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* Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/sam/kbuildLinus Torvalds2006-01-041-12/+12
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| * kbuild: patch to Documentation/kbuild/modules.txtBrian Strand2005-12-161-12/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | First off, thanks for the kbuild docs, they are very useful! Second, I've attached a patch to modules.txt (from 2.6.14.2) with a "compile" fix to a Makefile example, and some trivial spelling/grammar nits. Please let me know if you want the patch in some other format (eg not MIME), or if I should go bother someone else about it. Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
* | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds2006-01-046-14/+7
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| * | Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX: remove entry for fat_cvf.txtPaolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso2006-01-031-2/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove non-existing entry for fat_cvf.txt (was it ever supported?). Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
| * | update the email address of Randy DunlapAdrian Bunk2006-01-032-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes all references to the bouncing address rddunlap@osdl.org and one dead web page from the kernel. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
| * | Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt: typo fixJim Cromie2006-01-031-3/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes an extra occurrence of 'generic'. Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
| * | Documentation/SubmittingPatches: update Trivial Patch Monkey informationKees Cook2006-01-031-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | While looking for where to send trivial patches, I found old contact information in Documentation/SubmittingPatches. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
| * | update for Documentation/sysrq.txtAdam D. Moss2006-01-031-5/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch for 2.4.x updates the dead email address for 'Mydraal' and since he no longer wishes to field questions concerning SysRq or this document removes the statement stating otherwise. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
* | | Merge branch 'upstream' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-01-041-0/+8
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| * | | [PATCH] add boot option to control Intel SATA/PATA combined modeJesse Barnes2005-12-131-0/+8
| |/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Combined mode sucks. Especially when both libata and the legacy IDE drivers try to drive ports on the same device, since that makes DMA rather difficult. This patch addresses the problem by allowing the user to control which driver binds to the ports in a combined mode configuration. In many cases, they'll probably want the libata driver to control both ports since it can use DMA for talking with ATAPI devices (when libata.atapi_enabled=1 of course). It also allows the user to get old school behavior by letting the legacy IDE driver bind to both ports. But neither is forced, the patch doesn't change current behavior unless one of combined_mode=ide or combined_mode=libata is passed on the boot line. Either of those options may require you to access your devices via different device nodes (/dev/hd* in the ide case and /dev/sd* in the libata case), though of course if you have udev installed nicely you may not notice anything. :) Let me know if the documentation is too cryptic, I'd be happy to expand on it if necessary. I think most users will want to boot with 'combined_mode=libata' and add 'options libata atapi_enabled=1' to their modules.conf to get good DVD playing and disk behavior (haven't tested CD or DVD writing though). I'd much rather things behave sanely by default (i.e. DMA for devices on both ports), but apparently that's difficult given the various chip bugs and hardware configs out there (not to mention that people's drives may suddenly change from /dev/hdc to /dev/sdb), so this boot option may be the correct long term fix. Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* | | Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-01-041-0/+72
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| * \ \ Merge branch 'upstream-fixes'Jeff Garzik2005-12-131-0/+2
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| * | | Merge branch 'master'Jeff Garzik2005-12-127-48/+48
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| * | | | | | | [PATCH] Gianfar update and sysfs supportAndy Fleming2005-11-181-0/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This seems to have gotten lost, so I'll resend. Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> * Added sysfs support to gianfar for modifying FIFO and stashing parameters * Updated driver to support 10 Mbit, full duplex operation * Improved comments throughout * Cleaned up and optimized offloading code * Fixed a bug where rx buffers were being improperly mapped and unmapped * (only manifested if cache-coherency was off) * Added support for using the eTSEC exact-match MAC registers * Bumped the version to 1.3 * Added support for distinguishing between reduced 100 and 10 Mbit modes * Modified default coalescing values to lower latency * Added documentation Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
* | | | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-042-9/+63
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| * | | | | | | | [SCSI] Mention scsi_scan_host() in scsi_mid_low_api.txtMatthew Wilcox2005-12-131-9/+28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update to mention scsi_scan_host() Signed-off-by: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | | | | | | [SCSI] megaraid_{mbox,mm} : remove PCI Id overlaping between megaraid_legacy ↵Ju, Seokmann2005-12-131-0/+35
| | |_|_|_|_|_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | and megaraid_{mbox,mm} Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | | | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-041-0/+23
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| * | | | | | | | [IPV4]: Safer reassemblyHerbert Xu2006-01-031-0/+23
| |/ / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Another spin of Herbert Xu's "safer ip reassembly" patch for 2.6.16. (The original patch is here: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-netdev&m=112281936522415&w=2 and my only contribution is to have tested it.) This patch (optionally) does additional checks before accepting IP fragments, which can greatly reduce the possibility of reassembling fragments which originated from different IP datagrams. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au> Signed-off-by: Arthur Kepner <akepner@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | | | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-01-041-0/+1
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| * | | | | | | | [PATCH] USB: reorg some functions out of the main usb.c fileGreg Kroah-Hartman2006-01-041-0/+1
| |/ / / / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This will make the dynamic-id stuff easier to do, as it will be self-contained. No logic was changed at all. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds2006-01-041-3/+59
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| * | | | | | | Merge ../linus/Dave Jones2005-12-061-2/+3
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| * | | | | | | [PATCH] cpufreq: documentation for 'ondemand' and 'conservative'Alexander Clouter2005-12-011-3/+59
| | |_|_|_|/ / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Added a more verbose entry for the 'ondemend' governor and an entry for the 'conservative' governor to the documentation. Signed-off-by: Alexander Clouter <alex-kernel@digriz.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
* | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2005-12-121-0/+2
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| * | | | | | [ARM] Add memory.txt to 00-INDEXRussell King2005-12-041-0/+2
| | |/ / / / | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | | | | [PATCH] V4L/DVB: (3086c) Whitespaces cleanups part 4Mauro Carvalho Chehab2005-12-126-35/+35
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up whitespaces at v4l/dvb files Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | | [PATCH] ext3: fix mount options documentationAndreas Gruenbacher2005-12-121-13/+13
|/ / / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Reported by Jacques de Mer and Daniel Drake <dsd@gentoo.org>. Signed-off-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] USB: documentation updateAlan Stern2005-11-291-2/+3
|/ / / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch (as611) fixes a minor mistake and misspelling in the USB documentation. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | [NET]: Fix ifenslave to not fail on lack of IP informationNeil Horman2005-11-221-8/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch to ifenslave so that under older ABI versions, a failure to propogate ip information from master to slave does not result in a filure to enslave the slave device. Signed-off-by: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | [PATCH] kernel Doc/ URL correctionsRandy Dunlap2005-11-2219-76/+79
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Correct lots of URLs in Documentation/ Also a few minor whitespace cleanups and typo/spello fixes. Sadly there are still a lot of bad URLs remaining. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | [NET]: kernel-doc fixesRandy Dunlap2005-11-201-2/+4
| |_|/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fix kernel-doc warnings in network files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2005-11-191-1/+3
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| * | [ARM] Fix some corner cases in new mm initialisationRussell King2005-11-171-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Document that the VMALLOC_END address must be aligned to 2MB since it must align with a PGD boundary. Allocate the vectors page early so that the flush_cache_all() later will cause any dirty cache lines in the direct mapping will be safely written back. Move the flush_cache_all() to the second local_flush_cache_tlb() and remove the now redundant first local_flush_cache_tlb(). Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
* | | [PATCH] update Documentation/00-INDEXGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-11-181-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the index file with descriptions of the stable_api_nonsense.txt and stable_kernel_rules.txt files. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | [PATCH] Add HOWTO do kernel development document to the Documentation directoryGreg Kroah-Hartman2005-11-182-0/+620
| |/ |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's a document that describes the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development. It has gone through a number of rounds of review on the linux-kernel mailing list, and contains contributions and help from Paolo Ciarrocchi, Randy Dunlap, Gerrit Huizenga, Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Kay Sievers, Vojtech Pavlik, Jan Kara, Josh Boyer, Kees Cook, Andrew Morton, Andi Kleen, Vadim Lobanov, Jesper Juhl, Adrian Bunk, Keri Harris, Frans Pop, David A. Wheeler, Junio Hamano, Michael Kerrisk, and Alex Shepard. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] USB: Delete leftovers from bluetty driverMarcel Holtmann2005-11-172-50/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch deletes the bluetooth.txt help file of the bluetty driver and hands over its major device nodes for character devices to the RFCOMM TTY implementation of the Bluetooth subsystem. Signed-off-by: Marcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [MIPS] feature-removal-schedule.txt: Schedule au1x00_uart for removal.Ralf Baechle2005-11-171-0/+10
|/ | | | | | | | | The 8250 serial driver now has the ability to deal with the differences between the standard 8250 family of UARTs and their slightly strange brother on Alchemy SOCs. The loss of features is not considered an issue. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
* [PATCH] oops-tracing: mention extended VGADave Jones2005-11-151-1/+4
| | | | | | | | | Something I've found handy countless times when users do this.. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Update location of ll_rw_blk.c in docsBen Collins2005-11-152-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Picked from the ubuntu-2.6 tree The change in location for ll_rw_blk.c from drivers/block/ to block/ caused failure to generate documentation. Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] md: mark START_ARRAY deprecated with a dateNeilBrown2005-11-151-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | This was marked deprecated "after 2.6" back in the 2.5 days. But now it seems there isn't going to be any "after 2.6", and we deprecate by date now. So set a date. Signed-off-by: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge x86-64 update from AndiLinus Torvalds2005-11-142-3/+15
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| * [PATCH] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_CHECKING and add command line option for ↵Andi Kleen2005-11-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | pagefault tracing CONFIG_CHECKING covered some debugging code used in the early times of the port. But it wasn't even SMP safe for quite some time and the bugs it checked for seem to be gone. This patch removes all the code to verify GS at kernel entry. There haven't been any new bugs in this area for a long time. Previously it also covered the sysctl for the page fault tracing. That didn't make much sense because that code was unconditionally compiled in. I made that a boot option now because it is typically only useful at boot. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Log machine checks from boot on Intel systemsAndi Kleen2005-11-141-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The logging for boot errors was turned off because it was broken on some AMD systems. But give Intel EM64T systems a chance because they are supposed to be correct there. The advantage is that there is a chance to actually log uncorrected machine checks after the reset. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: New heuristics to find out hotpluggable CPUs.Andi Kleen2005-11-141-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With a NR_CPUS==128 kernel with CPU hotplug enabled we would waste 4MB on per CPU data of all possible CPUs. The reason was that HOTPLUG always set up possible map to NR_CPUS cpus and then we need to allocate that much (each per CPU data is roughly ~32k now) The underlying problem is that ACPI didn't tell us how many hotplug CPUs the platform supports. So the old code just assumed all, which would lead to this memory wastage. This implements some new heuristics: - If the BIOS specified disabled CPUs in the ACPI/mptables assume they can be enabled later (this is bending the ACPI specification a bit, but seems like a obvious extension) - The user can overwrite it with a new additionals_cpus=NUM option - Otherwise use half of the available CPUs or 2, whatever is more. Cc: ashok.raj@intel.com Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Some clarifications for Documention/x86_64/mm.txtAndi Kleen2005-11-141-1/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | I got some questions on this, so just fix up the documentation. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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