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* docs: complete bumping minimal GNU Make version to 3.81Max Filippov2017-05-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | Commit 37d69ee30808 ("docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81") changes one entry of GNU make version in the changes.rst, there's still one more entry saying that one need version 3.80. Fix that. Signed-off-by: Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* docs: bump minimal GNU Make version to 3.81Masahiro Yamada2017-05-061-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Since 2014, you can't successfully build kernels with GNU Make version 3.80. Example errors: $ git describe v4.11 $ make --version | head -1 GNU Make 3.80 $ make defconfig HOSTCC scripts/basic/fixdep scripts/Makefile.host:135: *** missing separator. Stop. make: *** [defconfig] Error 2 $ make ARCH=arm64 help arch/arm64/Makefile:43: *** unterminated call to function `warning': missing `)'. Stop. $ make help >/dev/null ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:25: Extraneous text after `else' directive ./Documentation/Makefile.sphinx:31: *** only one `else' per conditional. Stop. make: *** [help] Error 2 The first breakage was introduced by commit c8589d1e9e01 ("kbuild: handle multi-objs dependency appropriately"). Since then (i.e. v3.18), GNU Make 3.80 has not been able to compile the kernel, but nobody has ever complained aboutt (or noticed) it. Even GNU Make 3.81 is more than 10 years old. It would not hurt to match the documentation with reality instead of fixing makefiles. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
* Merge tag 'drm-for-v4.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linuxLinus Torvalds2017-05-031-0/+1
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Pull drm u pdates from Dave Airlie: "This is the main drm pull request for v4.12. Apart from two fixes pulls, everything should have been in drm-next for at least 2 weeks. The biggest thing in here is AMD released the public headers for their upcoming VEGA GPUs. These as always are quite a sizeable chunk of header files. They've also added initial non-display support for those GPUs, though they aren't available in production yet. Otherwise it's pretty much normal. New bridge drivers: - megachips-stdpxxxx-ge-b850v3-fw LVDS->DP++ - generic LVDS bridge support. Core: - Displayport link train failure reporting to userspace - debugfs interface cleaned up - subsystem TODO in kerneldoc now - Extended fbdev support (flipping and vblank wait) - drm_platform removed - EDP CRC support in helper - HF-VSDB SCDC support in EDID parser - Lots of code cleanups and header extraction - Thunderbolt external GPU awareness - Atomic helper improvements - Documentation improvements panel: - Sitronix and Samsung new panel support amdgpu: - Preliminary vega10 support - Multi-level page table support - GPU sensor support for userspace - PRT support for sparse buffers - SR-IOV improvements - Non-contig VRAM CPU mapping i915: - Atomic modesetting enabled by default on Gen5+ - LSPCON improvements - Atomic state handling for cdclk - GPU reset improvements - In-kernel unit tests - Geminilake improvements and color manager support - Designware i2c fixes - vblank evasion improvements - Hotplug safe connector iterators - GVT scheduler QoS support - GVT Kabylake support nouveau: - Acceleration support for Pascal (GP10x). - Rearchitecture of code handling proprietary signed firmware - Fix GTX 970 with odd MMU configuration - GP10B support - GP107 acceleration support vmwgfx: - Atomic modesetting support for vmwgfx omapdrm: - Support for render nodes - Refactor omapdss code - Fix some probe ordering issues - Fix too dark RGB565 rendering sunxi: - prelim rework for multiple pipes. mali-dp: - Color management support - Plane scaling - Power management improvements imx-drm: - Prefetch Resolve Engine/Gasket on i.MX6QP - Deferred plane disabling - Separate alpha support mediatek: - Mediatek SoC MT2701 support rcar-du: - Gen3 HDMI support msm: - 4k support for newer chips - OPP bindings for gpu - prep work for per-process pagetables vc4: - HDMI audio support - fixes qxl: - minor fixes. dw-hdmi: - PHY improvements - CSC fixes - Amlogic GX SoC support" * tag 'drm-for-v4.12' of git://people.freedesktop.org/~airlied/linux: (1778 commits) drm/nouveau/fb/gf100-: Fix 32 bit wraparound in new ram detection drm/nouveau/secboot/gm20b: fix the error return code in gm20b_secboot_tegra_read_wpr() drm/nouveau/kms: Increase max retries in scanout position queries. drm/nouveau/bios/bitP: check that table is long enough for optional pointers drm/nouveau/fifo/nv40: no ctxsw for pre-nv44 mpeg engine drm: mali-dp: use div_u64 for expensive 64-bit divisions drm/i915: Confirm the request is still active before adding it to the await drm/i915: Avoid busy-spinning on VLV_GLTC_PW_STATUS mmio drm/i915/selftests: Allocate inode/file dynamically drm/i915: Fix system hang with EI UP masked on Haswell drm/i915: checking for NULL instead of IS_ERR() in mock selftests drm/i915: Perform link quality check unconditionally during long pulse drm/i915: Fix use after free in lpe_audio_platdev_destroy() drm/i915: Use the right mapping_gfp_mask for final shmem allocation drm/i915: Make legacy cursor updates more unsynced drm/i915: Apply a cond_resched() to the saturated signaler drm/i915: Park the signaler before sleeping drm: mali-dp: Check the mclk rate and allow up/down scaling drm: mali-dp: Enable image enhancement when scaling drm: mali-dp: Add plane upscaling support ...
| * Backmerge tag 'v4.11-rc6' into drm-nextDave Airlie2017-04-111-1/+1
| |\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Linux 4.11-rc6 drm-misc needs 4.11-rc5, may as well fix conflicts with rc6.
| | * Documentation: stable-kernel-rules: fix stable-tag formatJohan Hovold2017-04-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment). Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion. Fixes: fdc81b7910ad ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
| * | drm/doc: Document feature merge deadlinesDaniel Vetter2017-03-221-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The discussion pretty much concluded without objections, let's document what we agreed on. Cc'ing linux-doc for the new tag in Documentation/process/index.rst. Acked-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: linux-doc@vger.kernel.org Cc: Dave Airlie <airlied@gmail.com> Cc: Sean Paul <seanpaul@chromium.org> Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Cc: Lukas Wunner <lukas@wunner.de> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> Link: http://patchwork.freedesktop.org/patch/msgid/20170321155228.30287-1-daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch
* | | docs: process/4.Coding.rst: Fix a couple of document refsAndrew Clayton2017-04-201-8/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | In Documentation/process/4.Coding.rst there were a couple of paragraphs that spilled over the 80 character line length. This was likely caused when the document was converted to reStructuredText. Re-flow the paragraphs and make the document references proper reStructuredText :ref: links. This also adds the appropriate reStructuredText file heading to kernel-parameters.rst as referenced by the kernel-parameters link in this patch. Signed-off-by: Andrew Clayton <andrew@digital-domain.net> Reviewed-by: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@intel.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | Documentation: stable-kernel-rules: fix stable-tag formatJohan Hovold2017-04-081-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | A patch documenting how to specify which kernels a particular fix should be backported to (seemingly) inadvertently added a minus sign after the kernel version. This particular stable-tag format had never been used prior to this patch, and was neither present when the patch in question was first submitted (it was added in v2 without any comment). Drop the minus sign to avoid any confusion. Fixes: fdc81b7910ad ("stable_kernel_rules: Add clause about specification of kernel versions to patch.") Signed-off-by: Johan Hovold <johan@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | | Documentation: Fix dead URLs to ftp.kernel.orgSeongJae Park2017-03-292-14/+8
|/ / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | As ftp.kernel.org is closed [0], this commit fixes dead URLs in documents to use www.kernel.org instead. [0] https://www.kernel.org/shutting-down-ftp-services.html Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Acked-by: Theodore Ts'o <tytso@mit.edu> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* / docs-rst: automatically convert Graphviz and SVG imagesMarkus Heiser2017-03-091-3/+4
|/ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch brings scalable figure, image handling and a concept to embed *render* markups: * DOT (http://www.graphviz.org) * SVG For image handling use the 'image' replacement:: .. kernel-image:: svg_image.svg :alt: simple SVG image For figure handling use the 'figure' replacement:: .. kernel-figure:: svg_image.svg :alt: simple SVG image SVG image example Embed *render* markups (or languages) like Graphviz's **DOT** is provided by the *render* directive.:: .. kernel-render:: DOT :alt: foobar digraph :caption: Embedded **DOT** (Graphviz) code. digraph foo { "bar" -> "baz"; } The *render* directive is a concept to integrate *render* markups and languages, yet supported markups: * DOT: render embedded Graphviz's **DOT** * SVG: render embedded Scalable Vector Graphics (**SVG**) Cc: Jani Nikula <jani.nikula@linux.intel.com> Cc: Laurent Pinchart <laurent.pinchart@ideasonboard.com> Tested-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Tested-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@ffwll.ch> Signed-off-by: Daniel Vetter <daniel.vetter@intel.com> (v2 - v5) Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> (v1, v6) Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Doc: Correct typo, "Introdution" => "Introduction"Sanjeev2016-12-011-2/+2
| | | | | | | | This corrects a set of spelling mistakes, probably from an automated conversion. Signed-off-by: Sanjeev Gupta <ghane0@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation/atomic_ops.txt: convert to ReST markupSilvio Fricke2016-11-301-0/+3
| | | | | | | ... and move to core-api folder. Signed-off-by: Silvio Fricke <silvio.fricke@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation/process/howto: Only send regression fixes after -rc1Dan Carpenter2016-11-281-9/+10
| | | | | | | | | | The original text was not clear if white space or other harmless patches should be merged in -rc kernels. The discussion at Kernel Summit said that we should be more strict about sending regression fixes only. Signed-off-by: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com> Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs-rst: doc-guide: split the kernel-documentation.rst contentsMauro Carvalho Chehab2016-11-192-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | Having the kernel-documentation at the topmost level doesn't allow generating a separate PDF file for it. Also, makes harder to add extra contents. So, place it on a sub-dir. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* coding-style: fix mismatch of jump label nameMasahiro Yamada2016-11-071-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | Commit 865a1caa4b6b ("CodingStyle: Clarify and complete chapter 7") renamed the label "out_buffer" to "out_free_buffer", but missed to change this line. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Jean Delvare <jdelvare@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Documentation/process/howto: Mark subsection in suggested formatSeongJae Park2016-11-071-5/+10
| | | | | | | | | | `Specific guidelines for the kernel documentation` section of `kernel-documentation.rst` suggests to use ``~`` for subsection but subsections in HOWTO is not marked in the format. This commit marks them in the format. Signed-off-by: SeongJae Park <sj38.park@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* Merge branch 'doc-tweaks' into docs-nextJonathan Corbet2016-10-275-23/+48
|\ | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The creation of the admin and process guides is a great thing, but, without care, we risk replacing a messy docs directory with a few messy Sphinx books. In an attempt to head that off and show what I'm thinking, here's a set of tweaks that, I think, make the existing Sphinx-formatted docs a bit more accessible.
| * docs: Add a warning to applying-patches.rstJonathan Corbet2016-10-271-0/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is ancient stuff and we don't do things this way anymore. In the absence of simply deleting the document, at least add a warning to it. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: add a warning to submitting-drivers.rstJonathan Corbet2016-10-271-0/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is crufty stuff and should maybe just be deleted, but I'm not quite ready to do that yet. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: Collapse the process guide TOCJonathan Corbet2016-10-271-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | I believe this makes the page as a whole more approachable. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: Tweak submitting-patches.rst formattingJonathan Corbet2016-10-271-10/+6
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The main goal here was to get the subsections to show in the TOC as they do for all the other documents. Also call out the DCO in the section title since it's important. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
| * docs: Apply some basic organization to the process guideJonathan Corbet2016-10-272-10/+29
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Put like documents together, with the essential ones at the top, and split the TOC into sections. Reviewed-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* | doc-rst: include index only in subproject AND htmlMarkus Heiser2016-10-261-0/+8
|/ | | | | | | | The index should only be included if the build of the sub-folder is done with the html-builder (HTML output). Signed-off-by: Markus Heiser <markus.heiser@darmarit.de> Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
* docs: fix locations of several documents that got movedMauro Carvalho Chehab2016-10-2411-42/+42
| | | | | | | | The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
* docs-rst: add documents to development-processMauro Carvalho Chehab2016-10-2417-0/+6330
| | | | | | | | | | Add several documents to the development-process ReST book. As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those documents on their original place. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>
* docs: rename development-process/ to process/Mauro Carvalho Chehab2016-10-2411-0/+2230
As we'll type this a lot, after adding CodingStyle & friends, let's rename the directory name to a shorter one. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@s-opensource.com>