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* Merge branch 'master'Steven Whitehouse2006-02-27137-1668/+1609
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| * Linux v2.6.16-rc5v2.6.16-rc5Linus Torvalds2006-02-261-1/+1
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| * Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/sparc-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-02-264-13/+111
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| | * [SPARC64]: Make cpu_present_map available earlier.David S. Miller2006-02-263-9/+27
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The change to kernel/sched.c's init code to use for_each_cpu() requires that the cpu_possible_map be setup much earlier. Set it up via setup_arch(), constrained to NR_CPUS, and later constrain it to max_cpus in smp_prepare_cpus(). This fixes SMP booting on sparc64. Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * [SPARC64]: Implement futex_atomic_op_inuser().David S. Miller2006-02-261-4/+84
| | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | Make Kprobes depend on modulesLinus Torvalds2006-02-265-1/+5
| |/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9ec4b1f356b3bad928ae8e2aa9caebfa737d52df made kprobes not compile without module support, so just make that clear in the Kconfig file. Also, since it's marked EXPERIMENTAL, make that dependency explicit too. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] fix voyager after topology.c moveJames Bottomley2006-02-262-15/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9c869edac591977314323a4eaad5f7633fca684f broke voyager again rather subtly because it already had its own topology exporting functions, so now each CPU gets registered twice. I think we can actually use the generic ones, so I don't propose reverting it. The attached should eliminate the voyager topology functions in favour of the generic ones. I also added a define to ensure voyager is never hotplug CPU (we don't have the support in the SMP harness). Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] fix build on x86_64 with !CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPUBrian Magnuson2006-02-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The commit e2c0388866dc12bef56b178b958f9b778fe6c687 added setup_additional_cpus to setup.c but this is only defined if CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU is set. This patch changes the #ifdef to reflect that. Signed-off-by: Brian Magnuson <magnuson@rcn.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Fix ioctl compat code for /dev/rtcAndi Kleen2006-02-261-11/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | RTC_IRQP_SET/RTC_EPOCH_SET don't take a pointer to an argument, but the argument itself. This actually simplifies the code and makes it work. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Better ATI timer fixAndi Kleen2006-02-262-17/+33
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The previous experiment for using apicmaintimer on ATI systems didn't work out very well. In particular laptops with C2/C3 support often don't let it tick during idle, which makes it useless. There were also some other bugs that made the apicmaintimer often not used at all. I tried some other experiments - running timer over RTC and some other things but they didn't really work well neither. I rechecked the specs now and it turns out this simple change is actually enough to avoid the double ticks on the ATI systems. We just turn off IRQ 0 in the 8254 and only route it directly using the IO-APIC. I tested it on a few ATI systems and it worked there. In fact it worked on all chipsets (NVidia, Intel, AMD, ATI) I tried it on. According to the ACPI spec routing should always work through the IO-APIC so I think it's the correct thing to do anyways (and most of the old gunk in check_timer should be thrown away for x86-64). But for 2.6.16 it's best to do a fairly minimal change: - Use the known to be working everywhere-but-ATI IRQ0 both over 8254 and IO-APIC setup everywhere - Except on ATI disable IRQ0 in the 8254 - Remove the code to select apicmaintimer on ATI chipsets - Add some boot options to allow to override this (just paranoia) In 2.6.17 I hope to switch the default over to this for everybody. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Move the SMP time selection earlierAndi Kleen2006-02-263-14/+11
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SMP time selection originally ran after all CPUs were brought up because it needed to know the number of CPUs to decide if it needs an MP safe timer or not. This is not needed anymore because we know present CPUs early. This fixes a couple of problems: - apicmaintimer didn't always work because it relied on state that was set up time_init_gtod too late. - The output for the used timer in early kernel log was misleading because time_init_gtod could actually change it later. Now always print the final timer choice Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Fix the additional_cpus=.. optionAndi Kleen2006-02-263-1/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | It didn't set up the CPU possible map early enough, so the option didn't actually work. Noticed by Heiko Carstens Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Disable ACPI blacklist by year for now on x86-64Andi Kleen2006-02-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ACPI is initialized very early on x86-64, before the DMI code is initialized. This means it would often discover a 0 year and then turn off ACPI because it thought the BIOS was too old. Some systems don't boot without ACPI so this was a problem. I have a full fix by adding new very early DMI detection, but it needs more testing before it can be merged. For 2.6.16 let's just turn the check off. It never made much sense anyways because there are no x86-64 systems older than 2002 or so and they generally all have working ACPI. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Fix NMI watchdog on x460Chris McDermott2006-02-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [description from AK] Old check for the IO-APIC watchdog during the timer check was wrong - it obviously should only drop into this if the IO-APIC watchdog is used. Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86-64/i386: Use common X86_PM_TIMER option and make it EMBEDDEDAndi Kleen2006-02-262-20/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This makes x86-64 use the common X86_PM_TIMER Kconfig entry in drivers/acpi And since PM timer is needed for correct timing on a lot of systems now (e.g. AMD dual cores) and we often get bug reports from people who forgot to set it make it depend on CONFIG_EMBEDDED. x86-64 had this change before and it's a good thing. I also fixed the description slightly to make this more clear. Cc: len.brown@intel.com Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] i386: Handle non existing APICs without panicingAndreas Deresch2006-02-262-4/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | [description from AK] This fixes booting in APIC mode on some ACER laptops. x86-64 did a similar change some time ago. See http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4700 for details Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Only do the clustered systems have unsynchronized TSC ↵Andi Kleen2006-02-263-4/+22
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | assumption on IBM systems Big Unisys systems have multiple clusters too, but they have an synchronized TSC. I'm using the SMBIOS to check for vendor == IBM. Cc: Chris McDermott <lcm@us.ibm.com> Cc: "Protasevich, Natalie" <Natalie.Protasevich@unisys.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: Check for bad elf entry address.Suresh Siddha2006-02-261-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Fixes a local DOS on Intel systems that lead to an endless recursive fault. AMD machines don't seem to be affected. Signed-off-by: Suresh Siddha <suresh.b.siddha@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: fix USER_PTRS_PER_PGDJan Beulich2006-02-261-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The value, while currently unused in the native kernel, was off by one. Signed-Off-By: Jan Beulich <jbeulich@novell.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86_64: no_iommu removal in pci-gart.cJon Mason2006-02-263-20/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In previous versions of pci-gart.c, no_iommu was used to determine if IOMMU was disabled in the GART DMA mapping functions. This changed in 2.6.16 and now gart_xxx() functions are only called if gart is enabled. Therefore, uses of no_iommu in the GART code are no longer necessary and can be removed. Also, it removes double deceleration of no_iommu and force_iommu in pci.h and proto.h, by removing the deceleration in pci.h. Lastly, end_pfn off by one error. Tested (along with patch 1/2) on dual opteron with gart enabled, iommu=soft, and iommu=off. Signed-off-by: Jon Mason <jdmason@us.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] Fix Specialix SI probingMarc Zyngier2006-02-261-4/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As the (probably) last user of a Specialix SI board, I noticed that recent kernels would fail to probe the sucker. Quick investigation indicate a few missing braces... I left the double probing in place, as it looks like it's been here forever. Signed-off-by: Marc Zyngier <maz@misterjones.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] sd: fix memory corruption with broken mode page headersAl Viro2006-02-261-3/+17
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | There's a problem in sd where we blindly believe the length of the headers and block descriptors. Some devices return insane values for these and cause our length to end up greater than the actual buffer size, so check to make sure. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Also removed the buffer size magic number (512) and added DPOFUA of zero to the defaults Signed-off-by: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@SteelEye.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * [PATCH] x86-64: react to new topology.c locationDave Jones2006-02-251-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Commit 9c869edac591977314323a4eaad5f7633fca684f moved the i386 topology.c file. That change broke x86-64 compiles, as it uses the same file. Signed-off-by: Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-serialLinus Torvalds2006-02-242-2/+8
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| | * [SERIAL] Add comment about early_serial_setup()Russell King2006-02-231-0/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | early_serial_setup() must not be called after console initialisation. Add a comment prior to the function explicitly stating this. Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| | * [SERIAL] Trivial comment fix: include/linux/serial_reg.hMichal Janusz Miroslaw2006-02-231-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Trivial comment fix for include/linux/serial_reg.h Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | Merge master.kernel.org:/home/rmk/linux-2.6-armLinus Torvalds2006-02-241-2/+12
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| | * | [ARM] 3348/1: Disable GPIO interruptsAndrew Victor2006-02-241-2/+12
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Patch from Andrew Victor disable_irq() lazily disables the interrupt, so the IRQ is only disabled once the interrupt occurs again. The GPIO interrupt handler therefore must first check disable_depth to see if the IRQ needs to be disabled. Orignal patch by Bill Gatliff. Signed-off-by: Andrew Victor <andrew@sanpeople.com> Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
| * | | Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/aia21/ntfs-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-02-2412-137/+262
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| | * | | NTFS: Do more detailed reporting of why we cannot mount read-write byAnton Altaparmakov2006-02-246-29/+53
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | special casing the VOLUME_MODIFIED_BY_CHKDSK flag. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| | * | | NTFS: Implement support for sector sizes above 512 bytes (up to the maximumAnton Altaparmakov2006-02-245-70/+121
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | supported by NTFS which is 4096 bytes).
