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106 files changed, 269 insertions, 204 deletions
@@ -637,14 +637,13 @@ S: 14509 NE 39th Street #1096 S: Bellevue, Washington 98007 S: USA -N: Christopher L. Cheney -E: ccheney@debian.org -E: ccheney@cheney.cx -W: http://www.cheney.cx +N: Chris Cheney +E: chris.cheney@gmail.com +E: ccheney@redhat.com P: 1024D/8E384AF2 2D31 1927 87D7 1F24 9FF9 1BC5 D106 5AB3 8E38 4AF2 D: Vista Imaging usb webcam driver -S: 314 Prince of Wales -S: Conroe, TX 77304 +S: 2308 Therrell Way +S: McKinney, TX 75070 S: USA N: Stuart Cheshire diff --git a/Documentation/00-INDEX b/Documentation/00-INDEX index 0c4cc688e89..38f8444bdd0 100644 --- a/Documentation/00-INDEX +++ b/Documentation/00-INDEX @@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ IPMI.txt IRQ-affinity.txt - how to select which CPU(s) handle which interrupt events on SMP. IRQ-domain.txt - - info on inerrupt numbering and setting up IRQ domains. + - info on interrupt numbering and setting up IRQ domains. IRQ.txt - description of what an IRQ is. Intel-IOMMU.txt diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram index ec93fe33baa..3f0b9ae61d8 100644 --- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram +++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-block-zram @@ -5,20 +5,21 @@ Description: The disksize file is read-write and specifies the disk size which represents the limit on the *uncompressed* worth of data that can be stored in this disk. + Unit: bytes What: /sys/block/zram<id>/initstate Date: August 2010 Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Description: - The disksize file is read-only and shows the initialization + The initstate file is read-only and shows the initialization state of the device. What: /sys/block/zram<id>/reset Date: August 2010 Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Description: - The disksize file is write-only and allows resetting the - device. The reset operation frees all the memory assocaited + The reset file is write-only and allows resetting the + device. The reset operation frees all the memory associated with this device. What: /sys/block/zram<id>/num_reads @@ -48,7 +49,7 @@ Contact: Nitin Gupta <ngupta@vflare.org> Description: The notify_free file is read-only and specifies the number of swap slot free notifications received by this device. These - notifications are send to a swap block device when a swap slot + notifications are sent to a swap block device when a swap slot is freed. This statistic is applicable only when this disk is being used as a swap disk. diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml index 9058224d1bb..f4e28e7d475 100644 --- a/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml +++ b/Documentation/DocBook/media/v4l/vidioc-g-parm.xml @@ -132,7 +132,7 @@ devices.</para> <row> <entry>&v4l2-fract;</entry> <entry><structfield>timeperframe</structfield></entry> - <entry><para>This is is the desired period between + <entry><para>This is the desired period between successive frames captured by the driver, in seconds. The field is intended to skip frames on the driver side, saving I/O bandwidth.</para><para>Applications store here the desired frame @@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ applications must set the array to zero.</entry> <row> <entry>&v4l2-fract;</entry> <entry><structfield>timeperframe</structfield></entry> - <entry>This is is the desired period between + <entry>This is the desired period between successive frames output by the driver, in seconds.</entry> </row> <row> diff --git a/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt b/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt index 7890fae1852..01a675175a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt +++ b/Documentation/IRQ-affinity.txt @@ -57,8 +57,8 @@ i.e counters for the CPU0-3 did not change. Here is an example of limiting that same irq (44) to cpus 1024 to 1031: -[root@moon 44]# echo 1024-1031 > smp_affinity -[root@moon 44]# cat smp_affinity +[root@moon 44]# echo 1024-1031 > smp_affinity_list +[root@moon 44]# cat smp_affinity_list 1024-1031 Note that to do this with a bitmask would require 32 bitmasks of zero diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 6e97e73d87b..26b1e31d5a1 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -109,6 +109,16 @@ probably didn't even receive earlier versions of the patch. If the patch fixes a logged bug entry, refer to that bug entry by number and URL. +If you want to refer to a specific commit, don't just refer to the +SHA-1 ID of the commit. Please also include the oneline summary of +the commit, to make it easier for reviewers to know what it is about. +Example: + + Commit e21d2170f36602ae2708 ("video: remove unnecessary + platform_set_drvdata()") removed the unnecessary + platform_set_drvdata(), but left the variable "dev" unused, + delete it. + 3) Separate your changes. diff --git a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt index d977778b5e6..aca4e69121b 100644 --- a/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt +++ b/Documentation/acpi/enumeration.txt @@ -207,7 +207,7 @@ passing those. One idea is to return this in _DSM method like: Return (Local0) } -Then the at25 SPI driver can get this configation by calling _DSM on its +Then the at25 SPI driver can get this configuration by calling _DSM on its ACPI handle like: struct acpi_buffer output = { ACPI_ALLOCATE_BUFFER, NULL }; diff --git a/Documentation/arm/OMAP/omap_pm b/Documentation/arm/OMAP/omap_pm index 9012bb03909..4ae915a9f89 100644 --- a/Documentation/arm/OMAP/omap_pm +++ b/Documentation/arm/OMAP/omap_pm @@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ to NULL. Drivers should use the following idiom: The most common usage of these functions will probably be to specify the maximum time from when an interrupt occurs, to when the device becomes accessible. To accomplish this, driver writers should use the -set_max_mpu_wakeup_lat() function to to constrain the MPU wakeup +set_max_mpu_wakeup_lat() function to constrain the MPU wakeup latency, and the set_max_dev_wakeup_lat() function to constrain the device wakeup latency (from clk_enable() to accessibility). For example, diff --git a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt index 9887f0414c1..f3bc72945cb 100644 --- a/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt +++ b/Documentation/block/cfq-iosched.txt @@ -69,7 +69,7 @@ one, this value should be decreased relative to fifo_expire_async. group_idle ----------- This parameter forces idling at the CFQ group level instead of CFQ -queue level. This was introduced after after a bottleneck was observed +queue level. This was introduced after a bottleneck was observed in higher end storage due to idle on sequential queue and allow dispatch from a single queue. The idea with this parameter is that it can be run with slice_idle=0 and group_idle=8, so that idling does not happen on individual diff --git a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt index 9b728dc1753..d79b008e4a3 100644 --- a/Documentation/cachetlb.txt +++ b/Documentation/cachetlb.txt @@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ changes occur: interface must make sure that any previous page table modifications for the address space 'vma->vm_mm' in the range 'start' to 'end-1' will be visible to the cpu. That is, after - running, here will be no entries in the TLB for 'mm' for + running, there will be no entries in the TLB for 'mm' for virtual addresses in the range 'start' to 'end-1'. The "vma" is the backing store being used for the region. @@ -375,8 +375,8 @@ maps this page at its virtual address. void flush_icache_page(struct vm_area_struct *vma, struct page *page) All the functionality of flush_icache_page can be implemented in - flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache. In 2.7 the hope is to - remove this interface completely. + flush_dcache_page and update_mmu_cache. In the future, the hope + is to remove this interface completely. The final category of APIs is for I/O to deliberately aliased address ranges inside the kernel. Such aliases are set up by use of the diff --git a/Documentation/cputopology.txt b/Documentation/cputopology.txt index 902d3151f52..0aad6deb2d9 100644 --- a/ |