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2007-10-15kbuild: introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-ySam Ravnborg
Introduce ccflags-y, asflags-y and ldflags-y so we soon can deprecate use of EXTRA_CFLAGS, EXTRA_AFLAGS and EXTRA_LDFLAGS. This patch does not touch any in-tree users - thats next round. Lets get this committed first and then fix the users of the soon to be deprecated variants next. The rationale behind this change is to introduce support for makefile fragments like: ccflags-$(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG) := -DDEBUG As a replacement for the uglier: ifeq ($(CONFIG_WHATEVER_DEBUG),y) EXTRA_CFLAGS := -DDEBUG endif Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15kbuild: enable 'make CPPFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CPPSam Ravnborg
The variable CPPFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. This patch replace use of CPPFLAGS with KBUILD_CPPFLAGS all over the tree and enabling one to use: make CPPFLAGS=... to specify additional CPP commandline options. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-15kbuild: enable 'make AFLAGS=...' to add additional options to ASSam Ravnborg
The variable AFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to pass in additional flags to gcc. This patch replace use of AFLAGS with KBUILD_AFLAGS all over the tree. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k, s390 Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-14kbuild: enable 'make CFLAGS=...' to add additional options to CCSam Ravnborg
The variable CFLAGS is a wellknown variable and the usage by kbuild may result in unexpected behaviour. On top of that several people over time has asked for a way to pass in additional flags to gcc. This patch replace use of CFLAGS with KBUILD_CFLAGS all over the tree and enabling one to use: make CFLAGS=... to specify additional gcc commandline options. One usecase is when trying to find gcc bugs but other use cases has been requested too. Patch was tested on following architectures: alpha, arm, i386, x86_64, mips, sparc, sparc64, ia64, m68k Test was simple to do a defconfig build, apply the patch and check that nothing got rebuild. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-12kbuild: kill EXTRA_ARFLAGSSam Ravnborg
EXTRA_ARFLAGS have never been used so no need to carry around on this. A google search did not reveal any external module using this either. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-12kbuild: fix documentation in makefiles.txtSam Ravnborg
Small error had sneaked in with respect to use of LDFLAGS_$@. LDFLAGS_$@ is not valid in normal kbuild files so do not say so. Fix a reference bug too. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-10-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (408 commits) [POWERPC] Add memchr() to the bootwrapper [POWERPC] Implement logging of unhandled signals [POWERPC] Add legacy serial support for OPB with flattened device tree [POWERPC] Use 1TB segments [POWERPC] XilinxFB: Allow fixed framebuffer base address [POWERPC] XilinxFB: Add support for custom screen resolution [POWERPC] XilinxFB: Use pdata to pass around framebuffer parameters [POWERPC] PCI: Add 64-bit physical address support to setup_indirect_pci [POWERPC] 4xx: Kilauea defconfig file [POWERPC] 4xx: Kilauea DTS [POWERPC] 4xx: Add AMCC Kilauea eval board support to platforms/40x [POWERPC] 4xx: Add AMCC 405EX support to cputable.c [POWERPC] Adjust TASK_SIZE on ppc32 systems to 3GB that are capable [POWERPC] Use PAGE_OFFSET to tell if an address is user/kernel in SW TLB handlers [POWERPC] 85xx: Enable FP emulation in MPC8560 ADS defconfig [POWERPC] 85xx: Killed <asm/mpc85xx.h> [POWERPC] 85xx: Add cpm nodes for 8541/8555 CDS [POWERPC] 85xx: Convert mpc8560ads to the new CPM binding. [POWERPC] mpc8272ads: Remove muram from the CPM reg property. [POWERPC] Make clockevents work on PPC601 processors ... Fixed up conflict in Documentation/powerpc/booting-without-of.txt manually.
