diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore index e1d5c17c12c22663d9df80925e4b7872bd53d6aa..9eb4b77114994877b247c1d165f3920f680cc7e6 100644 --- a/.gitignore +++ b/.gitignore @@ -20,6 +20,7 @@ # Top-level generic files # tags +TAGS vmlinux* System.map Module.symvers diff --git a/CREDITS b/CREDITS index 5329ead9c672f3f3f4a891c9d00929ca2af434f1..d0880082c19bda5b25a8a51df7849af2ec55aac5 100644 --- a/CREDITS +++ b/CREDITS @@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ S: Longford, Ireland S: Sydney, Australia N: Tigran A. Aivazian -E: tigran@veritas.com +E: tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk W: http://www.moses.uklinux.net/patches D: BFS filesystem D: Intel IA32 CPU microcode update support @@ -2598,6 +2598,9 @@ S: Ucitelska 1576 S: Prague 8 S: 182 00 Czech Republic +N: Rick Payne +D: RFC2385 Support for TCP + N: Barak A. Pearlmutter E: bap@cs.unm.edu W: http://www.cs.unm.edu/~bap/ @@ -3511,14 +3514,12 @@ D: The Linux Support Team Erlangen N: David Weinehall E: tao@acc.umu.se +P: 1024D/DC47CA16 7ACE 0FB0 7A74 F994 9B36 E1D1 D14E 8526 DC47 CA16 W: http://www.acc.umu.se/~tao/ -W: http://www.acc.umu.se/~mcalinux/ +D: v2.0 kernel maintainer D: Fixes for the NE/2-driver D: Miscellaneous MCA-support D: Cleanup of the Config-files -S: Axtorpsvagen 40:20 -S: S-903 37 UMEA -S: Sweden N: Matt Welsh E: mdw@metalab.unc.edu diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power index d882f8093871386f03ab63c6cc2b820adb2610e6..dcff4d0623add0e7708c642d0cfe210b0c1f48ab 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ Description: these states. What: /sys/power/disk -Date: August 2006 +Date: September 2006 Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki Description: The /sys/power/disk file controls the operating mode of the @@ -39,6 +39,19 @@ Description: 'reboot' - the memory image will be saved by the kernel and the system will be rebooted. + Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the + two testing modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' + or 'test'. If the suspend-to-disk mechanism is in the + 'testproc' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, wait for 5 + seconds, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. If it is in + the 'test' mode, writing 'disk' to /sys/power/state will cause + the kernel to disable nonboot CPUs and freeze tasks, shrink + memory, suspend devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume devices, + unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs. Then, we are able to + look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code + is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving. + The suspend-to-disk method may be chosen by writing to this file one of the accepted strings: @@ -46,6 +59,8 @@ Description: 'platform' 'shutdown' 'reboot' + 'testproc' + 'test' It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports that. diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index abee7f58c1ed6b2c374aa0483c06f86a5a260512..73a8617f1861754198c18c5e7285da95358994fe 100644 --- a/Documentation/Changes +++ b/Documentation/Changes @@ -201,7 +201,7 @@ udev ---- udev is a userspace application for populating /dev dynamically with only entries for devices actually present. udev replaces the basic -functionality of devfs, while allowing persistant device naming for +functionality of devfs, while allowing persistent device naming for devices. FUSE diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt index 2ffb0d62f0fe3ed8156586505b7faf1efe1c33ce..05431621c861d7b9f0228a228414beb3fb3ee52e 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -489,7 +489,7 @@ size is the size of the area (must be multiples of PAGE_SIZE). flags can be or'd together and are DMA_MEMORY_MAP - request that the memory returned from -dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writeable. +dma_alloc_coherent() be directly writable. DMA_MEMORY_IO - request that the memory returned from dma_alloc_coherent() be addressable using read/write/memcpy_toio etc. diff --git a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt index 705f6be92bdbf934a1171f291ac8b3b631d670c3..e767805b4182826acc049e29a183ec5109c4a39e 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-ISA-LPC.txt @@ -110,7 +110,7 @@ lock. Once the DMA transfer is finished (or timed out) you should disable the channel again. You should also check get_dma_residue() to make -sure that all data has been transfered. +sure that all data has been transferred. Example: diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile index 66e1cf733571ccc4122dcc745bf9c713ee6559b6..db9499adbed4df18eb23c8b6e903baf8ced64e6c 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -9,7 +9,7 @@ DOCBOOKS := wanbook.xml z8530book.xml mcabook.xml videobook.xml \ kernel-hacking.xml kernel-locking.xml deviceiobook.xml \ procfs-guide.xml writing_usb_driver.xml \ - kernel-api.xml journal-api.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ + kernel-api.xml filesystems.xml lsm.xml usb.xml \ gadget.xml libata.xml mtdnand.xml librs.xml rapidio.xml \ genericirq.xml diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl similarity index 78% rename from Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl rename to Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl index 2077f9a28c191bdba263271e649f015485052926..39fa2aba7f9b141d13912d04994ebc4335499000 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/journal-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/filesystems.tmpl @@ -2,39 +2,11 @@ - + - The Linux Journalling API - - - Roger - Gammans - -
- rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk -
- - - - - - - Stephen - Tweedie - -
- sct@redhat.com -
- - - + Linux Filesystems API - - 2002 - Roger Gammans - - - + This documentation is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public @@ -42,21 +14,21 @@ version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. - + This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. - + You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place, Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307 USA - + For more details see the file COPYING in the source distribution of Linux. @@ -66,17 +38,113 @@ - + + The Linux VFS + The Filesystem types +!Iinclude/linux/fs.h + + The Directory Cache +!Efs/dcache.c +!Iinclude/linux/dcache.h + + Inode Handling +!Efs/inode.c +!Efs/bad_inode.c + + Registration and Superblocks +!Efs/super.c + + File Locks +!Efs/locks.c +!Ifs/locks.c + + Other Functions +!Efs/mpage.c +!Efs/namei.c +!Efs/buffer.c +!Efs/bio.c +!Efs/seq_file.c +!Efs/filesystems.c +!Efs/fs-writeback.c +!Efs/block_dev.c + + + + + The proc filesystem + + sysctl interface +!Ekernel/sysctl.c + + + proc filesystem interface +!Ifs/proc/base.c + + + + + The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects +!Efs/sysfs/file.c +!Efs/sysfs/symlink.c +!Efs/sysfs/bin.c + + + + The debugfs filesystem + + debugfs interface +!Efs/debugfs/inode.c +!Efs/debugfs/file.c + + + + + + The Linux Journalling API + + + + Roger + Gammans + +
+ rgammans@computer-surgery.co.uk +
+ + + + + + + Stephen + Tweedie + +
+ sct@redhat.com +
+ + + + + + 2002 + Roger Gammans + + + + The Linux Journalling API + + Overview - + Details -The journalling layer is easy to use. You need to +The journalling layer is easy to use. You need to first of all create a journal_t data structure. There are two calls to do this dependent on how you decide to allocate the physical -media on which the journal resides. The journal_init_inode() call +media on which the journal resides. The journal_init_inode() call is for journals stored in filesystem inodes, or the journal_init_dev() -call can be use for journal stored on a raw device (in a continuous range +call can be use for journal stored on a raw device (in a continuous range of blocks). A journal_t is a typedef for a struct pointer, so when you are finally finished make sure you call journal_destroy() on it to free up any used kernel memory. @@ -91,27 +159,26 @@ need to call journal_create(). Most of the time however your journal file will already have been created, but before you load it you must call journal_wipe() to empty the journal file. -Hang on, you say , what if the filesystem wasn't cleanly umount()'d . Well, it is the +Hang on, you say , what if the filesystem wasn't cleanly umount()'d . Well, it is the job of the client file system to detect this and skip the call to journal_wipe(). In either case the next call should be to journal_load() which prepares the -journal file for use. Note that journal_wipe(..,0) calls journal_skip_recovery() +journal file for use. Note that journal_wipe(..,0) calls journal_skip_recovery() for you if it detects any outstanding transactions in the journal and similarly journal_load() will call journal_recover() if necessary. I would advise reading fs/ext3/super.c for examples on this stage. -[RGG: Why is the journal_wipe() call necessary - doesn't this needlessly -complicate the API. Or isn't a good idea for the journal layer to hide +[RGG: Why is the journal_wipe() call necessary - doesn't this needlessly +complicate the API. Or isn't a good idea for the journal layer to hide dirty mounts from the client fs] -Now you can go ahead and start modifying the underlying +Now you can go ahead and start modifying the underlying filesystem. Almost. - You still need to actually journal your filesystem changes, this @@ -138,10 +205,10 @@ individual buffers (blocks). Before you start to modify a buffer you need to call journal_get_{create,write,undo}_access() as appropriate, this allows the journalling layer to copy the unmodified data if it needs to. After all the buffer may be part of a previously uncommitted -transaction. +transaction. At this point you are at last ready to modify a buffer, and once you are have done so you need to call journal_dirty_{meta,}data(). -Or if you've asked for access to a buffer you now know is now longer +Or if you've asked for access to a buffer you now know is now longer required to be pushed back on the device you can call journal_forget() in much the same way as you might have used bforget() in the past. @@ -156,7 +223,6 @@ Then at umount time , in your put_super() (2.4) or write_super() (2.5) you can then call journal_destroy() to clean up your in-core journal object. - Unfortunately there a couple of ways the journal layer can cause a deadlock. The first thing to note is that each task can only have @@ -164,19 +230,19 @@ a single outstanding transaction at any one time, remember nothing commits until the outermost journal_stop(). This means you must complete the transaction at the end of each file/inode/address etc. operation you perform, so that the journalling system isn't re-entered -on another journal. Since transactions can't be nested/batched +on another journal. Since transactions can't be nested/batched across differing journals, and another filesystem other than yours (say ext3) may be modified in a later syscall. -The second case to bear in mind is that journal_start() can -block if there isn't enough space in the journal for your transaction +The second case to bear in mind is that journal_start() can +block if there isn't enough space in the journal for your transaction (based on the passed nblocks param) - when it blocks it merely(!) needs to -wait for transactions to complete and be committed from other tasks, -so essentially we are waiting for journal_stop(). So to avoid +wait for transactions to complete and be committed from other tasks, +so essentially we are waiting for journal_stop(). So to avoid deadlocks you must treat journal_start/stop() as if they -were semaphores and include them in your semaphore ordering rules to prevent +were semaphores and include them in your semaphore ordering rules to prevent deadlocks. Note that journal_extend() has similar blocking behaviour to journal_start() so you can deadlock here just as easily as on journal_start(). @@ -184,7 +250,7 @@ journal_start() so you can deadlock here just as easily as on journal_start(). Try to reserve the right number of blocks the first time. ;-). This will be the maximum number of blocks you are going to touch in this transaction. -I advise having a look at at least ext3_jbd.h to see the basis on which +I advise having a look at at least ext3_jbd.h to see the basis on which ext3 uses to make these decisions. @@ -193,13 +259,13 @@ Another wriggle to watch out for is your on-disk block allocation strategy. why? Because, if you undo a delete, you need to ensure you haven't reused any of the freed blocks in a later transaction. One simple way of doing this is make sure any blocks you allocate only have checkpointed transactions -listed against them. Ext3 does this in ext3_test_allocatable(). +listed against them. Ext3 does this in