10 Feb, 2006
1 commit
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Updated the documentation to include the definition of the USB device
node format for Freescale SOC devices.Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras
08 Feb, 2006
4 commits
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Documents the new feature, why it is needed, it's cost, design,
implementation, and test plan.Signed-off-by: Janak Desai
Cc: Al Viro
Cc: Christoph Hellwig
Cc: Andi Kleen
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Acked-by: Michael Kerrisk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
07 Feb, 2006
6 commits
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Updated SOC node definition in documentation to include bus-frequency
property. Also extended mdio example to match specification.Signed-off-by: Becky Bruce
Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala
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This resolves some minor version skew glitches that accumulated for the AVR
Butterfly adapter driver, which caused among other things the existence of
a duplicate Kconfig entry. Most of it boils down to comment updates, but in
one case it removes some now-superfluous code that would be better if not
copied into other controller-level drivers.Signed-off-by: David Brownell
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Only scan I2C address 0x2d. This is the default address and no IT87xxF
chip was ever seen on I2C at a different address. These chips are
better accessed through their ISA interface anyway.This fixes bug #5889, although it doesn't address the whole class
of problems. We'd need the ability to blacklist arbitrary I2C addresses
on systems known to contain I2C devices which behave badly when probed.Plan the I2C interface for removal as well. If nobody complains within
a year, it will confirm my impression that the I2C interface isn't
actually needed by anyone.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
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This is my f71805f hardware monitoring driver ported from lm_sensors
to Linux 2.6. This new driver differs from the other hardware monitoring
drivers in that it is implemented as a platform driver. This might not
be optimal yet (we would probably need a generic infrastructure and bus
type for Super-I/O logical devices) but it is certainly much better than
the i2c-isa solution.Note that this driver requires lm_sensors CVS. I hope to get it
released as 2.10.0 soon.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
Add some documentation for the new f71805f driver. This is almost the
same help that was present in lm_sensors, with a few minor layout fixes.Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
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This patch just renames the documentation file to correct file name.
i2c-sis69x -> i2c-sis96x.Signed-off-by: Rudolf Marek
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
06 Feb, 2006
1 commit
05 Feb, 2006
2 commits
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On some broken motherboards (at least one NForce3 based AMD64 laptop)
the PIT timer runs at a incorrect frequency. This patch adds a new
option "apicpmtimer" that allows to use the APIC timer and calibrate it
using the PMTimer. It requires the earlier patch that allows to run the
main timer from the APIC.Specifying apicpmtimer implies apicmaintimer.
The option defaults to off for now.
I tested it on a few systems and the resulting APIC timer frequencies
were usually a bit off, but always
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Another piece from the no-idle-tick patch.
This can be enabled with the "apicmaintimer" option.
This is mainly useful when the PIT/HPET interrupt is unreliable.
Note there are some systems that are known to stop the APIC
timer in C3. For those it will never work, but this case
should be automatically detected.It also only works with PM timer right now. When HPET is used
the way the main timer handler computes the delay doesn't work.It should be a bit more efficient because there is one less
regular interrupt to process on the boot processor.Requires earlier bugfix from Venkatesh
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
04 Feb, 2006
8 commits
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configfs always made item and attribute ownership root.root and
permissions based on a umask of 022. Add ->setattr() to allow
chown(2)/chmod(2), and persist the changes for the lifetime of the
items and attributes.Signed-off-by: Joel Becker
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Update ocfs2.txt to add "cluster aware lockf" under missing features.
Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields
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The patch implements cpu topology exportation by sysfs.
Items (attributes) are similar to /proc/cpuinfo.
1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id:
represent the physical package id of cpu X;
2) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_id:
represent the cpu core id to cpu X;
3) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/thread_siblings:
represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core;
4) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/core_siblings:
represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package;To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
driver/base/topology.c, is to export the 5 attributes.If one architecture wants to support this feature, it just needs to
implement 4 defines, typically in file include/asm-XXX/topology.h.
The 4 defines are:
#define topology_physical_package_id(cpu)
#define topology_core_id(cpu)
#define topology_thread_siblings(cpu)
#define topology_core_siblings(cpu)The type of **_id is int.
The type of siblings is cpumask_t.To be consistent on all architectures, the 4 attributes should have
deafult values if their values are unavailable. Below is the rule.1) physical_package_id: If cpu has no physical package id, -1 is the
default value.2) core_id: If cpu doesn't support multi-core, its core id is 0.
3) thread_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support
HT/multi-thread.4) core_siblings: Just include itself, if the cpu doesn't support
multi-core and HT/Multi-thread.So be careful when declaring the 4 defines in include/asm-XXX/topology.h.
If an attribute isn't defined on an architecture, it won't be exported.
Thank Nathan, Greg, Andi, Paul and Venki.