2007-10-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/roland/infiniband: (87 commits) mlx4_core: Fix section mismatches IPoIB: Allow setting policy to ignore multicast groups IB/mthca: Mark error paths as unlikely() in post_srq_recv functions IB/ipath: Minor fix to ordering of freeing and zeroing of tid pages. IB/ipath: Remove redundant link state checks IB/ipath: Fix IB_EVENT_PORT_ERR event IB/ipath: Better handling of unexpected GPIO interrupts IB/ipath: Maintain active time on all chips IB/ipath: Fix QHT7040 serial number check IB/ipath: Indicate a couple of chip bugs to userspace IB/ipath: iba6110 rev4 no longer needs recv header overrun workaround IB/ipath: Use counters in ipath_poll and cleanup interrupts in ipath_close IB/ipath: Remove duplicate copy of LMC IB/ipath: Add ability to set the LMC via the sysfs debugging interface IB/ipath: Optimize completion queue entry insertion and polling IB/ipath: Implement IB_EVENT_QP_LAST_WQE_REACHED IB/ipath: Generate flush CQE when QP is in error state IB/ipath: Remove redundant code IB/ipath: Future proof eeprom checksum code (contents reading) IB/ipath: UC RDMA WRITE with IMMEDIATE doesn't send the immediate ...
2007-10-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
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 ... 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>
2007-10-11Merge branch 'block-2.6.24' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'block-2.6.24' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: (37 commits) [BLOCK] Fix failing compile with BLK_DEV_IO_TRACE=n compat_ioctl: move floppy handlers to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move cdrom handlers to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move BLKPG handling to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: move hdio calls to block/compat_ioctl.c compat_ioctl: handle blk_trace ioctls compat_ioctl: add compat_blkdev_driver_ioctl() compat_ioctl: move common block ioctls to compat_blkdev_ioctl Sysace: Don't enable IRQ until after interrupt handler is registered Sysace: sparse fixes Sysace: Minor coding convention fixup drivers/block/umem: use DRIVER_NAME where appropriate drivers/block/umem: trim trailing whitespace drivers/block/umem: minor cleanups drivers/block/umem: use dev_printk() drivers/block/umem: move private include away from include/linux Sysace: Labels in C code should not be indented. Sysace: Add of_platform_bus binding Sysace: Move IRQ handler registration to occur after FSM is initialized Sysace: minor rework and cleanup changes ...
2007-10-11Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: (74 commits) Blackfin serial driver: pending a unique anomaly id, tie the break flood issue to ANOMALY_05000230 blackfin enable arbitary speed serial setting Blackfin arch: Remove cruft - CONFIG_DEBUG_SERIAL_EARLY_INIT and DEBUG_KERNEL_START Blackfin arch: fix typo in register name Blackfin arch: trim the Blackfin arch MAINTAINERS list Blackfin arch: fix bug libstdc++ calling writev with an iovec containing { NULL, 0 } fails on Blackfin Blackfin arch: Export strcpy - occasionally get module link failures otherwise Blackfin arch: the load address is not safe to point to as a workaround for ANOMALY 05000281 Blackfin arch: show_mem can not be marked as init, since it is called during OOM condition Blackfin arch: flush/inv the correct range when using write back cache and fix bugs find by dmacopy Blackfin arch: update kgdb patch Blackfin arch: Comply with revised Anomaly Workarounds for BF533 05000311 and BF561 05000323 Blackfin arch: Print out debug info, as early as possible Blackfin arch: Enable earlyprintk earlier - so any error after our interrupt tables are set up will print out Blackfin arch: fix endless loop bug when a double fault happens Blackfin arch: Initial patch to add earlyprintk support Blackfin arch: add TWIx_REGBASE and SPIx_REGBASE to specific CPU header files, use the new REGBASE for board platform resources Blackfin arch: modify the insX/outsX and dma_insX/dma_outsX to be compatible with other archs Blackfin arch: add more common defines for output sections Blackfin arch: cleanup IO and DMA_IO API function definitions according to other arches ...
2007-10-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb * 'master' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (310 commits) V4L/DVB (6316): Change list_for_each+list_entry to list_for_each_entry V4L/DVB (6315): pvrusb2: Change list_for_each+list_entry to list_for_each_entry V4L/DVB (6314): saa7134: Replace list_for_each+list_entry with list_for_each_entry V4L/DVB (6313): ivtv: Replace list_for_each+list_entry with list_for_each_entry V4L/DVB (6312): cx88: Replace list_for_each+list_entry with list_for_each_entry V4L/DVB (6311): dvb: Replace list_for_each+list_entry with list_for_each_entry V4L/DVB (6308): V4L: zc0301, remove bad usage of ERESTARTSYS V4L/DVB (6307): V4L: w9968cf, remove bad usage of ERESTARTSYS V4L/DVB (6306): Few clenups for saa7134 resume code V4L/DVB (6305): V4L: videobuf-core.c avoid NULL dereferences in videobuf-core V4L/DVB (6301): pvrusb: Update DEBUGIFC sysfs to kernel 2.6.13+ V4L/DVB (6300): CodingStyle cleanup V4L/DVB (6299): dvb: Add dependencies for VIDEOBUF_DVB V4L/DVB (6297): cx23885: remove wrong Kconfig selection of VIDEOBUF V4L/DVB (6296): dib0700: add support for AverMedia DVB-T Express card V4L/DVB (6295): saa7134: add autodetection for KWorld ATSC-115 V4L/DVB (6293): V4L: convert struct class_device to struct device V4L/DVB (6292): videobuf_core init always require callback implementation V4L/DVB (6291): Fix: avoid oops on some SMP machines V4L/DVB (6290): remove videobuf_set_pci_ops ...
