linux.git/Documentation, branch v2.6.21 Linux kernel source tree Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2007-04-25T01:20:32+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org 2007-04-25T01:20:32+00:00 12145387a042e8aa4439485f8976e6992a529b12 * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [BNX2]: Fix occasional NETDEV WATCHDOG on 5709. [IPV6]: Disallow RH0 by default. [XFRM]: beet: fix pseudo header length value [TCP]: Congestion control initialization. 
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [BNX2]: Fix occasional NETDEV WATCHDOG on 5709.
  [IPV6]: Disallow RH0 by default.
  [XFRM]: beet: fix pseudo header length value
  [TCP]: Congestion control initialization.
[IPV6]: Disallow RH0 by default. 2007-04-24T21:58:30+00:00 YOSHIFUJI Hideaki yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org 2007-04-24T21:58:30+00:00 0bcbc92629044b5403719f77fb015e9005b1f504 A security issue is emerging. Disallow Routing Header Type 0 by default as we have been doing for IPv4. Note: We allow RH2 by default because it is harmless. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
A security issue is emerging.  Disallow Routing Header Type 0 by default
as we have been doing for IPv4.
Note: We allow RH2 by default because it is harmless.

Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@linux-ipv6.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
[PATCH] x86: Remove noreplacement option 2007-04-24T11:05:37+00:00 Andi Kleen ak@suse.de 2007-04-24T11:05:37+00:00 9ce883becb83190061369940de9c415595836c9b noreplacement is dangerous on modern systems because it will not replace the context switch FNSAVE with SSE aware FXSAVE. But other places in the kernel still assume SSE and do FXSAVE and the CPU will then access FXSAVE information with FNSAVE and cause corruption. Easiest way to avoid this is to remove the option. It was mostly for paranoia reasons anyways and alternative()s have been stable for some time. Thanks to Jeremy F. for reporting and helping debug it. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> 
noreplacement is dangerous on modern systems because it will not replace the
context switch FNSAVE with SSE aware FXSAVE. But other places in the kernel still assume
SSE and do FXSAVE and the CPU will then access FXSAVE information with
FNSAVE and cause corruption.

Easiest way to avoid this is to remove the option. It was mostly for paranoia
reasons anyways and alternative()s have been stable for some time.

Thanks to Jeremy F. for reporting and helping debug it.

Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
[PATCH] doc: gpio.txt describes open-drain emulation 2007-04-12T22:31:42+00:00 David Brownell david-b@pacbell.net 2007-04-12T06:28:42+00:00 1668be71ccae5a9610fc8a224bd80fbe852f93ae Update the GPIO docs to describe the idiom whereby open drain signals are emulated by toggling the GPIO direction. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
Update the GPIO docs to describe the idiom whereby open drain signals are
emulated by toggling the GPIO direction.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
ieee1394: change deprecation status of dv1394 2007-04-09T16:52:27+00:00 Stefan Richter stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de 2007-03-21T23:40:06+00:00 199c1167f5e8123a9b0a9ab1e8b78a6aa4b2733f Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no justification to remove dv1394 right now. Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense, especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive alternative to the existing ones. But we don't have a schedule at the moment. Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de> 
Nobody ported ffmpeg from dv1394 to rawiso yet, and there is no
justification to remove dv1394 right now.

Nevertheless, a strong deprecation of this ABI makes a lot of sense,
especially as Kristian H's drivers shape up to be an attractive
alternative to the existing ones.  But we don't have a schedule at the
moment.

Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
[PATCH] CPUSETS: add mems to basic usage documentation 2007-04-02T17:06:08+00:00 Simon Horman horms@verge.net.au 2007-04-02T06:49:40+00:00 2400ff77e7025bf6ffb71afdcbfbdd9aa47dfc36 It seems that there must be at least one node in mems and at least one CPU in cpus in order to be able to assign tasks to a cpuset. This makes sense. And I think it would also make sense to include a mems setting in the basic usage section of the documentation. I also wonder if something logged to dmsg, explaining why a write failed, would be a good enhancement. I ended up having rummage arround in cpuset.c in order to work out why my configuration was failing. Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au> Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com> Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> 
It seems that there must be at least one node in mems and at least one CPU
in cpus in order to be able to assign tasks to a cpuset.  This makes sense.
 And I think it would also make sense to include a mems setting in the
basic usage section of the documentation.

I also wonder if something logged to dmsg, explaining why a write failed,
would be a good enhancement.  I ended up having rummage arround in cpuset.c
in order to work out why my configuration was failing.

