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r: 90185
b: refs/heads/master
c: 577f99c
h: refs/heads/master
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  90183: 0a7fc95
v: v3

[refs]

@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 26c0f03f6b77c513cb7bc37b73a06819bdbb791b
+refs/heads/master: 577f99c1d08cf9cbdafd4e858dd13ff04d855090

trunk/.gitignore

@@ -53,3 +53,5 @@ cscope.*
 
 *.orig
 *.rej
+*~
+\#*#

trunk/Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -183,8 +183,6 @@ i386/
 	- directory with info about Linux on Intel 32 bit architecture.
 ia64/
 	- directory with info about Linux on Intel 64 bit architecture.
-ide.txt
-	- important info for users of ATA devices (IDE/EIDE disks and CD-ROMS).
 infiniband/
 	- directory with documents concerning Linux InfiniBand support.
 initrd.txt
@@ -227,8 +225,6 @@ kprobes.txt
 	- documents the kernel probes debugging feature.
 kref.txt
 	- docs on adding reference counters (krefs) to kernel objects.
-laptop-mode.txt
-	- how to conserve battery power using laptop-mode.
 laptops/
 	- directory with laptop related info and laptop driver documentation.
 ldm.txt
@@ -303,12 +299,8 @@ pcmcia/
 	- info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.
 pi-futex.txt
 	- documentation on lightweight PI-futexes.
-pm.txt
-	- info on Linux power management support.
 pnp.txt
 	- Linux Plug and Play documentation.
-power_supply_class.txt
-	- Tells userspace about battery, UPS, AC or DC power supply properties
 power/
 	- directory with info on Linux PCI power management.
 powerpc/

trunk/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl

@@ -361,12 +361,14 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c
   <chapter id="blkdev">
      <title>Block Devices</title>
 !Eblock/blk-core.c
+!Iblock/blk-core.c
 !Eblock/blk-map.c
 !Iblock/blk-sysfs.c
 !Eblock/blk-settings.c
 !Eblock/blk-exec.c
 !Eblock/blk-barrier.c
 !Eblock/blk-tag.c
+!Iblock/blk-tag.c
   </chapter>
 
   <chapter id="chrdev">

trunk/Documentation/acpi/dsdt-override.txt

@@ -1,15 +1,7 @@
-Linux supports two methods of overriding the BIOS DSDT:
+Linux supports a method of overriding the BIOS DSDT:
 
 CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT builds the image into the kernel.
 
-CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD adds the image to the initrd.
-
-When to use these methods is described in detail on the
+When to use this method is described in detail on the
 Linux/ACPI home page:
 http://www.lesswatts.org/projects/acpi/overridingDSDT.php
-
-Note that if both options are used, the DSDT supplied
-by the INITRD method takes precedence.
-
-Documentation/initramfs-add-dsdt.sh is provided for convenience
-for use with the CONFIG_ACPI_CUSTOM_DSDT_INITRD method.

trunk/Documentation/cdrom/ide-cd

@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ This driver provides the following features:
 ---------------
 
 0. The ide-cd relies on the ide disk driver.  See
-   Documentation/ide.txt for up-to-date information on the ide
+   Documentation/ide/ide.txt for up-to-date information on the ide
    driver.
 
 1. Make sure that the ide and ide-cd drivers are compiled into the
@@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ This driver provides the following features:
 
    Depending on what type of IDE interface you have, you may need to
    specify additional configuration options.  See
-   Documentation/ide.txt.
+   Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
 
 2. You should also ensure that the iso9660 filesystem is either
    compiled into the kernel or available as a loadable module.  You
@@ -84,7 +84,7 @@ This driver provides the following features:
    on the primary IDE interface are called `hda' and `hdb',
    respectively.  The drives on the secondary interface are called
    `hdc' and `hdd'.  (Interfaces at other locations get other letters
-   in the third position; see Documentation/ide.txt.)
+   in the third position; see Documentation/ide/ide.txt.)
 
    If you want your CDROM drive to be found automatically by the
    driver, you should make sure your IDE interface uses either the
@@ -93,7 +93,7 @@ This driver provides the following features:
    be jumpered as `master'.  (If for some reason you cannot configure
    your system in this manner, you can probably still use the driver.
    You may have to pass extra configuration information to the kernel
-   when you boot, however.  See Documentation/ide.txt for more
+   when you boot, however.  See Documentation/ide/ide.txt for more
    information.)
 
