12 Sep, 2005
2 commits
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Documentation
move the AD1889 driver docs to the kernel tree, tooSigned-off-by: Clemens Ladisch
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When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency
chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting
include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke.
With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles
the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepareThe dependency chain looks like this now:
prepare
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+--> prepare0
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+--> archprepare
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+--> scripts_basic
+--> prepare1
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+---> prepare2
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+--> prepare3So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc.
This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic
are all updated before archprepare is processed.prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the
actions performed by archprepare.The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most
likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility.
Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg
11 Sep, 2005
6 commits
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Remove S4BIOS support. It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_
once. (I do not think anyone else ever tried it). It was in feature-removal
for a long time, and it should have been removed before.Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Cc: "Brown, Len"
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches:
- spelling fixes
- remove duplicate includesSigned-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Cc: Rusty Russell
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
- double "the"
- Several misspellings of function/functionality
- infomation
- memeory
- Recieved
- wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Update RCU documentation based on discussions and review of RCU-based tree
patches. Add an introductory whatisRCU.txt file.Signed-off-by:
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
10 Sep, 2005
23 commits
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Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of
per-mount. Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and
'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or
later).Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This adds the FUSE device handling functions.
This contains the following files:
o dev.c
- fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll)
- registers misc device
- support for sending requests to userspaceSigned-off-by: Miklos Szeredi
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The URL for Documentation/sparse is wrong now that it is in git.
Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
back to life. Thanks to Carsten Otte, Trond Myklebust, and Anton
Altaparmakov for their help on updating this documentation.Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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There are minor changes in command line options in kexec-tools for kdump.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect those changes.Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Someone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong.
This patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs.Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Documentation for how the ISA DMA controller is handled in the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Add a new document describing the major kernel trees and how to apply their
patches.Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Update the hacking guide, before CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT goes in and it needs
rewriting again.Changes include modernization of quotes, removal of most references to
bottom halves (some mention required because we still use bh in places to
mean softirq).It would be nice to have a discussion of sparse and various annotations.
Please send patches straight to akpm.Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell (authored)
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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The Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) is the latest standard approved by VESA
concerning video timings generation. It addresses the limitation of GTF which
is designed mainly for CRT displays. CRT's have a high blanking requirement
(as much as 25% of the horizontal frame length) which artificially increases
the pixelclock. Digital displays, on the other hand, needs to conserve the
pixelclock as much as possible. The GTF also does not take into account the
different aspect ratios in its calculation.The new function added is fb_find_mode_cvt(). It is called by fb_find_mode()
if it recognizes a mode option string formatted for CVT. The format is:x[M][R][-][][i][m]
The 'M' tells the function to calculate using CVT. On it's own, it will
compute a timing for CRT displays at 60Hz. If the 'R' is specified, 'reduced
blanking' computation will be used, best for flatpanels. The 'i' and the 'm'
is for 'interlaced mode' and 'with margins' respectively.To determine if CVT was used, check for dmesg for something like this:
CVT Mode - M[-R], ie: .480M3-R (800x600 reduced blanking)
where: pix - product of xres and yres, in MB
M - is a CVT mode
n - the aspect ratio (3 - 4:3; 4 - 5:4; 9 - 16:9, 15:9; A - 16:10)
-R - reduced blankingSigned-off-by: Antonino Daplas
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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This is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core.
Currently tridenfb claims to support the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. This
is of very limited truth. Even vesafb is faster and provides more working
modes and a much better quality of the video signal. There is a great
number of bugs in tridentfb ... but most often it is impossible to decide
if these bugs are real bugs or if fixing them for the cyberblade/i1 core
would break support for one of the other supported chips.Tridentfb seems to be unmaintained,and documentation for most of the
supported chips is not available. So "fixing" cyberblade/i1 support inside
of tridentfb was not an option, it would have caused numerous
if(CYBERBLADEi1) else ... cases and would have rendered the code to be
almost unmaintainable.A first version of this driver was published on 2005-07-31. A fix for a
bug reported by Jochen Hein was integrated as well as some changes
requested by Antonino A. Daplas.A message has been added to tridentfb to inform current users of tridentfb
to switch to cyblafb if the cyberblade/i1 graphics core is detected.This patch is one logical change, but because of the included documentation
it is bigger than 70kb. Therefore it is not sent to lkml and
linux-fbdev-devel,Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen
Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda
Acked-by: Antonino Daplas
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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OVERVIEW
V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an
implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be
used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers
(such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as
FUSE).BACKGROUND
Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating
system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing
Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of
Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++.
Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made
generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the
foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by
Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial
embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita
Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and
2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public
License in 2003.The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985.
Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the
shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed
networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought
and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone
systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless
distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing.
Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow
for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an
environment to use remote application components or services in place
of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command
line instructions. For the most part, application implementations
operated independent of the location of their actual resources.Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years
since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is
provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of
packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by
the use of different complicated protocols for individual services,
and separate implementations for kernel and application resources.
The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring
Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other
operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing
protocol.V9FS HISTORY
V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los
Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson
setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which
supported the Linux 2.4 kernel.About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had
made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5
kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to
clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style
guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux
support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and
PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005
conference in April 2005:
( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ).CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS
Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing
its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any
review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are
actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce
something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community.STATUS
The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases
our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several
of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC
(32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments.
Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark.It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this
release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the
protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more
complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but
excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for
mmap operations at Al Viro's request.PERFORMANCE
Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX
paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file
operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for
many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat
preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available
(http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html).RESOURCES
The source code is available in a few different forms:
tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net
CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/
CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p
Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org)
9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution
or from http://v9fs.sf.net
Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary
version can be downloaded from sourceforge.Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man
pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is
an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style
specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc).There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used
is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your
comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the
conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fsThis part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration
file changes.Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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Add documentation describing the new locking scheme for file descriptor table.
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma
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Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked
up without locks using RCU.Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai
Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma
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- cx88-dvb has been incorrectly reporting the card name instead of frontend name
- Removes a bad PCI subsystem ID for saa713x Sabrent card
- Renames DVICO --> DViCO for bttv.
- #include no longer needed.Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
- Add saa713x card #66: Yuan TUN-900 (saa7135)
Signed-off-by: De Greef Sebastien
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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- Add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV Terminator
Signed-off-by: James R Webb
Signed-off-by: Peter Missel
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files
- linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h
- Add new Digimatrix card and LG TAPC Mini tuner for itSigned-off-by: Hermann Pitton
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
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- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files
- Added DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card.
- Added Acorp Y878F.
- CodingStyle fixes.
- Added tuner_addr to bttv cards structure.
- linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h on bttvp.h
- kernel module for acquiring RDS data from a SAA6588.
- Allow multiple open() and reading calls to /dev/radio on bttv-driver.c
- added i2c address for lgdt330x.Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
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- Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files
- Included newer cards.
- Added a new NEC protocol for ir based on pulse distance.
- Enable ATSC support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold.
- Added tuner LG NTSC (TALN mini series).
- Fixed tea5767 autodetection.
- Resolve more tuner types.
- Commented debug function removed from mainstream.
- Remove comments from mainstream. Still on development tree.
- linux/version dependencies removed.
- BTSC Lang1 now is set to auto_stereo mode.
- New tuner standby API.
- i2c-core.c uses hexadecimal for the i2c address, so it should stay consistent.Signed-off-by: Uli Luckas
Signed-off-by: Mac Michaels
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Updated Documentation
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds -
Updated documentation
Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds
09 Sep, 2005
7 commits
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Signed-off-by: Henk Vergonet
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This patch aggregates all modifications in the -mm tree and adds
complete ringtone support.The following features are supported:
- keyboard full support
- LCD full support
- LED full support
- dialtone full support
- ringtone full support
- audio playback via generic usb audio diver
- audio record via generic usb audio diverFor driver documentation see: Documentation/input/yealink.txt
For vendor documentation see: http://yealink.comSigned-off-by: Henk
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Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov
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This patch removes CONFIG_PCI_NAMES.
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman
08 Sep, 2005
2 commits