The patch provides defines for i386/x86_64/ia64.
Signed-off-by: Zhang, Yanmin
Cc: Ingo Molnar
Cc: Nick Piggin
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Fix documentation to actually match the code.
Signed-off-by: Arnaud Giersch
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch is a cleanup/restructuring/clarification of the PCI error
handling doc. It should look rather professional at this point.Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas
Cc: Greg KH
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Edits to the driver-model documentation for grammar, clarity and content.
These docs haven't been updated in years, and some of the technical content
and discussion has become stale; this patch updates these. In addition,
some of the language is awkward. Fix this.(I'm trying to cleanup the other files in this directory also,
patches for these will come a bit later).Signed-off-by: Linas Vepstas
Acked-by: Patrick Mochel
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
03 Feb, 2006
1 commit
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Taken largely from the commit of the patch that added this feature:
1c2fb7f93cb20621772bf304f3dba0849942e5db
I'm not sure about the ordering of the options in sysctl.txt,
so I took a wild guess about where it fits.Signed-Off-By: Horms
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller
02 Feb, 2006
10 commits
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- Add info that structs, unions, enums, and typedefs are supported.
- Add doc about "private:" and "public:" tags for struct fields.
- Fix some typos.
- Remove some trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Updates to in-tree RCU documentation based on comments over the past few
months.Signed-off-by: "Paul E. McKenney"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Add direct migration support with fall back to swap.
Direct migration support on top of the swap based page migration facility.
This allows the direct migration of anonymous pages and the migration of file
backed pages by dropping the associated buffers (requires writeout).Fall back to swap out if necessary.
The patch is based on lots of patches from the hotplug project but the code
was restructured, documented and simplified as much as possible.Note that an additional patch that defines the migrate_page() method for
filesystems is necessary in order to avoid writeback for anonymous and file
backed pages.Signed-off-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
Signed-off-by: Mike Kravetz
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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If large amounts of zone memory are used by empty slabs then zone_reclaim
becomes uneffective. This patch shakes the slab a bit.The problem with this patch is that the slab reclaim is not containable to a
zone. Thus slab reclaim may affect the whole system and be extremely slow.
This also means that we cannot determine how many pages were freed in this
zone. Thus we need to go off node for at least one allocation.The functionality is disabled by default.
We could modify the shrinkers to take a zone parameter but that would be quite
invasive. Better ideas are welcome.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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In some situations one may want zone_reclaim to behave differently. For
example a process writing large amounts of memory will spew unto other nodes
to cache the writes if many pages in a zone become dirty. This may impact the
performance of processes running on other nodes.Allowing writes during reclaim puts a stop to that behavior and throttles the
process by restricting the pages to the local zone.Similarly one may want to contain processes to local memory by enabling
regular swap behavior during zone_reclaim. Off node memory allocation can
then be controlled through memory policies and cpusets.Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Currently the zone_reclaim code has a fixed window of 30 seconds of off node
allocations should a local zone have no unused pagecache pages left. Reclaim
will be attempted again after this timeout period to avoid repeated useless
scans for memory. This is also useful to established sufficiently large off
node allocation chunks to relieve the local node.It may be beneficial to adjust that time period for some special situations.
For example if memory use was exceeding node capacity one may want to give up
for longer periods of time. If memory spikes intermittendly then one may want
to shorten the time period to reduce the number of off node allocations.This patch allows just that....
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The flattened device tree is the only supported way of booting ARCH=powerpc
kernels on non Open Firmware machines. The documentation for the flattened
tree format and contents has been discussed on mailing lists and lately has
been living in the dtc git tree. Really, it ought to go in the kernel's
Documentation directory for maximum visibility.Signed-off-by: David Gibson
Cc: Paul Mackerras
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Make swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed for future
compatibility.Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki
Acked-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
01 Feb, 2006
7 commits
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Modules: Documentation
Fixed typos in writing-an-alsa-driver document.
Signed-off-by: Giuliano Pochini
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai -
Modules: Documentation,Intel8x0 driver
Added MCP51 PCI ID to intel8x0 driver.
Also, updated the supported chips in documentation.Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai
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Scheduled the removal of pci_module_init.
Signed-off-by: Richard Knutsson
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
PCI_LEGACY_PROC is deprecated since 2.5.53 in favor of lspci(8).
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
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- the w9968cf-vpp module is not intended for inclusion into the kernel
- the upstream w9968cf package shipping the w9968cf-vpp module suggests
to simply replace the w9968cf module shipped with the kernelTherefore, there seems to be no good reason spending some bytes of
kernel memory for hooks for the w9968cf-vpp module.Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman -
This patch adds a Video4Linux2 driver giving support
to ET61X151 and ET61X251 PC Camera Controllers made by
Etoms Electronics.Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
