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2006-06-02[SERIAL] Update parity handling documentationPeter Korsgaard
Update documentation to match reality. INPCK controls whether input parity checking is enabled. Signed-off-by: Peter Korsgaard <jacmet@sunsite.dk> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-05-21Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvbLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (33 commits) V4L/DVB (3965): Fix CONFIG_VIDEO_VIVI=y build bug V4L/DVB (3964): Bt8xx/bttv-cards.c: fix off-by-one errors V4L/DVB (3914): Vivi build fix V4L/DVB (3912): Sparc32 vivi fix V4L/DVB (3832): Get_dvb_firmware: download nxt2002 firmware from new driver location V4L/DVB (3829): Fix frequency values in the ranges structures of the LG TDVS H06xF tuners V4L/DVB (3826): Saa7134: Missing 'break' in Terratec Cinergy 400 TV initialization V4L/DVB (3825): Remove broken 'fast firmware load' from cx25840. V4L/DVB (3819): Cxusb-bluebird: bug-fix: power down corrupts frontend V4L/DVB (3813): Add support for TCL M2523_5N_E tuner. V4L/DVB (3804): Tweak bandselect setup fox cx24123 V4L/DVB (3803): Various correctness fixes to tuning. V4L/DVB (3797): Always wait for diseqc queue to become ready before transmitting a diseqc message V4L/DVB (3796): Add several debug messages to cx24123 code V4L/DVB (3795): Fix for CX24123 & low symbol rates V4L/DVB (3792): Kbuild: DVB_BT8XX must select DVB_ZL10353 V4L/DVB (3790): Use after free in drivers/media/video/em28xx/em28xx-video.c V4L/DVB (3788): Fix compilation with V4L1_COMPAT V4L/DVB (3782): Removed uneeded stuff from pwc Makefile V4L/DVB (3775): Add VIVI Kconfig stuff ...
2006-05-21[PATCH] drivers/base/firmware_class.c: cleanupsAdrian Bunk
- remove the following global function that is both unused and unimplemented: - register_firmware() - make the following needlessly global function static: - firmware_class_uevent() Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-19Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] s3c2410_wdt.c stop watchdog after boot [WATCHDOG] i8xx_tco.c - remove support for ICH6 + ICH7 [WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt - fix watchdog daemon [WATCHDOG] sc1200wdt.c printk fix
2006-05-17[PATCH] sbp2: consolidate workaroundsStefan Richter
Grand unification of the three types of workarounds we have so far. The "skip mode page 8" workaround is now limited to devices which pretend to be of TYPE_DISK instead of TYPE_RBC. This workaround is no longer enabled for Initio bridges. Patch update in anticipation of more workarounds: - Add module parameter "workarounds". - Deprecate parameter "force_inquiry_hack". - Compose the blacklist of a compound type for better readability and extensibility. - Remove a now unused #define. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-16[PATCH] SPI: busnum == 0 needs to workDavid Brownell
We need to be able to have a "SPI bus 0" matching chip numbering; but that number was wrongly used to flag dynamic allocation of a bus number. This patch resolves that issue; now negative numbers trigger dynamic alloc. It also updates the how-to-write-a-controller-driver overview to mention this stuff. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-05-16[PATCH] SPI: add PXA2xx SSP SPI DriverStephen Street
This driver turns a PXA2xx synchronous serial port (SSP) into a SPI master controller (see Documentation/spi/spi_summary). The driver has the following features: - Support for any PXA2xx SSP - SSP PIO and SSP DMA data transfers. - External and Internal (SSPFRM) chip selects. - Per slave device (chip) configuration. - Full suspend, freeze, resume support. Signed-off-by: Stephen Street <stephen@streetfiresound.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-05-15[WATCHDOG] Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt - fix watchdog daemonRandy Dunlap
Fix the simple watchdog daemon program in Doc/watchdog/watchdog-api.txt to build cleanly. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2006-05-15[PATCH] devices.txt: remove pktcdvd entryPeter Osterlund
Changing the driver to use dynamic device numbers was one of the many changes that were made in order to have the driver accepted into the mainline kernel. Therefore I would say that the entry in devices.txt is obsolete. This patch removes it. Signed-off-by: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-15[PATCH] Fix typos in Documentation/memory-barriers.txtAneesh Kumar
Fix some typos in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt Signed-off-by: Aneesh Kumar K.V <aneesh.kumar@gmail.com> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-05-12V4L/DVB (3832): Get_dvb_firmware: download nxt2002 firmware from new driver ↵Michael Krufky
location BBTI has updated their driver, and removed the old one from their website. This patch updates the get_dvb_firmware script to download the firmware from the new driver location. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2006-05-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [NET_SCHED]: HFSC: fix thinko in hfsc_adjust_levels() [IPV6]: skb leakage in inet6_csk_xmit [BRIDGE]: Do sysfs registration inside rtnl. [NET]: Do sysfs registration as part of register_netdevice. [TG3]: Fix possible NULL deref in tg3_run_loopback(). [NET] linkwatch: Handle jiffies wrap-around [IRDA]: Switching to a workqueue for the SIR work [IRDA]: smsc-ircc: Minimal hotplug support. [IRDA]: Removing unused EXPORT_SYMBOLs [IRDA]: New maintainer. [NET]: Make netdev_chain a raw notifier. [IPV4]: ip_options_fragment() has no effect on fragmentation [NET]: Add missing operstates documentation.
2006-05-11Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: (25 commits) [SCSI] mptfc: race between mptfc_register_dev and mptfc_target_alloc [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.6 : Fix Data Corruption in Bus Reset Path [SCSI] mptspi: revalidate negotiation parameters after host reset and resume [SCSI] srp.h: avoid padding of structs [SCSI] ibmvscsi: fix leak when failing to send srp event [SCSI] qla2xxx: Correct eh_abort recovery logic. [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: fix a bug in reset handler [SCSI] fusion - bug fix stack overflow in mptbase [SCSI] scsi: Add IBM 2104-DU3 to blist [SCSI] Fix DVD burning issues. [SCSI] SCSI: aic7xxx_osm_pci resource leak fix. [SCSI] - fusion - mptfc bug fix's to prevent deadlock situations [SCSI] mptfusion: bug fix's for raid components adding/deleting [SCSI] aic7xxx: ahc_pci_write_config() fix [SCSI] megaraid: unused variable [SCSI] qla2xxx: only free_irq() after request_irq() succeeds [SCSI] Overrun in drivers/scsi/sim710.c [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.5 : Change version number to 8.1.5 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.5 : Misc small fixes [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.5 : Additional fixes to LOGO, PLOGI, and RSCN processing ...
2006-05-09[NET]: Add missing operstates documentation.Stefan Rompf
Signed-off-by: Stefan Rompf <stefan@loplof.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-05-01Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsaLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (22 commits) [ALSA] via82xx - Use DXS_SRC as default for VIA8235/8237/8251 chips [ALSA] hda-codec - Add model entry for ASUS Z62F [ALSA] PCMCIA sound devices shouldn't depend on ISA [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix capture from line-in on VAIO SZ/FE laptops [ALSA] Fix Oops at rmmod with CONFIG_SND_VERBOSE_PROCFS=n [ALSA] PCM core - introduce CONFIG_SND_PCM_XRUN_DEBUG [ALSA] adding __devinitdata to pci_device_id [ALSA] add __devinitdata to all pci_device_id [ALSA] hda-codec - Add codec id for AD1988B codec chip [ALSA] hda-codec - Add model entry for ASUS M9 laptop [ALSA] pcxhr - Fix a compiler warning on 64bit architectures [ALSA] via82xx: tweak VT8251 workaround [ALSA] intel8x0 - Disable ALI5455 SPDIF-input [ALSA] via82xx: add support for VIA VT8251 (AC'97) [ALSA] Fix typos and add information about Jack support to Audiophile-Usb.txt [ALSA] Fix double free in error path of miro driver [ALSA] hda-codec - Add entry for Epox EP-5LDA+ GLi [ALSA] sound/pci/: remove duplicate #include's [ALSA] hda-codec - Use model 'hp' for all HP laptops with AD1981HD [ALSA] continue on IS_ERR from platform device registration ...
