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2008-10-17Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/staging-2.6: (25 commits) staging: at76_usb wireless driver Staging: workaround build system bug Staging: Lindent sxg.c Staging: SLICOSS: Call pci_release_regions at driver exit Staging: SLICOSS: Fix remaining type names Staging: SLICOSS: Fix warnings due to static usage Staging: SLICOSS: lots of checkpatch fixes Staging: go7007 v4l fixes Staging: Fix gcc warnings in sxg Staging: add echo cancelation module Staging: add wlan-ng prism2 usb driver Staging: add w35und wifi driver Staging: USB/IP: add host driver Staging: USB/IP: add client driver Staging: USB/IP: add common functions needed Staging: add the go7007 video driver Staging: add me4000 pci data collection driver Staging: add me4000 firmware files Staging: add sxg network driver Staging: add Alacritech slicoss network driver ... Fixed up conflicts due to taint flags changes and MAINTAINERS cleanup in MAINTAINERS, include/linux/kernel.h and kernel/panic.c.
2008-10-17hwmon: (adt7470) Add documentationDarrick J. Wong
Add at least the bare minimum of documentation for this chip. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (w83781d) Additional information about AS99127F PWMJean Delvare
This information was provided in lm-sensors ticket #2350: http://www.lm-sensors.org/ticket/2350 This is IMHO still not enough to be able to safely implement fan control support for the AS99127F, but this is valuable information so I am adding it to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: Drop dead links to old National Semiconductor chip datasheetsJean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (w83791d) add support for thermal cruise modeMarc Hulsman
Add support to set target temperature and tolerance for thermal cruise mode. Signed-off-by: Marc Hulsman <m.hulsman@tudelft.nl> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (w83791d) add pwm_enable supportMarc Hulsman
Add support for pwm_enable. Signed-off-by: Marc Hulsman <m.hulsman@tudelft.nl> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (w83791d) add manual PWM supportMarc Hulsman
Add PWM manual control. Signed-off-by: Marc Hulsman <m.hulsman@tudelft.nl> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (it87) Fix thermal sensor type valuesJean Delvare
The it87 driver doesn't follow the standard sensor type values as documented in Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface. It uses value 2 for thermistors instead of value 4. This causes "sensors" to tell the user that the chip is setup for a transistor while it is actually setup for a thermistor. Using value 4 for thermistors solves the problem. For compatibility reasons, we still accept value 2 but emit a warning message so that users update their configuration files. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com>
2008-10-17hwmon: (lm85) Implement the standard PWM frequency interfaceJean Delvare
Implement the standard PWM frequency interface: pwm[1-*]_freq in units of 1 Hz, instead of the non-standard pwm[1-*]_auto_pwm_freq in units of 0.1 Hz. The old naming was not only non-standard, it was also confusing, because it suggested that the frequency value only applied in automatic fan speed mode, which isn't true. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@13thfloor.at>
2008-10-17hwmon: (lm87) Add support for configuration through platform_dataBen Hutchings
The lm87 driver normally assumes that firmware configured the chip correctly. Since this is not always the case, alllow platform code to set the channel register value via platform_data. All other configuration registers can be changed after driver initialisation. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (lm90) Support MAX6646, MAX6647 and MAX6649Ben Hutchings
These Maxim chips are similar to MAX6657 but use unsigned temperature values to allow for readings up to 145 degrees. Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <bhutchings@solarflare.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2008-10-17hwmon: (lm90) Support ADT7461 in extended modeNate Case
Support ADT7461 in extended temperature range mode, which will change the range of readings from 0..127 to -64..191 degC. Adjust the register conversion functions accordingly. Signed-off-by: Nate Case <ncase@xes-inc.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Tested-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
2008-10-17hwmon: (lm90) Update datasheet linksJean Delvare
Update the links to the datasheet of some of the devices supported by the lm90 driver. Also remove the links from the driver itself, so that we don't have to update them twice each time they change. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
2008-10-17hwmon: (lm90) Support the extra resolution bits of MAX6657Jean Delvare
The Maxim MAX6657, MAX6658 and MAX6659 have extra resolution bits for the local temperature measurement. Let the lm90 driver read them and export them to user-space. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Acked-by: Martyn Welch <martyn.welch@gefanuc.com>
2008-10-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (46 commits) UIO: Fix mapping of logical and virtual memory UIO: add automata sercos3 pci card support UIO: Change driver name of uio_pdrv UIO: Add alignment warnings for uio-mem Driver core: add bus_sort_breadthfirst() function NET: convert the phy_device file to use bus_find_device_by_name kobject: Cleanup kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFS sysfs: Make dir and name args to sysfs_notify() const platform: add new device registration helper sysfs: use ilookup5() instead of ilookup5_nowait() PNP: create device attributes via default device attributes Driver core: make bus_find_device_by_name() more robust usb: turn dev_warn+WARN_ON combos into dev_WARN debug: use dev_WARN() rather than WARN_ON() in device_pm_add() debug: Introduce a dev_WARN() function sysfs: fix deadlock device model: Do a quickcheck for driver binding before doing an expensive check Driver core: Fix cleanup in device_create_vargs(). Driver core: Clarify device cleanup. ...
2008-10-16Merge branch 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'docs' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6: Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctl Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches Add kerneldoc documentation for new printk format extensions Remove videobook.tmpl doc: Test-by? Add the development process document Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbers
2008-10-16Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: (32 commits) Input: wm97xx - update email address for Liam Girdwood Input: i8042 - add Thinkpad R31 to nomux list Input: move map_to_7segment.h to include/linux Input: ads7846 - fix cache line sharing issue Input: cm109 - add missing newlines to messages Input: document i8042.debug in kernel-parameters.txt Input: keyboard - fix potential out of bound access to key_map Input: psmouse - add OLPC touchpad driver Input: psmouse - tweak PSMOUSE_DEFINE_ATTR to support raw set callbacks Input: psmouse - add psmouse_queue_work() for ps/2 extension to make use of Input: psmouse - export psmouse_set_state for ps/2 extensions to use Input: ads7846 - introduce .gpio_pendown to get pendown state Input: ALPS - add signature for DualPoint found in Dell Latitude E6500 Input: serio_raw - allow attaching to translated (SERIO_I8042XL) ports Input: cm109 - don't use obsolete logging macros Input: atkbd - expand Latitude's force release quirk to other Dells Input: bf54x-keys - add power management support Input: atmel_tsadcc - improve accuracy Input: convert drivers to use strict_strtoul() Input: appletouch - handle geyser 3/4 status bits ...
2008-10-16Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctlBernhard Walle
This adds "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" sysctl to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text is mainly taken from http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/43/217998.html. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (26 commits) decnet: Fix compiler warning in dn_dev.c IPV6: Fix default gateway criteria wrt. HIGH/LOW preference radv option net/802/fc.c: Fix compilation warnings netns: correct mib stats in ip6_route_me_harder() netns: fix net_generic array leak rt2x00: fix regression introduced by "mac80211: free up 2 bytes in skb->cb" rtl8187: Add USB ID for Belkin F5D7050 with RTL8187B chip p54usb: Device ID updates mac80211: fixme for kernel-doc ath9k/mac80211: disallow fragmentation in ath9k, report to userspace libertas : Remove unused variable warning for "old_channel" from cmd.c mac80211: Fix scan RX processing oops orinoco: fix unsafe locking in spectrum_cs_suspend orinoco: fix unsafe locking in orinoco_cs_resume cfg80211: fix debugfs error handling mac80211: fix debugfs netdev rename iwlwifi: fix ct kill configuration for 5350 mac80211: fix HT information element parsing p54: Fix compilation problem on PPC mac80211: fix debugfs lockup ...
2008-10-16W1: Documentation/w1/masters/ds2490 updateDavid Fries
Provide some additional details about the status of the driver and the ds2490 hardware. Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16W1: Document add, remove, search_count, and pullup.David Fries
Document w1_master_add, w1_master_remove, search_count, and pullup. Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16W1: feature, w1_therm.c use strong pullup and documentationDavid Fries
Added strong pullup to thermal sensor driver and general documentation on the sensor. Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16docbook: update procfs creditsRandy Dunlap
Update Erik Mouw's email address & affiliation in DocBook. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Erik Mouw <mouw@nl.linux.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16uvesafb: document mode to mode_option parameter changeMike Pagano
Document the change from the old "mode" parameter to the "mode_option" parameter. Signed-off-by: Mike Pagano <mpagano@gentoo.org> Cc: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16intelfb: support 945GME (as used in ASUS Eee 901)Phil Endecott
Add support for Intel's 945GME graphics chip to the intelfb driver. I have assumed that the 945GME is identical to the already-supported 945GM apart from its PCI IDs; this is based on a quick look at the X driver for these chips which seems to treat them identically. The 945GME is used in the ASUS Eee 901, and I coded this in the hope that I'd be able to use it to get a console at the native 1024x600 resolution which is not known to the BIOS. I realised too late that the intelfb driver does not support mode changing on laptops, so it won't be any use for me. Signed-off-by: Phil Endecott <spam_from_intelfb@chezphil.org> Acked-by: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16viafb: viafb.modes, viafb.txtJoseph Chan
Correct via_fb_ to viafb_ and remove the Kconfig part in viafb.txt. viafb.modes: supported mode table viafb.txt: documentation of viafb driver Signed-off-by: Joseph Chan <josephchan@via.com.tw> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@poczta.fm> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16gpiolib: request/free hooksDavid Brownell
Add a new internal mechanism to gpiolib to support low power operations by letting gpio_chip instances see when their GPIOs are in use. When no GPIOs are active, chips may be able to enter lower powered runtime states by disabling clocks and/or power domains. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Magnus Damm" <magnus.damm@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16gpiolib: gpio_to_irq() hooksDavid Brownell
