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inotify is intended to correct the deficiencies of dnotify, particularly
its inability to scale and its terrible user interface:

        * dnotify requires the opening of one fd per each directory
          that you intend to watch. This quickly results in too many
          open files and pins removable media, preventing unmount.
        * dnotify is directory-based. You only learn about changes to
          directories. Sure, a change to a file in a directory affects
          the directory, but you are then forced to keep a cache of
          stat structures.
        * dnotify's interface to user-space is awful.  Signals?

inotify provides a more usable, simple, powerful solution to file change
notification:

        * inotify's interface is a system call that returns a fd, not SIGIO.
	  You get a single fd, which is select()-able.
        * inotify has an event that says "the filesystem that the item
          you were watching is on was unmounted."
        * inotify can watch directories or files.

Inotify is currently used by Beagle (a desktop search infrastructure),
Gamin (a FAM replacement), and other projects.

See Documentation/filesystems/inotify.txt.
Signed-off-by: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

- Card definitions updated.
- Tail spaces removed.
- Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.
- Correct info about sync byte for MPEG-2 transport stream packets.
Signed-off-by: Michael Krufky <mkrufky@m1k.net>
Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@brturbo.com.br>
Signed-off-by: hermann pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Update PCMCIA driver changes for patches merged in 2.6.13
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

SN9C10x driver updates.

Changes: + new, - removed, * cleanup, @ bugfix

@ Remove bad get_ctrl()'s
* Documentation updates
+ Add 0x0c45/0x602d to the list of SN9C10x based devices
+ Add support for OV7630 image sensors
Signed-off-by: Luca Risolia <luca.risolia@studio.unibo.it>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Make usbmon to print Setup packets of Control transfers. This is useful
when debugging enumeration issues.

This is a change to the trace format which is not fully compatible.
A parser has to look at the data length word now. If that word is
a character like 's', read setup packet before proceeding with data.
I decided not to bump the API tag for this because not many such
parsers exist at this point.
Signed-off-by: Pete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

See Documentation/acpi-hotkey.txt

Use cmdline "acpi_specific_hotkey" to enable
legacy platform specific drivers.

http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3887

Signed-off-by: Luming Yu <luming.yu@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>

Part 3: Move the drivers documentation, plus two general documentation
files.

Note that the patch "adds trailing whitespace", because it does move the
files as-is, and some files happen to have trailing whitespace.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Upon suggestion by Nils Roeder, here is an update to the i2c
documentation to clarify which header files user-space applications
relying on the i2c-dev interface should include.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix documentation to match code in include/linux/i2c-dev.h
Signed-off-by: Jan Veldeman <jan@mind.be>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The I2C stack has long had "id" fields, of rather dubious utility, in
many data structures.  This removes mention of one of them from the
documentation about how to write an I2C driver, so that only drivers
that really need to use them (probably old/legacy code) will have any
reason to use this field.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Here is a proposed documentation update for the new max6875 i2c chip
driver.
Signed-off-by: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

One more system where video works with S3.
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Schedule removal of the PCMCIA ioctl (and thus kernel support for the
pcmcia-cs userspace package) for November 2005.

A big "thank you" to Dave Hinds for his great work on supporting PCMCIA in
Linux.  Things are just done differently by now, so the ongoing work to make
PCMCIA behave like any other hotpluggable bus should continue.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

*   /usr/src/linux-2.6.12/Documentation/dvb/bt8xx.txt

  almost completely remade the text file with the following focuses:
  useful infos for beginners: how to load modules manually and
  automatically developers infos are reduced to a minimum as module loading
  works automatic in kernel >= 2.6.12 by loading modules bttv and dvb-bt8xx
  I completely erased the out of date TwinHan part dealing with additional
  parameters, debug parameters, and overriding autodetection Further up to
  date information about TwinHan + clones can be found in
  /Documentation/dvb/ci.txt
Signed-off-by: Uwe Bugla <uwe.bugla@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Updated the readme file to point to the DVB USB wikipage to find out which
firmware necessary, + minor updates.
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@linuxtv.org>
Signed-off-by: Johannes Stezenbach <js@linuxtv.org>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add keymap for Twinhan vp7045 remote control.
Signed-off-by: Michael Paxton <packo@tpg.com.au>
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@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>

o removed device listing (they are all in the linuxtv wiki now)
o misc updates
Signed-off-by: Patrick Boettcher <pb@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>

Add documentation for InfiniBand userspace verbs.
Signed-off-by: Roland Dreier <rolandd@cisco.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This is a small documentation patch for a boot time parameter.  
Signed-off-by: Bob Picco <bob.picco@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>

Signed-off-by: Robert Olsson <Robert.Olsson@data.slu.se>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>

As the information is now exported via sysfs, there's no need for an userspace
tool any longer.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch changes the way serial ports are locked when getting modem
status.  This change is necessary because we will need to atomically
read the modem status and take action depending on the CTS status.
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>

Corrections to Documentation/Submitting{Drivers,Patches}
- update LANANA info.
- fix some typos
- update 2.2 kernel maintainer info.
- update 'dontdiff' info.
- update URLs for patch scripts
- add Trivial Patch Monkey URL
- add more references for submitting patches
Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

New cards included.
V4L1 api renamed. Message included informing it is obsoleted by V4L2 API.
V4L2 api included.
Mark all 7135 cards as 7133.

Signed-off-by: Luc Saillard <luc@saillard.org>.
Signed-off-by: Nickolay V Shmyrev <nshmyrev@yandex.ru>
Signed-off-by: Hermann Pitton <hermann.pitton@onlinehome.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>

Anyone reporting a stuck IRQ should try these options.  Its effectiveness
varies we've found in the Fedora case.  Quite a few systems with misdescribed
IRQ routing just work when you use irqpoll.  It also fixes up the VIA systems
although thats now fixed with the VIA quirk (which we could just make default
as its what Redmond OS does but Linus didn't like it historically).

A small number of systems have jammed IRQ sources or misdescribes that cause
an IRQ that we have no handler registered anywhere for.  In those cases it
doesn't help.
Signed-off-by: Alan Cox <number6@the-village.bc.nu>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

I updated this to remove unnecessary variable initialization, make
check_routing be inline only and not __init, switch to strtoul, and
formatting fixes as per Randy Dunlap's recommendations.

I updated this to change pirq_table_addr to a long, and to add a warning
msg if the PIRQ table wasn't found at the specified address, as per thread
with Matthew Wilcox.

In our hardware situation, the BIOS is unable to store or generate it's PIRQ
table in the F0000h-100000h standard range. This patch adds a pci kernel
parameter, pirqaddr to allow the bootloader (or BIOS based loader) to inform
the kernel where the PIRQ table got stored. A beneficial side-effect is that,
if one's BIOS uses a static address each time for it's PIRQ table, then
pirqaddr can be used to avoid the $pirq search through that address block each
time at boot for normal PIRQ BIOSes.
Signed-off-by: Jaya Kumar <jayalk@intworks.biz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

I fleshed out libata.tmpl a bit while I was taking notes.

Fix example hash generator in Documentation.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add some information useful for PCMCIA device driver authors to
Documentation/pcmcia/, and reference it in dmesg in case of hash mismatches.

Also add a reference to pcmciautils to Documentation/Changes.  With recent
changes, you don't need to concern yourself with pcmcia-cs even if you have
PCMCIA hardware, so the example above the list needed to be adapted as well.
Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowksi.net>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch fixes a PCI ID I got wrong before.  It also adds support for
another new SAS controller due out this summer.  I didn't have a marketing
name prior to my last submission.  Also modifies the copyright date range.
Signed-off-by: Mike Miller <mike.miller@hp.com>
Acked-by: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Add ioprio documentation
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Patch indents dmfe.txt to look like other docs.  It adds a tip about CNET
cards using Davicom chipsets.  Also it removes parts where it refers to how
to build driver out-of-kernel which seems to be cruft from times where the
driver was out of the kernel.
Signed-off-by: Ismail Donmez <ismail@kde.org.tr>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>

Since the Trivial Patch Monkey is mentioned both in steps 4.  and 5., I
removed it from step4 (Select e-mail destination), since it should go under
'Select your CC list'.
Signed-off-by: Cosmin Nicolaescu <cos@camelot.homelinux.com>
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1. Establish a simple API for process freezing defined in linux/include/sched.h:

   frozen(process)		Check for frozen process
   freezing(process)		Check if a process is being frozen
   freeze(process)		Tell a process to freeze (go to refrigerator)
   thaw_process(process)	Restart process
   frozen_process(process)	Process is frozen now

2. Remove all references to PF_FREEZE and PF_FROZEN from all
   kernel sources except sched.h

3. Fix numerous locations where try_to_freeze is manually done by a driver

4. Remove the argument that is no longer necessary from two function calls.

5. Some whitespace cleanup

6. Clear potential race in refrigerator (provides an open window of PF_FREEZE
   cleared before setting PF_FROZEN, recalc_sigpending does not check
   PF_FROZEN).

This patch does not address the problem of freeze_processes() violating the rule
that a task may only modify its own flags by setting PF_FREEZE. This is not clean
in an SMP environment. freeze(process) is therefore not SMP safe!
Signed-off-by: Christoph Lameter <christoph@lameter.com>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Since kernel 2.6.3 the Kconfig text explicitely stated this driver was
obsolete.

(trolling for IBMers)
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Signed-off-by: Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Domen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The files wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain
the exact same information (diff between the two shows no document is "Linux
WAN Router Utilities Package" and therefor the name wan-router.txt is more
appropriate.
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>

wanpipe.txt and wan-router.txt in Documentation/networking contain the exact
same information (diff between the two shows no
Documentation/networking/00-INDEX as pointed out by Randy Dunlap.
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>