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2016-04-28Documentation: fix common spelling mistakesKees Cook
This fixes several spelling mistakes in the Documentation/ tree, which are caught by checkpatch.pl's spell checking. Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Reviewed-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2016-03-19Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-nextLinus Torvalds
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 ...
2016-02-24rfkill: Move "state" sysfs file back to stableJoão Paulo Rechi Vita
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 <jprvita@endlessm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-24rfkill: Remove obsolete "claim" sysfs interfaceJoão Paulo Rechi Vita
This was scheduled to be removed in 2012 by: commit 69c86373c6ea1149aa559e6088362d58d8ec8835 Author: florian@mickler.org <florian@mickler.org> Date: Wed Feb 24 12:05:16 2010 +0100 Document the rfkill sysfs ABI This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the ABI subfolder and reformats it. This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in 2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file). Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: João Paulo Rechi Vita <jprvita@endlessm.com> Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes.berg@intel.com>
2016-02-09gpio: ABI: mark the sysfs ABI as obsoleteLinus Walleij
This marks the (optional) sysfs GPIO ABI as obsolete and schedules it for removal in 2020. Cc: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Cc: Michael Welling <mwelling@ieee.org> Cc: Markus Pargmann <mpa@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>
2015-10-21HID: roccat: Fixed resubmit: Deprecating most Roccat sysfs attributesStefan Achatz
Deprecates all Roccat sysfs attributes except the ones for the old Kone by moving abi descriptions from testing to obsolete. For most devices everything can be done using the hidraw ioctls HIDIOCGFEATURE and HIDIOCSFEATURE, so I would suggest future removal of device specific drivers. The userspace tools don't use these attributes for a year now. The first Kone is not fully HID-compliant and will still need a module. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2015-04-15zram: deprecate zram attrs sysfs nodesSergey Senozhatsky
Add Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-block-zram file and list obsolete and deprecated attributes there. The patch also adds additional information to zram documentation and describes the basic strategy: - the existing RW nodes will be downgraded to WO nodes (in 4.11) - deprecated RO sysfs nodes will eventually be removed (in 4.11) Users will be additionally notified about deprecated attr usage by pr_warn_once() (added to every deprecated attr _show()), as suggested by Minchan Kim. User space is advised to use zram<id>/stat, zram<id>/io_stat and zram<id>/mm_stat files. Signed-off-by: Sergey Senozhatsky <sergey.senozhatsky@gmail.com> Reported-by: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org> Cc: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-12-12Merge branches 'for-3.7/upstream-fixes', 'for-3.8/hidraw', ↵Jiri Kosina
'for-3.8/i2c-hid', 'for-3.8/multitouch', 'for-3.8/roccat', 'for-3.8/sensors' and 'for-3.8/upstream' into for-linus Conflicts: drivers/hid/hid-core.c
2012-11-12HID: roccat: deprecate some Kovaplus attributesStefan Achatz
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12HID: roccat: deprecate some Koneplus attributesStefan Achatz
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12HID: roccat: deprecated some Pyra attributesStefan Achatz
Introduced attribute "control" and made profile_settings and profile_buttons readable, which makes profile[1-5]_settings and profile[1-5]_buttons obsolete. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12HID: roccat: cleanup of pyra moduleStefan Achatz
Partially removed unneeded informations and data caching. Moved code nearer to format of newer drivers. Added "info" sysfs attribute to support device reset and deprecate "firmware_version" attribute. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-12HID: roccat: cleanup of kovaplus moduleStefan Achatz
Partially removed unneeded informations and data caching. Moved code nearer to format of newer drivers. Added "info" sysfs attribute to support device reset and deprecate other attributes. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-11-05HID: roccat: enable Koneplus device resetStefan Achatz
Device can be reset to factory state by sending a command via info sysfs attr. Added binary attribute info for this purpose, which obsoletes firmware_version attribute. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2012-10-09oom: remove deprecated oom_adjDavidlohr Bueso
The deprecated /proc/<pid>/oom_adj is scheduled for removal this month. Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Cc: 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>
2012-07-31mm: prepare for removal of obsolete /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threadsWanpeng Li
Since per-BDI flusher threads were introduced in 2.6, the pdflush mechanism is not used any more. But the old interface exported through /proc/sys/vm/nr_pdflush_threads still exists and is obviously useless. For back-compatibility, printk warning information and return 2 to notify the users that the interface is removed. Signed-off-by: Wanpeng Li <liwp@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2012-03-07Documentation: Fix multiple typo in DocumentationMasanari Iida
Signed-off-by: Masanari Iida <standby24x7@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2011-07-25oom: remove references to old badness() functionDavid Rientjes
The badness() function in the oom killer was renamed to oom_badness() in a63d83f427fb ("oom: badness heuristic rewrite") since it is a globally exported function for clarity. The prototype for the old function still existed in linux/oom.h, so remove it. There are no existing users. Also fixes documentation and comment references to badness() and adjusts them accordingly. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reviewed-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>
2011-05-23ocfs2: remove the /sys/o2cb symlinkAmerigo Wang
It is obsoleted since Dec 2005. Signed-off-by: WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
