + if (err) + return err; + + /* + * If we got scheduled out just after the return from + * set_cpus_allowed() before running the work, this ensures + * we stay locked. + */ + curr_cpu = get_cpu(); + + if (curr_cpu != cpu) { + err = -EAGAIN; + goto ret; + } else { + /* + * Do work : But cant sleep, since get_cpu() disables preempt + */ + } + ret: + put_cpu(); + set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask); + return err; + } Q: How do we determine how many CPUs are available for hotplug. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 224dc50ece1b40f8cff5ecadd42a6b2691e231de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Baechle Date: Sat, 21 Oct 2006 02:05:20 +0100 Subject: [MIPS] Cleanup remaining references to mips_counter_frequency. Noticed by Samium Gromoff but his patch got stale in flight ... Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle --- Documentation/mips/time.README | 10 +++++----- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/mips/time.README b/Documentation/mips/time.README index 69ddc5c14b79..e1304b6bc483 100644 --- a/Documentation/mips/time.README +++ b/Documentation/mips/time.README @@ -63,7 +63,7 @@ the following functions or values: a) board_time_init - a function pointer. Invoked at the beginnig of time_init(). It is optional. 1. (optional) set up RTC routines - 2. (optional) calibrate and set the mips_counter_frequency + 2. (optional) calibrate and set the mips_hpt_frequency b) plat_timer_setup - a function pointer. Invoked at the end of time_init() 1. (optional) over-ride any decisions made in time_init() @@ -72,7 +72,7 @@ the following functions or values: c) (optional) board-specific RTC routines. - d) (optional) mips_counter_frequency - It must be definied if the board + d) (optional) mips_hpt_frequency - It must be definied if the board is using CPU counter for timer interrupt or it is using fixed rate gettimeoffset(). @@ -104,7 +104,7 @@ Step 1: decide how you like to implement the time services. or use an exnternal timer? In order to use CPU counter register as the timer interrupt source, you - must know the counter speed (mips_counter_frequency). It is usually the + must know the counter speed (mips_hpt_frequency). It is usually the same as the CPU speed or an integral divisor of it. d) decide on whether you want to use high-level or low-level timer @@ -121,8 +121,8 @@ Step 3: implement rtc routines, board_time_init() and plat_timer_setup() if needed. board_time_init() - - a) (optional) set up RTC routines, - b) (optional) calibrate and set the mips_counter_frequency + a) (optional) set up RTC routines, + b) (optional) calibrate and set the mips_hpt_frequency (only needed if you intended to use fixed_rate_gettimeoffset or use cpu counter as timer interrupt source) -- cgit v1.2.2 From bbb5bbb037812ba36d638014a93134148a568684 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Sun, 29 Oct 2006 22:46:40 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] docbook: make a filesystems book 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl | 101 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 60 -------------------- 3 files changed, 102 insertions(+), 61 deletions(-) create mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 66e1cf733571..3bf5086574bc 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ - kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ + kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \ genericirq.xml diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..4785032fb6ea --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl @@ -0,0 +1,101 @@ + + + + + + Linux Filesystems API + + + + This documentation is free software; you can redistribute + it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public + License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either + version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later + version. + + + + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be + useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied + warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. + See the GNU General Public License for more details. + + + + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public + License along with this program; if not, write to the Free + Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, + MA 02111-1307 USA + + + + For more details see the file COPYING in the source + distribution of Linux. + + + + + + + + The Linux VFS + The Filesystem types +!Iinclude/linux/fs.h + + The Directory Cache +!Efs/dcache.c +!Iinclude/linux/dcache.h + + Inode Handling +!Efs/inode.c +!Efs/bad_inode.c + + Registration and Superblocks +!Efs/super.c + + File Locks +!Efs/locks.c +!Ifs/locks.c + + Other Functions +!Efs/mpage.c +!Efs/namei.c +!Efs/buffer.c +!Efs/bio.c +!Efs/seq_file.c +!Efs/filesystems.c +!Efs/fs-writeback.c +!Efs/block_dev.c + + + + + The proc filesystem + + sysctl interface +!Ekernel/sysctl.c + + + proc filesystem interface +!Ifs/proc/base.c + + + + + The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects +!Efs/sysfs/file.c +!Efs/sysfs/symlink.c +!Efs/sysfs/bin.c + + + + The debugfs filesystem + + debugfs interface +!Efs/debugfs/inode.c +!Efs/debugfs/file.c + + + + diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 2b5ac604948c..a166675c4303 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -182,66 +182,6 @@ X!Ilib/string.c - - The Linux VFS - The Filesystem types -!Iinclude/linux/fs.h - - The Directory Cache -!Efs/dcache.c -!Iinclude/linux/dcache.h - - Inode Handling -!Efs/inode.c -!Efs/bad_inode.c - - Registration and Superblocks -!Efs/super.c - - File Locks -!Efs/locks.c -!Ifs/locks.c - - Other Functions -!Efs/mpage.c -!Efs/namei.c -!Efs/buffer.c -!Efs/bio.c -!Efs/seq_file.c -!Efs/filesystems.c -!Efs/fs-writeback.c -!Efs/block_dev.c - - - - - The proc filesystem - - sysctl interface -!Ekernel/sysctl.c - - - proc filesystem interface -!Ifs/proc/base.c - - - - - The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects -!Efs/sysfs/file.c -!Efs/sysfs/symlink.c -!Efs/sysfs/bin.c - - - - The debugfs filesystem - - debugfs interface -!Efs/debugfs/inode.c -!Efs/debugfs/file.c - - - relay interface support -- cgit v1.2.2 From 16b7b2ac0148e839da86af8747b6fa4aad43a9b7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Atsushi Nemoto Date: Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:21:27 +0900 Subject: [MIPS] Fixup migration to GENERIC_TIME 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 Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle --- Documentation/mips/time.README | 39 ++++++++------------------------------- 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/mips/time.README b/Documentation/mips/time.README index e1304b6bc483..a4ce603ed3b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/mips/time.README +++ b/Documentation/mips/time.README @@ -38,19 +38,14 @@ The new time code provide the following services: a) Implements functions required by Linux common code: time_init - do_gettimeofday - do_settimeofday b) provides an abstraction of RTC and null RTC implementation as default. extern unsigned long (*rtc_get_time)(void); extern int (*rtc_set_time)(unsigned long); - c) a set of gettimeoffset functions for different CPUs and different - needs. - - d) high-level and low-level timer interrupt routines where the timer - interrupt source may or may not be the CPU timer. The high-level - routine is dispatched through do_IRQ() while the low-level is + c) high-level and low-level timer interrupt routines where the timer + interrupt source may or may not be the CPU timer. The high-level + routine is dispatched through do_IRQ() while the low-level is dispatched in assemably code (usually int-handler.S) @@ -73,8 +68,7 @@ the following functions or values: c) (optional) board-specific RTC routines. d) (optional) mips_hpt_frequency - It must be definied if the board - is using CPU counter for timer interrupt or it is using fixed rate - gettimeoffset(). + is using CPU counter for timer interrupt. PORTING GUIDE @@ -89,16 +83,6 @@ Step 1: decide how you like to implement the time services. If the answer is no, you need a timer to provide the timer interrupt at 100 HZ speed. - You cannot use the fast gettimeoffset functions, i.e., - - unsigned long fixed_rate_gettimeoffset(void); - unsigned long calibrate_div32_gettimeoffset(void); - unsigned long calibrate_div64_gettimeoffset(void); - - You can use null_gettimeoffset() will gives the same time resolution as - jiffy. Or you can implement your own gettimeoffset (probably based on - some ad hoc hardware on your machine.) - c) The following sub steps assume your CPU has counter register. Do you plan to use the CPU counter register as the timer interrupt or use an exnternal timer? @@ -123,8 +107,8 @@ Step 3: implement rtc routines, board_time_init() and plat_timer_setup() board_time_init() - a) (optional) set up RTC routines, b) (optional) calibrate and set the mips_hpt_frequency - (only needed if you intended to use fixed_rate_gettimeoffset - or use cpu counter as timer interrupt source) + (only needed if you intended to use cpu counter as timer interrupt + source) plat_timer_setup() - a) (optional) over-write any choices made above by time_init(). @@ -154,8 +138,8 @@ for some of the functions in time.c. For example, you may define your own timer interrupt routine, which does some of its own processing and then calls timer_interrupt(). -You can also over-ride any of the built-in functions (gettimeoffset, -RTC routines and/or timer interrupt routine). +You can also over-ride any of the built-in functions (RTC routines +and/or timer interrupt routine). PORTING NOTES FOR SMP @@ -187,10 +171,3 @@ You need to decide on your timer interrupt sources. You can also do the low-level version of those interrupt routines, following similar dispatching routes described above. - -Note about do_gettimeoffset(): - - It is very likely the CPU counter registers are not sync'ed up in a SMP box. - Therefore you cannot really use the many of the existing routines that - are based on CPU counter. You should wirte your own gettimeoffset rouinte - if you want intra-jiffy resolution. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 23b0d968c2c82c2574ca97148ce092eff4ab84a6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Naranjo Manuel Francisco Date: Fri, 27 Oct 2006 16:08:54 -0300 Subject: USB: HID: add blacklist AIRcable USB, little beautification 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 --- Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt | 6 ------ 1 file changed, 6 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt index 8dc2bacc8f1f..50436e1663ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt @@ -428,12 +428,6 @@ Options supported: See http://www.uuhaus.de/linux/palmconnect.html for up-to-date information on this driver. -AIRcable USB Dongle Bluetooth driver - If there is the cdc_acm driver loaded in the system, you will find that the - cdc_acm claims the device before AIRcable can. This is simply corrected - by unloading both modules and then loading the aircable module before - cdc_acm module - Generic Serial driver If your device is not one of the above listed devices, compatible with -- cgit v1.2.2 From c6120938365df9976dc07c536e1c14190ead48e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:01 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] update some docbook comments 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index c65233d430f0..284e7e198e93 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ are: special place-holders for where the extracted documentation should go. -- scripts/docproc.c +- scripts/basic/docproc.c This is a program for converting SGML template files into SGML files. When a file is referenced it is searched for symbols -- cgit v1.2.2 From 733b72c31efb0d6b29577655939ccfe835381b52 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:02 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] docbook: merge journal-api into filesystems.tmpl 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/DocBook/Makefile | 2 +- Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl | 300 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl | 333 --------------------------------- 3 files changed, 301 insertions(+), 334 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 3bf5086574bc..db9499adbed4 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ - kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ + kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \ genericirq.xml diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl index 4785032fb6ea..39fa2aba7f9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl @@ -98,4 +98,304 @@ + + + The Linux Journalling API + + + + Roger + Gammans + +
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+ + The Linux Journalling API + + + Overview + + Details + +The journalling layer is easy to use. You need to +first of all create a journal_t data structure. There are +two calls to do this dependent on how you decide to allocate the physical +media on which the journal resides. The journal_init_inode() call +is for journals stored in filesystem inodes, or the journal_init_dev() +call can be use for journal stored on a raw device (in a continuous range +of blocks). A journal_t is a typedef for a struct pointer, so when +you are finally finished make sure you call journal_destroy() on it +to free up any used kernel memory. + + + +Once you have got your journal_t object you need to 'mount' or load the journal +file, unless of course you haven't initialised it yet - in which case you +need to call journal_create(). + + + +Most of the time however your journal file will already have been created, but +before you load it you must call journal_wipe() to empty the journal file. +Hang on, you say , what if the filesystem wasn't cleanly umount()'d . Well, it is the +job of the client file system to detect this and skip the call to journal_wipe(). + + + +In either case the next call should be to journal_load() which prepares the +journal file for use. Note that journal_wipe(..,0) calls journal_skip_recovery() +for you if it detects any outstanding transactions in the journal and similarly +journal_load() will call journal_recover() if necessary. +I would advise reading fs/ext3/super.c for examples on this stage. +[RGG: Why is the journal_wipe() call necessary - doesn't this needlessly +complicate the API. Or isn't a good idea for the journal layer to hide +dirty mounts from the client fs] + + + +Now you can go ahead and start modifying the underlying +filesystem. Almost. + + + + +You still need to actually journal your filesystem changes, this +is done by wrapping them into transactions. Additionally you +also need to wrap the modification of each of the buffers +with calls to the journal layer, so it knows what the modifications +you are actually making are. To do this use journal_start() which +returns a transaction handle. + + + +journal_start() +and its counterpart journal_stop(), which indicates the end of a transaction +are nestable calls, so you can reenter a transaction if necessary, +but remember you must call journal_stop() the same number of times as +journal_start() before the transaction is completed (or more accurately +leaves the update phase). Ext3/VFS makes use of this feature to simplify +quota support. + + + +Inside each transaction you need to wrap the modifications to the +individual buffers (blocks). Before you start to modify a buffer you +need to call journal_get_{create,write,undo}_access() as appropriate, +this allows the journalling layer to copy the unmodified data if it +needs to. After all the buffer may be part of a previously uncommitted +transaction. +At this point you are at last ready to modify a buffer, and once +you are have done so you need to call journal_dirty_{meta,}data(). +Or if you've asked for access to a buffer you now know is now longer +required to be pushed back on the device you can call journal_forget() +in much the same way as you might have used bforget() in the past. + + + +A journal_flush() may be called at any time to commit and checkpoint +all your transactions. + + + +Then at umount time , in your put_super() (2.4) or write_super() (2.5) +you can then call journal_destroy() to clean up your in-core journal object. + + + +Unfortunately there a couple of ways the journal layer can cause a deadlock. +The first thing to note is that each task can only have +a single outstanding transaction at any one time, remember nothing +commits until the outermost journal_stop(). This means +you must complete the transaction at the end of each file/inode/address +etc. operation you perform, so that the journalling system isn't re-entered +on another journal. Since transactions can't be nested/batched +across differing journals, and another filesystem other than +yours (say ext3) may be modified in a later syscall. + + + +The second case to bear in mind is that journal_start() can +block if there isn't enough space in the journal for your transaction +(based on the passed nblocks param) - when it blocks it merely(!) needs to +wait for transactions to complete and be committed from other tasks, +so essentially we are waiting for journal_stop(). So to avoid +deadlocks you must treat journal_start/stop() as if they +were semaphores and include them in your semaphore ordering rules to prevent +deadlocks. Note that journal_extend() has similar blocking behaviour to +journal_start() so you can deadlock here just as easily as on journal_start(). + + + +Try to reserve the right number of blocks the first time. ;-). This will +be the maximum number of blocks you are going to touch in this transaction. +I advise having a look at at least