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2006-06-26[PATCH] devfs: Remove devfs documentation from the kernel treeGreg Kroah-Hartman
Removes the Documentaiton/filesystems/devfs/ directory Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2005-11-07[PATCH] ksymoops related docs updateJesper Juhl
Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality. 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>
2004-11-07[PATCH] VFS maintainer email address updatesMaximilian Attems
viro has moved. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2004-10-19[PATCH] doc: scsihosts parameter no longer existsPhil Oester
The scsihosts boot parameter was removed in 2.5.73, but references to it still exist in docs. Cleanup below. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2003-06-21kbuild/doc: Delete instructions about running make depSam Ravnborg
Patch from: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yoshfuji@wide.ad.jp> make dep is obsolete - so remove it from the documentation at various places
2003-03-11[PATCH] Documentation spelling cleanupSteven Cole
This patch fixes spelling errors in the Documentation directory and was extensively reviewed by the following people: Dan Kegel, David Woodhouse, Joe Perches, Jared Daniel J. Smith, Michael Hayes, and Steven Cole
2003-03-10[PATCH] remaining bits of DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUMChristoph Hellwig
Sorry, the devs_only() patch accidentally included the devfs-portion of the DEVFS_FL_AUTO_DEVNUM patch. This patch contains the remaining parts.
2002-10-16util.c:Richard Gooch
Documentation fix base.c: Switched lingering structure field initialiser to ISO C Added locking when updating FCB flags
2002-10-14Removed DEVFS_FL_AUTO_OWNER flagRichard Gooch
2002-08-21Exported devfs_find_and_unregister() and devfs_only() to modulesRichard Gooch
Updated README from master HTML file Fixed module unload race in devfs_open()
2002-07-28Removed deprecated devfs_find_handle()Richard Gooch
2002-07-25do_mounts.c, block_dev.c, hiddev.c, md.c:Richard Gooch
Switched from devfs_find_handle() to devfs_get_handle() Many files: Switched from devfs_find_handle() to devfs_find_and_unregister() base.c: Created <devfs_find_and_unregister>.
2002-07-24(no commit message)Richard Gooch
2002-07-24Switched to ISO C structure field initialisers.Richard Gooch
Switch to set_current_state() and move before add_wait_queue(). Updated README from master HTML file. Fixed devfs entry leak in <devfs_readdir> when *readdir fails.
2002-05-13Fixed race when devfs lookup()/readdir() triggers partition rescanning.Richard Gooch
2002-05-11misc.c:Richard Gooch
Do not put miscellaneous character devices in /dev/misc if they specify their own directory (i.e. contain a '/' character) util.c: Copied and used macro for error messages from fs/devfs/base.c base.c: Removed 2.4.x compatibility code Added BKL to <devfs_open> because drivers still need it
2002-04-14[PATCH] devfs patch for 2.5.8Richard Gooch
- Updated fs/devfs/util.c to fix shift warning on 64 bit machines Thanks to Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> - Updated README from master HTML file
2002-04-07[PATCH] devfs patch for 2.5.8-pre2Richard Gooch
- Documentation updates - BKL removal (devfs doesn't need the BKL) - Changed <devfs_rmdir> to allow later additions if not yet empty - Added calls to <devfs_register_partitions> in drivers/block/blkpc.c <add_partition> and <del_partition> - Bug fixes in unique number and devnum allocators.
2002-02-05v2.5.2.6 -> v2.5.3Linus Torvalds
- Doug Ledford: i810 audio driver update - Evgeniy Polyakov: update various SCSI drivers to new locking - David Howells: syscall latency improvement, try 2 - Francois Romieu: dscc4 driver update - Patrick Mochel: driver model fixes - Andrew Morton: clean up a few details in ext3 inode initialization - Pete Wyckoff: make x86 machine check print out right address.. - Hans Reiser: reiserfs update - Richard Gooch: devfs update - Greg KH: USB updates - Dave Jones: PNPBIOS - Nathan Scott: extended attributes - Corey Minyard: clean up zlib duplication (triplication..)
