---

yaml --- r: 115094 b: refs/heads/master c: c472273 h: refs/heads/master v: v3
git-mirror · Oct 16, 2008 · 8eb3b6e · 8eb3b6e
1 parent 965e758
commit 8eb3b6e
Show file tree

Hide file tree

Showing 2,643 changed files with 148,462 additions and 63,083 deletions.
diff --git a/[refs] b/[refs]
@@ -1,2 +1,2 @@
 ---
-refs/heads/master: 97ce0a7f9caf9d715cee815a016ee21575f71c95
+refs/heads/master: c472273f863c80b87e53356256c5466df24328f0
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/00-INDEX b/trunk/Documentation/00-INDEX
@@ -159,8 +159,6 @@ hayes-esp.txt
 	- info on using the Hayes ESP serial driver.
 highuid.txt
 	- notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs.
-hpet.txt
-	- High Precision Event Timer Driver for Linux.
 timers/
 	- info on the timer related topics
 hw_random.txt

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator b/trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-class-regulator
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../state
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		state. This holds the regulator output state.
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../type
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		type. This holds the regulator type.
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../microvolts
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		microvolts. This holds the regulator output voltage setting
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../microamps
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		microamps. This holds the regulator output current limit
@@ -79,7 +79,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../opmode
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		opmode. This holds the regulator operating mode setting.
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../min_microvolts
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		min_microvolts. This holds the minimum safe working regulator
@@ -116,7 +116,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../max_microvolts
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		max_microvolts. This holds the maximum safe working regulator
@@ -130,7 +130,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../min_microamps
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		min_microamps. This holds the minimum safe working regulator
@@ -145,7 +145,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../max_microamps
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		max_microamps. This holds the maximum safe working regulator
@@ -157,10 +157,23 @@ Description:
 		platform code.
 
 
+What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../name
+Date:		October 2008
+KernelVersion:	2.6.28
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
+Description:
+		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
+		name. This holds a string identifying the regulator for
+		display purposes.
+
+		NOTE: this will be empty if no suitable name is provided
+		by platform or regulator drivers.
+
+
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../num_users
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		num_users. This holds the number of consumer devices that
@@ -170,7 +183,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../requested_microamps
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		requested_microamps. This holds the total requested load
@@ -181,15 +194,15 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../parent
 Date:		April 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Some regulator directories will contain a link called parent.
 		This points to the parent or supply regulator if one exists.
 
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_microvolts
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_mem_microvolts. This holds the regulator output
@@ -203,7 +216,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_microvolts
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_disk_microvolts. This holds the regulator output
@@ -217,7 +230,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_microvolts
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_standby_microvolts. This holds the regulator output
@@ -231,7 +244,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_mode
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_mem_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode
@@ -245,7 +258,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_mode
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_disk_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode
@@ -258,7 +271,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_mode
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_standby_mode. This holds the regulator operating mode
@@ -272,7 +285,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_mem_state
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_mem_state. This holds the regulator operating state
@@ -287,7 +300,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_disk_state
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_disk_state. This holds the regulator operating state
@@ -302,7 +315,7 @@ Description:
 What:		/sys/class/regulator/.../suspend_standby_state
 Date:		May 2008
 KernelVersion:	2.6.26
-Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lg@opensource.wolfsonmicro.com>
+Contact:	Liam Girdwood <lrg@slimlogic.co.uk>
 Description:
 		Each regulator directory will contain a field called
 		suspend_standby_state. This holds the regulator operating

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling b/trunk/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-profiling
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/profile
+Date:		September 2008
+Contact:	Dave Hansen <dave@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
+Description:
+		/sys/kernel/profile is the runtime equivalent
+		of the boot-time profile= option.
+
+		You can get the same effect running:
+
+			echo 2 > /sys/kernel/profile
+
+		as you would by issuing profile=2 on the boot
+		command line.
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/procfs-guide.tmpl
@@ -14,17 +14,20 @@
 	<othername>(J.A.K.)</othername>
 	<surname>Mouw</surname>
 	<affiliation>
-	  <orgname>Delft University of Technology</orgname>
-	  <orgdiv>Faculty of Information Technology and Systems</orgdiv>
 	  <address>
-            <email>J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl</email>
-            <pob>PO BOX 5031</pob>
-            <postcode>2600 GA</postcode>
-            <city>Delft</city>
-            <country>The Netherlands</country>
+            <email>mouw@nl.linux.org</email>
           </address>
 	</affiliation>
       </author>
+      <othercredit>
+	<contrib>
+	This software and documentation were written while working on the
+	LART computing board
+	(<ulink url="http://www.lartmaker.nl/">http://www.lartmaker.nl/</ulink>),
+	which was sponsored by the Delt University of Technology projects
+	Mobile Multi-media Communications and Ubiquitous Communications.
+	</contrib>
+      </othercredit>
     </authorgroup>
 
