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Dave Woodhouse did this a while ago and its been kicking around in my
tree just fine. This gets rid of a lot of the init lists of functions
still left in the kernel by having an __init type array built up for the
consoles as well
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This patch provides the following spelling fixes.
compatable -> compatible
compatability -> compatibility
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This modifies the following files: -
Documentation/Docbook/Makefile - Fix dependencies generating parportbook
which caused tex to choke.
Documentation/Docbook/kernel-api.tmpl - Remove references to source
files which do not contain kernel-doc comments, which caused "errors" in
the generated documentation.
include/linux/init.h - fix a trivial function comment to correct the
generated documentation.
This patch partially addresses one of the issues on the Kernel Janitor
TODO list -
"someone who knows DocBook, or is willing to learn, should go through
and clean up Documentation/DocBook to kill all the warnings that occur
during "make pdfdocs" and generally make the documents look nicer, and
render smaller PDFs."
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Rather than have the module loader the module structure and
resolve the symbols __this_module to it, make __this_module a real
structure inside the module, using the linkonce trick we used for
module names.
This saves us an allocation (saving a page per module on
archs which need the module structure close by), and means we don't
have to fill in a few module fields.
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This patch is a rewrite of the insmod and boot parameter handling,
to unify them.
The new format is fairly simple: built on top of __module_param_call there
are several helpers, eg "module_param(foo, int, 000)". The final argument
is the permissions bits, for exposing parameters in sysfs (if
non-zero) at a later stage.
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This patch fixes de2104x net driver up by doing the following things:
(1) add __exit_p() to <linux/init.h>
(2) add the unused attributed to __exit routines for non-modules
(3) use __exit_p() to refer to de_remove_one()
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By Kai Germaschewski:
"Well, I have another solution, which doesn't need additional Makefile
magic or anything.
I just put the module name into each .o file where <linux/module.h> is
included. Putting it into the section .gnu.linkonce.modname has the effect
that even for multi-part modules, we only end up with one copy of the
name.
Caveat: I'm using the preprocessor macro KBUILD_MODNAME to know what to
put into .gnu.linkonce.modname. The following used to happen:
(drivers/isdn/eicon/Makefile)
divas-objs := common.o Divas_mod.o ...
eicon-objs := common.o eicon_mod.o ...
Divas_mod.o is compiled with -DKBUILD_MODNAME=divas
eicon_mod.o is compiled with -DKBUILD_MODNAME=eicon
common.o is compiled with -DKBUILD_MODNAME=divas_eicon
So in the case above, both divas.o and eicon.o would end up with
a .gnu.linkonce.modname section containing "divas_eicon"
My fix to this is to not define KBUILD_MODNAME when compiling an object
whilch will be linked into more than one module - so common.o gets no
.gnu.linkonce.modname section at all. Works fine here.
Now, doing this I remove one of the reasons why we would need modules
linked as '.ko' ;), but it seems much cleaner than generating a temporary
file, using objcopy etc."
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This is an implementation of the in-kernel module loader extending
the try_inc_mod_count() primitive and making its use compulsory.
This has the benifit of simplicity, and similarity to the existing
scheme. To reduce the cost of the constant increments and
decrements, reference counters are lockless and per-cpu.
Eliminated (coming in following patches):
o Modversions
o Module parameters
o kallsyms
o EXPORT_SYMBOL_GPL and MODULE_LICENCE checks
o DEVICE_TABLE support.
New features:
o Typesafe symbol_get/symbol_put
o Single "insert this module" syscall interface allows trivial userspace.
o Raceless loading and unloading
You will need the trivial replacement module utilities from:
http://ozlabs.org/~rusty/module-init-tools-0.6.tar.gz
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If you compile the kernel with -ffunction-sections, each function gets
put in a section .text.function_name. This collides with our current use
of .text.init. So here's a patch which converts x86 to use .init.text
instead.
I've tested it on x86 and it still frees 120k of ram, so it seems to work.
Other architectures will need to change their vmlinux.lds appropriately,
and may need other changes (arm, m68k seem to use .text.init verbatim).
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MODULE and CONFIG_HOTPLUG cpp symbols. Merge 2.4's definition to
make it so.
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Generic BUS objects have to be registered before
devices assosciated with them are probed. Therefore
subsys_initcall is inappropriate for such setups.
It does not work to use core_initcall for this because
the generic device layer bits need to be setup first too.
So we rename unused_initcall to postcore_initcall and use
this new initcall level for generic BUS object init.
This fixes bootup on Alpha, and Sparc64. X86 was working
by what looks to be luck in link order.
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Here's suspend-to-{RAM,disk} combined patch for
2.5.17. Suspend-to-disk is pretty stable and was tested in
2.4-ac. Suspend-to-RAM is little more experimental, but works for me,
and is certainly better than disk-eating version currently in kernel.
Major parts are: process stopper, S3 specific code, S4 specific
code.
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make driverfs initialize early, so that ACPI can come alive
in a world where you can register devices.
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What should be happening with the references to the discarded .text.exit
section? I see a __devexit_p mentioned in Documentation/pci.txt, but it
hasn't been implemented except for down inside ieee1394.
In any case, I need something like the following in order to build with
pre-release binutils 2.12. If this sort of thing is acceptible I can
prepare a more comprehensive patch.
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- Patrick Mochel: initcall levels
- Patrick Mochel: devicefs updates, add PCI devices into the hierarchy
- Denis Oliver Kropp: neomagic fb driver
- David Miller: sparc64 and network updates
- Kai Mäkisara: scsi tape update
- Al Viro: more inode trimming, VFS cleanup
- Greg KH: USB update - proper urb allocations
- Eric Raymond: kdev_t updates for fb devices
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- Al Viro: fix new_inode() allocation
- undo initcall update
- cciss driver update
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- David Howells: abtract out "current->need_resched" as "need_resched()"
- Frank Davis: ide-tape update for bio
- various: header file fixups
- Jens Axboe: fix up bio/ide/highmem issues
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN update
- Tim Waugh: parport update
- Patrik Mochel: initcall update
- Greg KH: USB and Compaq PCI hotplug updates
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- Anton Altaparmakov: NTFS error checking
- Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
- OGAWA Hirofumi: FAT update
- Alan Cox: driver + s390 update merge
- Richard Henderson: fix alpha sigsuspend error return value
- Marcelo Tosatti: per-zone VM shortage
- Daniel Phillips: generic use-once optimization instead of drop-behind
- Bjorn Wesen: Cris architecture update
- Anton Altaparmakov: support for Windows Dynamic Disks
- James Washer: LDT loading SMP bug fix
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- Russell King: ARM updates
- Al Viro: more init cleanups
- Cort Dougan: more PPC updates
- David Miller: cleanups, pci mmap updates
- Neil Brown: raid resync by sector
- Alan Cox: more merging with -ac
- Johannes Erdfelt: USB updates
- Kai Germaschewski: ISDN updates
- Tobias Ringstrom: dmfe.c network driver update
- Trond Myklebust: NFS client updates and cleanups
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- Jens Axboe: fix loop device deadlocks
- Greg KH: USB updates
- Alan Cox: continued merging
- Tim Waugh: parport and documentation updates
- Cort Dougan: PowerPC merge
- Jeff Garzik: network driver updates
- Justin Gibbs: new and much improved aic7xxx driver 6.1.5
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