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feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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feature-removal-schedule.txt
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
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This patch contains the next round of scheduled OSS code removal.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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After adding checking to register_sysctl_table and finding a whole new set
of bugs. Missed by countless code reviews and testers I have finally lost
patience with the binary sysctl interface.
The binary sysctl interface has been sort of deprecated for years and
finding a user space program that uses the syscall is more difficult then
finding a needle in a haystack. Problems continue to crop up, with the in
kernel implementation. So since supporting something that no one uses is
silly, deprecate sys_sysctl with a sufficient grace period and notice that
the handful of user space applications that care can be fixed or replaced.
The /proc/sys sysctl interface that people use will continue to be
supported indefinitely.
This patch moves the tested warning about sysctls from the path where
sys_sysctl to a separate path called from both implementations of
sys_sysctl, and it adds a proper entry into
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.
Allowing us to revisit this in a couple years time and actually kill
sys_sysctl.
[lethal@linux-sh.org: sysctl: Fix syscall disabled build]
Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The Linux ELF loader is quite complicated and messy code (that could
probably need a rewrite, but that's a different chapter). One particular
messy part in it is the support for non ELF a.out ld.sos. This was
originally added to make transition from a.out to ELF easier because an
a.out ELF ld.so could be still build using an older a.out toolkit. But by
now that should be fully obsolete and removing it would clean up
binfmt_elf.c up a bit.
I propose to deprecate this support and remove for 2.6.25.
Drawback is that someone still runs their system with a.out ld.so
they would need to update the ld.so when updating to a new kernel.
This patch just adds an entry to the deprecation file and a printk
warning users.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: better warning message]
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Remove the obsolete tsdev.c driver as scheduled.
Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (867 commits)
[SKY2]: status polling loop (post merge)
[NET]: Fix NAPI completion handling in some drivers.
[TCP]: Limit processing lost_retrans loop to work-to-do cases
[TCP]: Fix lost_retrans loop vs fastpath problems
[TCP]: No need to re-count fackets_out/sacked_out at RTO
[TCP]: Extract tcp_match_queue_to_sack from sacktag code
[TCP]: Kill almost unused variable pcount from sacktag
[TCP]: Fix mark_head_lost to ignore R-bit when trying to mark L
[TCP]: Add bytes_acked (ABC) clearing to FRTO too
[IPv6]: Update setsockopt(IPV6_MULTICAST_IF) to support RFC 3493, try2
[NETFILTER]: x_tables: add missing ip6t_modulename aliases
[NETFILTER]: nf_conntrack_tcp: fix connection reopening
[QETH]: fix qeth_main.c
[NETLINK]: fib_frontend build fixes
[IPv6]: Export userland ND options through netlink (RDNSS support)
[9P]: build fix with !CONFIG_SYSCTL
[NET]: Fix dev_put() and dev_hold() comments
[NET]: make netlink user -> kernel interface synchronious
[NET]: unify netlink kernel socket recognition
[NET]: cleanup 3rd argument in netlink_sendskb
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Fix up conflicts manually in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
and my new least favourite crap, the "mod_devicetable" support in the
files include/linux/mod_devicetable.h and scripts/mod/file2alias.c.
(The latter files seem to be explicitly _designed_ to get conflicts when
different subsystems work with them - that have an absolutely horrid
lack of subsystem separation!)
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The i386/x86_64 merge provides a symlink to the old bzImage
location. This is just a transitional migration helper.
Remove it after a 6 month grace period.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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This driver has been marked obsolete for a long time and
is superseded by traffic schedulers.
Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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This reverts commit e1abecc48938fbe1966ea6e78267fc673fa59295.
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>
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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>
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http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118481061928246&w=2 seems to
indicate disfavour of "deprecated", so let's just kill it now.
Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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Conflicts:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
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ACPI sysfs conversion is not finished yet and
some user space tools still depend on the ACPI proc I/F.
We plan to finish all the sysfs conversion by January 2008
and remove the ACPI proc I/F in July 2008.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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The /sys/firmware/acpi/namespace has already been removed in 2.6.21.
Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
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* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6: (44 commits)
i2c: Delete the i2c-isa pseudo bus driver
hwmon: refuse to load abituguru driver on non-Abit boards
hwmon: fix Abit Uguru3 driver detection on some motherboards
hwmon/w83627ehf: Be quiet when no chip is found
hwmon/w83627ehf: No need to initialize fan_min
hwmon/w83627ehf: Export the thermal sensor types
hwmon/w83627ehf: Enable VBAT monitoring
hwmon/w83627ehf: Add support for the VID inputs
hwmon/w83627ehf: Fix timing issues
hwmon/w83627ehf: Add error messages for two error cases
hwmon/w83627ehf: Convert to a platform driver
hwmon/w83627ehf: Update the Kconfig entry
make coretemp_device_remove() static
hwmon: Add LM93 support
hwmon: Improve the pwmN_enable documentation
hwmon/smsc47b397: Don't report missing fans as spinning at 82 RPM
hwmon: Add support for newer uGuru's
hwmon/f71805f: Add temperature-tracking fan control mode
hwmon/w83627ehf: Preserve speed reading when changing fan min
hwmon: fix detection of abituguru volt inputs
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Manual fixup of trivial conflict in MAINTAINERS file
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There are no users of i2c-isa left, so we can finally get rid of it.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
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This version brings a number of new checks, and a number of bug
fixes. Of note:
- warnings for multiple assignments per line
- warnings for multiple declarations per line
- checks for single statement blocks with braces
This patch includes an update for feature-removal-schedule.txt to
better target checks.
Andy Whitcroft (12):
Version: 0.08
only apply printk checks where there is a string literal
allow suppression of errors for when no patch is found
warn about multiple assignments
warn on declaration of multiple variables
check for kfree() with needless null check
check for single statement braced blocks
check for aggregate initialisation on the next line
handle the => operator
check for spaces between function name and open parenthesis
move to explicit Check: entries in feature-removal-schedule.txt
handle pointer attributes
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>
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Change ->fault prototype. We now return an int, which contains
VM_FAULT_xxx code in the low byte, and FAULT_RET_xxx code in the next byte.
FAULT_RET_ code tells the VM whether a page was found, whether it has been
locked, and potentially other things. This is not quite the way he wanted
it yet, but that's changed in the next patch (which requires changes to
arch code).
This means we no longer set VM_CAN_INVALIDATE in the vma in order to say
that a page is locked which requires filemap_nopage to go away (because we
can no longer remain backward compatible without that flag), but we were
going to do that anyway.
struct fault_data is renamed to struct vm_fault as Linus asked. address
is now a void __user * that we should firmly encourage drivers not to use
without really good reason.
The page is now returned via a page pointer in the vm_fault struct.
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Nonlinear mappings are (AFAIKS) simply a virtual memory concept that encodes
the virtual address -> file offset differently from linear mappings.
->populate is a layering violation because the filesystem/pagecache code
should need to know anything about the virtual memory mapping. The hitch here
is that the ->nopage handler didn't pass down enough information (ie. pgoff).
But it is more logical to pass pgoff rather than have the ->nopage function
calculate it itself anyway (because that's a similar layering violation).
Having the populate handler install the pte itself is likewise a nasty thing
to be doing.
This patch introduces a new fault handler that replaces ->nopage and
->populate and (later) ->nopfn. Most of the old mechanism is still in place
so there is a lot of duplication and nice cleanups that can be removed if
everyone switches over.
The rationale for doing this in the first place is that nonlinear mappings are
subject to the pagefault vs invalidate/truncate race too, and it seemed stupid
to duplicate the synchronisation logic rather than just consolidate the two.
After this patch, MAP_NONBLOCK no longer sets up ptes for pages present in
pagecache. Seems like a fringe functionality anyway.
NOPAGE_REFAULT is removed. This should be implemented with ->fault, and no
users have hit mainline yet.
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
[randy.dunlap@oracle.com: doc. fixes for readahead]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Mark Fasheh <mark.fasheh@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
sysfs: cosmetic clean up on node creation failure paths
sysfs: kill an extra put in sysfs_create_link() failure path
Driver core: check return code of sysfs_create_link()
HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
dev_vdbg() documentation
dev_vdbg(), available with -DVERBOSE_DEBUG
sysfs: make sysfs_init_inode() static
sysfs: fix sysfs root inode nlink accounting
Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
sysfs: avoid kmem_cache_free(NULL)
PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
Driver core: accept all valid action-strings in uevent-trigger
debugfs: remove rmdir() non-empty complaint
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This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and
dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core. The only user of
those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch (as932) removes the deprecated sysfs .../power/state
attribute files.
Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X. However, MSI-X works with
all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what
MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both. Schedule MSI
support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and
who can't use MSI time to speak up.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits)
[POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver
[POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number
[POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration
[POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++
[POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed
[POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static
[POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls
[POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c
[POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS
[POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling
[POWERPC] Remove extra return statement
[POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED
[POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform
[POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports
[POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
[POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane
[POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected
[POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support.
[POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex
[POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc
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Fixed up conflicts manually in:
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c
arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
include/asm-powerpc/pci.h
and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
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Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver
seems somewhat persistant. Remove its deprecated status as it has existing
users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT.
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time. Previously it
could be enabled only, but not disabled.
Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is. Make its
logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time").
Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value".
Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be
changed at run-time by modifying
/sys/module/printk/parameters/time
to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it.
Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also
be set at boot-time by using
linux printk.time=<bool>
If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated
and will be removed.
Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt.
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>
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This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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This patch contains the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
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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: (183 commits)
[TG3]: Update version to 3.78.
[TG3]: Add missing NVRAM strapping.
[TG3]: Enable auto MDI.
[TG3]: Fix the polarity bit.
[TG3]: Fix irq_sync race condition.
[NET_SCHED]: ematch: module autoloading
[TCP]: tcp probe wraparound handling and other changes
[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address
[RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification
[VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling
[ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addr
[NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.
[AF_UNIX]: Rewrite garbage collector, fixes race.
[NETFILTER]: {ip, nf}_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference (CVE-2007-2876)
[NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.
[UDP]: Fix length check.
[IPV6]: Remove unneeded pointer idev from addrconf_cleanup().
[DECNET]: Another unnecessary net/tcp.h inclusion in net/dn.h
[IPV6]: Make IPV6_{RECV,2292}RTHDR boolean options.
[IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore.
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Fixed up trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
manually.
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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We have a new RTC subsystem with better drivers.
Legacy driver status:
* ds1337: The DS1337 and DS1339 are now supported by the rtc-ds1307
driver, so it looks to me like we could even delete the ds1337
driver right away.
* ds1374: Will soon be replaced with Scott Wood's rtc-ds1374 driver.
* m41t00: The M41T00 is supported by the rtc-ds1307 driver. For the
M41T81 and M41T85, the rtc-m41t80 driver written by Atsushi Nemoto
should work.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Cc: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
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Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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With help from Chris Wedgwood.
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Unmaintained, superceded by skge.
Prodded to deletion by Adrian Bunk. Acked by Stephen Hemminger.
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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The arch/ppc tree has been in a semi-nebulous "bug fix only" state for a
few kernel releases now. The patch below officially declares this as of
the 2.6.22 kernel release and schedules arch/ppc for removal in June of
2008.
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Based on patch "the scheduled removal of RAW1394_REQ_ISO_{SEND,LISTEN}"
from Adrian Bunk, November 20 2006.
This patch also removes the underlying facilities in ohci1394 and
disables them in pcilynx. That is, hpsb_host_driver.devctl() and
hpsb_host_driver.transmit_packet() are no longer used for iso reception
and transmission.
Since video1394 and dv1394 only work with ohci1394 and raw1394's rawiso
interface has never been implemented in pcilynx, pcilynx is now no
longer useful for isochronous applications.
raw1394 will still handle the request types but will complete the
requests with errors that indicate API version conflicts.
Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
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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>
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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>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
[SCSI] megaraid_sas: intercept cmd timeout and throttle io
[SCSI] fusion: Fix |/|| confusion
[SCSI] aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus should fail if the cleared task does not complete
[SCSI] aic7xxx: fix aicasm build failure with gcc-3.4.6
[SCSI] aacraid: apply commit config for reset_devices flag
[SCSI] sd: fix refcounting regression in suspend/resume routines
[SCSI] aacraid: fix panic on short Inquiry
[SCSI] aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)
[SCSI] NCR53C9x: correct spelling mistake in deprecation notice
[SCSI] tgt: fix a rdma indirect transfer error bug
[SCSI] MegaRAID: Update MAINTAINERS email-id
[SCSI] stex: minor cleanup and version update
[SCSI] stex: fix reset recovery for console device
[SCSI] stex: extend hard reset wait time
[SCSI] stex: fix id mapping issue
[SCSI] ipr: Proper return codes for eh_dev_reset for SATA devices
[SCSI] zfcp: IO stall after deleting and path checker changes after reenabling zfcp devices
[SCSI] zfcp: avoid clutter in erp_dbf
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With STANDBYDOWN tracking added, libata.spindown_compat isn't
necessary anymore. If userspace shutdown(8) issues STANDBYNOW, libata
warns. If userspace shutdown(8) doesn't issue STANDBYNOW, libata does
the right thing. Userspace can tell whether kernel supports spindown
by testing whether sysfs node manage_start_stop exists as before.
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:16:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > +What: old NCR53C9x driver
> > +When: October 2007
> > +Why: Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver. Actual low-level
> > + driver can ported over almost trivially.