ext3_jbd.h to see the basis on which +ext3 uses to make these decisions. + + + +Another wriggle to watch out for is your on-disk block allocation strategy. +why? Because, if you undo a delete, you need to ensure you haven't reused any +of the freed blocks in a later transaction. One simple way of doing this +is make sure any blocks you allocate only have checkpointed transactions +listed against them. Ext3 does this in ext3_test_allocatable(). + + + +Lock is also providing through journal_{un,}lock_updates(), +ext3 uses this when it wants a window with a clean and stable fs for a moment. +eg. + + + + + journal_lock_updates() //stop new stuff happening.. + journal_flush() // checkpoint everything. + ..do stuff on stable fs + journal_unlock_updates() // carry on with filesystem use. + + + +The opportunities for abuse and DOS attacks with this should be obvious, +if you allow unprivileged userspace to trigger codepaths containing these +calls. + + + +A new feature of jbd since 2.5.25 is commit callbacks with the new +journal_callback_set() function you can now ask the journalling layer +to call you back when the transaction is finally committed to disk, so that +you can do some of your own management. The key to this is the journal_callback +struct, this maintains the internal callback information but you can +extend it like this:- + + + struct myfs_callback_s { + //Data structure element required by jbd.. + struct journal_callback for_jbd; + // Stuff for myfs allocated together. + myfs_inode* i_commited; + + } + + + +this would be useful if you needed to know when data was committed to a +particular inode. + + + + + + Summary + +Using the journal is a matter of wrapping the different context changes, +being each mount, each modification (transaction) and each changed buffer +to tell the journalling layer about them. + + + +Here is a some pseudo code to give you an idea of how it works, as +an example. + + + + journal_t* my_jnrl = journal_create(); + journal_init_{dev,inode}(jnrl,...) + if (clean) journal_wipe(); + journal_load(); + + foreach(transaction) { /*transactions must be + completed before + a syscall returns to + userspace*/ + + handle_t * xct=journal_start(my_jnrl); + foreach(bh) { + journal_get_{create,write,undo}_access(xact,bh); + if ( myfs_modify(bh) ) { /* returns true + if makes changes */ + journal_dirty_{meta,}data(xact,bh); + } else { + journal_forget(bh); + } + } + journal_stop(xct); + } + journal_destroy(my_jrnl); + + + + + + + Data Types + + The journalling layer uses typedefs to 'hide' the concrete definitions + of the structures used. As a client of the JBD layer you can + just rely on the using the pointer as a magic cookie of some sort. + + Obviously the hiding is not enforced as this is 'C'. + + Structures +!Iinclude/linux/jbd.h + + + + + Functions + + The functions here are split into two groups those that + affect a journal as a whole, and those which are used to + manage transactions + + Journal Level +!Efs/jbd/journal.c +!Ifs/jbd/recovery.c + + Transasction Level +!Efs/jbd/transaction.c + + + + See also + + + + Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem, LinuxExpo 98, Stephen Tweedie + + + + + + + Ext3 Journalling FileSystem, OLS 2000, Dr. Stephen Tweedie + + + + + +
+ diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl deleted file mode 100644 index 2077f9a28c19..000000000000 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl +++ /dev/null @@ -1,333 +0,0 @@ - - - - - - The Linux Journalling API - - - Roger - Gammans - -
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- - - 2002 - Roger Gammans - - - - - This documentation is free software; you can redistribute - it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public - License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either - version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later - version. - - - - This program is distributed in the hope that it will be - useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied - warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. - See the GNU General Public License for more details. - - - - You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public - License along with this program; if not, write to the Free - Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, - MA 02111-1307 USA - - - - For more details see the file COPYING in the source - distribution of Linux. - - -
- - - - - Overview - - Details - -The journalling layer is easy to use. You need to -first of all create a journal_t data structure. There are -two calls to do this dependent on how you decide to allocate the physical -media on which the journal resides. The journal_init_inode() call -is for journals stored in filesystem inodes, or the journal_init_dev() -call can be use for journal stored on a raw device (in a continuous range -of blocks). A journal_t is a typedef for a struct pointer, so when -you are finally finished make sure you call journal_destroy() on it -to free up any used kernel memory. - - - -Once you have got your journal_t object you need to 'mount' or load the journal -file, unless of course you haven't initialised it yet - in which case you -need to call journal_create(). - - - -Most of the time however your journal file will already have been created, but -before you load it you must call journal_wipe() to empty the journal file. -Hang on, you say , what if the filesystem wasn't cleanly umount()'d . Well, it is the -job of the client file system to detect this and skip the call to journal_wipe(). - - - -In either case the next call should be to journal_load() which prepares the -journal file for use. Note that journal_wipe(..,0) calls journal_skip_recovery() -for you if it detects any outstanding transactions in the journal and similarly -journal_load() will call journal_recover() if necessary. -I would advise reading fs/ext3/super.c for examples on this stage. -[RGG: Why is the journal_wipe() call necessary - doesn't this needlessly -complicate the API. Or isn't a good idea for the journal layer to hide -dirty mounts from the client fs] - - - -Now you can go ahead and start modifying the underlying -filesystem. Almost. - - - - - -You still need to actually journal your filesystem changes, this -is done by wrapping them into transactions. Additionally you -also need to wrap the modification of each of the buffers -with calls to the journal layer, so it knows what the modifications -you are actually making are. To do this use journal_start() which -returns a transaction handle. - - - -journal_start() -and its counterpart journal_stop(), which indicates the end of a transaction -are nestable calls, so you can reenter a transaction if necessary, -but remember you must call journal_stop() the same number of times as -journal_start() before the transaction is completed (or more accurately -leaves the update phase). Ext3/VFS makes use of this feature to simplify -quota support. - - - -Inside each transaction you need to wrap the modifications to the -individual buffers (blocks). Before you start to modify a buffer you -need to call journal_get_{create,write,undo}_access() as appropriate, -this allows the journalling layer to copy the unmodified data if it -needs to. After all the buffer may be part of a previously uncommitted -transaction. -At this point you are at last ready to modify a buffer, and once -you are have done so you need to call journal_dirty_{meta,}data(). -Or if you've asked for access to a buffer you now know is now longer -required to be pushed back on the device you can call journal_forget() -in much the same way as you might have used bforget() in the past. - - - -A journal_flush() may be called at any time to commit and checkpoint -all your transactions. - - - -Then at umount time , in your put_super() (2.4) or write_super() (2.5) -you can then call journal_destroy() to clean up your in-core journal object. - - - - -Unfortunately there a couple of ways the journal layer can cause a deadlock. -The first thing to note is that each task can only have -a single outstanding transaction at any one time, remember nothing -commits until the outermost journal_stop(). This means -you must complete the transaction at the end of each file/inode/address -etc. operation you perform, so that the journalling system isn't re-entered -on another journal. Since transactions can't be nested/batched -across differing journals, and another filesystem other than -yours (say ext3) may be modified in a later syscall. - - - -The second case to bear in mind is that journal_start() can -block if there isn't enough space in the journal for your transaction -(based on the passed nblocks param) - when it blocks it merely(!) needs to -wait for transactions to complete and be committed from other tasks, -so essentially we are waiting for journal_stop(). So to avoid -deadlocks you must treat journal_start/stop() as if they -were semaphores and include them in your semaphore ordering rules to prevent -deadlocks. Note that journal_extend() has similar blocking behaviour to -journal_start() so you can deadlock here just as easily as on journal_start(). - - - -Try to reserve the right number of blocks the first time. ;-). This will -be the maximum number of blocks you are going to touch in this transaction. -I advise having a look at at least ext3_jbd.h to see the basis on which -ext3 uses to make these decisions. - - - -Another wriggle to watch out for is your on-disk block allocation strategy. -why? Because, if you undo a delete, you need to ensure you haven't reused any -of the freed blocks in a later transaction. One simple way of doing this -is make sure any blocks you allocate only have checkpointed transactions -listed against them. Ext3 does this in ext3_test_allocatable(). - - - -Lock is also providing through journal_{un,}lock_updates(), -ext3 uses this when it wants a window with a clean and stable fs for a moment. -eg. - - - - - journal_lock_updates() //stop new stuff happening.. - journal_flush() // checkpoint everything. - ..do stuff on stable fs - journal_unlock_updates() // carry on with filesystem use. - - - -The opportunities for abuse and DOS attacks with this should be obvious, -if you allow unprivileged userspace to trigger codepaths containing these -calls. - - - -A new feature of jbd since 2.5.25 is commit callbacks with the new -journal_callback_set() function you can now ask the journalling layer -to call you back when the transaction is finally committed to disk, so that -you can do some of your own management. The key to this is the journal_callback -struct, this maintains the internal callback information but you can -extend it like this:- - - - struct myfs_callback_s { - //Data structure element required by jbd.. - struct journal_callback for_jbd; - // Stuff for myfs allocated together. - myfs_inode* i_commited; - - } - - - -this would be useful if you needed to know when data was committed to a -particular inode. - - - - - -Summary - -Using the journal is a matter of wrapping the different context changes, -being each mount, each modification (transaction) and each changed buffer -to tell the journalling layer about them. - - - -Here is a some pseudo code to give you an idea of how it works, as -an example. - - - - journal_t* my_jnrl = journal_create(); - journal_init_{dev,inode}(jnrl,...) - if (clean) journal_wipe(); - journal_load(); - - foreach(transaction) { /*transactions must be - completed before - a syscall returns to - userspace*/ - - handle_t * xct=journal_start(my_jnrl); - foreach(bh) { - journal_get_{create,write,undo}_access(xact,bh); - if ( myfs_modify(bh) ) { /* returns true - if makes changes */ - journal_dirty_{meta,}data(xact,bh); - } else { - journal_forget(bh); - } - } - journal_stop(xct); - } - journal_destroy(my_jrnl); - - - - - - - Data Types - - The journalling layer uses typedefs to 'hide' the concrete definitions - of the structures used. As a client of the JBD layer you can - just rely on the using the pointer as a magic cookie of some sort. - - Obviously the hiding is not enforced as this is 'C'. - - Structures -!Iinclude/linux/jbd.h - - - - - Functions - - The functions here are split into two groups those that - affect a journal as a whole, and those which are used to - manage transactions - - Journal Level -!Efs/jbd/journal.c -!Ifs/jbd/recovery.c - - Transasction Level -!Efs/jbd/transaction.c - - - - See also - - - - Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem,LinuxExpo 98, Stephen Tweedie - - - - - - - Ext3 Journalling FileSystem , OLS 2000, Dr. Stephen Tweedie - - - - - -
-- cgit v1.2.2 From b918f6e62cd46774f9fc0a3fbba6bd10ad85ee14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:19 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] swsusp: debugging 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 Cc: Stefan Seyfried Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power | 17 ++++++++++++++++- Documentation/power/interface.txt | 13 +++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power index d882f8093871..dcff4d0623ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description: these states. What: /sys/power/disk -Date: August 2006 +Date: September 2006 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki Description: The /sys/power/disk file controls the operating mode of the @@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ Description: 'reboot' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and the system will be rebooted. + Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the + two testing modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' + or 'test'. If the suspend-to-disk mechanism is in the + 'testproc' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, wait for 5 + seconds, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. If it is in + the 'test' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, shrink + memory, suspend devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume devices, + unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. Then, we are able to + look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code + is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving. + The suspend-to-disk method may be chosen by writing to this file one of the accepted strings: @@ -46,6 +59,8 @@ Description: 'platform' 'shutdown' 'reboot' + 'testproc' + 'test' It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports that. diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt index a66bec222b16..74311d7e0f3c 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/interface.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/interface.txt @@ -30,6 +30,17 @@ testing). The system will support either 'firmware' or 'platform', and that is known a priori. But, the user may choose 'shutdown' or 'reboot' as alternatives. +Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the two testing +modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' or 'test'. If the +suspend-to-disk mechanism is in the 'testproc' mode, writing 'disk' to +/sys/power/state will cause the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze +tasks, wait for 5 seconds, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. If it is +in the 'test' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause the kernel +to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, shrink memory, suspend devices, wait +for 5 seconds, resume devices, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. Then, +we are able to look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code +is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving. + Reading from this file will display what the mode is currently set to. Writing to this file will accept one of @@ -37,6 +48,8 @@ to. Writing to this file will accept one of 'platform' 'shutdown' 'reboot' + 'testproc' + 'test' It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports it. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 8804023061b3447fbaddbd286d78170ad88d1a43 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Thu, 2 Nov 2006 22:07:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] fix Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c buf size 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 Cc: Balbir Singh Cc: Shailabh Nagar Cc: Jay Lan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c index b11792abd6b6..bf2b0e2f87e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c +++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ __u64 stime, utime; } /* Maximum size of response requested or message sent */ -#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 256 +#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 1024 /* Maximum number of cpus expected to be specified in a cpumask */ #define MAX_CPUS 32 /* Maximum length of pathname to log file */ -- cgit v1.2.2 From 75b2bd55bd7724c727856fbdf3ab71d2e4287ac8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Oleg Nesterov Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:44:38 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] A minor fix for set_mb() in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt 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 Acked-by: David Howells Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7f790f66ec68..7751704b6db1 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: (*) set_mb(var, value) - This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write + This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 13bb7e37e5081d03643e2bd64f3f5d21f32e7221 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: "Eric W. Biederman" Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 17:44:51 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctl 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 Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 12 ------------ 1 file changed, 12 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 1ac3c74646e3..d52c4aaaf17f 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -53,18 +53,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --------------------------- -What: sys_sysctl -When: January 2007 -Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the - interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be - any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional - maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets - in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface. - -Who: Eric Biederman - ---------------------------- - What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c -- cgit v1.2.2 From fa18f477d0987c011cce047a7c3cd1284f547a14 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andi Kleen Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 16:57:46 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boards 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 --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index dd00fd556a60..67473849f20e 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. + acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI} + Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards + that require a timer override, but don't have + HPET acpi_dbg_layer= [HW,ACPI] Format: -- cgit v1.2.2 From 134a11f0c37c043d3ea557ea15b95b084e3cc2c8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Takashi Iwai Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 12:08:37 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by default 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 Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt index 138673a907f5..3472d9c4ef1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt @@ -753,7 +753,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. position_fix - Fix DMA pointer (0 = auto, 1 = none, 2 = POSBUF, 3 = FIFO size) single_cmd - Use single immediate commands to communicate with codecs (for debugging only) - disable_msi - Disable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) + enable_msi - Enable Message Signaled Interrupt (MSI) (default = off) This module supports one card and autoprobe. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 4f777ed26086452737ea52597cf8de26137090d5 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Christoph Hellwig Date: Sat, 4 Nov 2006 20:11:36 +0100 Subject: [SCSI] kill scsi_assign_lock scsi_assign_lock has been unused for a long time and is a bad idea in general, so kill it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig Signed-off-by: James Bottomley --- Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt | 31 +++++-------------------------- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 26 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt index 75a535a975c3..6f70f2b9327e 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_mid_low_api.txt @@ -375,7 +375,6 @@ Summary: scsi_add_device - creates new scsi device (lu) instance scsi_add_host - perform sysfs registration and set up transport class scsi_adjust_queue_depth - change the queue depth on a SCSI device - scsi_assign_lock - replace default host_lock with given lock scsi_bios_ptable - return copy of block device's partition table scsi_block_requests - prevent further commands being queued to given host scsi_deactivate_tcq - turn off tag command queueing @@ -488,20 +487,6 @@ void scsi_adjust_queue_depth(struct scsi_device * sdev, int tagged, int tags) -/** - * scsi_assign_lock - replace default host_lock with given lock - * @shost: a pointer to a scsi host instance - * @lock: pointer to lock to replace host_lock for this host - * - * Returns nothing - * - * Might block: no - * - * Defined in: include/scsi/scsi_host.h . - **/ -void scsi_assign_lock(struct Scsi_Host *shost, spinlock_t *lock) - - /** * scsi_bios_ptable - return copy of block device's partition table * @dev: pointer to block device @@ -1366,17 +1351,11 @@ Locks Each struct Scsi_Host instance has a spin_lock called struct Scsi_Host::default_lock which is initialized in scsi_host_alloc() [found in hosts.c]. Within the same function the struct Scsi_Host::host_lock pointer -is initialized to point at default_lock with the scsi_assign_lock() function. -Thereafter lock and unlock operations performed by the mid level use the -struct Scsi_Host::host_lock pointer. - -LLDs can override the use of struct Scsi_Host::default_lock by -using scsi_assign_lock(). The earliest opportunity to do this would -be in the detect() function after it has invoked scsi_register(). It -could be replaced by a coarser grain lock (e.g. per driver) or a -lock of equal granularity (i.e. per host). Using finer grain locks -(e.g. per SCSI device) may be possible by juggling locks in -queuecommand(). +is initialized to point at default_lock. Thereafter lock and unlock +operations performed by the mid level use the struct Scsi_Host::host_lock +pointer. Previously drivers could override the host_lock pointer but +this is not allowed anymore. + Autosense ========= -- cgit v1.2.2 From 55aa601e14cbec987fa577a895e9297df1d0a71d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Phillip Susi Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:19:23 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write support 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 Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt | 13 +++++++++++-- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt index 511b4230c053..fde829a756e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt @@ -7,8 +7,17 @@ If you encounter problems with reading UDF discs using this driver, please report them to linux_udf@hpesjro.fc.hp.com, which is the developer's list. -Write support requires a block driver which supports writing. The current -scsi and ide cdrom drivers do not support writing. +Write support requires a block driver which supports writing. Currently +dvd+rw drives and media support true random sector writes, and so a udf +filesystem on such devices can be directly mounted read/write. CD-RW +media however, does not support this. Instead the media can be formatted +for packet mode using the utility cdrwtool, then the pktcdvd driver can +be bound to the underlying cd device to provide the required buffering +and read-modify-write cycles to allow the filesystem random sector writes +while providing the hardware with only full packet writes. While not +required for dvd+rw media, use of the pktcdvd driver often enhances +performance due to very poor read-modify-write support supplied internally +by drive firmware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following mount options are supported: -- cgit v1.2.2 From 565762f3fae23ec4db26607cf4726de7b5075b3b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alexey Dobriyan Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:19:28 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Don't give bad kprobes example aka ") < 0))" typo Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/kprobes.txt | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index ba26201d5023..d71fafffce90 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -442,9 +442,10 @@ static int __init kprobe_init(void) kp.fault_handler = handler_fault; kp.symbol_name = "do_fork"; - if ((ret = register_kprobe(&kp) < 0)) { + ret = register_kprobe(&kp); + if (ret < 0) { printk("register_kprobe failed, returned %d\n", ret); - return -1; + return ret; } printk("kprobe registered\n"); return 0; -- cgit v1.2.2 From e4477d2d1bc3e6c76e83926f7fa8c8f94ba42615 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Randy Dunlap Date: Fri, 24 Nov 2006 00:43:09 -0500 Subject: Input: add to kernel-api docbook Add input subsystem to kernel-api docbook. Enhance some function and parameter comments. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov --- Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl | 8 ++++++++ 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index a166675c4303..a1af278f9901 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -533,4 +533,12 @@ X!Idrivers/video/console/fonts.c --> + + + Input Subsystem +!Iinclude/linux/input.h +!Edrivers/input/input.c +!Edrivers/input/ff-core.c +!Edrivers/input/ff-memless.c + -- cgit v1.2.2 From 7531d8faa85f8880db433027bf2b04950e49baeb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2006 11:09:26 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Documentation/rtc.txt updates (for rtc class) 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 Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- Documentation/rtc.txt | 463 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++----------------- 1 file changed, 304 insertions(+), 159 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/rtc.txt b/Documentation/rtc.txt index 2a58f985795a..7cf1ec5bcdd3 100644 --- a/Documentation/rtc.txt +++ b/Documentation/rtc.txt @@ -1,12 +1,49 @@ - Real Time Clock Driver for Linux - ================================ + Real Time Clock (RTC) Drivers for Linux + ======================================= + +When Linux developers talk about a "Real Time Clock", they usually mean +something that tracks wall clock time and is battery backed so that it +works even with system power off. Such clocks will normally not track +the local time zone or daylight savings time -- unless they dual boot +with MS-Windows -- but will instead be set to Coordinated Universal Time +(UTC, formerly "Greenwich Mean Time"). + +The newest non-PC hardware tends to just count seconds, like the time(2) +system call reports, but RTCs also very commonly represent time using +the Gregorian calendar and 24 hour time, as reported by gmtime(3). + +Linux has two largely-compatible userspace RTC API families you may +need to know about: + + * /dev/rtc ... is the RTC provided by PC compatible systems, + so it's not very portable to non-x86 systems. + + * /dev/rtc0, /dev/rtc1 ... are part of a framework that's + supported by a wide variety of RTC chips on all systems. + +Programmers need to understand that the PC/AT functionality is not +always available, and some systems can do much more. That is, the +RTCs use the same API to make requests in both RTC frameworks (using +different filenames of course), but the hardware may not offer the +same functionality. For example, not every RTC is hooked up to an +IRQ, so they can't all issue alarms; and where standard PC RTCs can +only issue an alarm up to 24 hours in the future, other hardware may +be able to schedule one any time in the upcoming century. + + + Old PC/AT-Compatible driver: /dev/rtc + -------------------------------------- All PCs (even Alpha machines) have a Real Time Clock built into them. Usually they are built into the chipset of the computer, but some may actually have a Motorola MC146818 (or clone) on the board. This is the clock that keeps the date and time while your computer is turned off. +ACPI has standardized that MC146818 functionality, and extended it in +a few ways (enabling longer alarm periods, and wake-from-hibernate). +That functionality is NOT exposed in the old driver. + However it can also be used to generate signals from a slow 2Hz to a relatively fast 8192Hz, in increments of powers of two. These signals are reported by interrupt number 8. (Oh! So *that* is what IRQ 8 is @@ -63,223 +100,331 @@ Rather than write 50 pages describing the ioctl() and so on, it is perhaps more useful to include a small test program that demonstrates how to use them, and demonstrates the features of the driver. This is probably a lot more useful to people interested in writing applications -that will be using this driver. +that will be using this driver. See the code at the end of this document. + +(The original /dev/rtc driver was written by Paul Gortmaker.) + + + New portable "RTC Class" drivers: /dev/rtcN + -------------------------------------------- + +Because Linux supports many non-ACPI and non-PC platforms, some of which +have more than one RTC style clock, it needed a more portable solution +than expecting a single battery-backed MC146818 clone on every system. +Accordingly, a new "RTC Class" framework has been defined. It offers +three different userspace interfaces: + + * /dev/rtcN ... much the same as the older /dev/rtc interface + + * /sys/class/rtc/rtcN ... sysfs attributes support readonly + access to some RTC attributes. + + * /proc/driver/rtc ... the first RTC (rtc0) may expose itself + using a procfs interface. More information is (currently) shown + here than through sysfs. + +The RTC Class framework supports a wide variety of RTCs, ranging from those +integrated into embeddable system-on-chip (SOC) processors to discrete chips +using I2C, SPI, or some other bus to communicate with the host CPU. There's +even support for PC-style RTCs ... including the features exposed on newer PCs +through ACPI. + +The new framework also removes the "one RTC per system" restriction. For +example, maybe the low-power battery-backed RTC is a discrete I2C chip, but +a high functionality RTC is integrated into the SOC. That system might read +the system clock from the discrete RTC, but use the integrated one for all +other tasks, because of its greater functionality. + +The ioctl() calls supported by /dev/rtc are also supported by the RTC class +framework. However, because the chips and systems are not standardized, +some PC/AT functionality might not be provided. And in the same way, some +newer features -- including those enabled by ACPI -- are exposed by the +RTC class framework, but can't be supported by the older driver. + + * RTC_RD_TIME, RTC_SET_TIME ... every RTC supports at least reading + time, returning the result as a Gregorian calendar date and 24 hour + wall clock time. To be most useful, this time may also be updated. + + * RTC_AIE_ON, RTC_AIE_OFF, RTC_ALM_SET, RTC_ALM_READ ... when the RTC + is connected to an IRQ line, it can often issue an alarm IRQ up to + 24 hours in the future. + + * RTC_WKALM_SET, RTC_WKALM_READ ... RTCs that can issue alarms beyond + the next 24 hours use a slightly more powerful API, which supports + setting the longer alarm time and enabling its IRQ using a single + request (using the same model as EFI firmware). + + * RTC_UIE_ON, RTC_UIE_OFF ... if the RTC offers IRQs, it probably + also offers update IRQs whenever the "seconds" counter changes. + If needed, the RTC framework can emulate this mechanism. + + * RTC_PIE_ON, RTC_PIE_OFF, RTC_IRQP_SET, RTC_IRQP_READ ... another + feature often accessible with an IRQ line is a periodic IRQ, issued + at settable frequencies (usually 2^N Hz). + +In many cases, the RTC alarm can be a system wake event, used to force +Linux out of a low power sleep state (or hibernation) back to a fully +operational state. For example, a system could enter a deep power saving +state until it's time to execute some scheduled tasks. - Paul Gortmaker -------------------- 8< ---------------- 8< ----------------------------- /* - * Real Time Clock Driver Test/Example Program + * Real Time Clock Driver Test/Example Program * - * Compile with: - * gcc -s -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes rtctest.c -o rtctest + * Compile with: + * gcc -s -Wall -Wstrict-prototypes rtctest.c -o rtctest * - * Copyright (C) 1996, Paul Gortmaker. + * Copyright (C) 1996, Paul Gortmaker. * - * Released under the GNU General Public License, version 2, - * included herein by reference. + * Released under the GNU General Public License, version 2, + * included herein by reference. * */ #include -#include #include #include #include #include #include #include +#include #include -int main(void) { - -int i, fd, retval, irqcount = 0; -unsigned long tmp, data; -struct rtc_time rtc_tm; -fd = open ("/dev/rtc", O_RDONLY); +/* + * This expects the new RTC class driver framework, working with + * clocks that will often not be clones of what the PC-AT had. + * Use the command line to specify another RTC if you need one. + */ +static const char default_rtc[] = "/dev/rtc0"; + + +int main(int argc, char **argv) +{ + int i, fd, retval, irqcount = 0; + unsigned long tmp, data; + struct rtc_time rtc_tm; + const char *rtc = default_rtc; + + switch (argc) { + case 2: + rtc = argv[1]; + /* FALLTHROUGH */ + case 1: + break; + default: + fprintf(stderr, "usage: rtctest [rtcdev]\n"); + return 1; + } -if (fd == -1) { - perror("/dev/rtc"); - exit(errno); -} + fd = open(rtc, O_RDONLY); -fprintf(stderr, "\n\t\t\tRTC Driver Test Example.\n\n"); + if (fd == -1) { + perror(rtc); + exit(errno); + } -/* Turn on update interrupts (one per second) */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} + fprintf(stderr, "\n\t\t\tRTC Driver Test Example.\n\n"); -fprintf(stderr, "Counting 5 update (1/sec) interrupts from reading /dev/rtc:"); -fflush(stderr); -for (i=1; i<6; i++) { - /* This read will block */ - retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); + /* Turn on update interrupts (one per second) */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_ON, 0); if (retval == -1) { - perror("read"); + if (errno == ENOTTY) { + fprintf(stderr, + "\n...Update IRQs not supported.\n"); + goto test_READ; + } + perror("ioctl"); exit(errno); } - fprintf(stderr, " %d",i); + + fprintf(stderr, "Counting 5 update (1/sec) interrupts from reading %s:", + rtc); fflush(stderr); - irqcount++; -} + for (i=1; i<6; i++) { + /* This read will block */ + retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("read"); + exit(errno); + } + fprintf(stderr, " %d",i); + fflush(stderr); + irqcount++; + } -fprintf(stderr, "\nAgain, from using select(2) on /dev/rtc:"); -fflush(stderr); -for (i=1; i<6; i++) { - struct timeval tv = {5, 0}; /* 5 second timeout on select */ - fd_set readfds; + fprintf(stderr, "\nAgain, from using select(2) on /dev/rtc:"); + fflush(stderr); + for (i=1; i<6; i++) { + struct timeval tv = {5, 0}; /* 5 second timeout on select */ + fd_set readfds; + + FD_ZERO(&readfds); + FD_SET(fd, &readfds); + /* The select will wait until an RTC interrupt happens. */ + retval = select(fd+1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, &tv); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("select"); + exit(errno); + } + /* This read won't block unlike the select-less case above. */ + retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("read"); + exit(errno); + } + fprintf(stderr, " %d",i); + fflush(stderr); + irqcount++; + } - FD_ZERO(&readfds); - FD_SET(fd, &readfds); - /* The select will wait until an RTC interrupt happens. */ - retval = select(fd+1, &readfds, NULL, NULL, &tv); + /* Turn off update interrupts */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_OFF, 0); if (retval == -1) { - perror("select"); + perror("ioctl"); exit(errno); } - /* This read won't block unlike the select-less case above. */ - retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); + +test_READ: + /* Read the RTC time/date */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &rtc_tm); if (retval == -1) { - perror("read"); + perror("ioctl"); exit(errno); } - fprintf(stderr, " %d",i); - fflush(stderr); - irqcount++; -} - -/* Turn off update interrupts */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_UIE_OFF, 0); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} - -/* Read the RTC time/date */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_RD_TIME, &rtc_tm); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} - -fprintf(stderr, "\n\nCurrent RTC date/time is %d-%d-%d, %02d:%02d:%02d.\n", - rtc_tm.tm_mday, rtc_tm.tm_mon + 1, rtc_tm.tm_year + 1900, - rtc_tm.tm_hour, rtc_tm.tm_min, rtc_tm.tm_sec); - -/* Set the alarm to 5 sec in the future, and check for rollover */ -rtc_tm.tm_sec += 5; -if (rtc_tm.tm_sec >= 60) { - rtc_tm.tm_sec %= 60; - rtc_tm.tm_min++; -} -if (rtc_tm.tm_min == 60) { - rtc_tm.tm_min = 0; - rtc_tm.tm_hour++; -} -if (rtc_tm.tm_hour == 24) - rtc_tm.tm_hour = 0; - -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_ALM_SET, &rtc_tm); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} - -/* Read the current alarm settings */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_ALM_READ, &rtc_tm); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} - -fprintf(stderr, "Alarm time now set to %02d:%02d:%02d.\n", - rtc_tm.tm_hour, rtc_tm.tm_min, rtc_tm.tm_sec); -/* Enable alarm interrupts */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_AIE_ON, 0); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} + fprintf(stderr, "\n\nCurrent RTC date/time is %d-%d-%d, %02d:%02d:%02d.\n", + rtc_tm.tm_mday, rtc_tm.tm_mon + 1, rtc_tm.tm_year + 1900, + rtc_tm.tm_hour, rtc_tm.tm_min, rtc_tm.tm_sec); -fprintf(stderr, "Waiting 5 seconds for alarm..."); -fflush(stderr); -/* This blocks until the alarm ring causes an interrupt */ -retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("read"); - exit(errno); -} -irqcount++; -fprintf(stderr, " okay. Alarm rang.\n"); - -/* Disable alarm interrupts */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_AIE_OFF, 0); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} + /* Set the alarm to 5 sec in the future, and check for rollover */ + rtc_tm.tm_sec += 5; + if (rtc_tm.tm_sec >= 60) { + rtc_tm.tm_sec %= 60; + rtc_tm.tm_min++; + } + if (rtc_tm.tm_min == 60) { + rtc_tm.tm_min = 0; + rtc_tm.tm_hour++; + } + if (rtc_tm.tm_hour == 24) + rtc_tm.tm_hour = 0; -/* Read periodic IRQ rate */ -retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_IRQP_READ, &tmp); -if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); -} -fprintf(stderr, "\nPeriodic IRQ rate was %ldHz.\n", tmp); + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_ALM_SET, &rtc_tm); + if (retval == -1) { + if (errno == ENOTTY) { + fprintf(stderr, + "\n...Alarm IRQs not supported.\n"); + goto test_PIE; + } + perror("ioctl"); + exit(errno); + } -fprintf(stderr, "Counting 20 interrupts at:"); -fflush(stderr); + /* Read the current alarm settings */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_ALM_READ, &rtc_tm); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("ioctl"); + exit(errno); + } -/* The frequencies 128Hz, 256Hz, ... 8192Hz are only allowed for root. */ -for (tmp=2; tmp<=64; tmp*=2) { + fprintf(stderr, "Alarm time now set to %02d:%02d:%02d.\n", + rtc_tm.tm_hour, rtc_tm.tm_min, rtc_tm.tm_sec); - retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_IRQP_SET, tmp); + /* Enable alarm interrupts */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_AIE_ON, 0); if (retval == -1) { perror("ioctl"); exit(errno); } - fprintf(stderr, "\n%ldHz:\t", tmp); + fprintf(stderr, "Waiting 5 seconds for alarm..."); fflush(stderr); + /* This blocks until the alarm ring causes an interrupt */ + retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("read"); + exit(errno); + } + irqcount++; + fprintf(stderr, " okay. Alarm rang.\n"); - /* Enable periodic interrupts */ - retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_PIE_ON, 0); + /* Disable alarm interrupts */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_AIE_OFF, 0); if (retval == -1) { perror("ioctl"); exit(errno); } - for (i=1; i<21; i++) { - /* This blocks */ - retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); +test_PIE: + /* Read periodic IRQ rate */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_IRQP_READ, &tmp); + if (retval == -1) { + /* not all RTCs support periodic IRQs */ + if (errno == ENOTTY) { + fprintf(stderr, "\nNo periodic IRQ support\n"); + return 0; + } + perror("ioctl"); + exit(errno); + } + fprintf(stderr, "\nPeriodic IRQ rate is %ldHz.\n", tmp); + + fprintf(stderr, "Counting 20 interrupts at:"); + fflush(stderr); + + /* The frequencies 128Hz, 256Hz, ... 8192Hz are only allowed for root. */ + for (tmp=2; tmp<=64; tmp*=2) { + + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_IRQP_SET, tmp); if (retval == -1) { - perror("read"); - exit(errno); + /* not all RTCs can change their periodic IRQ rate */ + if (errno == ENOTTY) { + fprintf(stderr, + "\n...Periodic IRQ rate is fixed\n"); + goto done; + } + perror("ioctl"); + exit(errno); } - fprintf(stderr, " %d",i); + + fprintf(stderr, "\n%ldHz:\t", tmp); fflush(stderr); - irqcount++; - } - /* Disable periodic interrupts */ - retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_PIE_OFF, 0); - if (retval == -1) { - perror("ioctl"); - exit(errno); + /* Enable periodic interrupts */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_PIE_ON, 0); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("ioctl"); + exit(errno); + } + + for (i=1; i<21; i++) { + /* This blocks */ + retval = read(fd, &data, sizeof(unsigned long)); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("read"); + exit(errno); + } + fprintf(stderr, " %d",i); + fflush(stderr); + irqcount++; + } + + /* Disable periodic interrupts */ + retval = ioctl(fd, RTC_PIE_OFF, 0); + if (retval == -1) { + perror("ioctl"); + exit(errno); + } } -} -fprintf(stderr, "\n\n\t\t\t *** Test complete ***\n"); -fprintf(stderr, "\nTyping \"cat /proc/interrupts\" will show %d more events on IRQ 8.\n\n", - irqcount); +done: + fprintf(stderr, "\n\n\t\t\t *** Test complete ***\n"); -close(fd); -return 0; + close(fd); -} /* end main */ + return 0; +} -- cgit v1.2.2 From fa00e7e152690adc17fdc318e64909d4aff1763e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:55:36 +0100 Subject: Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T'' This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt | 2 +- Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt | 12 ++++++------ Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/iphase.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt | 2 +- Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/st.txt | 2 +- Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt | 2 +- Documentation/usb/rio.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt | 2 +- 22 files changed, 35 insertions(+), 35 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt index 705f6be92bdb..e767805b4182 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ lock. Once the DMA transfer is finished (or timed out) you should disable the channel again. You should also check get_dma_residue() to make -sure that all data has been transfered. +sure that all data has been transferred. Example: diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt index 92ebf29e9041..b55e041c825a 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt @@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID/TGID : attribute containing no payload but indicates a pid/tgid will be followed by some stats. b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID/TGID: attribute whose payload is the pid/tgid whose stats -is being returned. +are being returned. -c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstsats as payload. The +c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstats as payload. The same structure is used for both per-pid and per-tgid stats. 3. New message sent by kernel whenever a task exits. The payload consists of a diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index a584f05403a4..3d7447738958 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ For each connection the following files exist within this directory: 'waiting' - The number of requests which are waiting to be transfered to + The number of requests which are waiting to be transferred to userspace or being processed by the filesystem daemon. If there is no filesystem activity and 'waiting' is non-zero, then the filesystem is hung or deadlocked. @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ following will happen: 2) If the request is not yet sent to userspace AND the signal is not fatal, then an 'interrupted' flag is set for the request. When - the request has been successfully transfered to userspace and + the request has been successfully transferred to userspace and this flag is set, an INTERRUPT request is queued. 3) If the request is already sent to userspace, then an INTERRUPT diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 35f105b29e3e..21e7ba11f69c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Finally, for a mirrored volume, i.e. raid level 1, the table would look like this (note all values are in 512-byte sectors): --- cut here --- -# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Taget Start +# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Target Start # in of the type type of log size sync? of Device in Device in # vol volume params mirrors Device Device 0 2056320 mirror core 2 16 nosync 2 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hdb1 0 diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 3355e6920105..bbd2e58d39d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1538,10 +1538,10 @@ TCP settings tcp_ecn ------- -This file controls the use of the ECN bit in the IPv4 headers, this is a new +This file controls the use of the ECN bit in the IPv4 headers. This is a new feature about Explicit Congestion Notification, but some routers and firewalls -block trafic that has this bit set, so it could be necessary to echo 0 to -/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn, if you want to talk to this sites. For more info +block traffic that has this bit set, so it could be necessary to echo 0 to +/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn if you want to talk to these sites. For more info you could read RFC2481. tcp_retrans_collapse diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 7751704b6db1..58408dd023c7 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU: STORE *X = c, d = LOAD *X - (Loads and stores overlap if they are targetted at overlapping pieces of + (Loads and stores overlap if they are targeted at overlapping pieces of memory). And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt index 93af3e87c65b..c300f26a2772 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ There are two types of event register ACK mechanisms. Move all to dev->poll() C) Ability to detect new work correctly. -NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when theres work and -turning them on when theres none. +NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when there's work and +turning them on when there's none. New packets might show up in the small window while interrupts were being re-enabled (refer to appendix 2). A packet might sneak in during the period we are enabling interrupts. We only get to know about such a packet when the @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Locking rules and environmental guarantees only one CPU can pick the initial interrupt and hence the initial netif_rx_schedule(dev); - The core layer invokes devices to send packets in a round robin format. -This implies receive is totaly lockless because of the guarantee only that +This implies receive is totally lockless because of the guarantee that only one CPU is executing it. - contention can only be the result of some other CPU accessing the rx ring. This happens only in close() and suspend() (when these methods @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int my_poll (struct net_device *dev, int *budget) an interrupt will be generated */ goto done; } - /* done! at least thats what it looks like ;-> + /* done! at least that's what it looks like ;-> if new packets came in after our last check on status bits they'll be caught by the while check and we go back and clear them since we havent exceeded our quota */ @@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ routine: CSR5 bit of interest is only the rx status. If you look at the last if statement: you just finished grabbing all the packets from the rx ring .. you check if -status bit says theres more packets just in ... it says none; you then +status bit says there are more packets just in ... it says none; you then enable rx interrupts again; if a new packet just came in during this check, we are counting that CSR5 will be set in that small window of opportunity -and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually triger an interrupt +and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually trigger an interrupt to register the new packet for processing. [The above description nay be very verbose, if you have better wording diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt index 64896470e279..e4d2287e0c85 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ c) The driver's hardware probe routine is designed to avoid with device probing. To avoid this behaviour, add one to the `io=' module parameter. This doesn't actually change the I/O address, but it is a flag to tell the driver - topartially initialise the hardware before trying to + to partially initialise the hardware before trying to identify the card. This could be dangerous if you are not sure that there is a cs89x0 card at the provided address. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt b/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt index 493203a080a8..55eac4a784e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/iphase.txt @@ -81,7 +81,7 @@ Installation 1M. The RAM size decides the number of buffers and buffer size. The default size and number of buffers are set as following: - Totol Rx RAM Tx RAM Rx Buf Tx Buf Rx buf Tx buf + Total Rx RAM Tx RAM Rx Buf Tx Buf Rx buf Tx buf RAM size size size size size cnt cnt -------- ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ ------ 128K 64K 64K 10K 10K 6 6 diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index c8eee23be8c0..7b358553e8c2 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Examples: there must be no spaces between the arguments. Leading zeros are required. Do not set the bottom of stack bit, - thats done automatically. If you do + that's done automatically. If you do set the bottom of stack bit, that indicates that you want to randomly generate that address and the flag diff --git a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt index 59cb915c3713..5e21f7cb6383 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/proc_net_tcp.txt @@ -25,7 +25,7 @@ up into 3 parts because of the length of the line): 1000 0 54165785 4 cd1e6040 25 4 27 3 -1 | | | | | | | | | |--> slow start size threshold, - | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the treshold + | | | | | | | | | or -1 if the threshold | | | | | | | | | is >= 0xFFFF | | | | | | | | |----> sending congestion window | | | | | | | |-------> (ack.quick<<1)|ack.pingpong diff --git a/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt b/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt index 29dee792c887..41a8b07da05a 100644 --- a/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/s390/crypto/crypto-API.txt @@ -75,8 +75,8 @@ name of the respective module is given in square brackets. - SHA1 Digest Algorithm [sha1 -> sha1_z990] - DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (64bit key) [des -> des_z990] -- Tripple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (128bit key) [des3_ede128 -> des_z990] -- Tripple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (192bit key) [des3_ede -> des_z990] +- Triple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (128bit key) [des3_ede128 -> des_z990] +- Triple DES Encrypt/Decrypt Algorithm (192bit key) [des3_ede -> des_z990] In order to load, for example, the sha1_z990 module when the sha1 algorithm is requested (see 3.2.) add 'alias sha1 sha1_z990' to /etc/modprobe.conf. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt index 904d49e90ef2..123108559327 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt @@ -127,7 +127,7 @@ The following information is available in this file: - Correct a reference to free'ed memory during controller shutdown. - Reset the bus on an SE->LVD change. This is required - to reset our transcievers. + to reset our transceivers. 1.3.5 (March 24th, 2003) - Fix a few register window mode bugs. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt index c92f4473193b..11606ee61386 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt @@ -436,7 +436,7 @@ linux-1.1.x and fairly stable since linux-1.2.x, and are also in FreeBSD the commas to periods, insmod won't interpret this as more than one string and write junk into our binary image. I consider it a bug in the insmod program that even if you wrap your string in quotes (quotes - that pass the shell mind you and that insmod sees) it still treates + that pass the shell mind you and that insmod sees) it still treats a comma inside of those quotes as starting a new variable, resulting in memory scribbles if you don't switch the commas to periods. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt index 35f6b8ed2295..b168743e78e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt @@ -920,7 +920,7 @@ completed in such a way, that they are now completely conform to the demands in the technical description of IBM. Main candidates were the DEVICE_INQUIRY, REQUEST_SENSE and DEVICE_CAPACITY commands. They must - be tranferred by bypassing the internal command buffer of the adapter + be transferred by bypassing the internal command buffer of the adapter or else the response can be a random result. GET_POS_INFO would be more safe in usage, if one could use the SUPRESS_EXCEPTION_SHORT, but this is not allowed by the technical references of IBM. (Sorry, folks, the diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt index 9e2078b2a615..aa54f54c4a50 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/libsas.txt @@ -393,7 +393,7 @@ struct sas_task { task_proto -- _one_ of enum sas_proto scatter -- pointer to scatter gather list array num_scatter -- number of elements in scatter - total_xfer_len -- total number of bytes expected to be transfered + total_xfer_len -- total number of bytes expected to be transferred data_dir -- PCI_DMA_... task_done -- callback when the task has finished execution }; diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt index 5ff65b184265..3c12422f7f41 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/st.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/st.txt @@ -261,7 +261,7 @@ pairs are separated with a comma (no spaces allowed). A colon can be used instead of the equal mark. The definition is prepended by the string st=. Here is an example: - st=buffer_kbs:64,write_threhold_kbs:60 + st=buffer_kbs:64,write_threshold_kbs:60 The following syntax used by the old kernel versions is also supported: diff --git a/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt b/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt index 2d8f403eb6eb..ccf1cebe744f 100644 --- a/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt +++ b/Documentation/sharedsubtree.txt @@ -942,13 +942,13 @@ replicas continue to be exactly same. ->mnt_slave ->mnt_master - ->mnt_share links togather all the mount to/from which this vfsmount + ->mnt_share links together all the mount to/from which this vfsmount send/receives propagation events. ->mnt_slave_list links all the mounts to which this vfsmount propagates to. - ->mnt_slave links togather all the slaves that its master vfsmount + ->mnt_slave links together all the slaves that its master vfsmount propagates to. ->mnt_master points to the master vfsmount from which this vfsmount diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt index 3472d9c4ef1b..9fef210ab50a 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt @@ -955,7 +955,7 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. dmx6fire, dsp24, dsp24_value, dsp24_71, ez8, phase88, mediastation omni - Omni I/O support for MidiMan M-Audio Delta44/66 - cs8427_timeout - reset timeout for the CS8427 chip (S/PDIF transciever) + cs8427_timeout - reset timeout for the CS8427 chip (S/PDIF transceiver) in msec resolution, default value is 500 (0.5 sec) This module supports multiple cards and autoprobe. Note: The consumer part diff --git a/Documentation/usb/rio.txt b/Documentation/usb/rio.txt index ab21db454694..aee715af7db7 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/rio.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/rio.txt @@ -24,10 +24,10 @@ are in no way responsible for any damage that may occur, no matter how inconsequential. It seems that the Rio has a problem when sending .mp3 with low batteries. -I suggest when the batteries are low and want to transfer stuff that you +I suggest when the batteries are low and you want to transfer stuff that you replace it with a fresh one. In my case, what happened is I lost two 16kb blocks (they are no longer usable to store information to it). But I don't -know if thats normal or not. It could simply be a problem with the flash +know if that's normal or not; it could simply be a problem with the flash memory. In an extreme case, I left my Rio playing overnight and the batteries wore diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt index 50436e1663ea..a043764c29fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt @@ -175,7 +175,7 @@ Keyspan USA-series Serial Adapters Current status: The USA-18X, USA-28X, USA-19, USA-19W and USA-49W are supported and - have been pretty throughly tested at various baud rates with 8-N-1 + have been pretty thoroughly tested at various baud rates with 8-N-1 character settings. Other character lengths and parity setups are presently untested. @@ -253,7 +253,7 @@ Cypress M8 CY4601 Family Serial Driver together without hacking the adapter to set the line high. The driver is smp safe. Performance with the driver is rather low when using - it for transfering files. This is being worked on, but I would be willing to + it for transferring files. This is being worked on, but I would be willing to accept patches. An urb queue or packet buffer would likely fit the bill here. If you have any questions, problems, patches, feature requests, etc. you can diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt index 7e8ae83e9847..8d16f6f3c4ec 100644 --- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ returned value is the temperature in degrees fahrenheit. Finally the SETOPTIONS ioctl can be used to control some aspects of the cards operation; right now the pcwd driver is the only one -supporting thiss ioctl. +supporting this ioctl. int options = 0; ioctl(fd, WDIOC_SETOPTIONS, options); -- cgit v1.2.2 From 4ae0edc21b152c126e4a8c94ad5391f8ea051b31 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 04:58:40 +0100 Subject: Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z' 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 Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 2 +- Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/dvb/ci.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/eisa.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt | 2 +- Documentation/ide.txt | 2 +- Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt | 2 +- Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt | 2 +- Documentation/laptop-mode.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/pnp.txt | 2 +- Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt | 2 +- Documentation/sound/alsa/Audigy-mixer.txt | 2 +- Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt | 2 +- Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt | 2 +- 27 files changed, 38 insertions(+), 38 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 2ffb0d62f0fe..05431621c861 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE). flags can be or'd together and are DMA_MEMORY_MAP - request that the memory returned from -dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writeable. +dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writable. DMA_MEMORY_IO - request that the memory returned from dma_alloc_coherent() be addressable using read/write/memcpy_toio etc. diff --git a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt index 5c34910665d1..d389388c733e 100644 --- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ into the field vector of each element contained in a second argument. Note that the pre-assigned IOAPIC dev->irq is valid only if the device operates in PIN-IRQ assertion mode. In MSI-X mode, any attempt at using dev->irq by the device driver to request for interrupt service -may result unpredictabe behavior. +may result in unpredictable behavior. For each MSI-X vector granted, a device driver is responsible for calling other functions like request_irq(), enable_irq(), etc. to enable diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt index b55e041c825a..ff06b738bb88 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ of atomicity). However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code -accumalates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. -When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumalated also +accumulates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. +When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumulated also gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data). When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in -the group is added up and added to the accumalated total for previously exited +the group is added up and added to the accumulated total for previously exited threads of the same thread group. Extending taskstats diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 34bf8f60d8f8..980a6e6f5981 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ forced such requests to be broken up into small chunks before being passed on to the generic block layer, only to be merged by the i/o scheduler when the underlying device was capable of handling the i/o in one shot. Also, using the buffer head as an i/o structure for i/os that didn't originate -from the buffer cache unecessarily added to the weight of the descriptors +from the buffer cache unnecessarily added to the weight of the descriptors which were generated for each such chunk. The following were some of the goals and expectations considered in the @@ -403,14 +403,14 @@ i. Should be appropriate as a descriptor for both raw and buffered i/o - for raw i/o. ii. Ability to represent high-memory buffers (which do not have a virtual address mapping in kernel address space). -iii.Ability to represent large i/os w/o unecessarily breaking them up (i.e +iii.Ability to represent large i/os w/o unnecessarily breaking them up (i.e greater than PAGE_SIZE chunks in one shot) iv. At the same time, ability to retain independent identity of i/os from different sources or i/o units requiring individual completion (e.g. for latency reasons) v. Ability to represent an i/o involving multiple physical memory segments (including non-page aligned page fragments, as specified via readv/writev) - without unecessarily breaking it up, if the underlying device is capable of + without unnecessarily breaking it up, if the underlying device is capable of handling it. vi. Preferably should be based on a memory descriptor structure that can be passed around different types of subsystems or layers, maybe even diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt b/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt index 531239b29082..2ecd834585e6 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ eliminating the need for any additional ioctls. The disadvantage is that the driver/hardware has to manage the rest. For the application programmer it would be as simple as sending/receiving an array to/from the CI ioctls as defined in the Linux DVB API. No changes -have been made in the API to accomodate this feature. +have been made in the API to accommodate this feature. * Why the need for another CI interface ? @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ This CI interface follows the CI high level interface, which is not implemented by most applications. Hence this area is revisited. This CI interface is quite different in the case that it tries to -accomodate all other CI based devices, that fall into the other categories +accommodate all other CI based devices, that fall into the other categories. This means that this CI interface handles the EN50221 style tags in the Application layer only and no session management is taken care of by the diff --git a/Documentation/eisa.txt b/Documentation/eisa.txt index 6a099edadd62..60e361ba08c0 100644 --- a/Documentation/eisa.txt +++ b/Documentation/eisa.txt @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ res : root device I/O resource bus_base_addr : slot 0 address on this bus slots : max slot number to probe force_probe : Probe even when slot 0 is empty (no EISA mainboard) -dma_mask : Default DMA mask. Usualy the bridge device dma_mask. +dma_mask : Default DMA mask. Usually the bridge device dma_mask. bus_nr : unique bus id, set by eisa_root_register ** Driver : diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt index 060abb0c7004..9e8811f92b84 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Mount options for ADFS uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by user id nnn. Default 0 (root). - gid=nnn All files in the partition willbe in group + gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group nnn. Default 0 (root). ownmask=nnn The permission mask for ADFS 'owner' permissions will be nnn. Default 0700. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt index c3a7afb5eabf..b34cdb50eab4 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ will happen for write(2). [struct config_group] -A config_item cannot live in a vaccum. The only way one can be created +A config_item cannot live in a vacuum. The only way one can be created is via mkdir(2) on a config_group. This will trigger creation of a child item. @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ directory is not empty. [struct configfs_subsystem] -A subsystem must register itself, ususally at module_init time. This +A subsystem must register itself, usually at module_init time. This tells configfs to make the subsystem appear in the file tree. struct configfs_subsystem { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt index 33dc360c8e89..38aba03efc5e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ History Fixed race-condition in buffer code - it is in all filesystems in Linux; when reading device (cat /dev/hda) while creating files on it, files could be damaged -2.02 Woraround for bug in breada in Linux. breada could cause accesses beyond +2.02 Workaround for bug in breada in Linux. breada could cause accesses beyond end of partition 2.03 Char, block devices and pipes are correctly created Fixed non-crashing race in unlink (Alexander Viro) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index 4389c684a80a..af6defd10cb6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Caveats Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - sparse files - extended attributes - - shared writeable mmap + - shared writable mmap - loopback is supported, but data written will not be cluster coherent. - quotas diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bbd2e58d39d2..72af5de1effb 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1220,9 +1220,9 @@ applications are using mlock(), or if you are running with no swap then you probably should increase the lower_zone_protection setting. The units of this tunable are fairly vague. It is approximately equal -to "megabytes". So setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 +to "megabytes," so setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 megabytes of the lowmem zone from user allocations. It will also make -those 100 megabytes unavaliable for use by applications and by +those 100 megabytes unavailable for use by applications and by pagecache, so there is a cost. The effects of this tunable may be observed by monitoring diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt index 982645a1981d..1343d118a9b2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ FILES /signal2 The two signal notification channels of an SPU. These are read-write files that operate on a 32 bit word. Writing to one of these files - triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value writting to the signal + triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value written to the signal files can be read from the SPU through a channel read or from host user space through the file. After the value has been read by the SPU, it is reset to zero. The possible operations on an open signal1 or sig- diff --git a/Documentation/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide.txt index 0bf38baa2db9..786c3a766995 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide.txt @@ -390,5 +390,5 @@ mlord@pobox.com Wed Apr 17 22:52:44 CEST 2002 edited by Marcin Dalecki, the current maintainer. -Wed Aug 20 22:31:29 CEST 2003 updated ide boot uptions to current ide.c +Wed Aug 20 22:31:29 CEST 2003 updated ide boot options to current ide.c comments at 2.6.0-test4 time. Maciej Soltysiak diff --git a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt index 1e7e5853ba4c..1b00ad7bb3e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ LEFT=0x74 & RIGHT=0x75). 