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authorJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-10-05 09:30:10 +0200
committerJens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>2009-10-05 09:30:10 +0200
commit5d13379a4dba717fb75b749acc0f928c2c02db17 (patch)
treeab5bf870206e6ea8e744390cdb37cb14f7e78257 /Documentation
parent08dc8726d4be85bca793141c827574fd32a681bb (diff)
parent374576a8b6f865022c0fd1ca62396889b23d66dd (diff)
Merge branch 'master' into for-2.6.33
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/arm/tcm.txt10
-rw-r--r--Documentation/connector/cn_test.c2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/connector/connector.txt8
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ltc42157
-rw-r--r--Documentation/hwmon/ltc42457
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/misc-devices/eeprom (renamed from Documentation/i2c/chips/eeprom)0
-rw-r--r--Documentation/misc-devices/max6875 (renamed from Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875)6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/w1/masters/ds24826
15 files changed, 41 insertions, 28 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
index b7f9d3b4bbf..72651f788f4 100644
--- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
+++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -232,7 +232,7 @@ your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched.
When sending patches to Linus, always follow step #7.
Large changes are not appropriate for mailing lists, and some
-maintainers. If your patch, uncompressed, exceeds 40 kB in size,
+maintainers. If your patch, uncompressed, exceeds 300 kB in size,
it is preferred that you store your patch on an Internet-accessible
server, and provide instead a URL (link) pointing to your patch.
diff --git a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt
index 074f4be6667..77fd9376e6d 100644
--- a/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt
+++ b/Documentation/arm/tcm.txt
@@ -29,11 +29,13 @@ TCM location and size. Notice that this is not a MMU table: you
actually move the physical location of the TCM around. At the
place you put it, it will mask any underlying RAM from the
CPU so it is usually wise not to overlap any physical RAM with
-the TCM. The TCM memory exists totally outside the MMU and will
-override any MMU mappings.
+the TCM.
-Code executing inside the ITCM does not "see" any MMU mappings
-and e.g. register accesses must be made to physical addresses.
+The TCM memory can then be remapped to another address again using
+the MMU, but notice that the TCM if often used in situations where
+the MMU is turned off. To avoid confusion the current Linux
+implementation will map the TCM 1 to 1 from physical to virtual
+memory in the location specified by the machine.
TCM is used for a few things:
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
index 1711adc3337..b07add3467f 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
+++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static char cn_test_name[] = "cn_test";
static struct sock *nls;
static struct timer_list cn_test_timer;
-static void cn_test_callback(struct cn_msg *msg)
+static void cn_test_callback(struct cn_msg *msg, struct netlink_skb_parms *nsp)
{
pr_info("%s: %lu: idx=%x, val=%x, seq=%u, ack=%u, len=%d: %s.\n",
__func__, jiffies, msg->id.idx, msg->id.val,
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
index 81e6bf6ead5..78c9466a9aa 100644
--- a/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
+++ b/Documentation/connector/connector.txt
@@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ handling, etc... The Connector driver allows any kernelspace agents to use
netlink based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:
-int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
+int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (struct cn_msg *, struct netlink_skb_parms *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __group, int gfp_mask);
struct cb_id
@@ -53,15 +53,15 @@ struct cn_msg
Connector interfaces.
/*****************************************/
-int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
+int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (struct cn_msg *, struct netlink_skb_parms *));
Registers new callback with connector core.
struct cb_id *id - unique connector's user identifier.
It must be registered in connector.h for legal in-kernel users.
char *name - connector's callback symbolic name.
- void (*callback) (void *) - connector's callback.
- Argument must be dereferenced to struct cn_msg *.
+ void (*callback) (struct cn..) - connector's callback.
+ cn_msg and the sender's credentials
void cn_del_callback(struct cb_id *id);
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
index 18b5ec8cea4..bf4f4b7e11b 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext4.txt
@@ -282,9 +282,16 @@ stripe=n Number of filesystem blocks that mballoc will try
to use for allocation size and alignment. For RAID5/6
systems this should be the number of data
disks * RAID chunk size in file system blocks.
-delalloc (*) Deferring block allocation until write-out time.
-nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocation
- when data is copied from user to page cache.
+
+delalloc (*) Defer block allocation until just before ext4
+ writes out the block(s) in question. This
+ allows ext4 to better allocation decisions
+ more efficiently.
+nodelalloc Disable delayed allocation. Blocks are allocated
+ when the data is copied from userspace to the
+ page cache, either via the write(2) system call
+ or when an mmap'ed page which was previously
+ unallocated is written for the first time.
max_batch_time=usec Maximum amount of time ext4 should wait for
additional filesystem operations to be batch
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
index b5aee7838a0..2c48f945546 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
@@ -1113,7 +1113,6 @@ Table 1-12: Files in /proc/fs/ext4/<devname>
..............................................................................