2007-10-11x86: Add feature-removal entry for bzImage symlinksThomas Gleixner
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>
2007-10-11i386/x86_64: move headers to include/asm-x86Thomas Gleixner
Move the headers to include/asm-x86 and fixup the header install make rules Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2007-10-10[DCCP]: Correct documentationGerrit Renker
This corrects erroneous documentation of the socket API. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[DCCP]: Update API documentationGerrit Renker
This adds documentation on the use of service codes on client and server. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[DCCP]: Add socket option to query the current MPSGerrit Renker
This enables applications to query the current value of the Maximum Packet Size via a socket option, suggested as a SHOULD in (RFC 4340, p. 102). This socket option is useful to avoid the annoying bail-out via `-EMSGSIZE'. In particular, as fragmentation is not currently supported (and its use is partly discouraged in RFC 4340). With this option, it is possible to size buffers accordingly, e.g. int buflen = dccp_get_cur_mps(sockfd); /* or */ if (msgsize > dccp_get_cur_mps(sockfd)) die("message is too large for this path"); Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[MAC80211]: improve radiotap injectionJohannes Berg
This improves radiotap injection by removing the shortcut over TX handlers that led to BUGS when injecting frames without setting a rate and also resulted in various other quirks. Now, TX handlers are run but some information that was present in the radiotap header is used instead of automatic settings. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-10-10dgrs: remove from build, config, and maintainer listNathanael Nerode
Stop building and configuring driver for Digi RightSwitch, which was never actually sold to anyone, and remove it from MAINTAINERS. In response to an investigation into the firmware of the "Digi Rightswitch" driver, Andres Salomon discovered: > > Dear Andres: > > After further research, we found that this product was killed in place > and never reached the market. We would like to request that this not be > included. Since the product never reached market, clearly nobody is using this orphaned driver. Signed-off-by: Nathanael Nerode <neroden@gcc.gnu.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10[DCCP]: Rate-limit DCCP-SyncsGerrit Renker
This implements a SHOULD from RFC 4340, 7.5.4: "To protect against denial-of-service attacks, DCCP implementations SHOULD impose a rate limit on DCCP-Syncs sent in response to sequence-invalid packets, such as not more than eight DCCP-Syncs per second." The rate-limit is maintained on a per-socket basis. This is a more stringent policy than enforcing the rate-limit on a per-source-address basis and protects against attacks with forged source addresses. Moreover, the mechanism is deliberately kept simple. In contrast to xrlim_allow(), bursts of Sync packets in reply to sequence-invalid packets are not supported. This foils such attacks where the receipt of a Sync triggers further sequence-invalid packets. (I have tested this mechanism against xrlim_allow algorithm for Syncs, permitting bursts just increases the problems.) In order to keep flexibility, the timeout parameter can be set via sysctl; and the whole mechanism can even be disabled (which is however not recommended). The algorithm in this patch has been improved with regard to wrapping issues thanks to a suggestion by Arnaldo. Commiter note: Rate limited the step 6 DCCP_WARN too, as it says we're sending a sync. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@ghostprotocols.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: note that NETIF_F_LLTX is deprecatedChristian Borntraeger
Am Freitag, 21. September 2007 schrieb Herbert Xu: > Please don't use LLTX in new drivers. We're trying to get rid > of it since it's > > 1) unnecessary; > 2) causes problems with AF_PACKET seeing things twice. I suggest to document that LLTX is deprecated. Signed-off-by: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Acked-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[TCP] FRTO: Update sysctl documentationIlpo Järvinen
Since the SACK enhanced FRTO was added, the code has been under test numerous times so remove "experimental" claim from the documentation. Also be a bit more verbose about the usage. Signed-off-by: Ilpo Järvinen <ilpo.jarvinen@helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10Device tree aware EMAC driverDavid Gibson
