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2008-10-08netfilter: Add documentation for tproxyKOVACS Krisztian
Add basic usage instructions to Documentation/networking. Signed-off-by: KOVACS Krisztian <hidden@sch.bme.hu> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08netfilter: xt_recent: IPv6 supportJan Engelhardt
This updates xt_recent to support the IPv6 address family. The new /proc/net/xt_recent directory must be used for this. The old proc interface can also be configured out. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>
2008-10-08Merge branches 'sched/devel', 'sched/cpu-hotplug', 'sched/cpusets' and ↵Ingo Molnar
'sched/urgent' into sched/core
2008-10-06Merge branch 'fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb * 'fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (33 commits) V4L/DVB (9103): em28xx: HVR-900 B3C0 - fix audio clicking issue V4L/DVB (9099): em28xx: Add detection for K-WORLD DVB-T 310U V4L/DVB (9092): gspca: Bad init values for sonixj ov7660. V4L/DVB (9080): gspca: Add a delay after writing to the sonixj sensors. V4L/DVB (9075): gspca: Bad check of returned status in i2c_read() spca561. V4L/DVB (9053): fix buffer overflow in uvc-video V4L/DVB (9043): S5H1420: Fix size of shadow-array to avoid overflow V4L/DVB (9037): Fix support for Hauppauge Nova-S SE V4L/DVB (9029): Fix deadlock in demux code V4L/DVB (8979): sms1xxx: Add new USB product ID for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick V4L/DVB (8978): sms1xxx: fix product name for Hauppauge WinTV MiniStick V4L/DVB (8967): Use correct XC3028L firmware for AMD ATI TV Wonder 600 V4L/DVB (8963): s2255drv field count fix V4L/DVB (8961): zr36067: Fix RGBR pixel format V4L/DVB (8960): drivers/media/video/cafe_ccic.c needs mm.h V4L/DVB (8958): zr36067: Return proper bytes-per-line value V4L/DVB (8957): zr36067: Restore the default pixel format V4L/DVB (8955): bttv: Prevent NULL pointer dereference in radio_open V4L/DVB (8935): em28xx-cards: Remove duplicate entry (EM2800_BOARD_KWORLD_USB2800) V4L/DVB (8933): gspca: Disable light frquency for zc3xx cs2102 Kokom. ...
2008-10-06Merge branches 'x86/alternatives', 'x86/cleanups', 'x86/commandline', ↵Ingo Molnar
'x86/crashdump', 'x86/debug', 'x86/defconfig', 'x86/doc', 'x86/exports', 'x86/fpu', 'x86/gart', 'x86/idle', 'x86/mm', 'x86/mtrr', 'x86/nmi-watchdog', 'x86/oprofile', 'x86/paravirt', 'x86/reboot', 'x86/sparse-fixes', 'x86/tsc', 'x86/urgent' and 'x86/vmalloc' into x86-v28-for-linus-phase1
2008-10-06Merge branch 'linus' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-10-05Phonet: pipe end-point protocol documentationRémi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-10-04V4L/DVB (9099): em28xx: Add detection for K-WORLD DVB-T 310UDarron Broad
Correct firmware type to MTS Correct audio routing for composite/s-video Add DVB-T detection. This patch uses the eeprom hash method for detection as the vendor/product ids are also used for the DIGIVOX_AD. This may be a clone of the same product. Explanatory text has been added prior to the hask look-up in anticipation that it may help others. The following has been tested to work: Analogue TV (PAL-I) Composite In DVB-T (UK Crystal Palace) USB AUDIO The following has not been tested but probably works: S-Video In Signed-off-by: Darron Broad <darron@kewl.org> Signed-off-by: Douglas Schilling Landgraf <dougsland@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-10-03Documentation/HOWTO: info about interface changes should CC linux-api@vgerMichael Kerrisk
The "Documentation" section of this file mentions that when an interface change is made, I should be CCed with info about the change (so that man-pages can document it). Additionally request that this info be CCed to the new linux-api@vger.kernel.org list. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-03SubmitChecklist: interfaces changes should CC linux-api@Michael Kerrisk
Mention that patches that change the kernel-userland interface should be CCed to the new list linux-api@vger.kernel.org. Signed-off-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-10-08vfs: vfs-level fiemap interfaceMark Fasheh
