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Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
27 files changed, 62 insertions, 66 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index fabc06466b9..9b1f6ca100d 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ quiet_cmd_db2ps = PS $@ %.ps : %.xml $(call cmd,db2ps) -quiet_cmd_db2pdf = PDF $@ +quiet_cmd_db2pdf = PDF $@ cmd_db2pdf = $(subst TYPE,pdf, $($(PDF_METHOD)template)) %.pdf : %.xml $(call cmd,db2pdf) @@ -148,7 +148,7 @@ build_main_index = rm -rf $(main_idx) && \ echo '<h2>Kernel Version: $(KERNELVERSION)</h2>' >> $(main_idx) && \ cat $(HTML) >> $(main_idx) -quiet_cmd_db2html = HTML $@ +quiet_cmd_db2html = HTML $@ cmd_db2html = xmlto xhtml $(XMLTOFLAGS) -o $(patsubst %.html,%,$@) $< && \ echo '<a HREF="$(patsubst %.html,%,$(notdir $@))/index.html"> \ $(patsubst %.html,%,$(notdir $@))</a><p>' > $@ diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl index 60d6e0b81bd..3ed88126ab8 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/deviceiobook.tmpl @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ <surname>Cox</surname> <affiliation> <address> - <email>alan@redhat.com</email> + <email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email> </address> </affiliation> </author> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/mcabook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/mcabook.tmpl index 499eddc2d07..467ccac6ec5 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/mcabook.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/mcabook.tmpl @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <surname>Cox</surname> <affiliation> <address> - <email>alan@redhat.com</email> + <email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email> </address> </affiliation> </author> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl index 9eebcc304de..8c93db122f0 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <surname>Cox</surname> <affiliation> <address> - <email>alan@redhat.com</email> + <email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email> </address> </affiliation> </author> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.tmpl index a42a8a4c768..6f3883be877 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/z8530book.tmpl @@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ <surname>Cox</surname> <affiliation> <address> - <email>alan@redhat.com</email> + <email>alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk</email> </address> </affiliation> </author> diff --git a/Documentation/ManagementStyle b/Documentation/ManagementStyle index 49a8efa5afe..a5f0ea58c78 100644 --- a/Documentation/ManagementStyle +++ b/Documentation/ManagementStyle @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ companies. If you sign purchase orders or you have any clue about the budget of your group, you're almost certainly not a kernel manager. These suggestions may or may not apply to you. -First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Successful +First off, I'd suggest buying "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People", and NOT read it. Burn it, it's a great symbolic gesture. (*) This document does so not so much by answering the question, but by diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/.gitignore b/Documentation/accounting/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..86485203c4a --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/accounting/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +getdelays diff --git a/Documentation/auxdisplay/.gitignore b/Documentation/auxdisplay/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..7af222860a9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/auxdisplay/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +cfag12864b-example diff --git a/Documentation/connector/.gitignore b/Documentation/connector/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..d2b9c32accd --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/connector/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ucon diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking index 8362860e21a..23d2f4460de 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/Locking +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/Locking @@ -161,8 +161,12 @@ prototypes: int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page); int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages); - int (*prepare_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned); - int (*commit_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned); + int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping, + loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags, + struct page **pagep, void **fsdata); + int (*write_end)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping, + loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned copied, + struct page *page, void *fsdata); sector_t (*bmap)(struct address_space *, sector_t); int (*invalidatepage) (struct page *, unsigned long); int (*releasepage) (struct page *, int); @@ -180,8 +184,6 @@ sync_page: no maybe writepages: no set_page_dirty no no readpages: no -prepare_write: no yes yes -commit_write: no yes yes write_begin: no locks the page yes write_end: no yes, unlocks yes perform_write: no n/a yes @@ -191,7 +193,7 @@ releasepage: no yes direct_IO: no launder_page: no yes - ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage() + ->write_begin(), ->write_end(), ->sync_page() and ->readpage() may be called from the request handler (/dev/loop). ->readpage() unlocks the page, either synchronously or via I/O diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt index c4d348dabe9..5579bda58a6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt @@ -492,7 +492,7 @@ written-back to storage typically in whole pages, however the address_space has finer control of write sizes. The read process essentially only requires 'readpage'. The write -process is more complicated and uses prepare_write/commit_write or +process is more complicated and uses write_begin/write_end or set_page_dirty to write data into the address_space, and writepage, sync_page, and writepages to writeback data to storage. @@ -521,8 +521,6 @@ struct