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Maintain a per-CPU global "struct pt_regs *" variable which can be used instead
of passing regs around manually through all ~1800 interrupt handlers in the
Linux kernel.
The regs pointer is used in few places, but it potentially costs both stack
space and code to pass it around. On the FRV arch, removing the regs parameter
from all the genirq function results in a 20% speed up of the IRQ exit path
(ie: from leaving timer_interrupt() to leaving do_IRQ()).
Where appropriate, an arch may override the generic storage facility and do
something different with the variable. On FRV, for instance, the address is
maintained in GR28 at all times inside the kernel as part of general exception
handling.
Having looked over the code, it appears that the parameter may be handed down
through up to twenty or so layers of functions. Consider a USB character
device attached to a USB hub, attached to a USB controller that posts its
interrupts through a cascaded auxiliary interrupt controller. A character
device driver may want to pass regs to the sysrq handler through the input
layer which adds another few layers of parameter passing.
I've build this code with allyesconfig for x86_64 and i386. I've runtested the
main part of the code on FRV and i386, though I can't test most of the drivers.
I've also done partial conversion for powerpc and MIPS - these at least compile
with minimal configurations.
This will affect all archs. Mostly the changes should be relatively easy.
Take do_IRQ(), store the regs pointer at the beginning, saving the old one:
struct pt_regs *old_regs = set_irq_regs(regs);
And put the old one back at the end:
set_irq_regs(old_regs);
Don't pass regs through to generic_handle_irq() or __do_IRQ().
In timer_interrupt(), this sort of change will be necessary:
- update_process_times(user_mode(regs));
- profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING, regs);
+ update_process_times(user_mode(get_irq_regs()));
+ profile_tick(CPU_PROFILING);
I'd like to move update_process_times()'s use of get_irq_regs() into itself,
except that i386, alone of the archs, uses something other than user_mode().
Some notes on the interrupt handling in the drivers:
(*) input_dev() is now gone entirely. The regs pointer is no longer stored in
the input_dev struct.
(*) finish_unlinks() in drivers/usb/host/ohci-q.c needs checking. It does
something different depending on whether it's been supplied with a regs
pointer or not.
(*) Various IRQ handler function pointers have been moved to type
irq_handler_t.
Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
(cherry picked from 1b16e7ac850969f38b375e511e3fa2f474a33867 commit)
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Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (37 commits)
[netdrvr] hp100: encapsulate all non-module code
drivers/net/wireless/{airo,ipw2100}: fix error handling bugs
[netdrvr] phy: Fix bugs in error handling
[PATCH] spidernet: Use pci_dma_mapping_error()
[PATCH] sky2: version 1.9
[PATCH] sky2: fragmented receive for large MTU
[PATCH] sky2: use netif_tx_lock instead of LLTX
[PATCH] sky2: incremental transmit completion
[PATCH] sky2: name irq after eth for irqbalance
[PATCH] sky2: workarounds for some 88e806x chips
[PATCH] sky2: use standard pci register capabilties for error register
[PATCH] sky2: gigabit full duplex negotiation
e100, e1000, ixgb: increment version numbers
ixgb: convert to netdev_priv(netdev)
ixgb: combine more rx descriptors to improve performance
e1000: possible memory leak in e1000_set_ringparam
e1000: Janitor: Use #defined values for literals
e1000: don't strip vlan ID if 8021q claims it
e1000: rework polarity, NVM, eeprom code and fixes.
e1000: driver state fixes (race fix)
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The last in-kernel user of errno is gone, so we should remove the definition
and everything referring to it. This also removes the now-unused lib/execve.c
file that was introduced earlier.
Also remove every trace of __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that still remained in the
kernel.
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ian Molton <spyro@f2s.com>
Cc: Mikael Starvik <starvik@axis.com>
Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>
Cc: Hirokazu Takata <takata.hirokazu@renesas.com>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca>
Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Cc: Kazumoto Kojima <kkojima@rr.iij4u.or.jp>
Cc: Richard Curnow <rc@rc0.org.uk>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
Cc: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Cc: Miles Bader <uclinux-v850@lsi.nec.co.jp>
Cc: Chris Zankel <chris@zankel.net>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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airo:
* fix oops, if !CONFIG_PROC_FS (create_proc_entry always returns NULL)
* handle pci_register_driver() failure. if it fails, we really do
want to exit, rather than (as a comment indicates) return success
because-we-are-a-library.
