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Tsugikazu Shibata
73fd625371 HOWTO: add Japanese translation of Documentation/HOWTO
Add the japanese translation of the Documentation/HOWTO file.

Signed-off-by: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 16:02:11 -07:00
Hans J. Koch
e3e0a28b5b UIO: Documentation
Documentation for the UIO interface

From: Hans J. Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:57:16 -07:00
Paolo Ciarrocchi
be38849436 HOWTO: Add the knwon_regression URI to the documentation
We should let everybody know about where the regression
list is hosted. The more is known the more it is used.

Signed-off-by: Paolo Ciarrocchi <paolo.ciarrocchi@gmail.com>
Cc: Li Yang <leoli@freescale.com>
Cc: TripleX Chung <xxx.phy@gmail.com>
Cc: Maggie Chen <chenqi@beyondsoft.com>
Cc: WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>
Cc: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Cc: IKEDA Munehiro <m-ikeda@ds.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:50 -07:00
David Brownell
6b09448ab8 dev_vdbg() documentation
Update CodingStyle to talk about "-DDEBUG" message conventions and the
new "-DVERBOSE_DEBUG" convention.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:50 -07:00
Brandon Philips
2c19c49a59 Documentation fix devres.txt: lib/iomap.c -> lib/devres.c
Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <bphilips@suse.de>
Acked-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Alan Stern
3f8df781fc PM: remove deprecated dpm_runtime_* routines
This patch (as933) removes the deprecated dpm_runtime_suspend() and
dpm_runtime_resume() routines from the PM core.  The only user of
those routines is the PCMCIA ds driver; local replacements are added.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
CC: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Alan Stern
471d055804 PM: Remove deprecated sysfs files
This patch (as932) removes the deprecated sysfs .../power/state
attribute files.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-18 15:49:49 -07:00
Andy Fleming
cc65185d40 Add phy-connection-type to gianfar nodes
The TSEC/eTSEC automatically detect their PHY interface type, unless
the type is RGMII-ID (RGMII with internal delay).  In that situation,
it just detects RGMII.  In order to fix this, we need to pass in rgmii-id
if that is the connection type.

Signed-off-by: Andy Fleming <afleming@freescale.com>
2007-07-18 18:29:37 -04:00
Marco Gittler
59800555f7 V4L/DVB (5829): Firmware extract and loading for opera dvb-usb update
Better way of creating and loading the firmware used.
Update for get_dvb_firmware script to extract the files for opera usb-box
Help file for creating the firmware added

Signed-off-by: Marco Gittler <g.marco@freenet.de>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:41 -03:00
Michael Krufky
27cb786f4e V4L/DVB (5803): Bttv: add support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2
add analog video support for DViCO FusionHDTV 2
Thanks to Todd Ignasiak for donating the card.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:26 -03:00
Michael Krufky
b82736362b V4L/DVB (5800): Tuner: correct description of Philips FCV1236D tuner
The old description was "Philips 1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", which can be
confused with other Philips tuner models.  This patch corrects the name
to "Philips FCV1236D ATSC/NTSC dual in", and updates the range and params
array names to match the description.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:25 -03:00
Antoine Jacquet
bebeaea0a5 V4L/DVB (5792): Zr364xx: add support for Trust Powerc@m 970Z
Add Trust Powerc@m 970Z (0x06d6:0x003b) to the list of supported devices.

Signed-off-by: Antoine Jacquet <royale@zerezo.com>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:23 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
2d9078f73e V4L/DVB (5789): Fix 3dfx Voodoo entries on Cardlist
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:21 -03:00
Michael Krufky
302170a4b4 V4L/DVB (5771): Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location
Get_dvb_firmware: update script for new location of sp8870 firmware

This url is no longer valid:
http://www.technotrend.de/new/217g/tt_Premium_217g.zip

Replace with: 
http://www.softwarepatch.pl/9999ccd06a4813cb827dbb0005071c71/tt_Premium_217g.zip

Thanks-to: Tobias Stoeber <tobi@to-st.de>

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:12 -03:00
Luca Risolia
3770be3419 V4L/DVB (5765): SN9C1xx driver updates
- Add support for pair OV7630+SN9C120
- Better and safe locking mechanism of the device structure on open(),
  close() and disconnect()
- Use kref for handling device deallocation
- Generic cleanups

Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:24:07 -03:00
Uwe Bugla
afb758c4b0 V4L/DVB (5701): Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt update
This patch synchronizes the Documentation for bt8xx-based cards to the
actual state of kernel 2.6.22-rc1.

Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:45 -03:00
Daniel Gimpelevich
7cb47a1460 V4L/DVB (5685): Cx88: add support for ADS Tech Instant Video PCI
Signed-off-by: Daniel Gimpelevich <daniel@gimpelevich.san-francisco.ca.us>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:37 -03:00
Tony Wan
aaccb82bdb V4L/DVB (5646): V4l: saa7134: add support for 10moons TM300 card
Support the 10moons TM300 TV card (so called TV Master 3), which is a
10moons saa7130 based board.  Here not include features for the
IR-remote.
It has been tested using TVTIME.  The card was auto-detected and all the
input sources worked correct with sound.

Signed-off-by: Tony Wan <wankai@sjtu.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:20 -03:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
8573a9e6a8 V4L/DVB (5563a): Add experimental support for tea5761 tuner
This driver were made based on tea5761 specs.

Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-07-18 14:23:11 -03:00
Roland Dreier
f6be6fbe26 IB/mthca: Schedule MSI support for removal
The mthca driver supports both MSI and MSI-X.  However, MSI-X works with
all hardware that the driver handles, and provides a superset of what
MSI does, so there's no point in having code for both.  Schedule MSI
support for removal in 2008 to give anyone who actually needs MSI and
who can't use MSI time to speak up.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
2007-07-17 18:37:41 -07:00
Hans-Christian Egtvedt
7a39a49c74 rtc: make example code jump to done instead of return when ioctl not supported
Signed-off-by: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <hcegtvedt@atmel.com>
Cc: Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@atmel.com>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
Josef 'Jeff' Sipek
5d91192e66 eCryptfs: Move ecryptfs docs into Documentation/filesystems/
Signed-off-by: Josef 'Jeff' Sipek <jsipek@cs.sunysb.edu>
Acked-by: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:08 -07:00
Kaiwan N Billimoria
78961a5740 spi_lm70llp parport adapter driver
This adds a driver for the LM70-LLP parport adapter, which is an eval board
for the LM70 temperature sensor.  For those without that board, it may be a
simpler example of a parport-to-SPI adapter then spi_butterfly.

Signed-off-by: Kaiwan N Billimoria <kaiwan@designergraphix.com>

Doc, coding style, and interface updates; build fixes.  Minor rename.

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>
2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
Jan Nikitenko
ad241528c4 CRC7 support
Add CRC7 routines, used for example in MMC over SPI communication.
Kerneldoc updates

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: fix funny mix of const and non-const]
Signed-off-by: Jan Nikitenko <jan.nikitenko@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:04 -07:00
Pavel Emelianov
bcdcd8e725 Report that kernel is tainted if there was an OOPS
If the kernel OOPSed or BUGed then it probably should be considered as
tainted.  Thus, all subsequent OOPSes and SysRq dumps will report the
tainted kernel.  This saves a lot of time explaining oddities in the
calltraces.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
[ Added parisc patch from Matthew Wilson  -Linus ]
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Rafael J. Wysocki
8314418629 Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru>
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:23:02 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
2492268472 SLUB: change error reporting format to follow lockdep loosely
Changes the error reporting format to loosely follow lockdep.

If data corruption is detected then we generate the following lines:

============================================
BUG <slab-cache>: <problem>
--------------------------------------------

INFO: <more information> [possibly multiple times]

<object dump>

FIX <slab-cache>: <remedial action>

This also adds some more intelligence to the data corruption detection. Its
now capable of figuring out the start and end.

Add a comment on how to configure SLUB so that a production system may
continue to operate even though occasional slab corruption occur through
a misbehaving kernel component. See "Emergency operations" in
Documentation/vm/slub.txt.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
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>
2007-07-17 10:23:01 -07:00
Mel Gorman
7e63efef85 Add a movablecore= parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE
This patch adds a new parameter for sizing ZONE_MOVABLE called
movablecore=.  While kernelcore= is used to specify the minimum amount of
memory that must be available for all allocation types, movablecore= is
used to specify the minimum amount of memory that is used for migratable
allocations.  The amount of memory used for migratable allocations
determines how large the huge page pool could be dynamically resized to at
runtime for example.

How movablecore is actually handled is that the total number of pages in
the system is calculated and a value is set for kernelcore that is

kernelcore == totalpages - movablecore

Both kernelcore= and movablecore= can be safely specified at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
Mel Gorman
ed7ed36517 handle kernelcore=: generic
This patch adds the kernelcore= parameter for x86.

Once all patches are applied, a new command-line parameter exist and a new
sysctl.  This patch adds the necessary documentation.

From: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>

  When "kernelcore" boot option is specified, kernel can't boot up on ia64
  because of an infinite loop.  In addition, the parsing code can be handled
  in an architecture-independent manner.

  This patch uses common code to handle the kernelcore= parameter.  It is
  only available to architectures that support arch-independent zone-sizing
  (i.e.  define CONFIG_ARCH_POPULATES_NODE_MAP).  Other architectures will
  ignore the boot parameter.

[bunk@stusta.de: make cmdline_parse_kernelcore() static]
Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>
Signed-off-by: Yasunori Goto <y-goto@jp.fujitsu.com>
Acked-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17 10:22:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
489de30259 Merge branch 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc
* 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: (209 commits)
  [POWERPC] Create add_rtc() function to enable the RTC CMOS driver
  [POWERPC] Add H_ILLAN_ATTRIBUTES hcall number
  [POWERPC] xilinxfb: Parameterize xilinxfb platform device registration
  [POWERPC] Oprofile support for Power 5++
  [POWERPC] Enable arbitary speed tty ioctls and split input/output speed
  [POWERPC] Make drivers/char/hvc_console.c:khvcd() static
  [POWERPC] Remove dead code for preventing pread() and pwrite() calls
  [POWERPC] Remove unnecessary #undef printk from prom.c
  [POWERPC] Fix typo in Ebony default DTS
  [POWERPC] Check for NULL ppc_md.init_IRQ() before calling
  [POWERPC] Remove extra return statement
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Don't auto-select CONFIG_EMBEDDED
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Rename platform
  [POWERPC] arch/powerpc/kernel/sysfs.c: Move NUMA exports
  [POWERPC] Add __read_mostly support for powerpc
  [POWERPC] Modify sched_clock() to make CONFIG_PRINTK_TIME more sane
  [POWERPC] Create a dummy zImage if no valid platform has been selected
  [POWERPC] PS3: Bootwrapper support.
  [POWERPC] powermac i2c: Use mutex
  [POWERPC] Schedule removal of arch/ppc
  ...

Fixed up conflicts manually in:

	Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
	arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_32.c
	arch/powerpc/kernel/pci_64.c
	include/asm-powerpc/pci.h

