Update the index file with descriptions of the stable_api_nonsense.txt
and stable_kernel_rules.txt files.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Here's a document that describes the process and procedures of how to do Linux
kernel development. It has gone through a number of rounds of review on the
linux-kernel mailing list, and contains contributions and help from Paolo
Ciarrocchi, Randy Dunlap, Gerrit Huizenga, Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Kay
Sievers, Vojtech Pavlik, Jan Kara, Josh Boyer, Kees Cook, Andrew Morton, Andi
Kleen, Vadim Lobanov, Jesper Juhl, Adrian Bunk, Keri Harris, Frans Pop, David
A. Wheeler, Junio Hamano, Michael Kerrisk, and Alex Shepard.
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This seems to have gotten lost, so I'll resend.
Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
* Added sysfs support to gianfar for modifying FIFO and stashing parameters
* Updated driver to support 10 Mbit, full duplex operation
* Improved comments throughout
* Cleaned up and optimized offloading code
* Fixed a bug where rx buffers were being improperly mapped and unmapped
* (only manifested if cache-coherency was off)
* Added support for using the eTSEC exact-match MAC registers
* Bumped the version to 1.3
* Added support for distinguishing between reduced 100 and 10 Mbit modes
* Modified default coalescing values to lower latency
* Added documentation
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Document that the VMALLOC_END address must be aligned to 2MB since
it must align with a PGD boundary.
Allocate the vectors page early so that the flush_cache_all() later
will cause any dirty cache lines in the direct mapping will be safely
written back.
Move the flush_cache_all() to the second local_flush_cache_tlb() and
remove the now redundant first local_flush_cache_tlb().
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
This patch deletes the bluetooth.txt help file of the bluetty driver and
hands over its major device nodes for character devices to the RFCOMM TTY
implementation of the Bluetooth subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences
between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange
brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an
issue.
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Something I've found handy countless times when users do this..
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Picked from the ubuntu-2.6 tree
The change in location for ll_rw_blk.c from drivers/block/ to block/ caused
failure to generate documentation.
Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This was marked deprecated "after 2.6" back in the 2.5 days. But now it
seems there isn't going to be any "after 2.6", and we deprecate by date
now. So set a date.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
CONFIG_CHECKING covered some debugging code used in the early times
of the port. But it wasn't even SMP safe for quite some time
and the bugs it checked for seem to be gone.
This patch removes all the code to verify GS at kernel entry. There
haven't been any new bugs in this area for a long time.
Previously it also covered the sysctl for the page fault tracing.
That didn't make much sense because that code was unconditionally
compiled in. I made that a boot option now because it is typically
only useful at boot.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The logging for boot errors was turned off because it was broken
on some AMD systems. But give Intel EM64T systems a chance because they are
supposed to be correct there.
The advantage is that there is a chance to actually log uncorrected
machine checks after the reset.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
With a NR_CPUS==128 kernel with CPU hotplug enabled we would waste 4MB
on per CPU data of all possible CPUs. The reason was that HOTPLUG
always set up possible map to NR_CPUS cpus and then we need to allocate
that much (each per CPU data is roughly ~32k now)
The underlying problem is that ACPI didn't tell us how many hotplug CPUs
the platform supports. So the old code just assumed all, which would
lead to this memory wastage.
This implements some new heuristics:
- If the BIOS specified disabled CPUs in the ACPI/mptables assume they
can be enabled later (this is bending the ACPI specification a bit,
but seems like a obvious extension)
- The user can overwrite it with a new additionals_cpus=NUM option
- Otherwise use half of the available CPUs or 2, whatever is more.
Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com
Cc: len.brown@intel.com
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
I got some questions on this, so just fix up the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
As xmlto doesn't work for print documentation, we need docbook-utils again for
these targets.
This patch allows the user to choose the method he wants to use. (I'm still
hoping that someone will fix passivetex ;-)
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add a comment showing how to change paper type.
