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2009-03-18Merge branches 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/debug', 'x86/mce2', 'x86/mm', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/mtrr', 'x86/setup', 'x86/setup-memory', 'x86/urgent', 'x86/uv', 'x86/x2apic' and 'linus' into x86/core Conflicts: arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
2009-03-16linux.conf.au 2009: TuzRusty Russell
Impact: help prevent extinction of species The Tasmanian Devil is a shy iconic Australian creature named for its spine-chilling screech. It is threatened with extinction due to a scientifically interesting but horrific transmissible facial cancer. This one is standing in for Tux for one release using the far less-known Devil Facial Tux Disguise. Save The Tasmanian Devil http://tassiedevil.com.au Signed-off-by: Linux.conf.au Hobart Team <contact@marchsouth.org> Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-13Merge branch 'x86/core' into x86/kconfigIngo Molnar
2009-03-12Merge branch 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'hwmon-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: hwmon: (f75375s) Remove unnecessary and confusing initialization hwmon: (it87) Properly decode -128 degrees C temperature hwmon: (lm90) Document support for the MAX6648/6692 chips hwmon: (abituguru3) Fix I/O error handling
2009-03-12trivial: fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentationJody McIntyre
Trivial patch to fix bad links in the ext2 and ext3 documentation. Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-12hwmon: (lm90) Document support for the MAX6648/6692 chipsDarrick J. Wong
Update documentation to prevent further confusion/duplication. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2009-03-11Merge branches 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/kexec', 'x86/mce2' and 'linus' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-10rcu: documentation 1Q09 updatePaul E. McKenney
Update the RCU documentation to call out the need for callers of primitives like call_rcu() and synchronize_rcu() to prevent subsequent RCU readers from hazard. Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-03-10Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/memtest', 'x86/mm', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/urgent', 'linus' and 'core/percpu' into x86/core
2009-03-09Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Add p4-clockmod sysfs-ui removal to feature-removal schedule. Revert "[CPUFREQ] Disable sysfs ui for p4-clockmod."
2009-03-09[CPUFREQ] Add p4-clockmod sysfs-ui removal to feature-removal schedule.Dave Jones
Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-03-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (29 commits) p54: fix race condition in memory management cfg80211: test before subtraction on unsigned iwlwifi: fix error flow in iwl*_pci_probe rt2x00 : more devices to rt73usb.c rt2x00 : more devices to rt2500usb.c bonding: Fix device passed into ->ndo_neigh_setup(). vlan: Fix vlan-in-vlan crashes. net: Fix missing dev->neigh_setup in register_netdevice(). tmspci: fix request_irq race pkt_sched: act_police: Fix a rate estimator test. tg3: Fix 5906 link problems SCTP: change sctp_ctl_sock_init() to try IPv4 if IPv6 fails IPv6: add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko sungem: another error printed one too early aoe: error printed 1 too early net pcmcia: worklimit reaches -1 net: more timeouts that reach -1 net: fix tokenring license dm9601: new vendor/product IDs netlink: invert error code in netlink_set_err() ...
2009-03-05Merge branch 'x86/doc' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-03-05x86/doc: mini-howto for using earlyprintk=dbgpYinghai Lu
[ mingo: small edits and extensions. ] Signed-off-by: Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Cc: Sarah Sharp <sarah.a.sharp@intel.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> LKML-Reference: <49AF18B7.4050305@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-03-04Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/David S. Miller
2009-03-05Squashfs: fix documentation typo, Cramfs filesystem limit is 256 MiBPhillip Lougher
Signed-off-by: Phillip Lougher <phillip@lougher.demon.co.uk>
2009-03-04IPv6: add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.koBrian Haley
Add "disable" module parameter support to ipv6.ko by specifying "disable=1" on module load. We just do the minimum of initializing inetsw6[] so calls from other modules to inet6_register_protosw() won't OOPs, then bail out. No IPv6 addresses or sockets can be created as a result, and a reboot is required to enable IPv6. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-03-04Merge branches 'x86/apic', 'x86/cpu', 'x86/fixmap', 'x86/mm', 'x86/sched', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/setup-lzma', 'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent' into x86/core
2009-03-02Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] mpt: fix disable lsi sas to use msi as default [SCSI] fix ABORTED_COMMAND looping forever problem [SCSI] sd: revive sd_index_lock [SCSI] cxgb3i: update the driver version to 1.0.1 [SCSI] cxgb3i: Fix spelling errors in documentation [SCSI] cxgb3i: added missing include in cxgb3i_ddp.h [SCSI] cxgb3i: Outgoing pdus need to observe skb's MAX_SKB_FRAGS [SCSI] cxgb3i: added per-task data to track transmit progress [SCSI] cxgb3i: transmit work-request fixes [SCSI] hptiop: Add new PCI device ID
