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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'percpu-cpumask-x86-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (682 commits)
percpu: fix spurious alignment WARN in legacy SMP percpu allocator
percpu: generalize embedding first chunk setup helper
percpu: more flexibility for @dyn_size of pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: make x86 addr <-> pcpu ptr conversion macros generic
linker script: define __per_cpu_load on all SMP capable archs
x86: UV: remove uv_flush_tlb_others() WARN_ON
percpu: finer grained locking to break deadlock and allow atomic free
percpu: move fully free chunk reclamation into a work
percpu: move chunk area map extension out of area allocation
percpu: replace pcpu_realloc() with pcpu_mem_alloc() and pcpu_mem_free()
x86, percpu: setup reserved percpu area for x86_64
percpu, module: implement reserved allocation and use it for module percpu variables
percpu: add an indirection ptr for chunk page map access
x86: make embedding percpu allocator return excessive free space
percpu: use negative for auto for pcpu_setup_first_chunk() arguments
percpu: improve first chunk initial area map handling
percpu: cosmetic renames in pcpu_setup_first_chunk()
percpu: clean up percpu constants
x86: un-__init fill_pud/pmd/pte
x86: remove vestigial fix_ioremap prototypes
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Manually merge conflicts in arch/ia64/kernel/irq_ia64.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (119 commits)
[SCSI] scsi_dh_rdac: Retry for NOT_READY check condition
[SCSI] mpt2sas: make global symbols unique
[SCSI] sd: Make revalidate less chatty
[SCSI] sd: Try READ CAPACITY 16 first for SBC-2 devices
[SCSI] sd: Refactor sd_read_capacity()
[SCSI] mpt2sas v00.100.11.15
[SCSI] mpt2sas: add MPT2SAS_MINOR(221) to miscdevice.h
[SCSI] ch: Add scsi type modalias
[SCSI] 3w-9xxx: add power management support
[SCSI] bsg: add linux/types.h include to bsg.h
[SCSI] cxgb3i: fix function descriptions
[SCSI] libiscsi: fix possbile null ptr session command cleanup
[SCSI] iscsi class: remove host no argument from session creation callout
[SCSI] libiscsi: pass session failure a session struct
[SCSI] iscsi lib: remove qdepth param from iscsi host allocation
[SCSI] iscsi lib: have lib create work queue for transmitting IO
[SCSI] iscsi class: fix lock dep warning on logout
[SCSI] libiscsi: don't cap queue depth in iscsi modules
[SCSI] iscsi_tcp: replace scsi_debug/tcp_debug logging with iscsi conn logging
[SCSI] libiscsi_tcp: replace tcp_debug/scsi_debug logging with session/conn logging
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Conflicts:
arch/sparc/kernel/time_64.c
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_proc.c
Manual merge to resolve build warning due to phys_addr_t type change
on x86:
drivers/gpu/drm/drm_info.c
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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And update description and feature-removal schedule according
to the new plan.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Add IEEE80211_HW_BEACON_FILTERING flag so that driver inform that it supports
beacon filtering. Drivers need to call the new function
ieee80211_beacon_loss() to notify about beacon loss.
Signed-off-by: Kalle Valo <kalle.valo@nokia.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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It seems a few users are using this module parameter although its not
recommended. People are finding it useful despite there being utilities
for setting this in userspace. I'm not aware of any distribution using
this though.
Until userspace and distributions catch up with a default userspace
automatic replacement (GeoClue integration would be nirvana) we copy
the ieee80211_regdom module parameter from OLD_REG to the new reg
code to help these users migrate.
Users who are using the non-valid ISO / IEC 3166 alpha "EU" in their
ieee80211_regdom module parameter and migrate to non-OLD_REG enabled
system will world roam.
This also schedules removal of this same ieee80211_regdom module
parameter circa March 2010. Hope is by then nirvana is reached and
users will abandoned the module parameter completely.
