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2007-02-17Remove JFFS (version 1), as scheduled.Jeff Garzik
Unmaintained for years, few if any users. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-02-17Documentation/kernel-docs.txt update.James Nelson
Signed-off-by: James Nelson <james4765@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17kbuild: more doc. cleanupsRandy Dunlap
Fix typos/spellos in kbuild/makefiles.txt. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17doc: make doc. for maxcpus= more visibleRandy Dunlap
Some people are confused about maxcpus=1 and maxcpus=0, so put the documentation text from init/main.c into Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt also. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17trivial documentation patch for platform.txtErik Hovland
Found a couple of typos in the Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt file. This patch fixes both of them. Signed-off-by: Erik Hovland <erik@hovland.org> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17Fix typos concerning hierarchyUwe Kleine-König
heirarchical, hierachical -> hierarchical heirarchy, hierachy -> hierarchy Signed-off-by: Uwe Kleine-König <zeisberg@informatik.uni-freiburg.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-17Various typo fixes.Robert P. J. Day
Correct mis-spellings of "algorithm", "appear", "consistent" and (shame, shame) "kernel". Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-02-16Pull remove-hotkey into release branchLen Brown
2007-02-16Pull sony into release branchLen Brown
2007-02-16ACPI: hotkey: remove driver, per feature-removal-schedule.txtLen Brown
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-02-16PCI: Make CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE boot optionsAtsushi Nemoto
CARDBUS_MEM_SIZE was increased to 64MB on 2.6.20-rc2, but larger size might result in allocation failure for the reserving itself on some platforms (for example typical 32bit MIPS). Make it (and CARDBUS_IO_SIZE too) customizable by "pci=" option for such platforms. Signed-off-by: Atsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp> Cc: Daniel Ritz <daniel.ritz@gmx.ch> Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru> Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-16PCI: pci.txt fix __devexit() usageGrant Grundler
Marin Mitov <mitov@issp.bas.bg> spotted a brainfart where I had failed to update copied text with *_remove and __devexit(). Marin made a good comment in his email to me: | mydriver_probe() is _always_ executed, while mydriver_remove() is not. | See: include/linux/init.h Which says: /* Functions marked as __devexit may be discarded at kernel link time, depending on config options. Newer versions of binutils detect references from retained sections to discarded sections and flag an error. Pointers to __devexit functions must use __devexit_p(function_name), the wrapper will insert either the function_name or NULL, depending on the config options. */ Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-02-17[POWERPC] powerpc: remove references to the obsolete linux,platform propertyStuart Yoder
Remove references to the linux,platform property from booting-without-of.txt since it is obsolete. Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] libata: ACPI and _GTF supportKristen Carlson Accardi
_GTF is an acpi method that is used to reinitialize the drive. It returns a task file containing ata commands that are sent back to the drive to restore it to boot up defaults. Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> (cherry picked from 9c69cab24b51a89664f4c0dfaf8a436d32117624 commit)
2007-02-16[PATCH] Add debugging feature /proc/timer_statIngo Molnar
Add /proc/timer_stats support: debugging feature to profile timer expiration. Both the starting site, process/PID and the expiration function is captured. This allows the quick identification of timer event sources in a system. Sample output: # echo 1 > /proc/timer_stats # cat /proc/timer_stats Timer Stats Version: v0.1 Sample period: 4.010 s 24, 0 swapper hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 11, 0 swapper sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 6, 0 swapper hrtimer_stop_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 2, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 17, 0 swapper hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 