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Jonathan Corbet
75b0214683 Add the development process document
This is an extended document intended to help interested developers, their
managers, and their employers work with the kernel development process.

This work was supported by the Linux Foundation.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-10-16 11:51:30 -06:00
Ingo Molnar
c00193f9f0 Merge branches 'oprofile-v2' and 'timers/hpet' into x86/core-v4 2008-10-13 14:18:42 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
83bd6998b0 Merge commit 'v2.6.27-rc6' into timers/hpet 2008-09-14 18:24:00 +02:00
Ingo Molnar
470fba7ebe Merge branch 'linus' into x86/doc 2008-08-21 13:28:24 +02:00
Mark Asselstine
f6ac436dcc Remove the deprecated cli() sti() functions
These functions have been deprecated for some time now but remained until
all legacy callers could be removed.  With a few commits in 2.6.26 this
has happened so now we can remove these deprecated functions.

Signed-off-by: Mark Asselstine <mark.asselstine@windriver.com>
Reviewed-by: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-08-05 14:33:48 -07:00
Ingo Molnar
85e9ca333d Merge branch 'linus' into timers/hpet 2008-07-31 18:43:41 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
7225e75144 documentation: move mtrr.txt to Doc/x86/ subdir
Move mtrr.txt to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to the Documentation/x86/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
2008-07-28 14:46:49 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
f557d0996a remove some more tipar bits
Some bits were missed when the tipar driver was removed.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-07-25 10:53:28 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
a300bec952 documentation: move hpet.txt to timers/ subdirectory
Move hpet.txt to Documentation/timers/ subdirectory.
Add 00-INDEX to Documentation/timers/ subdirectory.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: tglx <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-07-24 01:32:41 +02:00
Randy Dunlap
753d7054c3 documentation: remove smart-config.txt
As requested by Sam Ravnborg: Remove Documentation/smart-config.txt.

It is outdated and has been (functionally) replaced by
Documentation/kbuild/*.txt.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-04-25 18:24:20 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
4b5ff46923 PCI: doc/pci: create Documentation/PCI/ and move files into it
Create Documentation/PCI/ and move PCI-related files to it.
Fix a few instances of trailing whitespace.
Update references to the new file locations.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@virtuousgeek.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2008-04-20 21:46:51 -07:00
Thomas Gleixner
3833eecc18 Documentation: move timer related documentation to a single place
We have two directories with timer related information in
Documentation/: hrtimers/ and hrtimer/. timer_stats are not restricted
to hrtimers. Move all those files into Documentation/timers where we
can pile up other timer related docs as well.

Pointed-out-by: Randy Dunlap <randy@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
2008-04-17 12:22:31 +02:00
J. Bruce Fields
8bcd1cc293 Documentation: move rpc-cache.txt to filesystems/
This file is nfs-related.  (Maybe Documentation/filesystems/ would
benefit from a separate nfs/ directory at some point.)

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:20:52 -06:00
J. Bruce Fields
6ded55da6b Documentation: move nfsroot.txt to filesystems/
Documentation/ is a little large, and filesystems/ seems an obvious
place for this file.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
2008-04-11 13:18:01 -06:00
Randy Dunlap
53471121a8 documentation: Move power-related files to Documentation/power/
Move 00-INDEX entries to power/00-INDEX (and add entry for
pm_qos_interface.txt).

Update references to moved filenames.

Fix some trailing whitespace.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12 18:10:51 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
a09a20b526 laptops: move laptop-mode.txt to Documentation/laptops/
Move laptop-mode.txt into the laptops/ sub-directory to consolidate
laptop doc files there.

Update references to the file's location.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-03-12 02:37:21 -04:00
Randy Dunlap
1c10e93828 ide: update references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt (v2)
Fix all references to Documentation/ide/ide.txt.
Add/update ide/00-INDEX file.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Bartlomiej Zolnierkiewicz <bzolnier@gmail.com>
2008-03-07 21:53:50 +01:00
Venkatesh Pallipadi
fe8e288a63 cpuidle: Add Documentation
Documentation for cpuidle infrastructure. (resend)

Signed-off-by: Venkatesh Pallipadi <venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-14 00:16:13 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
018a651a9c sonypi - Move sonypi.txt to Documentation/laptops
Also update references to sonypi.txt in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:15:53 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
f04b7c402b sony-laptop - Move sony-laptop.txt to Documentation/laptops
Also update references to sony-laptop.txt in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:15:40 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
f191dc6b55 thinkpad-acpi - Move thinkpad-acpi.txt to Documentation/laptops
Also update references to thinkpad-acpi.txt in Kconfig.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:15:23 -05:00
Carlos Corbacho
d6ff365577 Documentation - Create laptops sub-directory
There are currently various laptop drivers floating about with no central
place for their documentation, which is currently scattered around the top
level Documentation/ directory.

So, as a first step, lets create a Documentation sub-directory, and update
the relevant index files. The work of then moving the existing laptop
driver related documentation will then be handled later.

Signed-off-by: Carlos Corbacho <carlos@strangeworlds.co.uk>
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
CC: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>
CC: Mattia Dongili <malattia@linux.it>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-09 04:14:59 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
f0f1b3364a Merge branch 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6
* 'release' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/lenb/linux-acpi-2.6: (112 commits)
  ACPI: fix build warning
  Revert "cpuidle: build fix for non-x86"
  ACPI: update intrd DSDT override console messages
  ACPI: update DSDT override documentation
  ACPI: Add "acpi_no_initrd_override" kernel parameter
  ACPI: its a directory not a folder....
  ACPI: misc cleanups
  ACPI: add missing prink prefix strings
  ACPI: cleanup acpi.h
  ACPICA: fix CONFIG_ACPI_DEBUG_FUNC_TRACE build
  ACPI: video: Ignore ACPI video devices that aren't present in hardware
  ACPI: video: reset brightness on resume
  ACPI: video: call ACPI notifier chain for ACPI video notifications
  ACPI: create notifier chain to get hotkey events to graphics driver
  ACPI: video: delete unused display switch on hotkey event code
  ACPI: video: create "brightness_switch_enabled" modparam
  cpuidle: Add a poll_idle method
  ACPI: cpuidle: Support C1 idle time accounting
  ACPI: enable MWAIT for C1 idle
  ACPI: idle: Fix acpi_safe_halt usages and interrupt enabling/disabling
  ...
2008-02-07 09:45:58 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
9b8eae7248 Documentation: create new scheduler/ subdirectory
The top-level Documentation/ directory is unmanageably large, so we
should take any obvious opportunities to move stuff into subdirectories.
These sched-*.txt files seem an obvious easy case.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
d3cf91d0e2 Documentation: move sharedsubtrees.txt to filesystems/
This documentation is also vfs-related.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
J. Bruce Fields
e9b1a4d160 Documentation: move dnotify.txt to filesystems/
I'm inclined to think dnotify belongs in filesystems/.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Adrian Bunk
4a6b88ca3d move edac.txt two levels up
There's no reason for edac.txt for being at this unusual place.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Cc: Doug Thompson <norsk5@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2008-02-07 08:42:17 -08:00
Len Brown
c64768a7d6 Merge branches 'release', 'bugzilla-6217', 'bugzilla-6629', 'bugzilla-6933', 'bugzilla-7186', 'bugzilla-8269', 'bugzilla-8570', 'bugzilla-9139', 'bugzilla-9277', 'bugzilla-9341', 'bugzilla-9444', 'bugzilla-9614', 'bugzilla-9643' and 'bugzilla-9644' into release 2008-02-07 03:09:43 -05:00
Adrian Bunk
0868ff7a42 move frv docs one level up
My first guess for "fujitsu" was it might be related to the
fujitsu-laptop.c driver...

Move the frv directory one level up since frv is the name of the
architecture in the Linux kernel.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2008-02-03 15:54:28 +02:00
Adrian Bunk
03502faa25 remove Documentation/smp.txt
After seeing the filename I'd have expected something about the
implementation of SMP in the Linux kernel - not some notes on kernel
configuration and building trivialities noone would search at this
place.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
2008-02-03 15:50:21 +02:00
Pavel Emelyanov
2868f89fc4 The namespaces compatibility list doc
People discuss how the namespaces are working/going-to-work together.

Ted Ts'o proposed to create some document that describes what problems user
may have when he/she creates some new namespace, but keeps others shared.
I liked this idea, so here's the initial version of such a document with
the problems I currently have in mind and can describe somewhat audibly -
the "namespaces compatibility list".

The Documentation/namespaces/ directory is about to contain more docs about
the namespaces stuff.

Thanks to Cedirc for notes and spell checks on the doc, to Daniel for
additional info about IPC and User namespaces interaction and to Randy, who
alluded me to using a spell checker before sending the documentation :)

Signed-off-by: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Daniel Lezcano <dlezcano@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: Theodore Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Cc: Cedric Le Goater <clg@fr.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-11-29 09:24:53 -08:00
Len Brown
b4d2730a0d ACPI: document method tracing hooks
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-11-19 12:25:56 -05:00
Rob Landley
5ef43567c5 Add missing entries to top level Documentation/00-INDEX
Add missing entries to Documentation/00-INDEX

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:06 -07:00
Robert P. J. Day
98612acd7d Documentation: delete unreferenced xterm-linux.xpm file
Signed-off-by: Robert P. J. Day <rpjday@mindspring.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17 08:43:05 -07:00
J. Bruce Fields
98257af5a2 Documentation: move locks.txt in filesystems/
This documentation (about file locking) belongs in filesystems/.

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
J. Bruce Fields
4f3b19ca41 Documentation: move mandatory locking documentation to filesystems/
Shouldn't this mandatory-locking documentation be in the
Documentation/filesystems directory?