File Content
mb_groups details of multiblock allocator buddy cache of free blocks
- mb_history multiblock allocation history
..............................................................................
diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
index b58b84b50fa..eed520fd0c8 100644
--- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
+++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfat.txt
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ shortname=lower|win95|winnt|mixed
winnt: emulate the Windows NT rule for display/create.
mixed: emulate the Windows NT rule for display,
emulate the Windows 95 rule for create.
- Default setting is `lower'.
+ Default setting is `mixed'.
tz=UTC -- Interpret timestamps as UTC rather than local time.
This option disables the conversion of timestamps
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215 b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215
index 2e6a21eb656..c196a184625 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4215
@@ -22,12 +22,13 @@ Usage Notes
-----------
This driver does not probe for LTC4215 devices, due to the fact that some
-of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will need to use
-the "force" parameter to tell the driver where to find the device.
+of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will have to
+instantiate the devices explicitly.
Example: the following will load the driver for an LTC4215 at address 0x44
on I2C bus #0:
-$ modprobe ltc4215 force=0,0x44
+$ modprobe ltc4215
+$ echo ltc4215 0x44 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
Sysfs entries
diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245 b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245
index bae7a3adc5d..02838a47d86 100644
--- a/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245
+++ b/Documentation/hwmon/ltc4245
@@ -23,12 +23,13 @@ Usage Notes
-----------
This driver does not probe for LTC4245 devices, due to the fact that some
-of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will need to use
-the "force" parameter to tell the driver where to find the device.
+of the possible addresses are unfriendly to probing. You will have to
+instantiate the devices explicitly.
Example: the following will load the driver for an LTC4245 at address 0x23
on I2C bus #1:
-$ modprobe ltc4245 force=1,0x23
+$ modprobe ltc4245
+$ echo ltc4245 0x23 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-1/new_device
Sysfs entries
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices
index c740b7b4108..e89490270ab 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/instantiating-devices
@@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ segment, the address is sufficient to uniquely identify the device to be
deleted.
Example:
-# echo eeprom 0x50 > /sys/class/i2c-adapter/i2c-3/new_device
+# echo eeprom 0x50 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-3/new_device
While this interface should only be used when in-kernel device declaration
can't be done, there is a variety of cases where it can be helpful:
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/eeprom b/Documentation/misc-devices/eeprom
index f7e8104b576..f7e8104b576 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/chips/eeprom
+++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/eeprom
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875 b/Documentation/misc-devices/max6875
index 10ca43cd1a7..1e89ee3ccc1 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/chips/max6875
+++ b/Documentation/misc-devices/max6875
@@ -42,10 +42,12 @@ General Remarks
Valid addresses for the MAX6875 are 0x50 and 0x52.
Valid addresses for the MAX6874 are 0x50, 0x52, 0x54 and 0x56.
-The driver does not probe any address, so you must force the address.
+The driver does not probe any address, so you explicitly instantiate the
+devices.
Example:
-$ modprobe max6875 force=0,0x50
+$ modprobe max6875
+$ echo max6875 0x50 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device
The MAX6874/MAX6875 ignores address bit 0, so this driver attaches to multiple
addresses. For example, for address 0x50, it also reserves 0x51.
diff --git a/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c b/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
index 43d14310421..a7936fe8444 100644
--- a/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
+++ b/Documentation/networking/timestamping/timestamping.c
@@ -381,7 +381,7 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
memset(&hwtstamp, 0, sizeof(hwtstamp));
strncpy(hwtstamp.ifr_name, interface, sizeof(hwtstamp.ifr_name));
hwtstamp.ifr_data = (void *)&hwconfig;
- memset(&hwconfig, 0, sizeof(&hwconfig));
+ memset(&hwconfig, 0, sizeof(hwconfig));
hwconfig.tx_type =
(so_timestamping_flags & SOF_TIMESTAMPING_TX_HARDWARE) ?
HWTSTAMP_TX_ON : HWTSTAMP_TX_OFF;
diff --git a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt
index f1708b79f96..75fddb40f41 100644
--- a/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt
+++ b/Documentation/sound/alsa/HD-Audio-Models.txt
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ AD1884A / AD1883 / AD1984A / AD1984B
laptop laptop with HP jack sensing
mobile mobile devices with HP jack sensing
thinkpad Lenovo Thinkpad X300
+ touchsmart HP Touchsmart
AD1884
======
diff --git a/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482 b/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482
index 9210d6fa502..299b91c7609 100644
--- a/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482
+++ b/Documentation/w1/masters/ds2482
@@ -24,8 +24,8 @@ General Remarks
Valid addresses are 0x18, 0x19, 0x1a, and 0x1b.
However, the device cannot be detected without writing to the i2c bus, so no
-detection is done.
-You should force the device address.
+detection is done. You should instantiate the device explicitly.
-$ modprobe ds2482 force=0,0x18
+$ modprobe ds2482
+$ echo ds2482 0x18 > /sys/bus/i2c/devices/i2c-0/new_device