Signed-off-by: Luis R. Rodriguez <lrodriguez@atheros.com>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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Conflicts:
arch/parisc/kernel/irq.c
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap_64.h
arch/x86/include/asm/setup.h
kernel/irq/handle.c
Semantic merge:
arch/x86/include/asm/fixmap.h
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
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* 'bkl-removal' of git://git.lwn.net/linux-2.6:
Rationalize fasync return values
Move FASYNC bit handling to f_op->fasync()
Use f_lock to protect f_flags
Rename struct file->f_ep_lock
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'irq-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (32 commits)
x86: disable __do_IRQ support
sparseirq, powerpc/cell: fix unused variable warning in interrupt.c
genirq: deprecate obsolete typedefs and defines
genirq: deprecate __do_IRQ
genirq: add doc to struct irqaction
genirq: use kzalloc instead of explicit zero initialization
genirq: make irqreturn_t an enum
genirq: remove redundant if condition
genirq: remove unused hw_irq_controller typedef
irq: export remove_irq() and setup_irq() symbols
irq: match remove_irq() args with setup_irq()
irq: add remove_irq() for freeing of setup_irq() irqs
genirq: assert that irq handlers are indeed running in hardirq context
irq: name 'p' variables a bit better
irq: further clean up the free_irq() code flow
irq: refactor and clean up the free_irq() code flow
irq: clean up manage.c
irq: use GFP_KERNEL for action allocation in request_irq()
kernel/irq: fix sparse warning: make symbol static
irq: optimize init_kstat_irqs/init_copy_kstat_irqs
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'timers-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (26 commits)
posix timers: fix RLIMIT_CPU && fork()
time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex(), fix
time: ntp: clean up second_overflow()
time: ntp: simplify ntp_tick_adj calculations
time: ntp: make 64-bit constants more robust
time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex() some more
time: ntp: refactor do_adjtimex()
time: ntp: fix bug in ntp_update_offset() & do_adjtimex()
time: ntp: micro-optimize ntp_update_offset()
time: ntp: simplify ntp_update_offset_fll()
time: ntp: refactor and clean up ntp_update_offset()
time: ntp: refactor up ntp_update_frequency()
time: ntp: clean up ntp_update_frequency()
time: ntp: simplify the MAX_TICKADJ_SCALED definition
time: ntp: simplify the second_overflow() code flow
time: ntp: clean up kernel/time/ntp.c
x86: hpet: stop HPET_COUNTER when programming periodic mode
x86: hpet: provide separate functions to stop and start the counter
x86: hpet: print HPET registers during setup (if hpet=verbose is used)
time: apply NTP frequency/tick changes immediately
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip
* 'sched-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: (46 commits)
sched: Add comments to find_busiest_group() function
sched: Refactor the power savings balance code
sched: Optimize the !power_savings_balance during fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate imbalance
sched: Create helper to calculate small_imbalance in fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_domain stats for fbg()
sched: Define structure to store the sched_domain statistics for fbg()
sched: Create a helper function to calculate sched_group stats for fbg()
sched: Define structure to store the sched_group statistics for fbg()
sched: Fix indentations in find_busiest_group() using gotos
sched: Simple helper functions for find_busiest_group()
sched: remove unused fields from struct rq
sched: jiffies not printed per CPU
sched: small optimisation of can_migrate_task()
sched: fix typos in documentation
sched: add avg_overlap decay
x86, sched_clock(): mark variables read-mostly
sched: optimize ttwu vs group scheduling
sched: TIF_NEED_RESCHED -> need_reshed() cleanup
sched: don't rebalance if attached on NULL domain
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* 'for-linus' of git://git390.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6: (81 commits)
[S390] remove duplicated #includes
[S390] cpumask: use mm_cpumask() wrapper
[S390] cpumask: Use accessors code.
[S390] cpumask: prepare for iterators to only go to nr_cpu_ids/nr_cpumask_bits.
[S390] cpumask: remove cpu_coregroup_map
[S390] fix clock comparator save area usage
[S390] Add hwcap flag for the etf3 enhancement facility
[S390] Ensure that ipl panic notifier is called late.
[S390] fix dfp elf hwcap/facility bit detection
[S390] smp: perform initial cpu reset before starting a cpu
[S390] smp: fix memory leak on __cpu_up
[S390] ipl: Improve checking logic and remove switch defaults.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove needless check for NULL pointer.