2006-04-28[PATCH] suspend: Documentation update for IBM Thinkpad X30Antonino A. Daplas
As reported in Bugzilla Bug 6406, resume from S3 results in a blank screen. For the IBM Thinkpad X30 using vesafb as the console driver, successful resume from S3 requires option acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode. Update documentation. I would presume that, in any hardware, using vesafb as the console driver will require as a minimum s3_mode. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: <igor47@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-27Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: [PATCH] PCI quirk: VIA IRQ fixup should only run for VIA southbridges [PATCH] PCI: fix potential resource leak in drivers/pci/msi.c [PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device ids [PATCH] PCI: fix via irq SATA patch
2006-04-27[PATCH] Added URI of "linux kernel development process"Paolo Ciarrocchi
Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-27[PATCH] PCI: Documentation: no more device idsIngo Oeser
Document that we don't like to add more PCI device ids but are happy to accept PCI vendor ids for linux/include/pci_ids.h Original text from Jeff Garzik. Signed-off-by: Ingo Oeser <netdev@axxeo.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-27[ALSA] adding __devinitdata to pci_device_idKenrik Kretzschmar
Refering to <kernelsource>/Documentation/pci.txt the struct pci_device_id can be released after loading the module. Signed-off-by: Kenrik Kretzschmar <henne@nachtwindheim.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-27[ALSA] Fix typos and add information about Jack support to Audiophile-Usb.txtCharis Kouzinopoulos
Signed-off-by: Charis Kouzinopoulos <kouzinopoulos@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Thibault Le Meur <Thibault.LeMeur@supelec.fr> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2006-04-27[SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: fix a bug in reset handlerJu, Seokmann
When abort failed, the driver gets reset handleer called. In the reset handler, driver calls 'scsi_done()' callback for same SCSI command packet (struct scsi_cmnd) multiple times if there are multiple SCSI command packet in the pend_list. More over, if there are entry in the pend_lsit with IOCTL packet associated, the driver returns it to wrong free_list so that, in turn, the driver could end up with 'NULL pointer dereference..' during I/O command building with incorrect resource. Also, the patch contains several minor/cosmetic changes besides this. Signed-off-by: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-04-26[doc] add paragraph about 'fs' subsystem to sysfs.txtMiklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
2006-04-20Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] block/elevator.c: remove unused exports [PATCH] splice: fix smaller sized splice reads [PATCH] Don't inherit ->splice_pipe across forks [patch] cleanup: use blk_queue_stopped [PATCH] Document online io scheduler switching
2006-04-20[PATCH] update OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER schedule and dependenciesAdrian Bunk
Update the schedule for the removal of drivers depending on OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER as follows: - adjust OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencie - from the release of 2.6.16 till the release of 2.6.17: approx. two months for users to report problems with the ALSA drivers for the same hardware - after the release of 2.6.17 (and before 2.6.18): remove the subset of drivers marked at OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER without known regressions in the ALSA drivers for the same hardware Additionally, correct some OBSOLETE_OSS_DRIVER dependencies. A rationale of the changes is in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/1/28/135 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-20[PATCH] Document online io scheduler switchingValdis Kletnieks
We added the ability to change a block device's IO elevator scheduler both at kernel boot and on-the-fly, but we only documented the elevator= boot parameter. Add a quick how-to on doing it on the fly. Signed-off-by: Valdis Kletnieks <valdis.kletnieks@vt.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-19[PATCH] Doc: vm/hugetlbpage update-2Randy Dunlap
Add new line of /proc/meminfo output. Explain the HugePage_ lines in /proc/meminfo (from Bill Irwin). Change KB to kB since the latter is what is used in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-18Merge ../linusDave Jones
2006-04-15[SERIAL] Update serial driver documentationRussell King
Improve serial driver documentation: - Remove CVS id. - Update pointer to reference driver documentation. - Add comments about new uart_write_console function. - Add TIOCM_LOOP modem control bit description. - Add commentry about enable_ms method being called multiple times. - Add commentry about startup/shutdown method calling. - Mention that dereferencing port->info after shutdown is invalid. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-04-14Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (170 commits) commit 3d9dd7564d5d7c28eb87b14c13a23806484667f3 Author: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Date: Fri Apr 14 16:04:18 2006 -0700 [PATCH] ip_output: account for fraggap when checking to add trailer_len During other work I noticed that ip_append_data() seemed to be forgetting to include the frag gap in its calculation of a fragment that consumes the rest of the payload. Herbert confirmed that this was a bug that snuck in during a previous rework. Signed-off-by: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> commit 08d099974a09faf4cb11ffc46da87073fa132fc0 Author: Linus Walleij <triad@df.lth.se> Date: Fri Apr 14 16:03:33 2006 -0700 [IRDA]: smsc-ircc2, smcinit support for ALi ISA bridges ...
2006-04-14Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6: (78 commits) commit e97b81ddbb8b8c72b85330ac4a454a4513dcba8a Author: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Date: Thu Mar 23 16:50:25 2006 +0100 [PATCH] i2c-parport: Make type parameter mandatory This patch forces the user to specify what type of adapter is present when loading i2c-parport or i2c-parport-light. If none is specified, the driver init simply fails - instead of assuming adapter type 0. This alleviates the sometimes lengthy boot time delays which can be caused by accidentally building one of these into a kernel along with several i2c slave drivers that have lengthy probe routines (e.g. hwmon drivers). Kconfig and documentation updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> ...