Signed-off-by: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
Acked-by: Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>
Cc: Paul Menage <menage@google.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Revert "ACPI: parse 2nd MADT by default" 2007-03-30T18:16:10+00:00 Len Brown len.brown@intel.com 2007-03-30T18:16:10+00:00 4e381a4f06e3c7b350b55a2636b9d45691780eba This reverts commit 09fe58356d148ff66901ddf639e725ca1a48a0af. http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8283 Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com> 
This reverts commit 09fe58356d148ff66901ddf639e725ca1a48a0af.
http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8283

Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2007-03-26T21:51:24+00:00 Linus Torvalds torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org 2007-03-26T21:51:24+00:00 703071b5b93d88d5acb0edd5b9dd86c69ad970f2 * master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6: [SUNGEM]: Fix MAC address setting when interface is up. [IPV4] fib_trie: Document locking. [NET]: Correct accept(2) recovery after sock_attach_fd() [PPP]: Don't leak an sk_buff on interface destruction. [NET_SCHED]: Fix ingress locking [NET_SCHED]: cls_basic: fix NULL pointer dereference [DCCP]: make dccp_write_xmit_timer() static again [TG3]: Update version and reldate. [TG3]: Exit irq handler during chip reset. [TG3]: Eliminate the unused TG3_FLAG_SPLIT_MODE flag. [IPV6]: Fix routing round-robin locking. [DECNet] fib: Fix out of bound access of dn_fib_props[] [IPv4] fib: Fix out of bound access of fib_props[] [NET] AX.25 Kconfig and docs updates and fixes [NET]: Fix neighbour destructor handling. [NET]: Fix fib_rules compatibility breakage [SCTP]: Update SCTP Maintainers entry [NET]: remove unused header file: drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.h 
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6:
  [SUNGEM]: Fix MAC address setting when interface is up.
  [IPV4] fib_trie: Document locking.
  [NET]: Correct accept(2) recovery after sock_attach_fd()
  [PPP]: Don't leak an sk_buff on interface destruction.
  [NET_SCHED]: Fix ingress locking
  [NET_SCHED]: cls_basic: fix NULL pointer dereference
  [DCCP]: make dccp_write_xmit_timer() static again
  [TG3]: Update version and reldate.
  [TG3]: Exit irq handler during chip reset.
  [TG3]: Eliminate the unused TG3_FLAG_SPLIT_MODE flag.
  [IPV6]: Fix routing round-robin locking.
  [DECNet] fib: Fix out of bound access of dn_fib_props[]
  [IPv4] fib: Fix out of bound access of fib_props[]
  [NET] AX.25 Kconfig and docs updates and fixes
  [NET]: Fix neighbour destructor handling.
  [NET]: Fix fib_rules compatibility breakage
  [SCTP]: Update SCTP Maintainers entry
  [NET]: remove unused header file: drivers/net/wan/lmc/lmc_media.h
PCI: Fix up PCI power management doc 2007-03-26T21:13:07+00:00 Jonathan Corbet corbet@lwn.net 2007-03-22T22:53:40+00:00 5fabdb94394bef0651479fc14394121c60d5aff7 Update the documentation of PCI power management functions. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> 
Update the documentation of PCI power management functions.

Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
[NET] AX.25 Kconfig and docs updates and fixes 2007-03-26T01:48:02+00:00 Ralf Baechle ralf@linux-mips.org 2007-03-24T19:54:26+00:00 954b2e7f4c37cbcdcf4ca7ac47524f3f6bf30119 o The AX.25 Howto is unmaintained since several years. I've replaced it with a wiki at http://www.linux-ax25.org which provides more uptodate information. o Change default for AX25_DAMA_SLAVE to Y. AX25_DAMA_SLAVE only compiles in support for DAMA but doesn't activate it. I hope this gets Linux distributions to ship their AX.25 kernels with AX25_DAMA_SLAVE enabled. The price for this would be very small. o Delete historic changelog from comments, that's what SCM systems are meant to do. o ---help--- in Kconfig looks so yellingly eye insulting. Use just help. o Rewrite the commented out piece of old Linux 2.4 configuration language to Kconfig for consistency. o Fixup dependencies. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> 
 o The AX.25 Howto is unmaintained since several years.  I've replaced it
   with a wiki at http://www.linux-ax25.org which provides more uptodate
   information.
 o Change default for AX25_DAMA_SLAVE to Y.  AX25_DAMA_SLAVE only compiles
   in support for DAMA but doesn't activate it.  I hope this gets Linux
   distributions to ship their AX.25 kernels with AX25_DAMA_SLAVE enabled.
   The price for this would be very small.
 o Delete historic changelog from comments, that's what SCM systems are
   meant to do.
 o ---help--- in Kconfig looks so yellingly eye insulting.  Use just help.
 o Rewrite the commented out piece of old Linux 2.4 configuration language
   to Kconfig for consistency.
 o Fixup dependencies.

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>