Merge branches 'release', 'acpica', 'bugzilla-10224', 'bugzilla-9772'…

…, 'bugzilla-9916', 'ec', 'eeepc', 'idle', 'misc', 'pm-legacy', 'sysfs-links-2.6.26', 'thermal', 'thinkpad' and 'video' into release

.gitignore

@@ -27,6 +27,7 @@ TAGS
 vmlinux*
 !vmlinux.lds.S
 System.map
+Module.markers
 Module.symvers
 !.gitignore
 

CREDITS

@@ -403,6 +403,8 @@ D: Linux CD and Support Giveaway List
 N: Erik Inge Bolsø
 E: [email protected]
 D: Misc kernel hacks
+D: Updated PC speaker driver for 2.3
+S: Norway
 
 N: Andreas E. Bombe
 E: [email protected]
@@ -3116,6 +3118,12 @@ S: Post Office Box 64132
 S: Sunnyvale, California 94088-4132
 S: USA
 
+N: Stas Sergeev
+E: [email protected]
+D: PCM PC-Speaker driver
+D: misc fixes
+S: Russia
+
 N: Simon Shapiro
 E: [email protected]
 W: http://www.-i-Connect.Net/~shimon

Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -25,8 +25,6 @@ DMA-API.txt
 	- DMA API, pci_ API & extensions for non-consistent memory machines.
 DMA-ISA-LPC.txt
 	- How to do DMA with ISA (and LPC) devices.
-DMA-mapping.txt
-	- info for PCI drivers using DMA portably across all platforms.
 DocBook/
 	- directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
 HOWTO
@@ -43,8 +41,6 @@ ManagementStyle
 	- how to (attempt to) manage kernel hackers.
 MSI-HOWTO.txt
 	- the Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) Driver Guide HOWTO and FAQ.
-PCIEBUS-HOWTO.txt
-	- a guide describing the PCI Express Port Bus driver.
 RCU/
 	- directory with info on RCU (read-copy update).
 README.DAC960
@@ -167,10 +163,8 @@ highuid.txt
 	- notes on the change from 16 bit to 32 bit user/group IDs.
 hpet.txt
 	- High Precision Event Timer Driver for Linux.
-hrtimer/
-	- info on the timer_stats debugging facility for timer (ab)use.
-hrtimers/
-	- info on the hrtimers subsystem for high-resolution kernel timers.
+timers/
+	- info on the timer related topics
 hw_random.txt
 	- info on Linux support for random number generator in i8xx chipsets.
 hwmon/
@@ -287,12 +281,6 @@ parport.txt
 	- how to use the parallel-port driver.
 parport-lowlevel.txt
 	- description and usage of the low level parallel port functions.
-pci-error-recovery.txt
-	- info on PCI error recovery.
-pci.txt
-	- info on the PCI subsystem for device driver authors.
-pcieaer-howto.txt
-	- the PCI Express Advanced Error Reporting Driver Guide HOWTO.
 pcmcia/
 	- info on the Linux PCMCIA driver.
 pi-futex.txt
@@ -341,8 +329,6 @@ sgi-visws.txt
 	- short blurb on the SGI Visual Workstations.
 sh/
 	- directory with info on porting Linux to a new architecture.
-smart-config.txt
-	- description of the Smart Config makefile feature.
 sound/
 	- directory with info on sound card support.
 sparc/

Documentation/ABI/obsolete/o2cb

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+What:		/sys/o2cb symlink
+Date:		Dec 2005
+KernelVersion:	2.6.16
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:	This is a symlink: /sys/o2cb to /sys/fs/o2cb. The symlink will
+		be removed when new versions of ocfs2-tools which know to look
+		in /sys/fs/o2cb are sufficiently prevalent. Don't code new
+		software to look here, it should try /sys/fs/o2cb instead.
+		See Documentation/ABI/stable/o2cb for more information on usage.
+Users:		ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to
+		[email protected].

Documentation/ABI/stable/o2cb

@@ -0,0 +1,10 @@
+What:		/sys/fs/o2cb/ (was /sys/o2cb)
+Date:		Dec 2005
+KernelVersion:	2.6.16
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:	Ocfs2-tools looks at 'interface-revision' for versioning
+		information. Each logmask/ file controls a set of debug prints
+		and can be written into with the strings "allow", "deny", or
+		"off". Reading the file returns the current state.
+Users:		ocfs2-tools. It's sufficient to mail proposed changes to
+		[email protected].

Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-ubi

@@ -0,0 +1,212 @@
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		The ubi/ class sub-directory belongs to the UBI subsystem and
+		provides general UBI information, per-UBI device information
+		and per-UBI volume information.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/version
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		This file contains version of the latest supported UBI on-media
+		format. Currently it is 1, and there is no plan to change this.
+		However, if in the future UBI needs on-flash format changes
+		which cannot be done in a compatible manner, a new format
+		version will be added. So this is a mechanism for possible
+		future backward-compatible (but forward-incompatible)
+		improvements.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubiX/
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/ubi0, /sys/class/ubi1, etc directories describe
+		UBI devices (UBI device 0, 1, etc). They contain general UBI
+		device information and per UBI volume information (each UBI
+		device may have many UBI volumes)
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/avail_eraseblocks
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Amount of available logical eraseblock. For example, one may
+		create a new UBI volume which has this amount of logical
+		eraseblocks.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/bad_peb_count
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Count of bad physical eraseblocks on the underlying MTD device.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/bgt_enabled
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Contains ASCII "0\n" if the UBI background thread is disabled,
+		and ASCII "1\n" if it is enabled.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/dev
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Major and minor numbers of the character device corresponding
+		to this UBI device (in <major>:<minor> format).
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/eraseblock_size
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Maximum logical eraseblock size this UBI device may provide. UBI
+		volumes may have smaller logical eraseblock size because of their
+		alignment.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/max_ec
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Maximum physical eraseblock erase counter value.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/max_vol_count
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Maximum number of volumes which this UBI device may have.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/min_io_size
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Minimum input/output unit size. All the I/O may only be done
+		in fractions of the contained number.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/mtd_num
+Date:		January 2008
+KernelVersion:	2.6.25
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Number of the underlying MTD device.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/reserved_for_bad
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Number of physical eraseblocks reserved for bad block handling.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/total_eraseblocks
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Total number of good (not marked as bad) physical eraseblocks on
+		the underlying MTD device.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/volumes_count
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Count of volumes on this UBI device.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		The /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_0/, /sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_1/,
+		etc directories describe UBI volumes on UBI device X (volumes
+		0, 1, etc).
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/alignment
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Volume alignment - the value the logical eraseblock size of
+		this volume has to be aligned on. For example, 2048 means that
+		logical eraseblock size is multiple of 2048. In other words,
+		volume logical eraseblock size is UBI device logical eraseblock
+		size aligned to the alignment value.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/corrupted
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Contains ASCII "0\n" if the UBI volume is OK, and ASCII "1\n"
+		if it is corrupted (e.g., due to an interrupted volume update).
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/data_bytes
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		The amount of data this volume contains. This value makes sense
+		only for static volumes, and for dynamic volume it equivalent
+		to the total volume size in bytes.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/dev
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Major and minor numbers of the character device corresponding
+		to this UBI volume (in <major>:<minor> format).
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/name
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Volume name.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/reserved_ebs
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Count of physical eraseblock reserved for this volume.
+		Equivalent to the volume size in logical eraseblocks.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/type
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Volume type. Contains ASCII "dynamic\n" for dynamic volumes and
+		"static\n" for static volumes.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/upd_marker
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Contains ASCII "0\n" if the update marker is not set for this
+		volume, and "1\n" if it is set. The update marker is set when
+		volume update starts, and cleaned when it ends. So the presence
+		of the update marker indicates that the volume is being updated
+		at the moment of the update was interrupted. The later may be
+		checked using the "corrupted" sysfs file.
+
+What:		/sys/class/ubi/ubiX/ubiX_Y/usable_eb_size
+Date:		July 2006
+KernelVersion:	2.6.22
+Contact:	Artem Bityutskiy <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Logical eraseblock size of this volume. Equivalent to logical
+		eraseblock size of the device aligned on the volume alignment
+		value.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-bus-pci

@@ -0,0 +1,11 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/pci/devices/.../vpd
+Date:		February 2008
+Contact:	Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		A file named vpd in a device directory will be a
+		binary file containing the Vital Product Data for the
+		device.  It should follow the VPD format defined in
+		PCI Specification 2.1 or 2.2, but users should consider
+		that some devices may have malformatted data.  If the
+		underlying VPD has a writable section then the
+		corresponding section of this file will be writable.

Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-ibft

@@ -0,0 +1,23 @@
+What:		/sys/firmware/ibft/initiator
+Date:		November 2007
+Contact:	Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
+Description:	The /sys/firmware/ibft/initiator directory will contain
+		files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table initiator data.
+		Usually this contains the Initiator name.
+
+What:		/sys/firmware/ibft/targetX
+Date:		November 2007
+Contact:	Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
+Description:	The /sys/firmware/ibft/targetX directory will contain
+		files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table target data.
+		Usually this contains the target's IP address, boot LUN,
+		target name, and what NIC it is associated with. It can also
+		contain the CHAP name (and password), the reverse CHAP
+		name (and password)
+
+What:		/sys/firmware/ibft/ethernetX
+Date:		November 2007
+Contact:	Konrad Rzeszutek <[email protected]>
+Description:	The /sys/firmware/ibft/ethernetX directory will contain
+		files that expose the iSCSI Boot Firmware Table NIC data.
+		This can this can the IP address, MAC, and gateway of the NIC.