linux-toradex.git/init, branch v2.6.20.21

Don't put "linux_banner" in the .init section

2007-01-12T02:18:04+00:00

It might save a few bytes after bootup, but it causes the string to be
linked in at the end of the final vmlinux image, which defeats the whole
point of doing all this, namely allowing some broken user-space binaries
to search for the kernel version string in the kernel binary.

So just remove the __init specifier.

Cc: Olaf Hering 
Cc: Jean Delvare 
Cc: Roman Zippel 
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] i386: Convert some functions to __init to avoid MODPOST warnings

2007-01-11T00:52:44+00:00

o Some functions which should have been in init sections as they are called
  only once. Put them in init sections. Otherwise MODPOST generates warning
  as these functions are placed in .text and they end up accessing something
  in init sections.

WARNING: vmlinux - Section mismatch: reference to .init.text:migration_init
from .text between 'do_pre_smp_initcalls' (at offset 0xc01000d1) and
'run_init_process'

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen

[PATCH] fix linux banner format string

2007-01-10T17:33:59+00:00

Revert previous attempts at messing with the linux banner string and
simply use a separate format string for proc.

Signed-off-by: Roman Zippel 
Acked-by: Olaf Hering 
Acked-by: Jean Delvare 
Cc: Andrey Borzenkov 
Cc: Andrew Morton 
Cc: Andy Whitcroft 
Cc: Herbert Poetzl 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] start_kernel: test if irq's got enabled early, barf, and disable them again

2007-01-06T07:55:21+00:00

The calls made by parse_parms to other initialization code might enable
interrupts again way too early.

Having interrupts on this early can make systems PANIC when they initialize
the IRQ controllers (which happens later in the code).  This patch detects
that irq's are enabled again, barfs about it and disables them again as a
safety net.

[akpm@osdl.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Ard van Breemen 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] build compile.h earlier

2006-12-22T16:55:51+00:00

compile.h is created super-late in the build.  But proc_misc.c want to include
it, and it's generally not sane to have a header file in include/linux be
created at the end of the build: it's either not present or, worse, wrong for
most of the build.

So the patch arranges for compile.h to be built at the start of the build
process.  It also consolidates the compile.h rules with those for version.h
and utsname.h, so they all get built together.

I hope.  My chances of having got this right are about 2%.

Cc: Sam Ravnborg 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] handle SLOB with sparsemen

2006-12-22T16:55:49+00:00

This is to disallow to make SLOB with SMP or SPARSEMEM.  This avoids latent
troubles of SLOB with SLAB_DESTROY_BY_RCU.  And fix compile error.

Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto 
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap 
Acked-by: Hugh Dickins 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTER comment decrustify

2006-12-22T16:55:46+00:00

The VM event counters, enabled by CONFIG_VM_EVENT_COUNTERS, which provides
VM event counters in /proc/vmstat, has become more essential to
non-EMBEDDED kernel configurations than they were in the past.  Comments in
the code and the Kconfig configuration explanation were stale, downplaying
their role excessively.

Refresh those comments to correctly reflect the current role of VM event
counters.

Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson 
Acked-by: Christoph Lameter 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Driver core: proper prototype for drivers/base/init.c:driver_init()

2006-12-20T18:56:45+00:00

Add a prototype for driver_init() in include/linux/device.h.

Also remove a static function of the same name in drivers/acpi/ibm_acpi.c to
ibm_acpi_driver_init() to fix the namespace collision.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk 
Acked-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Kconfig: fix spelling error in config KALLSYMS help text

2006-12-12T18:25:11+00:00

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl 
Acked-By: Randy Dunlap 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Make sure we populate the initroot filesystem late enough

2006-12-11T20:12:04+00:00

We should not initialize rootfs before all the core initializers have
run.  So do it as a separate stage just before starting the regular
driver initializers.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds