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2009-11-24i2c: Drop probe, ignore and force module parametersJean Delvare
The legacy probe and force module parameters are obsolete now, the same can be achieved using the new_device sysfs interface, which is both more flexible and cheaper (it is implemented by i2c-core rather than replicated in every driver module.) The legacy ignore module parameters can be dropped as well. Ignoring can be done by instantiating a "dummy" device at the problematic address. This is the first step of a huge cleanup to i2c-core's i2c_detect function, i2c.h's I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD* macros, and all drivers that made use of them. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
2009-11-24i2c-voodoo3: DeleteJean Delvare
Superseded by tdfxfb. I2C/DDC support used to live in a separate driver but this caused driver conflicts. Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org> Cc: Krzysztof Helt <krzysztof.h1@wp.pl>
2009-11-23Merge commit 'v2.6.32-rc8' into HEADJ. Bruce Fields
2009-11-23ext3: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"Eric Sandeen
Users on the list recently complained about differences across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay. In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make that an alias for ext3. Also show this status in /proc/mounts Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-11-23kill wait_on_page_writeback_rangeChristoph Hellwig
All callers really want the more logical filemap_fdatawait_range interface, so convert them to use it and merge wait_on_page_writeback_range into filemap_fdatawait_range. Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> Signed-off-by: Jan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
2009-11-23doc: fix regulator docs cut-and-pasteismDr. David Alan Gilbert
Minor copy-and-pasteism in the regulator docs (against git from today): Signed-off-by: Dave Gilbert <linux@treblig.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-23USB: remove the auto_pm flagAlan Stern
This patch (as1302) removes the auto_pm flag from struct usb_device. The flag's only purpose was to distinguish between autosuspends and external suspends, but that information is now available in the pm_message_t argument passed to suspend methods. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-23USB: wusb: add wusb_phy_rate sysfs file to host controllersDavid Vrabel
Add the wusb_phy_rate sysfs file to Wireless USB host controllers. This sets the maximum PHY rate that will be used for all connected devices. Signed-off-by: David Vrabel <david.vrabel@csr.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-23USB: Add support for Xilinx USB host controllerJulie Zhu
Add bus glue driver for Xilinx USB host controller. The controller can be configured as HS only or HS/FS hybrid. The driver uses the device tree file to configure the driver according to the setting in the hardware system. This driver has been tested with usbtest using the NET2280 PCI card. Signed-off-by: Julie Zhu <julie.zhu@xilinx.com> Signed-off-by: John Linn <john.linn@xilinx.com> Acked-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-23tty: docs: serial/tty, add to ldisc methodsTilman Schmidt
A small addition to the ldisc method descriptions. Signed-off-by: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-23tty: esp: remove broken driverAlan Cox
The ESP driver has been marked broken for years. It's an old ISA device that clearly nobody cares about any more. Remove it Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2009-11-20Input: input-polldev, matrix-keypad - include in kernel docDmitry Torokhov
Make sure that polled input device and matrix keypad APIs are included with the rest of input API when generating kernel documentation. Also description of absres was missing as well. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2009-11-19Merge branch 'upstream-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2 * 'upstream-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jlbec/ocfs2: ocfs2: Trivial cleanup of jbd compatibility layer removal ocfs2: Refresh documentation ocfs2: return f_fsid info in ocfs2_statfs() ocfs2: duplicate inline data properly during reflink. ocfs2: Move ocfs2_complete_reflink to the right place. ocfs2: Return -EINVAL when a device is not ocfs2.