 4. Boot the system.  If the drive is recognized, you should see a
@@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ TEST
 This section discusses some common problems encountered when trying to
 use the driver, and some possible solutions.  Note that if you are
 experiencing problems, you should probably also review
-Documentation/ide.txt for current information about the underlying
+Documentation/ide/ide.txt for current information about the underlying
 IDE support code.  Some of these items apply only to earlier versions
 of the driver, but are mentioned here for completeness.
 
@@ -211,15 +211,15 @@ from the driver.
 a. Drive is not detected during booting.
 
    - Review the configuration instructions above and in
-     Documentation/ide.txt, and check how your hardware is
+     Documentation/ide/ide.txt, and check how your hardware is
      configured.
 
    - If your drive is the only device on an IDE interface, it should
      be jumpered as master, if at all possible.
 
    - If your IDE interface is not at the standard addresses of 0x170
      or 0x1f0, you'll need to explicitly inform the driver using a
-     lilo option.  See Documentation/ide.txt.  (This feature was
+     lilo option.  See Documentation/ide/ide.txt.  (This feature was
      added around kernel version 1.3.30.)
 
    - If the autoprobing is not finding your drive, you can tell the
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ a. Drive is not detected during booting.
      Support for some interfaces needing extra initialization is
      provided in later 1.3.x kernels.  You may need to turn on
      additional kernel configuration options to get them to work;
-     see Documentation/ide.txt.
+     see Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
 
      Even if support is not available for your interface, you may be
      able to get it to work with the following procedure.  First boot
@@ -299,7 +299,7 @@ c. System hangups.
     be worked around by specifying the `serialize' option when
     booting.  Recent kernels should be able to detect the need for
     this automatically in most cases, but the detection is not
-    foolproof.  See Documentation/ide.txt for more information
+    foolproof.  See Documentation/ide/ide.txt for more information
     about the `serialize' option and the CMD640B.
 
   - Note that many MS-DOS CDROM drivers will work with such buggy

trunk/Documentation/controllers/memory.txt

@@ -1,4 +1,8 @@
-Memory Controller
+Memory Resource Controller
+
+NOTE: The Memory Resource Controller has been generically been referred
+to as the memory controller in this document. Do not confuse memory controller
+used here with the memory controller that is used in hardware.
 
 Salient features
 
@@ -152,7 +156,7 @@ The memory controller uses the following hierarchy
 
 a. Enable CONFIG_CGROUPS
 b. Enable CONFIG_RESOURCE_COUNTERS
-c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT
+c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_RES_CTLR
 
 1. Prepare the cgroups
 # mkdir -p /cgroups
@@ -164,7 +168,7 @@ c. Enable CONFIG_CGROUP_MEM_CONT
 
 Since now we're in the 0 cgroup,
 We can alter the memory limit:
-# echo -n 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
+# echo 4M > /cgroups/0/memory.limit_in_bytes
 
 NOTE: We can use a suffix (k, K, m, M, g or G) to indicate values in kilo,
 mega or gigabytes.
@@ -185,7 +189,7 @@ number of factors, such as rounding up to page boundaries or the total
 availability of memory on the system.  The user is required to re-read
 this file after a write to guarantee the value committed by the kernel.
 
-# echo -n 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes
+# echo 1 > memory.limit_in_bytes
 # cat memory.limit_in_bytes
 4096
 
@@ -197,7 +201,7 @@ caches, RSS and Active pages/Inactive pages are shown.
 
 The memory.force_empty gives an interface to drop *all* charges by force.
 
-# echo -n 1 > memory.force_empty
+# echo 1 > memory.force_empty
 
 will drop all charges in cgroup. Currently, this is maintained for test.
 

trunk/Documentation/debugging-via-ohci1394.txt

@@ -36,14 +36,15 @@ available (notebooks) or too slow for extensive debug information (like ACPI).
 Drivers
 -------
 
-The OHCI-1394 drivers in drivers/firewire and drivers/ieee1394 initialize
-the OHCI-1394 controllers to a working state and can be used to enable
-physical DMA. By default you only have to load the driver, and physical
-DMA access will be granted to all remote nodes, but it can be turned off
-when using the ohci1394 driver.
-
-Because these drivers depend on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an
-initialization routine which can runs pretty early (long before console_init(),
+The ohci1394 driver in drivers/ieee1394 initializes the OHCI-1394 controllers
+to a working state and enables physical DMA by default for all remote nodes.
+This can be turned off by ohci1394's module parameter phys_dma=0.
+
+The alternative firewire-ohci driver in drivers/firewire uses filtered physical
+DMA, hence is not yet suitable for remote debugging.
+
+Because ohci1394 depends on the PCI enumeration to be completed, an
+initialization routine which runs pretty early (long before console_init()
 which makes the printk buffer appear on the console can be called) was written.
 