ext3_test_allocatable(). Lock is also providing through journal_{un,}lock_updates(), ext3 uses this when it wants a window with a clean and stable fs for a moment. -eg. +eg. @@ -230,19 +296,19 @@ extend it like this:- struct journal_callback for_jbd; // Stuff for myfs allocated together. myfs_inode* i_commited; - + } -this would be useful if you needed to know when data was committed to a +this would be useful if you needed to know when data was committed to a particular inode. - + - -Summary + + Summary Using the journal is a matter of wrapping the different context changes, being each mount, each modification (transaction) and each changed buffer @@ -260,15 +326,15 @@ an example. if (clean) journal_wipe(); journal_load(); - foreach(transaction) { /*transactions must be + foreach(transaction) { /*transactions must be completed before - a syscall returns to + a syscall returns to userspace*/ handle_t * xct=journal_start(my_jnrl); foreach(bh) { journal_get_{create,write,undo}_access(xact,bh); - if ( myfs_modify(bh) ) { /* returns true + if ( myfs_modify(bh) ) { /* returns true if makes changes */ journal_dirty_{meta,}data(xact,bh); } else { @@ -279,55 +345,57 @@ an example. } journal_destroy(my_jrnl); - + - + - + Data Types - + The journalling layer uses typedefs to 'hide' the concrete definitions of the structures used. As a client of the JBD layer you can just rely on the using the pointer as a magic cookie of some sort. - + Obviously the hiding is not enforced as this is 'C'. - - Structures + + Structures !Iinclude/linux/jbd.h - - + + - + Functions - + The functions here are split into two groups those that affect a journal as a whole, and those which are used to manage transactions - - Journal Level + + Journal Level !Efs/jbd/journal.c !Ifs/jbd/recovery.c - - Transasction Level -!Efs/jbd/transaction.c - - - + + Transasction Level +!Efs/jbd/transaction.c + + + See also - + - Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem,LinuxExpo 98, Stephen Tweedie + Journaling the Linux ext2fs Filesystem, LinuxExpo 98, Stephen Tweedie - - - + + + - Ext3 Journalling FileSystem , OLS 2000, Dr. Stephen Tweedie + Ext3 Journalling FileSystem, OLS 2000, Dr. Stephen Tweedie - - + + + + diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index 2b5ac604948c8b4a80e46735d279117490a95409..a166675c4303150c7be6111f917b0f2bcd422998 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -182,66 +182,6 @@ X!Ilib/string.c - - The Linux VFS - The Filesystem types -!Iinclude/linux/fs.h - - The Directory Cache -!Efs/dcache.c -!Iinclude/linux/dcache.h - - Inode Handling -!Efs/inode.c -!Efs/bad_inode.c - - Registration and Superblocks -!Efs/super.c - - File Locks -!Efs/locks.c -!Ifs/locks.c - - Other Functions -!Efs/mpage.c -!Efs/namei.c -!Efs/buffer.c -!Efs/bio.c -!Efs/seq_file.c -!Efs/filesystems.c -!Efs/fs-writeback.c -!Efs/block_dev.c - - - - - The proc filesystem - - sysctl interface -!Ekernel/sysctl.c - - - proc filesystem interface -!Ifs/proc/base.c - - - - - The Filesystem for Exporting Kernel Objects -!Efs/sysfs/file.c -!Efs/sysfs/symlink.c -!Efs/sysfs/bin.c - - - - The debugfs filesystem - - debugfs interface -!Efs/debugfs/inode.c -!Efs/debugfs/file.c - - - relay interface support diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl index 07cd34c1940b446a41ae0eb8f2f7d76698670f65..d4188d4ff5356902b93e9f19d10a78b82df3c813 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl @@ -345,8 +345,7 @@ static inline void skel_delete (struct usb_skel *dev) usb_buffer_free (dev->udev, dev->bulk_out_size, dev->bulk_out_buffer, dev->write_urb->transfer_dma); - if (dev->write_urb != NULL) - usb_free_urb (dev->write_urb); + usb_free_urb (dev->write_urb); kfree (dev); } diff --git a/Documentation/HOWTO b/Documentation/HOWTO index d6f3dd1a3464f0cd6950e1c6dcecc4f7bcb6c84f..8d51c148f72117b707792a65c9c5ad025364a03a 100644 --- a/Documentation/HOWTO +++ b/Documentation/HOWTO @@ -395,6 +395,26 @@ bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) +Managing bug reports +-------------------- + +One of the best ways to put into practice your hacking skills is by fixing +bugs reported by other people. Not only you will help to make the kernel +more stable, you'll learn to fix real world problems and you will improve +your skills, and other developers will be aware of your presence. Fixing +bugs is one of the best ways to get merits among other developers, because +not many people like wasting time fixing other people's bugs. + +To work in the already reported bug reports, go to http://bugzilla.kernel.org. +If you want to be advised of the future bug reports, you can subscribe to the +bugme-new mailing list (only new bug reports are mailed here) or to the +bugme-janitor mailing list (every change in the bugzilla is mailed here) + + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-new + http://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/bugme-janitors + + + Mailing lists ------------- diff --git a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt index c70306abb7b2e2c4fc306bdc70447b47c9e9878e..d389388c733e6c718f87de37a885132af6519930 100644 --- a/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/MSI-HOWTO.txt @@ -219,7 +219,7 @@ into the field vector of each element contained in a second argument. Note that the pre-assigned IOAPIC dev->irq is valid only if the device operates in PIN-IRQ assertion mode. In MSI-X mode, any attempt at using dev->irq by the device driver to request for interrupt service -may result unpredictabe behavior. +may result in unpredictable behavior. For each MSI-X vector granted, a device driver is responsible for calling other functions like request_irq(), enable_irq(), etc. to enable @@ -470,7 +470,68 @@ LOC: 324553 325068 ERR: 0 MIS: 0 -6. FAQ +6. MSI quirks + +Several PCI chipsets or devices are known to not support MSI. +The PCI stack provides 3 possible levels of MSI disabling: +* on a single device +* on all devices behind a specific bridge +* globally + +6.1. Disabling MSI on a single device + +Under some circumstances, it might be required to disable MSI on a +single device, It may be achived by either not calling pci_enable_msi() +or all, or setting the pci_dev->no_msi flag before (most of the time +in a quirk). + +6.2. Disabling MSI below a bridge + +The vast majority of MSI quirks are required by PCI bridges not +being able to route MSI between busses. In this case, MSI have to be +disabled on all devices behind this bridge. It is achieves by setting +the PCI_BUS_FLAGS_NO_MSI flag in the pci_bus->bus_flags of the bridge +subordinate bus. There is no need to set the same flag on bridges that +are below the broken brigde. When pci_enable_msi() is called to enable +MSI on a device, pci_msi_supported() takes care of checking the NO_MSI +flag in all parent busses of the device. + +Some bridges actually support dynamic MSI support enabling/disabling +by changing some bits in their PCI configuration space (especially +the Hypertransport chipsets such as the nVidia nForce and Serverworks +HT2000). It may then be required to update the NO_MSI flag on the +corresponding devices in the sysfs hierarchy. To enable MSI support +on device "0000:00:0e", do: + + echo 1 > /sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:0e/msi_bus + +To disable MSI support, echo 0 instead of 1. Note that it should be +used with caution since changing this value might break interrupts. + +6.3. Disabling MSI globally + +Some extreme cases may require to disable MSI globally on the system. +For now, the only known case is a Serverworks PCI-X chipsets (MSI are +not supported on several busses that are not all connected to the +chipset in the Linux PCI hierarchy). In the vast majority of other +cases, disabling only behind a specific bridge is enough. + +For debugging purpose, the user may also pass pci=nomsi on the kernel +command-line to explicitly disable MSI globally. But, once the appro- +priate quirks are added to the kernel, this option should not be +required anymore. + +6.4. Finding why MSI cannot be enabled on a device + +Assuming that MSI are not enabled on a device, you should look at +dmesg to find messages that quirks may output when disabling MSI +on some devices, some bridges or even globally. +Then, lspci -t gives the list of bridges above a device. Reading +/sys/bus/pci/devices/0000:00:0e/msi_bus will tell you whether MSI +are enabled (1) or disabled (0). In 0 is found in a single bridge +msi_bus file above the device, MSI cannot be enabled. + +7. FAQ Q1. Are there any limitations on using the MSI? diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c index b11792abd6b616d56754edcc9b940a519f7a36fb..bf2b0e2f87e1acb3baef885d5e5ffcffcccb6cea 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c +++ b/Documentation/accounting/getdelays.c @@ -49,7 +49,7 @@ __u64 stime, utime; } /* Maximum size of response requested or message sent */ -#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 256 +#define MAX_MSG_SIZE 1024 /* Maximum number of cpus expected to be specified in a cpumask */ #define MAX_CPUS 32 /* Maximum length of pathname to log file */ diff --git a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt index 92ebf29e9041cef2b68fc0c3c33698f8558ff085..ff06b738bb88065b28f6006c7a6381d5af7d57dd 100644 --- a/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt +++ b/Documentation/accounting/taskstats.txt @@ -96,9 +96,9 @@ a) TASKSTATS_TYPE_AGGR_PID/TGID : attribute containing no payload but indicates a pid/tgid will be followed by some stats. b) TASKSTATS_TYPE_PID/TGID: attribute whose payload is the pid/tgid whose stats -is being returned. +are being returned. -c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstsats as payload. The +c) TASKSTATS_TYPE_STATS: attribute with a struct taskstats as payload. The same structure is used for both per-pid and per-tgid stats. 3. New message sent by kernel whenever a task exits. The payload consists of a @@ -122,12 +122,12 @@ of atomicity). However, maintaining per-process, in addition to per-task stats, within the kernel has space and time overheads. To address this, the taskstats code -accumalates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. -When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumalated also +accumulates each exiting task's statistics into a process-wide data structure. +When the last task of a process exits, the process level data accumulated also gets sent to userspace (along with the per-task data). When a user queries to get per-tgid data, the sum of all other live threads in -the group is added up and added to the accumalated total for previously exited +the group is added up and added to the accumulated total for previously exited threads of the same thread group. Extending taskstats diff --git a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt index 34bf8f60d8f827a9b83f27747c265a27fe38928d..c6c9a9c10d7f88b5f894990e45878acadbb2ea64 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/biodoc.txt @@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ it, the pci dma mapping routines and associated data structures have now been modified to accomplish a direct page -> bus translation, without requiring a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address -> bus translation). So this works uniformly for high-memory pages (which -do not have a correponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and +do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and low-memory pages. Note: Please refer to DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA @@ -391,7 +391,7 @@ forced such requests to be broken up into small chunks before being passed on to the generic block layer, only to be merged by the i/o scheduler when the underlying device was capable of handling the i/o in one shot. Also, using the buffer head as an i/o structure for i/os that didn't originate -from the buffer cache unecessarily added to the weight of the descriptors +from the buffer cache unnecessarily added to the weight of the descriptors which were generated for each such chunk. The following were some of the goals and expectations considered in the @@ -403,14 +403,14 @@ i. Should be appropriate as a descriptor for both raw and buffered i/o - for raw i/o. ii. Ability to represent high-memory buffers (which do not have a virtual address mapping in kernel address space). -iii.Ability to represent large i/os w/o unecessarily breaking them up (i.e +iii.Ability to represent large i/os w/o unnecessarily breaking them up (i.e greater than PAGE_SIZE chunks in one shot) iv. At the same time, ability to retain independent identity of i/os from different sources or i/o units requiring individual completion (e.g. for latency reasons) v. Ability to represent an i/o involving multiple physical memory segments (including non-page aligned page fragments, as specified via readv/writev) - without unecessarily breaking it up, if the underlying device is capable of + without unnecessarily breaking it up, if the underlying device is capable of handling it. vi. Preferably should be based on a memory descriptor structure that can be passed around different types of subsystems or layers, maybe even @@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ Characteristics: i. Binary tree AS and deadline i/o schedulers use red black binary trees for disk position sorting and searching, and a fifo linked list for time-based searching. This -gives good scalability and good availablility of information. Requests are +gives good scalability and good availability of information. Requests are almost always dispatched in disk sort order, so a cache is kept of the next request in sort order to prevent binary tree lookups. diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt index 9188337d8f6b8f2b3ee852463c72494164dfb398..babce13150265f173fc32dfa72ce1b91cf234afd 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-freq/cpufreq-nforce2.