2006-04-14[XFRM]: Add documentation for async events.Jamal Hadi Salim
Documentation to describe asynchronous xfrm events to help people writting HA code in user space. Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-04-14[PATCH] dma doc updatesDavid Brownell
This updates the DMA API documentation to address a few issues: - The dma_map_sg() call results are used like pci_map_sg() results: using sg_dma_address() and sg_dma_len(). That's not wholly obvious to folk reading _only_ the "new" DMA-API.txt writeup. - Buffers allocated by dma_alloc_coherent() may not be completely free of coherency concerns ... some CPUs also have write buffers that may need to be flushed. - Cacheline coherence issues are now mentioned as being among issues which affect dma buffers, and complicate/prevent using of static and (especially) stack based buffers with the DMA calls. I don't think many drivers currently need to worry about flushing write buffers, but I did hit it with one SOC using external SDRAM for DMA descriptors: without explicit writebuffer flushing, the on-chip DMA controller accessed descriptors before the CPU completed the writes. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-14[PATCH] i2c-parport: Make type parameter mandatoryMark M. Hoffman
This patch forces the user to specify what type of adapter is present when loading i2c-parport or i2c-parport-light. If none is specified, the driver init simply fails - instead of assuming adapter type 0. This alleviates the sometimes lengthy boot time delays which can be caused by accidentally building one of these into a kernel along with several i2c slave drivers that have lengthy probe routines (e.g. hwmon drivers). Kconfig and documentation updated accordingly. Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-11Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuild: kconfig: fix typo in change count initialization kconfig: recenter menuconfig kconfig: revert conf behaviour change kconfig: fix default value for choice input kbuild: fix NULL dereference in scripts/mod/modpost.c kbuild: fix mode of checkstack.pl and other files. kbuild: rebuild initramfs if content of initramfs changes kbuild: properly pass options to hostcc when doing make O=.. kbuild: modules_install for external modules must not remove existing modules kbuild: fix make dir/ ver_linux: don't print reiser4progs version if none found kbuild: mips: fix sed regexp to generate asm-offset.h kbuild: fix building single targets with make O=.. single-target kbuild: use relative path to -I kbuild: fix unneeded rebuilds in drivers/net/chelsio after moving source tree kbuild: fix unneeded rebuilds in drivers/media/video after moving source tree kbuild: fix garbled text in modules.txt
2006-04-11Merge branch 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-blockLinus Torvalds
* 'splice' of git://brick.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block: [PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentation [PATCH] Remove sys_ prefix of new syscalls from __NR_sys_* [PATCH] splice: warning fix [PATCH] another round of fs/pipe.c cleanups [PATCH] splice: comment styles [PATCH] splice: add Ingo as addition copyright holder [PATCH] splice: unlikely() optimizations [PATCH] splice: speedups and optimizations [PATCH] pipe.c/fifo.c code cleanups [PATCH] get rid of the PIPE_*() macros [PATCH] splice: speedup __generic_file_splice_read [PATCH] splice: add direct fd <-> fd splicing support [PATCH] splice: add optional input and output offsets [PATCH] introduce a "kernel-internal pipe object" abstraction [PATCH] splice: be smarter about calling do_page_cache_readahead() [PATCH] splice: optimize the splice buffer mapping [PATCH] splice: cleanup __generic_file_splice_read() [PATCH] splice: only call wake_up_interruptible() when we really have to [PATCH] splice: potential !page dereference [PATCH] splice: mark the io page as accessed
2006-04-11[PATCH] isdn4linux: Siemens Gigaset drivers: add READMETilman Schmidt
With Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Add a README file for the Siemens Gigaset drivers to the Documentation/isdn directory. Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Cc: Karsten Keil <kkeil@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Improve data-dependency memory barrier example in documentationDavid Howells
In the memory barrier document, improve the example of the data dependency barrier situation by: (1) showing the initial values of the variables involved; and (2) repeating the instruction sequence description, this time with the data dependency barrier actually shown to make it clear what the revised sequence actually is. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Fix memory barrier docs wrt atomic opsDavid Howells
