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* [ALSA] Add support for Sony Vaio AR 11BGuillaume Munch2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | | This patch adds automatic detection for Sigmatel ID 7664, the sound chip in Sony Vaio AR 11B (european name). - patch_stac7661 becomes patch_stac766x - .id = 0x83847664 is added Signed-off-by: Guillaume Munch <diabo@free.fr> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Added model for Uniwill laptop with ALC861Takashi Iwai2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | Added a new model 'uniwill-m31' for Uniwill laptops with ALC861 codec chip. The patch is taken from ALSA bug#2035, and modifeid. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Misc fixes for Realtek HD-audio codecsTakashi Iwai2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | - Added model=arima for Arima W820Di1 with ALC882 codec chip - Added EAPD-control verbs to TCL S700 init verbs - Added missing model strings for Realtek codecs (to be specified via module option explicitly for testing/debugging) Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Add snd-mts64 driver for ESI Miditerminal 4140Matthias Koenig2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | | | Added snd-mts64 driver for Ego Systems (ESI) Miditerminal 4140 by Matthias Koenig <mk@phasorlab.de>. The driver requires parport (CONFIG_PARPORT). Signed-off-by: Matthias Koenig <mk@phasorlab.de> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Add support of Benq laptop with ALC262Takashi Iwai2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | Added the support of Benq laptop with ALC262 codec. A model string 'benq' is added, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Add hp-bpc model type for HP laptopsTakashi Iwai2006-09-23
| | | | | | | Added 'hp-bpc' model type for HP xw4400-compatible laptops. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Add model entry for Clevo m665n laptopTakashi Iwai2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | Added the proper model entry for Clevo m665n laptop with ALC880 codec. Also, added a model string 'clevo' to enable the clevo-type model option. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [ALSA] Deprecate snd_card_free_in_thread()Takashi Iwai2006-09-23
| | | | | | | | Deprecated snd_card_free_in_thread(), replaced with snd_card_free_when_closed(). Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jaroslav Kysela <perex@suse.cz>
* [CRYPTO] doc: Update documentation for hash and meHerbert Xu2006-09-21
| | | | | | | | This patch updates the documentation to reflect the switch from digest to hash. It also replaces notes about emailing James Morris to refer to me instead. Signed-off-by: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
* Revert mmiocfg heuristics and blacklist changesLinus Torvalds2006-09-19
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This reverts commits 11012d419cfc0e0f78ca356aca03674217910124 and 40dd2d20f220eda1cd0da8ea3f0f9db8971ba237, which allowed us to use the MMIO accesses for PCI config cycles even without the area being marked reserved in the e820 memory tables. Those changes were needed for EFI-environment Intel macs, but broke some newer Intel 965 boards, so for now it's better to revert to our old 2.6.17 behaviour and at least avoid introducing any new breakage. Andi Kleen has a set of patches that work with both EFI and the broken Intel 965 boards, which will be applied once they get wider testing. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Cc: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [NET]: Mark frame diverter for future removal.Stephen Hemminger2006-09-17
| | | | | | | | | The code for frame diverter is unmaintained and has bitrotted. The number of users is very small and the code has lots of problems. If anyone is using it, they maybe exposing themselves to bad packet attacks. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [IPVS]: Document the ports option to ip_vs_ftp in kernel-parameters.txtSimon Horman2006-09-17
| | | | | | | | I'm not sure if documenting this here is appropriate, but if it is, here is some text to put there. Signed-Off-By: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [TCP]: Turn ABC off.Stephen Hemminger2006-09-17
| | | | | | | | | | Turn Appropriate Byte Count off by default because it unfairly penalizes applications that do small writes. Add better documentation to describe what it is so users will understand why they might want to turn it on. Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* [PATCH] cciss: version update, new hwMike Miller2006-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | Add support for new hardware and bumps the version to 3.6.10. It seems there were several changes introduced including soft_irq. I decided to bump the major number to reflect these changes. Since we're still supporting older vendor kernels I need some way differentiate between kernel versions <=2.6.10 and newer kernels >=2.6.16. Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] x86: reserve a boot-loader ID number for XenJeremy Fitzhardinge2006-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | Claim an ID number for Xen in the LOADER_TYPE field. Also, keep the table in zero-page.txt consistent with boot.txt. [hpa says: 6 was skipped because I couldn't rule out that it hadn't been unofficially used. It seemed easier to skip it for now.] Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@xensource.com> Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] We can not allow anonymous contributions to the kernelGreg KH2006-09-13
| | | | | | | | | | The DCO does not mean anything if we allow anonymous contributors to the kernel. As this is an open source project, we need to do everything in the open. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] schedule obsolete OSS drivers for removal, 2nd roundAdrian Bunk2006-09-01
| | | | | | | | | | | | This patch schedules obsolete OSS drivers (with ALSA drivers that support the same hardware) for removal. A rationale of the patch is in http://lkml.org/lkml/2006/7/11/186 Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Linus Torvalds2006-08-30
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc * 'merge' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc: [POWERPC] Fix return value from memcpy [POWERPC] iseries: Define insw et al. so libata/ide will compile [POWERPC] Fix irq enable/disable in smp_generic_take_timebase [POWERPC] Fix problem with time not advancing on 32-bit platforms [POWERPC] Restore copyright notice in arch/powerpc/kernel/fpu.S [POWERPC] Fix up ibm_architecture_vec definition [POWERPC] Make OF irq map code detect more error cases [POWERPC] Support for "weird" MPICs and fixup mpc7448_hpc2 [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentation [POWERPC] Fix performance regression in IRQ radix tree locking [POWERPC] Add mpc7448hpc2 device tree source file [POWERPC] Add MPC8349E MDS device tree source file to arch/powerpc/boot/dts [POWERPC] modify mpc83xx platforms to use new IRQ layer [POWERPC] Adapt ipic driver to new host_ops interface, add set_irq_type to set IRQ sense [POWERPC] back up old school ipic.[hc] to arch/ppc [POWERPC] Use mpc8641hpcn PIC base address from dev tree. [POWERPC] Allow MPC8641 HPCN to build with CONFIG_PCI disabled too. [POWERPC] Fix powerpc 44x_mmu build [POWERPC] Remove flush_dcache_all export
| * [POWERPC] Fix MPIC sense codes in documentationBenjamin Herrenschmidt2006-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The booting-without-of.txt had incorrect definition for the sense codes for an OpenPIC controller Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | [PATCH] x86: Disable MMCONFIG on Intel SDV using DMI blacklistAndi Kleen2006-08-30
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As a replacement for the earlier removal of the e820 MCFG check we blacklist the Intel SDV with the original BIOS bug that motivated that check. On those machines don't use MMCONFIG. This also adds a new pci=mmconf parameter to override the blacklist. Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] cpuset: top_cpuset tracks hotplug changes to cpu_online_mapPaul Jackson2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change the list of cpus allowed to tasks in the top (root) cpuset to dynamically track what cpus are online, using a CPU hotplug notifier. Make this top cpus file read-only. On systems that have cpusets configured in their kernel, but that aren't actively using cpusets (for some distros, this covers the majority of systems) all tasks end up in the top cpuset. If that system does support CPU hotplug, then these tasks cannot make use of CPUs that are added after system boot, because the CPUs are not allowed in the top cpuset. This is a surprising regression over earlier kernels that didn't have cpusets enabled. In order to keep the behaviour of cpusets consistent between systems actively making use of them and systems not using them, this patch changes the behaviour of the 'cpus' file in the top (root) cpuset, making it read only, and making it automatically track the value of cpu_online_map. Thus tasks in the top cpuset will have automatic use of hot plugged CPUs allowed by their cpuset. Thanks to Anton Blanchard and Nathan Lynch for reporting this problem, driving the fix, and earlier versions of this patch. Signed-off-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Nathan Lynch <ntl@pobox.com> Cc: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Documentation update for relay interfaceTom Zanussi2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Here's updated documentation for the relay interface, rewritten to match the relayfs->relay changes. It also moves relayfs.txt to relay.txt in the process. It includes the changes to relayfs.txt previously posted by Randy Dunlap, thanks for those. The relay-apps examples have also been updated to match, and can be found on the sourceforge relayfs website. Signed-off-by: Tom Zanussi <zanussi@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Fix docs for fs.suid_dumpableAlexey Dobriyan2006-08-27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sergey Vlasov noticed that there is not kernel.suid_dumpable, but fs.suid_dumpable. How KERN_SETUID_DUMPABLE ended up in fs_table[]? Hell knows... Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [CONNECTOR]: Add userspace example code into Documentation/connector/Evgeniy Polyakov2006-08-26
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I was asked several times to include userspace example code into Documentation, so if there is no policy against it, consider attached patch for 2.6.18. This program works with included Documentation/connector/cn_test.c connector module. Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-08-26
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| * \ Merge ../linux-2.6James Bottomley2006-08-06
| |\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Conflicts: arch/ia64/hp/sim/simscsi.c Stylistic differences in two separate fixes for buffer->request_buffer problem. Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: a fix on "kernel unaligned access address" issueJu, Seokmann2006-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There was an issue in the data structure defined by megaraid driver casuing "kernel unaligned access.." messages to be displayed during IOCTL on IA64 platform. The issue has been reported/fixed by Sakurai Hiroomi [sakurai_hiro@soft.fujitsu.com]. Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: a fix on INQUIRY with EVPDJu, Seokmann2006-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | With this patch, driver will protect data corruption created by INQUIRY with EVPD request to megaraid controllers. As specified in the changelog, megaraid F/W already has fixed the issue and being under process of release. Meanwhile, driver will protect the system with this patch. Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