Give it a more descriptive name while we're at it, and update 00-INDEX
with a more inclusive description of Documentation/filesystems (which
has already talked about more than just individual filesystems).

Signed-off-by: J. Bruce Fields <bfields@citi.umich.edu>
Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
2007-10-09 18:32:45 -04:00
Rob Landley
c811ac5366 Documentation/00-INDEX: notice ecryptfs.txt moved
ecryptfs.txt moved into filesystems, make 00-INDEX follow.

Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Cc: Michael Halcrow <mhalcrow@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-09-11 17:21:19 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
f6b07d39d7 Add missing files and dirs to 00-INDEX in Documentation/
Add descriptions for a number of missing files and directories to the
Documentation/00-INDEX file.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Acked-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-16 09:05:51 -07:00
Jeff Garzik
d916faace3 Remove long-unmaintained ftape driver subsystem.
It's bitrotten, long unmaintained, long hidden under BROKEN_ON_SMP,
etc.  As scheduled in feature-removal-schedule.txt, and ack'd several
times on lkml.

Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
2006-12-03 22:22:41 -05:00
Paul Moore
8802f616f6 [NetLabel]: documentation
Documentation for the NetLabel system, this includes a basic overview
of how NetLabel works, how LSM developers can integrate it into their
favorite LSM, as well as documentation on the CIPSO related sysctl
variables.  Also, due to the difficulty of finding expired IETF
drafts, I am including the IETF CIPSO draft that is the basis of the
NetLabel CIPSO implementation.

Signed-off-by: Paul Moore <paul.moore@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2006-09-22 14:53:31 -07:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
8907e94be2 [PATCH] update Documentation/00-INDEX
Update the index file with descriptions of the stable_api_nonsense.txt
and stable_kernel_rules.txt files.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-18 10:51:22 -08:00
Greg Kroah-Hartman
d36cc9d081 [PATCH] Add HOWTO do kernel development document to the Documentation directory
Here's a document that describes the process and procedures of how to do Linux
kernel development.  It has gone through a number of rounds of review on the
linux-kernel mailing list, and contains contributions and help from Paolo
Ciarrocchi, Randy Dunlap, Gerrit Huizenga, Pat Mochel, Hanna Linder, Kay
Sievers, Vojtech Pavlik, Jan Kara, Josh Boyer, Kees Cook, Andrew Morton, Andi
Kleen, Vadim Lobanov, Jesper Juhl, Adrian Bunk, Keri Harris, Frans Pop, David
A. Wheeler, Junio Hamano, Michael Kerrisk, and Alex Shepard.

Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-11-18 10:51:21 -08:00
Tobias Klauser
d533f67185 [PATCH] Spelling fixes for Documentation/
The attached patch fixes the following spelling errors in Documentation/
        - double "the"
        - Several misspellings of function/functionality
        - infomation
        - memeory
        - Recieved
        - wether
and possibly others which I forgot ;-)
Trailing whitespaces on the same line as the typo are also deleted.

Signed-off-by: Tobias Klauser <tklauser@nuerscht.ch>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Jesper Juhl
754c79768e [PATCH] Documentation: how to apply patches for various trees
Add a new document describing the major kernel trees and how to apply their
patches.

Signed-off-by: Jesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:42 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
b089f4a68e [PATCH] kdump: Documentation for Kdump
This patch contains the documentation for the kexec based crash dump tool.

Quick kdump-howto
================================================================

1) Download and build kexec-tools.

2) Download and build the latest kexec/kdump (-mm) kernel patchset.
   Two kernels need to be built in order to get this feature working.

  A) First kernel:
   a) Enable "kexec system call" feature:
	CONFIG_KEXEC=y
   b) Physical load address (use default):
	CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x100000
   c) Enable "sysfs file system support":
	CONFIG_SYSFS=y
   d) Boot into first kernel with the command line parameter "crashkernel=Y@X":
      For example: "crashkernel=64M@16M".

  B) Second kernel:
   a) Enable "kernel crash dumps" feature:
	CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
   b) Physical load addreess, use same load address as X in "crashkernel"
      kernel parameter in d) above, e.g., 16 MB or 0x1000000.
	CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START=0x1000000
   c) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" (Optional, in Pseudo filesystems).
	CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y

3) Boot into the first kernel.

4) Load the second kernel to be booted using:

   kexec -p <second-kernel> --crash-dump --args-linux --append="root=<root-dev>
   maxcpus=1 init 1"

5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be
   written to force the panic, for testing purposes.

6) See Documentation/kdump.txt for how to read the first kernel's
   memory image and how to analyze it.

Signed-off-by: Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: randy_dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-06-25 16:24:52 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
dfc1e14854 [PATCH] remove BK documentation
There's no longer a reason to document the obsolete BK usage.

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-05-05 16:36:42 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
1da177e4c3 Linux-2.6.12-rc2
Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!
2005-04-16 15:20:36 -07:00