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Peter Korsgaard
f023dc769c [POWERPC] spi: mode should be "cpu-qe" instead of "qe"
Mode should be "cpu-qe" for QE in CPU mode. "qe" should be reserved
for native QE mode.

Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-08 08:38:20 -05:00
Scott Wood
15f8c604a7 [POWERPC] cpm: Describe multi-user ram in its own device node.
The way the current CPM binding describes available multi-user (a.k.a.
dual-ported) RAM doesn't work well when there are multiple free regions,
and it doesn't work at all if the region doesn't begin at the start of
the muram area (as the hardware needs to be programmed with offsets into
this area).  The latter situation can happen with SMC UARTs on CPM2, as its
parameter RAM is relocatable, u-boot puts it at zero, and the kernel doesn't
support moving it.

It is now described with a muram node, similar to QE.  The current CPM
binding is sufficiently recent (i.e. never appeared in an official release)
that compatibility with existing device trees is not an issue.

The code supporting the new binding is shared between cpm1 and cpm2, rather
than remain separated.  QE should be able to use this code as well, once
minor fixes are made to its device trees.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-04 15:47:05 -05:00
Scott Wood
96fca1dea8 [POWERPC] Document local bus nodes in the device tree, and update cuboot-pq2.
The localbus node is used to describe devices that are connected via a chip
select or similar mechanism.  The advantages over placing the devices under
the root node are that it can be probed without probing other random things
under the root, and that the description of which chip select a given device
uses can be used to set up mappings if the firmware failed to do so in a
useful manner.

cuboot-pq2 is updated to match the binding; previously, it called itself
chipselect rather than localbus, and used phandle linkage between the
actual bus node and the control node (the current agreement is to simply use
the fully-qualified address of the control registers, and ignore the overlap
with the IMMR node).

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-04 11:02:34 -05:00
Scott Wood
e631ae3b16 [POWERPC] Introduce new CPM device bindings.
This introduces a new device binding for the CPM and other devices on
these boards.  Some of the changes include:

1. Proper namespace scoping for Freescale compatibles and properties.

2. Use compatible rather than things like device_type and model
to determine which particular variant of a device is present.

3. Give the drivers the relevant CPM command word directly, rather than
requiring it to have a lookup table based on device-id, SCC v. SMC, and
CPM version.

4. Specify the CPCR and the usable DPRAM region in the CPM's reg property.

Boards that do not require the legacy bindings should select
CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING to enable the of_platform CPM devices. Once
all existing boards are converted and tested, the config option can
become default y to prevent new boards from using the old model.  Once
arch/ppc is gone, the config option can be removed altogether.

Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-03 20:35:43 -05:00
Paul Mackerras
70f227d884 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-2.6.24 2007-10-03 15:33:17 +10:00
Dave Jones
8814842fbb Add /dev/oldmem to devices.txt documentation
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-01 07:52:23 -07:00
Chris Malley
f6a592e8ab lguest example launcher truncates block device file to 0 length on problems
The function should also use ftruncate64() rather than ftruncate() to prevent
files over 4GB (not uncommon for a root filesystem) being zeroed.

Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-26 09:22:04 -07:00
Dan Williams
c5d2b9f444 async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes (v2)
Changes in v2:
* cleanups from Randy and Shannon

Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2007-09-24 10:26:25 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
6d0b842d3b Fix CRLF line endings in Documentation/input/iforce-protocol.txt
Emil Medve points out that this documentation file uses CRLF line
endings, which means that if you use

	[core]
		autocrlf=input

(which makes sense if you ever develop under Windows, for example, or if
you use other broken tools) in your git config, git will always complain
about the file being dirty.

This removes the bogus DOS line endings, and removes whitespace at the
end of line.

Cc: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-20 11:33:45 -07:00
Paul Mackerras
0ce49a3945 Merge branch 'linux-2.6' 2007-09-20 10:09:27 +10:00
Robert P. J. Day
b20c8e8e86 V4L/DVB (6173a): Documentation: Remove reference to dead "cpia_pp=" boot-time option
Since this boot-time option was removed in commit
9ab7e323af, delete the reference to it.
    
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-17 19:54:30 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
e53dd083be Revert "V4L/DVB (6173a): Documentation: Remove reference to dead "cpia_pp=" boot-time option"
This reverts commit 4730d3af62.

Unfortunately, patch got mangled by a whitespace removal script.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-17 19:54:26 -03:00
Len Brown
ecfe7f0937 Pull thinkpad into release branch 2007-09-17 00:58:40 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
3b0c6485a7 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.16
Name it thinkpad-acpi version 0.16 to avoid any confusion with some 0.15
thinkpad-acpi development snapshots and backports that had input layer
support, but no hotkey_report_mode support.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-09-17 00:58:31 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
ff80f1370f ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: revert new 2.6.23 CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED option
Revert new 2.6.23 CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED Kconfig option because
it would create a legacy we don't want to support.

CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED was added to try to fix an issue that is
now moot with the addition of the netlink ACPI event report interface to
the ACPI core.

Now that ACPI core can send events over netlink, we can use a different
strategy to keep backwards compatibility with older userspace, without the
need for the CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED games.  And it arrived
before CONFIG_THINKPAD_ACPI_INPUT_ENABLED made it to a stable mainline
kernel, even, which is Good.

This patch is in sync with some changes to thinkpad-acpi backports, that
will keep things sane for userspace across different combinations of kernel
versions, thinkpad-acpi backports (or the lack thereof), and userspace
capabilities:

Unless a module parameter is used, thinkpad-acpi will now behave in such a
way that it will work well (by default) with userspace that still uses only
the old ACPI procfs event interface and doesn't care for thinkpad-acpi
input devices.

It will also always work well with userspace that has been updated to use
both the thinkpad-acpi input devices, and ACPI core netlink event
interface, regardless of any module parameter.

The module parameter was added to allow thinkpad-acpi to work with
userspace that has been partially updated to use thinkpad-acpi input
devices, but not the new ACPI core netlink event interface.  To use this
mode of hot key reporting, one has to specify the hotkey_report_mode=2
module parameter.

The thinkpad-acpi driver exports the value of hotkey_report_mode through
sysfs, as well.  thinkpad-acpi backports to older kernels, that do not
support the new ACPI core netlink interface, have code to allow userspace
to switch hotkey_report_mode at runtime through sysfs.  This capability
will not be provided in mainline thinkpad-acpi as it is not needed there.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Michael S. Tsirkin <mst@dev.mellanox.co.il>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Richard Hughes <hughsient@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-09-17 00:58:19 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
d0174640ee Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6:
  drivers/net/pcmcia/3c589_cs: fix port configuration switcheroo
  sk98lin: resurrect driver
  ucc_geth: fix compilation
  mv643xx_eth: Fix tx_bytes stats calculation
  As struct iw_point is bi-directional payload, we should copy back the content
  [PATCH] bcm43xx: Fix cancellation of work queue crashes
  spidernet: fix interrupt reason recognition
  ehea: fix last_rx update
  ehea: propagate physical port state
  Fix a lock problem in generic phy code
  sky2: restore multicast list on resume and other ops
  atl1: disable broken 64-bit DMA
2007-09-15 17:35:57 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
5ad887fa8e sk98lin: resurrect driver
This reverts commit e1abecc489.

The driver works on some hardware that skge doesn't handle yet.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-09-15 19:35:14 -04:00
Robert P. J. Day
4730d3af62 V4L/DVB (6173a): Documentation: Remove reference to dead "cpia_pp=" boot-time option
Since this boot-time option was removed in commit
9ab7e323af, delete the reference to it.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-14 13:13:42 -03:00
Hans Verkuil
5614b02143 V4L/DVB (6095): ivtv: fix VIDIOC_G_ENC_INDEX flag handling
Due to a documentation bug (the type mask is 3 bits long, not 2) the wrong
frame types were filled in: the B and P frame types were swapped.

This bug also hid a second bug: when a capture is stopped a last entry is
written into the pgm index buffer with internal type 0, denoting the end
of the program. This entry wasn't ignored, instead it was accidentally
returned to the caller as a P frame.

Signed-off-by: Hans Verkuil <hverkuil@xs4all.nl>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-09-14 13:13:40 -03:00
David Gibson
2099172d61 [POWERPC] Document and implement an improved flash device binding for powerpc
This replaces the binding for flash chips in booting-without-of.txt
with an clarified and improved version.  It also makes
drivers/mtd/maps/physmap_of.c recognize this new binding.  Finally it
revises the Ebony device tree source to use the new binding as an
example.

Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-09-14 01:33:25 +10:00
Jean Delvare
9ca2152e17 Fix this Paul Simon song's name
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-13 08:11:10 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
577107e8e4 Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2:
  ocfs2: Fix calculation of i_blocks during truncate
  [PATCH] ocfs2: Fix a wrong cluster calculation.
  [PATCH] ocfs2: fix mount option parsing
  ocfs2: update docs for new features
2007-09-11 17:23:16 -07:00
Andre Haupt
a570ab6f10 fix typo in Documentation/SubmittingPatches
Signed-off-by: Andre Haupt <andre@finow14.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-11 17:21:20 -07:00
Rob Landley
c811ac5366 Documentation/00-INDEX: notice ecryptfs.txt moved
ecryptfs.txt moved into filesystems, make 00-INDEX follow.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-11 17:21:19 -07:00
Mark Fasheh
10b0845bed ocfs2: update docs for new features
Update documentation listing ocfs2 features to reflect the current state of
the file system. Add missing descriptions for some mount options which ocfs2
supports.

Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
2007-09-11 11:38:25 -07:00
Peter P Waskiewicz Jr
fdd8a532a6 [NET] DOC: Update networking/multiqueue.txt with correct information.
Updated the multiqueue.txt document to call out the correct kernel
options to select to enable multiqueue.

Signed-off-by: Peter P Waskiewicz Jr <peter.p.waskiewicz.jr@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-09-11 11:12:06 +02:00
Shane Huang
60693e5a9a i2c-piix4: Fix SB700 PCI device ID
We find that SB700 and SB800 use the same SMBus device ID as SB600, which is
0x4385, instead of the already submitted 0x4395.

Besides removing the wrong SB700 device ID, add SB800 support to kernel, by
renaming the PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_IXP600_SMBUS into
PCI_DEVICE_ID_ATI_SBX00_SMBUS.

Signed-off-by: Shane Huang <shane.huang@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-31 01:42:23 -07:00
Len Brown
25c87f7f2a Pull events into release branch
Conflicts:

	drivers/acpi/video.c

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-25 01:44:01 -04:00
Len Brown
519ef1af47 Pull thermal into release branch 2007-08-24 22:26:19 -04:00
Len Brown
5a16eff86d Pull bugzilla-1641 into release branch 2007-08-24 22:19:05 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
0542170dec Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ericvh/v9fs:
  9p: fix bad error path in conversion routines
  9p: remove deprecated v9fs_fid_lookup_remove()
  9p: update maintainers and documentation
  9p: fix use after free
2007-08-23 21:38:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2b56fec64f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6:
  PCI: Run k8t_sound_hostbridge quirk only when needed
  PCI: disable MSI on RX790
  PCI: disable MSI on RD580
  PCI: disable MSI on RS690
  PCI: make pcie_get_readrq visible in pci.h
  PCI: lets kill the 'PCI hidden behind bridge' message
  pci/hotplug/cpqphp_ctrl.c: remove stale BKL use
  PCI: Document pci_iomap()
  PCI: quirk_e100_interrupt() called too early
  PCI: Move prototypes for pci_bus_find_capability to include/linux/pci.h
2007-08-23 21:35:45 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
de80af4cc9 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  sysfs: don't warn on removal of a nonexistent binary file
  HOWTO: latest lxr url address changed
  HOWTO: korean translation of Documentation/HOWTO
  Fix Off-by-one in /sys/module/*/refcnt
  sysfs: fix locking in sysfs_lookup() and sysfs_rename_dir()
2007-08-23 21:34:43 -07:00
Len Brown
14e04fb34f ACPI: Schedule /proc/acpi/event for removal
Schedule /proc/acpi/event for removal in 6 months.

Re-name acpi_bus_generate_event() to acpi_bus_generate_proc_event()
to make sure there is no confusion that it is for /proc/acpi/event only.

Add CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT to allow removal of /proc/acpi/event.
There is no functional change if CONFIG_ACPI_PROC_EVENT=y

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-23 15:20:26 -04:00
Eric Van Hensbergen
27a2a5ff41 9p: update maintainers and documentation
Updates to the MAINTAINERS file and documentation for 9p to point to the
swik wiki versus the outdated sf.net page.  Also updated some email addresses
and added pointers to papers which better describe the implementation and
application of the Linux 9p client.

Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com>
2007-08-23 10:12:48 -05:00
Michael Neuling
efbee7f1c9 Documentation: fix getdelays.c printf bug
Commit b663a79c19 ("taskstats: add
context-switch counters") incorrectly removed a comma from a printf
statement.  This causes corruption in the output printing or a seg
fault.

Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Acked-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:52:44 -07:00
Lee Schermerhorn
42b88e6ad4 Document Linux Memory Policy
I couldn't find any memory policy documentation in the Documentation
directory, so here is my attempt to document it.

There's lots more that could be written about the internal design--including
data structures, functions, etc.  However, if you agree that this is better
that the nothing that exists now, perhaps it could be merged.  This will
provide a baseline for updates to document the many policy patches that are
currently being worked.

Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk-manpages@gmx.net>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Acked-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-22 19:52:44 -07:00
Rolf Eike Beer
5ca2481424 PCI: Document pci_iomap()
This useful interface is hardly mentioned anywhere in the in-tree
documentation.

Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de>
Cc: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-08-22 14:48:40 -07:00
Qi Yong
4db29c1764 HOWTO: latest lxr url address changed
Hello,

I've noticed that in Document/HOWTO the url address:
http://sosdg.org/~coywolf/lxr/
has changed to
http://users.sosdg.org/~qiyong/lxr/
from the website.