5.1 Joystick Event Reporting -In this mode, the ikbd generates a record whever the joystick position is +In this mode, the ikbd generates a record whenever the joystick position is changed (i.e. for each opening or closing of a joystick switch or trigger). The joystick event record is two bytes of the form: diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt index 8ec32cc49eb1..62d4af44ec4a 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ CDROM_DISC_STATUS Get disc type, etc. Ok, this is where problems start. The current interface for the CDROM_DISC_STATUS ioctl is flawed. It makes the false assumption that CDs are all CDS_DATA_1 or all CDS_AUDIO, etc. - Unfortunatly, while this is often the case, it is also + Unfortunately, while this is often the case, it is also very common for CDs to have some tracks with data, and some tracks with audio. Just because I feel like it, I declare the following to be the best way to cope. If the CD has diff --git a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt index c487186eb2b9..9ead3afda84b 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ ACPI integration Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. The part that automatically disables laptop mode when the battery is low was -writen by Jan Topinski. +written by Jan Topinski. -----------------/etc/acpi/events/ac_adapter BEGIN------------------------------ event=ac_adapter diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt index c300f26a2772..fb6e49cd41f4 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ a) 5) dev->close() and dev->suspend() issues ========================================== -The driver writter neednt worry about this. The top net layer takes +The driver writer needn't worry about this; the top net layer takes care of it. 6) Adding new Stats to /proc @@ -622,9 +622,9 @@ FC should be programmed to apply in the case when the system cant pull out packets fast enough i.e send a pause only when you run out of rx buffers. Note FC in itself is a good solution but we have found it to not be much of a commodity feature (both in NICs and switches) and hence falls -under the same category as using NIC based mitigation. Also experiments -indicate that its much harder to resolve the resource allocation -issue (aka lazy receiving that NAPI offers) and hence quantify its usefullness +under the same category as using NIC based mitigation. Also, experiments +indicate that it's much harder to resolve the resource allocation +issue (aka lazy receiving that NAPI offers) and hence quantify its usefulness proved harder. In any case, FC works even better with NAPI but is not necessary. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt index 4e1cc745ec63..8590a954df1d 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/sk98lin.txt @@ -346,7 +346,7 @@ Possible modes: depending on the load of the system. If the driver detects that the system load is too high, the driver tries to shield the system against too much network load by enabling interrupt moderation. If - at a later - time - the CPU utilizaton decreases again (or if the network load is + time - the CPU utilization decreases again (or if the network load is negligible) the interrupt moderation will automatically be disabled. Interrupt moderation should be used when the driver has to handle one or more diff --git a/Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt b/Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt index 2f04c9267f89..32d3b916afad 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/slicecom.txt @@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ comx0/boardnum - board number of the SliceCom in the PC (using the 'natural' Though the options below are to be set on a single interface, they apply to the whole board. The restriction, to use them on 'UP' interfaces, is because the -command sequence below could lead to unpredicable results. +command sequence below could lead to unpredictable results. # echo 0 >boardnum # echo internal >clock_source diff --git a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt index 0cf654147634..66b902691fdf 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt @@ -412,7 +412,7 @@ beta-2.1.4 Jul 2000 o Dynamic interface configuration: beta3-2.1.4 Jul 2000 o X25 M_BIT Problem fix. o Added the Multi-Port PPP - Updated utilites for the Multi-Port PPP. + Updated utilities for the Multi-Port PPP. 2.1.4 Aut 2000 o In X25API: @@ -450,7 +450,7 @@ beta1-2.1.5 Nov 15 2000 o Keyboard Led Monitor/Debugger - - A new utilty /usr/sbin/wpkbdmon uses keyboard leds + - A new utility /usr/sbin/wpkbdmon uses keyboard leds to convey operational statistic information of the Sangoma WANPIPE cards. NUM_LOCK = Line State (On=connected, Off=disconnected) diff --git a/Documentation/pnp.txt b/Documentation/pnp.txt index 9ff966bf76e6..28037aa1846c 100644 --- a/Documentation/pnp.txt +++ b/Documentation/pnp.txt @@ -184,7 +184,7 @@ static const struct pnp_id pnp_dev_table[] = { Please note that the character 'X' can be used as a wild card in the function portion (last four characters). ex: - /* Unkown PnP modems */ + /* Unknown PnP modems */ { "PNPCXXX", UNKNOWN_DEV }, Supported PnP card IDs can optionally be defined. diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt index 8529a17ffaa1..535f69fab45f 100644 --- a/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt +++ b/Documentation/robust-futex-ABI.txt @@ -170,7 +170,7 @@ any point: 1) the 'head' pointer or an subsequent linked list pointer is not a valid address of a user space word 2) the calculated location of the 'lock word' (address plus - 'offset') is not the valud address of a 32 bit user space + 'offset') is not the valid address of a 32 bit user space word 3) if the list contains more than 1 million (subject to future kernel configuration changes) elements. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt index b168743e78e6..745f3cc3b83a 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt @@ -461,7 +461,7 @@ This needs the RD-Bit to be disabled on IM_OTHER_SCSI_CMD_CMD which allows data to be written from the system to the device. It is a necessary step to be allowed to set blocksize of SCSI-tape-drives and - the tape-speed, whithout confusing the SCSI-Subsystem. + the tape-speed, without confusing the SCSI-Subsystem. 2) The recognition of a tape is included in the check_devices routine. This is done by checking for TYPE_TAPE, that is already defined in the kernel-scsi-environment. The markup of a tape is done in the diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt index 58ad8db333d9..caf10b155185 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ncr53c8xx.txt @@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ SCSI standard documentations are available at SYMBIOS ftp server: ftp://ftp.symbios.com/ -Usefull SCSI tools written by Eric Youngdale are available at tsx-11: +Useful SCSI tools written by Eric Youngdale are available at tsx-11: ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsiinfo-X.Y.tar.gz ftp://tsx-11.mit.edu/pub/linux/ALPHA/scsi/scsidev-X.Y.tar.gz diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audigy-mixer.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audigy-mixer.txt index 5132fd95e074..7f10dc6ff28c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audigy-mixer.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/Audigy-mixer.txt @@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ This is based on SB-Live-mixer.txt. The EMU10K2 chips have a DSP part which can be programmed to support various ways of sample processing, which is described here. -(This acticle does not deal with the overall functionality of the +(This article does not deal with the overall functionality of the EMU10K2 chips. See the manuals section for further details.) The ALSA driver programs this portion of chip by default code diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt index 651adaf60473..f5639d40521d 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/SB-Live-mixer.txt @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ The EMU10K1 chips have a DSP part which can be programmed to support various ways of sample processing, which is described here. -(This acticle does not deal with the overall functionality of the +(This article does not deal with the overall functionality of the EMU10K1 chips. See the manuals section for further details.) The ALSA driver programs this portion of chip by default code diff --git a/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt index b60590eca18f..628013f944c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/uml/UserModeLinux-HOWTO.txt @@ -1477,7 +1477,7 @@ - Making it world-writeable looks bad, but it seems not to be + Making it world-writable looks bad, but it seems not to be exploitable as a security hole. However, it does allow anyone to cre- ate useless tap devices (useless because they can't configure them), which is a DOS attack. A somewhat more secure alternative would to be -- cgit v1.2.2 From 5d3f083d8f897ce2560bbd4dace483d5aa60d623 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Matt LaPlante Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:21:10 +0100 Subject: Fix typos in /Documentation : Misc This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante Acked-by: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/block/biodoc.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/devices.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt | 2 +- Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt | 2 +- Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt | 2 +- Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt | 2 +- Documentation/input/amijoy.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/input/yealink.txt | 2 +- Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/keys.txt | 2 +- Documentation/laptop-mode.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt | 6 +++--- Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt | 2 +- Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/power/pci.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/power/swsusp.txt | 2 +- Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt | 8 ++++---- Documentation/robust-futexes.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt | 10 +++++----- Documentation/scsi/in2000.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt | 4 ++-- Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt | 2 +- Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt | 2 +- Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt | 2 +- Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt | 2 +- Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt | 2 +- Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt | 2 +- Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt | 4 ++-- 35 files changed, 67 insertions(+), 67 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 980a6e6f5981..c6c9a9c10d7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ it, the pci dma mapping routines and associated data structures have now been modified to accomplish a direct page -> bus translation, without requiring a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address -> bus translation). So this works uniformly for high-memory pages (which -do not have a correponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and +do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and low-memory pages. Note: Please refer to DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ Characteristics: i. Binary tree AS and deadline i/o schedulers use red black binary trees for disk position sorting and searching, and a fifo linked list for time-based searching. This -gives good scalability and good availablility of information. Requests are +gives good scalability and good availability of information. Requests are almost always dispatched in disk sort order, so a cache is kept of the next request in sort order to prevent binary tree lookups. diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt index 9188337d8f6b..babce1315026 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -The cpufreq-nforce2 driver changes the FSB on nVidia nForce2 plattforms. +The cpufreq-nforce2 driver changes the FSB on nVidia nForce2 platforms. -This works better than on other plattforms, because the FSB of the CPU +This works better than on other platforms, because the FSB of the CPU can be controlled independently from the PCI/AGP clock. The module has two options: diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index 4868c34f7509..cc60d29b954c 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation -should only rely on this to count the #of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the -apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesnt +should only rely on this to count the # of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the +apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesn't mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map. diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index 28c4f79662c2..70690f1a14af 100644 --- a/Documentation/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 7 = /dev/full Returns ENOSPC on write 8 = /dev/random Nondeterministic random number gen. 9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number gen. - 10 = /dev/aio Asyncronous I/O notification interface + 10 = /dev/aio Asynchronous I/O notification interface 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's 1 block RAM disk 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 55 char DSP56001 digital signal processor 0 = /dev/dsp56k First DSP56001 - 55 block Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controller; eigth controller + 55 block Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controller; eighth controller 0 = /dev/rd/c7d0 First disk, whole disk 8 = /dev/rd/c7d1 Second disk, whole disk ... @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 1 = /dev/cum1 Callout device for ttyM1 ... - 79 block Compaq Intelligent Drive Array, eigth controller + 79 block Compaq Intelligent Drive Array, eighth controller 0 = /dev/ida/c7d0 First logical drive whole disk 16 = /dev/ida/c7d1 Second logical drive whole disk ... @@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 1 = /dev/av1 Second A/V card ... -111 block Compaq Next Generation Drive Array, eigth controller +111 block Compaq Next Generation Drive Array, eighth controller 0 = /dev/cciss/c7d0 First logical drive, whole disk 16 = /dev/cciss/c7d1 Second logical drive, whole disk ... diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt index 98b233cb8b36..92d86f7271b4 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct device represents a single device. It mainly contains metadata describing the relationship the device has to other entities. -- Embedd a struct device in the bus-specific device type. +- Embed a struct device in the bus-specific device type. struct pci_dev { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 21e7ba11f69c..13ba649bda75 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. - Major bug fixes for reading files and volumes in corner cases which were being hit by Windows 2k/XP users. 2.1.2: - - Major bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs experienced by some + - Major bug fixes alleviating the hangs in statfs experienced by some users. 2.1.1: - Update handling of compressed files so people no longer get the diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt index 6ce5aa9abbc5..9304fb36ae8a 100644 --- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt +++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ the following things on the "Kernel Hacking" tab: Then build as usual, download to the board and execute. Note that if "Immediate activation" was selected, then the kernel will wait for GDB to attach. If not, then the kernel will boot immediately and GDB will have to -interupt it or wait for an exception to occur if before doing anything with +interrupt it or wait for an exception to occur before doing anything with the kernel. diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt index 8b0a5fc8bfd9..aaa1cec86f0b 100644 --- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt +++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ with the main kernel in this regard. Hence the debug mode code (gdbstub) is almost completely self-contained. The only external code used is the sprintf family of functions. -Futhermore, break.S is so complicated because single-step mode does not +Furthermore, break.S is so complicated because single-step mode does not switch off on entry to an exception. That means unless manually disabled, single-stepping will blithely go on stepping into things like interrupts. See gdbstub.txt for more information. diff --git a/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt b/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt index 4f0e89df5c51..7dc4f175943c 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ JOY1DAT Y7 Y6 Y5 Y4 Y3 Y2 Y1 Y0 X7 X6 X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 X0 | 1 | M0HQ | JOY0DAT Horizontal Clock (quadrature) | | 2 | M0V | JOY0DAT Vertical Clock | | 3 | M0VQ | JOY0DAT Vertical Clock (quadrature) | - | 4 | M1V | JOY1DAT Horizontall Clock | - | 5 | M1VQ | JOY1DAT Horizontall Clock (quadrature) | + | 4 | M1V | JOY1DAT Horizontal Clock | + | 5 | M1VQ | JOY1DAT Horizontal Clock (quadrature) | | 6 | M1V | JOY1DAT Vertical Clock | | 7 | M1VQ | JOY1DAT Vertical Clock (quadrature) | +--------+----------+-----------------------------------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt index 1b00ad7bb3e0..668f4d0d97d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt @@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ default to 1 at RESET (or power-up). 9.7 SET MOUSE SCALE 0x0C - X ; horizontal mouse ticks per internel X - Y ; vertical mouse ticks per internel Y + X ; horizontal mouse ticks per internal X + Y ; vertical mouse ticks per internal Y This command sets the scale factor for the ABSOLUTE MOUSE POSITIONING mode. In this mode, the specified number of mouse phase changes ('clicks') must @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ mouse position. 0x0F This command makes the origin of the Y axis to be at the bottom of the -logical coordinate system internel to the ikbd for all relative or absolute +logical coordinate system internal to the ikbd for all relative or absolute mouse motion. This causes mouse motion toward the user to be negative in sign and away from the user to be positive. @@ -597,8 +597,8 @@ mode or FIRE BUTTON MONITORING mode. 10. SCAN CODES -The key scan codes return by the ikbd are chosen to simplify the -implementaion of GSX. +The key scan codes returned by the ikbd are chosen to simplify the +implementation of GSX. GSX Standard Keyboard Mapping. diff --git a/Documentation/input/yealink.txt b/Documentation/input/yealink.txt index 0a8c97e87d47..5360e434486c 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/yealink.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/yealink.txt @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Reading /sys/../lineX will return the format string with its current value: 888888888888 Linux Rocks! -Writing to /sys/../lineX will set the coresponding LCD line. +Writing to /sys/../lineX will set the corresponding LCD line. - Excess characters are ignored. - If less characters are written than allowed, the remaining digits are unchanged. diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 50f4eddf899c..4b3d6710c504 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ more details, with real examples. be included in a library, lib.a. All objects listed with lib-y are combined in a single library for that directory. - Objects that are listed in obj-y and additionaly listed in - lib-y will not be included in the library, since they will anyway - be accessible. + Objects that are listed in obj-y and additionally listed in + lib-y will not be included in the library, since they will + be accessible anyway. For consistency, objects listed in lib-m will be included in lib.a. Note that the same kbuild makefile may list files to be built-in @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ Both possibilities are described in the following. Host programs can be made up based on composite objects. The syntax used to define composite objects for host programs is similar to the syntax used for kernel objects. - $(-objs) lists all objects used to link the final + $(-objs) lists all objects used to link the final executable. Example: @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): In this example, there are two possible targets, requiring different options to the linker. The linker options are specified using the LDFLAGS_$@ syntax - one for each potential target. - $(targets) are assinged all potential targets, by which kbuild knows + $(targets) are assigned all potential targets, by which kbuild knows the targets and will: 1) check for commandline changes 2) delete target during make clean diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt index 3da586bc7859..60c665d9cfaa 100644 --- a/Documentation/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/keys.txt @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ about the status of the key service: R Revoked D Dead Q Contributes to user's quota - U Under contruction by callback to userspace + U Under construction by callback to userspace N Negative key This file must be enabled at kernel configuration time as it allows anyone diff --git a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt index 9ead3afda84b..6f639e3473af 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ contains the following options: MAX_AGE: Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are -confortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this +comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this amount of work if your battery fails while you're in laptop mode. MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES: @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ It should be installed as /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian, and as --------------------CONFIG FILE BEGIN------------------------------------------- # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are -# confortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this +# comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this # amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode. #MAX_AGE=600 @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ fi # set defaults instead: # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are -# confortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this +# comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this # amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode. MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'} diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt index fb6e49cd41f4..fb8dc6422a52 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt @@ -535,11 +535,11 @@ done: * 1. it can race with disabling irqs in irq handler (which are done to * schedule polls) * 2. it can race with dis/enabling irqs in other poll threads - * 3. if an irq raised after the begining of the outer beginning - * loop(marked in the code above), it will be immediately + * 3. if an irq raised after the beginning of the outer beginning + * loop (marked in the code above), it will be immediately * triggered here. * - * Summarizing: the logic may results in some redundant irqs both + * Summarizing: the logic may result in some redundant irqs both * due to races in masking and due to too late acking of already * processed irqs. The good news: no events are ever lost. */ diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt index e4d2287e0c85..6387d3decf85 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt @@ -620,8 +620,8 @@ I/O Address Device IRQ Device 12 Mouse (PS/2) Memory Address Device 13 Math Coprocessor -------------- --------------------- 14 Hard Disk controller -A000-BFFF EGA Graphics Adpater -A000-C7FF VGA Graphics Adpater +A000-BFFF EGA Graphics Adapter +A000-C7FF VGA Graphics Adapter B000-BFFF Mono Graphics Adapter B800-BFFF Color Graphics Adapter E000-FFFF AT BIOS diff --git a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt index 12a008a5c221..5a232d946be3 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/packet_mmap.txt @@ -284,7 +284,7 @@ the necessary memory, so normally limits can be reached. ------------------- If you check the source code you will see that what I draw here as a frame -is not only the link level frame. At the begining of each frame there is a +is not only the link level frame. At the beginning of each frame there is a header called struct tpacket_hdr used in PACKET_MMAP to hold link level's frame meta information like timestamp. So what we draw here a frame it's really the following (from include/linux/if_packet.h): diff --git a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt index 7b358553e8c2..c6cf4a3c16e0 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/pktgen.txt @@ -63,8 +63,8 @@ Current: Result: OK: 13101142(c12220741+d880401) usec, 10000000 (60byte,0frags) 763292pps 390Mb/sec (390805504bps) errors: 39664 -Confguring threads and devices -============================== +Configuring threads and devices +================================ This is done via the /proc interface easiest done via pgset in the scripts Examples: diff --git a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt index 66b902691fdf..653978dcea7f 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/wan-router.txt @@ -444,7 +444,7 @@ beta1-2.1.5 Nov 15 2000 o Cpipemon - Added set FT1 commands to the cpipemon. Thus CSU/DSU - configuraiton can be performed using cpipemon. + configuration can be performed using cpipemon. All systems that cannot run cfgft1 GUI utility should use cpipemon to configure the on board CSU/DSU. @@ -464,7 +464,7 @@ beta1-2.1.5 Nov 15 2000 - Appropriate number of devices are dynamically loaded based on the number of Sangoma cards found. - Note: The kernel configuraiton option + Note: The kernel configuration option CONFIG_WANPIPE_CARDS has been taken out. o Fixed the Frame Relay and Chdlc network interfaces so they are diff --git a/Documentation/power/pci.txt b/Documentation/power/pci.txt index 24edf25b3bb7..c750f9f2e76e 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/pci.txt @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Description: events, which is implicit if it doesn't even support it in the first place). - Note that the PMC Register in the device's PM Capabilties has a bitmask + Note that the PMC Register in the device's PM Capabilities has a bitmask of the states it supports generating PME# from. D3hot is bit 3 and D3cold is bit 4. So, while a value of 4 as the state may not seem semantically correct, it is. @@ -268,7 +268,7 @@ to wake the system up. (However, it is possible that a device may support some non-standard way of generating a wake event on sleep.) Bits 15:11 of the PMC (Power Mgmt Capabilities) Register in a device's -PM Capabilties describe what power states the device supports generating a +PM Capabilities describe what power states the device supports generating a wake event from: +------------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt index 9ea2208b43b5..e635e6f1e316 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ add: If the thread is needed for writing the image to storage, you should instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread (and -be very carefull). +be very careful). Q: What is the difference between "platform", "shutdown" and diff --git a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt index 27b457c09729..4ac2d641fcb6 100644 --- a/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt +++ b/Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt @@ -33,13 +33,13 @@ - Change version 16 format to always align property data to 4 bytes. Since tokens are already aligned, that means no specific - required alignement between property size + required alignment between property size and property data. The old style variable alignment would make it impossible to do "simple" insertion of properties using memove (thanks Milton for noticing). Updated kernel patch as well - - Correct a few more alignement constraints + - Correct a few more alignment constraints - Add a chapter about the device-tree compiler and the textural representation of the tree that can be "compiled" by dtc. @@ -854,7 +854,7 @@ address which can extend beyond that limit. console device if any. Typically, if you have serial devices on your board, you may want to put the full path to the one set as the default console in the firmware here, for the kernel to pick - it up as it's own default console. If you look at the funciton + it up as its own default console. If you look at the function set_preferred_console() in arch/ppc64/kernel/setup.c, you'll see that the kernel tries to find out the default console and has knowledge of various types like 8250 serial ports. You may want @@ -1124,7 +1124,7 @@ should have the following properties: - interrupt-parent : contains the phandle of the interrupt controller which handles interrupts for this device - interrupts : a list of tuples representing the interrupt - number and the interrupt sense and level for each interupt + number and the interrupt sense and level for each interrupt for this device. This information is used by the kernel to build the interrupt table diff --git a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt index 76e8064b8c3a..0a9446a53bd1 100644 --- a/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt +++ b/Documentation/robust-futexes.txt @@ -181,7 +181,7 @@ for new threads, without the need of another syscall.] So there is virtually zero overhead for tasks not using robust futexes, and even for robust futex users, there is only one extra syscall per thread lifetime, and the cleanup operation, if it happens, is fast and -straightforward. The kernel doesnt have any internal distinction between +straightforward. The kernel doesn't have any internal distinction between robust and normal futexes. If a futex is found to be held at exit time, the kernel sets the diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt index 123108559327..6aa9a891f3d0 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic79xx.txt @@ -169,7 +169,7 @@ The following information is available in this file: 1.3.0 (January 21st, 2003) - Full regression testing for all U320 products completed. - Added abort and target/lun reset error recovery handler and - interrupt coalessing. + interrupt coalescing. 1.2.0 (November 14th, 2002) - Added support for Domain Validation diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt index 11606ee61386..05667e7308d4 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aic7xxx_old.txt @@ -256,7 +256,7 @@ linux-1.1.x and fairly stable since linux-1.2.x, and are also in FreeBSD En/Disable High Byte LVD Termination The upper 2 bits that deal with LVD termination only apply to Ultra2 - controllers. Futhermore, due to the current Ultra2 controller + controllers. Furthermore, due to the current Ultra2 controller designs, these bits are tied together such that setting either bit enables both low and high byte LVD termination. It is not possible to only set high or low byte LVD termination in this manner. This is diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt index 745f3cc3b83a..9707941704e3 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/ibmmca.txt @@ -710,8 +710,8 @@ of troubles with some controllers and after I wanted to apply some extensions, it jumped out in the same situation, on my w/cache, as like on D. Weinehalls' Model 56, having integrated SCSI. This gave me the - descissive hint to move the code-part out and declare it global. Now, - it seems to work by far much better an more stable. Let us see, what + decisive hint to move the code-part out and declare it global. Now + it seems to work far better and more stable. Let us see what the world thinks of it... 3) By the way, only Sony DAT-drives seem to show density code 0x13. A test with a HP drive gave right results, so the problem is vendor- @@ -822,10 +822,10 @@ A long period of collecting bugreports from all corners of the world now lead to the following corrections to the code: 1) SCSI-2 F/W support crashed with a COMMAND ERROR. The reason for this - was, that it is possible to disbale Fast-SCSI for the external bus. - The feature-control command, where this crash appeared regularly tried + was that it is possible to disable Fast-SCSI for the external bus. + The feature-control command, where this crash appeared regularly, tried to set the maximum speed of 10MHz synchronous transfer speed and that - reports a COMMAND ERROR, if external bus Fast-SCSI is disabled. Now, + reports a COMMAND ERROR if external bus Fast-SCSI is disabled. Now, the feature-command probes down from maximum speed until the adapter stops to complain, which is at the same time the maximum possible speed selected in the reference program. So, F/W external can run at diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/in2000.txt b/Documentation/scsi/in2000.txt index 80f104042645..c3e2a90475d2 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/in2000.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/in2000.txt @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ UPDATE NEWS: version 1.32 - 28 Mar 98 UPDATE NEWS: version 1.31 - 6 Jul 97 Fixed a bug that caused incorrect SCSI status bytes to be - returned from commands sent to LUN's greater than 0. This + returned from commands sent to LUNs greater than 0. This means that CDROM changers work now! Fixed a bug in the handling of command-line arguments when loaded as a module. Also put all the header data in in2000.h where it belongs. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt index d74bbd29eb3a..032399b16a53 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi-changer.txt @@ -88,7 +88,7 @@ If the module finds the changer, it prints some messages about the device [ try "dmesg" if you don't see anything ] and should show up in /proc/devices. If not.... some changers use ID ? / LUN 0 for the device and ID ? / LUN 1 for the robot mechanism. But Linux does *not* -look for LUN's other than 0 as default, becauce there are to many +look for LUNs other than 0 as default, because there are too many broken devices. So you can try: 1) echo "scsi add-single-device 0 0 ID 1" > /proc/scsi/scsi @@ -107,7 +107,7 @@ because the kernel will translate the error codes into human-readable strings then. You can display these messages with the dmesg command (or check the -logfiles). If you email me some question becauce of a problem with the +logfiles). If you email me some question because of a problem with the driver, please include these messages. diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt index b964eef2f62f..7acbebb17fa6 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/scsi_eh.txt @@ -75,7 +75,7 @@ with the command. - otherwise scsi_eh_scmd_add(scmd, 0) is invoked for the command. See - [1-3] for details of this funciton. + [1-3] for details of this function. [1-2-2] Completing a scmd w/ timeout diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt index 26c8a08ca3ea..2c1745a9df00 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/sym53c8xx_2.txt @@ -609,7 +609,7 @@ appropriate mailing lists or news-groups. Send me a copy in order to be sure I will receive it. Obviously, a bug in the driver code is possible. - My cyrrent email address: Gerard Roudier + My current email address: Gerard Roudier Allowing disconnections is important if you use several devices on your SCSI bus but often causes problems with buggy devices. diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt index 02a481225b0d..c815c5206e84 100644 --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ Review cycle: Contact the kernel security team for more details on this procedure. -Review committe: +Review committee: - This is made up of a number of kernel developers who have volunteered for this task, and a few that haven't. diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt index 5c3a51905969..aa986a35e994 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/fs.txt @@ -146,7 +146,7 @@ or otherwise protected/tainted binaries. The modes are readable by root only. This allows the end user to remove such a dump but not access it directly. For security reasons core dumps in this mode will not overwrite one another or - other files. This mode is appropriate when adminstrators are + other files. This mode is appropriate when administrators are attempting to debug problems in a normal environment. ============================================================== diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt index 20d0d797f539..e96a341eb7e4 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/vm.txt @@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ the high water marks for each per cpu page list. zone_reclaim_mode: -Zone_reclaim_mode allows to set more or less agressive approaches to +Zone_reclaim_mode allows someone to set more or less aggressive approaches to reclaim memory when a zone runs out of memory. If it is set to zero then no zone reclaim occurs. Allocations will be satisfied from other zones / nodes in the system. diff --git a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt index 6a790754e963..6e8c9f1d2f22 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/hiddev.txt @@ -8,7 +8,7 @@ interfaces, but have similar sorts of communication needs. The two big examples for this are power devices (especially uninterruptable power supplies) and monitor control on higher end monitors. -To support these disparite requirements, the Linux USB system provides +To support these disparate requirements, the Linux USB system provides HID events to two separate interfaces: * the input subsystem, which converts HID events into normal input device interfaces (such as keyboard, mouse and joystick) and a diff --git a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt index a043764c29fe..d61f6e7865de 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt +++ b/Documentation/usb/usb-serial.txt @@ -297,7 +297,7 @@ Belkin USB Serial Adapter F5U103 Parity N,E,O,M,S Handshake None, Software (XON/XOFF), Hardware (CTSRTS,CTSDTR)* Break Set and clear - Line contrl Input/Output query and control ** + Line control Input/Output query and control ** * Hardware input flow control is only enabled for firmware levels above 2.06. Read source code comments describing Belkin @@ -309,7 +309,7 @@ Belkin USB Serial Adapter F5U103 automatic hardware flow control. TO DO List: - -- Add true modem contol line query capability. Currently tracks the + -- Add true modem control line query capability. Currently tracks the states reported by the interrupt and the states requested. -- Add error reporting back to application for UART error conditions. -- Add support for flush ioctls. -- cgit v1.2.2 From 03a67a46af8647b2c7825107045ecae641e103d3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jan Engelhardt Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 05:32:19 +0100 Subject: Fix typos in doc and comments 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 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk --- Documentation/Changes | 2 +- Documentation/power/states.txt | 2 +- 2 files changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index abee7f58c1ed..73a8617f1861 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ udev ---- udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces the basic -functionality of devfs, while allowing persistant device naming for +functionality of devfs, while allowing persistent device naming for devices. FUSE diff --git a/Documentation/power/states.txt b/Documentation/power/states.txt index 3e5e5d3ff419..0931a330d362 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/states.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/states.txt @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ setup via another operating system for it to use. Despite the inconvenience, this method requires minimal work by the kernel, since the firmware will also handle restoring memory contents on resume. -If the kernel is responsible for persistantly saving state, a mechanism +If the kernel is responsible for persistently saving state, a mechanism called 'swsusp' (Swap Suspend) is used to write memory contents to free swap space. swsusp has some restrictive requirements, but should work in most cases. Some, albeit outdated, documentation can be found -- cgit v1.2.2 From 3c8961ee6d93c5a2ddf34d8d8171dd685538722b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Mariusz Kozlowski Date: Wed, 8 Nov 2006 15:33:38 +0100 Subject: usb: writing_usb_driver free urb cleanup 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl | 3 +-- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl index 07cd34c1940b..d4188d4ff535 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl @@ -345,8 +345,7 @@ static inline void skel_delete (struct usb_skel *dev) usb_buffer_free (dev->udev, dev->bulk_out_size, dev->bulk_out_buffer, dev->write_urb->transfer_dma); - if (dev->write_urb != NULL) - usb_free_urb (dev->write_urb); + usb_free_urb (dev->write_urb); kfree (dev); } -- cgit v1.2.2 From c957b32406b73ed66d0f20ebab0cab25c848105d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: David Brownell Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 23:30:14 -0800 Subject: Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite 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 Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman --- Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt | 204 ++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 118 insertions(+), 86 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt index 5eee3e0bfc4c..9f0bc3bfd776 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt @@ -1,99 +1,131 @@ Platform Devices and Drivers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +See for the driver model interface to the +platform bus: platform_device, and platform_driver. This pseudo-bus +is used to connect devices on busses with minimal infrastructure, +like those used to integrate peripherals on many system-on-chip +processors, or some "legacy" PC interconnects; as opposed to large +formally specified ones like PCI or USB. + Platform devices ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Platform devices are devices that typically appear as autonomous entities in the system. This includes legacy port-based devices and -host bridges to peripheral buses. - - -Platform drivers -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Drivers for platform devices are typically very simple and -unstructured. Either the device was present at a particular I/O port -and the driver was loaded, or it was not. There was no possibility -of hotplugging or alternative discovery besides probing at a specific -I/O address and expecting a specific response. +host bridges to peripheral buses, and most controllers integrated +into system-on-chip platforms. What they usually have in common +is direct addressing from a CPU bus. Rarely, a platform_device will +be connected through a segment of some other kind of bus; but its +registers will still be directly addressible. +Platform devices are given a name, used in driver binding, and a +list of resources such as addresses and IRQs. -Other Architectures, Modern Firmware, and new Platforms -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -These devices are not always at the legacy I/O ports. This is true on -other architectures and on some modern architectures. In most cases, -the drivers are modified to discover the devices at other well-known -ports for the given platform. However, the firmware in these systems -does usually know where exactly these devices reside, and in some -cases, it's the only way of discovering them. +struct platform_device { + const char *name; + u32 id; + struct device dev; + u32 num_resources; + struct resource *resource; +}; -The Platform Bus -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -A platform bus has been created to deal with these issues. First and -foremost, it groups all the legacy devices under a common bus, and -gives them a common parent if they don't already have one. - -But, besides the organizational benefits, the platform bus can also -accommodate firmware-based enumeration. - - -Device Discovery +Platform drivers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The platform bus has no concept of probing for devices. Devices -discovery is left up to either the legacy drivers or the -firmware. These entities are expected to notify the platform of -devices that it discovers via the bus's add() callback: - - platform_bus.add(parent,bus_id). - - -Bus IDs -~~~~~~~ -Bus IDs are the canonical names for the devices. There is no globally -standard addressing mechanism for legacy devices. In the IA-32 world, -we have Pnp IDs to use, as well as the legacy I/O ports. However, -neither tell what the device really is or have any meaning on other -platforms. - -Since both PnP IDs and the legacy I/O ports (and other standard I/O -ports for specific devices) have a 1:1 mapping, we map the -platform-specific name or identifier to a generic name (at least -within the scope of the kernel). - -For example, a serial driver might find a device at I/O 0x3f8. The -ACPI firmware might also discover a device with PnP ID (_HID) -PNP0501. Both correspond to the same device and should be mapped to the -canonical name 'serial'. - -The bus_id field should be a concatenation of the canonical name and -the instance of that type of device. For example, the device at I/O -port 0x3f8 should have a bus_id of "serial0". This places the -responsibility of enumerating devices of a particular type up to the -discovery mechanism. But, they are the entity that should know best -(as opposed to the platform bus driver). - - -Drivers -~~~~~~~ -Drivers for platform devices should have a name that is the same as -the canonical name of the devices they support. This allows the -platform bus driver to do simple matching with the basic data -structures to determine if a driver supports a certain device. - -For example, a legacy serial driver should have a name of 'serial' and -register itself with the platform bus. - - -Driver Binding -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Legacy drivers assume they are bound to the device once they start up -and probe an I/O port. Divorcing them from this will be a difficult -process. However, that shouldn't prevent us from implementing -firmware-based enumeration. - -The firmware should notify the platform bus about devices before the -legacy drivers have had a chance to load. Once the drivers are loaded, -they driver model core will attempt to bind the driver to any -previously-discovered devices. Once that has happened, it will be free -to discover any other devices it pleases. +Platform drivers follow the standard driver model convention, where +discovery/enumeration is handled outside the drivers, and drivers +provide probe() and remove() methods. They support power management +and shutdown notifications using the standard conventions. + +struct platform_driver { + int (*probe)(struct platform_device *); + int (*remove)(struct platform_device *); + void (*shutdown)(struct platform_device *); + int (*suspend)(struct platform_device *, pm_message_t state); + int (*suspend_late)(struct platform_device *, pm_message_t state); + int (*resume_early)(struct platform_device *); + int (*resume)(struct platform_device *); + struct device_driver driver; +}; + +Note that probe() should general verify that the specified device hardware +actually exists; sometimes platform setup code can't be sure. The probing +can use device resources, including clocks, and device platform_data. + +Platform drivers register themselves the normal way: + + int platform_driver_register(struct platform_driver *drv); + +Or, in common situations where the device is known not to be hot-pluggable, +the probe() routine can live in an init section to reduce the driver's +runtime memory footprint: + + int platform_driver_probe(struct platform_driver *drv, + int (*probe)(struct platform_device *)) + + +Device Enumeration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code wil +register platform devices: + + int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev); + + int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **pdevs, int ndev); + +The general rule is to register only those devices that actually exist, +but in some cases extra devices might be registered. For example, a kernel +might be configured to work with an external network adapter that might not +be populated on all boards, or likewise to work with an integrated controller +that some boards might not hook up to any peripherals. + +In some cases, boot firmware will export tables describing the devices +that are populated on a given board. Without such tables, often the +only way for system setup code to set up the correct devices is to build +a kernel for a specific target board. Such board-specific kernels are +common with embedded and custom systems development. + +In many cases, the memory and IRQ resources associated with the platform +device are not enough to let the device's driver work. Board setup code +will often provide additional information using the device's platform_data +field to hold additional information. + +Embedded systems frequently need one or more clocks for platform devices, +which are normally kept off until they're actively needed (to save power). +System setup also associates those clocks with the device, so that that +calls to clk_get(&pdev->dev, clock_name) return them as needed. + + +Device Naming and Driver Binding +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The platform_device.dev.bus_id is the canonical name for the devices. +It's built from two components: + + * platform_device.name ... which is also used to for driver matching. + + * platform_device.id ... the device instance number, or else "-1" + to indicate there's only one. + +These are catenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and +"serial/3" indicates bus_id "serial.3"; both would use the platform_driver +named "serial". While "my_rtc"/-1 would be bus_id "my_rtc" (no instance id) +and use the platform_driver called "my_rtc". + +Driver binding is performed automatically by the driver core, invoking +driver probe() after finding a match between device and driver. If the +probe() succeeds, the driver and device are bound as usual. There are +three different ways to find such a match: + + - Whenever a device is registered, the drivers for that bus are + checked for matches. Platform devices should be registered very + early during system boot. + + - When a driver is registered using platform_driver_register(), all + unbound devices on that bus are checked for matches. Drivers + usually register later during booting, or by module loading. + + - Registering a driver using platform_driver_probe() works just like + using platform_driver_register(), except that the the driver won't + be probed later if another device registers. (Which is OK, since + this interface is only for use with non-hotpluggable devices.) -- cgit v1.2.2 From de3edab4276c3c789f64dc3d78eea027709fef0e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Auke Kok Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:48:18 -0800 Subject: e1000: update README for e1000 Signed-off-by: Auke Kok --- Documentation/networking/e1000.txt | 451 ++++++++++++++++++++++--------------- 1 file changed, 266 insertions(+), 185 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt index 5c0a5cc03998..61b171cf5313 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/1000 Family of Adapters =============================================================== -November 15, 2005 +September 26, 2006 Contents @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Contents - In This Release - Identifying Your Adapter +- Building and Installation - Command Line Parameters - Speed and Duplex Configuration - Additional Configurations @@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ or later), lspci, and ifconfig to obtain the same information. Instructions on updating ethtool can be found in the section "Additional Configurations" later in this document. +NOTE: The Intel(R) 82562v 10/100 Network Connection only provides 10/100 +support. + Identifying Your Adapter ======================== @@ -51,28 +55,27 @@ Driver ID Guide at: http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following -website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the +website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the networking link on the left to search for your adapter: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp -Command Line Parameters ======================= +Command Line Parameters +======================= If the driver is built as a module, the following optional parameters -are used by entering them on the command line with the modprobe or insmod -command using this syntax: +are used by entering them on the command line with the modprobe command +using this syntax: modprobe e1000 [