Fix the memory barrier documentation to attempt to describe atomic ops correctly. atomic_t ops that return a value _do_ imply smp_mb() either side, and so don't actually require smp_mb__*_atomic_*() special barriers. Also explains why special barriers exist in addition to normal barriers. Further fix the memory barrier documents to portray bitwise operation memory barrier effects correctly following Nick Piggin's comments. It makes the point that any atomic op that both modifies some state in memory and returns information on that state implies memory barriers on both sides. Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Doc: fix mtrr userspace programs to build cleanlyRandy Dunlap
Fix mtrr-add.c and mtrr-show.c in Doc/mtrr.txt to build cleanly. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] docs: laptop-mode.txt source file buildRandy Dunlap
Fix C source file in Doc/laptop-mode.txt to compile. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] Last DMA_xBIT_MASK cleanupsTobias Klauser
These are the last conversions of pci_set_dma_mask(), pci_set_consistent_dma_mask() and pci_dma_supported() to use DMA_xBIT_MASK constants from linux/dma-mapping.h Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] the scheduled unexport of panic_timeoutAdrian Bunk
Implement the scheduled unexport of panic_timeout. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] hugetlbfs doc. updateRandy Dunlap
Fix typos, spelling, etc., in Doc/vm/hugetlbpage.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-11[PATCH] vfs: add splice_write and splice_read to documentationPekka J Enberg
This patch adds the new splice_write and splice_read file operations to Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt. Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
2006-04-10[PATCH] move ->eh_strategy_handler to the transport classChristoph Hellwig
Overriding the whole EH code is a per-transport, not per-host thing. Move ->eh_strategy_handler to the transport class, same as ->eh_timed_out. Downside is that scsi_host_alloc can't check for the total lack of EH anymore, but the transition period from old EH where we needed it is long gone already. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-04-09[PATCH] x86_64: Reserve SRAT hotadd memory on x86-64Andi Kleen
From: Keith Mannthey, Andi Kleen Implement memory hotadd without sparsemem. The memory in the SRAT hotadd area is just preserved instead and can be activated later. There are a few restrictions: - Only one continuous hotadd area allowed per node The main problem is dealing with the many buggy SRAT tables that are out there. The strategy here is to reject anything suspicious. Originally from Keith Mannthey, with several hacks and changes by AK and also contributions from Andrew Morton [ TBD: Problems pointed out by KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>: 1) Goto's rebuild_zonelist patch will not work if CONFIG_MEMORY_HOTPLUG=n. Rebuilding zonelist is necessary when the system has just memory < 4G at boot, and hot add memory > 4G. because x86_64 has DMA32, ZONE_NORAML is not included into zonelist at boot time if system doesn't have memory >4G at boot. [AK: should just force the higher zones at boot time when SRAT tells us] 2) zone and node's spanned_pages and present_pages are not incremented. They should be. For example, our server (ia64/Fujitsu PrimeQuest) can equip memory from 4G to 1T(maybe 2T in future), and SRAT will *always* say we have possible 1T +memory. (Microsoft requires "write all possible memory in SRAT") When we reserve memmap for possible 1T memory, Linux will not work well in +minimum 4G configuraion ;) [AK: needs limiting to 5-10% of max memory] ] Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-04-04kbuild: fix garbled text in modules.txtBrian Gerst
Signed-off-by: Brian Gerst <bgerst@didntduck.org> Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2006-04-03[CPUFREQ] Update LART site URLErik Mouw
Update LART site URL. The LART website moved to http://www.lartmaker.nl/. This patch updates the URL in CpuFreq specific files. Signed-off-by: Erik Mouw <erik@bitwizard.nl> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2006-04-02Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsaLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (28 commits) [ALSA] Kconfig SND_SEQUENCER_OSS help text fix [ALSA] Add Aux input switch control for Aureon Universe [ALSA] pcxhr - Fix the crash with REV01 board [ALSA] sound/pci/hda: use create_singlethread_workqueue() [ALSA] hda-intel - Add support of ATI SB600 [ALSA] cs4281 - Fix the check of timeout in probe [ALSA] cs4281 - Fix the check of right channel [ALSA] Test volume resolution of usb audio at initialization [ALSA] maestro3.c: fix BUG, optimization [ALSA] HDA/Realtek: multiple input mux definitions and pin mode additions [ALSA] AdLib FM card driver [ALSA] Fix / clean up PCM-OSS setup hooks [ALSA] Clean up PCM codes (take 2) [ALSA] Tiny clean up of PCM codes [ALSA] ISA drivers bailing on first !enable[i] [ALSA] Remove obsolete kfree_nocheck call [ALSA] Remove obsolete kfree_nocheck call [ALSA] Add snd-als300 driver for Avance Logic ALS300/ALS300+ soundcards [ALSA] Add snd-riptide driver for Conexant Riptide chip [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix noisy output wtih AD1986A 3stack model ...
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