> ^
> be
current linus' tree still has my spelling mistake. Here's a patch to
update it
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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Now that libata uses sd->manage_start_stop, libata spins down disk on
shutdown. In an attempt to compensate libata's previous shortcoming,
some distros sync and spin down disks attached via libata in their
shutdown(8). Some disks spin back up just to spin down again on
STANDBYNOW1 if the command is issued when the disk is spun down, so
this double spinning down causes problem.
This patch implements module parameter libata.spindown_compat which,
when set to one (default value), prevents libata from spinning down
disks on shutdown thus avoiding double spinning down. Note that
libata spins down disks for suspend to mem and disk, so with
libata.spindown_compat set to one, disks should be properly spun down
in all cases without modifying shutdown(8).
shutdown(8) should be fixed eventually. Some drive do spin up on
SYNCHRONZE_CACHE even when their cache is clean. Those disks
currently spin up briefly when sd tries to shutdown the device and
then the machine powers off immediately, which can't be good for the
head. We can't skip SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE during shudown as it can be
dangerous data integrity-wise.
So, this spindown_compat parameter is already scheduled for removal by
the end of the next year and here's what shutdown(8) should do.
* Check whether /sys/modules/libata/parameters/spindown_compat
exists. If it does, write 0 to it.
* For each libata harddisk {
* Check whether /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop
exists. Iff it doesn't, synchronize cache and spin the disk
down as before.
}
The above procedure will make shutdown(8) work properly with kernels
before this change, ones with this workaround and later ones without
it.
To accelerate shutdown(8) updates, if the compat mode is in use, this
patch prints BIG FAT warning for five seconds during shutdown (the
optimal interval to annoy the user just the right amount discovered by
hours of tireless usability testing).
Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
[WATCHDOG] MTX-1 Watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] s3c2410_wdt - initialize watchdog irq resource
[WATCHDOG] Kconfig menuconfig patch
[WATCHDOG] pcwd.c: Port to the new device driver model
[WATCHDOG] use mutex instead of semaphore in Berkshire USB-PC Watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] the scheduled removal of the i8xx_tco watchdog driver
[WATCHDOG] Semi-typical watchdog bug re early misc_register()
[WATCHDOG] add support for the w83627thf chipset.
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* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (58 commits)
[SCSI] zfcp: clear boxed flag on unit reopen.
[SCSI] zfcp: clear adapter failed flag if an fsf request times out.
[SCSI] zfcp: rework request ID management.
[SCSI] zfcp: Fix deadlock between zfcp ERP and SCSI
[SCSI] zfcp: Locking for req_no and req_seq_no
[SCSI] zfcp: print S_ID and D_ID with 3 bytes
[SCSI] ipr: Use PCI-E reset API for new ipr adapter
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Update version number to 8.01.07-k7.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Add MSI support.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct pci_set_msi() usage semantics.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Attempt to stop firmware only if it had been previously executed.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Honor NVRAM port-down-retry-count settings.
[SCSI] qla2xxx: Error-out during probe() if we're unable to complete HBA initialization.
[SCSI] zfcp: Stop system after memory corruption
[SCSI] mesh: cleanup variable usage in interrupt handler
[SCSI] megaraid: replace yield() with cond_resched()
[SCSI] megaraid: fix warnings when CONFIG_PROC_FS=n
[SCSI] aacraid: correct SUN products to README
[SCSI] aacraid: superfluous adapter reset for IBM 8 series ServeRAID controllers
[SCSI] aacraid: kexec fix (reset interrupt handler)
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mxser, schedule for removal
Signed-off-by: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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The deprecation of the SA_xxx interrupt flags did not emit deprecated
warnings. Andrew said about the removal of the deprecated flag defines:
> This is going to break a lot of external stuff. We should have found
> a way to make usage of SA_* emit deprecated warnings (or _some_
> warning) to warn people of impending doom. But I can't immediately
> find a way of doing that. if we _can_ find a way of doing this, I
> suspect we'll need to do it, and give people another six months. It's
> going to get ugly out there. We shall see...
Define the deprecated flags as a call to a __deprecated inline function
so a warning is emitted on compile time.
Extend the reprieve of out of tree drivers to 9/2007.
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Now that we have the much better esp_scsi driver and low level drivers
are easy to port over deprecate the old NCR53C9x driver.
I've Cc'ed the m68k and mips lists because all but one bus glues are
for these platforms. Chances stand bad for the remaining driver,
mca_53c9x which hasn't gotten any non-trivial update since it was
merge in late 2.1.x and whos maintainers mail address bounces.
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
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