Signed-off-by: Martin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Introduce an atomic_inc_not_zero operation. Make this a special case of
atomic_add_unless because lockless pagecache actually wants
atomic_inc_not_negativeone due to its offset refcount.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This is an updated version of the RFC3465 ABC patch originally
for Linux 2.6.11-rc4 by Yee-Ting Li. ABC is a way of counting
bytes ack'd rather than packets when updating congestion control.
The orignal ABC described in the RFC applied to a Reno style
algorithm. For advanced congestion control there is little
change after leaving slow start.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This patch is a first go at some documentation. Please advise if gmail
has mangled patch and I will revert to an attachment:
Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <imcdnzl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Document in Documentation/md.txt the files that now appear in sysfs, and make
a couple of small refinements to exactly when 'level' and 'raid_disks' are
empty, to make it match the documentation.
Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add documentation as Documentation/fb/fbcon.txt describing the framebuffer
console and its boot options.
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Make some changes to the NEED_RESCHED and POLLING_NRFLAG to reduce
confusion, and make their semantics rigid. Improves efficiency of
resched_task and some cpu_idle routines.
* In resched_task:
- TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the task's runqueue lock held,
and as we hold it during resched_task, then there is no need for an
atomic test and set there. The only other time this should be set is
when the task's quantum expires, in the timer interrupt - this is
protected against because the rq lock is irq-safe.
- If TIF_NEED_RESCHED is set, then we don't need to do anything. It
won't get unset until the task get's schedule()d off.
- If we are running on the same CPU as the task we resched, then set
TIF_NEED_RESCHED and no further action is required.
- If we are running on another CPU, and TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG is *not* set
after TIF_NEED_RESCHED has been set, then we need to send an IPI.
Using these rules, we are able to remove the test and set operation in
resched_task, and make clear the previously vague semantics of
POLLING_NRFLAG.
* In idle routines:
- Enter cpu_idle with preempt disabled. When the need_resched() condition
becomes true, explicitly call schedule(). This makes things a bit clearer
(IMO), but haven't updated all architectures yet.
- Many do a test and clear of TIF_NEED_RESCHED for some reason. According
to the resched_task rules, this isn't needed (and actually breaks the
assumption that TIF_NEED_RESCHED is only cleared with the runqueue lock
held). So remove that. Generally one less locked memory op when switching
to the idle thread.
- Many idle routines clear TIF_POLLING_NRFLAG, and only set it in the inner
most polling idle loops. The above resched_task semantics allow it to be
set until before the last time need_resched() is checked before going into
a halt requiring interrupt wakeup.
Many idle routines simply never enter such a halt, and so POLLING_NRFLAG
can be always left set, completely eliminating resched IPIs when rescheduling
the idle task.
POLLING_NRFLAG width can be increased, to reduce the chance of resched IPIs.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Con Kolivas <kernel@kolivas.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
States a date for removing V4L1 API
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Remote and more info for PCTV Cardbus. Whitespace cleanup.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Mihaylov <bin@bash.info>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Fixed broken API link and indentation.
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Fix bug 5484: ASUS digimatrix card doesnt work with PAL tuner
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Analog support for Asus P7131 Dual - TDA8275A
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Included support for em2800.
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Added analog support for ATI HDTV Wonder
Signed-off-by: Kirk Lapray <kirk.lapray@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Added support for OEM version of FlyTV Platinum mini with a subvendor id
of 0x4e42.
- Added the OEM PCI id's to the docs/CARDLIST.saa7134 for item 39
- Modified the vmux in the SAA7134_BOARD_FLYTVPLATINUM_MINI driver data from
0 (Composite over S-Video) to 3 (Composite).
Signed-off-by: Glen Gray <glen@lincor.com>
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updated documentation to include "hybrid" v4l/dvb and ATSC cards.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* nxt200x.c, nxt200x.h
- New frontend module that supports both NXT2002 and NXT2004.
So far, only tested on NXT2004. After testing on NXT2002, we should
deprecate the nxt2002 module, and implement this one instead on the
applicable cards.
* get_dvb_firmware:
- Added support for the NXT2004 firmware. This firmware works with both
the ATI HDTV Wonder and the AVerTVHD MCE a180.
This was originally written by Jean-Francois Thibert
* dvb-pll.c
- Fixed minimum frequency for tuv1236d. It seems that the data sheets
are wrong.
Signed-off-by: Kirk Lapray <kirk.lapray@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Updated documentation for FusionHDTV Lite cards. We must differentiate
the bt8xx based "Lite" cards from the cx2388x based "Gold" cards.
- Provide location of CARDLIST.bttv Documentation, rather than
instructing users to look at bttv.h
- Include card decimal id numbers. These are valid for module arguments,
and might be easier for some people to remember, rather than hex.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Updated Documentation
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Cc: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
->permission and ->lookup have a struct nameidata * argument these days to
pass down lookup intents. Unfortunately some callers of lookup_hash don't
actually pass this one down. For lookup_one_len() we don't have a struct
nameidata to pass down, but as this function is a library function only
used by filesystem code this is an acceptable limitation. All other
callers should pass down the nameidata, so this patch changes the
lookup_hash interface to only take a struct nameidata argument and derives
the other two arguments to __lookup_hash from it. All callers already have
the nameidata argument available so this is not a problem.
At the same time I'd like to deprecate the lookup_hash interface as there
are better exported interfaces for filesystem usage. Before it can
actually be removed I need to fix up rpc_pipefs.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Jeff Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ftp.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
The CONFIG_EXT{2,3}_CHECK options where were never available, and all they
did was to implement a subset of e2fsck in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support
the same hardware) for removal.
Scheduling the via82cxxx driver for removal was ACK'ed by Jeff Garzik.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Carlo Comin <vl4d spine-group.org>
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
The big i2c-viapro SMBus driver update which went into 2.6.14-git1
introduced a few minor issues. Nothing critical, but I would like a
few adjustments to be merged in to fix the following problems:
* VIA should not be spelled Via.
* Frodo Looijaard and Philip Edelbrock did not write the i2c-viapro
driver.
* When debugging is disabled, half of messages would be logged.
* Drop an unneeded masking.
* Some port reads can be avoided now that the transaction size is
passed as a parameter to vt596_transaction().
* SMBus Receive Byte transactions are used for probing too (for
EEPROMs), so hide errors on these too.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
My latest update to the writing-clients i2c documentation file was
incomplete, here's the complement.
Large parts of this file are still way out-of-date, but at least now
the memory allocation and freeing instructions are consistent.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Would you mind applying the following patch that kills those two + the
m68k and Documentation/ references?
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using.
Give panic_timeout the twelve-month treatment.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This looks like something which out-of-tree code could possibly be using.
Give insert_resource the twelve-month treatment.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Docs for ramfs, rootfs, and initramfs.
Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch splits dentry locking documentation from
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to a separate file. The dentry locking
bits are useful but do not fit into the VFS overview document as is.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch updates the Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt document. I
rearranged and rewrote parts of the introduction chapter and added better
headings for each section. I also added a description for the inode
rename() operation which was missing and added links to some useful
external VFS documentation.
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Put text into < 80 columns. No other changes.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix various warnings in kernel-doc:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/net.h:89): Enum value 'SOCK_DCCP' not described in enum 'sock_type'
usercopy.c: should use !E instead of !I for exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//arch/i386/lib/usercopy.c): no structured comments found
fs.h does not need to use !E since it has no exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/fs.h:1182): No description found for parameter 'find_exported_dentry'
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/fs.h): no structured comments found
irq/manage.c should use !E for its exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//kernel/irq/manage.c): no structured comments found
macmodes.c should use !E for its exported symbols:
Warning(linux-2614-rc4//drivers/video/macmodes.c): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Add structure fields kernel-doc for 2 fields in struct journal_s.
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbuf'
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//include/linux/jbd.h:808): No description found for parameter 'j_wbufsize'
Convert fs/jbd/recovery.c non-static functions to kernel-doc format.
fs/jbd/recovery.c doesn't export any symbols, so it should use
!I instead of !E to eliminate this warning message:
Warning(/var/linsrc/linux-2614-rc4//fs/jbd/recovery.c): no structured comments found
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