and asked the powerpc people to double-check the result..
2007-07-16 17:58:08 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
7015030faf kbuild: document cc-fullversion
Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2007-07-16 21:15:48 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
add096909d Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2
* 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mfasheh/ocfs2: (32 commits)
  [PATCH] ocfs2: zero_user_page conversion
  ocfs2: Support xfs style space reservation ioctls
  ocfs2: support for removing file regions
  ocfs2: update truncate handling of partial clusters
  ocfs2: btree support for removal of arbirtrary extents
  ocfs2: Support creation of unwritten extents
  ocfs2: support writing of unwritten extents
  ocfs2: small cleanup of ocfs2_write_begin_nolock()
  ocfs2: btree changes for unwritten extents
  ocfs2: abstract btree growing calls
  ocfs2: use all extent block suballocators
  ocfs2: plug truncate into cached dealloc routines
  ocfs2: simplify deallocation locking
  ocfs2: harden buffer check during mapping of page blocks
  ocfs2: shared writeable mmap
  ocfs2: factor out write aops into nolock variants
  ocfs2: rework ocfs2_buffered_write_cluster()
  ocfs2: take ip_alloc_sem during entire truncate
  ocfs2: Add "preferred slot" mount option
  [KJ PATCH] Replacing memset(<addr>,0,PAGE_SIZE) with clear_page() in fs/ocfs2/dlm/dlmrecovery.c
  ...
2007-07-16 10:52:55 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
14dc524972 Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.dk/data/git/linux-2.6-block:
  splice: direct splicing updates ppos twice
  more ACSI removal
  umem: Fix match of pci_ids in umem driver
  umem: Remove references to dead CONFIG_MM_MAP_MEMORY variable
  remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
2007-07-16 10:48:20 -07:00
Ed L. Cashin
017f021c7e docs: static initialization of spinlocks is OK
Static initialization of spinlocks is preferable to dynamic initialization
when it is practical.  This patch updates documentation for consistency
with comments in spinlock_types.h.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:52 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
422b14c2e2 update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Update Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
d52988023a Remove the last few UMSDOS leftovers
The UMSDOS filesystem was removed back in 2.6.11, but some tiny bits stuck
around.  This patch removes the few remaining leftovers.  The only things
left behind after this are the entries in the CREDITS file and the ioctl
number in Documentation/ioctl-number.txt as documentation.

This third (hopefully final) version of the patch doesn't edit the
arch/um/config.release file, since Jeff Dike pointed out to me that it
should die completely, and asked me to remove it from my patch as he'll
send in a seperate patch removing the file completely.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
f6b07d39d7 Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/
Add descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the
Documentation/00-INDEX file.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Josh Triplett
4e7bd66318 CodingStyle: add information about editor modelines
I recently received a patch including a file that had a vim modeline,
and I realized that nothing specifically proscribed that practice.

Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@freedesktop.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Josh Triplett
a923fd6ae7 CodingStyle: add information about trailing whitespace
Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:50 -07:00
Andrew Morton
97d8f83cb7 Add Documentation/sysctl/ctl_unnumbered.txt
Poeple keep on adding new numbered sysctls, when they're supposed not to.

Add a documentation file which explain why new sysctls should use
CTL_UNNUMBERED.  The next patch will sprinkle pointers to this throughout
sysctl.c.

Eric provided the text (thanks)

Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:49 -07:00
Borislav Petkov
0746aec3c7 update description in Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
Update the description of struct file_system_type and get_sb() in
Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt to match the current code.

Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
dcecc6c700 doc/oops-tracing: add Code: decode info
Add info that the Code: bytes line contains <xy> or (wxyz) in some
architecture oops reports and what that means.

Add a script by Andi Kleen that reads the Code: line from an Oops report
file and generates assembly code from the hex bytes.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
C. Scott Ananian
6b86e854f7 update procfs-guide doc of read_func
The procfs-guide claims that 'the parameter start doesn't seem to be used
anywhere in the kernel'.  This is out of date.  In linux/fs/proc/generic.c
we find a very nice description of the parameters to read_func.  The
appended patch replaces the bogus description with this (as far as I know)
accurate one.

Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:48 -07:00
Dave Jones
97842216b8 Allow softlockup to be runtime disabled
It's useful sometimes to disable the softlockup checker at boottime.
Especially if it triggers during a distro install.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
ef48bd2461 Document the fact that RCU callbacks can run in parallel
Add an item to the RCU documentation checklist noting that RCU callbacks
can run in parallel.

Signed-off-by: Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:47 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e73a75fa7f hugetlbfs: use lib/parser, fix docs
Use lib/parser.c to parse hugetlbfs mount options.  Correct docs in
hugetlbpage.txt.

old size of hugetlbfs_fill_super:  675 bytes
new size of hugetlbfs_fill_super:  686 bytes
(hugetlbfs_parse_options() is inlined)

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
8b7ecb113e SubmitChecklist update, fix spelling error
Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
Dave Jones
abd4aa5a97 undeprecate raw driver
Despite repeated attempts over the last two and half years, this driver
seems somewhat persistant.  Remove its deprecated status as it has existing
users who may not be in a position to migrate their apps to O_DIRECT.

Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
Maxim Uvarov
b663a79c19 taskstats: add context-switch counters
Make available to the user the following task and process performance
statistics:

	* Involuntary Context Switches (task_struct->nivcsw)
	* Voluntary Context Switches (task_struct->nvcsw)

Statistics information is available from:
	1. taskstats interface (Documentation/accounting/)
	2. /proc/PID/status (task only).

This data is useful for detecting hyperactivity patterns between processes.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanup]
Signed-off-by: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>
Cc: Shailabh Nagar <nagar@watson.ibm.com>
Cc: Balbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Cc: Jay Lan <jlan@engr.sgi.com>
Cc: Jonathan Lim <jlim@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:46 -07:00
Kees Cook
18d96779d9 Documentation: /proc/$pid/stat files
Documentation for the /proc/$pid/stat file.

Signed-off-by: Kees Cook <kees@outflux.net>
Cc: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Pierre Ossman
cc1ed7542c init: wait for asynchronously scanned block devices
Some buses (e.g.  USB and MMC) do their scanning of devices in the
background, causing a race between them and prepare_namespace().  In order
to be able to use these buses without an initrd, we now wait for the device
specified in root= to actually show up.

If the device never shows up than we will hang in an infinite loop.  In
order to not mess with setups that reboot on panic, the feature must be
turned on via the command line option "rootwait".

[bunk@stusta.de: root_wait can become static]
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Venki Pallipadi
c5c061b8f9 Add a flag to indicate deferrable timers in /proc/timer_stats
Add a flag in /proc/timer_stats to indicate deferrable timers.  This will
let developers/users to differentiate between types of tiemrs in
/proc/timer_stats.

Deferrable timer and normal timer will appear in /proc/timer_stats as below.
  10D,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)
   10,     1 swapper          queue_delayed_work_on (delayed_work_timer_fn)

Also version of timer_stats changes from v0.1 to v0.2

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
e84845c4bf add printk.time option, deprecate 'time'
Allow printk_time to be enabled or disabled at boot time.  Previously it
could be enabled only, but not disabled.

Change printk_time from an int to a bool since that's what it is.  Make its
logical (exposed) name just be "time" (was "printk_time").

Note: Changes kernel boot option syntax from "time" to "printk.time=value".

Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, it can also be
changed at run-time by modifying
  /sys/module/printk/parameters/time
to a value of 1/Y/y to enabled it or 0/N/n to disable it.

Since printk_time is declared as a module_param, its value can also
be set at boot-time by using
  linux printk.time=<bool>

If the "time" boot option is used, print a message that it is deprecated
and will be removed.

Note its planned removal in feature-removal-schedule.txt.

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>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
185848707e fault-injection: fix example scripts in documentation
Fix and cleanup example scripts in fault injection documentation.

1. Eliminate broken oops() shell function.

2. Fold failcmd.sh and failmodule.sh into example scripts. It makes
   the example scripts work independent of current working directory.

3. Set "space" parameter to 0 to start injecting errors immediately.

4. Use /sys/module/<modulename>/sections/.data as upper bound of
   .text section. Because some module doesn't have .exit.text section.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Akinobu Mita
54114994f4 fault-injection: add min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc
Limiting smaller allocation failures by fault injection helps to find real
possible bugs.  Because higher order allocations are likely to fail and
zero-order allocations are not likely to fail.

This patch adds min-order parameter to fail_page_alloc.  It specifies the
minimum page allocation order to be injected failures.

Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <akinobu.mita@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:45 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
45807a1df9 vdso: print fatal signals
Add the print-fatal-signals=1 boot option and the
/proc/sys/kernel/print-fatal-signals runtime switch.

This feature prints some minimal information about userspace segfaults to
the kernel console.  This is useful to find early bootup bugs where
userspace debugging is very hard.

Defaults to off.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: Don't add new sysctl numbers]
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:43 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
b5d425c97f more scheduled OSS driver removal
This patch contains the scheduled removal of OSS drivers that:
- have ALSA drivers for the same hardware without known regressions and
- whose Kconfig options have been removed in 2.6.20.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:40 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
f0630fff54 SLUB: support slub_debug on by default
Add a new configuration variable

CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON

If set then the kernel will be booted by default with slab debugging
switched on. Similar to CONFIG_SLAB_DEBUG. By default slab debugging
is available but must be enabled by specifying "slub_debug" as a
kernel parameter.

Also add support to switch off slab debugging for a kernel that was
built with CONFIG_SLUB_DEBUG_ON. This works by specifying

slub_debug=-

as a kernel parameter.

Dave Jones wanted this feature.
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=118072189913045&w=2

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: clean up switch statement]
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>
2007-07-16 09:05:36 -07:00
KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
f0c0b2b808 change zonelist order: zonelist order selection logic
Make zonelist creation policy selectable from sysctl/boot option v6.

This patch makes NUMA's zonelist (of pgdat) order selectable.
Available order are Default(automatic)/ Node-based / Zone-based.

[Default Order]
The kernel selects Node-based or Zone-based order automatically.

[Node-based Order]
This policy treats the locality of memory as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by each zone's locality. This means lower zones
(ex. ZONE_DMA) can be used before higher zone (ex. ZONE_NORMAL) exhausion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be in the middle of zonelist.
current 2.6.21 kernel uses this.

Pros.
 * A user can expect local memory as much as possible.
Cons.
 * lower zone will be exhansted before higher zone. This may cause OOM_KILL.

Maybe suitable if ZONE_DMA is relatively big and you never see OOM_KILL
because of ZONE_DMA exhaution and you need the best locality.

(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.

*node(0)'s memory allocation order:

 node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA -> node(1)'s NORMAL.

*node(1)'s memory allocation order:

 node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

[Zone-based order]
This policy treats the zone type as the most important parameter.
Zonelist order is created by zone-type order. This means lower zone
never be used bofere higher zone exhaustion.
IOW. ZONE_DMA will be always at the tail of zonelist.

Pros.
 * OOM_KILL(bacause of lower zone) occurs only if the whole zones are exhausted.
Cons.
 * memory locality may not be best.

(example)
assume 2 node NUMA. node(0) has ZONE_DMA/ZONE_NORMAL, node(1) has ZONE_NORMAL.

*node(0)'s memory allocation order:

 node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

*node(1)'s memory allocation order:

 node(1)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s NORMAL -> node(0)'s DMA.

bootoption "numa_zonelist_order=" and proc/sysctl is supporetd.

command:
%echo N > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

Will rebuild zonelist in Node-based order.

command:
%echo Z > /proc/sys/vm/numa_zonelist_order

Will rebuild zonelist in Zone-based order.

Thanks to Lee Schermerhorn, he gives me much help and codes.

[Lee.Schermerhorn@hp.com: add check_highest_zone to build_zonelists_in_zone_order]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fix]
Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Cc: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Cc: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "jesse.barnes@intel.com" <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Lee Schermerhorn <lee.schermerhorn@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Yinghai Lu
18a8bd949d serial: convert early_uart to earlycon for 8250
Beacuse SERIAL_PORT_DFNS is removed from include/asm-i386/serial.h and
include/asm-x86_64/serial.h.  the serial8250_ports need to be probed late in
serial initializing stage.  the console_init=>serial8250_console_init=>
register_console=>serial8250_console_setup will return -ENDEV, and console
ttyS0 can not be enabled at that time.  need to wait till uart_add_one_port in
drivers/serial/serial_core.c to call register_console to get console ttyS0.
that is too late.

Make early_uart to use early_param, so uart console can be used earlier.  Make
it to be bootconsole with CON_BOOT flag, so can use console handover feature.
and it will switch to corresponding normal serial console automatically.

new command line will be:
	console=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
	console=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8
or
	earlycon=uart8250,io,0x3f8,9600n8
	earlycon=uart8250,mmio,0xff5e0000,115200n8

it will print in very early stage:
	Early serial console at I/O port 0x3f8 (options '9600n8')
	console [uart0] enabled
later for console it will print:
	console handover: boot [uart0] -> real [ttyS0]

Signed-off-by: <yinghai.lu@sun.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:35 -07:00
Andy Whitcroft
de7d4f0e11 update checkpatch.pl to version 0.07
This version brings a number of new checks, fixes for flase
positives, plus a clarification of the output to better guide use.  Of
note:

  - checks for documentation for new __setup calls
  - clearer reporting where braces and parenthesis are involved
  - reports for closing brace and semi-colon spacing
  - reports on unwanted externs

This patch includes an update to the documentation on checkpatch.pl
itself to clarify when it should be used and to indicate that it
is not intended as the final arbitor of style.