| * | | [SCSI] megaraid_{mm,mbox}: 64-bit DMA capability checkerJu, Seokmann2006-07-28
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch contains - a fix for 64-bit DMA capability check in megaraid_{mm,mbox} driver. - includes changes (going back to 32-bit DMA mask if 64-bit DMA mask failes) suggested by James with previous patch. - addition of SATA 150-4/6 as commented by Vasily Averin. With patch, the driver access PCIconfiguration space with dedicated offset to read a signature. If the signature read, it means that the controller has capability to handle 64-bit DMA. Without this patch, the driver used to blindly claim 64-bit DMA capability. The issue has been reported by Vasily Averin [vvs@sw.ru]. Thank you Vasily for the reporting. Signed-Off By: Seokmann Ju <seokmann.ju@lsil.com> Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
* | | | Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-08-23
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| * | | | Input: remove dead URLs from Doclumentation/input/joystick.txtAlexey Dobriyan2006-08-23
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Closes #2804. Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* | | | | Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-08-18
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| * | | | | [NET]: Terminology in ip-sysctl.txtJan "Yenya" Kasprzak2006-08-17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | this minor patch fixes the description of net.ipv4.tcp_mem sysctl in ip-sysctl.txt - the headline names the values "min, pressure, max", while the description uses the "low, pressure, high" values. Both tcp_rmem and tcp_wmem descriptions use the "min, pressure, max" values, so I have changed the tcp_mem to match this and not vice versa. Signed-off-by: Jan "Yenya" Kasprzak <kas@fi.muni.cz> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
* | | | | | Merge branch 'merge' of ↵Greg Kroah-Hartman2006-08-18
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| * | | | [POWERPC] Convert to mac-address for ethernet MAC address data.Jon Loeliger2006-08-18
| | |_|/ | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Also accept "local-mac-address". However the old "address" is now obsolete, but accepted for backwards compatibility. It should be removed after all device trees have been converted to use "mac-address". Signed-off-by: Jon Loeliger <jdl@freescale.com> Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
* | | | [PATCH] add imacfb documentation and detectionEdgar Hucek2006-08-14
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add basic Machine detection to imacfb and some Ducumentation bits for imacfb. Signed-off-by: Edgar Hucek <hostmaster@ed-soft.at> Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | | genhd.c reference in Documentation/kobjects.txtBrandon Philips2006-08-11
|/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | block/genhd.c no longer in drivers/. Update Documentation/kobjects.txt Signed-off-by: Brandon Philips <brandon@ifup.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | [PATCH] doc: update panic_on_oops documentationMaxime Bizon2006-08-06
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Maxime Bizon <mbizon@freebox.fr> Acked-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreqLinus Torvalds2006-08-04
|\ \ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davej/cpufreq: [CPUFREQ] Propagate acpi_processor_preregister_performance return value. [CPUFREQ] [2/2] demand load governor modules. [CPUFREQ] [1/2] add __find_governor helper and clean up some error handling. [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Rename & fix multipliers table [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Fix power state test to do something more useful [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Readd accidentally dropped line [CPUFREQ] Make longhaul_walk_callback() static [CPUFREQ] X86_GX_SUSPMOD must depend on PCI [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Initialise later. [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Workaround issues with APIC. [CPUFREQ] Longhaul - Hook into ACPI C states. [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreq
| * | [CPUFREQ] return error when failing to set minfreqMattia Dongili2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I just stumbled on this bug/feature, this is how to reproduce it: # echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq # echo 450000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_max_freq # echo powersave > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_governor # cpufreq-info -p 450000 450000 powersave # echo 1800000 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpu0/cpufreq/scaling_min_freq ; echo $? 0 # cpufreq-info -p 450000 450000 powersave Here it is. The kernel refuses to set a min_freq higher than the max_freq but it allows a max_freq lower than min_freq (lowering min_freq also). This behaviour is pretty straightforward (but undocumented) and it doesn't return an error altough failing to accomplish the requested action (set min_freq). The problem (IMO) is basically that userspace is not allowed to set a full policy atomically while the kernel always does that thus it must enforce an ordering on operations. The attached patch returns -EINVAL if trying to increase frequencies starting from scaling_min_freq and documents the correct ordering of writes. Signed-off-by: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it> Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux at dominikbrodowski.net> Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> --
