kernel/git/stable/linux.git/Documentation/devices.txt, branch linux-3.5.y

Merge branch 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux

2012-05-24T00:12:06+00:00

Pull the MCA deletion branch from Paul Gortmaker: "It was good that we could support MCA machines back in the day, but realistically, nobody is using them anymore. They were mostly limited to 386-sx 16MHz CPU and some 486 class machines and never more than 64MB of RAM. Even the enthusiast hobbyist community seems to have dried up close to ten years ago, based on what you can find searching various websites dedicated to the relatively short lived hardware. So lets remove the support relating to CONFIG_MCA. There is no point carrying this forward, wasting cycles doing routine maintenance on it; wasting allyesconfig build time on validating it, wasting I/O on git grep'ping over it, and so on." Let's see if anybody screams. It generally has compiled, and James Bottomley pointed out that there was a MCA extension from NCR that allowed for up to 4GB of memory and PPro-class machines. So in *theory* there may be users out there. But even James (technically listed as a maintainer) doesn't actually have a system, and while Alan Cox claims to have a machine in his cellar that he offered to anybody who wants to take it off his hands, he didn't argue for keeping MCA support either. So we could bring it back. But somebody had better speak up and talk about how they have actually been using said MCA hardware with modern kernels for us to do that. And David already took the patch to delete all the networking driver code (commit a5e371f61ad3: "drivers/net: delete all code/drivers depending on CONFIG_MCA"). * 'delete-mca' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/paulg/linux: MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support. scsi: delete the MCA specific drivers and driver code serial: delete the MCA specific 8250 support. arm: remove ability to select CONFIG_MCA

MCA: delete all remaining traces of microchannel bus support.

2012-05-17T23:06:13+00:00

Hardware with MCA bus is limited to 386 and 486 class machines that are now 20+ years old and typically with less than 32MB of memory. A quick search on the internet, and you see that even the MCA hobbyist/enthusiast community has lost interest in the early 2000 era and never really even moved ahead from the 2.4 kernels to the 2.6 series. This deletes anything remaining related to CONFIG_MCA from core kernel code and from the x86 architecture. There is no point in carrying this any further into the future. One complication to watch for is inadvertently scooping up stuff relating to machine check, since there is overlap in the TLA name space (e.g. arch/x86/boot/mca.c). Cc: Thomas Gleixner Cc: James Bottomley Cc: x86@kernel.org Acked-by: Ingo Molnar Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin Signed-off-by: Paul Gortmaker

kmsg - add Documentation/ABI/testing/dev-kmsg

2012-05-08T17:44:25+00:00

Signed-off-by: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

vhost-net: add module alias (v2.1)

2012-01-13T18:12:23+00:00

By adding some module aliases, programs (or users) won't have to explicitly call modprobe. Vhost-net will always be available if built into the kernel. It does require assigning a permanent minor number for depmod to work. Also: - use C99 style initialization. - add missing entry in documentation for loop-control Signed-off-by: Stephen Hemminger Acked-By: Kay Sievers Signed-off-by: David S. Miller

devices.txt: Fix typo of 'VMware'.

2011-12-09T10:21:32+00:00

Signed-off-by: Vinson Lee Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Jiri Kosina

Merge branch 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6

2010-10-28T16:35:11+00:00

* 'v4l_for_linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mchehab/linux-2.6: (505 commits) [media] af9015: Fix max I2C message size when used with tda18271 [media] IR: initialize ir_raw_event in few more drivers [media] Guard a divide in v4l1 compat layer [media] imon: fix nomouse modprobe option [media] imon: remove redundant change_protocol call [media] imon: fix my egregious brown paper bag w/rdev/idev split [media] cafe_ccic: Configure ov7670 correctly [media] ov7670: allow configuration of image size, clock speed, and I/O method [media] af9015: support for DigitalNow TinyTwin v3 [1f4d:9016] [media] af9015: map DigitalNow TinyTwin v2 remote [media] DigitalNow TinyTwin remote controller [media] af9015: RC fixes and improvements videodev2.h.xml: Update to reflect the latest changes at videodev2.h [media] v4l: document new Bayer and monochrome pixel formats [media] DocBook/v4l: Add missing formats used on gspca cpia1 and sn9c2028 [media] firedtv: add parameter to fake ca_system_ids in CA_INFO [media] tm6000: fix a macro coding style issue tm6000: Remove some ugly debug code [media] Nova-S-Plus audio line input [media] [RFC,1/1] V4L2: Use new CAP bits in existing RDS capable drivers ...

mmc: make number of mmcblk minors configurable

2010-10-25T01:28:46+00:00

The old limit of number of minor numbers per mmcblk device was hardcoded at 8. This isn't enough for some of the more elaborate partitioning schemes, for example those used by Chrome OS. Since there might be a bunch of systems out there with static /dev contents that relies on the old numbering scheme, let's make it a build-time option with the default set to the previous 8. Also provide a boot/modprobe-time parameter to override the config default: mmcblk.perdev_minors. Signed-off-by: Olof Johansson Cc: Mandeep Baines Cc: Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Chris Ball

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6

2010-10-23T03:30:48+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/usb-2.6: (141 commits) USB: mct_u232: fix broken close USB: gadget: amd5536udc.c: fix error path USB: imx21-hcd - fix off by one resource size calculation usb: gadget: fix Kconfig warning usb: r8a66597-udc: Add processing when USB was removed. mxc_udc: add workaround for ENGcm09152 for i.MX35 USB: ftdi_sio: add device ids for ScienceScope USB: musb: AM35x: Workaround for fifo read issue USB: musb: add musb support for AM35x USB: AM35x: Add musb support usb: Fix linker errors with CONFIG_PM=n USB: ohci-sh - use resource_size instead of defining its own resource_len macro USB: isp1362-hcd - use resource_size instead of defining its own resource_len macro USB: isp116x-hcd - use resource_size instead of defining its own resource_len macro USB: xhci: Fix compile error when CONFIG_PM=n USB: accept some invalid ep0-maxpacket values USB: xHCI: PCI power management implementation USB: xHCI: bus power management implementation USB: xHCI: port remote wakeup implementation USB: xHCI: port power management implementation ... Manually fix up (non-data) conflict: the SCSI merge gad renamed the 'hw_sector_size' member to 'physical_block_size', and the USB tree brought a new use of it.

USB: yurex: assign a real minor number to the driver

2010-10-22T17:21:51+00:00

This assigns the minor number 192 to the yurex driver. We also fix up the previous usb minor number entry, it was wrong. Cc: Tomoki Sekiyama Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

add ttyprintk driver

2010-10-22T17:20:02+00:00

Ttyprintk is a pseudo TTY driver, which allows users to make printk messages, via output to ttyprintk device. It is possible to store "console" messages inline with kernel messages for better analyses of the boot process, for example. Signed-off-by: Samo Pogacnik Acked-by: Alan Cox Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman