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  Jesper Juhl is the new trivial patches maintainer
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7 changes: 3 additions & 4 deletions CREDITS
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Expand Up @@ -508,12 +508,8 @@ D: REINER SCT cyberJack pinpad/e-com USB chipcard reader driver
S: Germany

N: Adrian Bunk
E: [email protected]
P: 1024D/4F12B400 B29C E71E FE19 6755 5C8A 84D4 99FC EA98 4F12 B400
D: misc kernel hacking and testing
S: Grasmeierstrasse 11
S: 80805 Muenchen
S: Germany

N: Ray Burr
E: [email protected]
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S: San Jose, California 95131
S: USA

N: Adam Fritzler
E: [email protected]

N: Fernando Fuganti
E: [email protected]
E: [email protected]
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4 changes: 1 addition & 3 deletions Documentation/00-INDEX
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- request_firmware() hotplug interface info.
floppy.txt
- notes and driver options for the floppy disk driver.
fujitsu/
frv/
- Fujitsu FR-V Linux documentation.
gpio.txt
- overview of GPIO (General Purpose Input/Output) access conventions.
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- a description of shared subtrees for namespaces.
smart-config.txt
- description of the Smart Config makefile feature.
smp.txt
- a few notes on symmetric multi-processing.
sony-laptop.txt
- Sony Notebook Control Driver (SNC) Readme.
sonypi.txt
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22 changes: 11 additions & 11 deletions Documentation/BUG-HUNTING
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[Sat Mar 2 10:32:33 PST 1996 KERNEL_BUG-HOWTO [email protected] (Larry McVoy)]

This is how to track down a bug if you know nothing about kernel hacking.
This is how to track down a bug if you know nothing about kernel hacking.
It's a brute force approach but it works pretty well.

You need:
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. Rebuild a revision that you believe works, install, and verify that.
. Do a binary search over the kernels to figure out which one
introduced the bug. I.e., suppose 1.3.28 didn't have the bug, but
introduced the bug. I.e., suppose 1.3.28 didn't have the bug, but
you know that 1.3.69 does. Pick a kernel in the middle and build
that, like 1.3.50. Build & test; if it works, pick the mid point
between .50 and .69, else the mid point between .28 and .50.
. You'll narrow it down to the kernel that introduced the bug. You
can probably do better than this but it gets tricky.
can probably do better than this but it gets tricky.

. Narrow it down to a subdirectory

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directories:

Copy the non-working directory next to the working directory
as "dir.63".
as "dir.63".
One directory at time, try moving the working directory to
"dir.62" and mv dir.63 dir"time, try
"dir.62" and mv dir.63 dir"time, try

mv dir dir.62
mv dir.63 dir
find dir -name '*.[oa]' -print | xargs rm -f

And then rebuild and retest. Assuming that all related
changes were contained in the sub directory, this should
isolate the change to a directory.
changes were contained in the sub directory, this should
isolate the change to a directory.

Problems: changes in header files may have occurred; I've
found in my case that they were self explanatory - you may
found in my case that they were self explanatory - you may
or may not want to give up when that happens.

. Narrow it down to a file

- You can apply the same technique to each file in the directory,
hoping that the changes in that file are self contained.
hoping that the changes in that file are self contained.

. Narrow it down to a routine

- You can take the old file and the new file and manually create
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that makes the difference.

Finally, you take all the info that you have, kernel revisions, bug
description, the extent to which you have narrowed it down, and pass
description, the extent to which you have narrowed it down, and pass
that off to whomever you believe is the maintainer of that section.
A post to linux.dev.kernel isn't such a bad idea if you've done some
work to narrow it down.
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16 changes: 2 additions & 14 deletions Documentation/SubmittingPatches
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Expand Up @@ -220,20 +220,8 @@ decreasing the likelihood of your MIME-attached change being accepted.
Exception: If your mailer is mangling patches then someone may ask
you to re-send them using MIME.


WARNING: Some mailers like Mozilla send your messages with
---- message header ----
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
---- message header ----
The problem is that "format=flowed" makes some of the mailers
on receiving side to replace TABs with spaces and do similar
changes. Thus the patches from you can look corrupted.

