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* Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-for-linus-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-122-0/+481
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| * [SCSI] scsi: Error handler description documentTejun Heo2005-09-102-0/+481
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/davem/net-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-122-0/+327
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| * | [NET]: Add netlink connector.Evgeniy Polyakov2005-09-112-0/+327
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 Linus Torvalds2005-09-122-6/+8
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| * \ \ Merge ../torvalds-2.6/ Greg KH2005-09-1257-431/+3580
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| * \ \ \ Merge gregkh@master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6 Greg KH2005-09-093-9/+215
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| * | | | | [PATCH] printk : Documentation/firmware_class/firmware_sample_driver.cChristophe Lucas2005-09-091-4/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | printk() calls should include appropriate KERN_* constant. Signed-off-by: Christophe Lucas <clucas@rotomalug.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * | | | | [PATCH] aoe [1/2]: support 16 AoE slot addresses per AoE shelfEd L Cashin2005-09-091-2/+4
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | [PATCH] USB: proc_usb_info.txt: add blank linesRandy Dunlap2005-09-121-5/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | [PATCH] USB: add apple usb touchpad driverStelian Pop2005-09-121-0/+84
| |_|/ / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] x86-64: i386/x86-64: Fix time going twice as fast problem on ATI ↵Chuck Ebbert2005-09-121-0/+9
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] x86-64: Add command line option to set machine check tolerance levelAndi Kleen2005-09-121-0/+5
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] i810fb: Update i810fb documentationAntonino A. Daplas2005-09-111-26/+30
| |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | kbuild: rename prepare to archprepare to fix dependency chainSam Ravnborg2005-09-111-7/+7
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input Linus Torvalds2005-09-101-0/+1
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| * \ \ \ Manual merge with LinusDmitry Torokhov2005-09-0959-725/+4185
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| * | | | | Input: i8042 - add i8042.nokbd module option to allow supressingDmitry Torokhov2005-09-041-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | creation of keyboard port. Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
* | | | | | [PATCH] remove ACPI S4bios supportPavel Machek2005-09-101-8/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | [PATCH] merge some from Rusty's trivial patchesAdrian Bunk2005-09-103-3/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | [PATCH] Spelling fixes for Documentation/Tobias Klauser2005-09-1018-21/+21
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | [PATCH] Add kerneldoc reference to CodingStylePekka J Enberg2005-09-101-0/+3
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | | [PATCH] Yet another RCU documentation updatePaul E. McKenney2005-09-105-24/+1064
| |/ / / / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] fuse: more flexible cachingMiklos Szeredi2005-09-091-26/+0
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] FUSE - device functionsMiklos Szeredi2005-09-091-0/+341
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] Documentation/sparse snapshot URLBen Dooks2005-09-091-1/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] VFS: update documentationPekka J Enberg2005-09-091-112/+323
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] Kdump: Documentation UpdateVivek Goyal2005-09-091-8/+8
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] docs: fix misinformation about overcommit_memoryChuck Ebbert2005-09-091-10/+32
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] ISA DMA API documentationPierre Ossman2005-09-091-0/+151
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Documentation for how the ISA DMA controller is handled in the kernel. Signed-off-by: Pierre Ossman <drzeus@drzeus.cx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] Documentation: how to apply patches for various treesJesper Juhl2005-09-092-0/+441
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add a new document describing the major kernel trees and how to apply their patches. 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>
* | | | | [PATCH] Update Documentation/DocBook/kernel-hacking.tmplRusty Russell2005-09-091-166/+144
