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2006-12-07[PATCH] get_options to allow a hypenated range for isolcpusDerek Fults1-1/+6
This allows a hyphenated range of positive numbers in the string passed to command line helper function, get_options. Currently the command line option "isolcpus=" takes as its argument a list of cpus. Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> Valid values of <cpu_number> include all cpus, 0 to "number of CPUs in system - 1". This can get extremely long when isolating the majority of cpus on a large system. The kernel isolcpus code would not need any changing to use this feature. To use it, the change would be in the command line format for 'isolcpus=' Format: <cpu number>,...,<cpu number> or <cpu number>-<cpu number> (must be a positive range in ascending order.) or a mixture <cpu number>,...,<cpu number>-<cpu number> Signed-off-by: Derek Fults <dfults@sgi.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] io/storage: Documentation update to as-iosched.txtFilipe1-2/+4
Documentation update, adding references to CFQ scheduler and to another document about selecting IO Schedulers. Signed-off-by: Filipe Lautert <filipe@icewall.org> Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] fuse: add blksize optionMiklos Szeredi1-0/+5
Add 'blksize' option for block device based filesystems. During initialization this is used to set the block size on the device and the super block. The default block size is 512bytes. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] fuse: add support for block device based filesystemsMiklos Szeredi1-0/+16
I never intended this, but people started using fuse to implement block device based "real" filesystems (ntfs-3g, zfs). The following four patches add better support for these kinds of filesystems. Unlike "normal" fuse filesystems, using this feature should require superuser privileges (enforced by the fusermount utility). Thanks to Szabolcs Szakacsits for the input and testing. This patch adds a 'fuseblk' filesystem type, which is only different from the 'fuse' filesystem type in how the 'dev_name' mount argument is interpreted. Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] s2ram debugging documentationPavel Machek1-0/+56
Linus posted quite nice TRACE_RESUME how-to, and I think it is too nice to be hidden in archives of mailing list, so I turned it into Documentation piece. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] swsusp: update userland interface documentationRafael J. Wysocki2-19/+63
The swsusp userland interface has recently changed for a couple of times, but the changes have not been documented. Fix this, and document the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl(). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] swsusp: document support for swap filesRafael J. Wysocki3-13/+65
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in which swap files are supported by swsusp. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] slab: remove kmem_cache_tChristoph Lameter1-2/+2
Replace all uses of kmem_cache_t with struct kmem_cache. The patch was generated using the following script: #!/bin/sh # # Replace one string by another in all the kernel sources. # set -e for file in `find * -name "*.c" -o -name "*.h"|xargs grep -l $1`; do quilt add $file sed -e "1,\$s/$1/$2/g" $file >/tmp/$$ mv /tmp/$$ $file quilt refresh done The script was run like this sh replace kmem_cache_t "struct kmem_cache" Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] mm: add noaliencache boot option to disable numa alien cachesPaul Menage1-0/+4
When using numa=fake on non-NUMA hardware there is no benefit to having the alien caches, and they consume much memory. Add a kernel boot option to disable them. Christoph sayeth "This is good to have even on large NUMA. The problem is that the alien caches grow by the square of the size of the system in terms of nodes." Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@engr.sgi.com> Cc: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Cc: Manfred Spraul <manfred@colorfullife.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-06[PATCH] Clean up 'make help' output for documentation targets.Jesper Juhl1-3/+7
Here's a patch that cleans up the "make help" output a bit for the documentation targets. Currently the documentation targets are listed completely different than all the other targets : Documentation targets: Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats: xmldocs (XML DocBook), psdocs (Postscript), pdfdocs (PDF) htmldocs (HTML), mandocs (man pages, use installmandocs to install) with this patch they are more in line with the rest of the output : Documentation targets: Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats: htmldocs - HTML installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs mandocs - man pages pdfdocs - PDF psdocs - Postscript xmldocs - XML DocBook Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-05Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6Linus Torvalds2-26/+10
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (73 commits) [SCSI] aic79xx: Add ASC-29320LPE ids to driver [SCSI] stex: version update [SCSI] stex: change wait loop code [SCSI] stex: add new device type support [SCSI] stex: update device id info [SCSI] stex: adjust default queue length [SCSI] stex: add value check in hard reset routine [SCSI] stex: fix controller_info command handling [SCSI] stex: fix biosparam calculation [SCSI] megaraid: fix MMIO casts [SCSI] tgt: fix undefined flush_dcache_page() problem [SCSI] libsas: better error handling in sas_expander.c [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Change version number to 8.1.11 [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Misc Fixes [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Add soft_wwnn sysfs attribute, rename soft_wwn_enable [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Removed decoding of PCI Subsystem Id [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Add MSI (Message Signalled Interrupts) support [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Adjust LOG_FCP logging [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Fix Memory leaks [SCSI] lpfc 8.1.11 : Fix lpfc_multi_ring_support ...
