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Stephen Hemminger
bea3348eef [NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net
device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several
queues.

In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the
structure representing the poll is independant from the net
device itself.

The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from:

	int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget)

to

	int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget)

The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or
the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get
abstract).  The callee no longer messes around bumping
dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the
caller upon return.

The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data
structures.

Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI
instances in it's ->stop() device close handler.  Since the
napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures,
only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances
it may have per-device.

With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier,
Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim.

Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra,
Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan.

[ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted.  Integrated
  Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list
  handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues.  -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10 16:47:45 -07:00
Dhaval Giani
3317fedba9 Corrections in Documentation/block/ioprio.txt
The newer glibc does not allow system calls to be made via _syscallN()
wrapper. They have to be made through syscall(). The ionice code used
the older interface. Correcting it to use syscall.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:57 +02:00
NeilBrown
5705f70217 Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each_bio
Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of
bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into
rq_for_each_segment.

We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that
are needed for the double iteration.

Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>

Various compile fixes by me...

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10 09:25:56 +02:00
Eric Sandeen
0ac3a5bbca V4L/DVB (6295): saa7134: add autodetection for KWorld ATSC-115
Recognize the KWorld ATSC115 PCI ID as a hardware clone of the ATSC110.

Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-10 00:03:15 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
593f18c6e4 V4L/DVB (6286): Add support for MSI TV @nywhere A/D NB
This is a Lifeview hybrid OEM board.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-10 00:03:09 -03:00
Roland Dreier
2be8e3ee8e IB/umad: Add P_Key index support
Add support for setting the P_Key index of sent MADs and getting the
P_Key index of received MADs.  This requires a change to the layout of
the ABI structure struct ib_user_mad_hdr, so to avoid breaking
compatibility, we default to the old (unchanged) ABI and add a new
ioctl IB_USER_MAD_ENABLE_PKEY that allows applications that are aware
of the new ABI to opt into using it.

We plan on switching to the new ABI by default in a year or so, and
this patch adds a warning that is printed when an application uses the
old ABI, to push people towards converting to the new ABI.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Reviewed-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Hal Rosenstock <hal@xsigo.com>
2007-10-09 19:59:15 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
c1accaa21b V4L/DVB (6252): Adapt drivers to use the newer videobuf modules
PCI-dependent videobuf_foo methods were renamed as videobuf_pci_foo.

Also, videobuf_dmabuf is now part of videobuf-dma-sg private struct.
So, to access it, a subroutine call is needed.

This patch renames all occurences of those function calls to be
consistent with the video-buf split.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.video4linux/34978/focus=34981
Reviewed-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
2007-10-09 22:14:55 -03:00
Sascha Sommer
b5457b7bdf V4L/DVB (6249): Add Typhoon Tv-Tuner PCI to bttv-cards.c
Adds an entry for the Typhoon Tv-Tuner PCI to bttv-cards.c

Signed-off-by: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-09 22:14:55 -03:00
Michael Krufky
15e9083951 V4L/DVB (6198): add CARDLIST.cx23885 to Documentation/
Cardlist generated by cx23885.pl

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-09 22:14:29 -03:00
Edgar Simo
d90d9f5a0a V4L/DVB (6072): saa7134: add DVB-T support for Avermedia Super 007
Add DVB-T support for Avermedia Super 007

Analog television is untested.  The device lacks input adapters for radio,
svideo & composite -- seems to be a DVB-T ONLY device.

Signed-off-by: Edgar Simo <bobbens@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-09 22:06:01 -03:00
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
Pavel Machek
dfb0042d43 sysrq docs: document sequence that actually works
Document sequence of keypresses that actually works. Yes, this changed
year-or-so ago.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-07 16:28:43 -07:00
Peter Zijlstra
a560aa48ee lockstat: documentation
Provide some documentation for CONFIG_LOCK_STAT.

Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-07 16:28:43 -07:00
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
Len Brown
a70cdc5200 ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.psv=" to override passive trip points
"thermal.psv=-1" disables passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.

"thermal.psv=C", where 'C' is degrees Celsius,
overrides all existing passive trip points
for all ACPI thermal zones.

thermal.psv is checked at module load time,
and in response to trip-point change events.

Note that if the system does not deliver thermal zone
temperature change events near the new trip-point,
then it will not be noticed.  To force your custom
trip point to be noticed, you may need to enable polling:
eg. thermal.tzp=3000 invokes polling every 5 minutes.

Note that once passive thermal throttling is invoked,
it has its own internal Thermal Sampling Period (_TSP),
that is unrelated to _TZP.

WARNING: disabling or raising a thermal trip point
may result in increased running temperature and
shorter hardware lifetime on some systems.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:35 -04:00
Len Brown
730ff34de7 ACPI: thermal: expose "thermal.tzp=" to set global polling frequency
Thermal Zone Polling frequency (_TZP) is an optional ACPI object
recommending the rate that the OS should poll the associated thermal zone.

If _TZP is 0, no polling should be used.
If _TZP is non-zero, then the platform recommends that
the OS poll the thermal zone at the specified rate.
The minimum period is 30 seconds.
The maximum period is 5 minutes.

(note _TZP and thermal.tzp units are in deci-seconds,
 so _TZP = 300 corresponds to 30 seconds)

If _TZP is not present, ACPI 3.0b recommends that the
thermal zone be polled at an "OS provided default frequency".

However, common industry practice is:
1. The BIOS never specifies any _TZP
2. High volume OS's from this century never poll any thermal zones

Ie. The OS depends on the platform's ability to
provoke thermal events when necessary, and
the "OS provided default frequency" is "never":-)

There is a proposal that ACPI 4.0 be updated to reflect
common industry practice -- ie. no _TZP, no polling.

The Linux kernel already follows this practice --
thermal zones are not polled unless _TZP is present and non-zero.

But thermal zone polling is useful as a workaround for systems
which have ACPI thermal control, but have an issue preventing
thermal events.  Indeed, some Linux distributions still
set a non-zero thermal polling frequency for this reason.

But rather than ask the user to write a polling frequency
into all the /proc/acpi/thermal_zone/*/polling_frequency
files, here we simply document and expose the already
existing module parameter to do the same at system level,
to simplify debugging those broken platforms.

Note that thermal.tzp is a module-load time parameter only.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:26 -04:00
Len Brown
72b33ef8bb ACPI: thermal: create "thermal.off=1" to disable ACPI thermal support
"thermal.off=1" disables all ACPI thermal support at boot time.

CONFIG_ACPI_THERMAL=n can do this at build time.
"# rmmod thermal" can do this at run time,
as long as thermal is built as a module.

WARNING: On some systems, disabling ACPI thermal support
will cause the system to run hotter and reduce the
lifetime of the hardware.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-12 00:12:17 -04:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
9de1cc4a17 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix sysfs paths in documentation
The documentation used "thinkpad-acpi" to refer to the directories in
sysfs, while it should have been using "thinkpad_acpi".  Thanks to Hugh
Dickins for the error report.

I wish I could just call the module and everything else by the proper
name with the "-", instead of using these ugly translations to "_".

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-08-11 23:54:35 -04:00
Andi Kleen
43fb2387d0 i386: Add warning in Documentation that zero-page is not a stable ABI
Some people writing boot loaders seem to falsely belief the 32bit zero page is a
stable interface for out of tree code like the real mode boot protocol. Add a comment
clarifying that is not true.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:58:14 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
f8a745942b docs: note about select in kconfig-language.txt
A warning note from Sam Ravnborg about kconfig's select evilness,
dependencies and the future (slightly corrected).

Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:41 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
09736bd36a Documentation: sysrq, description of 'h' slightly inaccurate
In Documentation/sysrq.txt, the description of 'h' says that any key not
listed *above* will generate help.  That's obviously not true since all the
keys listed below 'h' will do what they are described to do, not display help.
 So change the text so that it says that any key not listed in the table will
generate help, which is what really happens.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:41 -07:00
Gabriel C
8dfe9c21a8 kernel-parameters.txt : watchdog.txt should be wdt.txt
Documentation/watchdog/watchdog.txt does not exist, it is Documentation/watchdog/wdt.txt

Signed-off-by: Gabriel Craciunescu <nix.or.die@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:41 -07:00
Yasunori Goto
6867c9310d Memory hotplug document
This is add a document for memory hotplug to describe "How to use" and
"Current status".

Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:41 -07:00
Adrian McMenamin
acb7386532 pvr2fb: update Documentation/fb/pvr2fb.txt
The current version is very old and does not correctly specify how to
set the video mode.

