inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:
* dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
* dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
stat structures.
* dnotify's interface to user-space is awful. Signals?
inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:
* inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
* inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
you were watching is on was unmounted."
* inotify can watch directories or files.
Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.
See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This was a pure indentation change, using:
scripts/Lindent fs/reiserfs/*.c include/linux/reiserfs_*.h
to make reiserfs match the regular Linux indentation style. As Jeff
Mahoney <jeffm@suse.com> writes:
The ReiserFS code is a mix of a number of different coding styles, sometimes
different even from line-to-line. Since the code has been relatively stable
for quite some time and there are few outstanding patches to be applied, it
is time to reformat the code to conform to the Linux style standard outlined
in Documentation/CodingStyle.
This patch contains the result of running scripts/Lindent against
fs/reiserfs/*.c and include/linux/reiserfs_*.h. There are places where the
code can be made to look better, but I'd rather keep those patches separate
so that there isn't a subtle by-hand hand accident in the middle of a huge
patch. To be clear: This patch is reformatting *only*.
A number of patches may follow that continue to make the code more consistent
with the Linux coding style.
Hans wasn't particularly enthusiastic about these patches, but said he
wouldn't really oppose them either.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
- Fixed a trouble on tuner-core that generates erros on computers with more
than one TV card.
- Rename tuner structures fields.
- Tail spaces removed.
- I2C cleanups and converged to a basic reference structure.
- Removed unused structures.
- Fix setting frequency on tda8290.
- Added code for TEA5767 autodetection.
- Standby mode support implemented. It is used to disable
a non used tuner. Currenlty implemented on tea5767.
- New macro: set_type disables other tuner when changing mode.
- Some cleanups.
- Use 50 kHz step when tunning radio for most tuners to improve precision.
Signed-off-by: Fabien Perrot <perrot1983@yahoo.fr>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
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>
- Add new Typhoon DVB-T Cardbus.
- DVB-T support for MD7134 cardbus and the PCI variants
- initial DVB-T support for Lifeview Flydvb-t duo
- DVB-T support for Philips TOUGH reference design
- Don't turn off the xtal output of tda8274/75 in sleep mode
- Let Kconfig decide whether to include frontend-specific code in saa7134-dvb.
- Removed unused structures.
Signed-off-by: Juergen Orschiedt <jorschiedt@web.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Hartmut Hackmann <hartmut.hackmann@t-online.de>
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>
The following patch prevents the crash dump helper code found within kexec
from breaking ppc which still lacks crash dump functionality.
ksysfs crash_notes attribute handling was left under CONFIG_KEXEC for
simplicity although it is not strictly kexec related.
We provide here a dummy definition for crash_notes on ppc.
Signed-off-by: Albert Herranz <albert_herranz@yahoo.es>
Cc: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
free_pages_and_swap_cache() and free_page_and_swap_cache() use release_pages()
and page_cache_release() respectively, so make sure that we have the
declarations in scope.
Cc: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Fix a problem with ext3 mount option parsing. When remount of a filesystem
fails, old options are now restored.
Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
This patch fixes a fairly serious tlb flushing bug that makes aio use under
uml very unreliable -- SEGVs, Oops and panic()s occur as a result of stale
tlb entires being used by uml when aio switches mms due to the fact that
uml does not implement the activate_mm() hook. This patch introduces a
simple but correct approach (read: hammer) for implementing activate_mm()
in uml by doing a force_flush_all() if the new mm is different from old.
With this patch in place, uml is able to succeed at the aio test case that
was randomly faulting for me before.
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
kernel/power/disk.c needs a declaration of name_to_dev_t() in scope. mount.h
seems like an appropriate choice.
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
tr_type_trans(), hippi_type_trans() left as-is.
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
This adds another CDC descriptor type to <linux/usb_cdc.h>; the main claim
to fame for this is that some Motorola phones include it. It's not currently
needed by any driver code; included for completeness.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Greg,
This patch fixes the kmalloc() flags argument type in USB
subsystem; hopefully all of its occurences. The patch was
made against patch-2.6.12-git2 from Jun 20.
Cleanup of flags for kmalloc() in USB subsystem.
