linux-toradex.git/Documentation/ABI/obsolete, branch v5.0

usb: typec: Bus type for alternate modes

2018-07-02T15:42:36+00:00

Introducing a simple bus for the alternate modes. Bus allows
binding drivers to the discovered alternate modes the
partners support.

Signed-off-by: Heikki Krogerus 
Tested-by: Hans de Goede 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

docs: fix broken references with multiple hints

2018-06-15T21:10:01+00:00

The script:
	./scripts/documentation-file-ref-check --fix

Gives multiple hints for broken references on some files.
Manually use the one that applies for some files.

Acked-by: Steven Rostedt (VMware) 
Acked-by: James Morris 
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab 
Acked-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge tag 'gpio-v4.15-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio

2017-11-15T01:23:44+00:00

Pull GPIO updates from Linus Walleij:
 "This is the bulk of GPIO changes for the v4.15 kernel cycle:

  Core:

   - Fix the semantics of raw GPIO to actually be raw. No inversion
     semantics as before, but also no open draining, and allow the raw
     operations to affect lines used for interrupts as the caller
     supposedly knows what they are doing if they are getting the big
     hammer.

   - Rewrote the __inner_function() notation calls to names that make
     more sense. I just find this kind of code disturbing.

   - Drop the .irq_base() field from the gpiochip since now all IRQs are
     mapped dynamically. This is nice.

   - Support for .get_multiple() in the core driver API. This allows us
     to read several GPIO lines with a single register read. This has
     high value for some usecases: it can be used to create
     oscilloscopes and signal analyzers and other things that rely on
     reading several lines at exactly the same instant. Also a generally
     nice optimization. This uses the new assign_bit() macro from the
     bitops lib that was ACKed by Andrew Morton and is implemented for
     two drivers, one of them being the generic MMIO driver so everyone
     using that will be able to benefit from this.

   - Do not allow requests of Open Drain and Open Source setting of a
     GPIO line simultaneously. If the hardware actually supports
     enabling both at the same time the electrical result would be
     disastrous.

   - A new interrupt chip core helper. This will be helpful to deal with
     "banked" GPIOs, which means GPIO controllers with several logical
     blocks of GPIO inside them. This is several gpiochips per device in
     the device model, in contrast to the case when there is a 1-to-1
     relationship between a device and a gpiochip.

  New drivers:

   - Maxim MAX3191x industrial serializer, a very interesting piece of
     professional I/O hardware.

   - Uniphier GPIO driver. This is the GPIO block from the recent
     Socionext (ex Fujitsu and Panasonic) platform.

   - Tegra 186 driver. This is based on the new banked GPIO
     infrastructure.

  Other improvements:

   - Some documentation improvements.

   - Wakeup support for the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller.

   - Reset line support on the DesignWare DWAPB GPIO controller.

   - Several non-critical bug fixes and improvements for the Broadcom
     BRCMSTB driver.

   - Misc non-critical bug fixes like exotic errorpaths, removal of dead
     code etc.

   - Explicit comments on fall-through switch() statements"

* tag 'gpio-v4.15-1' of ssh://gitolite.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linusw/linux-gpio: (65 commits)
  gpio: tegra186: Remove tegra186_gpio_lock_class
  gpio: rcar: Add r8a77995 (R-Car D3) support
  pinctrl: bcm2835: Fix some merge fallout
  gpio: Fix undefined lock_dep_class
  gpio: Automatically add lockdep keys
  gpio: Introduce struct gpio_irq_chip.first
  gpio: Disambiguate struct gpio_irq_chip.nested
  gpio: Add Tegra186 support
  gpio: Export gpiochip_irq_{map,unmap}()
  gpio: Implement tighter IRQ chip integration
  gpio: Move lock_key into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_valid_mask into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_nested into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_chained_parent to struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_default_type to struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irq_handler to struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irqdomain into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Move irqchip into struct gpio_irq_chip
  gpio: Introduce struct gpio_irq_chip
  pinctrl: armada-37xx: remove unused variable
  ...

Documentation: fix ref to gpio.txt

2017-10-19T20:32:40+00:00

Signed-off-by: Tom Saeger 
Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij

sysctl: remove /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads

2017-10-04T17:24:16+00:00

This tunable has been obsolete since 2.6.32, and writes to the
file have been failing and complaining in dmesg since then:

nr_pdflush_threads exported in /proc is scheduled for removal

That was 8 years ago. Remove the file ABI obsolete notice, and
the sysfs file.

Reviewed-by: Jan Kara 
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe

ACPI / scan: Drop support for force_remove

2017-04-13T01:51:47+00:00

/sys/firmware/acpi/hotplug/force_remove was presumably added to support
auto offlining in the past. This is, however, inherently dangerous for
some hotplugable resources like memory. The memory offlining fails when
the memory is still in use and cannot be dropped or migrated. If we
ignore the failure we are basically allowing for subtle memory
corruption or a crash.