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Update the hacking guide, before CONFIG_PREEMPT_RT goes in and it needs rewriting again. Changes include modernization of quotes, removal of most references to bottom halves (some mention required because we still use bh in places to mean softirq). It would be nice to have a discussion of sparse and various annotations. Please send patches straight to akpm. Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> (authored) Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] fbdev: Add VESA Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) supportAntonino A. Daplas2005-09-091-1/+72
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | The Coordinated Video Timings (CVT) is the latest standard approved by VESA concerning video timings generation. It addresses the limitation of GTF which is designed mainly for CRT displays. CRT's have a high blanking requirement (as much as 25% of the horizontal frame length) which artificially increases the pixelclock. Digital displays, on the other hand, needs to conserve the pixelclock as much as possible. The GTF also does not take into account the different aspect ratios in its calculation. The new function added is fb_find_mode_cvt(). It is called by fb_find_mode() if it recognizes a mode option string formatted for CVT. The format is: <xres>x<yres>[M][R][-<bpp>][<at-sign><refresh>][i][m] The 'M' tells the function to calculate using CVT. On it's own, it will compute a timing for CRT displays at 60Hz. If the 'R' is specified, 'reduced blanking' computation will be used, best for flatpanels. The 'i' and the 'm' is for 'interlaced mode' and 'with margins' respectively. To determine if CVT was used, check for dmesg for something like this: CVT Mode - <pix>M<n>[-R], ie: .480M3-R (800x600 reduced blanking) where: pix - product of xres and yres, in MB M - is a CVT mode n - the aspect ratio (3 - 4:3; 4 - 5:4; 9 - 16:9, 15:9; A - 16:10) -R - reduced blanking Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] framebuffer: new driver for cyberblade/i1 graphics coreKnut Petersen2005-09-098-0/+596
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This is a framebuffer driver for the Cyberblade/i1 graphics core. Currently tridenfb claims to support the cyberblade/i1 graphics core. This is of very limited truth. Even vesafb is faster and provides more working modes and a much better quality of the video signal. There is a great number of bugs in tridentfb ... but most often it is impossible to decide if these bugs are real bugs or if fixing them for the cyberblade/i1 core would break support for one of the other supported chips. Tridentfb seems to be unmaintained,and documentation for most of the supported chips is not available. So "fixing" cyberblade/i1 support inside of tridentfb was not an option, it would have caused numerous if(CYBERBLADEi1) else ... cases and would have rendered the code to be almost unmaintainable. A first version of this driver was published on 2005-07-31. A fix for a bug reported by Jochen Hein was integrated as well as some changes requested by Antonino A. Daplas. A message has been added to tridentfb to inform current users of tridentfb to switch to cyblafb if the cyberblade/i1 graphics core is detected. This patch is one logical change, but because of the included documentation it is bigger than 70kb. Therefore it is not sent to lkml and linux-fbdev-devel, Signed-off-by: Knut Petersen <Knut_Petersen@t-online.de> Cc: Muli Ben-Yehuda <mulix@mulix.org> Acked-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v9fs: Documentation, Makefiles, ConfigurationEric Van Hensbergen2005-09-091-0/+95
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | OVERVIEW V9FS is a distributed file system for Linux which provides an implementation of the Plan 9 resource sharing protocol 9P. It can be used to share all sorts of resources: static files, synthetic file servers (such as /proc or /sys), devices, and application file servers (such as FUSE). BACKGROUND Plan 9 (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/plan9) is a research operating system and associated applications suite developed by the Computing Science Research Center of AT&T Bell Laboratories (now a part of Lucent Technologies), the same group that developed UNIX , C, and C++. Plan 9 was initially released in 1993 to universities, and then made generally available in 1995. Its core operating systems code laid the foundation for the Inferno Operating System released as a product by Lucent Bell-Labs in 1997. The Inferno venture was the only commercial embodiment of Plan 9 and is currently maintained as a product by Vita Nuova (http://www.vitanuova.com). After updated releases in 2000 and 2002, Plan 9 was open-sourced under the OSI approved Lucent Public License in 2003. The Plan 9 project was started by Ken Thompson and Rob Pike in 1985. Their intent was to explore potential solutions to some of the shortcomings of UNIX in the face of the widespread use of high-speed networks to connect machines. In UNIX, networking was an afterthought and UNIX clusters became little more than a network of stand-alone systems. Plan 9 was designed from first principles