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| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/HOWTO | 4 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/development-process/5.Posting | 8 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt | 1 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt | 32 |
4 files changed, 38 insertions, 7 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index 81bc1a9..f7ade3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -275,8 +275,8 @@ versions. If no 2.6.x.y kernel is available, then the highest numbered 2.6.x kernel is the current stable kernel. -2.6.x.y are maintained by the "stable" team <stable@kernel.org>, and are -released as needs dictate. The normal release period is approximately +2.6.x.y are maintained by the "stable" team <stable@vger.kernel.org>, and +are released as needs dictate. The normal release period is approximately two weeks, but it can be longer if there are no pressing problems. A security-related problem, instead, can cause a release to happen almost instantly. diff --git a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting index 903a254..8a48c9b 100644 --- a/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting +++ b/Documentation/development-process/5.Posting @@ -271,10 +271,10 @@ copies should go to: the linux-kernel list. - If you are fixing a bug, think about whether the fix should go into the - next stable update. If so, stable@kernel.org should get a copy of the - patch. Also add a "Cc: stable@kernel.org" to the tags within the patch - itself; that will cause the stable team to get a notification when your - fix goes into the mainline. + next stable update. If so, stable@vger.kernel.org should get a copy of + the patch. Also add a "Cc: stable@vger.kernel.org" to the tags within + the patch itself; that will cause the stable team to get a notification + when your fix goes into the mainline. When selecting recipients for a patch, it is good to have an idea of who you think will eventually accept the patch and get it merged. While it diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt index d79aead..10c64c8 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/devres.txt @@ -262,6 +262,7 @@ IOMAP devm_ioremap() devm_ioremap_nocache() devm_iounmap() + devm_request_and_ioremap() : checks resource, requests region, ioremaps pcim_iomap() pcim_iounmap() pcim_iomap_table() : array of mapped addresses indexed by BAR diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt index 742cc06..f04066a 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/debugfs.txt @@ -97,7 +97,8 @@ A read on the resulting file will yield either Y (for non-zero values) or N, followed by a newline. If written to, it will accept either upper- or lower-case values, or 1 or 0. Any other input will be silently ignored. -Finally, a block of arbitrary binary data can be exported with: +Another option is exporting a block of arbitrary binary data, with +this structure and function: struct debugfs_blob_wrapper { void *data; @@ -115,6 +116,35 @@ can be used to export binary information, but there does not appear to be any code which does so in the mainline. Note that all files created with debugfs_create_blob() are read-only. +If you want to dump a block of registers (something that happens quite +often during development, even if little such code reaches mainline. +Debugfs offers two functions: one to make a registers-only file, and +another to insert a register block in the middle of another sequential +file. + + struct debugfs_reg32 { + char *name; + unsigned long offset; + }; + + struct debugfs_regset32 { + struct debugfs_reg32 *regs; + int nregs; + void __iomem *base; + }; + + struct dentry *debugfs_create_regset32(const char *name, mode_t mode, + struct dentry *parent, + struct debugfs_regset32 *regset); + + int debugfs_print_regs32(struct seq_file *s, struct debugfs_reg32 *regs, + int nregs, void __iomem *base, char *prefix); + +The "base" argument may be 0, but you may want to build the reg32 array +using __stringify, and a number of register names (macros) are actually +byte offsets over a base for the register block. + + There are a couple of other directory-oriented helper functions: struct dentry *debugfs_rename(struct dentry *old_dir, |
