Merge ../linux-2.6

CREDITS

@@ -1127,8 +1127,10 @@ S: Carnegie, Pennsylvania 15106-4304
 S: USA
 
 N: Philip Gladstone
-E: philip@raptor.com
+E: philip@gladstonefamily.net
 D: Kernel / timekeeping stuff
+S: Carlisle, MA 01741
+S: USA
 
 N: Jan-Benedict Glaw
 E: [email protected]
@@ -3741,10 +3743,11 @@ D: Mylex DAC960 PCI RAID driver
 D: Miscellaneous kernel fixes
 
 N: Alessandro Zummo
-E: [email protected]
-W: http://freepage.logicom.it/azummo/
+E: [email protected]
 D: CMI8330 support is sb_card.c
 D: ISAPnP fixes in sb_card.c
+D: ZyXEL omni.net lcd plus driver
+D: RTC subsystem
 S: Italy
 
 N: Marc Zyngier

Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt

@@ -199,6 +199,8 @@ address during PCI bus mastering you might do something like:
 		       "mydev: 24-bit DMA addressing not available.\n");
 		goto ignore_this_device;
 	}
+[Better use DMA_24BIT_MASK instead of 0x00ffffff.
+See linux/include/dma-mapping.h for reference.]
 
 When pci_set_dma_mask() is successful, and returns zero, the PCI layer
 saves away this mask you have provided.  The PCI layer will use this

Documentation/RCU/whatisRCU.txt

@@ -605,7 +605,7 @@ are the same as those shown in the preceding section, so they are omitted.
 	{
 		int cpu;
 
-		for_each_cpu(cpu)
+		for_each_possible_cpu(cpu)
 			run_on(cpu);
 	}
 

Documentation/arm/SA1100/Assabet

@@ -26,7 +26,7 @@ Installing a bootloader
 
 A couple of bootloaders able to boot Linux on Assabet are available:
 
-BLOB (http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/lartware/blob/)
+BLOB (http://www.lartmaker.nl/lartware/blob/)
 
    BLOB is a bootloader used within the LART project.  Some contributed
    patches were merged into BLOB to add support for Assabet.

Documentation/arm/SA1100/LART

@@ -11,4 +11,4 @@ is under development, with plenty of others in different stages of
 planning.
 
 The hardware designs for this board have been released under an open license;
-see the LART page at http://www.lart.tudelft.nl/ for more information.
+see the LART page at http://www.lartmaker.nl/ for more information.

Documentation/block/biodoc.txt

@@ -132,8 +132,18 @@ Some new queue property settings:
 		limit. No highmem default.
 
 	blk_queue_max_sectors(q, max_sectors)
-		Maximum size request you can handle in units of 512 byte
-		sectors. 255 default.
+		Sets two variables that limit the size of the request.
+
+		- The request queue's max_sectors, which is a soft size in
+		in units of 512 byte sectors, and could be dynamically varied
+		by the core kernel.
+
+		- The request queue's max_hw_sectors, which is a hard limit
+		and reflects the maximum size request a driver can handle
+		in units of 512 byte sectors.
+
+		The default for both max_sectors and max_hw_sectors is
+		255. The upper limit of max_sectors is 1024.
 
 	blk_queue_max_phys_segments(q, max_segments)
 		Maximum physical segments you can handle in a request. 128

Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt

@@ -97,13 +97,13 @@ at which time hotplug is disabled.
 
 You really dont need to manipulate any of the system cpu maps. They should
 be read-only for most use. When setting up per-cpu resources almost always use
-cpu_possible_map/for_each_cpu() to iterate.
+cpu_possible_map/for_each_possible_cpu() to iterate.
 
 Never use anything other than cpumask_t to represent bitmap of CPUs.
 
 #include <linux/cpumask.h>
 
-for_each_cpu              - Iterate over cpu_possible_map
+for_each_possible_cpu     - Iterate over cpu_possible_map
 for_each_online_cpu       - Iterate over cpu_online_map
 for_each_present_cpu      - Iterate over cpu_present_map
 for_each_cpu_mask(x,mask) - Iterate over some random collection of cpu mask.

Documentation/cputopology.txt

@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 
-Export cpu topology info by sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar
+Export cpu topology info via sysfs. Items (attributes) are similar
 to /proc/cpuinfo.
 
 1) /sys/devices/system/cpu/cpuX/topology/physical_package_id:
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@ represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same core;
 represent the thread siblings to cpu X in the same physical package;
 
 To implement it in an architecture-neutral way, a new source file,
-driver/base/topology.c, is to export the 5 attributes.
+drivers/base/topology.c, is to export the 4 attributes.
 
 If one architecture wants to support this feature, it just needs to
 implement 4 defines, typically in file include/asm-XXX/topology.h.

