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Huang, Ying 164e217cec x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI boot document
This patch adds document for EFI x86_64 boot support.  The setup and operation
guide of EFI based system is documented in Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt.

Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 2868f89fc4 The namespaces compatibility list doc
People discuss how the namespaces are working/going-to-work together.

Ted Ts'o proposed to create some document that describes what problems user
may have when he/she creates some new namespace, but keeps others shared.
I liked this idea, so here's the initial version of such a document with
the problems I currently have in mind and can describe somewhat audibly -
the "namespaces compatibility list".

The Documentation/namespaces/ directory is about to contain more docs about
the namespaces stuff.

Thanks to Cedirc for notes and spell checks on the doc, to Daniel for
additional info about IPC and User namespaces interaction and to Randy, who
alluded me to using a spell checker before sending the documentation :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
Alan Cox 3ac40b9b5e termios: document callback more clearly
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bb0851ff9d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (25 commits)
  USB: s3c2410 gadget: ensure vbus pin in input mode during read
  USB: s3c2410 gadget: allow sharing of vbus irq
  USB: s3c2410 gadget: Header move fixups
  USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for JetFlash TS1GJF2A
  USB: fix up EHCI startup synchronization
  USB: make the microtek driver and HAL cooperate
  USB: uevent environment key fix
  USB: keep track of whether interface sysfs files exist
  USB: sierra: new product id
  USB HCD: avoid duplicate local_irq_disable()
  USB: mailing lists have changed
  USB: remove USB HUB entry from MAINTAINERS
  USB: fix directory references in usb/README
  USB: add support for an older firmware revision for the Nikon D200
  USB: FIx locks and urb->status in adutux (updated)
  USB: power-management documenation update
  USB: Fix signr comment in usbdevice_fs.h
  usbserial: fix inconsistent lock state
  USB: fix usbled disconnect read race #2
  USB: free memory when writing fails in usb/serial/mos7840.c
  ...
2007-11-28 16:03:09 -08:00
Alan Stern 3c886c5048 USB: power-management documenation update
This patch (as1014) was partly written by Tilman Schmidt.  It
clarifies the USB power-management documentation by explaining that
when a disconnect occurs, a suspend method call might not be followed
by either a resume or a reset_resume call.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:58:34 -08:00
Hans J Koch 1f4ebbbf18 UIO: add UIO documentation target to DocBook Makefile
Add the DocBook documentation for the Userspace I/O framework
to the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
Hans J Koch ed423c24a8 UIO: fix up the UIO documentation
Remove references to the old uio_dummy demo module from UIO documentation.
Add a small paragraph to make it clearer that UIO is not a universal driver
interface.

Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
Mikulas Patocka cdb32706f6 plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter
Plip passes a string "name" that is allocated on stack to
parport_register_device.  parport_register_device holds the pointer to
"name" and when the registering function exits, it points nowhere.

On some machine, this bug causes bad names to appear in /proc, such as
/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/devices/T^/�X^/�, on others, the plip
proc node is completely missing.

The patch also fixes documentation to note this requirement.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f4d53cedce Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  virtio: fix net driver loop case where we fail to restart
  module: fix and elaborate comments
  virtio: fix module/device unloading
  lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher
2007-11-26 19:17:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6b41016032 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (39 commits)
  ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers (version 3)
  ACPI: EC: use printk_ratelimit(), add some DEBUG mode messages
  Revert "ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers"
  ACPI: fix two IRQ8 issues in IOAPIC mode
  ACPI: Add missing spaces to printk format
  cpuidle: fix HP nx6125 regression
  cpuidle: add sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event() hooks
  cpuidle: fix C3 for no bus-master control case
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix oops when a module parameter has no value
  Revert "Fix very high interrupt rate for IRQ8 (rtc) unless pnpacpi=off"
  ACPI: EC: Don't init EC early if it has no _INI
  Revert "acpi: make ACPI_PROCFS default to y"
  Revert "ACPI: add documentation for deprecated /proc/acpi/battery in ACPI_PROCFS"
  ACPI: Split out control for /proc/acpi entries from battery, ac, and sbs.
  ACPI: Video: Increase buffer size for writes to brightness proc file.
  ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers
  ACPI: SBS: Fix retval warning
  ACPI: Enable MSR (FixedHW) support for T-States
  ACPI: Get throttling info from BIOS only after evaluating _PDC
  ACPI: Use _TSS for throttling control, when present. Add error checks.
  ...
2007-11-26 19:09:58 -08:00
Len Brown d12dbbfe94 Pull thinkpad-2.6.24 into release branch 2007-11-20 01:20:42 -05:00
Kim Phillips 34be4561cd [POWERPC] Document rgmii-rxid and rgmii-txid phy-connection-types
A h/w bug requires we program the PHY in RGMII mode for internal delay
on the receive or transmit side only; document the new property values.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-11-19 22:09:16 -06:00
Rusty Russell d1c856e0f1 lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher
Thanks valgrind!