Signed-off-by: Olav Kongas <ok@artecdesign.ee>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Fixed three cases in the interpreter where an "index"
argument to an ASL function was still (internally) 32
bits instead of the required 64 bits. This was the Index
argument to the Index, Mid, and Match operators.
The "strupr" function is now permanently local
(acpi_ut_strupr), since this is not a POSIX-defined
function and not present in most kernel-level C
libraries. References to the C library strupr function
have been removed from the headers.
Completed the deployment of static
functions/prototypes. All prototypes with the static
attribute have been moved from the headers to the owning
C file.
ACPICA 20050329 from Bob Moore
An error is now generated if an attempt is made to create
a Buffer Field of length zero (A CreateField with a length
operand of zero.)
The interpreter now issues a warning whenever executable
code at the module level is detected during ACPI table
load. This will give some idea of the prevalence of this
type of code.
Implemented support for references to named objects (other
than control methods) within package objects.
Enhanced package object output for the debug
object. Package objects are now completely dumped, showing
all elements.
Enhanced miscellaneous object output for the debug
object. Any object can now be written to the debug object
(for example, a device object can be written, and the type
of the object will be displayed.)
The "static" qualifier has been added to all local
functions across the core subsystem.
The number of "long" lines (> 80 chars) within the source
has been significantly reduced, by about 1/3.
Cleaned up all header files to ensure that all CA/iASL
functions are prototyped (even static functions) and the
formatting is consistent.
Two new header files have been added, acopcode.h and
acnames.h.
Removed several obsolete functions that were no longer
used.
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
http://bugme.osdl.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4016
Written-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Acked-by: Adam Belay <abelay@novell.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
ACPI 3.0 added a Correctable Platform Error Interrupt (CPEI)
Processor Overide flag to MADT.Platform_Interrupt_Source.
Record the processor that was provided as hint from ACPI.
Signed-off-by: Ashok Raj <ashok.raj@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Implement the framework for binding physical devices
with ACPI devices. A physical bus like PCI bus
should create a 'acpi_bus_type', with:
.find_device:
For device which has parent such as normal PCI devices.
.find_bridge:
It's for special devices, such as PCI root bridge
or IDE controller. Such devices generally haven't a
parent or ->bus. We use the special method
to get an ACPI handle.
Uses new field in struct device: firmware_data
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4277
Signed-off-by: David Shaohua Li <shaohua.li@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
See Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt
Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable
legacy platform specific drivers.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887
Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Register an "acpi" system device to be notified of shutdown preparation.
This depends on CONFIG_PM
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4041
Signed-off-by: Alexey Starikovskiy <alexey.y.starikovskiy@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Current assign_irq_vector() will panic if interrupt vectors is running
out. But I think how to handle the case of lack of interrupt vectors
should be handled by the caller of this function. For example, some
PCI devices can raise the interrupt signal via both MSI and I/O
APIC. So even if the driver for these device fails to allocate a
vector for MSI, the driver still has a chance to use I/O APIC based
interrupt. But currently there is no chance for these driver to use
I/O APIC based interrupt because kernel will panic when
assign_irq_vector() fails to allocate interrupt vector.
The following patch changes assign_irq_vector() for ia64 to return
-ENOSPC on error instead of panic (as i386 and x86_64 versions do).
Signed-off-by: Kenji Kaneshige <kaneshige.kenji@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
changing CONFIG_LOCALVERSION rebuilds too much, for no appearent reason.
Signed-off-by: Olaf Hering <olh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Now that sys_ipc has been removed from xtensa, asm/ipc.h is no longer
needed for that architecture. Not tested, but obviously correct. This
file is included only from arch code and this patch also removes the only
inclusion.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch by various OMAP developers syncs the OMAP
specific arch files with the linux-omap tree.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch by various OMAP developers syncs the OMAP
specific arch files with the linux-omap tree.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Tony Lindgren
This patch by various OMAP developers syncs the OMAP
specific include files with the linux-omap tree.
Signed-off-by: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Patch from Lennert Buytenhek
This patch converts the ixp2000 serial port over to a platform
serial device.
Signed-off-by: Lennert Buytenhek <buytenh@wantstofly.org>
Signed-off-by: Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@plexity.net>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