2, 1 swapper queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn) 4, 2050 pcscd do_nanosleep (hrtimer_wakeup) 5, 4179 sshd sk_reset_timer (tcp_write_timer) 4, 2248 yum-updatesd schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 18, 0 swapper hrtimer_restart_sched_tick (hrtimer_sched_tick) 3, 0 swapper sk_reset_timer (tcp_delack_timer) 1, 1 swapper neigh_table_init_no_netlink (neigh_periodic_timer) 2, 1 swapper e1000_up (e1000_watchdog) 1, 1 init schedule_timeout (process_timeout) 100 total events, 25.24 events/sec [ cleanups and hrtimers support from Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> ] [bunk@stusta.de: nr_entries can become static] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] hrtimers: add high resolution timer supportThomas Gleixner
Implement high resolution timers on top of the hrtimers infrastructure and the clockevents / tick-management framework. This provides accurate timers for all hrtimer subsystem users. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] tick-management: dyntick / highres functionalityThomas Gleixner
With Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Add functions to provide dynamic ticks and high resolution timers. The code which keeps track of jiffies and handles the long idle periods is shared between tick based and high resolution timer based dynticks. The dyntick functionality can be disabled on the kernel commandline. Provide also the infrastructure to support high resolution timers. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] hrtimers: move and add documentationThomas Gleixner
Move the initial hrtimers.txt document to the new directory "Documentation/hrtimers" Add design notes for the high resolution timer and dynamic tick functionality. Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Cc: Roman Zippel <zippel@linux-m68k.org> Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[PATCH] GPIO core documentationDavid Brownell
Small updates to the GPIO documentation, addressing feedback and fixing a few spelling errors. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-16[POWERPC] Delete boot-cpu property from all DTS filesTimur Tabi
The 'linux,boot-cpu' property is obsolete, so remove it from all of the DTS files and from booting-without-of.txt. The boot CPU is actually defined in the device tree header, and U-Boot sets that field. The device tree compiler also complains if the property exists. Signed-off-by: Timur Tabi <timur@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com> Acked-by: David Gibson <dwg@au1.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-14hwmon/w83627ehf: Add support for the W83627DHG chipDavid Hubbard
Signed-off-by: David Hubbard <david.c.hubbard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14hwmon/it87: Add PWM base frequency controlJean Delvare
Let the user select the base PWM frequency when using the it87 hardware monitoring driver. Different frequencies can give better control on some fans. Also update the documentation to mention the PWM frequency control files, with misc cleanups to the PWM section. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-14Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6Linus Torvalds
* 'for-linus' of git://one.firstfloor.org/home/andi/git/linux-2.6: (94 commits) [PATCH] x86-64: Remove mk_pte_phys() [PATCH] i386: Fix broken CONFIG_COMPAT_VDSO on i386 [PATCH] i386: fix 32-bit ioctls on x64_32 [PATCH] x86: Unify pcspeaker platform device code between i386/x86-64 [PATCH] i386: Remove extern declaration from mm/discontig.c, put in header. [PATCH] i386: Rename cpu_gdt_descr and remove extern declaration from smpboot.c [PATCH] i386: Move mce_disabled to asm/mce.h [PATCH] i386: paravirt unhandled fallthrough [PATCH] x86_64: Wire up compat epoll_pwait [PATCH] x86: Don't require the vDSO for handling a.out signals [PATCH] i386: Fix Cyrix MediaGX detection [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in cpu initialization [PATCH] i386: Fix warning in microcode.c [PATCH] x86: Enable NMI watchdog for AMD Family 0x10 CPUs [PATCH] x86: Add new CPUID bits for AMD Family 10 CPUs in /proc/cpuinfo [PATCH] i386: Remove fastcall in paravirt.[ch] [PATCH] x86-64: Fix wrong gcc check in bitops.h [PATCH] x86-64: survive having no irq mapping for a vector [PATCH] i386: geode configuration fixes [PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reports ...
