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Robert Love
0eeca28300 [PATCH] inotify
inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.

Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 20:38:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3f603ed319 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-2.6 2005-07-12 16:04:50 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
db036a07ac [PATCH] v4l: Documentation
- Card definitions updated.
- Tail spaces removed.
- Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.
- Correct info about sync byte for MPEG-2 transport stream packets.

Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: hermann pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:05 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
41e2e8bec2 [PATCH] Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt: fix a typo
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:01:03 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
c6fd718808 [PATCH] pcmcia: Documentation update
Update PCMCIA driver changes for patches merged in 2.6.13

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-12 16:00:59 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
22a4427972 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/i2c-2.6 2005-07-12 15:54:36 -07:00
Len Brown
5028770a42 [ACPI] merge acpi-2.6.12 branch into latest Linux 2.6.13-rc...
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-12 17:21:56 -04:00
Luca Risolia
b9df978f19 [PATCH] USB: SN9C10x driver updates
SN9C10x driver updates.

Changes: + new, - removed, * cleanup, @ bugfix

@ Remove bad get_ctrl()'s
* Documentation updates
+ Add 0x0c45/0x602d to the list of SN9C10x based devices
+ Add support for OV7630 image sensors

Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-12 11:52:56 -07:00
Pete Zaitcev
ae0d6cceb2 [PATCH] USB: Patch to make usbmon to print control setup packets
Make usbmon to print Setup packets of Control transfers. This is useful
when debugging enumeration issues.

This is a change to the trace format which is not fully compatible.
A parser has to look at the data length word now. If that word is
a character like 's', read setup packet before proceeding with data.
I decided not to bump the API tag for this because not many such
parsers exist at this point.

Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-12 11:52:55 -07:00
Luming Yu
fb9802fa59 [ACPI] generic Hot Key support
See Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt

Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable
legacy platform specific drivers.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887

Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2005-07-11 23:27:04 -04:00
Jean Delvare
ede7fbdf52 [PATCH] I2C: Move hwmon drivers (3/3)
Part 3: Move the drivers documentation, plus two general documentation
files.

Note that the patch "adds trailing whitespace", because it does move the
files as-is, and some files happen to have trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-11 14:47:41 -07:00
Jean Delvare
1d772e2587 [PATCH] I2C: Clarify the usage of i2c-dev.h
Upon suggestion by Nils Roeder, here is an update to the i2c
documentation to clarify which header files user-space applications
relying on the i2c-dev interface should include.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-11 14:10:37 -07:00
Jan Veldeman
a68e2f4895 [PATCH] I2C: Documentation fix
Fix documentation to match code in include/linux/i2c-dev.h

Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <jan@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-11 14:10:37 -07:00
david-b@pacbell.net
61f5809d3e [PATCH] I2C: minor I2C doc cleanups
The I2C stack has long had "id" fields, of rather dubious utility, in
many data structures.  This removes mention of one of them from the
documentation about how to write an I2C driver, so that only drivers
that really need to use them (probably old/legacy code) will have any
reason to use this field.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-11 14:10:37 -07:00
Jean Delvare
089bd86632 [PATCH] I2C: max6875 documentation update
Here is a proposed documentation update for the new max6875 i2c chip
driver.

Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-07-11 14:10:36 -07:00
Tony Luck
88c3cdfdde Auto merge with /home/aegl/GIT/linus 2005-07-08 08:52:42 -07:00
Pavel Machek
374a6cf281 [PATCH] video doc: one more system where video works with S3
One more system where video works with S3.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:11 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
bf45d9b0ac [PATCH] pcmcia: deprecate ioctl
Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the
pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005.

A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in
Linux.  Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make
PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:04 -07:00
Uwe Bugla
a2f552f5ed [PATCH] fix for Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt?=
*   /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt

  almost completely remade the text file with the following focuses:
  useful infos for beginners: how to load modules manually and
  automatically developers infos are reduced to a minimum as module loading
  works automatic in kernel >= 2.6.12 by loading modules bttv and dvb-bt8xx
  I completely erased the out of date TwinHan part dealing with additional
  parameters, debug parameters, and overriding autodetection Further up to
  date information about TwinHan + clones can be found in
  /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt

Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:03 -07:00
Patrick Boettcher
3352e432d5 [PATCH] dvb: usb: README update
Updated the readme file to point to the DVB USB wikipage to find out which
firmware necessary, + minor updates.

Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:03 -07:00
Patrick Boettcher
2d188c68a0 [PATCH] dvb: usb: add vp7045 IR keymap
Add keymap for Twinhan vp7045 remote control.

Signed-off-by: Michael Paxton <packo@tpg.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:01 -07:00
Patrick Boettcher
82ff896c96 [PATCH] dvb: usb doc update
o removed device listing (they are all in the linuxtv wiki now)
o misc updates

Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:24:01 -07:00
Roland Dreier
6f50142e4b [PATCH] IB uverbs: add documentation file
Add documentation for InfiniBand userspace verbs.

Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-07-07 18:23:50 -07:00
Bob Picco
2b2c375033 [PATCH] Documentation
This is a small documentation patch for a boot time parameter.  

Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-07-07 17:11:29 -07:00
Robert Olsson
b2f5710265 [IPV4]: Add LC-Trie implementation notes
Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-07-05 16:38:26 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
eb05bfe4fb [PATCH] pcmcia: update Documentation
As the information is now exported via sysfs, there's no need for an userspace
tool any longer.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-30 08:45:08 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
0b35ff23b2 Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serial 2005-06-29 21:00:38 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
541cecac53 Remove duplicate mention of "edd" in Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt 2005-06-29 08:43:49 -07:00
Russell King
c5f4644e6c [PATCH] Serial: Adjust serial locking
This patch changes the way serial ports are locked when getting modem
status.  This change is necessary because we will need to atomically
read the modem status and take action depending on the CTS status.

Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2005-06-29 09:42:38 +01:00
Randy Dunlap
84da7c0844 [PATCH] Doc/Submitting: corrections, additions
Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches}
- update LANANA info.
- fix some typos
- update 2.2 kernel maintainer info.
- update 'dontdiff' info.
- update URLs for patch scripts
- add Trivial Patch Monkey URL
- add more references for submitting patches

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28 21:20:37 -07:00
Mauro Carvalho Chehab
6623e6205e [PATCH] V4L: documentation changes - mostly new cards included
New cards included.
V4L1 api renamed. Message included informing it is obsoleted by V4L2 API.
V4L2 api included.
Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.

Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>.
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28 21:20:37 -07:00
Alan Cox
200803dfe4 [PATCH] irqpoll
Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options.  Its effectiveness
varies we've found in the Fedora case.  Quite a few systems with misdescribed
IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll.  It also fixes up the VIA systems
although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default
as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically).

A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause
an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for.  In those cases it
doesn't help.

Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-28 21:20:35 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
adb2705a89 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/pci-2.6 2005-06-28 14:59:07 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
61998bcb4b Merge head 'upstream-20050628-1' of rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jgarzik/libata-dev 2005-06-28 10:20:11 -07:00
Greg KH
8644d2a42b Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 2005-06-27 22:07:56 -07:00
jayalk@intworks.biz
120bb4246a [PATCH] PCI Allow OutOfRange PIRQ table address
I updated this to remove unnecessary variable initialization, make
check_routing be inline only and not __init, switch to strtoul, and
formatting fixes as per Randy Dunlap's recommendations.

I updated this to change pirq_table_addr to a long, and to add a warning
msg if the PIRQ table wasn't found at the specified address, as per thread
with Matthew Wilcox.

In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ
table in the F0000h-100000h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel
parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform
the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A beneficial side-effect is that,
if one's BIOS uses a static address each time for it's PIRQ table, then
pirqaddr can be used to avoid the $pirq search through that address block each
time at boot for normal PIRQ BIOSes.

Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-06-27 21:52:38 -07:00
Edward Falk
8b2af8f0ca [PATCH] Minor libata documentation patch
I fleshed out libata.tmpl a bit while I was taking notes.
2005-06-27 23:21:00 -04:00
Jar
a9a55243d4 [PATCH] pcmcia: documentation fix
Fix example hash generator in Documentation.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 18:03:22 -07:00
Dominik Brodowski
5085cb2650 [PATCH] pcmcia: add some Documentation
Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to
Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches.

Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes.  With recent
changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have
PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well.

Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 18:03:18 -07:00
Mike Miller
3de0a70bd9 [PATCH] cciss: pci id fix
This patch fixes a PCI ID I got wrong before.  It also adds support for
another new SAS controller due out this summer.  I didn't have a marketing
name prior to my last submission.  Also modifies the copyright date range.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 15:11:48 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
3e0777b8fa Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input.git manually
Some manual fixups required due to clashes with the PF_FREEZE cleanups.
2005-06-27 14:47:31 -07:00
Jens Axboe
52a5e15f66 [PATCH] CFQ io scheduler, add ioprio documentation
Add ioprio documentation

Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-27 14:33:30 -07:00
Ismail Donmez
1db1a8740a [PATCH] Documentation/networking/dmfe.txt: Make documentation nicer
Patch indents dmfe.txt to look like other docs.  It adds a tip about CNET
cards using Davicom chipsets.  Also it removes parts where it refers to how
to build driver out-of-kernel which seems to be cruft from times where the
driver was out of the kernel.

Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@kde.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
2005-06-26 18:37:26 -04:00
Adrian Bunk
340ea3972f [PATCH] remove redundant info from SubmittingPatches
Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4.  and 5., I
removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under
'Select your CC list'.

Signed-off-by: Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-26 08:43:19 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
2031d0f586 Merge Christoph's freeze cleanup patch 2005-06-25 17:16:53 -07:00
Christoph Lameter
3e1d1d28d9 [PATCH] Cleanup patch for process freezing
1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:

   frozen(process)		Check for frozen process
   freezing(process)		Check if a process is being frozen
   freeze(process)		Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
   thaw_process(process)	Restart process
   frozen_process(process)	Process is frozen now

2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
   kernel sources except sched.h

3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver

4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.

5. Some whitespace cleanup

6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
   cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
   PF_FROZEN).

This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!

Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 17:10:13 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
98e7f29418 [PATCH] schedule the obsolete raw driver for removal
Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
obsolete.

(trolling for IBMers)

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:11 -07:00
Alexey Dobriyan
9fd5559c1f [PATCH] DCO: use IANA-reserved second level domain name
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:10 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
f353488ce4 [PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking
The files wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain
the exact same information (diff between the two shows no document is "Linux
WAN Router Utilities Package" and therefor the name wan-router.txt is more
appropriate.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:09 -07:00
Tobias Klauser
301a716446 [PATCH] Remove duplicate file in Documentation/networking (00-INDEX)
wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain the exact
same information (diff between the two shows no
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX as pointed out by Randy Dunlap.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:25:09 -07:00