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authorTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>2010-08-02 14:23:38 +0300
committerTony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>2010-08-02 14:23:38 +0300
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Merge branch 'devel-misc' into omap-for-linus
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/00-INDEX6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt (renamed from Documentation/IO-mapping.txt)0
-rw-r--r--Documentation/credentials.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt5
7 files changed, 23 insertions, 5 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX
index dd10b51..5405f7a 100644
--- a/Documentation/00-INDEX
+++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ DocBook/
- directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
HOWTO
- the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development.
-IO-mapping.txt
- - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
IPMI.txt
- info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver.
IRQ-affinity.txt
@@ -84,6 +82,8 @@ blockdev/
- info on block devices & drivers
btmrvl.txt
- info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage.
+bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
+ - how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
cachetlb.txt
- describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses.
cdrom/
@@ -168,6 +168,8 @@ initrd.txt
- how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem.
input/
- info on Linux input device support.
+io-mapping.txt
+ - description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h
io_ordering.txt
- info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses.
ioctl/
diff --git a/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt b/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
index 1b5aa10..1b5aa10 100644
--- a/Documentation/IO-mapping.txt
+++ b/Documentation/bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
diff --git a/Documentation/credentials.txt b/Documentation/credentials.txt
index a2db352..995baf3 100644
--- a/Documentation/credentials.txt
+++ b/Documentation/credentials.txt
@@ -417,6 +417,9 @@ reference on them using:
This does all the RCU magic inside of it. The caller must call put_cred() on
the credentials so obtained when they're finished with.
+ [*] Note: The result of __task_cred() should not be passed directly to
+ get_cred() as this may race with commit_cred().
+
There are a couple of convenience functions to access bits of another task's
credentials, hiding the RCU magic from the caller:
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index c268783..1571c0c 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -647,3 +647,10 @@ Who: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
----------------------------
+What: The acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs command line option
+When: 2.6.37
+Files: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/sleep.c
+Why: superseded by acpi_sleep=nonvs
+Who: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+
+----------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 82d6aeb..2b2407d 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -254,8 +254,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
control method, with respect to putting devices into
low power states, to be enforced (the ACPI 2.0 ordering
of _PTS is used by default).
- s4_nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
- ACPI NVS memory during hibernation.
+ nonvs prevents the kernel from saving/restoring the
+ ACPI NVS memory during suspend/hibernation and resume.
sci_force_enable causes the kernel to set SCI_EN directly
on resume from S1/S3 (which is against the ACPI spec,
but some broken systems don't work without it).
@@ -1265,7 +1265,7 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
If there are multiple matching configurations changing
the same attribute, the last one is used.
- lmb=debug [KNL] Enable lmb debug messages.
+ memblock=debug [KNL] Enable memblock debug messages.
load_ramdisk= [RAM] List of ramdisks to load from floppy
See Documentation/blockdev/ramdisk.txt.
diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
index 9b2e0dd..e67c1db 100644
--- a/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
+++ b/Documentation/video4linux/CARDLIST.tuner
@@ -82,3 +82,4 @@ tuner=81 - Partsnic (Daewoo) PTI-5NF05
tuner=82 - Philips CU1216L
tuner=83 - NXP TDA18271
tuner=84 - Sony BTF-Pxn01Z
+tuner=85 - Philips FQ1236 MK5
diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
index 41c95cc..17ddd82 100644
--- a/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/watchdog/watchdog-parameters.txt
@@ -125,6 +125,11 @@ ibmasr:
nowayout: Watchdog cannot be stopped once started
(default=kernel config parameter)
-------------------------------------------------
+imx2_wdt:
+timeout: Watchdog timeout in seconds (default 60 s)
+nowayout: Watchdog cannot be stopped once started
+ (default=kernel config parameter)
+-------------------------------------------------
indydog:
nowayout: Watchdog cannot be stopped once started
(default=kernel config parameter)
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