Based on BenH's earlier work, this is a new version of the EMAC driver for the built-in ethernet found on PowerPC 4xx embedded CPUs. The same ASIC is also found in the Axon bridge chip. This new version is designed to work in the arch/powerpc tree, using the device tree to probe the device, rather than the old and ugly arch/ppc OCP layer. This driver is designed to sit alongside the old driver (that lies in drivers/net/ibm_emac and this one in drivers/net/ibm_newemac). The old driver is left in place to support arch/ppc until arch/ppc itself reaches its final demise (not too long now, with luck). This driver still has a number of things that could do with cleaning up, but I think they can be fixed up after merging. Specifically: - Should be adjusted to properly use the dma mapping API. Axon needs this. - Probe logic needs reworking, in conjuction with the general probing code for of_platform devices. The dependencies here between EMAC, MAL, ZMII etc. make this complicated. At present, it usually works, because we initialize and register the sub-drivers before the EMAC driver itself, and (being in driver code) runs after the devices themselves have been instantiated from the device tree. Signed-off-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-10-10[RFKILL]: Add rfkill documentationIvo van Doorn
Add a documentation file which contains a short description about rfkill with some notes about drivers and the userspace interface. Changes since v1 and v2: - Spellchecking Signed-off-by: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Acked-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2007-10-10[SHAPER]: Mark for removal.Stephen Hemminger
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>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Support dynamic reconfiguration using configfsSatyam Sharma
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. This patch introduces support for dynamic reconfiguration (adding, removing and/or modifying parameters of netconsole targets at runtime) using a userspace interface exported via configfs. Documentation is also updated accordingly. Issues and brief design overview: (1) Kernel-initiated creation / destruction of kernel objects is not possible with configfs -- the lifetimes of the "config items" is managed exclusively from userspace. But netconsole must support boot/module params too, and these are parsed in kernel and hence netpolls must be setup from the kernel. Joel Becker suggested to separately manage the lifetimes of the two kinds of netconsole_target objects -- those created via configfs mkdir(2) from userspace and those specified from the boot/module option string. This adds complexity and some redundancy here and also means that boot/module param-created targets are not exposed through the configfs namespace (and hence cannot be updated / destroyed dynamically). However, this saves us from locking / refcounting complexities that would need to be introduced in configfs to support kernel-initiated item creation / destroy there. (2) In configfs, item creation takes place in the call chain of the mkdir(2) syscall in the driver subsystem. If we used an ioctl(2) to create / destroy objects from userspace, the special userspace program is able to fill out the structure to be passed into the ioctl and hence specify attributes such as local interface that are required at the time we set up the netpoll. For configfs, this information is not available at the time of mkdir(2). So, we keep all newly-created targets (via configfs) disabled by default. The user is expected to set various attributes appropriately (including the local network interface if required) and then write(2) "1" to the "enabled" attribute. Thus, netpoll_setup() is then called on the set parameters in the context of _this_ write(2) on the "enabled" attribute itself. This design enables the user to reconfigure existing netconsole targets at runtime to be attached to newly-come-up interfaces that may not have existed when netconsole was loaded or when the targets were actually created. All this effectively enables us to get rid of custom ioctls. (3) Ultra-paranoid configfs attribute show() and store() operations, with sanity and input range checking, using only safe string primitives, and compliant with the recommendations in Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt. (4) A new function netpoll_print_options() is created in the netpoll API, that just prints out the configured parameters for a netpoll structure. netpoll_parse_options() is modified to use that and it is also exported to be used from netconsole. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Support multiple logging targetsSatyam Sharma
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. This patch introduces support for multiple targets, independent of CONFIG_NETCONSOLE_DYNAMIC -- this is useful even in the default case and (including the infrastructure introduced in previous patches) doesn't really add too many bytes to module text. All the complexity (and size) comes with the dynamic reconfigurability / userspace interface patch, and so it's plausible users may want to keep this enabled but that disabled (say to avoid a dependency on CONFIG_CONFIGFS_FS too). Also update documentation to mention the use of ";" separator to specify multiple logging targets in the boot/module option string. Brief overview: We maintain a target_list (and corresponding lock). Get rid of the static "default_target" and introduce allocation and release functions for our netconsole_target objects (but keeping sure to preserve previous behaviour such as default values). During init_netconsole(), ";" is used as the separator to identify multiple target specifications in the boot/module option string. The target specifications are parsed and netpolls setup. During exit, the target_list is torn down and all items released. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET] netconsole: Add some useful tips to documentationSatyam Sharma