Signed-off by: Adrian McMenamin <adrian@mcmen.demon.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-11 15:47:40 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
ac07860264 SLUB: Fix format specifier in Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
There's a little problem in Documentation/vm/slabinfo.c
The code is using "%d" in a printf() call to print an 'unsigned long'.
This patch corrects it to use "%lu" instead.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
2007-08-09 21:57:16 -07:00
Alan Cox
6adb31c90c remove dubious legal statment from uio-howto
UIO currently contains a rather dubious statement which wants removing.

The actual questions around whether user space code that depends tightly
on kernel GPL code designed to co-work with it are derivative works of
the kernel is extremely complex, and since we don't have space for either
a masters length essay on legal issues or need to start flamewars lets
simply remove the comment and leave law to lawyers

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <tovalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09 08:40:21 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
be12014dd7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mingo/linux-2.6-sched: (61 commits)
  sched: refine negative nice level granularity
  sched: fix update_stats_enqueue() reniced codepath
  sched: round a bit better
  sched: make the multiplication table more accurate
  sched: optimize update_rq_clock() calls in the load-balancer
  sched: optimize activate_task()
  sched: clean up set_curr_task_fair()
  sched: remove __update_rq_clock() call from entity_tick()
  sched: move the __update_rq_clock() call to scheduler_tick()
  sched debug: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from print_task()/_rq()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' local variables
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from deactivate_task()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dequeue_task()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from enqueue_task()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_nr_running()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_nr_running()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from dec_load()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from inc_load()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from update_curr_load()
  sched: remove the 'u64 now' parameter from ->task_new()
  ...
2007-08-09 08:23:31 -07:00
Ronald G. Minnich
e3bcf5e278 lguest: avoid shared libraries mapped over guest memory
Some versions of ld.so mmap the shared libraries right in over guest
memory, so compile lguest statically by default.

[ FC7 maps shared libraries very low, where the launcher maps guest's
  physical memory.  Quick fix is to link Launcher static, real fix is
  for 2.6.24. ]

-static is a simple fix. I expect this problem will be more common than we
like, as different distro's make different "improvements" to ld.so

Signed-off-by: Ronald G. Minnich <rminnich@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-08-09 08:14:56 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
aea25401c3 sched: document nice levels
Document the design thinking behind nice levels.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00
Thomas Voegtle
5f5d3aa15b sched: mention CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG in documentation
a little hint to switch on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG should be given.

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-08-09 11:16:46 +02:00
Robin Getz
0ae53640b5 Blackfin arch: Initial patch to add earlyprintk support
This allows debugging of problems which happen eary in the kernel
boot process (after bootargs are parsed, but before serial subsystem
is fully initialized)

Signed-off-by: Robin Getz <robin.getz@analog.com>
Signed-off-by: Bryan Wu <bryan.wu@analog.com>
2007-10-09 17:24:49 +08:00
H. Peter Anvin
c3887cd725 [x86 setup] Document grub < 0.93 as broken
Grub older than 0.93 are broken when the kernel setup is bigger than
8K.  This was fixed in 2002, and 0.93 was the first grub version which
fixed this bug.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2007-08-02 13:50:43 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
dd9cd6d435 Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6:
  hwmon: fscher read control bugfix
  hwmon: (adm1031) Fix broken links in documentation
  hwmon: make abituguru3_read_increment_offset() static
  hwmon: Fix regression caused by typo in lm90.c
  hwmon: (applesmc) add temperature sensors set for Macbook
  hwmon: fscher control update bugfix
  hwmon: fix dme1737 temp fault attribute
  hwmon: Add missing __devexit tags in various drivers
  hwmon: clean up duplicate includes
  hwmon: fix lm78 detection regression
  hwmon: fix array overruns in lm93.c
  hwmon: add support for THMC50 and ADM1022
2007-07-31 20:40:50 -07:00
Dave Young
07ff8ee79e hpet.txt: broken link fix
The specification link in hpet document is broken.

Signed-off-by: Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:42 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
73c21e8024 docbook bad file references
Fix docbook warnings:

Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//drivers/base/power/main.c): no structured comments found
Warning(linux-2.6.22-git12//include/linux/splice.h): no structured comments found

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:41 -07:00
Anton Vorontsov
22b238bdb9 spidev_test utility
This is a simple utility used to test SPI functionality.  It could stand
growing options to support using other test data patterns; this initial
version only issues full duplex transfers, which rules out 3WIRE or
Microwire links.

Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:40 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
7eacbbd32a Fix a typo in Documentation/keys.txt
Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:39 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
a12e2c6cde Doc: DMA-API update
Fix typos and update function parameters.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:39 -07:00
Wyatt Banks
60fd4d6a19 Documentation: document HFSPlus
Documentation: document HFSPlus filesystem and its mount options.

Signed-off-by: Wyatt Banks <wyatt@banksresearch.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Andrew Morton
57d4810ea0 revert "x86, serial: convert legacy COM ports to platform devices"
Revert 7e92b4fc34.  It broke Sébastien Dugué's
machine and Jeff said (persuasively)

  This seems like it will break decades-long-working stuff, in favor of
  breaking new ground in our favorite area, "trusting the BIOS."

  It's just not worth it for serial ports, IMO.  Serial ports are something
  that just shouldn't break at this late stage in the game.  My new Intel
  platform boxes don't even have serial ports, so I question the value of
  messing with serial port probing even more...  because...  just wait a year,
  and your box won't have a serial port either!  :)

  I certainly don't object to the use of platform devices (or isa_driver),
  but the probe change seems questionable.  That's sorta analagous to
  rewriting the floppy driver probe routine.  Sure you could do it...  but why
  risk all that damage and go through debugging all over again?

  It seems clear from this report that we cannot, should not, trust BIOS for
  something (a) so simple and (b) that has been working for over a decade.

Much discussion ensued and we've decided to have another go at all of this.

Cc: Sébastien Dugué <sebastien.dugue@bull.net>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Michal Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Cc: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Alan Cox
cd4f0ef7c0 doc/kernel-parameters: use X86-32 tag instead of IA-32
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
b8a367935f pnp: fix kernel-doc warnings
Fix PNP docbook warnings:

Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//drivers/pnp/core.c): no structured comments found
Warning(linux-2623-rc1g4//drivers/pnp/driver.c): no structured comments found

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:38 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
c8facbb621 various doc/kernel-parameters fixes
- tell what APIC (by request), MTD, & PARIDE mean
- correct some source file names
- remove IA64 "llsc*=" (seems to have been removed from source tree)
- removel SCSI "53c7xx=" (driver already removed)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:37 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
7f8e00f2b9 update dontdiff file
Updates based on recent .gitignore updates:

*.o.*: Says Alexey Dobriyan:
These are presumably temporary gcc files, which aren't interesting.

setup.bin, setup.elf: new x86 boot code files (from Matthew Wilcox)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-31 15:39:36 -07:00
Jean Delvare
517ef0d2a4 hwmon: (adm1031) Fix broken links in documentation
The Analog Devices chip information pages moved to a different location.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-07-30 21:13:43 -04:00
Krzysztof Helt
add77c64ca hwmon: add support for THMC50 and ADM1022
This patch adds support for THMC50 and ADM1022 hardware monitoring chips.

Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-07-30 21:02:59 -04:00
Cornelia Huck
f285ea0580 kobject: update documentation
Update kobject documentation:

- Update structure definitions.
- Remove documentation of removed struct subsystem.

(First shot, uevent_ops probably need some documentation as well.)

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:13 -07:00
Juan Lang
a2765e81d8 stable_api_nonsense.txt: Disambiguate the use of "this" by using "that" to refer to the syscall interface
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
30b1b28001 Fix Doc/sysfs-rules typos
Fix typos only (spelling, grammar, duplicate words, etc.).

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:12 -07:00
Tsugikazu Shibata
8b43626f0c HOWTO: sync Japanese HOWTO
Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:11 -07:00
IKEDA, Munehiro
6e3eb09938 HOWTO: adjust translation header of Japanese stable_api_nonsense.txt
Signed-off-by: IKEDA, Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-30 14:25:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
9873aed5a9 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] Fix sclp_vt220 error handling.
  [S390] cio: Reorganize initialization.
  [S390] cio: Make CIO_* macros safe if dbfs are not available.
  [S390] cio: Clean up messages.
  [S390] Fix IRQ tracing.
  [S390] vmur: fix diag14_read.
  [S390] Wire up sys_fallocate.
  [S390] add types.h include to s390_ext.h
  [S390] cio: Remove deprecated rdc/rcd.
  [S390] Get rid of new section mismatch warnings.
  [S390] sclp: kill unused SCLP config option.
  [S390] cio: Remove remains of _ccw_device_get_device_number().
  [S390] cio: css_sch_device_register() can be made static.
  [S390] Improve __smp_call_function_map.
  [S390] Convert to smp_call_function_single.
2007-07-28 19:33:23 -07:00