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-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmitChecklist | 4 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/SubmittingPatches | 6 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt | 7 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt | 20 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/i386/boot.txt | 3 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 49 | ||||
-rw-r--r-- | Documentation/usb/CREDITS | 2 |
7 files changed, 72 insertions, 19 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist index 2270efa1015..bfbb2718a27 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmitChecklist +++ b/Documentation/SubmitChecklist @@ -72,3 +72,7 @@ kernel patches. If the new code is substantial, addition of subsystem-specific fault injection might be appropriate. + +22: Newly-added code has been compiled with `gcc -W'. This will generate + lots of noise, but is good for finding bugs like "warning: comparison + between signed and unsigned". diff --git a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches index 302d148c2e1..b0d0043f7c4 100644 --- a/Documentation/SubmittingPatches +++ b/Documentation/SubmittingPatches @@ -134,9 +134,9 @@ Do not send more than 15 patches at once to the vger mailing lists!!! Linus Torvalds is the final arbiter of all changes accepted into the -Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@osdl.org>. He gets -a lot of e-mail, so typically you should do your best to -avoid- sending -him e-mail. +Linux kernel. His e-mail address is <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>. +He gets a lot of e-mail, so typically you should do your best to -avoid- +sending him e-mail. Patches which are bug fixes, are "obvious" changes, or similarly require little discussion should be sent or CC'd to Linus. Patches diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt index fc532395d11..0ba6af02cda 100644 --- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt +++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt @@ -318,3 +318,10 @@ Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> --------------------------- + +What: JFFS (version 1) +When: 2.6.21 +Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years. +Who: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> + +--------------------------- diff --git a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt index 43b89c214d2..4d075a4558f 100644 --- a/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt +++ b/Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt @@ -73,8 +73,22 @@ OPTIONS RESOURCES ========= -The Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project -on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). +Our current recommendation is to use Inferno (http://www.vitanuova.com/inferno) +as the 9p server. You can start a 9p server under Inferno by issuing the +following command: + ; styxlisten -A tcp!*!564 export '#U*' + +The -A specifies an unauthenticated export. The 564 is the port # (you may +have to choose a higher port number if running as a normal user). The '#U*' +specifies exporting the root of the Linux name space. You may specify a +subset of the namespace by extending the path: '#U*'/tmp would just export +/tmp. For more information, see the Inferno manual pages covering styxlisten +and export. + +A Linux version of the 9p server is now maintained under the npfs project +on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/npfs). There is also a +more stable single-threaded version of the server (named spfs) available from +the same CVS repository. There are user and developer mailing lists available through the v9fs project on sourceforge (http://sourceforge.net/projects/v9fs). @@ -96,5 +110,5 @@ STATUS The 2.6 kernel support is working on PPC and x86. -PLEASE USE THE SOURCEFORGE BUG-TRACKER TO REPORT PROBLEMS. +PLEASE USE THE KERNEL BUGZILLA TO REPORT PROBLEMS. (http://bugzilla.kernel.org) diff --git a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt index 9575de300a6..38fe1f03fb1 100644 --- a/Documentation/i386/boot.txt +++ b/Documentation/i386/boot.txt @@ -2,7 +2,7 @@ ---------------------------- H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> - Last update 2006-11-17 + Last update 2007-01-26 On the i386 platform, the Linux kernel uses a rather complicated boot convention. This has evolved partially due to historical aspects, as @@ -186,6 +186,7 @@ filled out, however: 7 GRuB 8 U-BOOT 9 Xen + A Gujin Please contact <hpa@zytor.com> if you need a bootloader ID value assigned. diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index 5af6676a88f..07330681834 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -17,7 +17,7 @@ You can use common Linux commands, such as cp and scp, to copy the memory image to a dump file on the local disk, or across the network to a remote system. -Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64 and IA64 +Kdump and kexec are currently supported on the x86, x86_64, ppc64 and ia64 architectures. When the system kernel boots, it reserves a small section of memory for @@ -61,7 +61,12 @@ Install kexec-tools 2) Download the kexec-tools user-space package from the following URL: -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing-20061214.tar.gz +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz + +This is a symlink to the latest version, which at the time of writing is +20061214, the only release of kexec-tools-testing so far. As other versions +are made released, the older onese will remain available at +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/ Note: Latest kexec-tools-testing git tree is available at @@ -71,11 +76,11 @@ http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=su 3) Unpack the tarball with the tar command, as follows: - tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing-20061214.tar.gz + tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz -4) Change to the kexec-tools-1.101 directory, as follows: +4) Change to the kexec-tools directory, as follows: - cd kexec-tools-testing-20061214 + cd kexec-tools-testing-VERSION 5) Configure the package, as follows: @@ -224,7 +229,23 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ppc64) Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64) ---------------------------------------------------------- -(To be filled) + +- No specific options are required to create a dump-capture kernel + for ia64, other than those specified in the arch idependent section + above. This means that it is possible to use the system kernel + as a dump-capture kernel if desired. + + The crashkernel region can be automatically placed by the system + kernel at run time. This is done by specifying the base address as 0, + or omitting it all together. + + crashkernel=256M@0 + or + crashkernel=256M + + If the start address is specified, note that the start address of the + kernel will be aligned to 64Mb, so if the start address is not then + any space below the alignment point will be wasted. Boot into System Kernel @@ -243,6 +264,10 @@ Boot into System Kernel On ppc64, use "crashkernel=128M@32M". + On ia64, 256M@256M is a generous value that typically works. + The region may be automatically placed on ia64, see the + dump-capture kernel config option notes above. + Load the Dump-capture Kernel ============================ @@ -261,7 +286,8 @@ For x86_64: For ppc64: - Use vmlinux For ia64: - (To be filled) + - Use vmlinux or vmlinuz.gz + If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command to load dump-capture kernel. @@ -277,18 +303,19 @@ to load dump-capture kernel. --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \ --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" +Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64. +It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now +it should be omitted + Following are the arch specific command line options to be used while loading dump-capture kernel. -For i386 and x86_64: +For i386, x86_64 and ia64: "init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1" For ppc64: "init 1 maxcpus=1 noirqdistrib" -For IA64 - (To be filled) - Notes on loading the dump-capture kernel: diff --git a/Documentation/usb/CREDITS b/Documentation/usb/CREDITS index 01e7f857ef3..27a721635f9 100644 --- a/Documentation/usb/CREDITS +++ b/Documentation/usb/CREDITS @@ -21,7 +21,7 @@ difficult to maintain, add yourself with a patch if desired. Bill Ryder <bryder@sgi.com> Thomas Sailer <sailer@ife.ee.ethz.ch> Gregory P. Smith <greg@electricrain.com> - Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org> + Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Roman Weissgaerber <weissg@vienna.at> <Kazuki.Yasumatsu@fujixerox.co.jp> |