2009-11-20nilfs2: add norecovery mount optionRyusuke Konishi
This adds "norecovery" mount option which disables temporal write access to read-only mounts or snapshots during mount/recovery. Without this option, write access will be even performed for those types of mounts; the temporal write access is needed to mount root file system read-only after an unclean shutdown. This option will be helpful when user wants to prevent any write access to the device. Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp> Cc: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>
2009-11-20nilfs2: Using nobarrier option instead of barrier=offJiro SEKIBA
Since most of fs using nofoobar style option, modified barrier=off option as nobarrier. Signed-off-by: Jiro SEKIBA <jir@unicus.jp> Signed-off-by: Ryusuke Konishi <konishi.ryusuke@lab.ntt.co.jp>
2009-11-19ext4: make "norecovery" an alias for "noload"Eric Sandeen
Users on the linux-ext4 list recently complained about differences across filesystems w.r.t. how to mount without a journal replay. In the discussion it was noted that xfs's "norecovery" option is perhaps more descriptively accurate than "noload," so let's make that an alias for ext4. Also show this status in /proc/mounts Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-19ext4: make trim/discard optional (and off by default)Eric Sandeen
It is anticipated that when sb_issue_discard starts doing real work on trim-capable devices, we may see issues. Make this mount-time optional, and default it to off until we know that things are working out OK. Signed-off-by: Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: "Theodore Ts'o" <tytso@mit.edu>
2009-11-18Merge branch 'master' of ↵David S. Miller
master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Conflicts: drivers/net/sfc/sfe4001.c drivers/net/wireless/libertas/cmd.c drivers/staging/Kconfig drivers/staging/Makefile drivers/staging/rtl8187se/Kconfig drivers/staging/rtl8192e/Kconfig
2009-11-18Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-nextTakashi Iwai
2009-11-18ALSA: hda - Fix mute-LED sync on HP laptops with IDT92HD83xxx codecsTakashi Iwai
The mute-LED isn't synchronized with the actual mute state on some HP laptops with IDT 92HD83xxx codecs. A similar hack using check_power_status callback is added for this codec, too. Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-11-18sysctl: Remove CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBEREDEric W. Biederman
Now that the sysctl structures no longer have a ctl_name field there is no reason to retain the definitions for CTL_NONE and CTL_UNNUMBERED, or to explain their historic usage. Signed-off-by: Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
2009-11-17doc: Fix IRQ chip docsKrzysztof Halasa
This patch updates the IRQ docs to match reality. Signed-off-by: Krzysztof Halasa <khc@pm.waw.pl> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-17tree-wide: fix assorted typos all over the placeAndré Goddard Rosa
That is "success", "unknown", "through", "performance", "[re|un]mapping" , "access", "default", "reasonable", "[con]currently", "temperature" , "channel", "[un]used", "application", "example","hierarchy", "therefore" , "[over|under]flow", "contiguous", "threshold", "enough" and others. Signed-off-by: André Goddard Rosa <andre.goddard@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-17Merge branch 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc * 'hostprogs-wmissing-prototypes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/josh/linux-misc: Makefile: Add -Wmising-prototypes to HOSTCFLAGS oss: Mark loadhex static in hex2hex.c dtc: Mark various internal functions static dtc: Set "noinput" in the lexer to avoid an unused function drm: radeon: Mark several functions static in mkregtable arch/sparc/boot/*.c: Mark various internal functions static arch/powerpc/boot/addRamDisk.c: Mark several internal functions static arch/alpha/boot/tools/objstrip.c: Mark "usage" static Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open static genksyms: Mark is_reserved_word static kconfig: Mark various internal functions static kconfig: Make zconf.y work with current bison
2009-11-17trivial: some small fixes in exofs documentationThadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Add exofs.txt to filesystems Documentation index and fix some typos, identation and grammar. Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo <cascardo@holoscopio.com> Signed-off-by: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
2009-11-17net/can/mpc52xx_can: improve properties and their descriptionWolfram Sang
Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: devicetree-discuss@ozlabs.org Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-16backlight/thinkpad-acpi: issue backlight class eventsHenrique de Moraes Holschuh
Take advantage of the new events capabilities of the backlight class to notify userspace of backlight changes. Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br> Signed-off-by: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@linux.intel.com>
2009-11-16Merge branch 'topic/hda' into for-nextTakashi Iwai
2009-11-16ALSA: hda - Add description of beep_mode in ALSA-Configuration.txtTakashi Iwai
Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2009-11-16KVM: x86: Add KVM_GET/SET_VCPU_EVENTSJan Kiszka
This new IOCTL exports all yet user-invisible states related to exceptions, interrupts, and NMIs. Together with appropriate user space changes, this fixes sporadic problems of vmsave/restore, live migration and system reset. [avi: future-proof abi by adding a flags field] Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-11-16KVM: allow userspace to adjust kvmclock offsetGlauber Costa
When we migrate a kvm guest that uses pvclock between two hosts, we may suffer a large skew. This is because there can be significant differences between the monotonic clock of the hosts involved. When a new host with a much larger monotonic time starts running the guest, the view of time will be significantly impacted. Situation is much worse when we do the opposite, and migrate to a host with a smaller monotonic clock. This proposed ioctl will allow userspace to inform us what is the monotonic clock value in the source host, so we can keep the time skew short, and more importantly, never goes backwards. Userspace may also need to trigger the current data, since from the first migration onwards, it won't be reflected by a simple call to clock_gettime() anymore. [marcelo: future-proof abi with a flags field] [jan: fix KVM_GET_CLOCK by clearing flags field instead of checking it] Signed-off-by: Glauber Costa <glommer@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-11-16KVM: Xen PV-on-HVM guest supportEd Swierk
