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-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmitChecklist4
-rw-r--r--Documentation/SubmittingPatches6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt7
-rw-r--r--Documentation/filesystems/9p.txt20
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i386/boot.txt3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt49
-rw-r--r--Documentation/usb/CREDITS2
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@@ -318,3 +318,10 @@ Why: /proc/acpi/button has been replaced by events to the input layer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+Why: Unmaintained for years, superceded by JFFS2 for years.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>