Documentation/filesystems/00-INDEX

@@ -1,27 +1,47 @@
 00-INDEX
 	- this file (info on some of the filesystems supported by linux).
+Exporting
+	- explanation of how to make filesystems exportable.
 Locking
 	- info on locking rules as they pertain to Linux VFS.
 adfs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the Acorn Advanced Disc Filing System.
+afs.txt
+	- info and examples for the distributed AFS (Andrew File System) fs.
 affs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the Amiga Fast File System.
+automount-support.txt
+	- information about filesystem automount support.
+befs.txt
+	- information about the BeOS filesystem for Linux.
 bfs.txt
 	- info for the SCO UnixWare Boot Filesystem (BFS).
 cifs.txt
-	- description of the CIFS filesystem
+	- description of the CIFS filesystem.
 coda.txt
 	- description of the CODA filesystem.
 configfs/
 	- directory containing configfs documentation and example code.
 cramfs.txt
-	- info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc)
+	- info on the cram filesystem for small storage (ROMs etc).
+dentry-locking.txt
+	- info on the RCU-based dcache locking model.
 devfs/
 	- directory containing devfs documentation.
+directory-locking
+	- info about the locking scheme used for directory operations.
 dlmfs.txt
 	- info on the userspace interface to the OCFS2 DLM.
 ext2.txt
 	- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext2 filesystem.
+ext3.txt
+	- info, mount options and specifications for the Ext3 filesystem.
+files.txt
+	- info on file management in the Linux kernel.
+fuse.txt
+	- info on the Filesystem in User SpacE including mount options.
+hfs.txt
+	- info on the Macintosh HFS Filesystem for Linux.
 hpfs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the OS/2 HPFS.
 isofs.txt
@@ -32,23 +52,43 @@ ncpfs.txt
 	- info on Novell Netware(tm) filesystem using NCP protocol.
 ntfs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the NTFS filesystem (Windows NT).
-proc.txt
-	- info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
 ocfs2.txt
 	- info and mount options for the OCFS2 clustered filesystem.
+porting
+	- various information on filesystem porting.
+proc.txt
+	- info on Linux's /proc filesystem.
+ramfs-rootfs-initramfs.txt
+	- info on the 'in memory' filesystems ramfs, rootfs and initramfs.
+reiser4.txt
+	- info on the Reiser4 filesystem based on dancing tree algorithms.
+relayfs.txt
+	- info on relayfs, for efficient streaming from kernel to user space.
 romfs.txt
-	- Description of the ROMFS filesystem.
+	- description of the ROMFS filesystem.
 smbfs.txt
-	- info on using filesystems with the SMB protocol (Windows 3.11 and NT)
+	- info on using filesystems with the SMB protocol (Win 3.11 and NT).
+spufs.txt
+	- info and mount options for the SPU filesystem used on Cell.
+sysfs-pci.txt
+	- info on accessing PCI device resources through sysfs.
+sysfs.txt
+	- info on sysfs, a ram-based filesystem for exporting kernel objects.
 sysv-fs.txt
 	- info on the SystemV/V7/Xenix/Coherent filesystem.
+tmpfs.txt
+	- info on tmpfs, a filesystem that holds all files in virtual memory.
 udf.txt
 	- info and mount options for the UDF filesystem.
 ufs.txt
 	- info on the ufs filesystem.
+v9fs.txt
+	- v9fs is a Unix implementation of the Plan 9 9p remote fs protocol.
 vfat.txt
 	- info on using the VFAT filesystem used in Windows NT and Windows 95
 vfs.txt
-	- Overview of the Virtual File System
+	- overview of the Virtual File System
 xfs.txt
 	- info and mount options for the XFS filesystem.
+xip.txt
+	- info on execute-in-place for file mappings.

Documentation/ioctl-number.txt

@@ -78,8 +78,6 @@ Code	Seq#	Include File		Comments
 '#'	00-3F	IEEE 1394 Subsystem	Block for the entire subsystem
 '1'	00-1F	<linux/timepps.h>	PPS kit from Ulrich Windl
 					<ftp://ftp.de.kernel.org/pub/linux/daemons/ntp/PPS/>
-'6'	00-10	<asm-i386/processor.h>	Intel IA32 microcode update driver
-					<mailto:[email protected]>
 '8'	all				SNP8023 advanced NIC card
 					<mailto:[email protected]>
 'A'	00-1F	linux/apm_bios.h

Documentation/m68k/README.buddha

@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ address is written to $4a, then the whole Byte is written to
 $48, while it doesn't matter how often you're writing to $4a
 as  long as $48 is not touched.  After $48 has been written,
 the  whole card disappears from $e8 and is mapped to the new
-address just written.  Make shure $4a is written before $48,
+address just written.  Make sure $4a is written before $48,
 otherwise your chance is only 1:16 to find the board :-).
 
 The local memory-map is even active when mapped to $e8:

Documentation/networking/ifenslave.c

@@ -87,7 +87,7 @@
  *	   would fail and generate an error message in the system log.
  * 	 - For opt_c: slave should not be set to the master's setting
  *	   while it is running. It was already set during enslave. To
- *	   simplify things, it is now handeled separately.
+ *	   simplify things, it is now handled separately.
  *
  *    - 2003/12/01 - Shmulik Hen <shmulik.hen at intel dot com>
  *	 - Code cleanup and style changes

Documentation/pnp.txt

@@ -115,6 +115,9 @@ pnp_unregister_protocol
 pnp_register_driver
 - adds a PnP driver to the Plug and Play Layer
 - this includes driver model integration
+- returns zero for success or a negative error number for failure; count
+  calls to the .add() method if you need to know how many devices bind to
+  the driver
 
 pnp_unregister_driver
 - removes a PnP driver from the Plug and Play Layer