address_space_operations { int (*set_page_dirty)(struct page *page); int (*readpages)(struct file *filp, struct address_space *mapping, struct list_head *pages, unsigned nr_pages); - int (*prepare_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned); - int (*commit_write)(struct file *, struct page *, unsigned, unsigned); int (*write_begin)(struct file *, struct address_space *mapping, loff_t pos, unsigned len, unsigned flags, struct page **pagep, void **fsdata); @@ -598,37 +596,7 @@ struct address_space_operations { readpages is only used for read-ahead, so read errors are ignored. If anything goes wrong, feel free to give up. - prepare_write: called by the generic write path in VM to set up a write - request for a page. This indicates to the address space that - the given range of bytes is about to be written. The - address_space should check that the write will be able to - complete, by allocating space if necessary and doing any other - internal housekeeping. If the write will update parts of - any basic-blocks on storage, then those blocks should be - pre-read (if they haven't been read already) so that the - updated blocks can be written out properly. - The page will be locked. - - Note: the page _must not_ be marked uptodate in this function - (or anywhere else) unless it actually is uptodate right now. As - soon as a page is marked uptodate, it is possible for a concurrent - read(2) to copy it to userspace. - - commit_write: If prepare_write succeeds, new data will be copied - into the page and then commit_write will be called. It will - typically update the size of the file (if appropriate) and - mark the inode as dirty, and do any other related housekeeping - operations. It should avoid returning an error if possible - - errors should have been handled by prepare_write. - - write_begin: This is intended as a replacement for prepare_write. The - key differences being that: - - it returns a locked page (in *pagep) rather than being - given a pre locked page; - - it must be able to cope with short writes (where the - length passed to write_begin is greater than the number - of bytes copied into the page). - + write_begin: Called by the generic buffered write code to ask the filesystem to prepare to write len bytes at the given offset in the file. The address_space should check that the write will be able to complete, @@ -640,6 +608,9 @@ struct address_space_operations { The filesystem must return the locked pagecache page for the specified offset, in *pagep, for the caller to write into. + It must be able to cope with short writes (where the length passed to + write_begin is greater than the number of bytes copied into the page). + flags is a field for AOP_FLAG_xxx flags, described in include/linux/fs.h. diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x index 266481fd26e..70e6a0cc1e1 100644 --- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x +++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-sis96x @@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ I suspect that this driver could be made to work for the following SiS chipsets as well: 635, and 635T. If anyone owns a board with those chips AND is willing to risk crashing & burning an otherwise well-behaved kernel in the name of progress... please contact me at <mhoffman@lightlink.com> or -via the project's mailing list: <i2c@lm-sensors.org>. Please send bug +via the linux-i2c mailing list: <linux-i2c@vger.kernel.org>. Please send bug reports and/or success stories as well. diff --git a/Documentation/ia64/.gitignore b/Documentation/ia64/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ab806edc873 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/ia64/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +aliasing-test diff --git a/Documentation/isdn/CREDITS b/Documentation/isdn/CREDITS index 8cac6c2f23e..c1679e913fc 100644 --- a/Documentation/isdn/CREDITS +++ b/Documentation/isdn/CREDITS @@ -5,7 +5,7 @@ I want to thank all who contributed to this project and especially to: Thomas Bogendörfer (tsbogend@bigbug.franken.de) Tester, lots of bugfixes and hints. -Alan Cox (alan@redhat.com) +Alan Cox (alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk) For help getting into standard-kernel. Henner Eisen (eis@baty.hanse.de) diff --git a/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO b/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO index 0775cf4798b..55476982b5c 100644 --- a/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO @@ -11,14 +11,14 @@ for non English (read: Japanese) speakers and is not intended as a fork. So if you have any comments or updates for this file, please try to update the original English file first. -Last Updated: 2008/08/21 +Last Updated: 2008/10/24 ================================== これは、 -linux-2.6.27/Documentation/HOWTO +linux-2.6.28/Documentation/HOWTO の和訳です。 翻訳団体： JF プロジェクト < http://www.linux.or.jp/JF/ > -翻訳日： 2008/8/5 +翻訳日： 2008/10/24 翻訳者： Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata at ab dot jp dot nec dot com> 校正者： 松倉さん <nbh--mats at nifty dot com> 小林 雅典さん (Masanori Kobayasi) <zap03216 at nifty dot ne dot jp> @@ -110,8 +110,8 @@ Linux カーネルソースツリーは幅広い範囲のドキュメントを 新しいドキュメントファイルも追加することを勧めます。 カーネルの変更が、カーネルがユーザ空間に公開しているインターフェイスの 変更を引き起こす場合、その変更を説明するマニュアルページのパッチや情報 -をマニュアルページのメンテナ mtk.manpages@gmail.com に送ることを勧めま -す。 +をマニュアルページのメンテナ mtk.manpages@gmail.com に送り、CC を +linux-api@ver.kernel.org に送ることを勧めます。 以下はカーネルソースツリーに含まれている読んでおくべきファイルの一覧で す- @@ -149,7 +149,7 @@ Linux カーネルソースツリーは幅広い範囲のドキュメントを この他にパッチを作る方法についてのよくできた記述は- "The Perfect Patch" - http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt + http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt "Linux kernel patch submission format" http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html @@ -664,7 +664,7 @@ Linux カーネルコミュニティは、一度に大量のコードの塊を これについて全てがどのようにあるべきかについての詳細は、以下のドキュメ ントの ChangeLog セクションを見てください- "The Perfect Patch" - http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt + http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt これらのどれもが、時にはとても困難です。これらの慣例を完璧に実施するに は数年かかるかもしれません。