2011-05-18HID: roccat: fix actual/startup profile sysfs attribute in koneplusStefan Achatz
startup_profile and actual_profile didn't work as expected. Also as the actual profile is persistent, the distinction between the two was ambiguous, so both use the same code now and startup_profile has been deprecated. Also the event is now propagated through chardev. The userland tool has been updated to support this change. Signed-off-by: Stefan Achatz <erazor_de@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2010-11-12oom: document obsolete oom_adj tunableDavid Rientjes
/proc/pid/oom_adj was deprecated in August 2010 with the introduction of the new oom killer heuristic. This patch copies the Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt entry for this tunable to the Documentation/ABI/obsolete directory so nobody misses it. Signed-off-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@google.com> Reported-by: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-11ieee1394: remove the old IEEE 1394 driver stackStefan Richter
The drivers - ohci1394 (controller driver) - ieee1394 (core) - dv1394, raw1394, video1394 (userspace ABI) - eth1394, sbp2 (protocol drivers) are replaced by - firewire-ohci (controller driver) - firewire-core (core and userspace ABI) - firewire-net, firewire-sbp2 (protocol drivers) which are more featureful, better performing, and more secure than the older drivers; all with a smaller and more modern code base. The driver firedtv in drivers/media/dvb/firewire/ contains backends to both ieee1394 and firewire-core. Its ieee1394 backend code can be removed in an independent commit; firedtv as-is builds and works fine without ieee1394. The driver pcilynx (an incomplete controller driver) is deleted without replacement since PCILynx cards are extremely rare. Owners of these cards use them with the stand-alone bus sniffer driver nosy instead. The drivers nosy and init_ohci1394_dma which do not interact with either of the two IEEE 1394 stacks are not affected by the ieee1394 subsystem removal. There are still some issues with the newer firewire subsystem compared to the older one: - The rare and quirky controllers ALi M52xx, Apple UniNorth v1, NVIDIA NForce2 are even less well supported by firewire-ohci than by ohci1394. I am looking into the M52xx issue. - The experimental firewire-net is reportedly less stable than its experimental cousin eth1394. - Audio playback of a certain group of audio devices (ones based on DICE chipset with EAP; supported by prerelease FFADO code) does not work yet. This issue is still under investigation. - There were some ieee1394 based out-of-the-mainline drivers. Of them, only lisight, an audio driver for iSight webcams, seems still useful. Work is underway to reimplement it on top of firewire-core. All these remainig issues are minor; they should not stand in the way of overall better user experience of IEEE 1394 on Linux, together with a reduction in support efforts and maintenance burden. The coexistence of two IEEE 1394 kernel driver stacks in the mainline since 2.6.22 shall end now, as announced earlier this year. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-05-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (229 commits) USB: remove unused usb_buffer_alloc and usb_buffer_free macros usb: musb: update gfp/slab.h includes USB: ftdi_sio: fix legacy SIO-device header USB: kl5usb105: reimplement using generic framework USB: kl5usb105: minor clean ups USB: kl5usb105: fix memory leak USB: io_ti: use kfifo to implement write buffering USB: io_ti: remove unsused private counter USB: ti_usb: use kfifo to implement write buffering USB: ir-usb: fix incorrect write-buffer length USB: aircable: fix incorrect write-buffer length USB: safe_serial: straighten out read processing USB: safe_serial: reimplement read using generic framework USB: safe_serial: reimplement write using generic framework usb-storage: always print quirks USB: usb-storage: trivial debug improvements USB: oti6858: use port write fifo USB: oti6858: use kfifo to implement write buffering USB: cypress_m8: use kfifo to implement write buffering USB: cypress_m8: remove unused drain define ... Fix up conflicts (due to usb_buffer_alloc/free renaming) in drivers/input/tablet/acecad.c drivers/input/tablet/kbtab.c drivers/input/tablet/wacom_sys.c drivers/media/video/gspca/gspca.c sound/usb/usbaudio.c
2010-05-20USB: deprecate the power/level sysfs attributeAlan Stern
This patch (as1367) deprecates USB's power/level sysfs attribute in favor of the power/control attribute provided by the runtime PM core. The two attributes do the same thing. It would be nice to replace power/level with a symlink to power/control, but at the moment sysfs doesn't offer any way to do so. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2010-03-10Document the rfkill sysfs ABIflorian@mickler.org
This moves sysfs ABI info from Documentation/rfkill.txt to the ABI subfolder and reformats it. This also schedules the deprecated sysfs parts to be removed in 2012 (claim file) and 2014 (state file). Signed-off-by: Florian Mickler <florian@mickler.org> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-04-18ocfs2: Move /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cbMark Fasheh
/sys/fs is where we really want file system specific sysfs objects. Ocfs2-tools has been updated to look in /sys/fs/o2cb. We can maintain backwards compatibility with old ocfs2-tools by using a sysfs symlink. After some time (2 years), the symlink can be safely removed. This patch also adds documentation to make it easier for people to figure out what /sys/fs/o2cb is used for. Signed-off-by: Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>
2007-04-09ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394Stefan Richter
Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no justification to remove dv1394 right now. Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense, especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive alternative to the existing ones. But we don't have a schedule at the moment. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2006-09-25Documentation/ABI: devfs is not obsolete, but removed!jens m. noedler
Signed-off-by: Jens M. Noedler <noedler@web.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21[PATCH] Add kernel<->userspace ABI stability documentationGreg Kroah-Hartman
Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>