Support for Xen PV-on-HVM guests can be implemented almost entirely in userspace, except for handling one annoying MSR that maps a Xen hypercall blob into guest address space. A generic mechanism to delegate MSR writes to userspace seems overkill and risks encouraging similar MSR abuse in the future. Thus this patch adds special support for the Xen HVM MSR. I implemented a new ioctl, KVM_XEN_HVM_CONFIG, that lets userspace tell KVM which MSR the guest will write to, as well as the starting address and size of the hypercall blobs (one each for 32-bit and 64-bit) that userspace has loaded from files. When the guest writes to the MSR, KVM copies one page of the blob from userspace to the guest. I've tested this patch with a hacked-up version of Gerd's userspace code, booting a number of guests (CentOS 5.3 i386 and x86_64, and FreeBSD 8.0-RC1 amd64) and exercising PV network and block devices. [jan: fix i386 build warning] [avi: future proof abi with a flags field] Signed-off-by: Ed Swierk <eswierk@aristanetworks.com> Signed-off-by: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@siemens.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
2009-11-15Documentation/vm/page-types.c: Declare checked_open staticJosh Triplett
Nothing outside of Documentation/vm/page-types.c references checked_open. Signed-off-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
2009-11-15Merge branch 'x86/setup' into auto-latestIngo Molnar
2009-11-13net/can: add driver for mscan family & mpc52xx_mscanWolfram Sang
Taken from socketcan-svn, fixed remaining todos, cleaned up, tested with a phyCORE-MPC5200B-IO and a custom board. Signed-off-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Cc: Wolfgang Grandegger <wg@grandegger.com> Cc: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2009-11-13vc: Add support for hiding the cursor when creating VTsMatthew Garrett
Add support for setting a global default for whether or not a visible cursor should be enabled when creating VCs. The default will be to do so, unless overridden by the user at boot time or by a driver. Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> LKML-Reference: <1258143251-5818-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
2009-11-13ocfs2: Refresh documentationSunil Mushran
Signed-off-by: Sunil Mushran <sunil.mushran@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Joel Becker <joel.becker@oracle.com>
2009-11-13mpc52xx/wdt: OF property to enable the WDT on bootAlbrecht Dreß
Add the "fsl,wdt-on-boot" OF property as to reserve a GPT as WDT which may be a requirement in safety-related (e.g. ISO/EN 61508) applications. Signed-off-by: Albrecht Dreß <albrecht.dress@arcor.de> Signed-off-by: Grant Likely <grant.likely@secretlab.ca>
2009-11-13OMAP: DSS2: Documentation for DSS2Tomi Valkeinen
Signed-off-by: Tomi Valkeinen <tomi.valkeinen@nokia.com>
2009-11-13Merge branch 'for-linus' into for-nextJens Axboe
2009-11-11powerpc/86xx: Add power management support for MPC8610HPCD boardsAnton Vorontsov
This patch adds needed nodes and properties to support suspend/resume on the MPC8610HPCD boards. There is a dedicated switch (SW9) that is used to wake up the boards. By default the SW9 button is routed to IRQ8, but could be re-routed (via PIXIS) to sreset. With 'no_console_suspend' kernel command line argument specified, the board is also able to wakeup upon serial port input. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Acked-by: Scott Wood <scottwood@freescale.com> [dts] Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
2009-11-11fix typos/grammos in Documentation/edac.txtDavidlohr Bueso
Trivial patch fixes some typos in the Documentation/edac.txt file. Acked-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com> Signed-off-by: Davidlohr Bueso <dave@gnu.org> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-10Merge branch 'sched/core' into auto-latestIngo Molnar
2009-11-10Merge branch 'perf/probes' into auto-latestIngo Molnar
2009-11-10Merge branch 'core/signal' into auto-latestIngo Molnar
2009-11-10Merge branch 'linus' into auto-latestIngo Molnar
2009-11-09Merge branch 'i2c-for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging * 'i2c-for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jdelvare/staging: i2c: Add an interface to lock/unlock an I2C bus segment i2c-piix4: Modify code name SB900 to Hudson-2
2009-11-09signal: Print warning message when dropping signalsNaohiro Ooiwa
When the system has too many timers or too many aggregate queued signals, the EAGAIN error is returned to application from kernel, including timer_create() [POSIX.1b]. It means that the app exceeded the limit of pending signals, but in general application writers do not expect this outcome and the current silent failure can cause rare app failures under very high load. This patch adds a new message when we reach the limit and if print_fatal_signals is enabled: task/1234: reached RLIMIT_SIGPENDING, dropping signal If you see this message and your system behaved unexpectedly, you can run following command to lift the limit: # ulimit -i unlimited With help from Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com>. Signed-off-by: Naohiro Ooiwa <nooiwa@miraclelinux.com> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Hiroshi Shimamoto <h-shimamoto@ct.jp.nec.com> Cc: Roland McGrath <roland@redhat.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl> Cc: oleg@redhat.com LKML-Reference: <4AF6E7E2.9080406@miraclelinux.com> [ Modified a few small details, gave surrounding code some love. ] Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2009-11-09docs: Describe the 'C' taint flag in oops-tracing.txtNick Bowler
If some of the flags are documented there, they all should be. Signed-off-by: Nick Bowler <nbowler@elliptictech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>
2009-11-09docs: fix core_pipe_limit infoRandy Dunlap
Fix typos in core_pipe_limit info. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Cc: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com> Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>