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Nishanth Aravamudan d5dbac87b4 Documentation: update hugetlb information
The hugetlb documentation has gotten a bit out of sync with the current code.
Updated the sysctl file to refer to Documentation/vm/hugetlbpage.txt.  Update
that file to contain the current state of affairs (with the newer named sysctl
in place).

Signed-off-by: Nishanth Aravamudan <nacc@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Adam Litke <agl@us.ibm.com>
Cc: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>
Cc: Dave Hansen <haveblue@us.ibm.com>
Cc: David Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:17 -08:00
Sheela 2e12a7fb0d Fix lguest documentation
Share net is not supported, Rusty is an "idiot" .

Signed-off-by: Sheela Sequeira <sheela.sequeira@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Acked-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-12-17 19:28:16 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 87d5df6bde Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6:
  HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected
  add stable_api_nonsense.txt in korean
  HOWTO: change addresses of maintainer and lxr url for Korean HOWTO
  Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files
  HOWTO: Change man-page maintainer address for Japanese HOWTO
  tipar: remove obsolete module
  kobject: fix the documentation of how kobject_set_name works
2007-12-17 13:33:47 -08:00
barrios ba3882a917 HOWTO: update misspelling and word incorrected
Signed-off-by: barrios <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
barrios 83f88044b4 add stable_api_nonsense.txt in korean
Signed-off-by: barrios <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
minchan kim 57e1fd1f58 HOWTO: change addresses of maintainer and lxr url for Korean HOWTO
So sorry. again My mail is set with EUC-kR.
I'll resend with UTF-8.

Signed-off-by: barrios <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
Dhaval Giani 0594fe069d Add Documentation for FAIR_USER_SCHED sysfs files
This patch adds documentation about /sys/kernel/uids/<uid>/cpu_share
to Documentation/ABI.

Signed-off-by: Dhaval Giani <dhaval@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:19 -08:00
Tsugikazu Shibata e11d044efd HOWTO: Change man-page maintainer address for Japanese HOWTO
Below is a patch to change email address of man-page maintainer for
Japanese HOWTO document (Documentation/ja_JP/HOWTO).
This is for sync to Documentation/HOWTO that Michael Kerrisk mentioned
to me.

From: Tsugikazu Shibata <tshibata@ab.jp.nec.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:18 -08:00
Romain Liévin cb8c9b6de0 tipar: remove obsolete module
tipar: remove obsolete module

The tipar character driver was used to implement bit-banging access
to Texas Instruments parallel link cable. A user-land method now 
exists thru PPDEV & PARPORT.

Signed-off-by: Romain Liévin <roms@lpg.ticalc.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-12-17 10:33:18 -08:00
Amos Waterland f33e1d9fa2 [IPV4]: Updates to nfsroot documentation
The difference between ip=off and ip=::::::off has been a cause of much
confusion.  Document how each behaves, and do not contradict ourselves by
saying that "off" is the default when in fact "any" is the default and is
descibed as being so lower in the file.

Signed-off-by: Amos Waterland <apw@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-12-14 13:54:40 -08:00
Jean Delvare 45ccc6c50d i2c: Delete an outdated piece of documentation
I'm amazed that this old piece of documentation managed to survive
until today.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2007-12-12 13:45:24 +01:00
Jay Vosburgh 6f6652be18 bonding: Add new layer2+3 hash for xor/802.3ad modes
Add new hash for balance-xor and 802.3ad modes.  Originally
 submitted by "Glenn Griffin" <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>; modified by
 Jay Vosburgh to move setting of hash policy out of line, tweak the
 documentation update and add version update to 3.2.2.

	Glenn's original comment follows:

Included is a patch for a new xmit_hash_policy for the bonding driver
that selects slaves based on MAC and IP information.  This is a middle
ground between what currently exists in the layer2 only policy and the
layer3+4 policy.  This policy strives to be fully 802.3ad compliant by
transmitting every packet of any particular flow over the same link.
As documented the layer3+4 policy is not fully compliant for extreme
cases such as ip fragmentation, so this policy is a nice compromise
for environments that require full compliance but desire more than the
layer2 only policy.