Full changelog:

Andy Whitcroft (19):
      Version: 0.07
      ensure we do not apply control brace checks to preprocesor directives
      add {u,s}{8,16,32,64} to the type matcher
      accept lack of spacing after the semicolons in for (;;)
      report new externs in .c files
      fix up typedef exclusion for function prototypes
      else trailing statements check need to account for \ at end of line
      add enums to the type matcher
      add missing check descriptions
      suppress double reporting of ** spacing
      report on do{ spacing issues
      include an example of the brace/parenthesis in output
      check for spacing after closing braces
      prevent double reports on pointer spacing issues
      handle blank continuation lines on macros
      classify all reports error, warning, or check
      revamp hanging { checks and apply in context
      no spaces after the last ; in a for is ok
      check __setup has a corresponding addition to documentation

David Woodhouse (1):
      limit character set used in patches and descriptions to UTF-8

Signed-off-by: Andy Whitcroft <apw@shadowen.org>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:34 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
56a68a500f more ACSI removal
This patch removes some code that became dead code after the ATARI_ACSI
removal.

It also indirectly fixes the following bug introduced by
commit c2bcf3b897:

 config ATARI_SLM
        tristate "Atari SLM laser printer support"
-       depends on ATARI && ATARI_ACSI!=n
+       depends on ATARI

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-16 15:02:47 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
a3e4da5483 remove the documentation for the legacy CDROM drivers
This patch removes the documentation for the removed legacy CDROM drivers.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
2007-07-16 14:39:04 +02:00
Linus Torvalds
bc06cffdec Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-misc-2.6: (166 commits)
  [SCSI] ibmvscsi: convert to use the data buffer accessors
  [SCSI] dc395x: convert to use the data buffer accessors
  [SCSI] ncr53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
  [SCSI] sym53c8xx: convert to use the data buffer accessors
  [SCSI] ppa: coding police and printk levels
  [SCSI] aic7xxx_old: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc
  [SCSI] i2o: remove redundant GFP_ATOMIC from kmalloc from device.c
  [SCSI] remove the dead CYBERSTORMIII_SCSI option
  [SCSI] don't build scsi_dma_{map,unmap} for !HAS_DMA
  [SCSI] Clean up scsi_add_lun a bit
  [SCSI] 53c700: Remove printk, which triggers because of low scsi clock on SNI RMs
  [SCSI] sni_53c710: Cleanup
  [SCSI] qla4xxx: Fix underrun/overrun conditions
  [SCSI] megaraid_mbox: use mutex instead of semaphore
  [SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: update version to 8.02.00-k1.
  [SCSI] qla2xxx: add support for NPIV
  [SCSI] stex: use resid for xfer len information
  [SCSI] Add Brownie 1200U3P to blacklist
  [SCSI] scsi.c: convert to use the data buffer accessors
  ...
2007-07-15 16:51:54 -07:00
David S. Miller
cf3842ec50 Merge branch 'upstream-davem' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/linville/wireless-2.6 2007-07-14 18:58:49 -07:00
Salyzyn, Mark
5fa0f5e47a [SCSI] aacraid: add 51245, 51645 and 52245 adapters to documentation.
Adding Adaptec 51245 (16 port), 51645 (20 port) and 52445 (28 port)
Universal Serial RAID controllers to the aacraid documentation.

Signed-off-by: Mark Salyzyn <aacraid@adaptec.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2007-07-14 19:09:28 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
af09f1e4b3 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq:
  [CPUFREQ] Fix typos in powernow-k8 printk's.
  [CPUFREQ] Restore previously used governor on a hot-replugged CPU
  [CPUFREQ] bugfix cpufreq in combination with performance governor
  [CPUFREQ] powernow-k8 compile fix.
  [CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI
  [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Option to disable ACPI C3 support

Fixed up arch/i386/kernel/cpu/cpufreq/powernow-k8.c due to revert that
got fixed differently in the cpufreq branch.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-13 16:06:30 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e030dbf91a Merge branch 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop
* 'ioat-md-accel-for-linus' of git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop: (28 commits)
  ioatdma: add the unisys "i/oat" pci vendor/device id
  ARM: Add drivers/dma to arch/arm/Kconfig
  iop3xx: surface the iop3xx DMA and AAU units to the iop-adma driver
  iop13xx: surface the iop13xx adma units to the iop-adma driver
  dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
  md: remove raid5 compute_block and compute_parity5
  md: handle_stripe5 - request io processing in raid5_run_ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async expand ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async read ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async check ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async compute ops
  md: handle_stripe5 - add request/completion logic for async write ops
  md: common infrastructure for running operations with raid5_run_ops
  md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock
  raid5: replace custom debug PRINTKs with standard pr_debug
  raid5: refactor handle_stripe5 and handle_stripe6 (v3)
  async_tx: add the async_tx api
  xor: make 'xor_blocks' a library routine for use with async_tx
  dmaengine: make clients responsible for managing channels
  dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor
  ...
2007-07-13 10:52:27 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
68485695e5 [CPUFREQ] the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI
This patch contains the overdue removal of X86_SPEEDSTEP_CENTRINO_ACPI.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
2007-07-13 01:29:51 -04:00
David Brownell
fbf54dd320 USB: usb/dma doc updates
This patch updates some of the documentation about DMA buffer management
for USB, and ways to avoid extra copying.  Our understanding of the issues
has improved over time.

 - Most drivers should *avoid* the dma-coherent allocators.  There are
   a few exceptions (like the HID driver).

 - Some methods are currently commented out; it seems folk writing
   USB drivers aren't doing performance tuning at that level yet.