2009-03-01Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/patIngo Molnar
2009-02-27Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: x86: enable DMAR by default xen: disable interrupts early, as start_kernel expects gpu/drm, x86, PAT: io_mapping_create_wc and resource_size_t gpu/drm, x86, PAT: Handle io_mapping_create_wc() errors in a clean way x86, Voyager: fix compile by lifting the degeneracy of phys_cpu_present_map x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txt
2009-02-27Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: V4L/DVB (10696): Remove outdated README for the flexcop-driver V4L/DVB (10695): Update Technisat card documentation V4L/DVB (10694): [PATCH] software IRQ watchdog for Flexcop B2C2 DVB PCI cards V4L/DVB (10663): soc-camera: fix S_CROP breakage on PXA and SuperH V4L/DVB (10659): em28xx: register device to soundcard for sysfs
2009-02-26V4L/DVB (10696): Remove outdated README for the flexcop-driverUwe Bugla
This patch removes an outdated README for the flexcop-driver. Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-02-26V4L/DVB (10695): Update Technisat card documentationUwe Bugla
Fixes for documentation of Technisat-based cards Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-02-26Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jbarnes/pci-2.6: PCI: AMD 813x B2 devices do not need boot interrupt quirk PCI: Enable PCIe AER only after checking firmware support PCI: pciehp: Handle interrupts that happen during initialization. PCI: don't enable too many HT MSI mappings PCI: add some sysfs ABI docs PCI quirk: enable MSI on 8132
2009-02-25ide: ide.c 'clear' fix, update "ide=nodma" documentationDavid Fries
Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - ide=nodma is no longer valid. drivers/ide/Kconfig - The module is ide-core.ko not ide. drivers/ide/ide.c - It took me a while to figure out what the arguments %d.%d:%d to nodma module parameter ment, so I added a comment to each. - Added a comment to each of the sscanf lines. - There is a bug, if j is 0 it would previously clear all the other bits except the current device, changed in three different places. mask &= (1 << i) should be mask &= ~(1 << i). Signed-off-by: David Fries <david@fries.net> [bart: s/disk/device/ in ide.c, beautify patch description] Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2009-02-25x86: update description for memtest boot parameterAndreas Herrmann
Signed-off-by: Andreas Herrmann <andreas.herrmann3@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-24Merge branches 'x86/acpi', 'x86/apic', 'x86/asm', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/mm', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/signal' and 'x86/urgent'; commit 'v2.6.29-rc6' into x86/core
2009-02-24PCI: add some sysfs ABI docsChris Wright
Add sysfs ABI docs for driver entries bind, unbind and new_id. These entries are pretty old, from 2.6.0 onwards AFAIK, so this documents current behaviour. Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@hobbes.lan>
2009-02-23x86, doc: fix references to Documentation/x86/i386/boot.txtKyle McMartin
Impact: Documentation fix The amazing dancing boot.txt file has jumped places again. It should never have been in Documentation/x86/i386, since it never was 32-bit-specific, but it unfortunately ended up there for a while. Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@linux.intel.com>
2009-02-22acpi/doc: add missing param valueRandy Dunlap
Add missing parameter value to list of available values for acpi=<value>. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22docbook: split kernel-api for device-driversRandy Dunlap
The kernel-api docbook was much larger than any of the others, so processing it took longer and needed some docbook extras in some cases, so split it into kernel-api (infrastructure etc.) and device drivers/device subsystems. This allows these docbooks to be generated in parallel. (This reduced the docbook processing time on my 4-proc system with make -j4 from about 5min:16sec to about 2min:01sec.) The chapters that were moved from kernel-api to device-drivers are: Driver Basics Device drivers infrastructure Parallel Port Devices Message-based devices Sound Devices 16x50 UART Driver Frame Buffer Library Input Subsystem Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) I2C and SMBus Subsystem Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/mach-default/setup.c Semantic conflict resolution: arch/x86/kernel/setup.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-22PATCH [2/2] Documentation/filesystems/sysfs.txt: fix descriptions of device ↵Mike Murphy
attributes Fix descriptions of device attributes to be consistent with the actual implementations in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-22PATCH [1/2] Documentation/driver-model/device.txt: fix struct device_attributeMike Murphy
Fix the presented definition of struct device_attribute to match the actual definition in include/linux/device.h Signed-off-by: Mike Murphy <mamurph[at]cs.clemson.edu> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-21[SCSI] cxgb3i: Fix spelling errors in documentationKaren Xie
Signed-off-by: Karen Xie <kxie@chelsio.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2009-02-20cpuset: various documentation fixes and updatesLi Zefan