To fix this just make your mozilla defaults/pref/mailnews.js file to look like:
pref("mailnews.send_plaintext_flowed", false); // RFC 2646=======
pref("mailnews.display.disable_format_flowed_support", true);


See Documentation/email-clients.txt for hints about configuring
your e-mail client so that it sends your patches untouched.

8) E-mail size.

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only needs occurs after the SMC IO write cycle. The routines that
implement this work-around make an additional concession which is to
disable interrupts during the IO sequence. Other hardware devices
(the LogicPD CPLD) have registers in the same the physical memory
(the LogicPD CPLD) have registers in the same physical memory
region as the SMC chip. An interrupt might allow an access to one of
those registers while SMC IO is being performed.

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4 changes: 4 additions & 0 deletions Documentation/debugging-modules.txt
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echo 'exec /sbin/modprobe "$@"' >> /tmp/modprobe
chmod a+x /tmp/modprobe
echo /tmp/modprobe > /proc/sys/kernel/modprobe

Note that the above applies only when the *kernel* is requesting
that the module be loaded -- it won't have any effect if that module
is being loaded explicitly using "modprobe" from userspace.
2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion Documentation/filesystems/configfs/configfs.txt
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Rather than have a group where some items behave differently than
others, configfs provides a method whereby one or many subgroups are
automatically created inside the parent at its creation. Thus,
mkdir("parent) results in "parent", "parent/subgroup1", up through
mkdir("parent") results in "parent", "parent/subgroup1", up through
"parent/subgroupN". Items of type 1 can now be created in
"parent/subgroup1", and items of type N can be created in
"parent/subgroupN".
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Changes since 2.5.0:

---
---
[recommended]

New helpers: sb_bread(), sb_getblk(), sb_find_get_block(), set_bh(),
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(sb_find_get_block() replaces 2.4's get_hash_table())

---
---
[recommended]

New methods: ->alloc_inode() and ->destroy_inode().
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Use FOO_I(inode) instead of &inode->u.foo_inode_i;

Add foo_alloc_inode() and foo_destory_inode() - the former should allocate
Add foo_alloc_inode() and foo_destroy_inode() - the former should allocate
foo_inode_info and return the address of ->vfs_inode, the latter should free
FOO_I(inode) (see in-tree filesystems for examples).

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priority priority level
nice nice level
num_threads number of threads
it_real_value (obsolete, always 0)
start_time time the process started after system boot
vsize virtual memory size
rss resident set memory size
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with the new root (cd /newmount; mount --move . /; chroot .), attach
stdin/stdout/stderr to the new /dev/console, and exec the new init.

Since this is a remarkably persnickity process (and involves deleting
Since this is a remarkably persnickety process (and involves deleting
commands before you can run them), the klibc package introduced a helper
program (utils/run_init.c) to do all this for you. Most other packages
(such as busybox) have named this command "switch_root".
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In order for a user application to make use of relay files, the
host filesystem must be mounted. For example,

mount -t debugfs debugfs /debug
mount -t debugfs debugfs /sys/kernel/debug

NOTE: the host filesystem doesn't need to be mounted for kernel
clients to create or use channels - it only needs to be
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(*) vdc=...

This option configures the MB93493 companion chip visual display
driver. Please see Documentation/fujitsu/mb93493/vdc.txt for more
driver. Please see Documentation/frv/mb93493/vdc.txt for more
information.
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disk with the desired initrd content, cd to that directory, and run (as an
example):

find . | cpio --quiet -c -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img
find . | cpio --quiet -H newc -o | gzip -9 -n > /boot/imagefile.img

Examining the contents of an existing image file is just as simple:

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1 will print _a lot_ more information - normally
only useful to kernel developers.

decnet= [HW,NET]
decnet.addr= [HW,NET]
Format: <area>[,<node>]
See also Documentation/networking/decnet.txt.