 - Just avoid highmem; there's no good way to pass an "I can do highmem
   DMA" capability through a driver stack.  This is easy, everything
   already avoids highmem.  But it'd be nice if x86_32 systems with much
   physical memory could use it directly with network adapters and mass
   storage devices.  (Patch, anyone?)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12 16:34:42 -07:00
Alan Stern
b41a60eca8 USB: add power/persist device attribute
This patch (as920) adds an extra level of protection to the
USB-Persist facility.  Now it will apply by default only to hubs; for
all other devices the user must enable it explicitly by setting the
power/persist device attribute.

The disconnect_all_children() routine in hub.c has been removed and
its code placed inline.  This is the way it was originally as part of
hub_pre_reset(); the revised usage in hub_reset_resume() is
sufficiently different that the code can no longer be shared.
Likewise, mark_children_for_reset() is now inline as part of
hub_reset_resume().  The end result looks much cleaner than before.

The sysfs interface is updated to add the new attribute file, and
there are corresponding documentation updates.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12 16:34:30 -07:00
Alan Stern
0458d5b4c9 USB: add USB-Persist facility
This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility,
allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system
suspend.

The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate
warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the
behavior will remain the same as it is now.  But when the option is
on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB
filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small
machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device!

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-12 16:29:47 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
bb50cbbd4b Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jmorris/selinux-2.6:
  security: unexport mmap_min_addr
  SELinux: use SECINITSID_NETMSG instead of SECINITSID_UNLABELED for NetLabel
  security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
  SELinux: Use %lu for inode->i_no when printing avc
  SELinux: allow preemption between transition permission checks
  selinux: introduce schedule points in policydb_destroy()
  selinux: add selinuxfs structure for object class discovery
  selinux: change sel_make_dir() to specify inode counter.
  selinux: rename sel_remove_bools() for more general usage.
  selinux: add support for querying object classes and permissions from the running policy
2007-07-12 13:46:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0806ca2ab3 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aegl/linux-2.6:
  [IA64] Support multiple CPUs going through OS_MCA
  [IA64] silence GCC ia64 unused variable warnings
  [IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space
  [IA64] add sn_register_pmi_handler oemcall
  [IA64] Stop bit for brl instruction
  [IA64] SN: Correct ROM resource length for BIOS copy
  [IA64] Don't set psr.ic and psr.i simultaneously
2007-07-12 13:41:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
21ba0f88ae Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6: (34 commits)
  PCI: Only build PCI syscalls on architectures that want them
  PCI: limit pci_get_bus_and_slot to domain 0
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: avoid acpiphp "cannot get bridge info" PCI hotplug failure
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: remove hot plug parameter write to PCI host bridge
  PCI: hotplug: acpiphp: fix slot poweroff problem on systems without _PS3
  PCI: hotplug: pciehp: wait for 1 second after power off slot
  PCI: pci_set_power_state(): check for PM capabilities earlier
  PCI: cpci_hotplug: Convert to use the kthread API
  PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
  PCI: pcie: remove SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED
  PCI: ROUND_UP macro cleanup in drivers/pci
  PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
  PCI: pci-x-pci-express-read-control-interfaces cleanups
  PCI: Fix typo in include/linux/pci.h
  PCI: pci_ids, remove double or more empty lines
  PCI: pci_ids, add atheros and 3com_2 vendors
  PCI: pci_ids, reorder some entries
  PCI: i386: traps, change VENDOR to DEVICE
  PCI: ATM: lanai, change VENDOR to DEVICE
  PCI: Change all drivers to use pci_device->revision
  ...
2007-07-12 13:40:57 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
dc690d8ef8 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (61 commits)
  sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes
  sysfs: make directory dentries and inodes reclaimable
  sysfs: implement sysfs_get_dentry()
  sysfs: move sysfs_drop_dentry() to dir.c and make it static
  sysfs: restructure add/remove paths and fix inode update
  sysfs: use sysfs_mutex to protect the sysfs_dirent tree
  sysfs: consolidate sysfs spinlocks
  sysfs: make kobj point to sysfs_dirent instead of dentry
  sysfs: implement sysfs_find_dirent() and sysfs_get_dirent()
  sysfs: implement SYSFS_FLAG_REMOVED flag
  sysfs: rename sysfs_dirent->s_type to s_flags and make room for flags
  sysfs: make sysfs_drop_dentry() access inodes using ilookup()
  sysfs: Fix oops in sysfs_drop_dentry on x86_64
  sysfs: use singly-linked list for sysfs_dirent tree
  sysfs: slim down sysfs_dirent->s_active
  sysfs: move s_active functions to fs/sysfs/dir.c
  sysfs: fix root sysfs_dirent -> root dentry association
  sysfs: use iget_locked() instead of new_inode()
  sysfs: reorganize sysfs_new_indoe() and sysfs_create()
  sysfs: fix parent refcounting during rename and move
  ...
2007-07-12 13:40:20 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
e1bd2ac5a6 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: (183 commits)
  [TG3]: Update version to 3.78.
  [TG3]: Add missing NVRAM strapping.
  [TG3]: Enable auto MDI.
  [TG3]: Fix the polarity bit.
  [TG3]: Fix irq_sync race condition.
  [NET_SCHED]: ematch: module autoloading
  [TCP]: tcp probe wraparound handling and other changes
  [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link: allow specifying initial device address
  [RTNETLINK]: rtnl_link API simplification
  [VLAN]: Fix MAC address handling
  [ETH]: Validate address in eth_mac_addr
  [NET]: Fix races in net_rx_action vs netpoll.
  [AF_UNIX]: Rewrite garbage collector, fixes race.
  [NETFILTER]: {ip, nf}_conntrack_sctp: fix remotely triggerable NULL ptr dereference (CVE-2007-2876)
  [NET]: Make all initialized struct seq_operations const.
  [UDP]: Fix length check.
  [IPV6]: Remove unneeded pointer idev from addrconf_cleanup().
  [DECNET]: Another unnecessary net/tcp.h inclusion in net/dn.h
  [IPV6]: Make IPV6_{RECV,2292}RTHDR boolean options.
  [IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore.
  ...

Fixed up trivial conflict in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
manually.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 13:31:22 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
82afee684f Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/cooloney/blackfin-2.6: (30 commits)
  Blackfin serial driver: supporting BF548-EZKIT serial port
  Video Console: Blackfin doesnt support VGA console
  Blackfin arch: Add peripheral io API to gpio header file
  Blackfin arch: set up gpio interrupt IRQ_PJ9 for BF54x ATAPI PATA driver
  Blackfin arch: add missing CONFIG_LARGE_ALLOCS when upstream merging
  Blackfin arch: as pointed out by Robert P. J. Day, update the CPU_FREQ name to match current Kconfig
  Blackfin arch: extract the entry point from the linked kernel
  Blackfin arch: clean up some coding style issues
  Blackfin arch: combine the common code of free_initrd_mem and free_initmem
  Blackfin arch: Add Support for Peripheral PortMux and resouce allocation
  Blackfin arch: use PAGE_SIZE when doing aligns rather than hardcoded values
  Blackfin arch: fix bug set dma_address properly in dma_map_sg
  Blackfin arch: Disable CACHELINE_ALIGNED_L1 for BF54x by default
  Blackfin arch: Port the dm9000 driver to Blackfin by using the correct low-level io routines
  Blackfin arch: There is no CDPRIO Bit in the EBIU_AMGCTL Register of BF54x arch
  Blackfin arch: scrub dead code
  Blackfin arch: Fix Warning add some defines in BF54x header file
  Blackfin arch: add BF54x missing GPIO access functions
  Blackfin arch: Some memory and code optimizations - Fix SYS_IRQS
  Blackfin arch: Enable BF54x PIN/GPIO interrupts
  ...
2007-07-12 13:25:24 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
068345f4a8 Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6
* 'i2c-for-linus' of git://jdelvare.pck.nerim.net/jdelvare-2.6: (26 commits)
  i2c-rpx: Remove
  i2c-mpc: work around missing-9th-clock-pulse bug
  i2c: New PMC MSP71xx TWI bus driver
  i2c-savage4: Delete many unused defines
  i2c/tsl2550: Speed up initialization
  i2c: New bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules
  i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+
  i2c-i801: Various cleanups
  i2c: Add support for the TSL2550
  i2c-pxa: Support new-style I2C drivers
  i2c-gpio: Make some internal functions static
  i2c-gpio: Add support for new-style clients
  i2c-iop3xx: Switch to static adapter numbering
  i2c-sis5595: Resolve resource conflict with sis5595
  matroxfb: Clean-up i2c header inclusions
  i2c-nforce2: Add support for SMBus block transactions
  i2c-mpc: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
  i2c-mv64xxx: Use i2c_add_numbered_adapter
  i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB700
  i2c: New DS1682 chip driver
  ...
2007-07-12 13:25:00 -07:00
Andy Green
179f831bc3 [PATCH] cfg80211: Radiotap parser
Generic code to walk through the fields in a radiotap header, accounting
for nasties like extended "field present" bitfields and alignment rules

Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12 16:07:24 -04:00
Andy Green
08d1f2155c [PATCH] mac80211: Monitor mode radiotap injection docs
Add monitor mode radiotap injection docs.

Signed-off-by: Andy Green <andy@warmcat.com>
Signed-off-by: Jiri Benc <jbenc@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: John W. Linville <linville@tuxdriver.com>
2007-07-12 16:07:24 -04:00
H. Peter Anvin
85414b693a Define zero-page offset 0x1e4 as a scratch field, and use it
The relocatable kernel code needs a scratch field for the decompressor
to determine its own location.  It was using a location inside
struct screen_info; reserve a free location and document it as scratch
instead.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12 10:55:54 -07:00
Jean Delvare
0a85e9a271 i2c-rpx: Remove
This driver has been broken forever. It depends on i2c-algo-8xx which
has never been in the mainline kernel.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12 14:12:32 +02:00
Jean Delvare
b9cdad7488 i2c: New bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules
This is a new I2C bus driver for the TAOS evaluation modules. Developped
and tested on the TAOS TSL2550 EVM.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12 14:12:31 +02:00
Oleg Ryjkov
7edcb9abb5 i2c-i801: Use the internal 32-byte buffer on ICH4+
Add an ability to utilize the internal SRAM buffer on ICH4
and newer host controllers to speed up execution of block operations.

I've split the code so that it is more clear which block transaction is
performed.

First of all the host controller's type is identified. isich4 is set when
we think that the controller has the internal buffer. Then, before every
block transaction, if isich4 is set, we attempt to enable the E32B bit in
SMBAUXCTL register.

Signed-off-by: Oleg Ryjkov <olegr@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12 14:12:31 +02:00
Henry Su
c29c22218b i2c-piix4: Add support for the ATI SB700
Add the SMBus device ID for ATI SB700.

Signed-off-by: Henry Su <Henry.su@amd.com>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12 14:12:29 +02:00
Jean Delvare
4b2643d7d9 i2c: Fix the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype
Let the drivers specify how many bytes they want to read with
i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data(). So far, the block count was
hard-coded to I2C_SMBUS_BLOCK_MAX (32), which did not make much sense.
Many driver authors complained about this before, and I believe it's
about time to fix it. Right now, authors have to do technically stupid
things, such as individual byte reads or full-fledged I2C messaging,
to work around the problem. We do not want to encourage that.

I even found that some bus drivers (e.g. i2c-amd8111) already
implemented I2C block read the "right" way, that is, they didn't
follow the old, broken standard. The fact that it was never noticed
before just shows how little i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() was used,
which isn't that surprising given how broken its prototype was so far.

There are some obvious compatiblity considerations:
* This changes the i2c_smbus_read_i2c_block_data() prototype. Users
  outside the kernel tree will notice at compilation time, and will
  have to update their code.
* User-space has access to i2c_smbus_xfer() directly using i2c-dev, so
  the changed expectations would affect tools such as i2cdump. In order
  to preserve binary compatibility, we give I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_DATA
  a new numeric value, and define I2C_SMBUS_I2C_BLOCK_BROKEN with the
  old numeric value. When i2c-dev receives a transaction with the
  old value, it can convert it to the new format on the fly.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12 14:12:29 +02:00
Jean Delvare
ba7fbb723f i2c: Deprecate legacy RTC drivers
We have a new RTC subsystem with better drivers.

