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2008-11-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/isdn/i4l/isdn_net.c fs/cifs/connect.c
2008-11-16dccp: Deprecate Ack Ratio sysctlGerrit Renker
This patch deprecates the Ack Ratio sysctl, since * Ack Ratio is entirely ignored by CCID-3 and CCID-4, * Ack Ratio currently doesn't work in CCID-2 (i.e. is always set to 1); * even if it would work in CCID-2, there is no point for a user to change it: - Ack Ratio is constrained by cwnd (RFC 4341, 6.1.2), - if Ack Ratio > cwnd, the system resorts to spurious RTO timeouts (since waiting for Acks which will never arrive in this window), - cwnd is not a user-configurable value. The only reasonable place for Ack Ratio is to print it for debugging. It is planned to do this later on, as part of e.g. dccp_probe. With this patch Ack Ratio is now under full control of feature negotiation: * Ack Ratio is resolved as a dependency of the selected CCID; * if the chosen CCID supports it (i.e. CCID == CCID-2), Ack Ratio is set to the default of 2, following RFC 4340, 11.3 - "New connections start with Ack Ratio 2 for both endpoints"; * what happens then is part of another patch set, since it concerns the dynamic update of Ack Ratio while the connection is in full flight. Thanks to Tomasz Grobelny for discussion leading up to this patch. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-16rcu: documents rculist_nullsEric Dumazet
Adds Documentation/RCU/rculist_nulls.txt file to describe how 'nulls' end-of-list can help in some RCU algos. Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <dada1@cosmosbay.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-15Merge branch 'doc-subdirs' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs * 'doc-subdirs' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rdunlap/linux-docs: Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.
2008-11-14Create/use more directory structure in the Documentation/ tree.Randy Dunlap
Create Documentation/blockdev/ sub-directory and populate it. Populate the Documentation/serial/ sub-directory. Move MSI-HOWTO.txt to Documentation/PCI/. Move ioctl-number.txt to Documentation/ioctl/. Update all relevant 00-INDEX files. Update all relevant Kconfig files and source files. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2008-11-12Add c2 port supportRodolfo Giometti
C2port implements a two wire serial communication protocol (bit banging) designed to enable in-system programming, debugging, and boundary-scan testing on low pin-count Silicon Labs devices. Currently this code supports only flash programming through sysfs interface but extensions shoud be easy to add. Signed-off-by: Rodolfo Giometti <giometti@linux.it> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12hdq: documentation for OMAP HDQMadhusudhan Chikkature
Add a brief document about omap2430/3430 HDQ/1-wire driver. Signed-off-by: Madhusudhan Chikkature<madhu.cr@ti.com> Acked-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12ics932s401: new clock generator chip driverDarrick J. Wong
The ics932s401 is a clock generator chip. This driver allows users to read the current clock outputs. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12adt7462: new hwmon driverDarrick J. Wong
New driver to play with. As Jean mentioned a couple of years ago, this chip is a beast with odd combinations of 8 fans, 4 temperatures, and 13 voltage sensors. This driver has been tested on an IntelliStation Z30. Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com> Cc: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12LIS3LV02Dx Accelerometer driverPavel Machek
This adds a driver to the accelerometer sensor found in several HP laptops (under the commercial names of "HP Mobile Data Protection System 3D" and "HP 3D driveguard"). It tries to have more or less the same interfaces as the hdaps and other accelerometer drivers: in sysfs and as a joystick. This driver was first written by Yan Burman. Eric Piel has updated it and slimed it up (including the removal of an interface to access to the free-fall feature of the sensor because it is not reliable enough for now). Pavel Machek removed few more features and switched locking from semaphore to mutex. Several people have contributed to the database of the axes. [eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net: LIS3LV02D: Conform to the new ACPI API] Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Yan Burman <burman.yan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Cc: "Mark M. Hoffman" <mhoffman@lightlink.com> Signed-off-by: Eric Piel <eric.piel@tremplin-utc.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12DOC: update xip method infoMarco Stornelli
xip documentation updated: - change "get_xip_page" to "get_xip_mem"; - explain changed function parameters Signed-off-by: Marco Stornelli <marco.stornelli@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Carsten Otte <cotte@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12DOC: add printk-formats.txtRandy Dunlap
Add printk-formats.txt so that we don't have to keep fixing the same things over and over again. <wishful thinking> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12freezer_cg: disable writing freezer.state of root cgroupLi Zefan
With this change, control file 'freezer.state' doesn't exist in root cgroup, making root cgroup unfreezable. I think it's reasonable to disallow freeze tasks in the root cgroup. And then we can avoid fork overhead when freezer subsystem is compiled but not used. Also make writing invalid value to freezer.state returns EINVAL rather than EIO. This is more consistent with other cgroup subsystem. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Acked-by: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Cc: Matt Helsley <matthltc@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Serge E. Hallyn" <serue@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-12Merge branch 'release' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6 * 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (47 commits) ACPI: pci_link: remove acpi_irq_balance_set() interface fujitsu-laptop: Add DMI callback for Lifebook S6420 ACPI: EC: Don't do transaction from GPE handler in poll mode. ACPI: EC: lower interrupt storm treshold ACPICA: Use spinlock for acpi_{en|dis}able_gpe ACPI: EC: restart failed command ACPI: EC: wait for last write gpe ACPI: EC: make kernel messages more useful when GPE storm is detected ACPI: EC: revert msleep patch thinkpad_acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality sony-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality msi-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality fujitsu-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality eeepc-laptop: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality compal: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality asus-acpi: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality Acer-WMI: fingers off backlight if video.ko is serving this functionality ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor drivers ACPI: video: Ignore devices that aren't present in hardware Delete an unwanted return statement at evgpe.c ...
2008-11-12dccp: Query supported CCIDsGerrit Renker
This provides a data structure to record which CCIDs are locally supported and three accessor functions: - a test function for internal use which is used to validate CCID requests made by the user; - a copy function so that the list can be used for feature-negotiation; - documented getsockopt() support so that the user can query capabilities. The data structure is a table which is filled in at compile-time with the list of available CCIDs (which in turn depends on the Kconfig choices). Using the copy function for cloning the list of supported CCIDs is useful for feature negotiation, since the negotiation is now with the full list of available CCIDs (e.g. {2, 3}) instead of the default value {2}. This means negotiation will not fail if the peer requests to use CCID3 instead of CCID2. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Acked-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'video' into releaseLen Brown
Conflicts: Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'misc' into releaseLen Brown
2008-11-11Merge branch 'bugzilla-11312' into releaseLen Brown
2008-11-11Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c drivers/net/sfc/ethtool.c net/mac80211/debugfs_sta.c
2008-11-11Merge branch 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'tracing-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: ring-buffer: prevent infinite looping on time stamping ftrace: disable tracing on resize ftrace: fix breakage in bin_fmt results ftrace: ftrace.txt version update ftrace: update txt document
2008-11-11Merge branch 'for_linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6 * 'for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (35 commits) V4L/DVB (9516): cx18: Move DVB buffer transfer handling from irq handler to work_queue V4L/DVB (9557): gspca: Small changes for the sensor HV7131B in zc3xx. V4L/DVB (9556): gspca: Bad init sequence for sensor HV7131B in zc3xx. V4L/DVB (9549): gspca: Fix a typo in one of gspca chips name. V4L/DVB (9515): cx18: Use correct Mailbox IRQ Ack values and misc IRQ handling cleanup V4L/DVB (9493): kconfig patch V4L/DVB (9527): af9015: fix compile warnings V4L/DVB (9524): af9013: fix bug in status reading V4L/DVB (9511): cx18: Mark CX18_CPU_DE_RELEASE_MDL as a slow API call V4L/DVB (9510): cx18: Fix write retries for registers that always change - part 2. V4L/DVB (9506): ivtv/cx18: fix test whether modules should be loaded or not. V4L/DVB (9499): cx88-mpeg: final fix for analogue only compilation + de-alloc fix V4L/DVB (9496): cx88-blackbird: bugfix: cx88-blackbird-mpeg-users V4L/DVB (9495): cx88-blackbird: bugfix: cx88-blackbird-poll-fix V4L/DVB (9494): anysee: initialize anysee_usb_mutex statically V4L/DVB (9492): unplug oops from dvb_frontend_init... V4L/DVB (9486): ivtv/ivtvfb: no longer experimental V4L/DVB (9485): ivtv: remove incorrect V4L1 & tvaudio dependency V4L/DVB (9482): Documentation, especially regarding audio and informational links V4L/DVB (9475): cx18: Disable write retries for registers that always change - part 1. ...
2008-11-11Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: powerpc: Update desktop/server defconfigs powerpc: Fix msr check in compat_sys_swapcontext powerpc: Repair device bindings documentation powerpc: Updated Freescale PPC related defconfigs powerpc: Update QE/CPM2 usb_ctlr structures for USB support powerpc/86xx: Correct SOC bus-frequency in GE Fanuc SBC610 DTS powerpc: Fix Book-E watchdog timer interval setting powerpc/fsl-booke: Fix synchronization bug w/local tlb invalidates
2008-11-11V4L/DVB (9482): Documentation, especially regarding audio and informational ↵Tobias Lorenz
links This patch adds a recommendation to select SND_USB_AUDIO for listing and adds a documentation file for si470x. Signed-off-by: Tobias Lorenz <tobias.lorenz@gmx.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11V4L/DVB (9369): Documentation update for cx88Rafael Diniz
Attached is a patch that updates the cx88 documentation to add the fact the closed caption works for at least NTSC capture. ps: I also updated the wiki at: http://www.linuxtv.org/v4lwiki/index.php/Text_capture#cx88_devices Signed-off-by: Rafael Diniz <diniz@wimobilis.com.br> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11V4L/DVB (9337b): remove tuner-3036 and dpc7146 drivers from ↵Jean Delvare
feature-removal-schedule.txt The tuner-3036 and dpc7146 drivers have been deleted now so we can remove the corresponding entries from feature-removal-schedule.txt. (Thanks for doing this, BTW.) Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@redhat.com>
2008-11-11Merge branch 'devel' of ↵Ingo Molnar
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rostedt/linux-2.6-trace into tracing/urgent
2008-11-10powerpc: Repair device bindings documentationTrent Piepho
Commit d0fc2eaaf4c56a95f5ed29b6bfb609e19714fc16 "powerpc/fsl: Refactor device bindings" split out a number of device bindings from booting-without-of.txt into separate files. Having them all in one file was a frequent source of merge conflicts. However, in the next merge, 49997d75152b3d23c53b0fa730599f2f74c92c65, there was another conflict. Some of the bindings removed from booting-without-of.txt were mistakenly added back in and the copies in dts-bindings were kept as well. This patch re-removes "Freescale Display Interface" and "Freescale on board FPGA" and fixes the table of contents. Signed-off-by: Trent Piepho <tpiepho@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2008-11-07ACPI video: if no ACPI backlight support, use vendor driversThomas Renninger
If an ACPI graphics device supports backlight brightness functions (cmp. with latest ACPI spec Appendix B), let the ACPI video driver control backlight and switch backlight control off in vendor specific ACPI drivers (asus_acpi, thinkpad_acpi, eeepc, fujitsu_laptop, msi_laptop, sony_laptop, acer-wmi). Currently it is possible to load above drivers and let both poke on the brightness HW registers, the video and vendor specific ACPI drivers -> bad. This patch provides the basic support to check for BIOS capabilities before driver loading time. Driver specific modifications are in separate follow up patches. "acpi_backlight=vendor" Prever vendor driver over ACPI driver for backlight. "acpi_backlight=video" (default) Prever ACPI driver over vendor driver for backlight. Signed-off-by: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Acked-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07ACPI: update debug parameter documentationBjorn Helgaas
Reformat acpi.debug_layer and acpi.debug_level documentation so it's more readable, add some clues about how to figure out the mask bits that enable a specific ACPI_DEBUG_PRINT statement, and include some useful examples. Move the list of masks to Documentation/acpi/debug.txt (these are copies of the authoritative values in acoutput.h and acpi_drivers.h). Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-11-07Merge branch 'davem-next' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/netdev-2.6
2008-11-06Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/wireless/ath5k/base.c net/8021q/vlan_core.c
2008-11-06Merge branch 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'x86-fixes-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI" x86: align DirectMap in /proc/meminfo AMD IOMMU: fix lazy IO/TLB flushing in unmap path x86: add smp_mb() before sending INVALIDATE_TLB_VECTOR x86: remove VISWS and PARAVIRT around NR_IRQS puzzle x86: mention ACPI in top-level Kconfig menu x86: size NR_IRQS on 32-bit systems the same way as 64-bit x86: don't allow nr_irqs > NR_IRQS x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docs x86: don't use tsc_khz to calculate lpj if notsc is passed x86, voyager: fix smp_intr_init() compile breakage AMD IOMMU: fix detection of NP capable IOMMUs
2008-11-06fat: Fix ATTR_RO for directoryOGAWA Hirofumi
FAT has the ATTR_RO (read-only) attribute. But on Windows, the ATTR_RO of the directory will be just ignored actually, and is used by only applications as flag. E.g. it's setted for the customized folder by Explorer. http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa969337.aspx This adds "rodir" option. If user specified it, ATTR_RO is used as read-only flag even if it's the directory. Otherwise, inode->i_mode is not used to hold ATTR_RO (i.e. fat_mode_can_save_ro() returns 0). Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06fat: document additional vfat mount optionsBart Trojanowski
While debugging a sync mount regression on vfat I noticed that there were mount options parsed by the driver that were not documented. [hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp: fix some parts] Signed-off-by: Bart Trojanowski <bart@jukie.net> Signed-off-by: OGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: update 'isolcpus' kernel optionLi Zefan
cpuset can be used to move a process onto or off an isolated CPU. Signed-off-by: Li Zefan <lizf@cn.fujitsu.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06cciss: add P700m to list of supported controllersdann frazier
P700m support was added in: 9cff3b383dad193b0762c27278a16237e10b53dc Update cciss.txt to match. Signed-off-by: dann frazier <dannf@hp.com> Acked-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06Documentation/email-clients.txt: add some info about gmailTim Hockin
Signed-off-by: Tim Hockin <thockin@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06cciss: new hardware supportMike Miller
Add support for 2 new SAS/SATA controllers. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-11-06bonding: alternate agg selection policies for 802.3adJay Vosburgh
This patch implements alternative aggregator selection policies for 802.3ad. The existing policy, now termed "stable," selects the active aggregator by greatest bandwidth, and only reselects a new aggregator if the active aggregator is entirely disabled (no more ports or all ports down). This patch adds two new policies: bandwidth and count, selecting the active aggregator by total bandwidth (like the stable policy) or by the number of ports in the aggregator, respectively. These two policies also differ from the stable policy in that they will reselect the active aggregator when availability-related changes occur in the bond (e.g., link state change). This permits "gang failover" within 802.3ad, allowing redundant aggregators along parallel paths to always maintain the "best" aggregator as the active aggregator (rather than having to wait for the active to entirely fail). This patch also updates the driver version to 3.5.0. Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-06bonding: send IPv6 neighbor advertisement on failoverBrian Haley
This patch adds better IPv6 failover support for bonding devices, especially when in active-backup mode and there are only IPv6 addresses configured, as reported by Alex Sidorenko. - Creates a new file, net/drivers/bonding/bond_ipv6.c, for the IPv6-specific routines. Both regular bonds and VLANs over bonds are supported. - Adds a new tunable, num_unsol_na, to limit the number of unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisements that are sent on a failover event. Default is 1. - Creates two new IPv6 neighbor discovery functions: ndisc_build_skb() ndisc_send_skb() These were required to support VLANs since we have to be able to add the VLAN id to the skb since ndisc_send_na() and friends shouldn't be asked to do this. These two routines are basically __ndisc_send() split into two pieces, in a slightly different order. - Updates Documentation/networking/bonding.txt and bumps the rev of bond support to 3.4.0. On failover, this new code will generate one packet: - An unsolicited IPv6 Neighbor Advertisement, which helps the switch learn that the address has moved to the new slave. Testing has shown that sending just the NA results in pretty good behavior when in active-back mode, I saw no lost ping packets for example. Signed-off-by: Brian Haley <brian.haley@hp.com> Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-11-04x86/docs: remove noirqbalance param docsMark McLoughlin
Impact: documentation fix irqbalance was removed by: commit 8b8e8c1bf7275eca859fe551dfa484134eaf013b Author: Yinghai Lu <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com> Date: Tue Aug 19 20:50:23 2008 -0700 Remove the associated documentation for noirqbalance. Signed-off-by: Mark McLoughlin <markmc@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04ftrace: ftrace.txt version updateSteven Rostedt
Impact: Documentation update only Update the version that the ftrace document was written for. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-04ftrace: update txt documentSteven Rostedt
Impact: Documentation update only A lot of changes have gone into ftrace. This patch updates the ftrace.txt document. Signed-off-by: Steven Rostedt <srostedt@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-03Merge branch 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip * 'io-mappings-for-linus-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/linux-2.6-tip: io mapping: clean up #ifdefs io mapping: improve documentation i915: use io-mapping interfaces instead of a variety of mapping kludges resources: add io-mapping functions to dynamically map large device apertures x86: add iomap_atomic*()/iounmap_atomic() on 32-bit using fixmaps