2006-12-04Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpcLinus Torvalds2-0/+228
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (194 commits) [POWERPC] Add missing EXPORTS for mpc52xx support [POWERPC] Remove obsolete PPC_52xx and update CLASSIC32 comment [POWERPC] ps3: add a default zImage target [POWERPC] Add of_platform_bus support to mpc52xx psc uart driver [POWERPC] typo fix and whitespace cleanup on mpc52xx-uart driver [POWERPC] Fix debug printks for 32-bit resources in the PCI code [POWERPC] Replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc [POWERPC] Linkstation / kurobox support [POWERPC] Add the e300c3 core to the CPU table. [POWERPC] ppc: m48t35 add missing bracket [POWERPC] iSeries: don't build head_64.o unnecessarily [POWERPC] iSeries: stop dt_mod.o being rebuilt unnecessarily [POWERPC] Fix cputable.h for combined build [POWERPC] Allow CONFIG_BOOTX_TEXT on iSeries [POWERPC] Allow xmon to build on legacy iSeries [POWERPC] Change ppc64_defconfig to use AUTOFS_V4 not V3 [POWERPC] Tell firmware we can handle POWER6 compatible mode [POWERPC] Clean images in arch/powerpc/boot [POWERPC] Fix OF pci flags parsing [POWERPC] defconfig for lite5200 board ...
2006-12-04[S390] Some documentation typos.Nicolas Kaiser5-34/+34
Signed-off-by: Nicolas Kaiser <nikai@nikai.net> Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2006-12-04[POWERPC] Document describing mpc52xx device tree binding conventionsGrant Likely1-0/+189
This document describes the device tree expectations for mpc52xx based boards. Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Acked-by: Sylvain Munaut <tnt@246tNt.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-04[POWERPC] Add of_platform support for ROM devicesVitaly Wool1-0/+39
This adds support for flash device descriptions to the OF device tree. It's inspired by and partially borrowed from Sergei's patch "[RFC] Adding MTD to device tree.patch". Signed-off-by: Vitaly Wool <vwool@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Sergei Shtylyov <sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2006-12-03Remove long-unmaintained ftape driver subsystem.Jeff Garzik4-320/+0
It's bitrotten, long unmaintained, long hidden under BROKEN_ON_SMP, etc. As scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.txt, and ack'd several times on lkml. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-12-02[XFRM]: Fix aevent structuring to be more complete.Jamal Hadi Salim1-1/+4
aevents can not uniquely identify an SA. We break the ABI with this patch, but consensus is that since it is not yet utilized by any (known) application then it is fine (better do it now than later). Signed-off-by: Jamal Hadi Salim <hadi@cyberus.ca> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: Mark old IPv4-only connection tracking scheduled for removalPatrick McHardy1-0/+9
Also remove the references to "new connection tracking" from Kconfig. After some short stabilization period of the new connection tracking helpers/NAT code the old one will be removed. Signed-off-by: Patrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NETFILTER]: Kill ip_queue from feature removal schedule.Patrick McHardy1-12/+0
We really can't remove ip_queue. Many users use this, there is no binary compatible interface and even the compat replacement for the originally statically linked library doesn't work. There is also no real necessity to remove the code, so the feature-removal-schedule entry should be removed instead. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Adds the tx buffer sysctlsIan McDonald1-0/+4
This one got lost on the way from Ian to Gerrit to me, fix it. Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Update DocumentationIan McDonald1-15/+8
This patch just updates DCCP documentation a bit. Signed-off-by: Ian McDonald <ian.mcdonald@jandi.co.nz> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[NET]: Supporting UDP-Lite (RFC 3828) in LinuxGerrit Renker1-0/+281
This is a revision of the previously submitted patch, which alters the way files are organized and compiled in the following manner: * UDP and UDP-Lite now use separate object files * source file dependencies resolved via header files net/ipv{4,6}/udp_impl.h * order of inclusion files in udp.c/udplite.c adapted accordingly [NET/IPv4]: Support for the UDP-Lite protocol (RFC 3828) This patch adds support for UDP-Lite to the IPv4 stack, provided as an extension to the existing UDPv4 code: * generic routines are all located in net/ipv4/udp.c * UDP-Lite specific routines are in net/ipv4/udplite.c * MIB/statistics support in /proc/net/snmp and /proc/net/udplite * shared API with extensions for partial checksum coverage [NET/IPv6]: Extension for UDP-Lite over IPv6 It extends the existing UDPv6 code base with support for UDP-Lite in the same manner as per UDPv4. In