* | | IB/ipoib: Remove broken link from Kconfig and documentationOr Gerlitz2006-08-03
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Remove references to the IPoIB IETF working group as it has been closed. Signed-off-by: Or Gerlitz <ogerlitz@voltaire.com> Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
* | | USB: doc: fixes devio.c location in proc_usb_info.txt.Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino2006-08-02
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | | USB: doc: usb-help.txt update.Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino2006-08-02
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | http://www.suse.cz/development/linux-usb/ doesn't exist anymore. Signed-off-by: Luiz Fernando N. Capitulino <lcapitulino@mandriva.com.br> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
* | [PATCH] documentation: Documentation/initrd.txtThomas Horsley2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I spent a long time the other day trying to examine an initrd image on a fedora core 5 system because the initrd.txt file is apparently obsolete. Here is a patch which I hope will reduce future confusion for others. Signed-off-by: Thomas Horsley <tom.horsley@ccur.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] vDSO hash-style fixRoland McGrath2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The latest toolchains can produce a new ELF section in DSOs and dynamically-linked executables. The new section ".gnu.hash" replaces ".hash", and allows for more efficient runtime symbol lookups by the dynamic linker. The new ld option --hash-style={sysv|gnu|both} controls whether to produce the old ".hash", the new ".gnu.hash", or both. In some new systems such as Fedora Core 6, gcc by default passes --hash-style=gnu to the linker, so that a standard invocation of "gcc -shared" results in producing a DSO with only ".gnu.hash". The new ".gnu.hash" sections need to be dealt with the same way as ".hash" sections in all respects; only the dynamic linker cares about their contents. To work with older dynamic linkers (i.e. preexisting releases of glibc), a binary must have the old ".hash" section. The --hash-style=both option produces binaries that a new dynamic linker can use more efficiently, but an old dynamic linker can still handle. The new section runs afoul of the custom linker scripts used to build vDSO images for the kernel. On ia64, the failure mode for this is a boot-time panic because the vDSO's PT_IA_64_UNWIND segment winds up ill-formed. This patch addresses the problem in two ways. First, it mentions ".gnu.hash" in all the linker scripts alongside ".hash". This produces correct vDSO images with --hash-style=sysv (or old tools), with --hash-style=gnu, or with --hash-style=both. Second, it passes the --hash-style=sysv option when building the vDSO images, so that ".gnu.hash" is not actually produced. This is the most conservative choice for compatibility with any old userland. There is some concern that some ancient glibc builds (though not any known old production system) might choke on --hash-style=both binaries. The optimizations provided by the new style of hash section do not really matter for a DSO with a tiny number of symbols, as the vDSO has. If someone wants to use =gnu or =both for their vDSO builds and worry less about that compatibility, just change the option and the linker script changes will make any choice work fine. Signed-off-by: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com> Cc: Kyle McMartin <kyle@mcmartin.ca> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Typo in ub clause of devices.txtPete Zaitcev2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Change "Thrid" into "Third", and realign similarly to other entries. Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com> Cc: <device@lanana.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Doc/SubmittingPatches cleanupsRandy Dunlap2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A few cleanups to SubmittingPatches: - mention SubmitChecklist - remove mention of my simple patch script tools - remove last-updated line Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] Add DocBook documentation for workqueue functionsRolf Eike Beer2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | kernel/workqueue.c was omitted from generating kernel documentation. This adds a new section "Workqueues and Kevents" and adds documentation for some of the functions. Some functions in this file already had DocBook-style comments, now they finally become visible. Signed-off-by: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@sf-tec.de> Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] pci/search: cleanups, add to kernel-api.tmplRandy Dunlap2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Clean up kernel-doc comments in drivers/pci/search.c (line sizes and typos). Enable that source file in DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | [PATCH] fix kernel-api doc for kernel/resource.cRandy Dunlap2006-07-31
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | insert_resource() was unexported, so kernel-doc needs to be told to search kernel/resource.c for internal functions instead of exported functions so that it won't report an error. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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