Signed-off-by: "Glenn Griffin" <ggriffin.kernel@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Jay Vosburgh <fubar@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2007-12-07 15:00:32 -05:00
Huang, Ying 164e217cec x86_64 EFI boot support: EFI boot document
This patch adds document for EFI x86_64 boot support.  The setup and operation
guide of EFI based system is documented in Documentation/x86_64/uefi.txt.

Signed-off-by: Chandramouli Narayanan <mouli@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Huang Ying <ying.huang@intel.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:54 -08:00
Pavel Emelyanov 2868f89fc4 The namespaces compatibility list doc
People discuss how the namespaces are working/going-to-work together.

Ted Ts'o proposed to create some document that describes what problems user
may have when he/she creates some new namespace, but keeps others shared.
I liked this idea, so here's the initial version of such a document with
the problems I currently have in mind and can describe somewhat audibly -
the "namespaces compatibility list".

The Documentation/namespaces/ directory is about to contain more docs about
the namespaces stuff.

Thanks to Cedirc for notes and spell checks on the doc, to Daniel for
additional info about IPC and User namespaces interaction and to Randy, who
alluded me to using a spell checker before sending the documentation :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
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>
2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
Alan Cox 3ac40b9b5e termios: document callback more clearly
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:52 -08:00
Linus Torvalds bb0851ff9d Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (25 commits)
  USB: s3c2410 gadget: ensure vbus pin in input mode during read
  USB: s3c2410 gadget: allow sharing of vbus irq
  USB: s3c2410 gadget: Header move fixups
  USB: usb-storage: unusual_devs entry for JetFlash TS1GJF2A
  USB: fix up EHCI startup synchronization
  USB: make the microtek driver and HAL cooperate
  USB: uevent environment key fix
  USB: keep track of whether interface sysfs files exist
  USB: sierra: new product id
  USB HCD: avoid duplicate local_irq_disable()
  USB: mailing lists have changed
  USB: remove USB HUB entry from MAINTAINERS
  USB: fix directory references in usb/README
  USB: add support for an older firmware revision for the Nikon D200
  USB: FIx locks and urb->status in adutux (updated)
  USB: power-management documenation update
  USB: Fix signr comment in usbdevice_fs.h
  usbserial: fix inconsistent lock state
  USB: fix usbled disconnect read race #2
  USB: free memory when writing fails in usb/serial/mos7840.c
  ...
2007-11-28 16:03:09 -08:00
Alan Stern 3c886c5048 USB: power-management documenation update
This patch (as1014) was partly written by Tilman Schmidt.  It
clarifies the USB power-management documentation by explaining that
when a disconnect occurs, a suspend method call might not be followed
by either a resume or a reset_resume call.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:58:34 -08:00
Hans J Koch 1f4ebbbf18 UIO: add UIO documentation target to DocBook Makefile
Add the DocBook documentation for the Userspace I/O framework
to the Makefile.

Signed-off-by: Satoru Takeuchi <takeuchi_satoru@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
Hans J Koch ed423c24a8 UIO: fix up the UIO documentation
Remove references to the old uio_dummy demo module from UIO documentation.
Add a small paragraph to make it clearer that UIO is not a universal driver
interface.

Signed-off-by: Hans J Koch <hjk@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-11-28 13:53:53 -08:00
Mikulas Patocka cdb32706f6 plip: fix parport_register_device name parameter
Plip passes a string "name" that is allocated on stack to
parport_register_device.  parport_register_device holds the pointer to
"name" and when the registering function exits, it points nowhere.

On some machine, this bug causes bad names to appear in /proc, such as
/proc/sys/dev/parport/parport0/devices/T^/�X^/�, on others, the plip
proc node is completely missing.

The patch also fixes documentation to note this requirement.

