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Ratnadeep Joshi
4249e08e92 Documentation/atomic_ops.txt typo fix
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:33 -07:00
Hugh Dickins
a210906c1b mount -t tmpfs -o mpol=: check nodes online
Randy Dunlap reports that a tmpfs, mounted with NUMA mpol= specifying an
offline node, crashes as soon as data is allocated upon it.  Now restrict it
to online nodes, where before it restricted to MAX_NUMNODES.

Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: Robin Holt <holt@sgi.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Tested-and-acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
9739ed1c8e update feature-removal-schedule.txt to include deprecated functions
Now that deprecated functions are detected out of
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt update this to include
kernel_thread.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Andrew Morton
0f44cd23a5 document Acked-by:
Explain what we use Acked-by: for, and how it differs from Signed-off-by:

Acked-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-08 17:23:32 -07:00
Stuart Yoder
5e1e9ba690 [POWERPC] Add table of contents to booting-without-of.txt
Add table of contents.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07 11:44:40 +10:00
Stuart Yoder
d30ac1242b [POWERPC] Fix typo in booting-without-of-txt section numbering
Fix typo in section numbering.

Signed-off-by: Stuart Yoder <stuart.yoder@freescale.com>
Acked-by: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-06-07 11:44:40 +10:00
Linus Torvalds
7dfb1716d7 Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/wim/linux-2.6-watchdog:
  [WATCHDOG] clean-up watchdog documentation
  [WATCHDOG] ks8695_wdt.c - new KS8695 watchdog driver
2007-06-03 12:36:56 -07:00
Len Brown
c4d36a822e Pull osi-now into release branch 2007-06-02 01:02:09 -04:00
Len Brown
fcf75356e9 Pull now into release branch 2007-06-02 00:48:48 -04:00
Ingo Molnar
c1a834dc70 timer stats: speedups
Make timer-stats have almost zero overhead when enabled in the config but
not used.  (this way distros can enable it more easily)

Also update the documentation about overhead of timer_stats - it was
written for the first version which had a global lock and a linear list
walk based lookup ;-)

Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:30 -07:00
Pekka Enberg
926b28984d Documentation: How to use GDB to decode OOPSes
Adds instructions how to use GDB to figure out the exact location of
an OOPS to Documentation/BUG-HUNTING.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
0a920b5b66 add a trivial patch style checker
We are seeing increasing levels of minor patch style violations in submissions
to the mailing lists as well as making it into the tree.  These detract from
the quality of the submission and cause unnessary work for reviewers.

As a first step package up the current state of the patch style checker and
include it in the kernel tree.  Add instructions suggesting running it on
submissions.  This adds version v0.01 of the checkpatch.pl script.

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Joel Schopp <jschopp@austin.ibm.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Dave Jones <davej@codemonkey.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Yoann Padioleau
f834368564 parse errors in ifdefs
Fix various bits of obviously-busted code which we're not happening to
compile, due to ifdefs.

Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Cc: Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@jurassic.park.msu.ru>
Cc: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: Jan Kara <jack@ucw.cz>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-06-01 08:18:28 -07:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh
cc4c24e115 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: do not use named sysfs groups
The initial version of the thinkpad-acpi sysfs interface (not yet released
in any stable mainline kernel) made liberal use of named sysfs groups, in
order to get the attributes more organized.

This proved to be a really bad design decision.  Maybe if attribute groups
were as flexible as a real directory, and if binary attributes were not
second-class citizens, the idea of subdirs and named groups would not have
been so bad.

This patch makes all the thinkpad-acpi sysfs groups anonymous (thus
removing the subdirs), adds the former group names as a prefix (so that
hotkey/enable becomes hotkey_enable for example), and updates the
documentation.

These changes will make the thinkpad-acpi sysfs ABI a lot easier to
maintain.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-05-31 12:53:00 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
8ac1c101ec Merge branch 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa:
  [ALSA] version 1.0.14
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix STAC922x capture boost level
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix input with STAC92xx
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix pin configs for Gateway MX6453
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for MSI K9N Ultra
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add quirk for Supermicro PDSBA to alc883_cfg_tbl[]
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add quirk for MSI S420
  [ALSA] Fix ASoC s3c24xx-pcm spinlock bug
  [ALSA] hda-intel: fix ASUS M2V detection
  [ALSA] ali5451 - Fix possible NULL dereference
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for ASUS A8J modem
  [ALSA] HDA: Fix headphone mute issue on non-eapd Conexant systems
  [ALSA] HDA: Add more systems to Sigmatel codec
  [ALSA] HDA: Add support for Gateway NX860
2007-05-31 09:14:39 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
b9066c268a Merge branch 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6
* 'master' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: (24 commits)
  [IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt.
  [BRIDGE]: Round off STP perodic timers.
  [BRIDGE]: Reduce frequency of forwarding cleanup timer in bridge.
  [TCP] tcp_probe: use GCC printf attribute
  [TCP] tcp_probe: a trivial fix for mismatched number of printl arguments.
  [IPV6] ADDRCONF: Fix conflicts in DEVCONF_xxx constant.
  [NET] napi: Call __netif_rx_complete in netif_rx_complete
  [TCP]: Consolidate checking for tcp orphan count being too big.
  [SOCK]: Shrink struct sock by 8 bytes on 64-bit.
  [AF_PACKET]: Kill CONFIG_PACKET_SOCKET.
  [IPV6]: Fix build warning.
  [AF_PACKET]: Kill bogus CONFIG_PACKET_MULTICAST
  [IPV4]: Kill references to bogus non-existent CONFIG_IP_NOSIOCRT
  [IPSEC]: Fix panic when using inter address familiy IPsec on loopback.
  [NET]: parse ip:port strings correctly in in4_pton
  [IPV6] ROUTE: No longer handle ::/0 specially.
  [IPSEC]: Fix IPv6 AH calculation in outbound
  [XFRM]: xfrm_larval_drop sysctl should be __read_mostly.
  [XFRM]: Allow XFRM_ACQ_EXPIRES to be tunable via sysctl.
  [CASSINI]: Fix printk message typo.
  ...
2007-05-31 09:13:41 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
c1aee215d7 SLUB: More documentation
Update documentation to describe how to read a SLUB error report.
Add slub parameters to Documentation/kernel-parameters.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-31 07:58:13 -07:00
David S. Miller
85553ddafc [IPSEC]: Add xfrm_sysctl.txt.
And use it to document new xfrm_acq_expires sysctl.

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-05-31 01:34:55 -07:00
Tobin Davis
2c11f955b2 [ALSA] HDA: Add support for Gateway NX860
This patch adds support for the Gateway NX860 system.

Signed-off-by: Tobin Davis <tdavis@dsl-only.net>
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
2007-05-31 09:06:01 +02:00
Len Brown
ae00d81243 ACPI: extend "acpi_osi=" boot option
The boot option "acpi_osi=" has always disabled Linux _OSI support,
thus disabling all OS Interface strings which are advertised
by Linux to the BIOS.

Now...
acpi_osi="string" adds the interface string, and
acpi_osi="!string" invalidates the pre-defined interface string

eg. acpi_osi="!Windows 2006"
would disable Linux's claim of Vista compatibility.

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-05-29 18:43:33 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
a43266355b Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6:
  [SCSI] megaraid_sas: intercept cmd timeout and throttle io
  [SCSI] fusion: Fix |/|| confusion
  [SCSI] aic94xx: asd_clear_nexus should fail if the cleared task does not complete
  [SCSI] aic7xxx: fix aicasm build failure with gcc-3.4.6
  [SCSI] aacraid: apply commit config for reset_devices flag
  [SCSI] sd: fix refcounting regression in suspend/resume routines
  [SCSI] aacraid: fix panic on short Inquiry
  [SCSI] aacraid: Correct sa platform support. (Was: [Bug 8469] Bad EIP value on pentium3 SMP kernel-2.6.21.1)
  [SCSI] NCR53C9x: correct spelling mistake in deprecation notice
  [SCSI] tgt: fix a rdma indirect transfer error bug
  [SCSI] MegaRAID: Update MAINTAINERS email-id
  [SCSI] stex: minor cleanup and version update
  [SCSI] stex: fix reset recovery for console device
  [SCSI] stex: extend hard reset wait time
  [SCSI] stex: fix id mapping issue
  [SCSI] ipr: Proper return codes for eh_dev_reset for SATA devices
  [SCSI] zfcp: IO stall after deleting and path checker changes after reenabling zfcp devices
  [SCSI] zfcp: avoid clutter in erp_dbf
2007-05-29 13:39:52 -07:00
Alan Cox
4d389dcea8 [WATCHDOG] clean-up watchdog documentation
Random sampling of some URLs in the Documentation tree to see how many were
stale found that one watchdog driver was now a porn site.  In fact if the
watchdogs document directory was any older it would be written in latin

Clean it up somewhat and add Last reviewed headers, something all the
Documentation could do with IMHO.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Wim Van Sebroeck <wim@iguana.be>
2007-05-24 17:26:11 +00:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
c2b38989cf Documentation: Fix up docs still talking about i_sem
.. it got changed to 'i_mutex' some time ago.

Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24 10:16:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1a93fa86bf Revert "HOWTO: bug report addition" (or "HOWTO: mention bughunting")
This reverts commit 722385f75e (or commit
3f27100872, it's your choice ;), since the
same patch to Documentation/HOWTO got added twice because it just kept
applying cleanly.

Noted by Qi Yong.

Cc: Qi Yong <qiyong@fc-cn.com>
Acked-by: Diego Calleja <diegocg@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-24 08:50:39 -07:00
H. Peter Anvin
db2668fdbe boot documentation: clarifications
Textual clarifications (and fix an off-by-one error) based on feedback
mostly from Jeremy Fitzhardinge.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:15:34 -07:00
Jarek Poplawski
81fc632355 Documentation/memory-barriers.txt: various fixes
Fix various grammatical issues in Documentation/memory-barriers.txt.

Cc: "Robert P. J. Day" <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Signed-off-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
3d6ac98431 document clocksources
Document the available clocksources per platform and move clocksource= into
the correct (alpha) location in the file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:15 -07:00
Domenico Andreoli
9d9a2000e6 documentation: Documentation/initrd.txt
Final clearification of the pivot_root mechanism, which brings this
document really up-to-date.

Signed-off-by: Domenico Andreoli <cavok@dandreoli.com>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
0532cb427e update dontdiff file
Update dontdiff file by adding entries from many .gitignore files.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:14 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
6754bb4de9 Documentation: fix the explanation of Kconfig files
Fix the obvious errors in the explanation of Kconfig files.

Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:12 -07:00
Kristen Carlson Accardi
86ce18d7b7 genhd: expose AN to user space
Allow user space to determine if a disk supports Asynchronous Notification of
media changes.  This is done by adding a new sysfs file "capability_flags",
which is documented in (insert file name).  This sysfs file will export all
disk capabilities flags to user space.  We also define a new flag to define
the media change notification capability.

Signed-off-by: Kristen Carlson Accardi <kristen.c.accardi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
David Brownell
43d4f961a8 spi doc update: describe clock mode bits
Update the SPI documentation to cover a few points that have proven to be
confusing or unclear; most notably the two clock mode bits.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-23 20:14:11 -07:00
David Brownell
741ec4e6d0 USB: remove usb DocBook warnings
This just removes some warnings generated by the Docbook tools when
turning USB (host and peripheral side) kerneldoc into HTML; they're
all about missing ID attributes.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-22 23:45:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
4b85df0419 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git390.osdl.marist.edu/pub/scm/linux-2.6:
  [S390] More verbose show_mem() like other architectures.
  [S390] Make use of kretprobe_assert.
  [S390] Wire up signald, timerfd and eventfd syscalls.
  [S390] Wire up sys_utimensat.
  [S390] cio: Update documentation.
2007-05-21 10:01:36 -07:00
Anton Altaparmakov
dde33348e5 LDM: Fix for Windows Vista dynamic disks
This fixes the LDM driver so that it works with Windows Vista dynamic
disks which are subtly different to Windows 2000/XP ones.

The patch was needed to get a Vista formatted dynamic disk to be
recognized and parsed successfully.

Thanks go to Chris Teachworth for the report and testing.

Cc: Richard Russon <ldm@flatcap.org>
Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-21 09:58:40 -07:00
Cornelia Huck
85ee32d029 [S390] cio: Update documentation.
- read_dev_chars()/read_conf_data() are deprecated. Don't document them, but
  advise to issue the channel program from the driver itself.
- Remove some really obsolete and incorrect stuff.