We have actually noticed the later while hitting BUG() during the memory
hotremove (remove_memory):
	ret = walk_memory_range(PFN_DOWN(start), PFN_UP(start + size - 1), NULL,
			check_memblock_offlined_cb);
	if (ret)
		BUG();

it took us quite non-trivial time realize that the customer had
force_remove enabled. Even if the BUG was removed here and we could
propagate the error up the call chain it wouldn't help at all because
then we would hit a crash or a memory corruption later and harder to
debug. So force_remove is unfixable for the memory hotremove. We haven't
checked other hotplugable resources to be prone to a similar problems.

Remove the force_remove functionality because it is not fixable currently.
Keep the sysfs file and report an error if somebody tries to enable it.
Encourage users to report about the missing functionality and work with
them with an alternative solution.

Reviewed-by: Lee, Chun-Yi 
Signed-off-by: Michal Hocko 
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki

zram: remove obsolete sysfs attrs

2017-02-23T00:41:30+00:00

We had a deprecated_attr_warn() warning for 2 years and now the time has
come and we finally can do the cleanup.

The plan was as follows:

: per-stat sysfs attributes are considered to be deprecated.
: The basic strategy is:
: -- the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in linux 4.11)
: -- deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in linux 4.11)
:
: The list of deprecated attributes can be found here:
: Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram
:
: Basically, every attribute that has its own read accessible sysfs
: node (e.g. num_reads) *AND* is accessible via one of the stat files
: (zram/stat or zram/io_stat or zram/mm_stat) is considered
: to be deprecated.

The patch also removes `obsolete/sysfs-block-zram', clean ups
`testing/sysfs-block-zram' and tweaks zram.txt files.

Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20170118035838.11090-1-sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com
Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky 
Acked-by: Minchan Kim 
Cc: Jonathan Corbet 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Documentation: fix common spelling mistakes

2016-04-28T13:51:59+00:00

This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which
are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook 
Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next

2016-03-19T17:05:34+00:00

Pull networking updates from David Miller:
 "Highlights:

   1) Support more Realtek wireless chips, from Jes Sorenson.

   2) New BPF types for per-cpu hash and arrap maps, from Alexei
      Starovoitov.

   3) Make several TCP sysctls per-namespace, from Nikolay Borisov.

   4) Allow the use of SO_REUSEPORT in order to do per-thread processing
   of incoming TCP/UDP connections.  The muxing can be done using a
   BPF program which hashes the incoming packet.  From Craig Gallek.

   5) Add a multiplexer for TCP streams, to provide a messaged based
      interface.  BPF programs can be used to determine the message
      boundaries.  From Tom Herbert.

   6) Add 802.1AE MACSEC support, from Sabrina Dubroca.

   7) Avoid factorial complexity when taking down an inetdev interface
      with lots of configured addresses.  We were doing things like
      traversing the entire address less for each address removed, and
      flushing the entire netfilter conntrack table for every address as
      well.

   8) Add and use SKB bulk free infrastructure, from Jesper Brouer.

   9) Allow offloading u32 classifiers to hardware, and implement for
      ixgbe, from John Fastabend.

  10) Allow configuring IRQ coalescing parameters on a per-queue basis,
      from Kan Liang.

  11) Extend ethtool so that larger link mode masks can be supported.
      From David Decotigny.

  12) Introduce devlink, which can be used to configure port link types
      (ethernet vs Infiniband, etc.), port splitting, and switch device
      level attributes as a whole.  From Jiri Pirko.

  13) Hardware offload support for flower classifiers, from Amir Vadai.

  14) Add "Local Checksum Offload".  Basically, for a tunneled packet
      the checksum of the outer header is 'constant' (because with the
      checksum field filled into the inner protocol header, the payload
      of the outer frame checksums to 'zero'), and we can take advantage
      of that in various ways.  From Edward Cree"

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-next: (1548 commits)
  bonding: fix bond_get_stats()
  net: bcmgenet: fix dma api length mismatch
  net/mlx4_core: Fix backward compatibility on VFs
  phy: mdio-thunder: Fix some Kconfig typos
  lan78xx: add ndo_get_stats64
  lan78xx: handle statistics counter rollover
  RDS: TCP: Remove unused constant
  RDS: TCP: Add sysctl tunables for sndbuf/rcvbuf on rds-tcp socket
  net: smc911x: convert pxa dma to dmaengine
  team: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  bonding: remove duplicate set of flag IFF_MULTICAST
  net: fix a comment typo
  ethernet: micrel: fix some error codes
  ip_tunnels, bpf: define IP_TUNNEL_OPTS_MAX and use it
  bpf, dst: add and use dst_tclassid helper
  bpf: make skb->tc_classid also readable
  net: mvneta: bm: clarify dependencies
  cls_bpf: reset class and reuse major in da
  ldmvsw: Checkpatch sunvnet.c and sunvnet_common.c
  ldmvsw: Add ldmvsw.c driver code
  ...

rfkill: Move "state" sysfs file back to stable

2016-02-24T08:13:11+00:00

There is still quite a bit of code using this interface, so we can't
just remove it. Hopefully it will be possible in the future, but since
its scheduled removal date is past 2 years already, we are better having
the documentation reflecting the current state of things.

Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita 
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg