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<title>Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial</title>
<updated>2010-03-13T00:04:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
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<published>2010-03-13T00:04:50+00:00</published>
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -&gt; "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -&gt; "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
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* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jikos/trivial: (56 commits)
  doc: fix typo in comment explaining rb_tree usage
  Remove fs/ntfs/ChangeLog
  doc: fix console doc typo
  doc: cpuset: Update the cpuset flag file
  Fix of spelling in arch/sparc/kernel/leon_kernel.c no longer needed
  Remove drivers/parport/ChangeLog
  Remove drivers/char/ChangeLog
  doc: typo - Table 1-2 should refer to "status", not "statm"
  tree-wide: fix typos "ass?o[sc]iac?te" -&gt; "associate" in comments
  No need to patch AMD-provided drivers/gpu/drm/radeon/atombios.h
  devres/irq: Fix devm_irq_match comment
  Remove reference to kthread_create_on_cpu
  tree-wide: Assorted spelling fixes
  tree-wide: fix 'lenght' typo in comments and code
  drm/kms: fix spelling in error message
  doc: capitalization and other minor fixes in pnp doc
  devres: typo fix s/dev/devm/
  Remove redundant trailing semicolons from macros
  fix typo "definetly" -&gt; "definitely" in comment
  tree-wide: s/widht/width/g typo in comments
  ...

Fix trivial conflict in Documentation/laptops/00-INDEX
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<entry>
<title>Documentation/laptop/: split txt and source files</title>
<updated>2010-03-12T23:52:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Randy Dunlap</name>
<email>randy.dunlap@oracle.com</email>
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<published>2010-03-10T23:21:56+00:00</published>
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Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt:
Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/ directory in
their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files.
This should help to prevent bitrot.

This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need
to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and
to anyone who would fix/update them if they were more visible.

Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at
all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if
they should be removed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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Documentation/laptops/laptop-mode.txt:
Expose example and tool source files in the Documentation/ directory in
their own files instead of being buried (almost hidden) in readme/txt files.
This should help to prevent bitrot.

This will make them more visible/usable to users who may need
to use them, to developers who may need to test with them, and
to anyone who would fix/update them if they were more visible.

Also, if any of these possibly should not be in the kernel tree at
all, it will be clearer that they are here and we can discuss if
they should be removed.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap &lt;randy.dunlap@oracle.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton &lt;akpm@linux-foundation.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds &lt;torvalds@linux-foundation.org&gt;
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<entry>
<title>Merge branch 'for-next' into for-linus</title>
<updated>2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Jiri Kosina</name>
<email>jkosina@suse.cz</email>
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<published>2010-03-08T15:55:37+00:00</published>
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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Conflicts:
	Documentation/filesystems/proc.txt
	arch/arm/mach-u300/include/mach/debug-macro.S
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_ethtool.c
	drivers/net/qlge/qlge_main.c
	drivers/net/typhoon.c
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<entry>
<title>thinkpad-acpi: lock down video output state access</title>
<updated>2010-02-26T01:22:22+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2010-02-26T01:22:22+00:00</published>
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Given the right combination of ThinkPad and X.org, just reading the
video output control state is enough to hard-crash X.org.

Until the day I somehow find out a model or BIOS cut date to not
provide this feature to ThinkPads that can do video switching through
X RandR, change permissions so that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
can access any sort of video output control state.

This bug could be considered a local DoS I suppose, as it allows any
non-privledged local user to cause some versions of X.org to
hard-crash some ThinkPads.

Reported-by: Jidanni &lt;jidanni@jidanni.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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Given the right combination of ThinkPad and X.org, just reading the
video output control state is enough to hard-crash X.org.

Until the day I somehow find out a model or BIOS cut date to not
provide this feature to ThinkPads that can do video switching through
X RandR, change permissions so that only processes with CAP_SYS_ADMIN
can access any sort of video output control state.

This bug could be considered a local DoS I suppose, as it allows any
non-privledged local user to cause some versions of X.org to
hard-crash some ThinkPads.

Reported-by: Jidanni &lt;jidanni@jidanni.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: stable@kernel.org
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<entry>
<title>doc: update 00-INDEX for Documentation/laptops/</title>
<updated>2010-02-05T11:22:38+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo</name>
<email>cascardo@holoscopio.com</email>
</author>
<published>2010-01-17T20:30:05+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@holoscopio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo &lt;cascardo@holoscopio.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina &lt;jkosina@suse.cz&gt;
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<entry>
<title>thinkpad-acpi: update volume subdriver documentation</title>
<updated>2009-12-27T03:37:58+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-27T00:52:16+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<entry>
<title>thinkpad-acpi: bump version to 0.24</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T05:00:11+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T23:51:13+00:00</published>
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Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: basic ALSA mixer support (v2)</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T04:57:44+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T23:51:11+00:00</published>
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Add the basic ALSA mixer functionality.  The mixer is event-driven,
and will work fine on IBM ThinkPads.  I expect Lenovo ThinkPads will
cause some trouble with the event interface.

Heavily based on work by Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
and ideas from Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Add the basic ALSA mixer functionality.  The mixer is event-driven,
and will work fine on IBM ThinkPads.  I expect Lenovo ThinkPads will
cause some trouble with the event interface.

Heavily based on work by Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
and ideas from Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: disable volume control</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T04:57:35+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T23:51:10+00:00</published>
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Disable volume control by default.  It can be enabled at module load
time by a module parameter (volume_control=1).

The audio control mixer that thinkpad-acpi interacts with is fully
functional without any drivers, and operated by hotkeys.

The idea behind the console audio control is that the human operator
is the only one that can interact with it.  The ThinkVantage suite in
Windows does not allow any software-based overrides, and only does OSD
(on-screen-display) functions.

The Linux driver will, with the addition of the ALSA interface, try to
follow and enforce the ThinkVantage UI design:

The user is supposed to use the keyboard hotkeys to interact with the
console audio control.  The kernel and the desktop environment is
supposed to cooperate to provide proper user feedback through
on-screen-display functions.

Distros are urged to not to enable volume control by default.
Enabling this must be a local admin's decision.  This is the reason
why there is no Kconfig option.

Keep in mind that all ThinkPads have a normal, main mixer (AC97 or
HDA) for regular software-based audio control.  We are not talking
about that mixer here.

Advanced users are, of course, free to enable volume control and do as
they please.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Disable volume control by default.  It can be enabled at module load
time by a module parameter (volume_control=1).

The audio control mixer that thinkpad-acpi interacts with is fully
functional without any drivers, and operated by hotkeys.

The idea behind the console audio control is that the human operator
is the only one that can interact with it.  The ThinkVantage suite in
Windows does not allow any software-based overrides, and only does OSD
(on-screen-display) functions.

The Linux driver will, with the addition of the ALSA interface, try to
follow and enforce the ThinkVantage UI design:

The user is supposed to use the keyboard hotkeys to interact with the
console audio control.  The kernel and the desktop environment is
supposed to cooperate to provide proper user feedback through
on-screen-display functions.

Distros are urged to not to enable volume control by default.
Enabling this must be a local admin's decision.  This is the reason
why there is no Kconfig option.

Keep in mind that all ThinkPads have a normal, main mixer (AC97 or
HDA) for regular software-based audio control.  We are not talking
about that mixer here.

Advanced users are, of course, free to enable volume control and do as
they please.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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<title>thinkpad-acpi: support MUTE-only ThinkPads</title>
<updated>2009-12-16T04:57:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Henrique de Moraes Holschuh</name>
<email>hmh@hmh.eng.br</email>
</author>
<published>2009-12-15T23:51:09+00:00</published>
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Lenovo removed the extra mixer since the T61 and thereabouts.
Newer Lenovo models only have the mute gate function, and leave
the volume control to the HDA mixer.

Until a way to automatically query the firmware about its audio
control capabilities is discovered (there might not be any), use a
white/black list.

We will likely need to ask T60 (old and new model) and Z60/Z61 users
whether they have volume control to populate the black/white list.
Meanwhile, provide a volume_capabilities parameter that can be used to
override the defaults.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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Lenovo removed the extra mixer since the T61 and thereabouts.
Newer Lenovo models only have the mute gate function, and leave
the volume control to the HDA mixer.

Until a way to automatically query the firmware about its audio
control capabilities is discovered (there might not be any), use a
white/black list.

We will likely need to ask T60 (old and new model) and Z60/Z61 users
whether they have volume control to populate the black/white list.
Meanwhile, provide a volume_capabilities parameter that can be used to
override the defaults.

Signed-off-by: Henrique de Moraes Holschuh &lt;hmh@hmh.eng.br&gt;
Cc: Lorne Applebaum &lt;lorne.applebaum@gmail.com&gt;
Cc: Matthew Garrett &lt;mjg@redhat.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Len Brown &lt;len.brown@intel.com&gt;
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