as a seamless distributed system with integrated secure network resource sharing. Applications and services were architected in such a way as to allow for implicit distribution across a cluster of systems. Configuring an environment to use remote application components or services in place of their local equivalent could be achieved with a few simple command line instructions. For the most part, application implementations operated independent of the location of their actual resources. Commercial operating systems haven't changed much in the 20 years since Plan 9 was conceived. Network and distributed systems support is provided by a patchwork of middle-ware, with an endless number of packages supplying pieces of the puzzle. Matters are complicated by the use of different complicated protocols for individual services, and separate implementations for kernel and application resources. The V9FS project (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net) is an attempt to bring Plan 9's unified approach to resource sharing to Linux and other operating systems via support for the 9P2000 resource sharing protocol. V9FS HISTORY V9FS was originally developed by Ron Minnich and Maya Gokhale at Los Alamos National Labs (LANL) in 1997. In November of 2001, Greg Watson setup a SourceForge project as a public repository for the code which supported the Linux 2.4 kernel. About a year ago, I picked up the initial attempt Ron Minnich had made to provide 2.6 support and got the code integrated into a 2.6.5 kernel. I then went through a line-for-line re-write attempting to clean-up the code while more closely following the Linux Kernel style guidelines. I co-authored a paper with Ron Minnich on the V9FS Linux support including performance comparisons to NFSv3 using Bonnie and PostMark - this paper appeared at the USENIX/FREENIX 2005 conference in April 2005: ( http://www.usenix.org/events/usenix05/tech/freenix/hensbergen.html ). CALL FOR PARTICIPATION/REQUEST FOR COMMENTS Our 2.6 kernel support is stabilizing and we'd like to begin pursuing its integration into the official kernel tree. We would appreciate any review, comments, critiques, and additions from this community and are actively seeking people to join our project and help us produce something that would be acceptable and useful to the Linux community. STATUS The code is reasonably stable, although there are no doubt corner cases our regression tests haven't discovered yet. It is in regular use by several of the developers and has been tested on x86 and PowerPC (32-bit and 64-bit) in both small and large (LANL cluster) deployments. Our current regression tests include fsx, bonnie, and postmark. It was our intention to keep things as simple as possible for this release -- trying to focus on correctness within the core of the protocol support versus a rich set of features. For example: a more complete security model and cache layer are in the road map, but excluded from this release. Additionally, we have removed support for mmap operations at Al Viro's request. PERFORMANCE Detailed performance numbers and analysis are included in the FREENIX paper, but we show comparable performance to NFSv3 for large file operations based on the Bonnie benchmark, and superior performance for many small file operations based on the PostMark benchmark. Somewhat preliminary graphs (from the FREENIX paper) are available (http://v9fs.sourceforge.net/perf/index.html). RESOURCES The source code is available in a few different forms: tarballs: http://v9fs.sf.net CVSweb: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/v9fs/linux-9p/ CVS: :pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/v9fs/linux-9p Git: rsync://v9fs.graverobber.org/v9fs (webgit: http://v9fs.graverobber.org) 9P: tcp!v9fs.graverobber.org!6564 The user-level server is available from either the Plan 9 distribution or from http://v9fs.sf.net Other support applications are still being developed, but preliminary version can be downloaded from sourceforge. Documentation on the protocol has historically been the Plan 9 Man pages (http://plan9.bell-labs.com/sys/man/5/INDEX.html), but there is an effort under way to write a more complete Internet-Draft style specification (http://v9fs.sf.net/rfc). There are a couple of mailing lists supporting v9fs, but the most used is v9fs-developer@lists.sourceforge.net -- please direct/cc your comments there so the other v9fs contibutors can participate in the conversation. There is also an IRC channel: irc://freenode.net/#v9fs This part of the patch contains Documentation, Makefiles, and configuration file changes. Signed-off-by: Eric Van Hensbergen <ericvh@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] files: files locking docDipankar Sarma2005-09-091-0/+123
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Add documentation describing the new locking scheme for file descriptor table. Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] files: rcuref APIsDipankar Sarma2005-09-091-0/+74