Basic vfs-level fiemap infrastructure, which sets up a new ->fiemap inode operation. Userspace can get extent information on a file via fiemap ioctl. As input, the fiemap ioctl takes a struct fiemap which includes an array of struct fiemap_extent (fm_extents). Size of the extent array is passed as fm_extent_count and number of extents returned will be written into fm_mapped_extents. Offset and length fields on the fiemap structure (fm_start, fm_length) describe a logical range which will be searched for extents. All extents returned will at least partially contain this range. The actual extent offsets and ranges returned will be unmodified from their offset and range on-disk. The fiemap ioctl returns '0' on success. On error, -1 is returned and errno is set. If errno is equal to EBADR, then fm_flags will contain those flags which were passed in which the kernel did not understand. On all other errors, the contents of fm_extents is undefined. As fiemap evolved, there have been many authors of the vfs patch. As far as I can tell, the list includes: Kalpak Shah <kalpak.shah@sun.com> Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com> Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@googlemail.com> Cc: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
2008-10-09ext4: Use readahead when reading an inode from the inode tableTheodore Ts'o
With modern hard drives, reading 64k takes roughly the same time as reading a 4k block. So request readahead for adjacent inode table blocks to reduce the time it takes when iterating over directories (especially when doing this in htree sort order) in a cold cache case. With this patch, the time it takes to run "git status" on a kernel tree after flushing the caches via "echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches" is reduced by 21%. Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2008-10-09ext4: Improve the documentation for ext4's /proc tunablesTheodore Ts'o
Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu> Cc: Alex Tomas <bzzz@sun.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@sun.com>
2008-10-03[SCSI] fc_transport: Add an API to allow an LLD to create vportsAndrew Vasquez
There's already a fc_vport_termintate() call exported by the transport. This patch adds a symmetric call to the API to allow an NPIV-capable LLD to instantiate vports sans user intervention. Additional comments/updates: Re: scsi_fc_transport.txt Add a function prototype for fc_vport_terminate similar to what's done for fc_vport_create Re: fc_vport_create I recommend we pass the channel number in fc_vport_create rather than fixing it at zero. Also, ids->vport_type should be set to FC_PORTTYPE_NPIV prior to calling fc_vport_create. The comment is also meaningless. Added-by and Signed-off-by: James Smart <james.smart@emulex.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>
2008-10-03Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc8' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-10-01Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/core.c drivers/net/wireless/ath9k/main.c net/core/dev.c
2008-09-30Phonet: improve documentationRémi Denis-Courmont
Fix grammar errors spotted by Randy Dunlap, and adds some more details. Signed-off-by: Remi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-29V4L/DVB (8909): gspca: PAC 7302 webcam 093a:262a added.Hans de Goede
Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <j.w.r.degoede@hhs.nl> Signed-off-by: Jean-Francois Moine <moinejf@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-09-27cdrom: update ioctl documentationMárton Németh
Correct copy-paste problem: CDROMCLOSETRAY is about closing the tray, not opening it. Signed-off-by: Márton Németh <nm127@freemail.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-25Documentation: fix the now deprecated reference to {set,reset}_scoop_gpioEric Miao
Due to recent patches removing the now deprecated references to {set,reset}_scoop_gpio() and converting them to the generic GPIO API, the references in the documentation also need to be fixed. Signed-off-by: Eric Miao <eric.miao@marvell.com> Cc: Liam Girdwood <lrg@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2008-09-23can: Add documentation for virtual CAN driver usageOliver Hartkopp
This patch adds a usage documentation for the virtual CAN driver (vcan). Signed-off-by: Oliver Hartkopp <oliver@hartkopp.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-23USB: update of Documentation/usb/anchors.txtOliver Neukum
The extended anchor API is documented Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-09-23Documentation/sysctl/kernel.txt: fix softlockup_thresh descriptionAndrew Morton
- s/s/seconds/ - s/10 seconds/60 seconds/ - Mention the zero-disables-it feature. Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt: update for pci_dma_mapping_error() changesMarin Mitov
Make the example code consistent with changed API. Signed-off-by: Marin Mitov <mitov@ispp.bas.bg> Acked-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-23Merge branches 'sched/urgent' and 'sched/rt' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-23CFS scheduler: documentation about scheduling policiesMartin Steigerwald