[S390] s390dbf: Remove redundant initilizations.
[S390] use kzfree()
[S390] BUG to BUG_ON changes
[S390] zfcpdump: Prevent zcore from beeing built as a kernel module.
[S390] Use csum_partial in checksum.h
[S390] cleanup lowcore.h
[S390] eliminate ipl_device from lowcore
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* 'for-2.6.30' of git://git.kernel.dk/linux-2.6-block:
Get rid of pdflush_operation() in emergency sync and remount
btrfs: get rid of current_is_pdflush() in btrfs_btree_balance_dirty
Move the default_backing_dev_info out of readahead.c and into backing-dev.c
block: Repeated lines in switching-sched.txt
bsg: Remove bogus check against request_queue->max_sectors
block: WARN in __blk_put_request() for potential bio leak
loop: fix circular locking in loop_clr_fd()
loop: support barrier writes
bsg: add support for tail queuing
cpqarray: enable bus mastering
block: genhd.h cleanup patch
block: add private bio_set for bio integrity allocations
block: genhd.h comment needs updating
block: get rid of unused blkdev_free_rq() define
block: remove various blk_queue_*() setting functions in blk_init_queue_node()
cciss: add BUILD_BUG_ON() for catching bad CommandList_struct alignment
block: don't create bio_vec slabs of less than the inline number
block: cleanup bio_alloc_bioset()
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next-2.6: (1750 commits)
ixgbe: Allow Priority Flow Control settings to survive a device reset
net: core: remove unneeded include in net/core/utils.c.
e1000e: update version number
e1000e: fix close interrupt race
e1000e: fix loss of multicast packets
e1000e: commonize tx cleanup routine to match e1000 & igb
netfilter: fix nf_logger name in ebt_ulog.
netfilter: fix warning in ebt_ulog init function.
netfilter: fix warning about invalid const usage
e1000: fix close race with interrupt
e1000: cleanup clean_tx_irq routine so that it completely cleans ring
e1000: fix tx hang detect logic and address dma mapping issues
bridge: bad error handling when adding invalid ether address
bonding: select current active slave when enslaving device for mode tlb and alb
gianfar: reallocate skb when headroom is not enough for fcb
Bump release date to 25Mar2009 and version to 0.22
r6040: Fix second PHY address
qeth: fix wait_event_timeout handling
qeth: check for completion of a running recovery
qeth: unregister MAC addresses during recovery.
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Manually fixed up conflicts in:
drivers/infiniband/hw/cxgb3/cxio_hal.h
drivers/infiniband/hw/nes/nes_nic.c
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Now that the headers are in arch/foo/include/asm we don't want to exclude
them when preparing diff files.
Closes-bug: 12921
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Conflicts:
drivers/net/wimax/i2400m/usb-notif.c
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (97 commits)
USB: qcserial: add device id for HP devices
USB: isp1760: Add a delay before reading the SKIPMAP registers in isp1760-hcd.c
USB: allow malformed LANGID descriptors
USB: pxa27x_udc: typo fixes and code cleanups
USB: gadget: gadget zero uses new suspend/resume hooks
USB: gadget: composite device-level suspend/resume hooks
USB: r8a66597-hcd: suspend/resume support
USB: more u32 conversion after transfer_buffer_length and actual_length
USB: Fix cp2101 USB serial device driver termios functions for console use
USB: CP2101 New Device ID
USB: ipaq: handle 4 endpoint devices
USB: S3C: Move usb-control.h to platform include
USB: ohci-hcd: Add ARCH_S3C24XX to the ohci-s3c2410.c glue
USB: pedantic: spelling correction in comment for ch9.h
USB: host: fix sparse warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer
USB: ohci-s3c2410: fix name of bus clock
USB: ohci-s3c2410: remove <mach/hardware.h> include
USB: serial: rename cp2101 driver to cp210x
USB: CP2101 Reduce Error Logging
USB: CP2101 Support AN205 baud rates
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-core-2.6: (61 commits)
Dynamic debug: fix pr_fmt() build error
Dynamic debug: allow simple quoting of words
dynamic debug: update docs
dynamic debug: combine dprintk and dynamic printk
sysfs: fix some bin_vm_ops errors
kobject: don't block for each kobject_uevent
sysfs: only allow one scheduled removal callback per kobj
Driver core: Fix device_move() vs. dpm list ordering, v2
Driver core: some cleanup on drivers/base/sys.c
Driver core: implement uevent suppress in kobject
vcs: hook sysfs devices into object lifetime instead of "binding"
driver core: fix passing platform_data
driver core: move platform_data into platform_device
sysfs: don't block indefinitely for unmapped files.
