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author | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2006-12-08 01:07:56 -0500 |
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committer | Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@insightbb.com> | 2006-12-08 01:07:56 -0500 |
commit | bef986502fa398b1785a3979b1aa17cd902d3527 (patch) | |
tree | b59c1afe7b1dfcc001b86e54863f550d7ddc8c34 /Documentation | |
parent | 4bdbd2807deeccc0793d57fb5120d7a53f2c0b3c (diff) | |
parent | c99767974ebd2a719d849fdeaaa1674456f5283f (diff) |
Merge rsync://rsync.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6
Conflicts:
drivers/usb/input/hid.h
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation')
106 files changed, 2258 insertions, 1290 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 02457ec9c94..f08ca953573 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -104,8 +104,6 @@ firmware_class/ - request_firmware() hotplug interface info. floppy.txt - notes and driver options for the floppy disk driver. -ftape.txt - - notes about the floppy tape device driver. hayes-esp.txt - info on using the Hayes ESP serial driver. highuid.txt diff --git a/Documentation/Changes b/Documentation/Changes index abee7f58c1e..73a8617f186 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 2ffb0d62f0f..805db4b2cba 100644 --- a/Documentation/DMA-API.txt +++ b/Documentation/DMA-API.txt @@ -77,7 +77,7 @@ To get this part of the dma_ API, you must #include <linux/dmapool.h> Many drivers need lots of small dma-coherent memory regions for DMA descriptors or I/O buffers. Rather than allocating in units of a page or more using dma_alloc_coherent(), you can use DMA pools. These work -much like a kmem_cache_t, except that they use the dma-coherent allocator +much like a struct kmem_cache, except that they use the dma-coherent allocator not __get_free_pages(). Also, they understand common hardware constraints for alignment, like queue heads needing to be aligned on N byte boundaries. @@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ The pool create() routines initialize a pool of dma-coherent buffers for use with a given device. It must be called in a context which can sleep. -The "name" is for diagnostics (like a kmem_cache_t name); dev and size +The "name" is for diagnostics (like a struct kmem_cache name); dev and size are like what you'd pass to dma_alloc_coherent(). The device's hardware alignment requirement for this type of data is "align" (which is expressed in bytes, and must be a power of two). If your device has no boundary @@ -431,10 +431,10 @@ be identical to those passed in (and returned by dma_alloc_noncoherent()). int -dma_is_consistent(dma_addr_t dma_handle) +dma_is_consistent(struct device *dev, dma_addr_t dma_handle) -returns true if the memory pointed to by the dma_handle is actually -consistent. +returns true if the device dev is performing consistent DMA on the memory +area pointed to by the dma_handle. int dma_get_cache_alignment(void) @@ -459,7 +459,7 @@ anything like this. You must also be extra careful about accessing memory you intend to sync partially. void -dma_cache_sync(void *vaddr, size_t size, +dma_cache_sync(struct device *dev, void *vaddr, size_t size, enum dma_data_direction direction) Do a partial sync of memory that was allocated by @@ -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 705f6be92bd..e767805b418 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 db9499adbed..36526a1e76d 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/Makefile @@ -190,9 +190,13 @@ quiet_cmd_fig2png = FIG2PNG $@ ### # Help targets as used by the top-level makefile dochelp: - @echo ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:' - @echo ' xmldocs (XML DocBook), psdocs (Postscript), pdfdocs (PDF)' - @echo ' htmldocs (HTML), mandocs (man pages, use installmandocs to install)' + @echo ' Linux kernel internal documentation in different formats:' + @echo ' htmldocs - HTML' + @echo ' installmandocs - install man pages generated by mandocs' + @echo ' mandocs - man pages' + @echo ' pdfdocs - PDF' + @echo ' psdocs - Postscript' + @echo ' xmldocs - XML DocBook' ### # Temporary files left by various tools diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl index a1af278f990..3fa0c4b4541 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/kernel-api.tmpl @@ -418,9 +418,35 @@ X!Edrivers/pnp/system.c !Idrivers/parport/daisy.c </chapter> - <chapter id="viddev"> - <title>Video4Linux</title> -!Edrivers/media/video/videodev.c + <chapter id="message_devices"> + <title>Message-based devices</title> + <sect1><title>Fusion message devices</title> +!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptbase.c +!Edrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptscsih.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptctl.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptspi.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptfc.c +!Idrivers/message/fusion/mptlan.c + </sect1> + <sect1><title>I2O message devices</title> +!Iinclude/linux/i2o.h +!Idrivers/message/i2o/core.h +!Edrivers/message/i2o/iop.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/iop.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/config-osm.c +!Edrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/exec-osm.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/bus-osm.c +!Edrivers/message/i2o/device.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/device.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/driver.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/pci.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_block.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_scsi.c +!Idrivers/message/i2o/i2o_proc.c + </sect1> </chapter> <chapter id="snddev"> diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/writing_usb_driver.tmpl index 07cd34c1940..d4188d4ff53 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); } </programlisting> diff --git a/Documentation/IPMI.txt b/Documentation/IPMI.txt index 0e3924ecd76..24dc3fcf159 100644 --- a/Documentation/IPMI.txt +++ b/Documentation/IPMI.txt @@ -365,6 +365,7 @@ You can change this at module load time (for a module) with: regshifts=<shift1>,<shift2>,... slave_addrs=<addr1>,<addr2>,... force_kipmid=<enable1>,<enable2>,... + unload_when_empty=[0|1] |