Merge commit 'v2.6.38-rc1' into kbuild/packaging

.gitignore

@@ -35,13 +35,18 @@ modules.builtin
 #
 # Top-level generic files
 #
-tags
-TAGS
-vmlinux
-vmlinuz
-System.map
-Module.markers
-Module.symvers
+/tags
+/TAGS
+/linux
+/vmlinux
+/vmlinuz
+/System.map
+/Module.markers
+/Module.symvers
+
+#
+# git files that we don't want to ignore even it they are dot-files
+#
 !.gitignore
 !.mailmap
 

.mailmap

@@ -105,3 +105,4 @@ Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
 Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
 Uwe Kleine-König <[email protected]>
 Valdis Kletnieks <[email protected]>
+Takashi YOSHII <[email protected]>

CREDITS

@@ -2365,8 +2365,6 @@ E: [email protected]
 W: http://oops.ghostprotocols.net:81/blog/
 P: 1024D/9224DF01 D5DF E3BB E3C8 BCBB F8AD  841A B6AB 4681 9224 DF01
 D: IPX, LLC, DCCP, cyc2x, wl3501_cs, net/ hacks
-S: R. Brasílio Itiberê, 4270/1010 - Água Verde
-S: 80240-060 - Curitiba - Paraná
 S: Brazil
 
 N: Karsten Merker
@@ -2813,8 +2811,8 @@ D: CDROM driver "sonycd535" (Sony CDU-535/531)
 N: Stelian Pop
 E: [email protected]
 P: 1024D/EDBB6147 7B36 0E07 04BC 11DC A7A0  D3F7 7185 9E7A EDBB 6147
-D: sonypi, meye drivers, mct_u232 usb serial hacks
-S: Paris, France
+D: random kernel hacks
+S: Paimpont, France
 
 N: Pete Popov
 E: [email protected]
@@ -3554,12 +3552,12 @@ E: [email protected]
 D: portions of the Linux Security Module (LSM) framework and security modules
 
 N: Petr Vandrovec
-E: [email protected]
+E: [email protected]
 D: Small contributions to ncpfs
 D: Matrox framebuffer driver
-S: Chudenicka 8
-S: 10200 Prague 10, Hostivar
-S: Czech Republic
+S: 21513 Conradia Ct
+S: Cupertino, CA 95014
+S: USA
 
 N: Thibaut Varene
 E: [email protected]

Documentation/00-INDEX

@@ -32,8 +32,6 @@ DocBook/
 	- directory with DocBook templates etc. for kernel documentation.
 HOWTO
 	- the process and procedures of how to do Linux kernel development.
-IO-mapping.txt
-	- how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
 IPMI.txt
 	- info on Linux Intelligent Platform Management Interface (IPMI) Driver.
 IRQ-affinity.txt
@@ -84,6 +82,8 @@ blockdev/
 	- info on block devices & drivers
 btmrvl.txt
 	- info on Marvell Bluetooth driver usage.
+bus-virt-phys-mapping.txt
+	- how to access I/O mapped memory from within device drivers.
 cachetlb.txt
 	- describes the cache/TLB flushing interfaces Linux uses.
 cdrom/
@@ -130,8 +130,6 @@ edac.txt
 	- information on EDAC - Error Detection And Correction
 eisa.txt
 	- info on EISA bus support.
-exception.txt
-	- how Linux v2.2 handles exceptions without verify_area etc.
 fault-injection/
 	- dir with docs about the fault injection capabilities infrastructure.
 fb/
@@ -168,6 +166,8 @@ initrd.txt
 	- how to use the RAM disk as an initial/temporary root filesystem.
 input/
 	- info on Linux input device support.
+io-mapping.txt
+	- description of io_mapping functions in linux/io-mapping.h
 io_ordering.txt
 	- info on ordering I/O writes to memory-mapped addresses.
 ioctl/
@@ -232,6 +232,8 @@ memory.txt
 	- info on typical Linux memory problems.
 mips/
 	- directory with info about Linux on MIPS architecture.
+mmc/
+	- directory with info about the MMC subsystem
 mono.txt
 	- how to execute Mono-based .NET binaries with the help of BINFMT_MISC.
 mutex-design.txt
@@ -250,6 +252,8 @@ numastat.txt
 	- info on how to read Numa policy hit/miss statistics in sysfs.
 oops-tracing.txt
 	- how to decode those nasty internal kernel error dump messages.
+padata.txt
+	- An introduction to the "padata" parallel execution API
 parisc/
 	- directory with info on using Linux on PA-RISC architecture.
 parport.txt