* #if 0 have_isa_dev variable, which is assigned a value but never used
ipw2100:
* handle sysfs_create_group() failure
* handle driver_create_file() failure
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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Add infrastructure to track "maximum allowable latency" for power saving
policies.
The reason for adding this infrastructure is that power management in the
idle loop needs to make a tradeoff between latency and power savings
(deeper power save modes have a longer latency to running code again). The
code that today makes this tradeoff just does a rather simple algorithm;
however this is not good enough: There are devices and use cases where a
lower latency is required than that the higher power saving states provide.
An example would be audio playback, but another example is the ipw2100
wireless driver that right now has a very direct and ugly acpi hook to
disable some higher power states randomly when it gets certain types of
error.
The proposed solution is to have an interface where drivers can
* announce the maximum latency (in microseconds) that they can deal with
* modify this latency
* give up their constraint
and a function where the code that decides on power saving strategy can
query the current global desired maximum.
This patch has a user of each side: on the consumer side, ACPI is patched
to use this, on the producer side the ipw2100 driver is patched.
A generic maximum latency is also registered of 2 timer ticks (more and you
lose accurate time tracking after all).
While the existing users of the patch are x86 specific, the infrastructure
is not. I'd like to ask the arch maintainers of other architectures if the
infrastructure is generic enough for their use (assuming the architecture
has such a tradeoff as concept at all), and the sound/multimedia driver
owners to look at the driver facing API to see if this is something they
can use.
[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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ifa_local, ifa_address, ifa_mask, ifa_broadcast and ifa_anycast are
net-endian. Annotated them and variables that are inferred to be
net-endian.
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6: (48 commits)
[PATCH] bonding: update version number
[PATCH] git-netdev-all: pc300_tty build fix
[PATCH] Make PC300 WAN driver compile again
[PATCH] Modularize generic HDLC
[PATCH] more s2io __iomem annotations
[PATCH] restore __iomem annotations in e1000
[PATCH] 64bit bugs in s2io
[PATCH] bonding: Fix primary selection error at enslavement time
[PATCH] bonding: Don't mangle LACPDUs
[PATCH] bonding: Validate probe replies in ARP monitor
[PATCH] bonding: Don't release slaves when master is admin down
[PATCH] bonding: Add priv_flag to avoid event mishandling
[PATCH] bonding: Handle large hard_header_len
[PATCH] bonding: Remove unneeded NULL test
[PATCH] bonding: Format fix in seq_printf call
[PATCH] bonding: Convert delay value from s16 to int
[PATCH] bonding: Allow bonding to enslave a 10 Gig adapter
Delete unused drivers/net/gt64240eth.h
[PATCH] skge: fiber support
[PATCH] fix possible NULL ptr deref in forcedeth
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The purpose of this patch is to split off the case when a device does
not reply on the lower level (which is reported by HC hardware), and
a case when the device accepted the request, but does not reply at
upper level. This redefinition allows to diagnose issues easier,
without asking the user if the -110 happened "immediately".
The usbmon splits such cases already thanks to its timestamp, but
it's not always available.
I adjusted all drivers which I found affected (by searching for "urb").
Out of tree drivers may suffer a little bit, but I do not expect much
breakage. At worst they may print a few messages.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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The following patches reduce the size of the VFS inode structure by 28 bytes
on a UP x86. (It would be more on an x86_64 system). This is a 10% reduction
in the inode size on a UP kernel that is configured in a production mode
(i.e., with no spinlock or other debugging functions enabled; if you want to
save memory taken up by in-core inodes, the first thing you should do is
disable the debugging options; they are responsible for a huge amount of bloat
in the VFS inode structure).
This patch:
The filesystem or device-specific pointer in the inode is inside a union,
which is pretty pointless given that all 30+ users of this field have been
using the void pointer. Get rid of the union and rename it to i_private, with
a comment to explain who is allowed to use the void pointer. This is just a
cleanup, but it allows us to reuse the union 'u' for something something where
the union will actually be used.