2007-02-14[ARM] 4181/1: S3C24XX: Document new layoutBen Dooks
Update Documentation/arm/Samsung-S3C24XX/Overview.txt with the new directory layout. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-14[ARM] 4180/1: S3C24XX: Update docs for S3C2412 and S3C2413Ben Dooks
The S3C2412 and S3C2413 are supported, so document this as so Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-14[ARM] 4177/1: S3C24XX: Add DMA channel allocation orderBen Dooks
Allow the CPU code, and any board specific initialisation code to change the allocation order of the DMA channels, or stop a peripheral allocating any DMA at-all. This is due to the scarce mapping of DMA channels on some earlier S3C24XX cpus, where the selection changes depending on the channel in use. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2007-02-13Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (61 commits) [POWERPC] Use udbg_early_init() on ppc32 [POWERPC] Open Firmware serial port driver [POWERPC] Move MPIC smp routines into mpic.c [POWERPC] Cleanup pseries kexec code [POWERPC] Cleanup pseries smp initialisation code [POWERPC] Consolidate pseries platform header files into pseries.h [POWERPC] 85xx: Drop use of SYNC macro in head_fsl_booke.S [POWERPC] cell: pm_rtas_activat_signals routine cleanup [POWERPC] cell: PPU Oprofile cleanup patch [POWERPC] spufs: avoid accessing kernel memory through mmapped /mem node [POWERPC] spu sched: static timeslicing for SCHED_RR contexts [POWERPC] spu sched: use DECLARE_BITMAP [POWERPC] spu sched: forced preemption at execution [POWERPC] spu sched: update some comments [POWERPC] spu sched: simplity spu_remove_from_active_list [POWERPC] spufs: optimize spu_run [POWERPC] spufs: runqueue simplification [POWERPC] spufs: move prio to spu_context [POWERPC] spufs: state_mutex cleanup [POWERPC] spufs: simplify state_mutex ...
2007-02-13i2c-parport: Add support for One For All remote JP1 interfaceJonathan McDowell
This simple patch adds support to i2c-parport for the One For All remote JP1 parallel port interfaces which can be found detailed at: http://www.hifi-remote.com/jp1/hardware.shtml These allow access to the internal configuration EEPROM on various remote controls and there are a variety of Windows tools that make use of this hardware. I have tested this patch with the "simple" parallel port device and a One For All URC-7562 and confirmed that the data read using the eeprom i2c driver matches that returned by the Windows "IR" JP1 tool. Signed-off-by: Jonathan McDowell <noodles@earth.li> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13i2c-viapro: Add support for the VIA CX700 south bridgeJean Delvare
We do not have any documentation for the CX700, but it was reported to work fine. Thanks to Claas Langbehn for testing. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13i2c: Add driver suspend/resume/shutdown supportDavid Brownell
Driver model updates for the I2C core: - Add new suspend(), resume(), and shutdown() methods. Use them in the standard driver model style; document them. - Minor doc updates to highlight zero-initialized fields in drivers, and the driver model accessors for "clientdata". If any i2c drivers were previously using the old suspend/resume calls in "struct driver", they were getting warning messages ... and will now no longer work. Other than that, this patch changes no behaviors; and it lets I2C drivers use conventional PM and shutdown support. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13i2c-i801: Document the SMBus unhiding quirkJean Delvare
This is a frequently asked question so it deserves a paragraph in the driver documentation. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13i2c: Fix typo in SMBus Write Word Data descriptionMike Frysinger
Write data, don't read it. Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org> Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB600Jean Delvare
Add support for the ATI SB600 SMBus controller. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-02-13[PATCH] i386: add option to show more code in oops reportsChuck Ebbert
Sometimes developers need to see more object code in an oops report, e.g. when kernel may be corrupted at runtime. Add the "code_bytes" option for this. Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <cebbert@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-13[PATCH] x86-64: Allow to run a program when a machine check event is detectedAndi Kleen
When a machine check event is detected (including a AMD RevF threshold overflow event) allow to run a "trigger" program. This allows user space to react to such events sooner. The trigger is configured using a new trigger entry in the machinecheck sysfs interface. It is currently shared between all CPUs. I also fixed the AMD threshold handler to run the machine check polling code immediately to actually log any events that might have caused the threshold interrupt. Also added some documentation for the mce sysfs interface. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-02-13[PATCH] x86-64: cleanup Doc/x86_64/ filesRandy Dunlap