Documentation/ABI/obsolete/proc-pid-oom_adj

@@ -0,0 +1,22 @@
+What:	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj
+When:	August 2012
+Why:	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj allows userspace to influence the oom killer's
+	badness heuristic used to determine which task to kill when the kernel
+	is out of memory.
+
+	The badness heuristic has since been rewritten since the introduction of
+	this tunable such that its meaning is deprecated.  The value was
+	implemented as a bitshift on a score generated by the badness()
+	function that did not have any precise units of measure.  With the
+	rewrite, the score is given as a proportion of available memory to the
+	task allocating pages, so using a bitshift which grows the score
+	exponentially is, thus, impossible to tune with fine granularity.
+
+	A much more powerful interface, /proc/<pid>/oom_score_adj, was
+	introduced with the oom killer rewrite that allows users to increase or
+	decrease the badness() score linearly.  This interface will replace
+	/proc/<pid>/oom_adj.
+
+	A warning will be emitted to the kernel log if an application uses this
+	deprecated interface.  After it is printed once, future warnings will be
+	suppressed until the kernel is rebooted.

Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-bus-usb

@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+What:		/sys/bus/usb/devices/.../power/level
+Date:		March 2007
+KernelVersion:	2.6.21
+Contact:	Alan Stern <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		Each USB device directory will contain a file named
+		power/level.  This file holds a power-level setting for
+		the device, either "on" or "auto".
+
+		"on" means that the device is not allowed to autosuspend,
+		although normal suspends for system sleep will still
+		be honored.  "auto" means the device will autosuspend
+		and autoresume in the usual manner, according to the
+		capabilities of its driver.
+
+		During normal use, devices should be left in the "auto"
+		level.  The "on" level is meant for administrative uses.
+		If you want to suspend a device immediately but leave it
+		free to wake up in response to I/O requests, you should
+		write "0" to power/autosuspend.
+
+		Device not capable of proper suspend and resume should be
+		left in the "on" level.  Although the USB spec requires
+		devices to support suspend/resume, many of them do not.
+		In fact so many don't that by default, the USB core
+		initializes all non-hub devices in the "on" level.  Some
+		drivers may change this setting when they are bound.
+
+		This file is deprecated and will be removed after 2010.
+		Use the power/control file instead; it does exactly the
+		same thing.

Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill

@@ -0,0 +1,29 @@
+rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support
+
+For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/state
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description: 	Current state of the transmitter.
+		This file is deprecated and sheduled to be removed in 2014,
+		because its not possible to express the 'soft and hard block'
+		state of the rfkill driver.
+Values: 	A numeric value.
+		0: RFKILL_STATE_SOFT_BLOCKED
+			transmitter is turned off by software
+		1: RFKILL_STATE_UNBLOCKED
+			transmitter is (potentially) active
+		2: RFKILL_STATE_HARD_BLOCKED
+			transmitter is forced off by something outside of
+			the driver's control.
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/claim
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:	This file is deprecated because there no longer is a way to
+		claim just control over a single rfkill instance.
+		This file is scheduled to be removed in 2012.
+Values: 	0: Kernel handles events

Documentation/ABI/removed/dv1394

@@ -0,0 +1,14 @@
+What:		dv1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-DV I/O support" for FireWire)
+Date:		May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+	/dev/dv1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire
+	controller and for NTSC and PAL respectively, from which DV data
+	could be received by read() or transmitted by write().  A few
+	ioctl()s allowed limited control.
+	This special-purpose interface has been superseded by libraw1394 +
+	libiec61883 which are functionally equivalent, support HDV, and
+	transparently work on top of the newer firewire kernel drivers.
+
+Users:
+	ffmpeg/libavformat (if configured for DV1394)

Documentation/ABI/removed/raw1394

@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+What:		raw1394 (a.k.a. "Raw IEEE1394 I/O support" for FireWire)
+Date:		May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+	/dev/raw1394 was a character device file that allowed low-level
+	access to FireWire buses.  Its major drawbacks were its inability
+	to implement sensible device security policies, and its low level
+	of abstraction that required userspace clients do duplicate much
+	of the kernel's ieee1394 core functionality.
+	Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
+	firewire-core.
+
+Users:
+	libraw1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
+	users)

