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2009-07-28driver core: documentation: make it clear that sysfs is optionalLucian Adrian Grijincu
The original text suggested that sysfs is mandatory and always compiled in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Lucian Adrian Grijincu <lgrijincu@ixiacom.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-27Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: hda - Fix mute control with some ALC262 models ALSA: snd_usb_caiaq: add support for Audio2DJ ALSA: pcm - Fix hwptr buffer-size overlap bug ALSA: pcm - Fix warnings in debug loggings ALSA: pcm - Add logging of hwptr updates and interrupt updates ASoC: tlv320aic3x: Enable PLL when not bypassed ALSA: hda - Restore GPIO1 properly at resume with AD1984A ALSA: ctxfi - Fix uninitialized error checks ALSA: hda - Use snprintf() to be safer ALSA: usb-audio - Volume control quirk for QuickCam E 3500 ALSA: pcm - Fix regressions with VMware
2009-07-26Merge branch 'fix/pcm-hwptr' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
* fix/pcm-hwptr: ALSA: pcm - Fix hwptr buffer-size overlap bug ALSA: pcm - Fix warnings in debug loggings ALSA: pcm - Add logging of hwptr updates and interrupt updates ALSA: pcm - Fix regressions with VMware
2009-07-24V4L/DVB (12283): gspca - sn9c20x: New subdriver for sn9c201 and sn9c202 bridges.Brian Johnson
Signed-off-by: Brian Johnson <brijohn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-07-24V4L/DVB (12235): em28xx: detects sensors also with the generic em2750/2750 entryMauro Carvalho Chehab
Webcams in general don't have eeprom. So, the sensor hint code should be called to properly detect what sensor is inside. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-07-23ALSA: pcm - Add logging of hwptr updates and interrupt updatesTakashi Iwai
Added the logging functionality to xrun_debug to record the hwptr updates via snd_pcm_update_hw_ptr() and snd_pcm_update_hwptr_interrupt(), corresponding to 16 and 8, respectively. For example, # echo 9 > /proc/asound/card0/pcm0p/xrun_debug will record the position and other parameters at each period interrupt together with the normal XRUN debugging. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-07-22Merge 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: (37 commits) sky2: Avoid races in sky2_down drivers/net/mlx4: Adjust constant drivers/net: Move a dereference below a NULL test drivers/net: Move a dereference below a NULL test connector: maintainer/mail update. USB host CDC Phonet network interface driver macsonic, jazzsonic: fix oops on module unload macsonic: move probe function to .devinit.text can: switch carrier on if device was stopped while in bus-off state can: restart device even if dev_alloc_skb() fails can: sja1000: remove duplicated includes New device ID for sc92031 [1088:2031] 3c589_cs: re-initialize the multicast in the tc589_reset Fix error return for setsockopt(SO_TIMESTAMPING) netxen: fix thermal check and shutdown netxen: fix deadlock on dev close netxen: fix context deletion sequence net: Micrel KS8851 SPI network driver tcp: Use correct peer adr when copying MD5 keys tcp: Fix MD5 signature checking on IPv4 mapped sockets ...
2009-07-21connector: maintainer/mail update.Evgeniy Polyakov
Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-17Update Andreas Koensgen's email addressRalf Baechle
The kernel has used a stale email address of Andreas for a few years. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-07-16Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/kaber/nf-2.6
2009-07-16Merge branch 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-sched * 'sched-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/peterz/linux-2.6-sched: sched: Fix bug in SCHED_IDLE interaction with group scheduling sched: Fix rt_rq->pushable_tasks initialization in init_rt_rq() sched: Reset sched stats on fork() sched_rt: Fix overload bug on rt group scheduling sched: Documentation/sched-rt-group: Fix style issues & bump version
2009-07-16netfilter: nf_conntrack: nf_conntrack_alloc() fixesEric Dumazet
When a slab cache uses SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU, we must be careful when allocating objects, since slab allocator could give a freed object still used by lockless readers. In particular, nf_conntrack RCU lookups rely on ct->tuplehash[xxx].hnnode.next being always valid (ie containing a valid 'nulls' value, or a valid pointer to next object in hash chain.) kmem_cache_zalloc() setups object with NULL values, but a NULL value is not valid for ct->tuplehash[xxx].hnnode.next. Fix is to call kmem_cache_alloc() and do the zeroing ourself. As spotted by Patrick, we also need to make sure lookup keys are committed to memory before setting refcount to 1, or a lockless reader could get a reference on the old version of the object. Its key re-check could then pass the barrier. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2009-07-12driver model: fix show/store prototypes in doc.vibi sreenivasan
FIX prototypes for show & store method in struct driver_attribute Signed-off-by: vibi sreenivasan <vibi_sreenivasan@cms.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-07-10Doc: move Documentation/exception.txt into x86 subdirAmerigo Wang