I noticed the old commit 8f5aa26c75b7722e80c0c5c5bb833d41865d7019 ("cpusets: update_cpumask documentation fix") is not a complete fix, resulting in inconsistent paragraphs. This patch fixes it and does other fixes and updates: - s/migrate_all_tasks()/migrate_live_tasks()/ - describe more cpuset control files - s/cpumask_t/struct cpumask/ - document cpu hotplug and change of 'sched_relax_domain_level' may cause domain rebuild - document various ways to query and modify cpusets - the equivalent of "mount -t cpuset" is "mount -t cgroup -o cpuset,noprefix" Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-20Merge branch 'x86/urgent' into x86/coreIngo Molnar
2009-02-18Bernhard has movedBernhard Walle
Since I don't work for SUSE any more and the bwalle@suse.de address is invalid, correct it in the copyright headers and documentation. Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bernhard.walle@gmx.de> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18hp accelerometer: add freefall detectionPavel Machek
This adds freefall handling to hp_accel driver. According to HP, it should just work, without us having to set the chip up by hand. hpfall.c is example .c program that parks the disk when accelerometer detects free fall. It should work; for now, it uses fixed 20seconds protection period. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: Éric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-18cgroups: update documentation about css_set hash tableLi Zefan
The css_set hash table was introduced in 2.6.26, so update the documentation accordingly. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-17Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control change trace: mmiotrace to the tracer menu in Kconfig mmiotrace: count events lost due to not recording
2009-02-15doc: mmiotrace.txt, buffer size control changePekka Paalanen
Impact: prevents confusing the user when buffer size is inadequate The tracing framework offers a resizeable buffer, which mmiotrace uses to record events. If the buffer is full, the following events will be lost. Events should not be lost, so the documentation instructs the user to increase the buffer size. The buffer size is set via a debugfs file. Mmiotrace documentation was not updated the same time the debugfs file was changed. The old file was tracing/trace_entries and first contained the number of entries the buffer had space for, per cpu. Nowadays this file is replaced with the file tracing/buffer_size_kb, which tells the amount of memory reserved for the buffer, per cpu, in kilobytes. Previously, a flag had to be toggled via the debugfs file tracing/tracing_enabled when the buffer size was changed. This is no longer necessary. The mmiotrace documentation is updated to reflect the current state of the tracing framework. Signed-off-by: Pekka Paalanen <pq@iki.fi> Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-02-15Merge commit 'v2.6.29-rc5' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
2009-02-13PCI: Documentation: fix minor PCIe HOWTO thinkoAlex Chiang
Update doc to correctly refer to replacing the pci_register_driver API, and not the non-existent "pci_module_init" API. Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
2009-02-13Merge branch 'linus' into x86/apicIngo Molnar
Conflicts: arch/x86/kernel/acpi/boot.c arch/x86/mm/fault.c
2009-02-12Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits) wimax: fix oops in wimax_dev_get_by_genl_info() when looking up non-wimax iface net: 4 bytes kernel memory disclosure in SO_BSDCOMPAT gsopt try #2 netxen: fix compile waring "label ‘set_32_bit_mask’ defined but not used" on IA64 platform bnx2: Update version to 1.9.2 and copyright. bnx2: Fix jumbo frames error handling. bnx2: Update 5709 firmware. bnx2: Update 5706/5708 firmware. 3c505: do not set pcb->data.raw beyond its size Documentation/connector/cn_test.c: don't use gfp_any() net: don't use in_atomic() in gfp_any() IRDA: cnt is off by 1 netxen: remove pcie workaround sun3: print when lance_open() fails qlge: bugfix: Add missing rx buf clean index on early exit. qlge: bugfix: Fix RX scaling values. qlge: bugfix: Fix TSO breakage. qlge: bugfix: Add missing dev_kfree_skb_any() call. qlge: bugfix: Add missing put_page() call. qlge: bugfix: Fix fatal error recovery hang. qlge: bugfix: Use netif_receive_skb() and vlan_hwaccel_receive_skb(). ...
2009-02-12Documentation/connector/cn_test.c: don't use gfp_any()Andrew Morton
cn_test_timer_func() is a timer handler and can never use GFP_KERNEL - there's no point in using gfp_any() here. Also, use setup_timer(). Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-02-11kernel-doc: preferred ending marker and examplesRandy Dunlap
Fix kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt to use */ as the ending marker in kernel-doc examples and state that */ is the preferred ending marker. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Reported-by: Robert Love <robert.w.love@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-02-11Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ptrace, x86: fix the usage of ptrace_fork() i8327: fix outb() parameter order x86: fix math_emu register frame access x86: math_emu info cleanup x86: include correct %gs in a.out core dump x86, vmi: put a missing paravirt_release_pmd in pgd_dtor x86: find nr_irqs_gsi with mp_ioapic_routing x86: add clflush before monitor for Intel 7400 series x86: disable intel_iommu support by default x86: don't apply __supported_pte_mask to non-present ptes x86: fix grammar in user-visible BIOS warning x86/Kconfig.cpu: make Kconfig help readable in the console x86, 64-bit: print DMI info in the oops trace