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ -The cpufreq-nforce2 driver changes the FSB on nVidia nForce2 plattforms. +The cpufreq-nforce2 driver changes the FSB on nVidia nForce2 platforms. -This works better than on other plattforms, because the FSB of the CPU +This works better than on other platforms, because the FSB of the CPU can be controlled independently from the PCI/AGP clock. The module has two options: diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt index bc107cb157a8bba060ce65bb9ded734bfbdd15a8..cc60d29b954cd394ccd1eba1c27b06bfc049302d 100644 --- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt +++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt @@ -46,7 +46,7 @@ maxcpus=n Restrict boot time cpus to n. Say if you have 4 cpus, using maxcpus=2 will only boot 2. You can choose to bring the other cpus later online, read FAQ's for more info. -additional_cpus*=n Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets +additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus (*) Option valid only for following architectures @@ -54,8 +54,8 @@ additional_cpus*=n Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation -should only rely on this to count the #of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the -apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesnt +should only rely on this to count the # of cpus, but *MUST* not rely on the +apicid values in those tables for disabled apics. In the event BIOS doesn't mark such hot-pluggable cpus as disabled entries, one could use this parameter "additional_cpus=x" to represent those cpus in the cpu_possible_map. @@ -101,15 +101,15 @@ cpu_possible_map/for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate. Never use anything other than cpumask_t to represent bitmap of CPUs. -#include + #include -for_each_possible_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_map -for_each_online_cpu - Iterate over cpu_online_map -for_each_present_cpu - Iterate over cpu_present_map -for_each_cpu_mask(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask. + for_each_possible_cpu - Iterate over cpu_possible_map + for_each_online_cpu - Iterate over cpu_online_map + for_each_present_cpu - Iterate over cpu_present_map + for_each_cpu_mask(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask. -#include -lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug(): + #include + lock_cpu_hotplug() and unlock_cpu_hotplug(): The above calls are used to inhibit cpu hotplug operations. While holding the cpucontrol mutex, cpu_online_map will not change. If you merely need to avoid @@ -120,7 +120,7 @@ will work as long as stop_machine_run() is used to take a cpu down. CPU Hotplug - Frequently Asked Questions. -Q: How to i enable my kernel to support CPU hotplug? +Q: How to enable my kernel to support CPU hotplug? A: When doing make defconfig, Enable CPU hotplug support "Processor type and Features" -> Support for Hotpluggable CPUs @@ -141,39 +141,39 @@ A: You should now notice an entry in sysfs. Check if sysfs is mounted, using the "mount" command. You should notice an entry as shown below in the output. -.... -none on /sys type sysfs (rw) -.... + .... + none on /sys type sysfs (rw) + .... -if this is not mounted, do the following. +If this is not mounted, do the following. -#mkdir /sysfs -#mount -t sysfs sys /sys + #mkdir /sysfs + #mount -t sysfs sys /sys -now you should see entries for all present cpu, the following is an example +Now you should see entries for all present cpu, the following is an example in a 8-way system. -#pwd -#/sys/devices/system/cpu -#ls -l -total 0 -drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 . -drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 19 07:45 .. -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu0 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu1 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu2 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu3 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu4 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu5 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu6 -drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:48 cpu7 + #pwd + #/sys/devices/system/cpu + #ls -l + total 0 + drwxr-xr-x 10 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 . + drwxr-xr-x 13 root root 0 Sep 19 07:45 .. + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu0 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu1 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu2 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu3 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu4 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu5 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:44 cpu6 + drwxr-xr-x 3 root root 0 Sep 19 07:48 cpu7 Under each directory you would find an "online" file which is the control file to logically online/offline a processor. Q: Does hot-add/hot-remove refer to physical add/remove of cpus? A: The usage of hot-add/remove may not be very consistently used in the code. -CONFIG_CPU_HOTPLUG enables logical online/offline capability in the kernel. +CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU enables logical online/offline capability in the kernel. To support physical addition/removal, one would need some BIOS hooks and the platform should have something like an attention button in PCI hotplug. CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU enables ACPI support for physical add/remove of CPUs. @@ -181,17 +181,17 @@ CONFIG_ACPI_HOTPLUG_CPU enables ACPI support for physical add/remove of CPUs. Q: How do i logically offline a CPU? A: Do the following. -#echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online + #echo 0 > /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online -once the logical offline is successful, check +Once the logical offline is successful, check -#cat /proc/interrupts + #cat /proc/interrupts -you should now not see the CPU that you removed. Also online file will report +You should now not see the CPU that you removed. Also online file will report the state as 0 when a cpu if offline and 1 when its online. -#To display the current cpu state. -#cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online + #To display the current cpu state. + #cat /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/online Q: Why cant i remove CPU0 on some systems? A: Some architectures may have some special dependency on a certain CPU. @@ -234,8 +234,8 @@ Q: If i have some kernel code that needs to be aware of CPU arrival and departure, how to i arrange for proper notification? A: This is what you would need in your kernel code to receive notifications. - #include - static int __cpuinit foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, + #include + static int __cpuinit foobar_cpu_callback(struct notifier_block *nfb, unsigned long action, void *hcpu) { unsigned int cpu = (unsigned long)hcpu; @@ -279,10 +279,10 @@ Q: I don't see my action being called for all CPUs already up and running? A: Yes, CPU notifiers are called only when new CPUs are on-lined or offlined. If you need to perform some action for each cpu already in the system, then - for_each_online_cpu(i) { + for_each_online_cpu(i) { foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier, CPU_UP_PREPARE, i); - foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar-cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, i); - } + foobar_cpu_callback(&foobar_cpu_notifier, CPU_ONLINE, i); + } Q: If i would like to develop cpu hotplug support for a new architecture, what do i need at a minimum? @@ -307,38 +307,38 @@ Q: I need to ensure that a particular cpu is not removed when there is some work specific to this cpu is in progress. A: First switch the current thread context to preferred cpu - int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu) - { - cpumask_t saved_mask, new_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE; - int curr_cpu, err = 0; - - saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed; - cpu_set(cpu, new_mask); - err = set_cpus_allowed(current, new_mask); - - if (err) - return err; - - /* - * If we got scheduled out just after the return from - * set_cpus_allowed() before running the work, this ensures - * we stay locked. - */ - curr_cpu = get_cpu(); - - if (curr_cpu != cpu) { - err = -EAGAIN; - goto ret; - } else { - /* - * Do work : But cant sleep, since get_cpu() disables preempt - */ - } - ret: - put_cpu(); - set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask); - return err; - } + int my_func_on_cpu(int cpu) + { + cpumask_t saved_mask, new_mask = CPU_MASK_NONE; + int curr_cpu, err = 0; + + saved_mask = current->cpus_allowed; + cpu_set(cpu, new_mask); + err = set_cpus_allowed(current, new_mask); + + if (err) + return err; + + /* + * If we got scheduled out just after the return from + * set_cpus_allowed() before running the work, this ensures + * we stay locked. + */ + curr_cpu = get_cpu(); + + if (curr_cpu != cpu) { + err = -EAGAIN; + goto ret; + } else { + /* + * Do work : But cant sleep, since get_cpu() disables preempt + */ + } + ret: + put_cpu(); + set_cpus_allowed(current, saved_mask); + return err; + } Q: How do we determine how many CPUs are available for hotplug. diff --git a/Documentation/devices.txt b/Documentation/devices.txt index 28c4f79662c2a84b05361d02f429b075e346380d..70690f1a14af53cd128ab0a553421044e28cd319 100644 --- a/Documentation/devices.txt +++ b/Documentation/devices.txt @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 7 = /dev/full Returns ENOSPC on write 8 = /dev/random Nondeterministic random number gen. 9 = /dev/urandom Faster, less secure random number gen. - 10 = /dev/aio Asyncronous I/O notification interface + 10 = /dev/aio Asynchronous I/O notification interface 11 = /dev/kmsg Writes to this come out as printk's 1 block RAM disk 0 = /dev/ram0 First RAM disk @@ -1093,7 +1093,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 55 char DSP56001 digital signal processor 0 = /dev/dsp56k First DSP56001 - 55 block Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controller; eigth controller + 55 block Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID controller; eighth controller 0 = /dev/rd/c7d0 First disk, whole disk 8 = /dev/rd/c7d1 Second disk, whole disk ... @@ -1456,7 +1456,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 1 = /dev/cum1 Callout device for ttyM1 ... - 79 block Compaq Intelligent Drive Array, eigth controller + 79 block Compaq Intelligent Drive Array, eighth controller 0 = /dev/ida/c7d0 First logical drive whole disk 16 = /dev/ida/c7d1 Second logical drive whole disk ... @@ -1900,7 +1900,7 @@ Your cooperation is appreciated. 