これは継続的な改善のプロセスであり、そのた diff --git a/Documentation/networking/.gitignore b/Documentation/networking/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..286a5680f49 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/networking/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +ifenslave diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt b/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt index b1b7499dd9d..8006c227fda 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt @@ -60,6 +60,6 @@ Tobias Ringstrom <tori@unhappy.mine.nu> : Current Maintainer Contributors: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo@conectiva.com.br> -Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> +Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com> Vojtech Pavlik <vojtech@suse.cz> diff --git a/Documentation/pcmcia/.gitignore b/Documentation/pcmcia/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..53d08133675 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/pcmcia/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +crc32hash diff --git a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt index 9d8eb553884..eb471c7a905 100644 --- a/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt +++ b/Documentation/scheduler/sched-design-CFS.txt @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ other HZ detail. Thus the CFS scheduler has no notion of "timeslices" in the way the previous scheduler had, and has no heuristics whatsoever. There is only one central tunable (you have to switch on CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG): - /proc/sys/kernel/sched_granularity_ns + /proc/sys/kernel/sched_min_granularity_ns which can be used to tune the scheduler from "desktop" (i.e., low latencies) to "server" (i.e., good batching) workloads. It defaults to a setting suitable diff --git a/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt b/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt index 709ca991a45..ddace3afc83 100644 --- a/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt +++ b/Documentation/scsi/aacraid.txt @@ -128,7 +128,7 @@ Supported Cards/Chipsets People ------------------------- -Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> +Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org> (updates for new-style PCI probing and SCSI host registration, small cleanups/fixes) Matt Domsch <matt_domsch@dell.com> (revision ioctl, adapter messages) diff --git a/Documentation/spi/.gitignore b/Documentation/spi/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..4280576397e --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/spi/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +spidev_fdx +spidev_test diff --git a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt index 4cfc78835bc..a452227361b 100644 --- a/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt +++ b/Documentation/stable_kernel_rules.txt @@ -12,6 +12,7 @@ Rules on what kind of patches are accepted, and which ones are not, into the marked CONFIG_BROKEN), an oops, a hang, data corruption, a real security issue, or some "oh, that's not good" issue. In short, something critical. + - New device IDs and quirks are also accepted. - No "theoretical race condition" issues, unless an explanation of how the race can be exploited is also provided. - It cannot contain any "trivial" fixes in it (spelling changes, diff --git a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt index bde799e0659..a4ccdd1981c 100644 --- a/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt +++ b/Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt @@ -363,11 +363,21 @@ tainted: Non-zero if the kernel has been tainted. Numeric values, which can be ORed together: - 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this - includes modules with no license. - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. - 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. - Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. - 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. - 64 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. + 1 - A module with a non-GPL license has been loaded, this + includes modules with no license. + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. + 2 - A module was force loaded by insmod -f. + Set by modutils >= 2.4.9 and module-init-tools. + 4 - Unsafe SMP processors: SMP with CPUs not designed for SMP. + 8 - A module was forcibly unloaded from the system by rmmod -f. + 16 - A hardware machine check error occurred on the system. + 32 - A bad page was discovered on the system. + 64 - The user has asked that the system be marked "tainted". This + could be because they are running software that directly modifies + the hardware, or for other reasons. + 128 - The system has died. + 256 - The ACPI DSDT has been overridden with one supplied by the user + instead of using the one provided by the hardware. + 512 - A kernel warning has occurred. +1024 - A module from drivers/staging was loaded. diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/.gitignore b/Documentation/video4linux/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..952703943e8 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +v4lgrab diff --git a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CONTRIBUTORS b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CONTRIBUTORS index 8aad6dd93d6..eb41b265086 100644 --- a/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CONTRIBUTORS +++ b/Documentation/video4linux/bttv/CONTRIBUTORS @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Contributors to bttv: Michael Chu <mmchu@pobox.com> AverMedia fix and more flexible card recognition -Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> +Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Video4Linux interface and 2.1.x kernel adaptation Chris Kleitsch diff --git a/Documentation/vm/.gitignore b/Documentation/vm/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..33e8a023df0 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/vm/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +slabinfo diff --git a/Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore b/Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore new file mode 100644 index 00000000000..ac90997dba9 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/watchdog/src/.gitignore @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +watchdog-simple +watchdog-test |