Legacy driver status:
* ds1337: The DS1337 and DS1339 are now supported by the rtc-ds1307
  driver, so it looks to me like we could even delete the ds1337
  driver right away.
* ds1374: Will soon be replaced with Scott Wood's rtc-ds1374 driver.
* m41t00: The M41T00 is supported by the rtc-ds1307 driver. For the
  M41T81 and M41T85, the rtc-m41t80 driver written by Atsushi Nemoto
  should work.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Acked-by: Mark A. Greer <mgreer@mvista.com>
Acked-by: James Chapman <jchapman@katalix.com>
Cc: Randy Vinson <rvinson@mvista.com>
2007-07-12 14:12:29 +02:00
Jean Delvare
890e037509 i2c: Delete outdated x1205 driver documentation
The x1205 driver moved to the RTC subsystem and was significantly
modified since then, so just delete the outdated documentation.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Cc: Alessandro Zummo <alessandro.zummo@towertech.it>
2007-07-12 14:12:28 +02:00
David Brownell
d64f73be1b i2c: Add kernel documentation
Generate I2C kerneldoc; fix various glitches and add "context" sections to
that documentation.  Most I2C and SMBus functions still have no kerneldoc.

Let me suggest providing kerneldoc for all the i2c_smbus_*() functions as
a small and mostly self-contained project for anyone so inclined.  :)

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-07-12 14:12:28 +02:00
Eric Paris
ed03218951 security: Protection for exploiting null dereference using mmap
Add a new security check on mmap operations to see if the user is attempting
to mmap to low area of the address space.  The amount of space protected is
indicated by the new proc tunable /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr and defaults to
0, preserving existing behavior.

This patch uses a new SELinux security class "memprotect."  Policy already
contains a number of allow rules like a_t self:process * (unconfined_t being
one of them) which mean that putting this check in the process class (its
best current fit) would make it useless as all user processes, which we also
want to protect against, would be allowed. By taking the memprotect name of
the new class it will also make it possible for us to move some of the other
memory protect permissions out of 'process' and into the new class next time
we bump the policy version number (which I also think is a good future idea)

Acked-by: Stephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Acked-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
2007-07-11 22:52:29 -04:00
Zhang Rui
91a6902958 sysfs: add parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in .read/.write methods for sysfs binary attributes
Well, first of all, I don't want to change so many files either.

What I do:
Adding a new parameter "struct bin_attribute *" in the
.read/.write methods for the sysfs binary attributes.

In fact, only the four lines change in fs/sysfs/bin.c and
include/linux/sysfs.h do the real work.
But I have to update all the files that use binary attributes
to make them compatible with the new .read and .write methods.
I'm not sure if I missed any. :(

Why I do this:
For a sysfs attribute, we can get a pointer pointing to the
struct attribute in the .show/.store method,
while we can't do this for the binary attributes.
I don't know why this is different, but this does make it not
so handy to use the binary attributes as the regular ones.
So I think this patch is reasonable. :)

Who benefits from it:
The patch that exposes ACPI tables in sysfs
requires such an improvement.
All the table binary attributes share the same .read method.
Parameter "struct bin_attribute *" is used to get
the table signature and instance number which are used to
distinguish different ACPI table binary attributes.

Without this parameter, we need to offer different .read methods
for different ACPI table binary attributes.
This is impossible as there are various ACPI tables on different
platforms, and we don't know what they are until they are loaded.

Signed-off-by: Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:09 -07:00
Kay Sievers
46336009b5 Rules on how to use sysfs in userspace programs
Here's a document to help clear things up.

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:09:00 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
694625c0b3 PCI: add pci_try_set_mwi
As suggested by Andrew, add pci_try_set_mwi(), which does not require
return-value checking.

- add pci_try_set_mwi() without __must_check
- make it return 0 on success, errno if the "try" failed or error
- review callers

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:02:11 -07:00
Jan Beulich
caa5171622 PCI: remove pci_dac_dma_... APIs
Based on replies to a respective query, remove the pci_dac_dma_...() APIs
(except for pci_dac_dma_supported() on Alpha, where this function is used
in non-DAC PCI DMA code).

Signed-off-by: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jesse.barnes@intel.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Acked-by: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:02:11 -07:00
David Brownell
56906c612e PCI: remove useless pci driver method
Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and
from documentation.  Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel,
but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11 16:02:08 -07:00
Chris Leech
72d0b7a81d I/OAT: Add documentation for the tcp_dma_copybreak sysctl
Signed-off-by: Chris Leech <christopher.leech@intel.com>
2007-07-11 15:39:05 -07:00
Alex Chiang
012b7105cc [IA64] prevent MCA when performing MMIO mmap to PCI config space
Example memory map (HP rx7640 with 'default' acpiconfig setting, VGA disabled):
   0x00000000 - 0x3FFFBFFF  supports only WB (cacheable) access

If a user attempts to perform an MMIO mmap (using the PCIIOC_MMAP_IS_MEM ioctl)
to PCI config space (like mmap'ing and accessing memory at 0xA0000),
we will MCA because the kernel will attempt to use a mapping with the UC
attribute.

So check the memory attribute in kern_mmap and the EFI memmap. If WC is
requested, and WC or UC access is supported for the region, allow it.
Otherwise, use the same attribute the kernel uses.

Updates documentation and test cases as well.

Signed-off-by: Alex Chiang <achiang@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2007-07-11 11:34:49 -07:00
YOSHIFUJI Hideaki
bb4dbf9e61 [IPV6]: Do not send RH0 anymore.
Based on <draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-00.txt>.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:55:49 -07:00
Stephen Hemminger
1c8c7d6416 [NET]: netdevice mtu assumptions documentation
Document the expectations about device MTU handling.
The documentation about oversize packet handling is probably too
loose.

IMHO devices should drop oversize packets for robustness,
but many devices allow it now. For example, if you set mtu to 1200
bytes, most ether devices will allow a 1500 byte frame in.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-07-10 22:18:47 -07:00