Signed-off-by: Cornelia Huck <cornelia.huck@de.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2007-05-21 11:25:27 +02:00
H. Peter Anvin
dec04cff50 Further update of the i386 boot documentation
A number of items in the i386 boot documentation have been either
vague, outdated or hard to read.  This text revision adds several more
examples, including a memory map for a modern kernel load.  It also
adds a field-by-field detailed description of the setup header, and a
bootloader ID for Qemu.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-18 20:52:26 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
32f9306b16 slub: another slabinfo fix
The slab manipulation functions should not be triggered by slabs that
are unresovable in the subset of slabs selected on the command line.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-18 08:17:17 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
d3a36fb82a Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev
* 'upstream-linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev:
  sata_via: pcim_iomap_regions() conversion missed BAR5
  libata: remove libata.spindown_compat
  sata_nv: fix fallout of devres conversion
  drivers/ata: remove the wildcard from sata_nv driver
2007-05-17 20:02:36 -07:00
Tejun Heo
d9aca22cf4 libata: remove libata.spindown_compat
With STANDBYDOWN tracking added, libata.spindown_compat isn't
necessary anymore.  If userspace shutdown(8) issues STANDBYNOW, libata
warns.  If userspace shutdown(8) doesn't issue STANDBYNOW, libata does
the right thing.  Userspace can tell whether kernel supports spindown
by testing whether sysfs node manage_start_stop exists as before.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-17 20:57:38 -04:00
Christoph Hellwig
bb33808d28 small netdevices.txt fix
Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-17 20:43:14 -04:00
David Brownell
83c6590cb8 gpio interface loosens call restrictions
Loosen gpio_{request,free}() and gpio_direction_{in,out}put() call context
restrictions slightly, so a common idiom is no longer an error: board init
code setting up spinlock-safe GPIOs before tasking is enabled.

The issue was caught by some paranoid code with might_sleep() checks.  The
legacy platform-specific GPIO interfaces stick to spinlock-safe GPIOs, so this
change reflects current implementations and won't break anything.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:05 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
621e59a771 docbook: make kernel-locking table readable
Andi Kleen pointed out to me that the kernel locking cheat sheet
table entries are unreadable.

Make table entries smaller so that pdf and ps output is readable
(columns were being overwritten and garbled) by using abbreviations.
This allows the tables to fit on one page cleanly.
Add a Legend for the abbreviations:
  SLIS: spin_lock_irqsave
  SLI:  spin_lock_irq
  SL:   spin_lock
  SLBH: spin_lock_bh
  DI:   down_interruptible

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:05 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
eefaca9c32 SLUB: slabinfo fixes
Align the output of % with K/M/G of sizes.

Check for empty NUMA information to avoid segfault on !NUMA.

-r should work directly not only if we match a single slab
   without additional options.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-17 05:23:03 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
ed56047aec [SCSI] NCR53C9x: correct spelling mistake in deprecation notice
On Mon, Apr 30, 2007 at 03:16:39PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > +What:	old NCR53C9x driver
> > +When:	October 2007
> > +Why:	Replaced by the much better esp_scsi driver.  Actual low-level
> > +	driver can ported over almost trivially.
>                   ^
> 		  be

current linus' tree still has my spelling mistake.  Here's a patch to
update it

Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-05-16 13:04:59 -04:00
Tejun Heo
920a4b1038 libata: implement libata.spindown_compat
Now that libata uses sd->manage_start_stop, libata spins down disk on
shutdown.  In an attempt to compensate libata's previous shortcoming,
some distros sync and spin down disks attached via libata in their
shutdown(8).  Some disks spin back up just to spin down again on
STANDBYNOW1 if the command is issued when the disk is spun down, so
this double spinning down causes problem.

This patch implements module parameter libata.spindown_compat which,
when set to one (default value), prevents libata from spinning down
disks on shutdown thus avoiding double spinning down.  Note that
libata spins down disks for suspend to mem and disk, so with
libata.spindown_compat set to one, disks should be properly spun down
in all cases without modifying shutdown(8).

shutdown(8) should be fixed eventually.  Some drive do spin up on
SYNCHRONZE_CACHE even when their cache is clean.  Those disks
currently spin up briefly when sd tries to shutdown the device and
then the machine powers off immediately, which can't be good for the
head.  We can't skip SYNCHRONIZE_CACHE during shudown as it can be
dangerous data integrity-wise.

So, this spindown_compat parameter is already scheduled for removal by
the end of the next year and here's what shutdown(8) should do.