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Adds a set of primitives to do reference counting for objects that are looked up without locks using RCU. Signed-off-by: Ravikiran Thirumalai <kiran_th@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dipankar Sarma <dipankar@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v4l: cx88-dvb incorrect reporting fixed and remove bad PCI ID for ↵Mauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-091-2/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Sabrent - cx88-dvb has been incorrectly reporting the card name instead of frontend name - Removes a bad PCI subsystem ID for saa713x Sabrent card - Renames DVICO --> DViCO for bttv. - #include <linux/config.h> no longer needed. Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v4l: add saa713x card #66: Yuan TUN-900 (saa7135)Mauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Add saa713x card #66: Yuan TUN-900 (saa7135) Signed-off-by: De Greef Sebastien <sebdg@hotmail.com> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v4l: add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV TerminatorMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Add saa713x card #65 Kworld V-Stream Studio TV Terminator Signed-off-by: James R Webb <jrwebb@qwest.net> Signed-off-by: Peter Missel <peter.missel@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Nickolay V. Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v4l: SAA7134 updates and board additionsMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h - Add new Digimatrix card and LG TAPC Mini tuner for it Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v4l: BTTV updates and card additionsMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-091-0/+2
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - Added DVICO FusionHDTV 5 Lite card. - Added Acorp Y878F. - CodingStyle fixes. - Added tuner_addr to bttv cards structure. - linux/version.h replaced by linux/utsname.h on bttvp.h - kernel module for acquiring RDS data from a SAA6588. - Allow multiple open() and reading calls to /dev/radio on bttv-driver.c - added i2c address for lgdt330x. Signed-off-by: Hans J. Koch <koch@hjk-az.de> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] v4l: common part Updates and tuner additionsMauro Carvalho Chehab2005-09-091-0/+1
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | - Remove $Id CVS logs for V4L files - Included newer cards. - Added a new NEC protocol for ir based on pulse distance. - Enable ATSC support for DViCO FusionHDTV5 Gold. - Added tuner LG NTSC (TALN mini series). - Fixed tea5767 autodetection. - Resolve more tuner types. - Commented debug function removed from mainstream. - Remove comments from mainstream. Still on development tree. - linux/version dependencies removed. - BTSC Lang1 now is set to auto_stereo mode. - New tuner standby API. - i2c-core.c uses hexadecimal for the i2c address, so it should stay consistent. Signed-off-by: Uli Luckas <luckas@musoft.de> Signed-off-by: Mac Michaels <wmichaels1@earthlink.net> Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net> Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de> Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] dvb: dst: Updated DocumentationManu Abraham2005-09-091-35/+54
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated Documentation Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | | [PATCH] dvb: dst: ci doc updateManu Abraham2005-09-091-8/+1
| |_|/ / |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Updated documentation Signed-off-by: Manu Abraham <manu@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* | | | Merge branch 'master' of /pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6 Anton Altaparmakov2005-09-092-9/+203
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| | * | | | [PATCH] USB: yealink: fix htons usage, documentation updatesHenk2005-09-081-9/+25
| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Signed-off-by: Henk Vergonet <henk.vergonet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| | * | | | [PATCH] input-driver-yealink-P1K-usb-phoneHenk2005-09-081-0/+187
| | | |/ / | | |/| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch aggregates all modifications in the -mm tree and adds complete ringtone support. The following features are supported: - keyboard full support - LCD full support - LED full support - dialtone full support - ringtone full support - audio playback via generic usb audio diver - audio record via generic usb audio diver For driver documentation see: Documentation/input/yealink.txt For vendor documentation see: http://yealink.com Signed-off-by: Henk <Henk.Vergonet@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
| * / | | [PATCH] PCI: remove CONFIG_PCI_NAMESAdrian Bunk2005-09-081-9/+0
| |/ / / | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | This patch removes CONFIG_PCI_NAMES. Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>