Signed-off-by: Mikulas Patocka <mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-26 19:39:01 -08:00
Linus Torvalds f4d53cedce Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rusty/linux-2.6-for-linus:
  virtio: fix net driver loop case where we fail to restart
  module: fix and elaborate comments
  virtio: fix module/device unloading
  lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher
2007-11-26 19:17:19 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 6b41016032 Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (39 commits)
  ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers (version 3)
  ACPI: EC: use printk_ratelimit(), add some DEBUG mode messages
  Revert "ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers"
  ACPI: fix two IRQ8 issues in IOAPIC mode
  ACPI: Add missing spaces to printk format
  cpuidle: fix HP nx6125 regression
  cpuidle: add sched_clock_idle_[sleep|wakeup]_event() hooks
  cpuidle: fix C3 for no bus-master control case
  ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: fix oops when a module parameter has no value
  Revert "Fix very high interrupt rate for IRQ8 (rtc) unless pnpacpi=off"
  ACPI: EC: Don't init EC early if it has no _INI
  Revert "acpi: make ACPI_PROCFS default to y"
  Revert "ACPI: add documentation for deprecated /proc/acpi/battery in ACPI_PROCFS"
  ACPI: Split out control for /proc/acpi entries from battery, ac, and sbs.
  ACPI: Video: Increase buffer size for writes to brightness proc file.
  ACPI: EC: Workaround for optimized controllers
  ACPI: SBS: Fix retval warning
  ACPI: Enable MSR (FixedHW) support for T-States
  ACPI: Get throttling info from BIOS only after evaluating _PDC
  ACPI: Use _TSS for throttling control, when present. Add error checks.
  ...
2007-11-26 19:09:58 -08:00
Len Brown d12dbbfe94 Pull thinkpad-2.6.24 into release branch 2007-11-20 01:20:42 -05:00
Kim Phillips 34be4561cd [POWERPC] Document rgmii-rxid and rgmii-txid phy-connection-types
A h/w bug requires we program the PHY in RGMII mode for internal delay
on the receive or transmit side only; document the new property values.

Signed-off-by: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@freescale.com>
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2007-11-19 22:09:16 -06:00
Rusty Russell d1c856e0f1 lguest: Fix uninitialized members in example launcher
Thanks valgrind!

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-19 11:20:41 +11:00
Adrian Bunk 4ae44c5774 feature-removal-schedule: remove SA_* flags entry
No reason to keep the feature-removal-schedule.txt entry after the code
was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:44 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers 5f9468cebf Linux Kernel Markers: document format string
Describes the format string standard further: Use of field names before the
type specifiers..

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:40 -08:00
Balbir Singh 546040dc48 make getdelays cgroupstats aware
Update the getdelays utility to become cgroupstats aware.  A new -C option has
been added.  It takes in a control group path and prints out a summary of the
states of tasks in the control group

Signed-off-by: Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:38 -08:00
Mike Frysinger 108b4c3638 rtc: tweak driver documentation for rtc periodic
The max_user_freq member is not really meant for RTC drivers to modify, so
update the rtc documentation so drivers writers know what is expected of
them when handling periodic events.

Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@gentoo.org>
Acked-by: Alessandro Zummo <a.zummo@towertech.it>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-14 18:45:37 -08:00
Linus Torvalds 9418d5dc9b Merge branch 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6
* 'release' of git://lm-sensors.org/kernel/mhoffman/hwmon-2.6:
  hwmon: (i5k_amb) Convert macros to C functions
  hwmon: (w83781d) Add missing curly braces
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Identify ABit IP35 Pro as such
  hwmon: (f75375s) pwmX_mode sysfs files writable for f75375 variant
  hwmon: (f75375s) On n2100 systems, set fans to full speed on boot
  hwmon: (f75375s) Allow setting up fans with platform_data
  hwmon: (f75375s) Add new style bindings
  hwmon: (lm70) Convert semaphore to mutex
  hwmon: (applesmc) Add support for Mac Pro 2 x Quad-Core
  hwmon: (abituguru3) Add support for 2 new motherboards
  hwmon: (ibmpex) Change printk to dev_{info,err} macros
  hwmon: (i5k_amb) New memory temperature sensor driver
  hwmon: (f75375s) fix pwm mode setting
  hwmon: (ibmpex.c) fix NULL dereference
  hwmon: (sis5595) Split sis5595_attributes_opt
  hwmon: (sis5595) Add individual alarm files
  hwmon: (w83627hf) push nr+1 offset into *_REG_FAN macros and simplify
  hwmon: (w83627hf) hoist nr-1 offset out of show-store-temp-X
  hwmon: Add power meter spec to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
2007-11-13 09:09:36 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 57ce45dd16 [NET]: Remove references to net-modules.txt.
When I removed net-modules.txt because it only contained ancient
information I missed that many Kconfig entries pointed to this ancient
information.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-12 21:03:58 -08:00
Rusty Russell 42b36cc0ce virtio: Force use of power-of-two for descriptor ring sizes
The virtio descriptor rings of size N-1 were nicely set up to be
aligned to an N-byte boundary.  But as Anthony Liguori points out, the
free-running indices used by virtio require that the sizes be a power
of 2, otherwise we get problems on wrap (demonstrated with lguest).