particular, * UDPv6 generic and shared code is in net/ipv6/udp.c * UDP-Litev6 specific extensions are in net/ipv6/udplite.c * MIB/statistics support in /proc/net/snmp6 and /proc/net/udplite6 * support for IPV6_ADDRFORM * aligned the coding style of protocol initialisation with af_inet6.c * made the error handling in udpv6_queue_rcv_skb consistent; to return `-1' on error on all error cases * consolidation of shared code [NET]: UDP-Lite Documentation and basic XFRM/Netfilter support The UDP-Lite patch further provides * API documentation for UDP-Lite * basic xfrm support * basic netfilter support for IPv4 and IPv6 (LOG target) Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[NET]: The scheduled removal of the frame diverter.Adrian Bunk1-15/+0
This patch contains the scheduled removal of the frame diverter. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Add sysctls to control retransmission behaviourGerrit Renker1-0/+41
This adds 3 sysctls which govern the retransmission behaviour of DCCP control packets (3way handshake, feature negotiation). It removes 4 FIXMEs from the code. The close resemblance of sysctl variables to their TCP analogues is emphasised not only by their name, but also by giving them the same initial values. This is useful since there is not much practical experience with DCCP yet. Furthermore, with regard to the previous patch, it is now possible to limit the number of keepalive-Responses by setting net.dccp.default.request_retries (also a bit like in TCP). Lastly, added documentation of all existing DCCP sysctls. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[DCCP]: Support for partial checksums (RFC 4340, sec. 9.2)Gerrit Renker1-0/+16
This patch does the following: a) introduces variable-length checksums as specified in [RFC 4340, sec. 9.2] b) provides necessary socket options and documentation as to how to use them c) basic support and infrastructure for the Minimum Checksum Coverage feature [RFC 4340, sec. 9.2.1]: acceptability tests, user notification and user interface In addition, it (1) fixes two bugs in the DCCPv4 checksum computation: * pseudo-header used checksum_len instead of skb->len * incorrect checksum coverage calculation based on dccph_x (2) removes dccp_v4_verify_checksum() since it reduplicates code of the checksum computation; code calling this function is updated accordingly. (3) now uses skb_checksum(), which is safer than checksum_partial() if the sk_buff has is a non-linear buffer (has pages attached to it). (4) fixes an outstanding TODO item: * If P.CsCov is too large for the packet size, drop packet and return. The code has been tested with applications, the latest version of tcpdump now comes with support for partial DCCP checksums. Signed-off-by: Gerrit Renker <gerrit@erg.abdn.ac.uk> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@mandriva.com>
2006-12-02[NET] ip-sysctl.txt: Alphabetize.Stephen Hemminger1-178/+177
Rearrange TCP entries in alpha order. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[TCP]: Restrict congestion control choices.Stephen Hemminger1-0/+6
Allow normal users to only choose among a restricted set of congestion control choices. The default is reno and what ever has been configured as default. But the policy can be changed by administrator at any time. For example, to allow any choice: cp /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control \ /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_allowed_congestion_control Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[TCP]: Add tcp_available_congestion_control sysctl.Stephen Hemminger1-0/+6
Create /proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_available_congestion_control that reflects currently available TCP choices. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-12-02[PATCH] PHY: Add support for configuring the PHY connection interfaceAndy Fleming1-4/+9
Most PHYs connect to an ethernet controller over a GMII or MII interface. However, a growing number are connected over different interfaces, such as RGMII or SGMII. The ethernet driver will tell the PHY what type of connection it is by setting it manually, or passing it in through phy_connect (or phy_attach). Changes include: * Updates to documentation * Updates to PHY Lib consumers * Changes to PHY Lib to add interface support * Some minor changes to whitespace in phy.h * gianfar driver now detects interface and passes appropriate value to PHY Lib Signed-off-by: Andrew Fleming <afleming@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-12-02e1000: update README for e1000Auke Kok1-185/+266
Signed-off-by: Auke Kok <auke-jan.h.kok@intel.com>
2006-12-01Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds1-2/+1