driver core: move knode_bus into private structure
driver core: move knode_driver into private structure
driver core: move klist_children into private structure
driver core: create a private portion of struct device
driver core: remove polling for driver_probe_done(v5)
sysfs: reference sysfs_dirent from sysfs inodes
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Fixed conflicts in drivers/sh/maple/maple.c manually
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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: (430 commits)
ALSA: hda - Add quirk for Acer Ferrari 5000
ALSA: hda - Use cached calls to get widget caps and pin caps
ALSA: hda - Don't create empty/single-item input source
ALSA: hda - Fix the wrong pin-cap check in patch_realtek.c
ALSA: hda - Cache pin-cap values
ALSA: hda - Avoid output amp manipulation to digital mic pins
ALSA: hda - Add function id to proc output
ALSA: pcm - Safer boundary checks
ALSA: hda - Detect digital-mic inputs on ALC663 / ALC272
ALSA: sound/ali5451: typo: s/resouces/resources/
ALSA: hda - Don't show the current connection for power widgets
ALSA: Fix wrong pointer to dev_err() in arm/pxa2xx-ac97-lib.c
ASoC: Declare Headset as Mic and Headphone widgets for SDP3430
ASoC: OMAP: N810: Add more jack functions
ASoC: OMAP: N810: Mark not connected input pins
ASoC: Add FLL support for WM8400
ALSA: hda - Don't reset stream at each prepare callback
ALSA: hda - Don't reset BDL unnecessarily
ALSA: pcm - Fix delta calculation at boundary overlap
ALSA: pcm - Reset invalid position even without debug option
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git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* 'next' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: (35 commits)
[CPUFREQ] Prevent p4-clockmod from auto-binding to the ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] Make cpufreq-nforce2 less obnoxious
[CPUFREQ] p4-clockmod reports wrong frequency.
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Use a common exit path.
[CPUFREQ] Change link order of x86 cpufreq modules
[CPUFREQ] conservative: remove 10x from def_sampling_rate
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fixup governor to function more like ondemand logic
[CPUFREQ] conservative: fix dbs_cpufreq_notifier so freq is not locked
[CPUFREQ] conservative: amend author's email address
[CPUFREQ] Use swap() in longhaul.c
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for acpi-cpufreq
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Only print error message once, not per core.
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: sanitize sampling_rate restrictions
[CPUFREQ] ondemand/conservative: deprecate sampling_rate{min,max}
[CPUFREQ] powernow-k8: Always compile powernow-k8 driver with ACPI support
[CPUFREQ] Introduce /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu*/cpufreq/cpuinfo_transition_latency
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k8
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for ondemand governor.
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for powernow-k7
[CPUFREQ] checkpatch cleanups for speedstep related drivers.
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This patch introduces the kernel parameter hvc_iucv_allow= that specifies
a comma-separated list of z/VM user IDs.
If specified, the z/VM IUCV hypervisor console device driver accepts IUCV
connections from listed z/VM user IDs only.
Signed-off-by: Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
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These lines appear in this file twice - removed one occurrence.
Signed-off-by: Avishay Traeger <avishay@il.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
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Allow simple quoting of words in the dynamic debug control language.
This allows more natural specification when using the control language
to match against printk formats, e.g
#echo -n 'format "Setting node for non-present cpu" +p' >
/mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
instead of
#echo -n 'format Setting\040node\040for\040non-present\040cpu +p' >
/mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
Adjust the dynamic debug documention to describe that and provide a
new example. Adjust the existing examples in the documentation to
reflect the current whitespace escaping behaviour when reading the
control file. Fix some minor documentation trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Acked-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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updates the documentation for 'dynamic debug' feature.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch combines Greg Bank's dprintk() work with the existing dynamic
printk patchset, we are now calling it 'dynamic debug'.