exception.txt only explains the code on x86, so it's better to move it into Documentation/x86 directory. And also rename it to exception-tables.txt which looks much more reasonable. This patch is on top of the previous one. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10Doc: update Documentation/exception.txtAmerigo Wang
Update Documentation/exception.txt. Remove trailing whitespaces in it. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-07-10Merge branch 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'core-fixes-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: dma-debug: Fix the overlap() function to be correct and readable oprofile: reset bt_lost_no_mapping with other stats x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmon signals: declare sys_rt_tgsigqueueinfo in syscalls.h rcu: Mark Hierarchical RCU no longer experimental dma-debug: Put all hash-chain locks into the same lock class dma-debug: fix off-by-one error in overlap function
2009-07-09Merge 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) cxgb3: Fix crash caused by stashing wrong netdev_queue ixgbe: Fix coexistence of FCoE and Flow Director in 82599 memory barrier: adding smp_mb__after_lock net: adding memory barrier to the poll and receive callbacks netpoll: Fix carrier detection for drivers that are using phylib includecheck fix: include/linux, rfkill.h p54: tx refused but queue active Atheros Kconfig needs to be dependent on WLAN_80211 mac80211: fix docbook mac80211_hwsim: avoid NULL access ssb: Add support for 4318E b43: Add support for 4318E zd1211rw: adding SONY IFU-WLM2 (054c:0257) as a zd1211b device zd1211rw: 07b8:6001 is a ZD1211B r6040: bump driver version to 0.24 and date to 08 July 2009 r6040: restore MIER register correctly when IRQ line is shared ipv4: Fix fib_trie rebalancing, part 4 (root thresholds) davinci_emac: fix kernel oops when changing MAC address while interface is down igb: set lan id prior to configuring phy mac80211: minstrel: avoid accessing negative indices in rix_to_ndx() ...
2009-07-10x86/oprofile: rename kernel parameter for architectural perfmon to arch_perfmonRobert Richter
The short name of the achitecture is 'arch_perfmon'. This patch changes the kernel parameter to use this name. Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Signed-off-by: Robert Richter <robert.richter@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-07-08mac80211: fix docbookJohannes Berg
These two functions no longer exist in mac80211, so trying to insert them generates warnings in the document. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2009-07-06[CPUFREQ] Mark policy_rwsem as going static in cpufreq.c wont be exportedvenkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com
lock_policy_rwsem_* and unlock_policy_rwsem_* routines in cpufreq.c are currently exported to drivers. Improper use of those locks can result in deadlocks and it is better to keep the locks localized. Two previous in-kernel users of these interfaces (ondemand and conservative), do not use this interfaces any more. Schedule them for removal. Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2009-07-05V4L/DVB (12206): get_dvb_firmware: Correct errors in MPC718 firmware ↵Andy Walls
extraction logic The extraction routine for the MPC718 "firmware" had 2 bugs in it, where one bug masked the effect of the other. The loop iteration should have set $prevlen = $currlen at the end of the loop, and the if() check should have used && instead of || for deciding if the firmware length is reasonable. Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-07-05V4L/DVB (12138): em28xx: add support for Silvercrest WebcamMauro Carvalho Chehab
This webcam uses a em2710 chipset, that identifies itself as em2820, plus a mt9v011 sensor, and a DY-301P lens. It needs a few different initializations than a normal em28xx device. Thanks to Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> and Douglas Landgraf <dougsland@redhat.com> for providing the acces for the webcam during this weekend, I could make a patch for it while returning back from FISL/Fudcom LATAM 2009. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-07-05V4L/DVB (12181): get_dvb_firmware: Add Yuan MPC718 MT352 DVB-T "firmware" ↵Andy Walls
extraction Add routine to support extracting the MT352 DVB-T demodulator initialization sequence for Yuan MPC718 cards for use by the cx18 driver. This routine uses a hueristic for extracting a good sequence. It should work on all different versions of the "yuanrap.sys" file, given the way the MT352 tuning sequences are stored in all versions of that file I have seen so far. However, the current patch simply looks for one specific archive URL. Signed-off-by: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2009-07-01Trivial typo fixes in Documentation/block/data-integrity.txt.Andre Noll
Signed-off-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org> Acked-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2009-06-30Merge branch 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'kmemleak' of git://linux-arm.org/linux-2.6: kmemleak: Inform kmemleak about pid_hash kmemleak: Do not warn if an unknown object is freed kmemleak: Do not report new leaked objects if the scanning was stopped kmemleak: Slightly change the policy on newly allocated objects kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak file kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning thread kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by default kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.