 To activate it, enable CONFIG_PROVIDE_OHCI1394_DMA_INIT (Kernel hacking menu:

trunk/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt

@@ -172,6 +172,16 @@ Who:	Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
 
 ---------------------------
 
+What:	ide-tape driver
+When:	July 2008
+Files:	drivers/ide/ide-tape.c
+Why:	This driver might not have any users anymore and maintaining it for no
+	reason is an effort no one wants to make.
+Who:	Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>, Borislav Petkov
+	<petkovbb@googlemail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
 What: libata spindown skipping and warning
 When: Dec 2008
 Why:  Some halt(8) implementations synchronize caches for and spin
@@ -279,3 +289,15 @@ Why:	Largely unmaintained and almost entirely unused.  File system
 	is largely pointless as without a lot of work only the most
 	trivial of Solaris binaries can work with the emulation code.
 Who:	David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
+
+---------------------------
+
+What:	init_mm export
+When:	2.6.26
+Why:	Not used in-tree. The current out-of-tree users used it to
+	work around problems in the CPA code which should be resolved
+	by now. One usecase was described to provide verification code
+	of the CPA operation. That's a good idea in general, but such
+	code / infrastructure should be in the kernel and not in some
+	out-of-tree driver.
+Who:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>

trunk/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt

@@ -1506,13 +1506,13 @@ laptop_mode
 -----------
 
 laptop_mode is a knob that controls "laptop mode". All the things that are
-controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+controlled by this knob are discussed in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
 
 block_dump
 ----------
 
 block_dump enables block I/O debugging when set to a nonzero value. More
-information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptop-mode.txt.
+information on block I/O debugging is in Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt.
 
 swap_token_timeout
 ------------------

trunk/Documentation/gpio.txt

@@ -2,6 +2,9 @@ GPIO Interfaces
 
 This provides an overview of GPIO access conventions on Linux.
 
+These calls use the gpio_* naming prefix.  No other calls should use that
+prefix, or the related __gpio_* prefix.
+
 
 What is a GPIO?
 ===============
@@ -69,11 +72,13 @@ in this document, but drivers acting as clients to the GPIO interface must
 not care how it's implemented.)
 
 That said, if the convention is supported on their platform, drivers should
-use it when possible.  Platforms should declare GENERIC_GPIO support in
-Kconfig (boolean true), which multi-platform drivers can depend on when
-using the include file:
+use it when possible.  Platforms must declare GENERIC_GPIO support in their
+Kconfig (boolean true), and provide an <asm/gpio.h> file.  Drivers that can't
+work without standard GPIO calls should have Kconfig entries which depend
+on GENERIC_GPIO.  The GPIO calls are available, either as "real code" or as
+optimized-away stubs, when drivers use the include file:
 
-	#include <asm/gpio.h>
+	#include <linux/gpio.h>
 
 If you stick to this convention then it'll be easier for other developers to
 see what your code is doing, and help maintain it.
@@ -316,6 +321,9 @@ pulldowns integrated on some platforms.  Not all platforms support them,
 or support them in the same way; and any given board might use external
 pullups (or pulldowns) so that the on-chip ones should not be used.
 (When a circuit needs 5 kOhm, on-chip 100 kOhm resistors won't do.)
+Likewise drive strength (2 mA vs 20 mA) and voltage (1.8V vs 3.3V) is a
+platform-specific issue, as are models like (not) having a one-to-one
+correspondence between configurable pins and GPIOs.
 
 There are other system-specific mechanisms that are not specified here,
 like the aforementioned options for input de-glitching and wire-OR output.

trunk/Documentation/ide/00-INDEX

@@ -0,0 +1,12 @@
+00-INDEX
+    	- this file
+ChangeLog.ide-cd.1994-2004
+	- ide-cd changelog
+ChangeLog.ide-floppy.1996-2002
+	- ide-floppy changelog
+ChangeLog.ide-tape.1995-2002
+	- ide-tape changelog
+ide-tape.txt
+	- info on the IDE ATAPI streaming tape driver
+ide.txt
+	- important info for users of ATA devices (IDE/EIDE disks and CD-ROMS).