Fix typos. Lots of whitespace changes for readability and consistency. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2007-02-13[PATCH] x86-64: improved iommu documentationKarsten Weiss
- add SWIOTLB config help text - mention Documentation/x86_64/boot-options.txt in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt - remove the duplication of the iommu kernel parameter documentation. - Better explanation of some of the iommu kernel parameter options. - "32MB<<order" instead of "32MB^order". - Mention the default "order" value. - list the four existing PCI-DMA mapping implementations of arch x86_64 - group the iommu= option keywords by PCI-DMA mapping implementation. - Distinguish iommu= option keywords from number arguments. - Explain the meaning of DAC and SAC. Signed-off-by: Karsten Weiss <knweiss@science-computing.de> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Acked-by: Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2007-02-13sony-laptop: Update docsMattia Dongili
Update documentation to be consistent with current implementation (backlight subsys and platform_device). Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-02-13sony_acpi: SNC device support for Sony VaiosStelian Pop
From: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Even though the devices claimed by sony_acpi.c can not be hot-plugged, the driver registration infrastructure allows the .add() and .remove() methods to be called at any time while the driver is registered. So remove __init and __exit from them. From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> [UBUNTU:acpi/sony] Add FN hotkey support Source URL of Patch: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/bcollins/ubuntu-dapper.git;a=commitdiff;h=7a9b49cba4919e8506604629db03add8e0b85767 Signed-off-by: Ben Collins <bcollins@ubuntu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-02-13[POWERPC] mpc5200 device tree bindings refinementGrant Likely
Much needed refinement of mpc5200 device tree binding specifications. Short list: - drop mpc52xx designator; only two supported chips exist, 5200 and 5200b. It's premature to refer to them as '52xx'. - Specify optional 'model' and 'revision' properties in the soc5200 node - Specify reqiured 'cell-index' property to identify between multiple SOC devices of the same type. (Useful for arbitrating shared register access) - Specify optional 'port-number' property for adjusting the logical serial port assignments. - Specify optional 'has-wdt' property for gpt0 node. - Add system-frequency property to soc5200 node Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-02-13Merge branch 'for_paulus' of ↵Paul Mackerras
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/galak/powerpc
2007-02-12[PATCH] fbdev driver for S3 Trio/VirgeOndrej Zajicek
Add a driver for S3 Trio / S3 Virge. Driver is tested with most versions of S3 Trio and with S3 Virge/DX, on i386. (akpm: We kind-of have support for this hardware already, but... virgefb.c - amiga/zorro specific, - broken (according to Kconfig), - uses obsolete/nonexistent interface (struct display_switch) - recent Adrian Bunk's patch removes this driver S3triofb.c - ppc/openfirmware specific - minimal functionality - broken (according to Kconfig), - uses obsolete/nonexistent interface (struct display_switch) ) Signed-off-by: Ondrej Zajicek <santiago@crfreenet.org> Cc: James Simmons <jsimmons@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] ufs2 write: mount as rwEvgeniy Dushistov
These series of patches add UFS2 write-support. UFS2 - is default file system for recent versions of FreeBSD. The main differences from UFS1 from write support point of view are: 1)Not all inodes are allocated during formatation of disk. 2)All meta-data(pointer to data blocks) are 64bit(in UFS1 they are 32bit). So patch series consist of 1)make possible mount UFS2 in read-write mode 2)code to write ufs2 inodes and code to initialize inodes chunks. 3)work with 64bit meta-data I made simple testing like create/deleting/writing/reading/truncating, also I ran fsx-linux and untar and build kernel on UFS1 and UFS2, after that FreeBSD fsck do not find any errors in fs. This patch makes possible to mount ufs2 "rw", and updates UFS2 documentation: remove note about bug(it fixed by reallocate blocks on the fly patch) and add me in the list of people who want receive bug reports. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Dushistov <dushistov@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] GPIO coreDavid Brownell