2009-06-30cpusets: document adding/removing cpus to cpuset elaboratelyNikanth Karthikesan
By writing a tasks's pid to the file, a process adds that task to that cgroup/cpuset. But to add a cpu/mem to a cpuset, the new list of cpus should be written to the cpuset.mems file which would replace the old list of cpus. Make this clearer in the documentation. Signed-off-by: Nikanth Karthikesan <knikanth@suse.de> 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>
2009-06-30spi: new spi->mode bitsDavid Brownell
Add two new spi_device.mode bits to accomodate more protocol options, and pass them through to usermode drivers: * SPI_NO_CS ... a second 3-wire variant, where the chipselect line is removed instead of a data line; transfers are still full duplex. This obviously has STRONG protocol implications since the chipselect transitions can't be used to synchronize state transitions with the SPI master. * SPI_READY ... defines open drain signal that's pulled low to pause the clock. This defines a 5-wire variant (normal 4-wire SPI plus READY) and two 4-wire variants (READY plus each of the 3-wire flavors). Such hardware flow control can be a big win. There are ADC converters and flash chips that expose READY signals, but not many host controllers support it today. The spi_bitbang code should be changed to use SPI_NO_CS instead of its current nonportable hack. That's a mode most hardware can easily support (unlike SPI_READY). Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: "Paulraj, Sandeep" <s-paulraj@ti.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-30gcov: fix documentationPeter Oberparleiter
Commonly available versions of cp and tar don't work well with special files created using seq_file. Mention this problem in the gcov documentation and update the helper script example to work around these problems. Signed-off-by: Peter Oberparleiter <oberpar@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-29Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: sound: OSS: mpu401, fix deadlock ALSA: hda - Add missing initializations for ALC268 and ALC269 ALSA: cmi8330: fix MPU-401 PnP init copy&paste bug ALSA: hda - Line In for Acer Inspire 6530G model sound: oxygen: make mic volume control mono MAINTAINERS: Add entry for twl4030 series soc codec driver ALSA: lx6464es - configure ethersound io channels sound: Use PCI_VDEVICE for CREATIVE and ECTIVA sound: Use PCI_VDEVICE ALSA: hda - Use model=acer-aspire-6530g for Acer Aspire 6930G ALSA: hda - Fix acer-aspire-6530g model quirk ALSA: hda - Add pin-sense trigger when needed for Realtek codecs ALSA: hda - Fix support for Samsung P50 with AD1986A codec ALSA: hda - Generalize the pin-detect quirk for Lenovo N100 ALSA: hda - Simplify AD1986A mixer definitions
2009-06-29Merge branch 'fix/hda-samsung-p50' into for-linusTakashi Iwai
* fix/hda-samsung-p50: ALSA: hda - Fix support for Samsung P50 with AD1986A codec ALSA: hda - Generalize the pin-detect quirk for Lenovo N100 ALSA: hda - Simplify AD1986A mixer definitions
2009-06-28Merge 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, delay: tsc based udelay should have rdtsc_barrier x86, setup: correct include file in <asm/boot.h> x86, setup: Fix typo "CONFIG_x86_64" in <asm/boot.h> x86, mce: percpu mcheck_timer should be pinned x86: Add sysctl to allow panic on IOCK NMI error x86: Fix uv bau sending buffer initialization x86, mce: Fix mce resume on 32bit x86: Move init_gbpages() to setup_arch() x86: ensure percpu lpage doesn't consume too much vmalloc space x86: implement percpu_alloc kernel parameter x86: fix pageattr handling for lpage percpu allocator and re-enable it x86: reorganize cpa_process_alias() x86: prepare setup_pcpu_lpage() for pageattr fix x86: rename remap percpu first chunk allocator to lpage x86: fix duplicate free in setup_pcpu_remap() failure path percpu: fix too lazy vunmap cache flushing x86: Set cpu_llc_id on AMD CPUs
2009-06-28Merge 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: ftrace: Fix the output of profile ring-buffer: Make it generally available ftrace: Remove duplicate newline tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot option ftrace: Fix t_hash_start() ftrace: Don't manipulate @pos in t_start() ftrace: Don't increment @pos in g_start() tracing: Reset iterator in t_start() trace_stat: Don't increment @pos in seq start() tracing_bprintk: Don't increment @pos in t_start() tracing/events: Don't increment @pos in s_start()
