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author | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-02-14 23:12:00 -0800 |
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committer | David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> | 2009-02-14 23:12:00 -0800 |
commit | 5e30589521518bff36fd2638b3c3d69679c50436 (patch) | |
tree | 6ac985658a06b0787e4354d0d16d380ea9b16a5a /Documentation | |
parent | ac178ef0ae9eb44fd527d87aa9b6394e05f56e1f (diff) | |
parent | d2f8d7ee1a9b4650b4e43325b321801264f7c37a (diff) |
Merge branch 'master' of /home/davem/src/GIT/linux-2.6/
Conflicts:
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl-agn.c
drivers/net/wireless/iwlwifi/iwl3945-base.c
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/connector/cn_test.c | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt | 16 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt | 13 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 |
5 files changed, 20 insertions, 24 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c index be7af146dd30..6977c178729a 100644 --- a/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c +++ b/Documentation/connector/cn_test.c @@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ static void cn_test_timer_func(unsigned long __data) memcpy(m + 1, data, m->len); - cn_netlink_send(m, 0, gfp_any()); + cn_netlink_send(m, 0, GFP_ATOMIC); kfree(m); } @@ -160,10 +160,8 @@ static int cn_test_init(void) goto err_out; } - init_timer(&cn_test_timer); - cn_test_timer.function = cn_test_timer_func; + setup_timer(&cn_test_timer, cn_test_timer_func, 0); cn_test_timer.expires = jiffies + HZ; - cn_test_timer.data = 0; add_timer(&cn_test_timer); return 0; diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt index e3443ddcfb89..917918f84fc7 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/user-guide.txt @@ -195,19 +195,3 @@ scaling_setspeed. By "echoing" a new frequency into this you can change the speed of the CPU, but only within the limits of scaling_min_freq and scaling_max_freq. - - -3.2 Deprecated Interfaces -------------------------- - -Depending on your kernel configuration, you might find the following -cpufreq-related files: -/proc/cpufreq -/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed -/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed-min -/proc/sys/cpu/*/speed-max - -These are files for deprecated interfaces to cpufreq, which offer far -less functionality. Because of this, these interfaces aren't described -here. - diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt index 68ef48839c04..9f8740ca3f3b 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/sysfs-pci.txt @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ that support it. For example, a given bus might look like this: | |-- class | |-- config | |-- device + | |-- enable | |-- irq | |-- local_cpus | |-- resource @@ -32,6 +33,7 @@ files, each with their own function. class PCI class (ascii, ro) config PCI config space (binary, rw) device PCI device (ascii, ro) + enable Whether the device is enabled (ascii, rw) irq IRQ number (ascii, ro) local_cpus nearby CPU mask (cpumask, ro) resource PCI resource host addresses (ascii, ro) @@ -57,10 +59,19 @@ used to do actual device programming from userspace. Note that some platforms don't support mmapping of certain resources, so be sure to check the return value from any attempted mmap. +The 'enable' file provides a counter that indicates how many times the device +has been enabled. If the 'enable' file currently returns '4', and a '1' is +echoed into it, it will then return '5'. Echoing a '0' into it will decrease +the count. Even when it returns to 0, though, some of the initialisation +may not be reversed. + The 'rom' file is special in that it provides read-only access to the device's ROM file, if available. It's disabled by default, however, so applications should write the string "1" to the file to enable it before attempting a read -call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. +call, and disable it following the access by writing "0" to the file. Note +that the device must be enabled for a rom read to return data succesfully. +In the event a driver is not bound to the device, it can be enabled using the +'enable' file, documented above. Accessing legacy resources through sysfs ---------------------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index d73fbd2b2b45..026ec7d57384 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -43,7 +43,8 @@ Only comments so marked will be considered by the kernel-doc scripts, and any comment so marked must be in kernel-doc format. Do not use "/**" to be begin a comment block unless the comment block contains kernel-doc formatted comments. The closing comment marker for -kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/". +kernel-doc comments can be either "*/" or "**/", but "*/" is +preferred in the Linux kernel tree. Kernel-doc comments should be placed just before the function or data structure being described. @@ -63,7 +64,7 @@ Example kernel-doc function comment: * comment lines. * * The longer description can have multiple paragraphs. - **/ + */ The first line, with the short description, must be on a single line. @@ -85,7 +86,7 @@ Example kernel-doc data structure comment. * perhaps with more lines and words. * * Longer description of this structure. - **/ + */ The kernel-doc function comments describe each parameter to the function, in order, with the @name lines. diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index d8362cf9909e..b182626739ea 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -937,6 +937,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file intel_iommu= [DMAR] Intel IOMMU driver (DMAR) option + on + Enable intel iommu driver. off Disable intel iommu driver. igfx_off [Default Off] |