Add a new gpiolib mechanism: gpio_chip instances can provide mappings between their (input) GPIOs and any associated IRQs. This makes it easier for platforms to support IRQs that are provided by board-specific external chips instead of as part of their core (such as SOC-integrated GPIOs). Also update the irq_to_gpio() description, saying to avoid it because it's not always supported. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16autofs4: device node ioctl documentationIan Kent
Add documentation for the miscellaneous device module of autofs4. Signed-off-by: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16pxa2xx_spi: fix chip_info defaults and documentation.Vernon Sauder
Make the chip info structure data optional by providing reasonable defaults. Improve corresponding documentation, and highlight the drawback of not providing explicit chipselect control. DMA can determine appropriate dma_burst_size and thresholds automatically so use DMA even if dma_burst_size is not specified. Signed-off-by: Vernon Sauder <VernonInHand@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Ned Forrester <nforrester@whoi.edu> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16SubmittingPatches: add a reference to Andi's OLS paperAndi Kleen
For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies to submit difficult kernel patches. Add a reference to it to SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Document panic_on_unrecovered_nmi sysctlBernhard Walle
This adds "panic_on_unrecovered_nmi" sysctl to Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt. The text is mainly taken from http://readlist.com/lists/vger.kernel.org/linux-kernel/43/217998.html. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/FD Cami
Remove Andrew Morton's http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/ urls, update to new ones when necessary, delete references otherwise. There are still instances of that living in: Documentation/zh_CN/HOWTO Documentation/zh_CN/SubmittingPatches Documentation/ko_KR/HOWTO Documentation/ja_JP/SubmittingPatches Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Remove Andrew Morton's old email accountsFrancois Cami
People can use the real name an an index into MAINTAINERS to find the current email address. Signed-off-by: Francois Cami <francois.cami@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16documentation: explain memory barriersRandy Dunlap
We want all uses of memory barriers to be explained in the source code. 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>
2008-10-16dontdiff: more updates to be closer to gitignoreRandy Dunlap
defkeymap.c_shipped should be diffed if it is changed. Reported-by: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de> COPYING, CREDITS, .mailmap should be diffed if they are changed. keywords.c_shipped & lex.c_shipped should be diffed when changed. parse.[ch]_shipped should be diffed when changed. Reported-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> vsyscall* updates from a .gitignore patch by "Denis V. Lunev" <den@openvz.org>. *.so.dbg from a .gitignore patch by Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>. binoffset from a .gitignore patch by Uwe Kleine-Koenig <Uwe.Kleine-Koenig@digi.com>. Module.markers from a .gitignore patch by Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>. vmlinux*.lds* should be diffed if changed. Reported-by: Etienne Lorrain <etienne_lorrain@yahoo.fr> vmlinux.lds from a .gitignore patch by Daniel Guilak <daniel@danielguilak.com>. *.scr should be diffed if changed. Lots of updates from http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/5/20/32 Reported-by: Bart Van Assche <bart.vanassche@gmail.com> Use ncscope.* instead of *cscope* since the latter may catch too many files. Add *.elf, from a .gitignore patch by Eduard - Gabriel Munteanu <eduard.munteanu@linux360.ro>. Make firmware entries match .gitignore entries. Make some entries less greedy by removing trailing '*'. Remove "make_times_h" (no such file). Remove "filelist" (no such file). Remove "dummy_sym.c" (no such file). Remove "gen-kdb_cmds.c" (no such file). Remove "gentbl" (no such file). Remove "kconfig.tk" (no such file). Remove "tkparse" (no such file). Remove "sim710_d.h" (no such file). Remove "53c8xx_d.h" (no such file). Add "syscalltab.h" (generated file). 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>
2008-10-16doc: typo in Documentation/filesystems/nfsroot.txtShane McDonald
Add a missing word to the explanation of the purpose of the zdisk and bzdisk make targets. Signed-off-by: Shane McDonald <mcdonald.shane@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16profiling: dynamically enable readprofile at runtimeDave Hansen
Way too often, I have a machine that exhibits some kind of crappy behavior. The CPU looks wedged in the kernel or it is spending way too much system time and I wonder what is responsible. I try to run readprofile. But, of course, Ubuntu doesn't enable it by default. Dang! The reason we boot-time enable it is that it takes a big bufffer that we generally can only bootmem alloc. But, does it hurt to at least try and runtime-alloc it? To use: echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile Then run readprofile like normal. This should fix the compile issue with allmodconfig. I've compile-tested on a bunch more configs now including a few more architectures. Signed-off-by: Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com> 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>
2008-10-16vsprintf: use new vsprintf symbolic function pointer formatBjorn Helgaas