Documentation/ABI/removed/video1394

@@ -0,0 +1,16 @@
+What:		video1394 (a.k.a. "OHCI-1394 Video support" for FireWire)
+Date:		May 2010 (scheduled), finally removed in kernel v2.6.37
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:
+	/dev/video1394/* were character device files, one for each FireWire
+	controller, which were used for isochronous I/O.  It was added as an
+	alternative to raw1394's isochronous I/O functionality which had
+	performance issues in its first generation.  Any video1394 user had
+	to use raw1394 + libraw1394 too because video1394 did not provide
+	asynchronous I/O for device discovery and configuration.
+	Replaced by /dev/fw*, i.e. the <linux/firewire-cdev.h> ABI of
+	firewire-core.
+
+Users:
+	libdc1394 (works with firewire-cdev too, transparent to library ABI
+	users)

Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-class-rfkill

@@ -0,0 +1,67 @@
+rfkill - radio frequency (RF) connector kill switch support
+
+For details to this subsystem look at Documentation/rfkill.txt.
+
+For the deprecated /sys/class/rfkill/*/state and
+/sys/class/rfkill/*/claim knobs of this interface look in
+Documentation/ABI/obsolete/sysfs-class-rfkill.
+
+What: 		/sys/class/rfkill
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion:	v2.6.22
+Contact:	[email protected],
+Description: 	The rfkill class subsystem folder.
+		Each registered rfkill driver is represented by an rfkillX
+		subfolder (X being an integer > 0).
+
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/name
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description: 	Name assigned by driver to this key (interface or driver name).
+Values: 	arbitrary string.
+
+
+What: 		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/type
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description: 	Driver type string ("wlan", "bluetooth", etc).
+Values: 	See include/linux/rfkill.h.
+
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/persistent
+Date:		09-Jul-2007
+KernelVersion	v2.6.22
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description: 	Whether the soft blocked state is initialised from non-volatile
+		storage at startup.
+Values: 	A numeric value.
+		0: false
+		1: true
+
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/hard
+Date:		12-March-2010
+KernelVersion	v2.6.34
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description: 	Current hardblock state. This file is read only.
+Values: 	A numeric value.
+		0: inactive
+			The transmitter is (potentially) active.
+		1: active
+			The transmitter is forced off by something outside of
+			the driver's control.
+
+
+What:		/sys/class/rfkill/rfkill[0-9]+/soft
+Date:		12-March-2010
+KernelVersion	v2.6.34
+Contact:	[email protected]
+Description:	Current softblock state. This file is read and write.
+Values: 	A numeric value.
+		0: inactive
+			The transmitter is (potentially) active.
+		1: active
+			The transmitter is turned off by software.

Documentation/ABI/stable/sysfs-devices-node

@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+What:		/sys/devices/system/node/nodeX
+Date:		October 2002
+Contact:	Linux Memory Management list <[email protected]>
+Description:
+		When CONFIG_NUMA is enabled, this is a directory containing
+		information on node X such as what CPUs are local to the
+		node.

Documentation/ABI/stable/thermal-notification

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+What:		A notification mechanism for thermal related events
+Description:
+	This interface enables notification for thermal related events.
+	The notification is in the form of a netlink event.

Documentation/ABI/testing/debugfs-ec

@@ -0,0 +1,20 @@
+What:		/sys/kernel/debug/ec/*/{gpe,use_global_lock,io}
+Date:		July 2010
+Contact:	Thomas Renninger <[email protected]>
+Description:
+
+General information like which GPE is assigned to the EC and whether
+the global lock should get used.
+Knowing the EC GPE one can watch the amount of HW events related to
+the EC here (XY -> GPE number from /sys/kernel/debug/ec/*/gpe):
+/sys/firmware/acpi/interrupts/gpeXY
+
+The io file is binary and a userspace tool located here:
+ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/people/trenn/sources/ec/
+should get used to read out the 256 Embedded Controller registers
+or writing to them.
+
+CAUTION: Do not write to the Embedded Controller if you don't know
+what you are doing! Rebooting afterwards also is a good idea.
+This can influence the way your machine is cooled and fans may
+not get switched on again after you did a wrong write.