From 9b170dbd82448826ca3b8b6ee47daf36c4f438f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Date: Mon, 26 Mar 2012 21:28:33 +0200 Subject: Documentation/kernel-parameters: remove autotest and mcatest It has no more users, the last one is gone in "[PATCH] ia64: Kconfig cleanup" aka ("6fd79ab50b"). mcatest is gone in commit "[PATCH] ia64: SGI SN update" ("c6bacd5010ec"). Cc: Tony Luck Cc: Fenghua Yu Cc: Randy Dunlap Signed-off-by: Sebastian Andrzej Siewior Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt | 4 ---- 1 file changed, 4 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index 62aba89b04a2..1a332c703e1b 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -398,8 +398,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. atkbd.softrepeat= [HW] Use software keyboard repeat - autotest [IA-64] - baycom_epp= [HW,AX25] Format: , @@ -1431,8 +1429,6 @@ bytes respectively. Such letter suffixes can also be entirely omitted. devices can be requested on-demand with the /dev/loop-control interface. - mcatest= [IA-64] - mce [X86-32] Machine Check Exception mce=option [X86-64] See Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.txt -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From e52d2e1f25f03edf7628fae219150d8dc5023081 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Michel Machado Date: Mon, 2 Apr 2012 22:10:53 -0400 Subject: Documentation/SubmittingPatches: suggested the use of scripts/get_maintainer.pl Had I found a reference to scripts/get_maintainer.pl when I first read Documentation/SubmittingPatches, it would've saved me some time. Signed-off-by: Michel Machado Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 4468ce24427c..c379a2a6949f 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -150,7 +150,8 @@ be able to justify all violations that remain in your patch. Look through the MAINTAINERS file and the source code, and determine if your change applies to a specific subsystem of the kernel, with -an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. +an assigned maintainer. If so, e-mail that person. The script +scripts/get_maintainer.pl can be very useful at this step. If no maintainer is listed, or the maintainer does not respond, send your patch to the primary Linux kernel developer's mailing list, -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 76dab97cd8e21e9d29ed41278b9a5308869a50e3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Marcos Paulo de Souza Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:14:34 -0300 Subject: Documentation/initrd.txt: Change the location of util-linux The address of util-linux seems deprecated. The new util-linux location is in the kernel.org. So, change this for the correct address. Signed-off-by: Marcos Paulo de Souza Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/initrd.txt | 4 ++-- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/initrd.txt b/Documentation/initrd.txt index 1ba84f3584e3..4e1839ccb555 100644 --- a/Documentation/initrd.txt +++ b/Documentation/initrd.txt @@ -362,5 +362,5 @@ Resources http://www.almesberger.net/cv/papers/ols2k-9.ps.gz [2] newlib package (experimental), with initrd example http://sources.redhat.com/newlib/ -[3] Brouwer, Andries; "util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux" - ftp://ftp.win.tue.nl/pub/linux-local/utils/util-linux/ +[3] util-linux: Miscellaneous utilities for Linux + http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/util-linux/ -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b From 21848d08bea8f057b3e48c00165dfd42e27eb4e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Stefan Hajnoczi Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:32:32 +0100 Subject: doc: ext3: update documentation with barrier=1 default Commit 00eacd6 ("ext3: make ext3 mount default to barrier=1") changed the default barrier mount option for ext3. The documentation needs to be updated, so this patch does that. Signed-off-by: Stefan Hajnoczi Acked-by: Rob Landley Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina --- Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt | 6 +++--- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) (limited to 'Documentation') diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt index b100adc38adb..293855e95000 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ext3.txt @@ -59,9 +59,9 @@ commit=nrsec (*) Ext3 can be told to sync all its data and metadata Setting it to very large values will improve performance. -barrier=<0(*)|1> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in -barrier the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. -nobarrier (*) This also requires an IO stack which can support +barrier=<0|1(*)> This enables/disables the use of write barriers in +barrier (*) the jbd code. barrier=0 disables, barrier=1 enables. +nobarrier This also requires an IO stack which can support barriers, and if jbd gets an error on a barrier write, it will disable again with a warning. Write barriers enforce proper on-disk ordering -- cgit v1.2.3-59-g8ed1b