So we replace the clever "2^n-1" scheme with a simple "align to page
boundary" scheme: this means that all virtio rings take at least two
pages, but it's safer than guessing cache alignment.

Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:40 +11:00
Anthony Liguori 1200e646ae lguest: Fix lguest virtio-blk backend size computation
This seems like an obvious typo but it's worked in the past because the virtio
blk frontend just ignores the length field on completion.

Signed-off-by: Anthony Liguori <aliguori@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
2007-11-12 13:59:26 +11:00
Linus Torvalds c4888f9ffa 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: (37 commits)
  [POWERPC] EEH: Make sure warning message is printed
  [POWERPC] Make altivec code in swsusp_32.S depend on CONFIG_ALTIVEC
  [POWERPC] windfarm: Fix windfarm thread freezer interaction
  [POWERPC] Fix si_addr value on low level hash failures
  [POWERPC] Refresh ppc64_defconfig and enable pasemi-related options
  [POWERPC] pasemi: Update defconfig
  [POWERPC] iSeries: Fix ref counting in vio setup
  [POWERPC] ] Fix memset size error
  [POWERPC] Fix link errors for allyesconfig
  [POWERPC] iSeries_init_IRQ non-PCI tidy
  [POWERPC] Change fallocate to match unistd.h on powerpc
  [POWERPC] EEH: Avoid crash on null device
  [POWERPC] EEH: Drivers that need reset trump others
  [POWERPC] EEH: Clean up comments
  [POWERPC] Fix off-by-one error in setting decrementer on Book E/4xx (v2)
  [POWERPC] Fix switch_slb handling of 1T ESID values
  [POWERPC] Fix build failure when CONFIG_VIRT_CPU_ACCOUNTING is not defined
  [POWERPC] Include udbg.h when using udbg_printf
  [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
  [POWERPC] Fix sysctl table check failure on PowerMac
  ...
2007-11-09 15:16:52 -08:00
Darrick J. Wong 38fb56a223 hwmon: Add power meter spec to Documentation/hwmon/sysfs-interface
Update the hwmon sysfs interface documentation to include a specification
for power meters.

Signed-off-by: Darrick J. Wong <djwong@us.ibm.com>
Acked-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Mark M. Hoffman <mhoffman@lightlink.com>
2007-11-08 08:42:45 -05:00
Paul Mackerras 688016f4e2 Merge branch 'for-2.6.24' of master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jwboyer/powerpc-4xx into merge 2007-11-08 14:28:14 +11:00
Benjamin Herrenschmidt 20474abda6 [POWERPC] Fix cache line vs. block size confusion
We had an historical confusion in the kernel between cache line
and cache block size. The former is an implementation detail of
the L1 cache which can be useful for performance optimisations,
the later is the actual size on which the cache control
instructions operate, which can be different.

For some reason, we had a weird hack reading the right property
on powermac and the wrong one on any other 64 bits (32 bits is
unaffected as it only uses the cputable for cache block size
infos at this stage).

This fixes the booting-without-of.txt documentation to mention
the right properties, and fixes the 64 bits initialization code
to look for the block size first, with a fallback to the line
size if the property is missing.

Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2007-11-08 14:15:30 +11:00
Adrian Bunk c183783e28 [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/pt.txt
There's no no point in keeping documentation for a driver that was
removed many years ago.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:08 -08:00
Adrian Bunk e8b2cadde6 [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/routing.txt
This file is so outdated that I can't see any value in keeping it.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 17a83c75ad [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/ncsa-telnet
Newsflash: There once was a version of NCSA telnet that had some bug.

Spotted by Pekka Pietikainen.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:07 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 915590cf64 [NET]: Remove comx driver docs.
The drivers have already been removed 3.5 years ago.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:06 -08:00
Adrian Bunk 240e546445 [NET]: Remove Documentation/networking/Configurable
After more than 11 years this file does no longer contain much useful
information.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2007-11-07 04:15:05 -08:00
Mathieu Desnoyers e1265205c0 local_t Documentation update
Grant Grundler was asking for more detail about correct usage of local
atomic operations and suggested adding the resulting summary to
local_ops.txt.

"Please add a bit more detail. If DaveM is correct (he normally is), then
there must be limits on how the local_t can be used in the kernel process
and interrupt contexts. I'd like those rules spelled out very clearly
since it's easy to get wrong and tracking down such a bug is quite painful."

Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Signed-off-by: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-05 15:12:32 -08:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh b856f5b8c0 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: bump up version to 0.17
The lm-sensors 3.0.0/libsensors4 compatibility changes are reason enough to
bump up the version string.  Do it.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-05 13:07:11 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh e11e211a0b ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: prefer standard ACPI backlight level control
Newer Lenovo BIOSes support the standard ACPI backlight brightness
interface (_BCM, _BQC, _BCL).  It should be used instead of the native
thinkpad backlight brightness control interface when possible.

This patch disables the native brightness support in the driver by default
when we detect that the standard ACPI interface is available.  The local
admin can still enable it using the module parameter "brightness_enable".

Note that we need to detect the standard ACPI backlight interface only in
boxes for which we would load the native backlight interface in the first
place, and that no ThinkPad BIOS has _BCL but misses the other methods, so
the detection routines can be really simple.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-05 13:07:11 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh 87cc537a54 ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: add brightness_force parameter
Add a "brightness_enable" module parameter that allows the local admin to
force the backlight support to not be enabled.

It can also be used to force the backlight support to be enabled, but that
is currently a no-op as the backlight support is enabled by default when
available.  This will be changed by a different patch.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-05 13:07:11 -05:00
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh a3f104c02a ACPI: thinkpad-acpi: support 16 levels of brightness (v3)
Lenovo ThinkPads often have 16 brightness levels in EC, and not just eight
levels like older ThinkPads.  They also have standard ACPI backlight
brightness control.

We detect the number of brightness levels by the presence of a BCLL package
with 16 entries.  If BCLL is not there, we assume eight levels (Z6*).  If
it is there, but it doesn't have 16 entries, we assume eight levels (T60).
Otherwise we assume sixteen levels (T61, X61, etc).

We don't use _BCL because it can have side-effects in thinkpads.  Thanks to
Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> for notifying me of this potential
problem.

Using the standard ACPI backlight brightness control *instead* of the
native thinkpad backlight control is a better idea, though.  A different
patch will take care of this.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-05 13:07:11 -05:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab 0180bf3279 V4L/DVB (6390): Updates missing entries at CARDLIST.em28xx
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
2007-11-04 21:41:15 -02:00
Grant Likely 7ae0fa49c6 [POWERPC] Device tree bindings for Xilinx devices
Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
Acked-by: Stephen Neuendorffer <stephen.neuendorffer@xilinx.com>
Signed-off-by: Josh Boyer <jwboyer@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
2007-11-01 07:11:18 -05:00
Keiichi Kii 710701c8fc add SubmittingPatches to Documentation/ja_JP
This patch adds SubmittingPatches translated into Japanese to 
Documentation/ja_JP directory.

I attach the patch because there is a possibility that MUA 
will change the character encoding sometimes.

Signed-off-by: Keiichi KII <k-keiichi@bx.jp.nec.com>
Cc: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-10-30 21:52:34 -07:00