Use the '%pF' format to get rid of an "#ifdef DEBUG" and make some printks atomic. This removes the last in-tree uses of print_fn_descriptor_symbol(). I marked print_fn_descriptor_symbol() deprecated and scheduled it for removal next year to give time for out-of-tree modules to be updated. parisc's print_fn_descriptor_symbol() is currently broken there (it needs to dereference the function pointer similar to ia64 and power). This patch shouldn't make anything worse, but it means we need to fix dereference_function_descriptor() instead of print_fn_descriptor_symbol() to get meaningful initcall_debug output. Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16fix random typosDanny ter Haar
Signed-off-by: Danny ter Haar <dth@cistron.nl> Cc: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com> Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Fix Documentation/filesystems/ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txtfrans
First a file hello.c is created, then the file hello2.c is compiled. Change this to hello.c Signed-off-by: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16pm: document use of RTC in pm_traceFrans Pop
As pm_trace uses the system's hardware clock to save its magic value, users of that option should be warned that using this debug option will result in an incorrect system time after resume. Signed-off-by: Frans Pop <elendil@planet.nl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-16Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatchesAndi Kleen
Add a reference to paper to SubmittingPatches For this year's OLS I wrote a paper on successfull strategies to submit difficult kernel patches. Add a reference to it to SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Remove videobook.tmplJonathan Corbet
This document describes the long-deprecated V4L1 interface. In-tree, it can only serve to encourage developers to write drivers to the wrong API. Remove it in favor of the V4L2 documentation which must surely show up someday. Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16doc: Test-by?Hidetoshi Seto
Commonly used is "Tested-by." Signed-off-by: Hidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Add the development process documentJonathan Corbet
This is an extended document intended to help interested developers, their managers, and their employers work with the kernel development process. This work was supported by the Linux Foundation. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt: Fix section numbersAlberto Bertogli
Signed-off-by: Alberto Bertogli <albertito@blitiri.com.ar> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16kobject: Fix kobject_rename and !CONFIG_SYSFSEric W. Biederman
When looking at kobject_rename I found two bugs with that exist when sysfs support is disabled in the kernel. kobject_rename does not change the name on the kobject when sysfs support is not compiled in. kobject_rename without locking attempts to check the validity of a rename operation, which the kobject layer simply does not have the infrastructure to do. This patch documents the previously unstated requirement of kobject_rename that is the responsibility of the caller to provide mutual exclusion and to be certain that the new_name for the kobject is valid. This patch modifies sysfs_rename_dir in !CONFIG_SYSFS case to call kobject_set_name to actually change the kobject_name. This patch removes the bogus and misleading check in kobject_rename that attempts to see if a rename is valid. The check is bogus because we do not have the proper locking. The check is misleading because it looks like we can and do perform checking at the kobject level that we don't. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-16driver core: basic infrastructure for per-module dynamic debug messagesJason Baron
Base infrastructure to enable per-module debug messages. I've introduced CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, which when enabled centralizes control of debugging statements on a per-module basis in one /proc file, currently, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. When, CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG, is not set, debugging statements can still be enabled as before, often by defining 'DEBUG' for the proper compilation unit. Thus, this patch set has no affect when CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is not set. The infrastructure currently ties into all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls. That is, if CONFIG_DYNAMIC_PRINTK_DEBUG is set, all pr_debug() and dev_dbg() calls can be dynamically enabled/disabled on a per-module basis. Future plans include extending this functionality to subsystems, that define their own debug levels and flags. Usage: Dynamic debugging is controlled by the debugfs file, <debugfs>/dynamic_printk/modules. This file contains a list of the modules that can be enabled. The format of the file is as follows: <module_name> <enabled=0/1> . . . <module_name> : Name of the module in which the debug call resides <enabled=0/1> : whether the messages are enabled or not For example: snd_hda_intel enabled=0 fixup enabled=1 driver enabled=0 Enable a module: $echo "set enabled=1 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules Disable a module: $echo "set enabled=0 <module_name>" > dynamic_printk/modules Enable all modules: $echo "set enabled=1 all" > dynamic_printk/modules Disable all modules: $echo "set enabled=0 all" > dynamic_printk/modules Finally, passing "dynamic_printk" at the command line enables debugging for all modules. This mode can be turned off via the above disable command. [gkh: minor cleanups and tweaks to make the build work quietly] Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-10-15Merge branch 'next' into for-linusDmitry Torokhov
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