1 = /dev/av1 Second A/V card ... -111 block Compaq Next Generation Drive Array, eigth controller +111 block Compaq Next Generation Drive Array, eighth controller 0 = /dev/cciss/c7d0 First logical drive, whole disk 16 = /dev/cciss/c7d1 Second logical drive, whole disk ... diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt index 5eee3e0bfc4caf0493e3cc7492ef335dcb2dba1f..9f0bc3bfd776b4b3f50523604a320ffe5d8eba8e 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/platform.txt @@ -1,99 +1,131 @@ Platform Devices and Drivers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +See for the driver model interface to the +platform bus: platform_device, and platform_driver. This pseudo-bus +is used to connect devices on busses with minimal infrastructure, +like those used to integrate peripherals on many system-on-chip +processors, or some "legacy" PC interconnects; as opposed to large +formally specified ones like PCI or USB. + Platform devices ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Platform devices are devices that typically appear as autonomous entities in the system. This includes legacy port-based devices and -host bridges to peripheral buses. - - -Platform drivers -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Drivers for platform devices are typically very simple and -unstructured. Either the device was present at a particular I/O port -and the driver was loaded, or it was not. There was no possibility -of hotplugging or alternative discovery besides probing at a specific -I/O address and expecting a specific response. +host bridges to peripheral buses, and most controllers integrated +into system-on-chip platforms. What they usually have in common +is direct addressing from a CPU bus. Rarely, a platform_device will +be connected through a segment of some other kind of bus; but its +registers will still be directly addressible. +Platform devices are given a name, used in driver binding, and a +list of resources such as addresses and IRQs. -Other Architectures, Modern Firmware, and new Platforms -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -These devices are not always at the legacy I/O ports. This is true on -other architectures and on some modern architectures. In most cases, -the drivers are modified to discover the devices at other well-known -ports for the given platform. However, the firmware in these systems -does usually know where exactly these devices reside, and in some -cases, it's the only way of discovering them. +struct platform_device { + const char *name; + u32 id; + struct device dev; + u32 num_resources; + struct resource *resource; +}; -The Platform Bus -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -A platform bus has been created to deal with these issues. First and -foremost, it groups all the legacy devices under a common bus, and -gives them a common parent if they don't already have one. - -But, besides the organizational benefits, the platform bus can also -accommodate firmware-based enumeration. - - -Device Discovery +Platform drivers ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -The platform bus has no concept of probing for devices. Devices -discovery is left up to either the legacy drivers or the -firmware. These entities are expected to notify the platform of -devices that it discovers via the bus's add() callback: - - platform_bus.add(parent,bus_id). - - -Bus IDs -~~~~~~~ -Bus IDs are the canonical names for the devices. There is no globally -standard addressing mechanism for legacy devices. In the IA-32 world, -we have Pnp IDs to use, as well as the legacy I/O ports. However, -neither tell what the device really is or have any meaning on other -platforms. - -Since both PnP IDs and the legacy I/O ports (and other standard I/O -ports for specific devices) have a 1:1 mapping, we map the -platform-specific name or identifier to a generic name (at least -within the scope of the kernel). - -For example, a serial driver might find a device at I/O 0x3f8. The -ACPI firmware might also discover a device with PnP ID (_HID) -PNP0501. Both correspond to the same device and should be mapped to the -canonical name 'serial'. - -The bus_id field should be a concatenation of the canonical name and -the instance of that type of device. For example, the device at I/O -port 0x3f8 should have a bus_id of "serial0". This places the -responsibility of enumerating devices of a particular type up to the -discovery mechanism. But, they are the entity that should know best -(as opposed to the platform bus driver). - - -Drivers -~~~~~~~ -Drivers for platform devices should have a name that is the same as -the canonical name of the devices they support. This allows the -platform bus driver to do simple matching with the basic data -structures to determine if a driver supports a certain device. - -For example, a legacy serial driver should have a name of 'serial' and -register itself with the platform bus. - - -Driver Binding -~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -Legacy drivers assume they are bound to the device once they start up -and probe an I/O port. Divorcing them from this will be a difficult -process. However, that shouldn't prevent us from implementing -firmware-based enumeration. - -The firmware should notify the platform bus about devices before the -legacy drivers have had a chance to load. Once the drivers are loaded, -they driver model core will attempt to bind the driver to any -previously-discovered devices. Once that has happened, it will be free -to discover any other devices it pleases. +Platform drivers follow the standard driver model convention, where +discovery/enumeration is handled outside the drivers, and drivers +provide probe() and remove() methods. They support power management +and shutdown notifications using the standard conventions. + +struct platform_driver { + int (*probe)(struct platform_device *); + int (*remove)(struct platform_device *); + void (*shutdown)(struct platform_device *); + int (*suspend)(struct platform_device *, pm_message_t state); + int (*suspend_late)(struct platform_device *, pm_message_t state); + int (*resume_early)(struct platform_device *); + int (*resume)(struct platform_device *); + struct device_driver driver; +}; + +Note that probe() should general verify that the specified device hardware +actually exists; sometimes platform setup code can't be sure. The probing +can use device resources, including clocks, and device platform_data. + +Platform drivers register themselves the normal way: + + int platform_driver_register(struct platform_driver *drv); + +Or, in common situations where the device is known not to be hot-pluggable, +the probe() routine can live in an init section to reduce the driver's +runtime memory footprint: + + int platform_driver_probe(struct platform_driver *drv, + int (*probe)(struct platform_device *)) + + +Device Enumeration +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +As a rule, platform specific (and often board-specific) setup code wil +register platform devices: + + int platform_device_register(struct platform_device *pdev); + + int platform_add_devices(struct platform_device **pdevs, int ndev); + +The general rule is to register only those devices that actually exist, +but in some cases extra devices might be registered. For example, a kernel +might be configured to work with an external network adapter that might not +be populated on all boards, or likewise to work with an integrated controller +that some boards might not hook up to any peripherals. + +In some cases, boot firmware will export tables describing the devices +that are populated on a given board. Without such tables, often the +only way for system setup code to set up the correct devices is to build +a kernel for a specific target board. Such board-specific kernels are +common with embedded and custom systems development. + +In many cases, the memory and IRQ resources associated with the platform +device are not enough to let the device's driver work. Board setup code +will often provide additional information using the device's platform_data +field to hold additional information. + +Embedded systems frequently need one or more clocks for platform devices, +which are normally kept off until they're actively needed (to save power). +System setup also associates those clocks with the device, so that that +calls to clk_get(&pdev->dev, clock_name) return them as needed. + + +Device Naming and Driver Binding +~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ +The platform_device.dev.bus_id is the canonical name for the devices. +It's built from two components: + + * platform_device.name ... which is also used to for driver matching. + + * platform_device.id ... the device instance number, or else "-1" + to indicate there's only one. + +These are catenated, so name/id "serial"/0 indicates bus_id "serial.0", and +"serial/3" indicates bus_id "serial.3"; both would use the platform_driver +named "serial". While "my_rtc"/-1 would be bus_id "my_rtc" (no instance id) +and use the platform_driver called "my_rtc". + +Driver binding is performed automatically by the driver core, invoking +driver probe() after finding a match between device and driver. If the +probe() succeeds, the driver and device are bound as usual. There are +three different ways to find such a match: + + - Whenever a device is registered, the drivers for that bus are + checked for matches. Platform devices should be registered very + early during system boot. + + - When a driver is registered using platform_driver_register(), all + unbound devices on that bus are checked for matches. Drivers + usually register later during booting, or by module loading. + + - Registering a driver using platform_driver_probe() works just like + using platform_driver_register(), except that the the driver won't + be probed later if another device registers. (Which is OK, since + this interface is only for use with non-hotpluggable devices.) diff --git a/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt b/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt index 98b233cb8b36882a41c3e604315b179ab0ca3537..92d86f7271b4d960431e3333ce5d0de3b9f9889e 100644 --- a/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt +++ b/Documentation/driver-model/porting.txt @@ -92,7 +92,7 @@ struct device represents a single device. It mainly contains metadata describing the relationship the device has to other entities. -- Embedd a struct device in the bus-specific device type. +- Embed a struct device in the bus-specific device type. struct pci_dev { diff --git a/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt b/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt index 531239b2908210dd78a26809e23b570a8be1ad53..2ecd834585e64140fcaa064c27142a9b7fd23950 100644 --- a/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt +++ b/Documentation/dvb/ci.txt @@ -71,7 +71,7 @@ eliminating the need for any additional ioctls. The disadvantage is that the driver/hardware has to manage the rest. For the application programmer it would be as simple as sending/receiving an array to/from the CI ioctls as defined in the Linux DVB API. No changes -have been made in the API to accomodate this feature. +have been made in the API to accommodate this feature. * Why the need for another CI interface ? @@ -102,7 +102,7 @@ This CI interface follows the CI high level interface, which is not implemented by most applications. Hence this area is revisited. This CI interface is quite different in the case that it tries to -accomodate all other CI based devices, that fall into the other categories +accommodate all other CI based devices, that fall into the other categories. This means that this CI interface handles the EN50221 style tags in the Application layer only and no session management is taken care of by the diff --git a/Documentation/eisa.txt b/Documentation/eisa.txt index 6a099edadd622f625e2606c9402916a227accf4e..60e361ba08c05ce491fd34a2eb73bc3194ca8c75 100644 --- a/Documentation/eisa.txt +++ b/Documentation/eisa.txt @@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ res : root device I/O resource bus_base_addr : slot 0 address on this bus slots : max slot number to probe force_probe : Probe even when slot 0 is empty (no EISA mainboard) -dma_mask : Default DMA mask. Usualy the bridge device dma_mask. +dma_mask : Default DMA mask. Usually the bridge device dma_mask. bus_nr : unique bus id, set by eisa_root_register ** Driver : diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index 24f3c63b301710ba461e04e9fc353c9f4a5eabcd..f81819364b7ab9ebade50ccc24ed494219160ed6 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -53,18 +53,6 @@ Who: Mauro Carvalho Chehab --------------------------- -What: sys_sysctl -When: January 2007 -Why: The same information is available through /proc/sys and that is the - interface user space prefers to use. And there do not appear to be - any existing user in user space of sys_sysctl. The additional - maintenance overhead of keeping a set of binary names gets - in the way of doing a good job of maintaining this interface. - -Who: Eric Biederman - ---------------------------- - What: PCMCIA control ioctl (needed for pcmcia-cs [cardmgr, cardctl]) When: November 2005 Files: drivers/pcmcia/: pcmcia_ioctl.c @@ -82,18 +70,6 @@ Who: Dominik Brodowski --------------------------- -What: ip_queue and ip6_queue (old ipv4-only and ipv6-only netfilter queue) -When: December 2005 -Why: This interface has been obsoleted by the new layer3-independent - "nfnetlink_queue". The Kernel interface is compatible, so the old - ip[6]tables "QUEUE" targets still work and will transparently handle - all packets into nfnetlink queue number 0. Userspace users will have - to link against API-compatible library on top of libnfnetlink_queue - instead of the current 'libipq'. -Who: Harald Welte - ---------------------------- - What: remove EXPORT_SYMBOL(kernel_thread) When: August 2006 Files: arch/*/kernel/*_ksyms.c @@ -239,23 +215,8 @@ Who: Patrick McHardy --------------------------- -What: frame diverter -When: November 2006 -Why: The frame diverter is included in most distribution kernels, but is - broken. It does not correctly handle many things: - - IPV6 - - non-linear skb's - - network device RCU on removal - - input frames not correctly checked for protocol errors - It also adds allocation overhead even if not enabled. - It is not clear if anyone is still using it. -Who: Stephen Hemminger - ---------------------------- - - What: PHYSDEVPATH, PHYSDEVBUS, PHYSDEVDRIVER in the uevent environment -When: Oktober 2008 +When: October 2008 Why: The stacking of class devices makes these values misleading and inconsistent. Class devices should not carry any of these properties, and bus @@ -280,3 +241,12 @@ Why: Orphaned for ages. SMP bugs long unfixed. Few users left Who: Jeff Garzik --------------------------- + +What: IPv4 only connection tracking/NAT/helpers +When: 2.6.22 +Why: The new layer 3 independant connection tracking replaces the old + IPv4 only version. After some stabilization of the new code the + old one will be removed. +Who: Patrick McHardy + +--------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt index 060abb0c700485e1b23495be56714d64d6589b16..9e8811f92b84160451947366508957d26b750597 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/adfs.txt @@ -3,7 +3,7 @@ Mount options for ADFS uid=nnn All files in the partition will be owned by user id nnn. Default 0 (root). - gid=nnn All files in the partition willbe in group + gid=nnn All files in the partition will be in group nnn. Default 0 (root). ownmask=nnn The permission mask for ADFS 'owner' permissions will be nnn. Default 0700. diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt index c3a7afb5eabf337a8dc272220070c7e96bbc7d8f..b34cdb50eab466ca539a559228c5cfc6a18e6bde 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt @@ -209,7 +209,7 @@ will happen for write(2). [struct config_group] -A config_item cannot live in a vaccum. The only way one can be created +A config_item cannot live in a vacuum. The only way one can be created is via mkdir(2) on a config_group. This will trigger creation of a child item. @@ -275,7 +275,7 @@ directory is not empty. [struct configfs_subsystem] -A subsystem must register itself, ususally at module_init time. This +A subsystem must register itself, usually at module_init time. This tells configfs to make the subsystem appear in the file tree. struct configfs_subsystem { diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt index a584f05403a412e778cf359e84d3690d5a22d1e4..3d74477389587b4be4d03950845c17a1e396a707 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/fuse.txt @@ -111,7 +111,7 @@ For each connection the following files exist within this directory: 'waiting' - The number of requests which are waiting to be transfered to + The number of requests which are waiting to be transferred to userspace or being processed by the filesystem daemon. If there is no filesystem activity and 'waiting' is non-zero, then the filesystem is hung or deadlocked. @@ -136,7 +136,7 @@ following will happen: 2) If the request is not yet sent to userspace AND the signal is not fatal, then an 'interrupted' flag is set for the request. When - the request has been successfully transfered to userspace and + the request has been successfully transferred to userspace and this flag is set, an INTERRUPT request is queued. 3) If the request is already sent to userspace, then an INTERRUPT diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt index 33dc360c8e8916333e435aa6b1f98e3f0d20eb58..38aba03efc5e1451e91f63d3c9ea0afa3022d90f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/hpfs.txt @@ -274,7 +274,7 @@ History Fixed race-condition in buffer code - it is in all filesystems in Linux; when reading device (cat /dev/hda) while creating files on it, files could be damaged -2.02 Woraround for bug in breada in Linux. breada could cause accesses beyond +2.02 Workaround for bug in breada in Linux. breada could cause accesses beyond end of partition 2.03 Char, block devices and pipes are correctly created Fixed non-crashing race in unlink (Alexander Viro) diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt index 35f105b29e3e26bb4201049f663062989b4693b8..13ba649bda75dae1010891a62da6399ca25d7113 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ntfs.txt @@ -337,7 +337,7 @@ Finally, for a mirrored volume, i.e. raid level 1, the table would look like this (note all values are in 512-byte sectors): --- cut here --- -# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Taget Start +# Ofs Size Raid Log Number Region Should Number Source Start Target Start # in of the type type of log size sync? of Device in Device in # vol volume params mirrors Device Device 0 2056320 mirror core 2 16 nosync 2 /dev/hda1 0 /dev/hdb1 0 @@ -599,7 +599,7 @@ Note, a technical ChangeLog aimed at kernel hackers is in fs/ntfs/ChangeLog. - Major bug fixes for reading files and volumes in corner cases which were being hit by Windows 2k/XP users. 2.1.2: - - Major bug fixes aleviating the hangs in statfs experienced by some + - Major bug fixes alleviating the hangs in statfs experienced by some users. 2.1.1: - Update handling of compressed files so people no longer get the diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt index 4389c684a80a66d402f464a4ecf3ed7a15bda1bb..af6defd10cb604fa4f0468ba6522ca30e57adda5 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/ocfs2.txt @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ Caveats Features which OCFS2 does not support yet: - sparse files - extended attributes - - shared writeable mmap + - shared writable mmap - loopback is supported, but data written will not be cluster coherent. - quotas diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt index 3355e6920105014bda194eb3a1c5360f37a33916..72af5de1effb44a93d907ed4e0117ec403a8257e 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt @@ -1220,9 +1220,9 @@ applications are using mlock(), or if you are running with no swap then you probably should increase the lower_zone_protection setting. The units of this tunable are fairly vague. It is approximately equal -to "megabytes". So setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 +to "megabytes," so setting lower_zone_protection=100 will protect around 100 megabytes of the lowmem zone from user allocations. It will also make -those 100 megabytes unavaliable for use by applications and by +those 100 megabytes unavailable for use by applications and by pagecache, so there is a cost. The effects of this tunable may be observed by monitoring @@ -1538,10 +1538,10 @@ TCP settings tcp_ecn ------- -This file controls the use of the ECN bit in the IPv4 headers, this is a new +This file controls the use of the ECN bit in the IPv4 headers. This is a new feature about Explicit Congestion Notification, but some routers and firewalls -block trafic that has this bit set, so it could be necessary to echo 0 to -/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn, if you want to talk to this sites. For more info +block traffic that has this bit set, so it could be necessary to echo 0 to +/proc/sys/net/ipv4/tcp_ecn if you want to talk to these sites. For more info you could read RFC2481. tcp_retrans_collapse diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt index 982645a1981de148771c844c41e7affa6373b3aa..1343d118a9b2d63815355cb28f18605c565653f6 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/spufs.txt @@ -210,7 +210,7 @@ FILES /signal2 The two signal notification channels of an SPU. These are read-write files that operate on a 32 bit word. Writing to one of these files - triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value writting to the signal + triggers an interrupt on the SPU. The value written to the signal files can be read from the SPU through a channel read or from host user space through the file. After the value has been read by the SPU, it is reset to zero. The possible operations on an open signal1 or sig- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt index 511b4230c0536add9d0650cbc1f702becc2e54e2..fde829a756e6510a9d5cd4d56c981e204151fa8c 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/udf.txt @@ -7,8 +7,17 @@ If you encounter problems with reading UDF discs using this driver, please report them to linux_udf@hpesjro.fc.hp.com, which is the developer's list. -Write support requires a block driver which supports writing. The current -scsi and ide cdrom drivers do not support writing. +Write support requires a block driver which supports writing. Currently +dvd+rw drives and media support true random sector writes, and so a udf +filesystem on such devices can be directly mounted read/write. CD-RW +media however, does not support this. Instead the media can be formatted +for packet mode using the utility cdrwtool, then the pktcdvd driver can +be bound to the underlying cd device to provide the required buffering +and read-modify-write cycles to allow the filesystem random sector writes +while providing the hardware with only full packet writes. While not +required for dvd+rw media, use of the pktcdvd driver often enhances +performance due to very poor read-modify-write support supplied internally +by drive firmware. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The following mount options are supported: diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt index 6ce5aa9abbc5918cb961c47f55f0ebd5bbb64947..9304fb36ae8a91671693bde1fd2644b3085f42f2 100644 --- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt +++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/gdbstub.txt @@ -59,7 +59,7 @@ the following things on the "Kernel Hacking" tab: Then build as usual, download to the board and execute. Note that if "Immediate activation" was selected, then the kernel will wait for GDB to attach. If not, then the kernel will boot immediately and GDB will have to -interupt it or wait for an exception to occur if before doing anything with +interrupt it or wait for an exception to occur before doing anything with the kernel. diff --git a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt index 8b0a5fc8bfd96cc64fe09f165b740f272196f654..aaa1cec86f0bb869c674ea2faf7a5506770b40ad 100644 --- a/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt +++ b/Documentation/fujitsu/frv/kernel-ABI.txt @@ -156,7 +156,7 @@ with the main kernel in this regard. Hence the debug mode code (gdbstub) is almost completely self-contained. The only external code used is the sprintf family of functions. -Futhermore, break.S is so complicated because single-step mode does not +Furthermore, break.S is so complicated because single-step mode does not switch off on entry to an exception. That means unless manually disabled, single-stepping will blithely go on stepping into things like interrupts. See gdbstub.txt for more information. diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 b/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 index 35f618f32896c9228c8a32a3c62b5392043237ac..2c6f1fed4618df3949d76173057c9eda3f4f7762 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/adm9240 @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ Authors: Frodo Looijaard , Philip Edelbrock , Michiel Rook , - Grant Coady with guidance + Grant Coady with guidance from Jean Delvare Interface diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f b/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f index 28c5b7d1eb90f0ccd8e0307c170f89bd7954dc9c..2ca69df669c3a615601aec996fb8f977aa485180 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/f71805f @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ Thanks to Kris Chen from Fintek for answering technical questions and providing additional documentation. Thanks to Chris Lin from Jetway for providing wiring schematics and -anwsering technical questions. +answering technical questions. Description diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp b/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp index bab445ab0f523fc627c24aa0c5da11aa11d51523..30d123b8d92022180b4f0cd2ae32cffc47ba4f6e 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/k8temp @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ Kernel driver k8temp ==================== Supported chips: - * AMD K8 CPU + * AMD Athlon64/FX or Opteron CPUs Prefix: 'k8temp' Addresses scanned: PCI space Datasheet: http://www.amd.com/us-en/assets/content_type/white_papers_and_tech_docs/32559.pdf @@ -13,10 +13,13 @@ Contact: Rudolf Marek Description ----------- -This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8 CPUs. -Official documentation says that it works from revision F of K8 core, but -in fact it seems to be implemented for all revisions of K8 except the first -two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3). +This driver permits reading temperature sensor(s) embedded inside AMD K8 +family CPUs (Athlon64/FX, Opteron). Official documentation says that it works +from revision F of K8 core, but in fact it seems to be implemented for all +revisions of K8 except the first two revisions (SH-B0 and SH-B3). + +Please note that you will need at least lm-sensors 2.10.1 for proper userspace +support. There can be up to four temperature sensors inside single CPU. The driver will auto-detect the sensors and will display only temperatures from diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 b/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 index c15bbe68264ee514861197726b2dddea2b4bcbbd..04a11124f667756b9a4225b81624d9d9225eb1ae 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/smsc47m1 @@ -2,12 +2,14 @@ Kernel driver smsc47m1 ====================== Supported chips: - * SMSC LPC47B27x, LPC47M10x, LPC47M13x, LPC47M14x, LPC47M15x and LPC47M192 + * SMSC LPC47B27x, LPC47M112, LPC47M10x, LPC47M13x, LPC47M14x, + LPC47M15x and LPC47M192 Addresses scanned: none, address read from Super I/O config space Prefix: 'smsc47m1' Datasheets: http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47b27x.