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author | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-04 09:07:19 +0100 |
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committer | Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> | 2008-12-04 09:07:19 +0100 |
commit | b8307db2477f9c551e54e0c7b643ea349a3349cd (patch) | |
tree | 88654f8bd73857bbd40f75013ce41d8882d16ce6 /Documentation | |
parent | f0461d0146ee30927bc7efa2ae24ea8c6693b725 (diff) | |
parent | 061e41fdb5047b1fb161e89664057835935ca1d2 (diff) |
Merge commit 'v2.6.28-rc7' into tracing/core
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/DMA-API.txt | 8 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt | 27 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt | 12 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/input/input-programming.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt | 5 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/spi/spi-summary | 2 |
8 files changed, 55 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index b8e86460046..b462bb14954 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -316,12 +316,10 @@ reduce current DMA mapping usage or delay and try again later). pci_map_sg(struct pci_dev *hwdev, struct scatterlist *sg, int nents, int direction) -Maps a scatter gather list from the block layer. - Returns: the number of physical segments mapped (this may be shorter -than <nents> passed in if the block layer determines that some -elements of the scatter/gather list are physically adjacent and thus -may be mapped with a single entry). +than <nents> passed in if some elements of the scatter/gather list are +physically or virtually adjacent and an IOMMU maps them with a single +entry). Please note that the sg cannot be mapped again if it has been mapped once. The mapping process is allowed to destroy information in the sg. diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index 6c442d8426b..4f3f3840320 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -23,6 +23,7 @@ Contents: 1.3 sparc64 1.4 ppc 1.5 SuperH +1.6 Blackfin 2. "Policy" / "Governor"? 2.1 Policy @@ -97,6 +98,17 @@ The following SuperH processors are supported by cpufreq: SH-3 SH-4 +1.6 Blackfin +------------ + +The following Blackfin processors are supported by cpufreq: + +BF522, BF523, BF524, BF525, BF526, BF527, Rev 0.1 or higher +BF531, BF532, BF533, Rev 0.3 or higher +BF534, BF536, BF537, Rev 0.2 or higher +BF561, Rev 0.3 or higher +BF542, BF544, BF547, BF548, BF549, Rev 0.1 or higher + 2. "Policy" / "Governor" ? ========================== diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index 4340cc82579..67310fbbb7d 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -28,10 +28,7 @@ Manish Singh <manish.singh@oracle.com> Caveats ======= Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - - extended attributes - quotas - - cluster aware flock - - cluster aware lockf - Directory change notification (F_NOTIFY) - Distributed Caching (F_SETLEASE/F_GETLEASE/break_lease) - POSIX ACLs diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index bcceb99b81d..bb1b0dd3bfc 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -44,6 +44,7 @@ Table of Contents 2.14 /proc/<pid>/io - Display the IO accounting fields 2.15 /proc/<pid>/coredump_filter - Core dump filtering settings 2.16 /proc/<pid>/mountinfo - Information about mounts + 2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Preface @@ -2483,4 +2484,30 @@ For more information on mount propagation see: Documentation/filesystems/sharedsubtree.txt +2.17 /proc/sys/fs/epoll - Configuration options for the epoll interface +-------------------------------------------------------- + +This directory contains configuration options for the epoll(7) interface. + +max_user_instances +------------------ + +This is the maximum number of epoll file descriptors that a single user can +have open at a given time. The default value is 128, and should be enough +for normal users. + +max_user_watches +---------------- + +Every epoll file descriptor can store a number of files to be monitored +for event readiness. Each one of these monitored files constitutes a "watch". +This configuration option sets the maximum number of "watches" that are +allowed for each user. +Each "watch" costs roughly 90 bytes on a 32bit kernel, and roughly 160 bytes +on a 64bit one. +The current default value for max_user_watches is the 1/32 of the available +low memory, divided for the "watch" cost in bytes. + + ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ + diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt index 62fe9b1e089..a8273d5fad2 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt @@ -130,12 +130,12 @@ The 2.6 kernel build process always creates a gzipped cpio format initramfs archive and links it into the resulting kernel binary. By default, this archive is empty (consuming 134 bytes on x86). -The config option CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE (for some reason buried under -devices->block devices in menuconfig, and living in usr/Kconfig) can be used -to specify a source for the initramfs archive, which will automatically be -incorporated into the resulting binary. This option can point to an existing -gzipped cpio archive, a directory containing files to be archived, or a text -file specification such as the following example: +The config option CONFIG_INITRAMFS_SOURCE (in General Setup in menuconfig, +and living in usr/Kconfig) can be used to specify a source for the +initramfs archive, which will automatically be incorporated into the +resulting binary. This option can point to an existing gzipped cpio +archive, a directory containing files to be archived, or a text file +specification such as the following example: dir /dev 755 0 0 nod /dev/console 644 0 0 c 5 1 diff --git a/Documentation/input/input-programming.txt b/Documentation/input/input-programming.txt index 81905e81585..7f8b9d97bc4 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/input-programming.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/input-programming.txt @@ -20,10 +20,11 @@ pressed or released a BUTTON_IRQ happens. The driver could look like: static struct input_dev *button_dev; -static void button_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy, struct pt_regs *fp) +static irqreturn_t button_interrupt(int irq, void *dummy) { input_report_key(button_dev, BTN_0, inb(BUTTON_PORT) & 1); input_sync(button_dev); + return IRQ_HANDLED; } static int __init button_init(void) diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt index e0e54a27fc1..3cd2ad95817 100644 --- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt +++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/ALSA-Configuration.txt @@ -1072,10 +1072,13 @@ Prior to version 0.9.0rc4 options had a 'snd_' prefix. This was removed. ref Reference board dell-m4-1 Dell desktops dell-m4-2 Dell desktops + dell-m4-3 Dell desktops STAC92HD73* ref Reference board - dell-m6 Dell desktops + dell-m6-amic Dell desktops/laptops with analog mics + dell-m6-dmic Dell desktops/laptops with digital mics + dell-m6 Dell desktops/laptops with both type of mics STAC9872 vaio Setup for VAIO FE550G/SZ110 diff --git a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary index 8bae2f018d3..0f5122eb282 100644 --- a/Documentation/spi/spi-summary +++ b/Documentation/spi/spi-summary @@ -215,7 +215,7 @@ So for example arch/.../mach-*/board-*.c files might have code like: /* if your mach-* infrastructure doesn't support kernels that can * run on multiple boards, pdata wouldn't benefit from "__init". */ - static struct mysoc_spi_data __init pdata = { ... }; + static struct mysoc_spi_data __initdata pdata = { ... }; static __init board_init(void) { |