| | * | | Merge ../ntfs-2.6-develAnton Altaparmakov2006-02-241-1/+1
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| | | * \ \ Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/Anton Altaparmakov2006-01-195651-159251/+332143
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| | | * \ \ \ Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/Anton Altaparmakov2006-01-03470-6182/+6829
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| | | * \ \ \ \ Merge branch 'master' of /usr/src/ntfs-2.6/Anton Altaparmakov2005-12-05382-7231/+6766
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| | | * | | | | | NTFS: Fix a potential overflow by casting (index + 1) to s64 before doing aAnton Altaparmakov2005-11-241-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | left shift using PAGE_CACHE_SHIFT in fs/ntfs/file.c. Thanks to Andrew Morton pointing this out to. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| | * | | | | | | NTFS: - Cope with attribute list attribute having invalid flags.Anton Altaparmakov2006-02-243-26/+76
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Windows copes with this and even chkdsk does not detect or fix this so we have to cope with it, too. Thanks to Pawel Kot for reporting the problem. - Miscellaneous updates to layout.h. Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| | * | | | | | | Merge branch 'master' of /home/src/linux-2.6/Anton Altaparmakov2006-02-241983-32118/+47221
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| | * | | | | | | NTFS: We have struct kmem_cache now so use it instead of the typedef.Pekka Enberg2006-02-052-11/+11
| | | |_|_|_|/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi> Signed-off-by: Anton Altaparmakov <aia21@cantab.net>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] powerpc: Fix mem= cmdline handling on arch/powerpc for !MULTIPLATFORMKumar Gala2006-02-241-16/+38
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | mem= command line option was being ignored in arch/powerpc if we were not a CONFIG_MULTIPLATFORM (which is handled via prom_init stub). The initial command line extraction and parsing needed to be moved earlier in the boot process and have code to actual parse mem= and do something about it. Also, fixed a compile warning in the file. Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> Acked-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6Linus Torvalds2006-02-242-2/+14
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| | * | | | | | | [IPV6]: Do not ignore IPV6_MTU socket option.YOSHIFUJI Hideaki2006-02-241-2/+13
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Based on patch by Hoerdt Mickael <hoerdt@clarinet.u-strasbg.fr>. Signed-off-by: YOSHIFUJI Hideaki <yosufuji@linux-ipv6.org> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| | * | | | | | | [IPV6] ip6_tunnel: release cached dst on change of tunnel paramsHugo Santos2006-02-241-0/+1
| | | |/ / / / / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The included patch fixes ip6_tunnel to release the cached dst entry when the tunnel parameters (such as tunnel endpoints) are changed so they are used immediatly for the next encapsulated packets. Signed-off-by: Hugo Santos <hsantos@av.it.pt> Acked-by: Ville Nuorvala <vnuorval@tcs.hut.fi> Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] Fix topology.c locationZachary Amsden2006-02-243-5/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | When compiling a non-default subarch, topology.c is missing from the kernel build. This causes builds with CONFIG_HOTPLUG_CPU to fail. In addition, on Intel processors with cpuid level > 4, it causes intel_cacheinfo.c to reference uninitialized data that should have been set up by the initcall in topology.c which calls register_cpu. This causes a kernel panic on boot on newer Intel processors. Moving topology.c to arch/i386/kernel fixes both of these problems. Thanks to Dan Hecht for finding and fixing this problem. Signed-off-by: Zachary Amsden <zach@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Hecht <dhect@vmware.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] tmpfs: recommend remount for mpolHugh Dickins2006-02-241-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | akpm points out that switching to a non-NUMA kernel could be irritating if mounting tmpfs fails on an mpol option: tmpfs.txt recommend remount. Signed-off-by: Hugh Dickins <hugh@veritas.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] dm: free minor after unlink gendiskJun'ichi Nomura2006-02-241-1/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Minor number should be freed after del_gendisk(). Otherwise, there could be a window where 2 registered gendisk has same minor number. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] dm: missing bdput/thaw_bdev at removalJun'ichi Nomura2006-02-241-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Need to unfreeze and release bdev otherwise the bdev inode with inconsistent state is reused later and cause problem. Signed-off-by: Jun'ichi Nomura <j-nomura@ce.jp.nec.com> Acked-by: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] ramfs: update dir mtime and ctimeAndrew Morton2006-02-241-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Phil Marek <philipp.marek@bmlv.gv.at> points out that ramfs forgets to update a directory's mtime and ctime when it is modified. Cc: <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] vmscan: fix zone_reclaimChristoph Lameter2006-02-241-3/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - PF_SWAPWRITE needs to be set for RECLAIM_SWAP to be able to write out pages to swap. Currently RECLAIM_SWAP may not do that. - remove setting nr_reclaimed pages after slab reclaim since the slab shrinking code does not use that and the nr_reclaimed pages is just right for the intended follow up action. Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
| * | | | | | | [PATCH] flags parameter for linkatUlrich Drepper2006-02-244-4/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | I'm currently at the POSIX meeting and one thing covered was the incompatibility of Linux's link() with the POSIX definition. The name. Linux does not follow symlinks, POSIX requires it does. Even if somebody thinks this is a good default behavior we cannot change this because it would break the ABI. But the fact remains that some application might want this behavior. We have one chance to help implementing this without breaking the behavior. For this we could use the new linkat interface which would need a new flags parameter. If the new parameter is AT_SYMLINK_FOLLOW the new behavior could be invoked. I do not want to introduce such a patch now. But we could add the parameter now, just don't use it. The patch below would do this. Can we get this late patch applied before the release more or less fixes the syscall API? Signed-off-by: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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