Based upon initial work by Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>. Add some useful general-purpose tips. Also suggest solution for the frequent problem of console loglevel set too low numerically (i.e. for high priority messages only) on the sender. Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <satyam@infradead.org> Acked-by: Keiichi Kii <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10[NET]: Make NAPI polling independent of struct net_device objects.Stephen Hemminger
Several devices have multiple independant RX queues per net device, and some have a single interrupt doorbell for several queues. In either case, it's easier to support layouts like that if the structure representing the poll is independant from the net device itself. The signature of the ->poll() call back goes from: int foo_poll(struct net_device *dev, int *budget) to int foo_poll(struct napi_struct *napi, int budget) The caller is returned the number of RX packets processed (or the number of "NAPI credits" consumed if you want to get abstract). The callee no longer messes around bumping dev->quota, *budget, etc. because that is all handled in the caller upon return. The napi_struct is to be embedded in the device driver private data structures. Furthermore, it is the driver's responsibility to disable all NAPI instances in it's ->stop() device close handler. Since the napi_struct is privatized into the driver's private data structures, only the driver knows how to get at all of the napi_struct instances it may have per-device. With lots of help and suggestions from Rusty Russell, Roland Dreier, Michael Chan, Jeff Garzik, and Jamal Hadi Salim. Bug fixes from Thomas Graf, Roland Dreier, Peter Zijlstra, Joseph Fannin, Scott Wood, Hans J. Koch, and Michael Chan. [ Ported to current tree and all drivers converted. Integrated Stephen's follow-on kerneldoc additions, and restored poll_list handling to the old style to fix mutual exclusion issues. -DaveM ] Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-10-10Corrections in Documentation/block/ioprio.txtDhaval Giani
The newer glibc does not allow system calls to be made via _syscallN() wrapper. They have to be made through syscall(). The ionice code used the older interface. Correcting it to use syscall. Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each_bioNeilBrown
Every usage of rq_for_each_bio wraps a usage of bio_for_each_segment, so these can be combined into rq_for_each_segment. We define "struct req_iterator" to hold the 'bio' and 'index' that are needed for the double iteration. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Various compile fixes by me... Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-10-10V4L/DVB (6295): saa7134: add autodetection for KWorld ATSC-115Eric Sandeen
Recognize the KWorld ATSC115 PCI ID as a hardware clone of the ATSC110. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@sandeen.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-10V4L/DVB (6286): Add support for MSI TV @nywhere A/D NBMauro Carvalho Chehab
This is a Lifeview hybrid OEM board. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-09IB/umad: Add P_Key index supportRoland Dreier
Add support for setting the P_Key index of sent MADs and getting the P_Key index of received MADs. This requires a change to the layout of the ABI structure struct ib_user_mad_hdr, so to avoid breaking compatibility, we default to the old (unchanged) ABI and add a new ioctl IB_USER_MAD_ENABLE_PKEY that allows applications that are aware of the new ABI to opt into using it. We plan on switching to the new ABI by default in a year or so, and this patch adds a warning that is printed when an application uses the old ABI, to push people towards converting to the new ABI. Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com> Reviewed-by: Sean Hefty <sean.hefty@intel.com> Reviewed-by: Hal Rosenstock <hal@xsigo.com>
2007-10-09V4L/DVB (6252): Adapt drivers to use the newer videobuf modulesMauro Carvalho Chehab
PCI-dependent videobuf_foo methods were renamed as videobuf_pci_foo. Also, videobuf_dmabuf is now part of videobuf-dma-sg private struct. So, to access it, a subroutine call is needed. This patch renames all occurences of those function calls to be consistent with the video-buf split. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.comp.video.video4linux/34978/focus=34981 Reviewed-by: Ricardo Cerqueira <v4l@cerqueira.org>
2007-10-09V4L/DVB (6249): Add Typhoon Tv-Tuner PCI to bttv-cards.cSascha Sommer
Adds an entry for the Typhoon Tv-Tuner PCI to bttv-cards.c Signed-off-by: Sascha Sommer <saschasommer@freenet.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-09V4L/DVB (6198): add CARDLIST.cx23885 to Documentation/Michael Krufky
Cardlist generated by cx23885.pl Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Steven Toth <stoth@hauppauge.com> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-09V4L/DVB (6072): saa7134: add DVB-T support for Avermedia Super 007Edgar Simo