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ramdisk_size= [RAM] Sizes of RAM disks in kilobytes
See Documentation/ramdisk.txt.

rcu.blimit= [KNL,BOOT] Set maximum number of finished
RCU callbacks to process in one batch.
rcupdate.blimit= [KNL,BOOT]
Set maximum number of finished RCU callbacks to process
in one batch.

rcu.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued
rcupdate.qhimark= [KNL,BOOT]
Set threshold of queued
RCU callbacks over which batch limiting is disabled.

rcu.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT] Set threshold of queued
RCU callbacks below which batch limiting is re-enabled.
rcupdate.qlowmark= [KNL,BOOT]
Set threshold of queued RCU callbacks below which
batch limiting is re-enabled.

rdinit= [KNL]
Format: <full_path>
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st= [HW,SCSI] SCSI tape parameters (buffers, etc.)
See Documentation/scsi/st.txt.

st0x= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/seagate.c.

sti= [PARISC,HW]
Format: <num>
Set the STI (builtin display/keyboard on the HP-PARISC
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tipar.delay= [HW,PPT]
Set inter-bit delay in microseconds (default 10).

tmc8xx= [HW,SCSI]
See header of drivers/scsi/seagate.c.

tmscsim= [HW,SCSI]
See comment before function dc390_setup() in
drivers/scsi/tmscsim.c.
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The kernel command line takes options looking like the following:

decnet=1,2
decnet.addr=1,2

the two numbers are the node address 1,2 = 1.2 For 2.2.xx kernels
and early 2.3.xx kernels, you must use a comma when specifying the
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13 changes: 2 additions & 11 deletions MAINTAINERS
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RAYLINK/WEBGEAR 802.11 WIRELESS LAN DRIVER
P: Corey Thomas
M: [email protected]
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
S: Maintained

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S: Maintained

TRIVIAL PATCHES
P: Adrian Bunk
P: Jesper Juhl
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
W: http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/bunk/trivial/
T: git kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial.git
S: Maintained

TMS380 TOKEN-RING NETWORK DRIVER
P: Adam Fritzler
M: [email protected]
L: [email protected]
W: http://www.auk.cx/tms380tr/
S: Maintained

TULIP NETWORK DRIVER
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# Single targets
# ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
# Single targets are compatible with:
# - build whith mixed source and output
# - build with mixed source and output
# - build with separate output dir 'make O=...'
# - external modules
#
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singleprocessor machines. On a singleprocessor machine, the kernel
will run faster if you say N here.

See also the <file:Documentation/smp.txt>, and the SMP-HOWTO
available at <http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.
See also the SMP-HOWTO available at
<http://www.tldp.org/docs.html#howto>.

If you don't know what to do here, say N.

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processor machines. On a single processor machine, the kernel will
run faster if you say N here.

See also the <file:Documentation/smp.txt>,
<file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
See also <file:Documentation/i386/IO-APIC.txt>,
<file:Documentation/nmi_watchdog.txt> and the SMP-HOWTO available at
<http://www.linuxdoc.org/docs.html#howto>.

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/*
* There are three devices connected to the SSP interface:
* 1. A touchscreen controller (TI ADS7846 compatible)
* 2. An LCD contoller (with some Backlight functionality)
* 2. An LCD controller (with some Backlight functionality)
* 3. A battery monitoring IC (Maxim MAX1111)
*
* Each device uses a different speed/mode of communication.
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ucb1x00_adc_enable(ucb);
ucb1x00_io_write(ucb, COLLIE_TC35143_GPIO_TMP_ON, 0);
/* >1010 = battery removed, 460 = 22C ?, higer = lower temp ? */
/* >1010 = battery removed, 460 = 22C ?, higher = lower temp ? */
voltage = ucb1x00_adc_read(ucb, UCB_ADC_INP_AD0, UCB_SYNC);
ucb1x00_io_write(ucb, 0, COLLIE_TC35143_GPIO_TMP_ON);
ucb1x00_adc_disable(ucb);
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* Mark IRQ_LCD valid
*
* 25-Jul-2005 Ben Dooks
* Split the S3C2440 IRQ code to seperate file
* Split the S3C2440 IRQ code to separate file
*/

#include <linux/init.h>
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