This defines a simple and minimalist programming interface for GPIO APIs: - Documentation/gpio.txt ... describes things (read it) - include/asm-arm/gpio.h ... defines the ARM hook, which just punts to <asm/arch/gpio.h> for any implementation - include/asm-generic/gpio.h ... implement "can sleep" variants as calling the normal ones, for systems that don't handle i2c expanders. The immediate need for such a cross-architecture API convention is to support drivers that work the same on AT91 ARM and AVR32 AP7000 chips, which embed many of the same controllers but have different CPUs. However, several other users have been reported, including a driver for a hardware watchdog chip and some handhelds.org multi-CPU button drivers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] EDAC: Add memory scrubbing controls API to coreFrithiof Jensen
This is an attempt of providing an interface for memory scrubbing control in EDAC. This patch modifies the EDAC Core to provide the Interface for memory controller modules to implment. The following things are still outstanding: - K8 is the first implemenation, The patch provide a method of configuring the K8 hardware memory scrubber via the 'mcX' sysfs directory. There should be some fallback to a generic scrubber implemented in software if the hardware does not support scrubbing. Or .. the scrubbing sysfs entry should not be visible at all. - Only works with SDRAM, not cache, The K8 can scrub cache and l2cache also - but I think this is not so useful as the cache is busy all the time (one hopes). One would also expect that cache scrubbing requires hardware support. - Error Handling, I would like that errors are returned to the user in "terms of file system". - Presentation, I chose Bandwidth in Bytes/Second as a representation of the scrubbing rate for the following reasons: I like that the sysfs entries are sort-of textual, related to something that makes sense instead of magical values that must be looked up. "My People" wants "% main memory scrubbed per hour" others prefer "% memory bandwidth used" as representation, "bandwith used" makes it easy to calculate both versions in one-liner scripts. If one later wants to scrub cache, the scaling becomes wierd for K8 changing from "blocks of 64 byte memory" to "blocks of 64 cache lines" to "blocks of 64 bit". Using "bandwidth used" makes sense in all three cases, (I.M.O. anyway ;-). - Discovery, There is no way to discover the possible settings and what they do without reading the code and the documentation. *I* do not know how to make that work in a practical way. - Bugs(??), other tools can set invalid values in the memory scrub control register, those will read back as '-1', requiring the user to reset the scrub rate. This is how *I* think it should be. - Afflicting other areas of code, I made changes to edac_mc.c and edac_mc.h which will show up globally - this is not nice, it would be better that the memory scrubbing fuctionality and interface could be entirely contained within the memory controller it applies to. Frithiof Jensen edac_mc.c and its .h file is a CORE helper module for EDAC driver modules. This provides the abstraction for device specific drivers. It is fine to modify this CORE to provide help for new features of the the drivers doug thompson Signed-off-by: Frithiof Jensen <frithiof.jensen@ericson.com> Signed-off-by: doug thompson <norsk5@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] spi: documentation does not need to set driver's bus_type fieldBen Dooks
The spi_register_driver() sets the bus_type field of the spi_driver being registered, so there is no need to have it set in the driver itself. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] spi: add spi_set_drvdata() and spi_get_drvdata()Ben Dooks
Add wrappers for getting and setting the driver data using spi_device instead of using dev_{get|set}_drvdata with &spi->dev, to mirror the platform_{get|set}_drvdata. Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org> Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] drivers/isdn/gigaset: new M101 driver (v2)Tilman Schmidt
This patch adds the line discipline based driver for the Gigaset M101 wireless RS232 adapter. It also improves the documentation a bit. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Hansjoerg Lipp <hjlipp@web.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] kexec: fix references to init in documentation for kexecHorms
I've noticed that the boot options are not correct for in the documentation for kdump. The "init" keyword is not necessary, and causes a kernel panic when booting with an initrd on Fedora 5. [horms@verge.net.au: put original comment with the latest version of the patch] Signed-off-by: Judith Lebzeelter <judith@osdl.org> Acked-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-02-12[PATCH] fix the defaults mentioned in Documentation/nfsroot.txtDan Aloni
This patch fixes the documentation of nfsroot to match NFS_DEF_FILE_IO_SIZE. Or perhaps we need to change NFS_DEF_FILE_IO_SIZE to match the documentation? Signed-off-by: Dan Aloni <da-x@monatomic.org> Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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