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-19 11:20:41 +11:00
Adrian Bunk 4ae44c5774 feature-removal-schedule: remove SA_* flags entry
No reason to keep the feature-removal-schedule.txt entry after the code
was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 5f9468cebf Linux Kernel Markers: document format string
Describes the format string standard further: Use of field names before the
type specifiers..

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
Balbir Singh 546040dc48 make getdelays cgroupstats aware
Update the getdelays utility to become cgroupstats aware.  A new -C option has
been added.  It takes in a control group path and prints out a summary of the
states of tasks in the control group

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
Mike Frysinger 108b4c3638 rtc: tweak driver documentation for rtc periodic
The max_user_freq member is not really meant for RTC drivers to modify, so
update the rtc documentation so drivers writers know what is expected of
them when handling periodic events.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9418d5dc9b 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: (i5k_amb) Convert macros to C functions
  hwmon: (w83781d) Add missing curly braces
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Identify ABit IP35 Pro as such
  hwmon: (f75375s) pwmX_mode sysfs files writable for f75375 variant
  hwmon: (f75375s) On n2100 systems, set fans to full speed on boot
  hwmon: (f75375s) Allow setting up fans with platform_data
  hwmon: (f75375s) Add new style bindings
  hwmon: (lm70) Convert semaphore to mutex
  hwmon: (applesmc) Add support for Mac Pro 2 x Quad-Core
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Add support for 2 new motherboards
  hwmon: (ibmpex) Change printk to dev_{info,err} macros
  hwmon: (i5k_amb) New memory temperature sensor driver
  hwmon: (f75375s) fix pwm mode setting
  hwmon: (ibmpex.c) fix NULL dereference
  hwmon: (sis5595) Split sis5595_attributes_opt
  hwmon: (sis5595) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (w83627hf) push nr+1 offset into *_REG_FAN macros and simplify
  hwmon: (w83627hf) hoist nr-1 offset out of show-store-temp-X
  hwmon: Add power meter spec to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
2007-11-13 09:09:36 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 57ce45dd16 [NET]: Remove references to net-modules.txt.
When I removed net-modules.txt because it only contained ancient
information I missed that many Kconfig entries pointed to this ancient
information.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-12 21:03:58 -08:00
Rusty Russell 42b36cc0ce virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:40 +11:00
Anthony Liguori 1200e646ae lguest: Fix lguest virtio-blk backend size computation
This seems like an obvious typo but it's worked in the past because the virtio
blk frontend just ignores the length field on completion.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:26 +11:00
Linus Torvalds c4888f9ffa Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (37 commits)
  [POWERPC] EEH: Make sure warning message is printed
  [POWERPC] Make altivec code in swsusp_32.S depend on CONFIG_ALTIVEC
  [POWERPC] windfarm: Fix windfarm thread freezer interaction
  [POWERPC] Fix si_addr value on low level hash failures
  [POWERPC] Refresh ppc64_defconfig and enable pasemi-related options
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Update defconfig
  [POWERPC] iSeries: Fix ref counting in vio setup
  [POWERPC] ] Fix memset size error
  [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig
  [POWERPC] iSeries_init_IRQ non-PCI tidy
  [POWERPC] Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc
  [POWERPC] EEH: Avoid crash on null device
  [POWERPC] EEH: Drivers that need reset trump others
  [POWERPC] EEH: Clean up comments
  [POWERPC] Fix off-by-one error in setting decrementer on Book E/4xx (v2)
  [POWERPC] Fix switch_slb handling of 1T ESID values
  [POWERPC] Fix build failure when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined
  [POWERPC] Include udbg.h when using udbg_printf
  [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
  [POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMac
  ...
2007-11-09 15:16:52 -08:00
Darrick J. Wong 38fb56a223 hwmon: Add power meter spec to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
Update the hwmon sysfs interface documentation to include a specification
for power meters.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-11-08 08:42:45 -05:00
Paul Mackerras 688016f4e2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge 2007-11-08 14:28:14 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 20474abda6 [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
We had an historical confusion in the kernel between cache line
and cache block size. The former is an implementation detail of
the L1 cache which can be useful for performance optimisations,
the later is the actual size on which the cache control
instructions operate, which can be different.

For some reason, we had a weird hack reading the right property
on powermac and the wrong one on any other 64 bits (32 bits is
unaffected as it only uses the cputable for cache block size
infos at this stage).

This fixes the booting-without-of.txt documentation to mention
the right properties, and fixes the 64 bits initialization code
to look for the block size first, with a fallback to the line
size if the property is missing.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-11-08 14:15:30 +11:00