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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cgroups.txt | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 | 3 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 9 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/memory-barriers.txt | 12 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 | 2 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx | 2 |
7 files changed, 31 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/cgroups.txt b/Documentation/cgroups.txt index c298a6690e0..824fc027447 100644 --- a/Documentation/cgroups.txt +++ b/Documentation/cgroups.txt @@ -310,8 +310,8 @@ and then start a subshell 'sh' in that cgroup: cd /dev/cgroup mkdir Charlie cd Charlie - /bin/echo 2-3 > cpus - /bin/echo 1 > mems + /bin/echo 2-3 > cpuset.cpus + /bin/echo 1 > cpuset.mems /bin/echo $$ > tasks sh # The subshell 'sh' is now running in cgroup Charlie diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 3c35d452b1a..5b3f31faed5 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -289,6 +289,14 @@ Who: Glauber Costa <gcosta@redhat.com> --------------------------- +What: old style serial driver for ColdFire (CONFIG_SERIAL_COLDFIRE) +When: 2.6.28 +Why: This driver still uses the old interface and has been replaced + by CONFIG_SERIAL_MCF. +Who: Sebastian Siewior <sebastian@breakpoint.cc> + +--------------------------- + What: /sys/o2cb symlink When: January 2010 Why: /sys/fs/o2cb is the proper location for this information - /sys/o2cb diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 b/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 index 22d8b19046a..2126de34c71 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/adt7473 @@ -69,7 +69,8 @@ point2: Set the pwm speed at a higher temperature bound. The ADT7473 will scale the pwm between the lower and higher pwm speed when the temperature is between the two temperature boundaries. PWM values range -from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). +from 0 (off) to 255 (full speed). Fan speed will be set to maximum when the +temperature sensor associated with the PWM control exceeds temp#_max. Notes ----- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index cdd5b934f43..e07c432c731 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -398,9 +398,6 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file cio_ignore= [S390] See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. - cio_msg= [S390] - See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details. - clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override. [Deprecated] Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used @@ -689,6 +686,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file floppy= [HW] See Documentation/floppy.txt. + force_pal_cache_flush + [IA-64] Avoid check_sal_cache_flush which may hang on + buggy SAL_CACHE_FLUSH implementations. Using this + parameter will force ia64_sal_cache_flush to call + ia64_pal_cache_flush instead of SAL_CACHE_FLUSH. + gamecon.map[2|3]= [HW,JOY] Multisystem joystick and NES/SNES/PSX pad support via parallel port (up to 5 devices per port) diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index e5a819a4f0c..f5b7127f54a 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -994,7 +994,17 @@ The Linux kernel has eight basic CPU memory barriers: DATA DEPENDENCY read_barrier_depends() smp_read_barrier_depends() -All CPU memory barriers unconditionally imply compiler barriers. +All memory barriers except the data dependency barriers imply a compiler +barrier. Data dependencies do not impose any additional compiler ordering. + +Aside: In the case of data dependencies, the compiler would be expected to +issue the loads in the correct order (eg. `a[b]` would have to load the value +of b before loading a[b]), however there is no guarantee in the C specification +that the compiler may not speculate the value of b (eg. is equal to 1) and load +a before b (eg. tmp = a[1]; if (b != 1) tmp = a[b]; ). There is also the +problem of a compiler reloading b after having loaded a[b], thus having a newer +copy of b than a[b]. A consensus has not yet been reached about these problems, +however the ACCESS_ONCE macro is a good place to start looking. SMP memory barriers are reduced to compiler barriers on uniprocessor compiled systems because it is assumed that a CPU will appear to be self-consistent, diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 index 929b90c8387..191194ea1e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.cx23885 @@ -5,6 +5,6 @@ 4 -> DViCO FusionHDTV5 Express [18ac:d500] 5 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500Q [0070:7790,0070:7797] 6 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1500 [0070:7710,0070:7717] - 7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1200 [0070:71d1] + 7 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1200 [0070:71d1,0070:71d3] 8 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1700 [0070:8101] 9 -> Hauppauge WinTV-HVR1400 [0070:8010] diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx index f40e09296f3..1d6a245c828 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.em28xx @@ -14,4 +14,4 @@ 13 -> Terratec Prodigy XS (em2880) [0ccd:0047] 14 -> Pixelview Prolink PlayTV USB 2.0 (em2820/em2840) 15 -> V-Gear PocketTV (em2800) - 16 -> Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 (em2880) [2040:6513] + 16 -> Hauppauge WinTV HVR 950 (em2880) [2040:6513,2040:6517,2040:651b,2040:651f] |