Add DVB-T support for Avermedia Super 007 Analog television is untested. The device lacks input adapters for radio, svideo & composite -- seems to be a DVB-T ONLY device. Signed-off-by: Edgar Simo <bobbens@gmail.com> Acked-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann-pitton@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-10-08[POWERPC] spi: mode should be "cpu-qe" instead of "qe"Peter Korsgaard
Mode should be "cpu-qe" for QE in CPU mode. "qe" should be reserved for native QE mode. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-07sysrq docs: document sequence that actually worksPavel Machek
Document sequence of keypresses that actually works. Yes, this changed year-or-so ago. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-07lockstat: documentationPeter Zijlstra
Provide some documentation for CONFIG_LOCK_STAT. Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-04[POWERPC] cpm: Describe multi-user ram in its own device node.Scott Wood
The way the current CPM binding describes available multi-user (a.k.a. dual-ported) RAM doesn't work well when there are multiple free regions, and it doesn't work at all if the region doesn't begin at the start of the muram area (as the hardware needs to be programmed with offsets into this area). The latter situation can happen with SMC UARTs on CPM2, as its parameter RAM is relocatable, u-boot puts it at zero, and the kernel doesn't support moving it. It is now described with a muram node, similar to QE. The current CPM binding is sufficiently recent (i.e. never appeared in an official release) that compatibility with existing device trees is not an issue. The code supporting the new binding is shared between cpm1 and cpm2, rather than remain separated. QE should be able to use this code as well, once minor fixes are made to its device trees. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-04[POWERPC] Document local bus nodes in the device tree, and update cuboot-pq2.Scott Wood
The localbus node is used to describe devices that are connected via a chip select or similar mechanism. The advantages over placing the devices under the root node are that it can be probed without probing other random things under the root, and that the description of which chip select a given device uses can be used to set up mappings if the firmware failed to do so in a useful manner. cuboot-pq2 is updated to match the binding; previously, it called itself chipselect rather than localbus, and used phandle linkage between the actual bus node and the control node (the current agreement is to simply use the fully-qualified address of the control registers, and ignore the overlap with the IMMR node). Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-03[POWERPC] Introduce new CPM device bindings.Scott Wood
This introduces a new device binding for the CPM and other devices on these boards. Some of the changes include: 1. Proper namespace scoping for Freescale compatibles and properties. 2. Use compatible rather than things like device_type and model to determine which particular variant of a device is present. 3. Give the drivers the relevant CPM command word directly, rather than requiring it to have a lookup table based on device-id, SCC v. SMC, and CPM version. 4. Specify the CPCR and the usable DPRAM region in the CPM's reg property. Boards that do not require the legacy bindings should select CONFIG_PPC_CPM_NEW_BINDING to enable the of_platform CPM devices. Once all existing boards are converted and tested, the config option can become default y to prevent new boards from using the old model. Once arch/ppc is gone, the config option can be removed altogether. Signed-off-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-10-03Merge branch 'linux-2.6' into for-2.6.24Paul Mackerras
2007-10-01Add /dev/oldmem to devices.txt documentationDave Jones
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: <device@lanana.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-26lguest example launcher truncates block device file to 0 length on problemsChris Malley
The function should also use ftruncate64() rather than ftruncate() to prevent files over 4GB (not uncommon for a root filesystem) being zeroed. Signed-off-by: Chris Malley <mail@chrismalley.co.uk> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-24async_tx: usage documentation and developer notes (v2)Dan Williams
Changes in v2: * cleanups from Randy and Shannon Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reviewed-by: Shannon Nelson <shannon.nelson@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
2007-09-20Fix CRLF line endings in Documentation/input/iforce-protocol.txtLinus Torvalds
Emil Medve points out that this documentation file uses CRLF line endings, which means that if you use [core] autocrlf=input (which makes sense if you ever develop under Windows, for example, or if you use other broken tools) in your git config, git will always complain about the file being dirty. This removes the bogus DOS line endings, and removes whitespace at the end of line. Cc: Emil Medve <Emilian.Medve@Freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-20Merge branch 'linux-2.6'Paul Mackerras