2008-11-03io mapping: improve documentationKeith Packard
Impact: add documentation Signed-off-by: Keith Packard <keithp@keithp.com> Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-11-02bonding: update docs to correctly reflect arp_ip_target behaviorAndy Gospodarek
This documentation patch hopes to clarify that the '+' was only needed for Fedora 7 and Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 and 5.1. After that the IP addreses could be added as a comma separated list just like the module option. Signed-off-by: Andy Gospodarek <andy@greyhouse.net> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@redhat.com>
2008-10-31wireless: remove struct regdom hintingJohannes Berg
The code needs to be split out and cleaned up, so as a first step remove the capability, to add it back in a subsequent patch as a separate function. Also remove the publically facing return value of the function and the wiphy argument. A number of internal functions go from being generic helpers to just being used for alpha2 setting. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31wireless: make regdom passing semantics simplerJohannes Berg
The regdom struct is given to the core, so it might as well free it in error conditions. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31ipw2x00: change default policy for auto-associateTim Gardner
Do not attempt association until directed to do so by a user space application. In particular, this avoids race conditions with NetworkManager association state. Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@canonical.com> Acked-by: Dan Williams <dcbw@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2008-10-31rfkill: add master_switch_mode and EPO lock to rfkill and rfkill-inputHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Add of software-based sanity to rfkill and rfkill-input so that it can reproduce what hardware-based EPO switches do, blocking all transmitters and locking down any further attempts to unblock them until the switch is deactivated. rfkill-input is responsible for issuing the EPO control requests, like before. While an rfkill EPO is active, all transmitters are locked to one of the BLOCKED states and all attempts to change that through the rfkill API (userspace and kernel) will be either ignored or return -EPERM errors. The lock will be released upon receipt of EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON by rfkill-input, or should modular rfkill-input be unloaded. This makes rfkill and rfkill-input extend the operation of an existing wireless master kill switch to all wireless devices in the system, even those that are not under hardware or firmware control. Since the above is the expected operational behavior for the master rfkill switch, the EPO lock functionality is not optional. Also, extend rfkill-input to allow for three different behaviors when it receives an EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON input event. The user can set which behavior he wants through the master_switch_mode parameter: master_switch_mode = 0: EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON just unlocks rfkill controller state changes (so that the rfkill userspace and kernel APIs can now be used to change rfkill controller states again), but doesn't change any of their states (so they will all remain blocked). This is the safest mode of operation, as it requires explicit operator action to re-enable a transmitter. master_switch_mode = 1: EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON causes rfkill-input to attempt to restore the system to the state before the last EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL OFF event, or to the default global states if no EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL OFF ever happened. This is the recommended mode of operation for laptops. master_switch_mode = 2: tries to unblock all rfkill controllers (i.e. enable all transmitters) when an EV_SW SW_RFKILL_ALL ON event is received. This is the default mode of operation, as it mimics the previous behavior of rfkill-input. In order to implement these features in a clean way, the entire event handling of rfkill-input was refactored into a single worker function. Protection against input event DoS (repeatedly firing rfkill events for rfkill-input to process) was removed during the code refactoring. It will be added back in a future patch. Note that with these changes, rfkill-input doesn't need to explicitly handle any radio types for which KEY_<radio type> or SW_<radio type> events do not exist yet. Code to handle EV_SW SW_{WLAN,WWAN,BLUETOOTH,WIMAX,...} was added as it might be needed in the future (and its implementation is not that obvious), but is currently #ifdef'd out to avoid wasting resources. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Cc: Ivo van Doorn <IvDoorn@gmail.com> Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru> Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
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