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Jonathan Corbet
0faa454802 "volatile considered harmful"
Encourage developers to avoid the volatile type class in kernel code.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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>
2007-06-24 08:59:11 -07:00
Ben Dooks
ffd65af0e6 SM501: Add Documentation/SM501.txt
Add documentation for the SM501 in Documentation/SM501.txt outlining the SM501
driver.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-24 08:59:11 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
5b65c09e99 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6:
  OHCI: Fix machine check in ohci_hub_status_data
  USB: Fix up bogus bInterval values in endpoint descriptors
  USB: cxacru: ignore error trying to start ADSL in atm_start
  USB: cxacru: create sysfs attributes in atm_start instead of bind
  USB: cxacru: add Documentation file
  USB: UNUSUAL_DEV: Sync up some reported devices from Ubuntu
  USB: usb gadgets avoid le{16,32}_to_cpup()
  usblp: Don't let suspend to kill ->used
  USB: set default y for CONFIG_USB_DEVICE_CLASS
2007-06-08 18:14:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
837525e344 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:
  firmware: remove orphaned Email
  kobject: use the proper printk level for kobject error
  Driver core: kill unused code
  Driver core: keep PHYSDEV for old struct class_device
  update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
2007-06-08 18:11:47 -07:00
Ratnadeep Joshi
4249e08e92 Documentation/atomic_ops.txt typo fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
a210906c1b mount -t tmpfs -o mpol=: check nodes online
Randy Dunlap reports that a tmpfs, mounted with NUMA mpol= specifying an
offline node, crashes as soon as data is allocated upon it.  Now restrict it
to online nodes, where before it restricted to MAX_NUMNODES.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Tested-and-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>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
9739ed1c8e update feature-removal-schedule.txt to include deprecated functions
Now that deprecated functions are detected out of
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt update this to include
kernel_thread.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Andrew Morton
0f44cd23a5 document Acked-by:
Explain what we use Acked-by: for, and how it differs from Signed-off-by:

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Simon Arlott
64b85006f5 USB: cxacru: add Documentation file
The sysfs attributes for exposing cxacru statistics/status information with
possible values is now explained in Documentation/networking/cxacru.txt
including information on the writable adsl_state attribute's commands and a
sample of the kernel log format.

Signed-off-by: Simon Arlott <simon@fire.lp0.eu>
Cc: Duncan Sands <duncan.sands@math.u-psud.fr>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08 16:24:31 -07:00
Markus Rechberger
87d37a4f47 firmware: remove orphaned Email
Manuel Estrada Sainz passed away on May 9th 2004, his email account got
deactivated. He was in charge of the firmware_class code, and still got
CC'ed in recent discussions about it.

Signed-off-by: Markus Rechberger <markus.rechberger@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08 12:41:08 -07:00
David Brownell
adfdebceac update Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt
Make note of the legacy "probe-the-hardware" drivers, and some APIs that
are mostly unused except by such drivers.  We probably can't escape having
legacy drivers for a while (e.g.  old ISA drivers), but we can at least
discourage this style code for new drivers, and unless it's unavoidable.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-06-08 12:41:07 -07:00
Stuart Yoder
5e1e9ba690 [POWERPC] Add table of contents to booting-without-of.txt
Add table of contents.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07 11:44:40 +10:00
Stuart Yoder
d30ac1242b [POWERPC] Fix typo in booting-without-of-txt section numbering
Fix typo in section numbering.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07 11:44:40 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
7dfb1716d7 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] clean-up watchdog documentation
  [WATCHDOG] ks8695_wdt.c - new KS8695 watchdog driver
2007-06-03 12:36:56 -07:00
Len Brown
c4d36a822e Pull osi-now into release branch 2007-06-02 01:02:09 -04:00
Len Brown
fcf75356e9 Pull now into release branch 2007-06-02 00:48:48 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
c1a834dc70 timer stats: speedups
Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but
not used.  (this way distros can enable it more easily)

Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was
written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list
walk based lookup ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:30 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
926b28984d Documentation: How to use GDB to decode OOPSes
Adds instructions how to use GDB to figure out the exact location of
an OOPS to Documentation/BUG-HUNTING.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
0a920b5b66 add a trivial patch style checker
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree.  These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.

As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree.  Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions.  This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Yoann Padioleau
f834368564 parse errors in ifdefs
Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to
compile, due to ifdefs.

Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
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>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
cc4c24e115 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groups
The initial version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface (not yet released
in any stable mainline kernel) made liberal use of named sysfs groups, in
order to get the attributes more organized.

This proved to be a really bad design decision.  Maybe if attribute groups
were as flexible as a real directory, and if binary attributes were not
second-class citizens, the idea of subdirs and named groups would not have
been so bad.

This patch makes all the thinkpad-acpi sysfs groups anonymous (thus
removing the subdirs), adds the former group names as a prefix (so that
hotkey/enable becomes hotkey_enable for example), and updates the
documentation.

These changes will make the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI a lot easier to
maintain.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-05-31 12:53:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8ac1c101ec Merge branch 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa:
  [ALSA] version 1.0.14
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix STAC922x capture boost level
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix input with STAC92xx
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix pin configs for Gateway MX6453
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for MSI K9N Ultra
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add quirk for Supermicro PDSBA to alc883_cfg_tbl[]
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add quirk for MSI S420
  [ALSA] Fix ASoC s3c24xx-pcm spinlock bug
  [ALSA] hda-intel: fix ASUS M2V detection
  [ALSA] ali5451 - Fix possible NULL dereference
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for ASUS A8J modem
  [ALSA] HDA: Fix headphone mute issue on non-eapd Conexant systems
  [ALSA] HDA: Add more systems to Sigmatel codec
  [ALSA] HDA: Add support for Gateway NX860
2007-05-31 09:14:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b9066c268a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
  [IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt.
  [BRIDGE]: Round off STP perodic timers.
  [BRIDGE]: Reduce frequency of forwarding cleanup timer in bridge.
  [TCP] tcp_probe: use GCC printf attribute
  [TCP] tcp_probe: a trivial fix for mismatched number of printl arguments.
  [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Fix conflicts in DEVCONF_xxx constant.
  [NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_complete
  [TCP]: Consolidate checking for tcp orphan count being too big.
  [SOCK]: Shrink struct sock by 8 bytes on 64-bit.
  [AF_PACKET]: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_SOCKET.
  [IPV6]: Fix build warning.
  [AF_PACKET]: Kill bogus CONFIG_PACKET_MULTICAST
  [IPV4]: Kill references to bogus non-existent CONFIG_IP_NOSIOCRT
  [IPSEC]: Fix panic when using inter address familiy IPsec on loopback.
  [NET]: parse ip:port strings correctly in in4_pton
  [IPV6] ROUTE: No longer handle ::/0 specially.
  [IPSEC]: Fix IPv6 AH calculation in outbound
  [XFRM]: xfrm_larval_drop sysctl should be __read_mostly.
  [XFRM]: Allow XFRM_ACQ_EXPIRES to be tunable via sysctl.
  [CASSINI]: Fix printk message typo.
  ...
2007-05-31 09:13:41 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
c1aee215d7 SLUB: More documentation
Update documentation to describe how to read a SLUB error report.
Add slub parameters to Documentation/kernel-parameters.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-31 07:58:13 -07:00
David S. Miller
85553ddafc [IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt.
And use it to document new xfrm_acq_expires sysctl.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31 01:34:55 -07:00