The documentation about the CFS scheduler is scarse when it comes to scheduling policies. This patch adds a chapter about the scheduling policies it supports. Peter Zijlstra provided most of the information for it in http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=122210038326356&w=2 Signed-off-by: Martin Steigerwald <ms@teamix.de> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22Phonet: kernel documentationRemi Denis-Courmont
Signed-off-by: Rémi Denis-Courmont <remi.denis-courmont@nokia.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-22iommu: remove fullflush and nofullflush in IOMMU generic optionFUJITA Tomonori
This patch against tip/x86/iommu virtually reverts 2842e5bf3115193f05dc9dac20f940e7abf44c1a. But just reverting the commit breaks AMD IOMMU so this patch also includes some fixes. The above commit adds new two options to x86 IOMMU generic kernel boot options, fullflush and nofullflush. But such change that affects all the IOMMUs needs more discussion (all IOMMU parties need the chance to discuss it): http://lkml.org/lkml/2008/9/19/106 Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Acked-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-22Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc7' into x86/debugIngo Molnar
2008-09-22ALSA: virtuoso: add Xonar HDAV1.3 supportClemens Ladisch
Add support for the Asus Xonar HDAV1.3 and the Xonar HDAV1.3 Deluxe. Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
2008-09-21Merge branch 'master' into nextJames Morris
Conflicts: MAINTAINERS Thanks for breaking my tree :-) Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2008-09-19Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-next-2.6
2008-09-19x86: move GART TLB flushing options to generic codeJoerg Roedel
The GART currently implements the iommu=[no]fullflush command line parameters which influence its IO/TLB flushing strategy. This patch makes these parameters generic so that they can be used by the AMD IOMMU too. Signed-off-by: Joerg Roedel <joerg.roedel@amd.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-18qlge: New Qlogic 10Gb Ethernet Driver.Ron Mercer
Signed-off-by: Ron Mercer <ron.mercer@qlogic.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-09-15mac80211: clean up kdocJohannes Berg
A few errors sneaked in over time, some functions no longer exist, for some alternatives exist. This changes the docbook template to include the right things. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15rfkill: remove transmitter blocking on suspendHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Currently, rfkill would stand in the way of properly supporting wireless devices that are capable of waking the system up from sleep or hibernation when they receive a special wireless message. It would also get in the way of mesh devices that need to remain operational even during platform suspend. To avoid that, stop trying to block the transmitters on the rfkill class suspend handler. Drivers that need rfkill's older behaviour will have to implement it by themselves in their own suspend handling. Do note that rfkill *will* attempt to restore the transmitter state on resume in any situation. This happens after the driver's resume method is called by the suspend core (class devices resume after the devices they are attached to have been resumed). The following drivers need to check if they need to explicitly block their transmitters in their own suspend handlers (maintainers Cc'd): arch/arm/mach-pxa/tosa-bt.c drivers/net/usb/hso.c drivers/net/wireless/rt2x00/* (USB might need it?) drivers/net/wireless/b43/ (SSB over USB might need it?) drivers/misc/hp-wmi.c eeepc-laptop w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet) Compal laptop w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet) toshiba-acpi w/rfkill support (not in mainline yet) Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Andrew Bird <ajb@spheresystems.co.uk> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Cezary Jackiewicz <cezary.jackiewicz@gmail.com> Cc: Philip Langdale <philipl@overt.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-15cfg80211: Add new wireless regulatory infrastructureLuis R. Rodriguez