[judith@osdl.org: powerpc build fix]
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzelter <judith@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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The setup for running long periodic work has a bug that leads to
netdev watchdog tx timeouts. This change eliminates the timeouts.
Signed-off-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Acked-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch includes a big cleanup of the existing unused LED code,
and adds support for controlling the LED.
The link LED will blink if the device is not associated. The LED
switches between 2 seconds on and 1 second off. If the device is
associated the LED is switched on.
The link LED also indicates packet TX. I do a little bit more led
resetting than the vendor driver, but the device works now as
expected for single LED and double LED devices.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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For housekeeping and watchdog tasks a workqueue is created. The
central workqueue is not used to prevent crashes creates by bugs.
It might be changed, when the housekeeping is stabilized.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Checking whether a mutex is not locked directly before
mutex_lock() is called, doesn't make sense. The whole point of
mutex_lock() is to block, if the mutex is locked.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Caused by the fact that physical control registers appear to have
only a width of 16 bit, 32-bit writes are not required.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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An error message is changed to a printk as the original dprintk
would be optimized away if debugging were not enabled. If the error
is triggered, a more meaningful message is returned.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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In bcm43xx-softmac, the bcm43xx_stats struct contains a variable that
is no longer used. In addition, two TODO entries related to noise
processing in bcm43xx_rx have been completed, and as unused one
is removed.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch updates the PHY initialization code for bcm43xx-softmac
to conform with recent changes in the clean-room specs at
http://bcm-specs.sipsolutions.net. Mostly, these changes implement
the sequence needed for chips with GPHY revision 8; however, the
patch also corrects a typo in one address, and some parts that were
missing from the spec when the initial coding was done.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Patch to make bcm43xx-softmac be compatible with the revised SSID
length of WE-21.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Conflicts:
net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_tkip.c
net/ieee80211/ieee80211_crypt_wep.c
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This patch converts all remaining users to use the new block cipher type
where applicable. It also changes all simple cipher operations to use
the new encrypt_one/decrypt_one interface.
Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
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Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream
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hostap_cs driver
- added support for Proxim Harmony PCI W-Lan Card (uses pd6729 based
pcmcia2pci bridge)
Signed-off-by: Christian Steineck <memphis@machzwo.de>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Coverity CID 1160 & 1161
Remove some dead code from bcm43xx_sysfs.c in 2.6.18-rc6
Signed-off-by: Darren Jenkins <darrenrjenkins@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch prints out the ucode debug status to sysfs. So, users can
watch the microcode status of their hardware.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch prints microcode revision, patchlevel, date and time to
KERN_INFO. Also, version 4.xx microcodes (rev>0x128) will be rejected
by the driver, because they still do not work.
Signed-off-by: Martin Langer <martin-langer@gmx.de>
Acked-by: Michael Buesch <mb@bu3sch.de>
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch removes code that was make obsolete when the wireless
statistics in bcm43xx-softmac were changed, but was overlooked at that
time. The value of bcm->stats.link_quality computed here is never used.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch adds bitrate information to the scan result in the Prism54
driver, like some/most other driver do.
Signed-off-by: Jean Tourrilhes <jt@hpl.hp.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Inspired by an e-mail by Stephen Hemminger I decided to remove all
unneeded packed attributes from the code where the member variables are
already aligned. This avoids horrible code being generated on some
architectures.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Tested by Vincent TOUCHARD
zd1211 chip 0b05:170c v4802 high 00-11-d8 AL2230_RF pa0 g---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Tested by Martin Dummer.
zd1211 chip 0b3b:5630 v4330 high 00-01-e3 RF2959_RF pa0 ---
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This patch fixes an out of sequence step in the bcm43xx_init_board
routine for bcm43xx-softmac.
Signed-off-by: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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This fixes various bugs in the init and shutdown code
that would lead to lockups and crashes.
Signed-Off-By: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Caused by a documentation issue I mixed up fields of the zd_status
structure. This patch fixes it and improves also the average
computation, which is now using only measurements of packets sent
by the access point.
Signed-off-by: Ulrich Kunitz <kune@deine-taler.de>
Signed-off-by: Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 into upstream
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