2002-02-05v2.5.2.2 -> v2.5.2.3Linus Torvalds
- Al Viro: VFS inode allocation moved down to filesystem, trim inodes - Greg KH: USB update, hotplug documentation - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update - Ingo Molnar: scheduler tweaking ("J2") - Arnaldo: emu10k kdev_t updates - Ben Collins: firewire updates - Björn Wesen: cris arch update - Hal Duston: ps2esdi driver bio/kdev_t fixes - Jean Tourrilhes: move wireless drivers into drivers/net/wireless, update wireless API #1 - Richard Gooch: devfs race fix - OGAWA Hirofumi: FATFS update
2002-02-05v2.5.1.11 -> v2.5.2Linus Torvalds
- Matt Domsch: combine common crc32 library - Pete Zaitcev: ymfpci update - Davide Libenzi: scheduler improvements - Al Viro: almost there: "struct block_device *" everywhere - Richard Gooch: devfs cpqarray update, race fix - Rusty Russell: PATH_MAX should include the final '0' count - David Miller: various random updates (mainly net and sparc)
2002-02-04v2.5.1.2 -> v2.5.1.3Linus Torvalds
- Christoph Hellwig: scsi_register_module cleanup - Mikael Pettersson: apic.c LVTERR fixes - Russell King: ARM update (including bio update for icside) - Jens Axboe: more bio updates - Al Viro: make ready to switch bread away from kdev_t.. - Davide Libenzi: scheduler cleanups - Anders Gustafsson: LVM fixes for bio - Richard Gooch: devfs update
2002-02-04v2.5.0.1 -> v2.5.0.2Linus Torvalds
- Greg KH: USB update - Richard Gooch: refcounting for devfs - Jens Axboe: start of new block IO layer
2002-02-04v2.4.13.7 -> v2.4.13.8Linus Torvalds
- Andrea: fix races in do_wp_page, free_swap_and_cache - me: clena up page dirty handling - Tim Waugh: parport IRQ probing and documentation fixes - Greg KH: USB updates - Michael Warfield: computone driver update - Randy Dunlap: add knowledge about some new io-apics - Richard Henderson: alpha updates - Trond Myklebust: make readdir xdr verify the reply packet - Paul Mackerras: PPC update - Jens Axboe: make cpqarray and cciss play nice with the request layer - Massimo Dal Zotto: SMM driver for Dell Inspiron 8000 - Richard Gooch: devfs symlink deadlock fix - Anton Altaparmakov: make NTFS compile on sparc
2002-02-04v2.4.12.2 -> v2.4.12.3Linus Torvalds
- Jens Axboe: clean up duplicate unused request list - Jeff Mahoney: reiserfs endianness finishing touches - Hugh Dickins: some further swapoff fixes and cleanups - prepare-for-Alan: move drivers/i2o into drivers/message/i2o - Leonard Zubkoff: 2TB disk device fixes - Paul Schroeder: mwave config enable - Urban Widmark: fix via-rhine double free.. - Tom Rini: PPC fixes - NIIBE Yutaka: SuperH update
2002-02-04v2.4.11 -> v2.4.12Linus Torvalds
- Greg KH: USB update (fix UHCI timeouts, serial unplug) - Christoph Rohland: shmem locking fixes - Al Viro: more mount cleanup - me: fix bad interaction with link_count handling - David Miller: Sparc updates, net cleanup - Tim Waugh: parport update - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates
2002-02-04v2.4.10.5 -> v2.4.10.6Linus Torvalds
- various: fix some module exports uncovered by stricter error checking - Urban Widmark: make smbfs use same error define names as samba and win32 - Greg KH: USB update - Tom Rini: MPC8xx ppc update - Matthew Wilcox: rd.c page cache flushing fix - Richard Gooch: devfs race fix: rwsem for symlinks - Björn Wesen: Cris arch update - Nikita Danilov: reiserfs cleanup - Tim Waugh: parport update - Peter Rival: update alpha SMP bootup to match wait_init_idle fixes - Trond Myklebust: lockd/grace period fix
2002-02-04v2.4.9.13 -> v2.4.9.14Linus Torvalds
- Richard Gooch: devfs update - Andrea Arcangeli: clean up/fix ramdisk handling now that it's in page cache - Al Viro: follow up the above with initrd cleanups - Keith Owens: get rid of drivers/scsi/53c700-mem.c file - Trond Myklebust: RPC over TCP race fix - Greg KH: USB update (ohci understands USB_ZERO_PACKET) - me: clean up reference bit handling, fix silly GFP_ATOMIC allocation bug
2002-02-04v2.4.6.6 -> v2.4.6.7Linus Torvalds
- Andreas Dilger: various ext2 cleanups - Richard Gooch: devfs update - Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates - Alan Cox: merges - David Miller: fix SMP pktsched bootup deadlock (CONFIG_NET_SCHED) - Roman Zippel: AFFS update - Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS update - me: fix races in vfork() (semaphores are not good completion handlers) - Jeff Garzik: net driver updates, sysvfs update
2002-02-04v2.4.5.3 -> v2.4.5.4Linus Torvalds
- Chris Mason: ReiserFS pre-allocation locking bugfix - David Miller: fix bitops users (requires "long" alignment) - Andrey Savochkin: file locking failure case SMP lock fix - Urban Widmark: smbfs update (avoid unnecessary flushing, make NetApp work) - Andrew Grover: ACPI update - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates - Maciej Rozycki: IO-APIC level trigger problem workaround - Rusty Russell: ipt_unclean fix - Richard Gooch: devfs update
2002-02-04v2.4.5.2 -> v2.4.5.3Linus Torvalds
- remember to increment the version number - Chris Mason: reiserfs mark_journal_new and bh leak fix - Richard Gooch: devfs update - Alexander Viro: further FS cleanup (superblock list) - David Woodhouse: MTD update - Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update (stanford checker fixes etc) - Rich Baum: gcc-3.0 warning fixes - Jeff Garzik: network driver updates - Geert Uytterhoeven: m68k fbdev logo merge glitch fix - Andrea Arcangeli: fix signal return path - David Miller: Sparc updates - Johannes Erdfelt: USB update - Carsten Otte, Andries Brouwer: don't clear blk_size unconditionally on partition check - Martin Frey: alpha Sable irq fix - Paul Mackerras: PPC softirq update - Patrick Mochel: PCI power management infrastructure - Robert Siemer: miroSOUND driver update - Neil Brown: knfsd updates, including ability to export ReiserFS filesystems - Trond Myklebust: NFS readdir fixup, don't update atime on client - Andrew Morton: truncate_inode_pages speedup - Paul Menage: make inode quota count all inodes..
2002-02-04v2.4.3 -> v2.4.3.1Linus Torvalds
- Bob Tracy: Cyrix MTRR setup fix (don't make it twice as big as asked for) - Trond Myklebust: rpciod needs to be PF_MEMALLOC to avoid deadlocks on memory allocation when writing out NFS data under low memory conditions. Fix up BKL and RPC interactions. - Jeff Garzik: tulip network driver update - fix truncate to call down to the filesystem with the kernel lock. - David Mosberger: ia64 update - David Mosberger: simplify ELF program header generation. - Alan Cox: merge from -ac series - Jeff Garzik: make serial.c recognize modem devices properly
2002-02-04Import changesetLinus Torvalds