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (103 commits) usbcore: remove unused argument in autosuspend USB: keep count of unsuspended children USB hub: simplify remote-wakeup handling USB: struct usb_device: change flag to bitflag OHCI: make autostop conditional on CONFIG_PM USB: Add autosuspend support to the hub driver EHCI: Fix root-hub and port suspend/resume problems USB: create a new thread for every USB device found during the probe sequence USB: add driver for the USB debug devices USB: added dynamic major number for USB endpoints USB: pegasus error path not resetting task's state USB: endianness fix for asix.c USB: build the appledisplay driver USB serial: replace kmalloc+memset with kzalloc USB: hid-core: canonical defines for Apple USB device IDs USB: idmouse cleanup USB: make drivers/usb/core/driver.c:usb_device_match() static USB: lh7a40x_udc remove double declaration USB: pxa2xx_udc recognizes ixp425 rev b0 chip usbtouchscreen: add support for DMC TSC-10/25 devices ...
2006-12-01Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds1-86/+118
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (36 commits) Driver core: show drivers in /sys/module/ Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewrite Driver core: platform_driver_probe(), can save codespace driver core: Use klist_remove() in device_move() driver core: Introduce device_move(): move a device to a new parent. Driver core: make drivers/base/core.c:setup_parent() static driver core: Introduce device_find_child(). sysfs: sysfs_write_file() writes zero terminated data cpu topology: consider sysfs_create_group return value Driver core: Call platform_notify_remove later ACPI: Change ACPI to use dev_archdata instead of firmware_data Driver core: add dev_archdata to struct device Driver core: convert sound core to use struct device Driver core: change mem class_devices to be real devices Driver core: convert fb code to use struct device Driver core: convert firmware code to use struct device Driver core: convert mmc code to use struct device Driver core: convert ppdev code to use struct device Driver core: convert PPP code to use struct device Driver core: convert cpuid code to use struct device ...
2006-12-01Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt update/rewriteDavid Brownell1-86/+118
This is almost a rewrite of the driver-model/platform.txt documentation; the previous text was obsolete (for several years), evidently it never got updated to match the change from being a PC "legacy_bus" to the more widely used core bus for most embedded systems. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-01usb: writing_usb_driver free urb cleanupMariusz Kozlowski1-2/+1
Allright. As Greg KH suggested I split this big patch into smaller ones to make the changes easier to review. Having no better idea how to split that I split it on a 'patch per file' basis. All those patches clean redundant 'if' before usb_unlink/free/kill_urb(): if (urb) usb_free_urb(urb); /* unlink / free / kill */ I decided not to touch bigger 'if's like if (urb) { usb_kill_urb(urb); usb_free_urb(urb); urb = NULL; } as that would be probably too intrusive. One of patches also fixes drivers/usb/misc/auerswald.c memleak I found when digging the code. All those patches are against 2.6.19-rc4. Signed-off-by: Mariusz Kozlowski <m.kozlowski@tuxland.pl> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in doc and commentsJan Engelhardt2-2/+2
Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can spell in more than one correct way, let me know. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : MiscMatt LaPlante35-67/+67
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'U-Z'Matt LaPlante27-38/+38
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letters 'U-Z'. Looks like I made it through the alphabet...just in time to start over again +too! Maybe I can fit more profound fixes into the next round...? Time will +tell. :) Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : 'T''Matt LaPlante22-35/+35
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some +words starting with the letter 'T'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-25[PATCH] Documentation/rtc.txt updates (for rtc class)David Brownell1-159/+304
This updates the RTC documentation to summarize the two APIs now available: the old PC/AT one, and the new RTC class drivers. It also updates the included "rtctest.c" file to better meet Linux style guidelines, and to work with the new RTC drivers. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-22Merge ../scsi-rc-fixes-2.6James Bottomley34-412/+796
2006-11-16[PATCH] Don't give bad kprobes example aka ") < 0))" typoAlexey Dobriyan1-2/+3
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@openvz.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-16[PATCH] Update udf documentation to reflect current state of read/write supportPhillip Susi1-2/+11