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m10x.pdf + http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m112.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/tools/discontinued/47m13x.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/datasheets/47m14x.pdf http://www.smsc.com/main/tools/discontinued/47m15x.pdf diff --git a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf index fae3b781d82d48f6f91a5b261601499ee450e127..caa610a297e8a349f586f15a4b1279903179e47d 100644 --- a/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf +++ b/Documentation/hwmon/w83627ehf @@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ fan control mode). Temperatures are measured in degrees Celsius and measurement resolution is 1 degC for temp1 and 0.5 degC for temp2 and temp3. An alarm is triggered when the temperature gets higher than high limit; it stays on until the temperature -falls below the Hysteresis value. +falls below the hysteresis value. Fan rotation speeds are reported in RPM (rotations per minute). An alarm is triggered if the rotation speed has dropped below a programmable limit. Fan @@ -67,9 +67,9 @@ Thermal Cruise mode If the temperature is in the range defined by: -pwm[1-4]_target - set target temperature, unit millidegree Celcius +pwm[1-4]_target - set target temperature, unit millidegree Celsius (range 0 - 127000) -pwm[1-4]_tolerance - tolerance, unit millidegree Celcius (range 0 - 15000) +pwm[1-4]_tolerance - tolerance, unit millidegree Celsius (range 0 - 15000) there are no changes to fan speed. Once the temperature leaves the interval, fan speed increases (temp is higher) or decreases if lower than desired. diff --git a/Documentation/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide.txt index 0bf38baa2db96a162e8f641eac90de097487cbf4..786c3a766995f09ad8ad443c042be0af0a6484f3 100644 --- a/Documentation/ide.txt +++ b/Documentation/ide.txt @@ -390,5 +390,5 @@ mlord@pobox.com Wed Apr 17 22:52:44 CEST 2002 edited by Marcin Dalecki, the current maintainer. -Wed Aug 20 22:31:29 CEST 2003 updated ide boot uptions to current ide.c +Wed Aug 20 22:31:29 CEST 2003 updated ide boot options to current ide.c comments at 2.6.0-test4 time. Maciej Soltysiak diff --git a/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt b/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt index 4f0e89df5c5191cbc166adc5f86e23f69aac6ba2..7dc4f175943cff2854dd1d54ff93c03be98b2b56 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/amijoy.txt @@ -91,8 +91,8 @@ JOY1DAT Y7 Y6 Y5 Y4 Y3 Y2 Y1 Y0 X7 X6 X5 X4 X3 X2 X1 X0 | 1 | M0HQ | JOY0DAT Horizontal Clock (quadrature) | | 2 | M0V | JOY0DAT Vertical Clock | | 3 | M0VQ | JOY0DAT Vertical Clock (quadrature) | - | 4 | M1V | JOY1DAT Horizontall Clock | - | 5 | M1VQ | JOY1DAT Horizontall Clock (quadrature) | + | 4 | M1V | JOY1DAT Horizontal Clock | + | 5 | M1VQ | JOY1DAT Horizontal Clock (quadrature) | | 6 | M1V | JOY1DAT Vertical Clock | | 7 | M1VQ | JOY1DAT Vertical Clock (quadrature) | +--------+----------+-----------------------------------------+ diff --git a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt index 1e7e5853ba4c71eafdbc1e9f57cc749826b658c4..668f4d0d97d60efe0f8fd99538e4b259b19874ff 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/atarikbd.txt @@ -103,7 +103,7 @@ LEFT=0x74 & RIGHT=0x75). 5.1 Joystick Event Reporting -In this mode, the ikbd generates a record whever the joystick position is +In this mode, the ikbd generates a record whenever the joystick position is changed (i.e. for each opening or closing of a joystick switch or trigger). The joystick event record is two bytes of the form: @@ -277,8 +277,8 @@ default to 1 at RESET (or power-up). 9.7 SET MOUSE SCALE 0x0C - X ; horizontal mouse ticks per internel X - Y ; vertical mouse ticks per internel Y + X ; horizontal mouse ticks per internal X + Y ; vertical mouse ticks per internal Y This command sets the scale factor for the ABSOLUTE MOUSE POSITIONING mode. In this mode, the specified number of mouse phase changes ('clicks') must @@ -323,7 +323,7 @@ mouse position. 0x0F This command makes the origin of the Y axis to be at the bottom of the -logical coordinate system internel to the ikbd for all relative or absolute +logical coordinate system internal to the ikbd for all relative or absolute mouse motion. This causes mouse motion toward the user to be negative in sign and away from the user to be positive. @@ -597,8 +597,8 @@ mode or FIRE BUTTON MONITORING mode. 10. SCAN CODES -The key scan codes return by the ikbd are chosen to simplify the -implementaion of GSX. +The key scan codes returned by the ikbd are chosen to simplify the +implementation of GSX. GSX Standard Keyboard Mapping. diff --git a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt index b9111a703ce0c37a8a3ad59cc442da283629a0b2..5427bdf225ed0392372ff6ce428dd1e68a2aab83 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/xpad.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/xpad.txt @@ -3,20 +3,37 @@ xpad - Linux USB driver for X-Box gamepads This is the very first release of a driver for X-Box gamepads. Basically, this was hacked away in just a few hours, so don't expect miracles. + In particular, there is currently NO support for the rumble pack. You won't find many ff-aware linux applications anyway. -0. Status ---------- +0. Notes +-------- + +Driver updated for kernel 2.6.17.11. (Based on a patch for 2.6.11.4.) -For now, this driver has only been tested on just one Linux-Box. -This one is running a 2.4.18 kernel with usb-uhci on an amd athlon 600. +The number of buttons/axes reported varies based on 3 things: +- if you are using a known controller +- if you are using a known dance pad +- if using an unknown device (one not listed below), what you set in the + module configuration for "Map D-PAD to buttons rather than axes for unknown + pads" (module option dpad_to_buttons) -The jstest-program from joystick-1.2.15 (jstest-version 2.1.0) reports -8 axes and 10 buttons. +If you set dpad_to_buttons to 0 and you are using an unknown device (one +not listed below), the driver will map the directional pad to axes (X/Y), +if you said N it will map the d-pad to buttons, which is needed for dance +style games to function correctly. The default is Y. + +dpad_to_buttons has no effect for known pads. + +0.1 Normal Controllers +---------------------- +With a normal controller, the directional pad is mapped to its own X/Y axes. +The jstest-program from joystick-1.2.15 (jstest-version 2.1.0) will report 8 +axes and 10 buttons. -Alls 8 axes work, though they all have the same range (-32768..32767) +All 8 axes work, though they all have the same range (-32768..32767) and the zero-setting is not correct for the triggers (I don't know if that is some limitation of jstest, since the input device setup should be fine. I didn't have a look at jstest itself yet). @@ -30,16 +47,50 @@ in game functionality were OK. However, I find it rather difficult to play first person shooters with a pad. Your mileage may vary. +0.2 Xbox Dance Pads +------------------- +When using a known dance pad, jstest will report 6 axes and 14 buttons. + +For dance style pads (like the redoctane pad) several changes +have been made. The old driver would map the d-pad to axes, resulting +in the driver being unable to report when the user was pressing both +left+right or up+down, making DDR style games unplayable. + +Known dance pads automatically map the d-pad to buttons and will work +correctly out of the box. + +If your dance pad is recognized by the driver but is using axes instead +of buttons, see section 0.3 - Unknown Controllers + +I've tested this with Stepmania, and it works quite well. + + +0.3 Unkown Controllers +---------------------- +If you have an unkown xbox controller, it should work just fine with +the default settings. + +HOWEVER if you have an unknown dance pad not listed below, it will not +work UNLESS you set "dpad_to_buttons" to 1 in the module configuration. + +PLEASE if you have an unkown controller, email Dom with +a dump from /proc/bus/usb and a description of the pad (manufacturer, country, +whether it is a dance pad or normal controller) so that we can add your pad +to the list of supported devices, ensuring that it will work out of the +box in the future. + + 1. USB adapter -------------- Before you can actually use the driver, you need to get yourself an -adapter cable to connect the X-Box controller to your Linux-Box. +adapter cable to connect the X-Box controller to your Linux-Box. You +can buy these online fairly cheap, or build your own. -Such a cable is pretty easy to build. The Controller itself is a USB compound -device (a hub with three ports for two expansion slots and the controller -device) with the only difference in a nonstandard connector (5 pins vs. 4 on -standard USB connector). +Such a cable is pretty easy to build. The Controller itself is a USB +compound device (a hub with three ports for two expansion slots and +the controller device) with the only difference in a nonstandard connector +(5 pins vs. 4 on standard USB connector). You just need to solder a USB connector onto the cable and keep the yellow wire unconnected. The other pins have the same order on both @@ -51,36 +102,36 @@ original one. You can buy an extension cable and cut that instead. That way, you can still use the controller with your X-Box, if you have one ;) -2. driver installation +2. Driver Installation ---------------------- Once you have the adapter cable and the controller is connected, you need to load your USB subsystem and should cat /proc/bus/usb/devices. There should be an entry like the one at the end [4]. -Currently (as of version 0.0.4), the following three devices are included: +Currently (as of version 0.0.6), the following devices are included: original Microsoft XBOX controller (US), vendor=0x045e, product=0x0202 + smaller Microsoft XBOX controller (US), vendor=0x045e, product=0x0289 original Microsoft XBOX controller (Japan), vendor=0x045e, product=0x0285 InterAct PowerPad Pro (Germany), vendor=0x05fd, product=0x107a + RedOctane Xbox Dance Pad (US), vendor=0x0c12, product=0x8809 -If you have another controller that is not listed above and is not recognized -by the driver, please drop me a line with the appropriate info (that is, include -the name, vendor and product ID, as well as the country where you bought it; -sending the whole dump out of /proc/bus/usb/devices along would be even better). +The driver should work with xbox pads not listed above as well, however +you will need to do something extra for dance pads to work. -In theory, the driver should work with other controllers than mine -(InterAct PowerPad pro, bought in Germany) just fine, but I cannot test this -for I only have this one controller. +If you have a controller not listed above, see 0.3 - Unknown Controllers If you compiled and installed the driver, test the functionality: > modprobe xpad > modprobe joydev > jstest /dev/js0 -There should be a single line showing 18 inputs (8 axes, 10 buttons), and -it's values should change if you move the sticks and push the buttons. +If you're using a normal controller, there should be a single line showing +18 inputs (8 axes, 10 buttons), and its values should change if you move +the sticks and push the buttons. If you're using a dance pad, it should +show 20 inputs (6 axes, 14 buttons). -It works? Voila, your done ;) +It works? Voila, you're done ;) 3. Thanks @@ -111,6 +162,22 @@ I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=58(unk. ) Sub=42 Prot=00 Driver=(none) E: Ad=81(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl= 10ms E: Ad=02(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl= 10ms +5. /proc/bus/usb/devices - dump from Redoctane Xbox Dance Pad (US): + +T: Bus=01 Lev=02 Prnt=09 Port=00 Cnt=01 Dev#= 10 Spd=12 MxCh= 0 +D: Ver= 1.10 Cls=00(>ifc ) Sub=00 Prot=00 MxPS= 8 #Cfgs= 1 +P: Vendor=0c12 ProdID=8809 Rev= 0.01 +S: Product=XBOX DDR +C:* #Ifs= 1 Cfg#= 1 Atr=80 MxPwr=100mA +I: If#= 0 Alt= 0 #EPs= 2 Cls=58(unk. ) Sub=42 Prot=00 Driver=xpad +E: Ad=82(I) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl=4ms +E: Ad=02(O) Atr=03(Int.) MxPS= 32 Ivl=4ms + -- Marko Friedemann 2002-07-16 + - original doc + +Dominic Cerquetti +2005-03-19 + - added stuff for dance pads, new d-pad->axes mappings diff --git a/Documentation/input/yealink.txt b/Documentation/input/yealink.txt index 0a8c97e87d47ee6fce48dbe96ff93e6c42d6fa5d..5360e434486ced9970c6c71454b085b3ff617061 100644 --- a/Documentation/input/yealink.txt +++ b/Documentation/input/yealink.txt @@ -134,7 +134,7 @@ Reading /sys/../lineX will return the format string with its current value: 888888888888 Linux Rocks! -Writing to /sys/../lineX will set the coresponding LCD line. +Writing to /sys/../lineX will set the corresponding LCD line. - Excess characters are ignored. - If less characters are written than allowed, the remaining digits are unchanged. diff --git a/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt b/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt index 8ec32cc49eb107bdab130a6cb24c54b6da9dfcb2..62d4af44ec4a2e0a4987d48687dc0bd1d01dcbf0 100644 --- a/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt +++ b/Documentation/ioctl/cdrom.txt @@ -735,7 +735,7 @@ CDROM_DISC_STATUS Get disc type, etc. Ok, this is where problems start. The current interface for the CDROM_DISC_STATUS ioctl is flawed. It makes the false assumption that CDs are all CDS_DATA_1 or all CDS_AUDIO, etc. - Unfortunatly, while this is often the case, it is also + Unfortunately, while this is often the case, it is also very common for CDs to have some tracks with data, and some tracks with audio. Just because I feel like it, I declare the following to be the best way to cope. If the CD has diff --git a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt index 50f4eddf899cac4a06724355a2fd26299ab6909d..4b3d6710c504c6257b7abd7d03129f9320e7c2c5 100644 --- a/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt +++ b/Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt @@ -227,9 +227,9 @@ more details, with real examples. be included in a library, lib.a. All objects listed with lib-y are combined in a single library for that directory. - Objects that are listed in obj-y and additionaly listed in - lib-y will not be included in the library, since they will anyway - be accessible. + Objects that are listed in obj-y and additionally listed in + lib-y will not be included in the library, since they will + be accessible anyway. For consistency, objects listed in lib-m will be included in lib.a. Note that the same kbuild makefile may list files to be built-in @@ -535,7 +535,7 @@ Both possibilities are described in the following. Host programs can be made up based on composite objects. The syntax used to define composite objects for host programs is similar to the syntax used for kernel objects. - $(-objs) lists all objects used to link the final + $(-objs) lists all objects used to link the final executable. Example: @@ -1022,7 +1022,7 @@ When kbuild executes, the following steps are followed (roughly): In this example, there are two possible targets, requiring different options to the linker. The linker options are specified using the LDFLAGS_$@ syntax - one for each potential target. - $(targets) are assinged all potential targets, by which kbuild knows + $(targets) are assigned all potential targets, by which kbuild knows the targets and will: 1) check for commandline changes 2) delete target during make clean diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt index c65233d430f0bb6888117c251576422d3fa9811f..284e7e198e93a288624c6258ff30294c6aacf8d6 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-doc-nano-HOWTO.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ are: special place-holders for where the extracted documentation should go. -- scripts/docproc.c +- scripts/basic/docproc.c This is a program for converting SGML template files into SGML files. When a file is referenced it is searched for symbols diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt index ff571f9298e0530bb38d3ffdaabea01f1b4aec17..67473849f20e0e42cc4d2ef6ae015634b4c830ba 100644 --- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt +++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt @@ -164,6 +164,10 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file acpi_skip_timer_override [HW,ACPI] Recognize and ignore IRQ0/pin2 Interrupt Override. For broken nForce2 BIOS resulting in XT-PIC timer. + acpi_use_timer_override [HW,ACPI} + Use timer override. For some broken Nvidia NF5 boards + that require a timer override, but don't have + HPET acpi_dbg_layer= [HW,ACPI] Format: @@ -1231,6 +1235,11 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file machine check when some devices' config space is read. But various workarounds are disabled and some IOMMU drivers will not work. + bfsort Sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + This sorting is done to get a device + order compatible with older (<= 2.4) kernels. + nobfsort Don't sort PCI devices into breadth-first order. + pcmv= [HW,PCMCIA] BadgePAD 4 pd. [PARIDE] diff --git a/Documentation/keys.txt b/Documentation/keys.txt index 3da586bc7859a3f982255547472fcfd5193eaf6a..60c665d9cfaa883416c79efb0fb99245f610a1e2 100644 --- a/Documentation/keys.txt +++ b/Documentation/keys.txt @@ -304,7 +304,7 @@ about the status of the key service: R Revoked D Dead Q Contributes to user's quota - U Under contruction by callback to userspace + U Under construction by callback to userspace N Negative key This file must be enabled at kernel configuration time as it allows anyone diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt index ba26201d50234ba3c78e2c0c9084b1d6d25d7110..d71fafffce90de81cba916c5d98dae7db5e9eb63 100644 --- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt +++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt @@ -442,9 +442,10 @@ static int __init kprobe_init(void) kp.fault_handler = handler_fault; kp.symbol_name = "do_fork"; - if ((ret = register_kprobe(&kp) < 0)) { + ret = register_kprobe(&kp); + if (ret < 0) { printk("register_kprobe failed, returned %d\n", ret); - return -1; + return ret; } printk("kprobe registered\n"); return 0; diff --git a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt index c487186eb2b93ac9a0180561396470bce867e4b3..6f639e3473af550bbf384a506fcb9074a60dca2b 100644 --- a/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt +++ b/Documentation/laptop-mode.txt @@ -121,7 +121,7 @@ contains the following options: MAX_AGE: Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are -confortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this +comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this amount of work if your battery fails while you're in laptop mode. MINIMUM_BATTERY_MINUTES: @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ It should be installed as /etc/default/laptop-mode on Debian, and as --------------------CONFIG FILE BEGIN------------------------------------------- # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are -# confortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this +# comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this # amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode. #MAX_AGE=600 @@ -350,7 +350,7 @@ fi # set defaults instead: # Maximum time, in seconds, of hard drive spindown time that you are -# confortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this +# comfortable with. Worst case, it's possible that you could lose this # amount of work if your battery fails you while in laptop mode. MAX_AGE=${MAX_AGE:-'600'} @@ -699,7 +699,7 @@ ACPI integration Dax Kelson submitted this so that the ACPI acpid daemon will kick off the laptop_mode script and run hdparm. The part that automatically disables laptop mode when the battery is low was -writen by Jan Topinski. +written by Jan Topinski. -----------------/etc/acpi/events/ac_adapter BEGIN------------------------------ event=ac_adapter diff --git a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt index 994355b0cd19087654d8cab690597944ed633a0a..58408dd023c77e0e0712d02811fc0238c5ee1742 100644 --- a/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt +++ b/Documentation/memory-barriers.txt @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ There are some minimal guarantees that may be expected of a CPU: STORE *X = c, d = LOAD *X - (Loads and stores overlap if they are targetted at overlapping pieces of + (Loads and stores overlap if they are targeted at overlapping pieces of memory). And there are a number of things that _must_ or _must_not_ be assumed: @@ -1016,7 +1016,7 @@ There are some more advanced barrier functions: (*) set_mb(var, value) - This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts at least a write + This assigns the value to the variable and then inserts a full memory barrier after it, depending on the function. It isn't guaranteed to insert anything more than a compiler barrier in a UP compilation. @@ -1898,7 +1898,7 @@ queue before processing any further requests: smp_wmb(); - p = &b; q = p; + p = &v; q = p; diff --git a/Documentation/mips/time.README b/Documentation/mips/time.README index 69ddc5c14b7990592a1710957985fd9b6e01369b..a4ce603ed3b35876befd795576e9374f34f0b9b3 100644 --- a/Documentation/mips/time.README +++ b/Documentation/mips/time.README @@ -38,19 +38,14 @@ The new time code provide the following services: a) Implements functions required by Linux common code: time_init - do_gettimeofday - do_settimeofday b) provides an abstraction of RTC and null RTC implementation as default. extern unsigned long (*rtc_get_time)(void); extern int (*rtc_set_time)(unsigned long); - c) a set of gettimeoffset functions for different CPUs and different - needs. - - d) high-level and low-level timer interrupt routines where the timer - interrupt source may or may not be the CPU timer. The high-level - routine is dispatched through do_IRQ() while the low-level is + c) high-level and low-level timer interrupt routines where the timer + interrupt source may or may not be the CPU timer. The high-level + routine is dispatched through do_IRQ() while the low-level is dispatched in assemably code (usually int-handler.S) @@ -63,7 +58,7 @@ the following functions or values: a) board_time_init - a function pointer. Invoked at the beginnig of time_init(). It is optional. 1. (optional) set up RTC routines - 2. (optional) calibrate and set the mips_counter_frequency + 2. (optional) calibrate and set the mips_hpt_frequency b) plat_timer_setup - a function pointer. Invoked at the end of time_init() 1. (optional) over-ride any decisions made in time_init() @@ -72,9 +67,8 @@ the following functions or values: c) (optional) board-specific RTC routines. - d) (optional) mips_counter_frequency - It must be definied if the board - is using CPU counter for timer interrupt or it is using fixed rate - gettimeoffset(). + d) (optional) mips_hpt_frequency - It must be definied if the board + is using CPU counter for timer interrupt. PORTING GUIDE @@ -89,22 +83,12 @@ Step 1: decide how you like to implement the time services. If the answer is no, you need a timer to provide the timer interrupt at 100 HZ speed. - You cannot use the fast gettimeoffset functions, i.e., - - unsigned long fixed_rate_gettimeoffset(void); - unsigned long calibrate_div32_gettimeoffset(void); - unsigned long calibrate_div64_gettimeoffset(void); - - You can use null_gettimeoffset() will gives the same time resolution as - jiffy. Or you can implement your own gettimeoffset (probably based on - some ad hoc hardware on your machine.) - c) The following sub steps assume your CPU has counter register. Do you plan to use the CPU counter register as the timer interrupt or use an exnternal timer? In order to use CPU counter register as the timer interrupt source, you - must know the counter speed (mips_counter_frequency). It is usually the + must know the counter speed (mips_hpt_frequency). It is usually the same as the CPU speed or an integral divisor of it. d) decide on whether you want to use high-level or low-level timer @@ -121,10 +105,10 @@ Step 3: implement rtc routines, board_time_init() and plat_timer_setup() if needed. board_time_init() - - a) (optional) set up RTC routines, - b) (optional) calibrate and set the mips_counter_frequency - (only needed if you intended to use fixed_rate_gettimeoffset - or use cpu counter as timer interrupt source) + a) (optional) set up RTC routines, + b) (optional) calibrate and set the mips_hpt_frequency + (only needed if you intended to use cpu counter as timer interrupt + source) plat_timer_setup() - a) (optional) over-write any choices made above by time_init(). @@ -154,8 +138,8 @@ for some of the functions in time.c. For example, you may define your own timer interrupt routine, which does some of its own processing and then calls timer_interrupt(). -You can also over-ride any of the built-in functions (gettimeoffset, -RTC routines and/or timer interrupt routine). +You can also over-ride any of the built-in functions (RTC routines +and/or timer interrupt routine). PORTING NOTES FOR SMP @@ -187,10 +171,3 @@ You need to decide on your timer interrupt sources. You can also do the low-level version of those interrupt routines, following similar dispatching routes described above. - -Note about do_gettimeoffset(): - - It is very likely the CPU counter registers are not sync'ed up in a SMP box. - Therefore you cannot really use the many of the existing routines that - are based on CPU counter. You should wirte your own gettimeoffset rouinte - if you want intra-jiffy resolution. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt index 93af3e87c65b470828d1fd62193c2ac5590a3e75..fb8dc6422a5212488f362e1a48711afe452f0482 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/NAPI_HOWTO.txt @@ -95,8 +95,8 @@ There are two types of event register ACK mechanisms. Move all to dev->poll() C) Ability to detect new work correctly. -NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when theres work and -turning them on when theres none. +NAPI works by shutting down event interrupts when there's work and +turning them on when there's none. New packets might show up in the small window while interrupts were being re-enabled (refer to appendix 2). A packet might sneak in during the period we are enabling interrupts. We only get to know about such a packet when the @@ -114,7 +114,7 @@ Locking rules and environmental guarantees only one CPU can pick the initial interrupt and hence the initial netif_rx_schedule(dev); - The core layer invokes devices to send packets in a round robin format. -This implies receive is totaly lockless because of the guarantee only that +This implies receive is totally lockless because of the guarantee that only one CPU is executing it. - contention can only be the result of some other CPU accessing the rx ring. This happens only in close() and suspend() (when these methods @@ -510,7 +510,7 @@ static int my_poll (struct net_device *dev, int *budget) an interrupt will be generated */ goto done; } - /* done! at least thats what it looks like ;-> + /* done! at least that's what it looks like ;-> if new packets came in after our last check on status bits they'll be caught by the while check and we go back and clear them since we havent exceeded our quota */ @@ -535,11 +535,11 @@ done: * 1. it can race with disabling irqs in irq handler (which are done to * schedule polls) * 2. it can race with dis/enabling irqs in other poll threads - * 3. if an irq raised after the begining of the outer beginning - * loop(marked in the code above), it will be immediately + * 3. if an irq raised after the beginning of the outer beginning + * loop (marked in the code above), it will be immediately * triggered here. * - * Summarizing: the logic may results in some redundant irqs both + * Summarizing: the logic may result in some redundant irqs both * due to races in masking and due to too late acking of already * processed irqs. The good news: no events are ever lost. */ @@ -601,7 +601,7 @@ a) 5) dev->close() and dev->suspend() issues ========================================== -The driver writter neednt worry about this. The top net layer takes +The driver writer needn't worry about this; the top net layer takes care of it. 6) Adding new Stats to /proc @@ -622,9 +622,9 @@ FC should be programmed to apply in the case when the system cant pull out packets fast enough i.e send a pause only when you run out of rx buffers. Note FC in itself is a good solution but we have found it to not be much of a commodity feature (both in NICs and switches) and hence falls -under the same category as using NIC based mitigation. Also experiments -indicate that its much harder to resolve the resource allocation -issue (aka lazy receiving that NAPI offers) and hence quantify its usefullness +under the same category as using NIC based mitigation. Also, experiments +indicate that it's much harder to resolve the resource allocation +issue (aka lazy receiving that NAPI offers) and hence quantify its usefulness proved harder. In any case, FC works even better with NAPI but is not necessary. @@ -678,10 +678,10 @@ routine: CSR5 bit of interest is only the rx status. If you look at the last if statement: you just finished grabbing all the packets from the rx ring .. you check if -status bit says theres more packets just in ... it says none; you then +status bit says there are more packets just in ... it says none; you then enable rx interrupts again; if a new packet just came in during this check, we are counting that CSR5 will be set in that small window of opportunity -and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually triger an interrupt +and that by re-enabling interrupts, we would actually trigger an interrupt to register the new packet for processing. [The above description nay be very verbose, if you have better wording diff --git a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt index 64896470e279b7d4675c46c4673e024026bd815c..6387d3decf858a7c83d2ae65f06c6eccdfa7dfae 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/cs89x0.txt @@ -248,7 +248,7 @@ c) The driver's hardware probe routine is designed to avoid with device probing. To avoid this behaviour, add one to the `io=' module parameter. This doesn't actually change the I/O address, but it is a flag to tell the driver - topartially initialise the hardware before trying to + to partially initialise the hardware before trying to identify the card. This could be dangerous if you are not sure that there is a cs89x0 card at the provided address. @@ -620,8 +620,8 @@ I/O Address Device IRQ Device 12 Mouse (PS/2) Memory Address Device 13 Math Coprocessor -------------- --------------------- 14 Hard Disk controller -A000-BFFF EGA Graphics Adpater -A000-C7FF VGA Graphics Adpater +A000-BFFF EGA Graphics Adapter +A000-C7FF VGA Graphics Adapter B000-BFFF Mono Graphics Adapter B800-BFFF Color Graphics Adapter E000-FFFF AT BIOS diff --git a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt index 74563b38ffd90cdd59a48619fb7a7b46f6ec798a..dda15886bcb51045ad5168dcafb8e0e5048c6301 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/dccp.txt @@ -19,21 +19,17 @@ for real time and multimedia traffic. It has a base protocol and pluggable congestion control IDs (CCIDs). -It is at draft RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at: - http://www.icir.org/kohler/dcp/ +It is at experimental RFC status and the homepage for DCCP as a protocol is at: + http://www.read.cs.ucla.edu/dccp/ Missing features ================ The DCCP implementation does not currently have all the features that are in -the draft RFC. +the RFC. -In particular the following are missing: -- CCID2 support -- feature negotiation - -When testing against other implementations it appears that elapsed time -options are not coded compliant to the specification. +The known bugs are at: + http://linux-net.osdl.org/index.php/TODO#DCCP Socket options ============== @@ -47,12 +43,70 @@ the socket will fall back to 0 (which means that no meaningful service code is present). Connecting sockets set at most one service option; for listening sockets, multiple service codes can be specified. +DCCP_SOCKOPT_SEND_CSCOV and DCCP_SOCKOPT_RECV_CSCOV are used for setting the +partial checksum coverage (RFC 4340, sec. 9.2). The default is that checksums +always cover the entire packet and that only fully covered application data is +accepted by the receiver. Hence, when using this feature on the sender, it must +be enabled at the receiver, too with suitable choice of CsCov. + +DCCP_SOCKOPT_SEND_CSCOV sets the sender checksum coverage. Values in the + range 0..15 are acceptable. The default setting is 0 (full coverage), + values between 1..15 indicate partial coverage. +DCCP_SOCKOPT_SEND_CSCOV is for the receiver and has a different meaning: it + sets a threshold, where again values 0..15 are acceptable. The default + of 0 means that all packets with a partial coverage will be discarded. + Values in the range 1..15 indicate that packets with minimally such a + coverage value are also acceptable. The higher the number, the more + restrictive this setting (see [RFC 4340, sec. 9.2.1]). + +Sysctl variables +================ +Several DCCP default parameters can be managed by the following sysctls +(sysctl net.dccp.default or /proc/sys/net/dccp/default): + +request_retries + The number of active connection initiation retries (the number of + Requests minus one) before timing out. In addition, it also governs + the behaviour of the other, passive side: this variable also sets + the number of times DCCP repeats sending a Response when the initial + handshake does not progress from RESPOND to OPEN (i.e. when no Ack + is received after the initial Request). This value should be greater + than 0, suggested is less than 10. Analogue of tcp_syn_retries. + +retries1 + How often a DCCP Response is retransmitted until the listening DCCP + side considers its connecting peer dead. Analogue of tcp_retries1. + +retries2 + The number of times a general DCCP packet is retransmitted. This has + importance for retransmitted acknowledgments and feature negotiation, + data packets are never retransmitted. Analogue of tcp_retries2. + +send_ndp = 1 + Whether or not to send NDP count options (sec. 7.7.2). + +send_ackvec = 1 + Whether or not to send Ack Vector options (sec. 11.5). + +ack_ratio = 2 + The default Ack Ratio (sec. 11.3) to use. + +tx_ccid = 2 + Default CCID for the sender-receiver half-connection. + +rx_ccid = 2 + Default CCID for the receiver-sender half-connection. + +seq_window = 100 + The initial sequence window (sec. 7.5.2). + +tx_qlen = 5 + The size of the transmit buffer in packets. A value of 0 corresponds + to an unbounded transmit buffer. + Notes ===== -SELinux does not yet have support for DCCP. You will need to turn it off or -else you will get EACCES. - -DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present. This is because -the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. It should be -relatively trivial to add Linux NAT support for DCCP. +DCCP does not travel through NAT successfully at present on many boxes. This is +because the checksum covers the psuedo-header as per TCP and UDP. Linux NAT +support for DCCP has been added. diff --git a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt index 5c0a5cc039981926afe71b2a9009c70405e1a95b..61b171cf5313c9b94c3e4fe185a9ff9edf9b5cbc 100644 --- a/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt +++ b/Documentation/networking/e1000.txt @@ -1,7 +1,7 @@ Linux* Base Driver for the Intel(R) PRO/1000 Family of Adapters =============================================================== -November 15, 2005 +September 26, 2006 Contents @@ -9,6 +9,7 @@ Contents - In This Release - Identifying Your Adapter +- Building and Installation - Command Line Parameters - Speed and Duplex Configuration - Additional Configurations @@ -41,6 +42,9 @@ or later), lspci, and ifconfig to obtain the same information. Instructions on updating ethtool can be found in the section "Additional Configurations" later in this document. +NOTE: The Intel(R) 82562v 10/100 Network Connection only provides 10/100 +support. + Identifying Your Adapter ======================== @@ -51,28 +55,27 @@ Driver ID Guide at: http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/21397.htm For the latest Intel network drivers for Linux, refer to the following -website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the +website. In the search field, enter your adapter name or type, or use the networking link on the left to search for your adapter: http://downloadfinder.intel.com/scripts-df/support_intel.asp -Command Line Parameters ======================= +Command Line Parameters +======================= If the driver is built as a module, the following optional parameters -are used by entering them on the command line with the modprobe or insmod -command using this syntax: +are used by entering them on the command line with the modprobe command +using this syntax: modprobe e1000 [