  * Check whether /sys/modules/libata/parameters/spindown_compat
    exists.  If it does, write 0 to it.

  * For each libata harddisk {
	* Check whether /sys/class/scsi_disk/h:c:i:l/manage_start_stop
	  exists.  Iff it doesn't, synchronize cache and spin the disk
	  down as before.
  }

The above procedure will make shutdown(8) work properly with kernels
before this change, ones with this workaround and later ones without
it.

To accelerate shutdown(8) updates, if the compat mode is in use, this
patch prints BIG FAT warning for five seconds during shutdown (the
optimal interval to annoy the user just the right amount discovered by
hours of tireless usability testing).

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-05-11 18:01:04 -04:00
Linus Torvalds
0a3fd051c7 Merge branch 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa
* 'linus' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa: (122 commits)
  [ALSA] version 1.0.14rc4
  [ALSA] Add speaker pin sequencing to hda_codec.c:snd_hda_parse_pin_def_config()
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add ALC861VD Lenovo support
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix connection list in generic parser
  [ALSA] usb-audio: work around wrong wMaxPacketSize on ESI M4U
  [ALSA] usb-audio: work around broken M-Audio MidiSport Uno firmware
  [ALSA] usb-audio: explicitly match Logitech QuickCam
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix a typo
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix ALC880 uniwill auto-mutes
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix AD1988 SPDIF playback route control
  [ALSA] wm8750 typo fix
  [ALSA] wavefront: only declare isapnp on CONFIG_PNP
  [ALSA] hda-codec - bug fixes for stac92xx HDA codecs.
  [ALSA] add MODULE_FIRMWARE entries
  [ALSA] do not depend on FW_LOADER when internal firmware images are used
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Fix resume of STAC92xx codecs
  [ALSA] usbaudio - Revert the minimal period size fix patch
  [ALSA] hda-codec - Add support for new HP DV series laptops
  [ALSA] usb-audio - Fix the minimum period size per transfer mode
  [ALSA] sound/pcmcia/vx/vxpocket.c: fix an if() condition
  ...
2007-05-11 12:58:37 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
57a44415be Merge branch 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb
* 'master' of ssh://master.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/v4l-dvb: (44 commits)
  V4L/DVB (5571): V4l1-compat:  Make VIDIOCSPICT return errors in a useful way
  V4L/DVB (5624): Radio-maestro.c cleanup
  V4L/DVB (5623): Dsbr100.c Replace usb_dsbr100_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2
  V4L/DVB (5622): Radio-zoltrix.c cleanup
  V4L/DVB (5621): Radio-cadet.c Replace cadet_do_ioctl to use video_ioctl2
  V4L/DVB (5619): Dvb-usb: fix typo
  V4L/DVB (5618): Cx88: Drop the generic i2c client from cx88-vp3054-i2c
  V4L/DVB (5617): V4L2: videodev, allow debugging
  V4L/DVB (5614): M920x: Disable second adapter on LifeView TV Walker Twin
  V4L/DVB (5613): M920x: loosen up 80-col limit
  V4L/DVB (5612): M920x: rename function prefixes from m9206_foo to m920x_foo
  V4L/DVB (5611): M920x: replace deb_rc with deb
  V4L/DVB (5610): M920x: remove duplicated code
  V4L/DVB (5609): M920x: group like functions together
  V4L/DVB (5608): M920x: various whitespace cleanups
  V4L/DVB (5607): M920x: Initial support for devices likely manufactured by Dposh
  V4L/DVB (5606): M920x: add "c-basic-offset: 8" to help emacs to enforce tabbing
  V4L/DVB (5605): M920x: Add support for LifeView TV Walker Twin
  V4L/DVB (5603): V4L: Prevent queueing queued buffers.
  V4L/DVB (5602): Enable DiSEqC in Starbox II (vp7021a)
  ...
2007-05-11 12:57:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1f8a6b658a Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial:
  further UTF-8 fixes and name correction
  Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt
2007-05-11 10:30:00 -07:00
Satyam Sharma
b7cc4a879c Fix wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt
There's a typo / wrong identifier name in Documentation/kref.txt. Fix it.

Signed-off-by: Satyam Sharma <ssatyam@cse.iitk.ac.in>
Acked-by: Corey Minyard <minyard@acm.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-11 19:07:14 +02:00