Change Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt from saying that read/write mounts on cd media are not supported to instead state the current level of support. Specifically that it works fine on dvd+rw media and can be made to work on cd-rw media via the pktcdvd device. Cc: Peter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-15[SCSI] kill scsi_assign_lockChristoph Hellwig1-26/+5
scsi_assign_lock has been unused for a long time and is a bad idea in general, so kill it. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2006-11-14[PATCH] ALSA: hda-intel - Disable MSI support by defaultTakashi Iwai1-1/+1
Disable MSI support on HD-audio driver as default since there are too many broken devices. The module option is changed from disable_msi to enable_msi, too. For turning MSI support on, pass enable_msi=1, instead. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-14[PATCH] x86: Add acpi_user_timer_override option for Asus boardsAndi Kleen1-0/+4
Timer overrides are normally disabled on Nvidia board because they are commonly wrong, except on new ones with HPET support. Unfortunately there are quite some Asus boards around that don't have HPET, but need a timer override. We don't know yet how to handle this transparently, but at least add a command line option to force the timer override and let them boot. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
2006-11-08[PATCH] sysctl: Undeprecate sys_sysctlEric W. Biederman1-12/+0
The basic issue is that despite have been deprecated and warned about as a very bad thing in the man pages since its inception there are a few real users of sys_sysctl. It was my assumption that because sysctl had been deprecated for all of 2.6 there would be no user space users by this point, so I initially gave sys_sysctl a very short deprecation period. Now that I know there are a few real users the only sane way to proceed with deprecation is to push the time limit out to a year or two work and work with distributions that have big testing pools like fedora core to find these last remaining users. Which means that the sys_sysctl interface needs to be maintained in the meantime. Since I have provided a technical measure that allows us to add new sysctl entries without reserving more binary numbers I believe that is enough to fix the sys_sysctl binary interface maintenance problems, because there is no longer a need to change the binary interface at all. Since the sys_sysctl implementation needs to stay around for a while and the worst of the maintenance issues that caused us to occasionally break the ABI have been addressed I don't see any advantage in continuing with the removal of sys_sysctl. So instead of merely increasing the deprecation period this patch removes the deprecation of sys_sysctl and modifies the kernel to compile the code in by default. With committing to maintain sys_sysctl we get all of the advantages of a fast interface for anything that needs it. Currently sys_sysctl is about 5x faster than /proc/sys, for the same string data. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-08[PATCH] A minor fix for set_mb() in Documentation/memory-barriers.txtOleg Nesterov1-1/+1
set_mb() is used by set_current_state() which needs mb(), not wmb(). I think it would be right to assume that set_mb() implies mb(), all arches seem to do just this. Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Acked-by: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6Linus Torvalds1-6/+0
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: USB: use MII hooks only if CONFIG_MII is enabled USB Storage: unusual_devs.h entry for Sony Ericsson P990i USB: xpad: additional USB id's added USB: fix compiler issues with newer gcc versions USB: HID: add blacklist AIRcable USB, little beautification USB: usblp: fix system suspend for some systems USB: failure in usblp's error path usbtouchscreen: use endpoint address from endpoint descriptor USB: sierra: Fix id for Sierra Wireless MC8755 in new table USB: new VID/PID-combos for cp2101 hid-core: big-endian fix fix USB: usb-storage: Unusual_dev update USB: add another sierra wireless device id
2006-11-03[PATCH] fix Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c buf sizeOleg Nesterov1-1/+1
getdelays reports a "fatal reply error, errno 258". We don't have enough room for multi-threaded exit (PID + TGID). Signed-off-by: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com> Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com> Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-03[PATCH] swsusp: debuggingRafael J. Wysocki2-1/+29
Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving. (1) # echo testproc > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5 seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU. (2) # echo test > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>