	-- qiyong

Signed-off-by: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-08-22 14:35:35 -07:00
Minchan Kim
dda8cc864a HOWTO: korean translation of Documentation/HOWTO
This is a Documentation/HOWTO korean version of  2.6.23-rc1
The header is refered to a japanese's one.


From: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-08-22 14:35:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
74e8f346d5 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  [WATCHDOG] Add support for 1533 bridge to alim1535_wdt
  [WATCHDOG] Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/watchdog/
  [WATCHDOG] Eurotechwdt.c - clean-up comments
2007-08-22 12:06:27 -07:00
Len Brown
61ec7567db ACPI: boot correctly with "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
In MPS mode, "nosmp" and "maxcpus=0" boot a UP kernel with IOAPIC disabled.
However, in ACPI mode, these parameters didn't completely disable
the IO APIC initialization code and boot failed.

init/main.c:
	Disable the IO_APIC if "nosmp" or "maxcpus=0"
	undefine disable_ioapic_setup() when it doesn't apply.

i386:
	delete ioapic_setup(), it was a duplicate of parse_noapic()
	delete undefinition of disable_ioapic_setup()

x86_64:
	rename disable_ioapic_setup() to parse_noapic() to match i386
	define disable_ioapic_setup() in header to match i386

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1641

Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-21 00:33:35 -04:00
Andreas Arens
c545d6adbc V4L/DVB (6016): get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of tda10046 firmware
Update get_dvb_firmware script for the new location of the 
tda10046 firmware.

The old location doesn't work anymore.

Signed-off-by: Andreas Arens <ari@goron.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-08-20 12:18:03 -03:00
Jesper Juhl
568779c9c4 [WATCHDOG] Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/watchdog/
Add a 00-INDEX file to Documentation/watchdog/

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-08-16 20:28:36 +00:00
Len Brown
c52a7419af ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.crt=C" bootparam
Some hardware will malfunction at a temperature below
the BIOS provided critical shutdown threshold.

This hook allows moving the critical trip points down
to a temperature which provokes a graceful shutdown
before the hardware malfunction.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8884

WARNING: A trip-point override will not get noticed
until the system delivers a temperature change event,
or unless thermal zone polling is enabled.
eg. "thermal.tzp=10"

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-14 15:49:32 -04:00
Len Brown
d8dd3cbcf1 Pull bugzilla-8842 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:19:23 -04:00
Len Brown
53fdc5185c Pull bugzilla-3774 into release branch 2007-08-12 00:17:59 -04:00
Len Brown
3b6919e536 pull asus sony thinkpad into release branch 2007-08-12 00:17:12 -04:00
Len Brown
f8707ec964 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.act=" to disable or override active trip point
thermal.act=-1 disables all active trip points
in all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.act=C, where C > 0, overrides all lowest temperature
active trip points in all thermal zones to C degrees Celsius.
Raising this trip-point may allow you to keep your system silent
up to a higher temperature.  However, it will not allow you to
raise the lowest temperature trip point above the next higher
trip point (if there is one).  Lowering this trip point may
kick in the fan sooner.

Note that overriding this trip-point will disable any BIOS attempts
to implement hysteresis around the lowest temperature trip point.
This may result in the fan starting and stopping frequently
if temperature frequently crosses C.

WARNING: raising trip points above the manufacturer's defaults
may cause the system to run at higher temperature and shorten
its life.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:54 -04:00
Len Brown
f548714561 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.nocrt" to disable critical actions
thermal.nocrt=1 disables actions on _CRT and _HOT
ACPI thermal zone trip-points.  They will be marked
as <disabled> in /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/trip_points.

There are two cases where this option is used:

1. Debugging a hot system crossing valid trip point.

   If your system fan is spinning at full speed,
   be sure that the vent is not clogged with dust.
   Many laptops have very fine thermal fins that are easily blocked.

   Check that the processor fan-sink is properly seated,
   has the proper thermal grease, and is really spinning.

   Check for fan related options in BIOS SETUP.
   Sometimes there is a performance vs quiet option.
   Defaults are generally the most conservative.

   If your fan is not spinning, yet /proc/acpi/fan/
   has files in it, please file a Linux/ACPI bug.

   WARNING: you risk shortening the lifetime of your
   hardware if you use this parameter on a hot system.
   Note that this refers to all system components,
   including the disk drive.

2. Working around a cool system crossing critical
   trip point due to erroneous temperature reading.

   Try again with CONFIG_HWMON=n
   There is known potential for conflict between the
   the hwmon sub-system and the ACPI BIOS.
   If this fixes it, notify lm-sensors@lm-sensors.org
   and linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org

   Otherwise, file a Linux/ACPI bug, or notify
   just linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:44 -04:00