     <revhistory>
@@ -108,18 +111,6 @@
       proofreading.
     </para>
 
-    <para>
-      This documentation was written while working on the LART
-      computing board (<ulink
-      url="http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/">http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/</ulink>),
-      which is sponsored by the Mobile Multi-media Communications
-      (<ulink
-      url="http://www.mmc.tudelft.nl/">http://www.mmc.tudelft.nl/</ulink>)
-      and Ubiquitous Communications (<ulink
-      url="http://www.ubicom.tudelft.nl/">http://www.ubicom.tudelft.nl/</ulink>)
-      projects.
-    </para>
-
     <para>
       Erik
     </para>

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/procfs_example.c b/trunk/Documentation/DocBook/procfs_example.c
@@ -1,28 +1,16 @@
 /*
  * procfs_example.c: an example proc interface
  *
- * Copyright (C) 2001, Erik Mouw (J.A.K.Mouw@its.tudelft.nl)
+ * Copyright (C) 2001, Erik Mouw (mouw@nl.linux.org)
  *
  * This file accompanies the procfs-guide in the Linux kernel
  * source. Its main use is to demonstrate the concepts and
  * functions described in the guide.
  *
  * This software has been developed while working on the LART
- * computing board (http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/), which is
- * sponsored by the Mobile Multi-media Communications
- * (http://www.mmc.tudelft.nl/) and Ubiquitous Communications 
- * (http://www.ubicom.tudelft.nl/) projects.
- *
- * The author can be reached at:
- *
- *  Erik Mouw
- *  Information and Communication Theory Group
- *  Faculty of Information Technology and Systems
- *  Delft University of Technology
- *  P.O. Box 5031
- *  2600 GA Delft
- *  The Netherlands
- *
+ * computing board (http://www.lartmaker.nl), which was sponsored
+ * by the Delt University of Technology projects Mobile Multi-media
+ * Communications and Ubiquitous Communications.
  *
  * This program is free software; you can redistribute
  * it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/HOWTO b/trunk/Documentation/HOWTO
@@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ required reading:
 
     Other excellent descriptions of how to create patches properly are:
 	"The Perfect Patch"
-		http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
+		http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
 	"Linux kernel patch submission format"
 		http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html
 
@@ -620,7 +620,7 @@ all time.  It should describe the patch completely, containing:
 For more details on what this should all look like, please see the
 ChangeLog section of the document:
   "The Perfect Patch"
-      http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt
+      http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt
 
 
 

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/SAK.txt b/trunk/Documentation/SAK.txt
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 Linux 2.4.2 Secure Attention Key (SAK) handling
-18 March 2001, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
+18 March 2001, Andrew Morton
 
 An operating system's Secure Attention Key is a security tool which is
 provided as protection against trojan password capturing programs.  It

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/trunk/Documentation/SubmitChecklist
@@ -85,3 +85,6 @@ kernel patches.
 23: Tested after it has been merged into the -mm patchset to make sure
     that it still works with all of the other queued patches and various
     changes in the VM, VFS, and other subsystems.
+
+24: All memory barriers {e.g., barrier(), rmb(), wmb()} need a comment in the
+    source code that explains the logic of what they are doing and why.
diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers b/trunk/Documentation/SubmittingDrivers
@@ -41,7 +41,7 @@ Linux 2.4:
 Linux 2.6:
 	The same rules apply as 2.4 except that you should follow linux-kernel
 	to track changes in API's. The final contact point for Linux 2.6
-	submissions is Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>.
+	submissions is Andrew Morton.
 
 What Criteria Determine Acceptance
 ----------------------------------

diff --git a/trunk/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/trunk/Documentation/SubmittingPatches
@@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ Quilt:
 http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt
 
 Andrew Morton's patch scripts:
-http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/
+http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/patch-scripts.tar.gz
 Instead of these scripts, quilt is the recommended patch management
 tool (see above).
 
@@ -653,7 +653,7 @@ SECTION 3 - REFERENCES
 ----------------------
 
 Andrew Morton, "The perfect patch" (tpp).
-  <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt>
+  <http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/tpp.txt>
 
 Jeff Garzik, "Linux kernel patch submission format".
   <http://linux.yyz.us/patch-format.html>
@@ -672,4 +672,9 @@ Kernel Documentation/CodingStyle:
 
 Linus Torvalds's mail on the canonical patch format:
   <http://lkml.org/lkml/2005/4/7/183>
+
+Andi Kleen, "On submitting kernel patches"
+  Some strategies to get difficult or controversal changes in.
+  http://halobates.de/on-submitting-patches.pdf
+
 --