This adds the new wireless regulatory infrastructure. The main motiviation behind this was to centralize regulatory code as each driver was implementing their own regulatory solution, and to replace the initial centralized code we have where: * only 3 regulatory domains are supported: US, JP and EU * regulatory domains can only be changed through module parameter * all rules were built statically in the kernel We now have support for regulatory domains for many countries and regulatory domains are now queried through a userspace agent through udev allowing distributions to update regulatory rules without updating the kernel. Each driver can regulatory_hint() a regulatory domain based on either their EEPROM mapped regulatory domain value to a respective ISO/IEC 3166-1 country code or pass an internally built regulatory domain. We also add support to let the user set the regulatory domain through userspace in case of faulty EEPROMs to further help compliance. Support for world roaming will be added soon for cards capable of this. For more information see: http://wireless.kernel.org/en/developers/Regulatory/CRDA For now we leave an option to enable the old module parameter, ieee80211_regdom, and to build the 3 old regdomains statically (US, JP and EU). This option is CONFIG_WIRELESS_OLD_REGULATORY. These old static definitions and the module parameter is being scheduled for removal for 2.6.29. Note that if you use this you won't make use of a world regulatory domain as its pointless. If you leave this option enabled and if CRDA is present and you use US or JP we will try to ask CRDA to update us a regulatory domain for us. Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-09-13Documentation/ABI: /sys/class/gpioDavid Brownell
Provide summary ABI docs about the /sys/class/gpio files. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13coredump_filter: add description of bit 4Hidehiro Kawai
There is no description of bit 4 of coredump_filter in the documentation. This patch adds it. Signed-off-by: Hidehiro Kawai <hidehiro.kawai.ez@hitachi.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie> Acked-by: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-13cpuset: hotplug documentation fixLi Zefan
If all the cpus in a cpuset are offlined, the tasks in it will be moved to the nearest ancestor with non-empty cpus. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.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>
2008-09-12multiq: Further multiqueue cleanupAlexander Duyck
This patch resolves a few issues found with multiq including wording suggestions and a problem seen in the allocation of queues. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12skbedit: Fix a typo in the documentationAlexander Duyck
Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12pkt_action: add new action skbeditAlexander Duyck
This new action will have the ability to change the priority and/or queue_mapping fields on an sk_buff. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-12pkt_sched: Add multiqueue scheduler supportAlexander Duyck
This patch is intended to add a qdisc to support the new tx multiqueue architecture by providing a band for each hardware queue. By doing this it is possible to support a different qdisc per physical hardware queue. This qdisc uses the skb->queue_mapping to select which band to place the traffic onto. It then uses a round robin w/ a check to see if the subqueue is stopped to determine which band to dequeue the packet from. Signed-off-by: Alexander Duyck <alexander.h.duyck@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Kirsher <jeffrey.t.kirsher@intel.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-09-11Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into sched/develIngo Molnar
2008-09-10add deprecated ide-scsi to feature-removal-schedule.txtFUJITA Tomonori
Signed-off-by: FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-09-10doc/RCU: fix pseudocode in rcuref.txtLai Jiangshan
atomic_inc_not_zero(v) return 0 if *v = 0. use spin_lock instead of write_lock for update lock. Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <laijs@cn.fujitsu.com> Cc: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-09-10Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into core/rcuIngo Molnar
2008-09-09update Documentation/filesystems/Locking for 2.6.27 changesChristoph Hellwig
In the 2.6.27 circle ->fasync lost the BKL, and the last remaining ->open variant that takes the BKL is also gone. ->get_sb and ->kill_sb didn't have BKL forever, so updated the entries while we're at that. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-09-09This reverts "Merge branch 'dccp' of git://eden-feed.erg.abdn.ac.uk/dccp_exp"Gerrit Renker
as it accentally contained the wrong set of patches. These will be submitted separately. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk>
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