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David Howells
664cceb009 [PATCH] Keys: Add possessor permissions to keys [try #3]
The attached patch adds extra permission grants to keys for the possessor of a
key in addition to the owner, group and other permissions bits. This makes
SUID binaries easier to support without going as far as labelling keys and key
targets using the LSM facilities.

This patch adds a second "pointer type" to key structures (struct key_ref *)
that can have the bottom bit of the address set to indicate the possession of
a key. This is propagated through searches from the keyring to the discovered
key. It has been made a separate type so that the compiler can spot attempts
to dereference a potentially incorrect pointer.

The "possession" attribute can't be attached to a key structure directly as
it's not an intrinsic property of a key.

Pointers to keys have been replaced with struct key_ref *'s wherever
possession information needs to be passed through.

This does assume that the bottom bit of the pointer will always be zero on
return from kmem_cache_alloc().

The key reference type has been made into a typedef so that at least it can be
located in the sources, even though it's basically a pointer to an undefined
type. I've also renamed the accessor functions to be more useful, and all
reference variables should now end in "_ref".

Signed-Off-By: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 09:10:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
909021ea7a [PATCH] fuse: add required version info
Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes.  Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.

Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-28 07:46:40 -07:00
Harald Welte
86513e726b [PATCH] documentation: sparse no longer uses bk, but git
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-23 13:35:37 -07:00
Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso
e484585ec3 [PATCH] Add dm-snapshot tutorial in Documentation
I've recently discovered the real functionality of device-mapper snapshots,
and since they are not well known, I've decided to write some docs for
them.

Signed-off-by: Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>
Signed-off-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 22:17:37 -07:00
Alan Stern
0fc084eaff [PATCH] USB: Update Documentation/usb/URB.txt
This patch (as564) updates Documentation/usb/URB.txt, bringing it roughly
up to the current level.

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-22 07:58:26 -07:00
Christoph Hellwig
8f91648dcb [PATCH] fixup Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmpl
__FUNCTION__ is the prefered kernel idiom, __func__ is not supported by gcc
2.95 (we actually map __FUNCTION__ to __func__ for more recent compilers,
but it should never be used directly)

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-21 10:11:55 -07:00
Pekka J Enberg
af4e5a218e [PATCH] CodingStyle: memory allocation
This patch adds a new chapter on memory allocation to
Documentation/CodingStyle.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Abhay Salunke
e61c0e336f [PATCH] dell_rbu: enhancements and fixes
BUG fixes:

  The driver used to allocate memory with spinlock held which has been
  fixed in this patch.

  The driver was printing the entire buffer when it received a invalid
  entry in image_type.  The fix is to only print a warning message and not
  the buffer.

Usability enhancements:

  It is possible that due to user error the /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu
  entries might be missing, this can happen if the user does the following

	echo 1 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading
	echo 0 > /sys/class/firmware/dell_rbu/loading

  This will make the entries in /sys/class/firmware/ to disappear and the
  only way get them back was bby unloading and loading the driver.

  This patch makes the user recreate these entries by echoing init in to
  image_type.

This patch has been tested with Libsmbios and Dell OpenManage.

Signed-off-by: Abhay Salunke <Abhay_Salunke@dell.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:02 -07:00
Marcelo Tosatti
afeda2c24e [PATCH] relayfs documentation typo
Small typo in relayfs documentation.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-17 11:50:01 -07:00
Keith Owens
8ee9e23d41 [IA64] Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txt
Add Documentation/ia64/mca.txt, an ad-hoc collection of notes on IA64
MCA and INIT processing.

Signed-off-by: Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
2005-09-16 10:34:16 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
63f3d1df1a Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/perex/alsa-current 2005-09-13 09:46:22 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
33bf56106d [PATCH] feature removal of io_remap_page_range()
As written in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt, remove the
io_remap_page_range() kernel API.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
64ccd0cfa1 [PATCH] More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txt
Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second kernel,
as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Pavel Machek
f4f9eb0ea1 [PATCH] Tell people not to use pm_register()
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:33 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
1cc5753f86 [PATCH] Doc: update oops-tracing.txt (Tainted flags)
Update Documentation/oops-tracing.txt:

- add descriptions of 3 more "Tainted" flags;
- fix some typos;

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:32 -07:00
Mike Miller
9dc7a86e85 [PATCH] cciss: new controller pci/subsystem ids
This patch adds new PCI and subsystem ID's that finally made the spec.  It
also include a name change for one controller.  I know there's a lot of
duplicat names but the fw folks wanted this for the different implementations.

Even though the same ASIC is used it may be embedded on some platforms,
standup card in others, and a mezzanine in other servers.

Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Michal Piotrowski
8fbc33680c [PATCH] dontdiff: add asm_offsets
We seem to use both asm-offsets.* and asm_offsets.*

Signed-off-by: Michal K. K. Piotrowski <michal.k.k.piotrowski@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-13 08:22:29 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
35d91f75c2 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 2005-09-12 20:02:18 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
61b22e693e Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 2005-09-12 15:55:09 -07:00
Linus Torvalds
862aad56dc Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2005-09-12 13:32:56 -07:00
Greg KH
d58dde0f55 Merge ../torvalds-2.6/ 2005-09-12 12:45:04 -07:00
Randy Dunlap
5f9809487b [PATCH] USB: proc_usb_info.txt: add blank lines
Update Documentation/usb/proc_usb_info.txt:
- remove some trailing whitespace
- add a blank line before each T: line to match current kernel
  and to make the text more readable.

Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-12 12:23:48 -07:00
Stelian Pop
f7214ff4e8 [PATCH] USB: add apple usb touchpad driver
This is a driver for the USB touchpad which can be found on post-February 2005
Apple PowerBooks.

This driver is derived from Johannes Berg's appletrackpad driver [1],
but it has been improved in some areas:
    * appletouch is a full kernel driver, no userspace program is necessary
    * appletouch can be interfaced with the synaptics X11 driver[2], in order
      to have touchpad acceleration, scrolling, two/three finger tap, etc.

This driver has been tested by the readers of the 'debian-powerpc' mailing
list for a few weeks now and I believe it is now ready for inclusion into the
mainline kernel.

Credits go to Johannes Berg for reverse-engineering the touchpad protocol,
Frank Arnold for further improvements, and Alex Harper for some additional
information about the inner workings of the touchpad sensors.

Signed-off-by: Stelian Pop <stelian@popies.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-12 12:23:39 -07:00
Chuck Ebbert
66759a01ad [PATCH] x86-64: i386/x86-64: Fix time going twice as fast problem on ATI Xpress chipsets
Original patch from Bertro Simul

This is probably still not quite correct, but seems to be
the best solution so far.

Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:50:58 -07:00
Andi Kleen
8c566ef5f3 [PATCH] x86-64: Add command line option to set machine check tolerance level
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-12 10:49:57 -07:00
Takashi Iwai
561b220a4d [ALSA] Replace with kzalloc() - others
Documentation,SA11xx UDA1341 driver,Generic drivers,MPU401 UART,OPL3
OPL4,Digigram VX core,I2C cs8427,I2C lib core,I2C tea6330t,L3 drivers
AK4114 receiver,AK4117 receiver,PDAudioCF driver,PPC PMAC driver
SPARC AMD7930 driver,SPARC cs4231 driver,Synth,Common EMU synth
USB generic driver,USB USX2Y
Replace kcalloc(1,..) with kzalloc().

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12 10:48:22 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
a06147d228 [ALSA] intel8x0 - Add buggy_semaphore option
Documentation,Intel8x0 driver
Added buggy_semaphore module option to snd-intel8x0 driver
for a workaround for hardwards with buggy codec semaphores.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12 10:47:47 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
10f69f9e42 [ALSA] pcm-oss - Add bugg-yptr option
Documentation,ALSA<-OSS emulation
Added 'buggy-ptr' proc option to switch the behavior of GETOPTR ioctl.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12 10:47:37 +02:00
Takashi Iwai
6243008b82 [ALSA] Update/fix ALSA document
Documentation
Update/fix ALSA document.

Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2005-09-12 10:41:43 +02:00
Clemens Ladisch
84010e6f04 [ALSA] ad1889: add AD1889 driver docs
Documentation
move the AD1889 driver docs to the kernel tree, too

Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de>
2005-09-12 10:40:41 +02:00
Antonino A. Daplas
c93a777103 [PATCH] i810fb: Update i810fb documentation
Update i810fb documentation to describe new features and configuration
changes.

Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-11 20:43:48 -07:00
Evgeniy Polyakov
7672d0b544 [NET]: Add netlink connector.
Kernel connector - new userspace <-> kernel space easy to use
communication module which implements easy to use bidirectional
message bus using netlink as it's backend.  Connector was created to
eliminate complex skb handling both in send and receive message bus
direction.

Connector driver adds possibility to connect various agents using as
one of it's backends netlink based network.  One must register
callback and identifier. When driver receives special netlink message
with appropriate identifier, appropriate callback will be called.

From the userspace point of view it's quite straightforward:

	socket();
	bind();
	send();
	recv();

But if kernelspace want to use full power of such connections, driver
writer must create special sockets, must know about struct sk_buff
handling...  Connector allows any kernelspace agents to use netlink
based networking for inter-process communication in a significantly
easier way:

int cn_add_callback(struct cb_id *id, char *name, void (*callback) (void *));
void cn_netlink_send(struct cn_msg *msg, u32 __groups, int gfp_mask);

struct cb_id
{
	__u32			idx;
	__u32			val;
};

idx and val are unique identifiers which must be registered in
connector.h for in-kernel usage.  void (*callback) (void *) - is a
callback function which will be called when message with above idx.val
will be received by connector core.

Using connector completely hides low-level transport layer from it's
users.

Connector uses new netlink ability to have many groups in one socket.

[ Incorporating many cleanups and fixes by myself and
  Andrew Morton -DaveM ]

Signed-off-by: Evgeniy Polyakov <johnpol@2ka.mipt.ru>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
2005-09-11 19:15:07 -07:00
Sam Ravnborg
5bb7826900 kbuild: rename prepare to archprepare to fix dependency chain
When introducing the generic asm-offsets.h support the dependency
chain for the prepare targets was changed. All build scripts expecting
include/asm/asm-offsets.h to be made when using the prepare target would broke.
With the limited number of prepare targets left in arch Makefiles
the trivial solution was to introduce a new arch specific target: archprepare

The dependency chain looks like this now:

prepare
  |
  +--> prepare0
         |
         +--> archprepare
                |
		+--> scripts_basic
                +--> prepare1
                       |
                       +---> prepare2
                               |
                               +--> prepare3

So prepare 3 is processed before prepare2 etc.
This guaantees that the asm symlink, version.h, scripts_basic
are all updated before archprepare is processed.

prepare0 which build the asm-offsets.h file will need the
actions performed by archprepare.

The head target is now named prepare, because users scripts will most
likely use that target, but prepare-all has been kept for compatibility.
Updated Documentation/kbuild/makefiles.txt.

Signed-off-by: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
2005-09-11 22:30:22 +02:00
Tejun Heo
70c83e1105 [SCSI] scsi: Error handler description document
This patch adds Documentation/scsi/scs_eh.txt.  I've chosen plain
text over DocBook as most other scsi docs are in plain text and it's
more accessible.

Signed-off-by: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com>
2005-09-10 21:04:35 -05:00
Linus Torvalds
7f93220b62 Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input 2005-09-10 15:54:41 -07:00
Pavel Machek
b01d8684e9 [PATCH] remove ACPI S4bios support
Remove S4BIOS support.  It is pretty useless, and only ever worked for _me_
once.  (I do not think anyone else ever tried it).  It was in feature-removal
for a long time, and it should have been removed before.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: "Brown, Len" <len.brown@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:35 -07:00
Adrian Bunk
338cec3253 [PATCH] merge some from Rusty's trivial patches
This patch contains the most trivial from Rusty's trivial patches:
- spelling fixes
- remove duplicate includes

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Cc: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:30 -07:00
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
Pekka J Enberg
e776eba0fe [PATCH] Add kerneldoc reference to CodingStyle
Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:28 -07:00
Paul E. McKenney
dd81eca83c [PATCH] Yet another RCU documentation update
Update RCU documentation based on discussions and review of RCU-based tree
patches.  Add an introductory whatisRCU.txt file.

Signed-off-by: <paulmck@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-10 10:06:24 -07:00
Dmitry Torokhov
d344c5e085 Manual merge with Linus 2005-09-09 20:14:47 -05:00
Greg KH
8ccc457722 Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 2005-09-09 14:26:01 -07:00
Christophe Lucas
20dd026d7f [PATCH] printk : Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.c
printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant.

Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-09 14:23:29 -07:00
Ed L Cashin
e39526e6e7 [PATCH] aoe [1/2]: support 16 AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf
Change the number of supported AoE slot addresses per AoE shelf
address to 16.

Signed-off-by: Ed L. Cashin <ecashin@coraid.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-09-09 14:23:16 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
45323fb764 [PATCH] fuse: more flexible caching
Make data caching behavior selectable on a per-open basis instead of
per-mount.  Compatibility for the old mount options 'kernel_cache' and
'direct_io' is retained in the userspace library (version 2.4.0-pre1 or
later).

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:47 -07:00
Miklos Szeredi
334f485df8 [PATCH] FUSE - device functions
This adds the FUSE device handling functions.

This contains the following files:

 o dev.c
    - fuse device operations (read, write, release, poll)
    - registers misc device
    - support for sending requests to userspace

Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Ben Dooks
e272d50688 [PATCH] Documentation/sparse snapshot URL
The URL for Documentation/sparse is wrong now that it is in git.

Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:44 -07:00
Pekka J Enberg
5ea626aac1 [PATCH] VFS: update documentation
This patch brings the now out-of-date Documentation/filesystems/vfs.txt
back to life.  Thanks to Carsten Otte, Trond Myklebust, and Anton
Altaparmakov for their help on updating this documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:43 -07:00
Vivek Goyal
952b649272 [PATCH] Kdump: Documentation Update
There are minor changes in command line options in kexec-tools for kdump.
This patch updates the documentation to reflect those changes.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:43 -07:00
Chuck Ebbert
af97c7220a [PATCH] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memory
Someone complained about the docs for vm_overcommit_memory being wrong.
This patch copies the text from the vm documentation into procfs.

Signed-off-by: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2005-09-09 14:03:43 -07:00