The new feature of this patchset is a richer /debugfs control file interface,
(an example output from my system is at the bottom), which allows fined grained
control over the the debug output. The output can be controlled by function,
file, module, format string, and line number.
for example, enabled all debug messages in module 'nf_conntrack':
echo -n 'module nf_conntrack +p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
to disable them:
echo -n 'module nf_conntrack -p' > /mnt/debugfs/dynamic_debug/control
A further explanation can be found in the documentation patch.
Signed-off-by: Greg Banks <gnb@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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If a UIO device has several memory mappings, it can be difficult for userspace
to find the right one. The situation becomes even worse if the UIO driver can
handle different versions of a card that have different numbers of mappings.
Benedikt Spranger has such cards and pointed this out to me. Thanks, Bene!
To address this problem, this patch adds "name" sysfs attributes for each
mapping. Userspace can use these to clearly identify each mapping. The name
string is optional. If a driver doesn't set it, an empty string will be
returned, so this patch won't break existing drivers.
The same problem exists for port region information, so a "name" attribute is
added there, too.
Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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This patch adds an extension to the binary API so it reaches parity with
existing text API (so-called "1u"). The extension delivers additional data,
such as ISO descriptors and the interrupt interval.
Signed-Off-By: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
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Revert the change to the orphan dates of Windows 95, DOS, compression.
Add a new orphan date for OS/2.
Signed-off-by: Jody McIntyre <scjody@sun.com>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (32 commits)
ucc_geth: Fix oops when using fixed-link support
dm9000: locking bugfix
net: update dnet.c for bus_id removal
dnet: DNET should depend on HAS_IOMEM
dca: add missing copyright/license headers
nl80211: Check that function pointer != NULL before using it
sungem: missing net_device_ops
be2net: fix to restore vlan ids into BE2 during a IF DOWN->UP cycle
be2net: replenish when posting to rx-queue is starved in out of mem conditions
bas_gigaset: correctly allocate USB interrupt transfer buffer
smsc911x: reset last known duplex and carrier on open
sh_eth: Fix mistake of the address of SH7763
sh_eth: Change handling of IRQ
netns: oops in ip[6]_frag_reasm incrementing stats
net: kfree(napi->skb) => kfree_skb
net: fix sctp breakage
ipv6: fix display of local and remote sit endpoints
net: Document /proc/sys/net/core/netdev_budget
tulip: fix crash on iface up with shirq debug
virtio_net: Make virtio_net support carrier detection
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master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/net/virtio_net.c
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The NAPI poll parameter netdev_budget is not documented in
kernel-docs. Since it may have a substantial effect on at least some
network loads, it should be.
Signed-off-by: Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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Fix the behavior of allowing both sysctl and addrconf_dad_failure()
to set the disable_ipv6 parameter without any bad side-effects.
If DAD fails and accept_dad > 1, we will still set disable_ipv6=1,
but then instead of allowing an RA to add an address then
immediately fail DAD, we simply don't allow the address to be
added in the first place. This also lets the user set this flag
and disable all IPv6 addresses on the interface, or on the entire
system.
Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
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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>
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Removing the BKL from FASYNC handling ran into the challenge of keeping the
setting of the FASYNC bit in filp->f_flags atomic with regard to calls to
the underlying fasync() function. Andi Kleen suggested moving the handling
of that bit into fasync(); this patch does exactly that. As a result, we
have a couple of internal API changes: fasync() must now manage the FASYNC
bit, and it will be called without the BKL held.
As it happens, every fasync() implementation in the kernel with one
exception calls fasync_helper(). So, if we make fasync_helper() set the
FASYNC bit, we can avoid making any changes to the other fasync()
functions - as long as those functions, themselves, have proper locking.
Most fasync() implementations do nothing but call fasync_helper() - which
has its own lock - so they are easily verified as correct. The BKL had
already been pushed down into the rest.
The networking code has its own version of fasync_helper(), so that code
has been augmented with explicit FASYNC bit handling.
Cc: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
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