2009-06-28Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-ledsLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://git.o-hand.com/linux-rpurdie-leds: leds: Futher document blink_set leds: Add options to have GPIO LEDs start on or keep their state leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip leds: pca9532 - Indent using tabs, not spaces. leds: Remove an orphan Kconfig entry leds: Further document parameters for blink_set() leds: alix-leds2 fixed for Award BIOS leds: leds-gpio - fix a section mismatch leds: add the sysfs interface into the leds-bd2802 driver for changing wave pattern and led current. leds: change the license information leds: fix led-bd2802 errors while resuming
2009-06-26kmemleak: Do not trigger a scan when reading the debug/kmemleak fileCatalin Marinas
Since there is a kernel thread for automatically scanning the memory, it makes sense for the debug/kmemleak file to only show its findings. This patch also adds support for "echo scan > debug/kmemleak" to trigger an intermediate memory scan and eliminates the kmemleak_mutex (scan_mutex covers all the cases now). Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26kmemleak: Simplify the reports logged by the scanning threadCatalin Marinas
Because of false positives, the memory scanning thread may print too much information. This patch changes the scanning thread to only print the number of newly suspected leaks. Further information can be read from the /sys/kernel/debug/kmemleak file. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26kmemleak: Enable task stacks scanning by defaultCatalin Marinas
This is to reduce the number of false positives reported. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
2009-06-26Merge commit 'kumar/next' into mergeBenjamin Herrenschmidt
2009-06-25kmemleak: Allow the early log buffer to be configurable.Catalin Marinas
(feature suggested by Sergey Senozhatsky) Kmemleak needs to track all the memory allocations but some of these happen before kmemleak is initialised. These are stored in an internal buffer which may be exceeded in some kernel configurations. This patch adds a configuration option with a default value of 400 and also removes the stack dump when the early log buffer is exceeded. Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Acked-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@mail.by>
2009-06-24Revert "PCI: use ACPI _CRS data by default"Linus Torvalds
This reverts commit 9e9f46c44e487af0a82eb61b624553e2f7118f5b. Quoting from the commit message: "At this point, it seems to solve more problems than it causes, so let's try using it by default. It's an easy revert if it ends up causing trouble." And guess what? The _CRS code causes trouble. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2009-06-24Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dmLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/agk/linux-2.6-dm: (48 commits) dm mpath: change to be request based dm: disable interrupt when taking map_lock dm: do not set QUEUE_ORDERED_DRAIN if request based dm: enable request based option dm: prepare for request based option dm raid1: add userspace log dm: calculate queue limits during resume not load dm log: fix create_log_context to use logical_block_size of log device dm target:s introduce iterate devices fn dm table: establish queue limits by copying table limits dm table: replace struct io_restrictions with struct queue_limits dm table: validate device logical_block_size dm table: ensure targets are aligned to logical_block_size dm ioctl: support cookies for udev dm: sysfs add suspended attribute dm table: improve warning message when devices not freed before destruction dm mpath: add service time load balancer dm mpath: add queue length load balancer dm mpath: add start_io and nr_bytes to path selectors dm snapshot: use barrier when writing exception store ...
2009-06-24Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (72 commits) asus-laptop: remove EXPERIMENTAL dependency asus-laptop: use pr_fmt and pr_<level> eeepc-laptop: cpufv updates eeepc-laptop: sync eeepc-laptop with asus_acpi asus_acpi: Deprecate in favor of asus-laptop acpi4asus: update MAINTAINER and KConfig links asus-laptop: platform dev as parent for led and backlight eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default ACPI: Rename ACPI processor device bus ID acerhdf: Acer Aspire One fan control ACPI: video: DMI workaround broken Acer 7720 BIOS enabling display brightness ACPI: run ACPI device hot removal in kacpi_hotplug_wq ACPI: Add the reference count to avoid unloading ACPI video bus twice ACPI: DMI to disable Vista compatibility on some Sony laptops ACPI: fix a deadlock in hotplug case Show the physical device node of backlight class device. ACPI: pdc init related memory leak with physical CPU hotplug ACPI: pci_root: remove unused dev/fn information ACPI: pci_root: simplify list traversals ACPI: pci_root: use driver data rather than list lookup ...
2009-06-24update Documentation/filesystems/LockingChristoph Hellwig
The rules for locking in many superblock operations has changed significantly, so update the documentation for it. Also correct some older updates and ommissions. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
2009-06-24ALSA: hda - Fix support for Samsung P50 with AD1986A codecTakashi Iwai
Samsung P50 requires the HP auto-muting unlike other Samsung models. Added a new model=samsung-p50 to support this. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-06-24tracing: Fix trace_buf_size boot optionLi Zefan
We should be able to specify [KMG] when setting trace_buf_size boot option, as documented in kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org> Cc: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> LKML-Reference: <4A41F2DB.4020102@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-06-24Merge branches 'acerhdf', 'acpi-pci-bind', 'bjorn-pci-root', ↵Len Brown
'bugzilla-12904', 'bugzilla-13121', 'bugzilla-13396', 'bugzilla-13533', 'bugzilla-13612', 'c3_lock', 'hid-cleanups', 'misc-2.6.31', 'pdc-leak-fix', 'pnpacpi', 'power_nocheck', 'thinkpad_acpi', 'video' and 'wmi' into release
2009-06-23leds: Add options to have GPIO LEDs start on or keep their stateTrent Piepho
There already is a "default-on" trigger but there are problems with it. For one, it's a inefficient way to do it and requires led trigger support to be compiled in. But the real reason is that is produces a glitch on the LED. The GPIO is allocate with the LED *off*, then *later* when the trigger runs it is turned back on. If the LED was already on via the GPIO's reset default or action of the firmware, this produces a glitch where the LED goes from on to off to on. While normally this is fast enough that it wouldn't be noticeable to a human observer, there are still serious problems. One is that there may be something else on the GPIO line, like a hardware alarm or watchdog, that is fast enough to notice the glitch. Another is that the kernel may panic before the LED is turned back on, thus hanging with the LED in the wrong state. This is not just speculation, but actually happened to me with an embedded system that has an LED which should turn off when the kernel finishes booting, which was left in the incorrect state due to a bug in the OF LED binding code. We also let GPIO LEDs get their initial value from whatever the current state of the GPIO line is. On some systems the LEDs are put into some state by the firmware or hardware before Linux boots, and it is desired to have them keep this state which is otherwise unknown to Linux. This requires that the underlying GPIO driver support reading the value of output GPIOs. Some drivers support this and some do not. The platform device binding gains a field in the platform data "default_state" that controls this. There are three constants defined to select from on, off, or keeping the current state. The OpenFirmware binding uses a property named "default-state" that can be set to "on", "off", or "keep". The default if the property isn't present is off. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: Sean MacLennan <smaclennan@pikatech.com> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-23leds: LED driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight ChipAntonio Ospite
LEDs driver for National Semiconductor LP3944 Funlight Chip http://www.national.com/pf/LP/LP3944.html This helper chip can drive up to 8 leds, with two programmable DIM modes; it could even be used as a gpio expander but this driver assumes it is used as a led controller. The DIM modes are used to set _blink_ patterns for leds, the pattern is specified supplying two parameters: - period: from 0s to 1.6s - duty cycle: percentage of the period the led is on, from 0 to 100 LP3944 can be found on Motorola A910 smartphone, where it drives the rgb leds, the camera flash light and the displays backlights. Signed-off-by: Antonio Ospite <ospite@studenti.unina.it> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
2009-06-23Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdogLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog: [WATCHDOG] wdt_pci.c: remove #ifdef CONFIG_WDT_501_PCI [WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI priority option [WATCHDOG] OMAP fixes: enable clock in probe, trigger timer reload [WATCHDOG] add bcm47xx watchdog driver [WATCHDOG] Freescale STMP: watchdog driver [WATCHDOG] twl4030 watchdog driver [WATCHDOG] U300 COH 901 327 watchdog driver [WATCHDOG] Add pnx833x_wdt
2009-06-23powerpc: Refactor device tree bindingKumar Gala
Split device tree binding out of booting-without-of.txt and put them into their own files per binding. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-06-23[WATCHDOG] hpwdt: Add NMI priority optionTom Mingarelli
Add a priority option so that the user can choose if we do the NMI first or last. Signed-off-by: Thomas Mingarelli <thomas.mingarelli@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>