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-rw-r--r--Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt2
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt31
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i8015
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro3
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf857572
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/i2c/writing-clients6
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ide.txt13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt9
-rw-r--r--Documentation/kprobes.txt1
-rw-r--r--Documentation/s390/CommonIO5
12 files changed, 110 insertions, 44 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
index 254e769282a4..3d2f31b99dd9 100644
--- a/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
+++ b/Documentation/DocBook/s390-drivers.tmpl
@@ -116,6 +116,7 @@
!Iinclude/asm-s390/ccwdev.h
!Edrivers/s390/cio/device.c
!Edrivers/s390/cio/device_ops.c
+!Edrivers/s390/cio/airq.c
</sect1>
<sect1 id="cmf">
<title>The channel-measurement facility</title>
diff --git a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
index fb94f5a71b68..ba0aacde94fb 100644
--- a/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
+++ b/Documentation/cpu-hotplug.txt
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ additional_cpus=n (*) Use this to limit hotpluggable cpus. This option sets
cpu_possible_map = cpu_present_map + additional_cpus
(*) Option valid only for following architectures
-- x86_64, ia64, s390
+- x86_64, ia64
ia64 and x86_64 use the number of disabled local apics in ACPI tables MADT
to determine the number of potentially hot-pluggable cpus. The implementation
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 9b8291f4c211..25370662cc5d 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -191,15 +191,6 @@ Who: Kay Sievers <kay.sievers@suse.de>
---------------------------
-What: i2c_adapter.list
-When: July 2007
-Why: Superfluous, this list duplicates the one maintained by the driver
- core.
-Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>,
- David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
-
----------------------------
-
What: ACPI procfs interface
When: July 2008
Why: ACPI sysfs conversion should be finished by January 2008.
@@ -225,14 +216,6 @@ Who: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
---------------------------
-What: i2c-ixp2000, i2c-ixp4xx and scx200_i2c drivers
-When: September 2007
-Why: Obsolete. The new i2c-gpio driver replaces all hardware-specific
- I2C-over-GPIO drivers.
-Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: 'time' kernel boot parameter
When: January 2008
Why: replaced by 'printk.time=<value>' so that printk timestamps can be
@@ -266,13 +249,6 @@ Who: Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
---------------------------
-What: Legacy RTC drivers (under drivers/i2c/chips)
-When: November 2007
-Why: Obsolete. We have a RTC subsystem with better drivers.
-Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
-
----------------------------
-
What: iptables SAME target
When: 1.1. 2008
Files: net/ipv4/netfilter/ipt_SAME.c, include/linux/netfilter_ipv4/ipt_SAME.h
@@ -323,3 +299,10 @@ Why: This driver has been marked obsolete for many years.
Who: Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@linux-foundation.org>
---------------------------
+
+What: i2c-i810, i2c-prosavage and i2c-savage4
+When: May 2008
+Why: These drivers are superseded by i810fb, intelfb and savagefb.
+Who: Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
+
+---------------------------
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801 b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801
index fde4420e3f75..3bd958360159 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-i801
@@ -17,9 +17,8 @@ Supported adapters:
Datasheets: Publicly available at the Intel website
Authors:
- Frodo Looijaard <frodol@dds.nl>,
- Philip Edelbrock <phil@netroedge.com>,
Mark Studebaker <mdsxyz123@yahoo.com>
+ Jean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Module Parameters
@@ -62,7 +61,7 @@ Not supported.
I2C Block Read Support
----------------------
-Not supported at the moment.
+I2C block read is supported on the 82801EB (ICH5) and later chips.
SMBus 2.0 Support
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
index 06b4be3ef6d8..1405fb69984c 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/busses/i2c-viapro
@@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ Supported adapters:
* VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8231, VT8233, VT8233A
Datasheet: available on request from VIA
- * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235, VT8237R, VT8237A, VT8251
+ * VIA Technologies, Inc. VT8235, VT8237R, VT8237A, VT8237S, VT8251
Datasheet: available on request and under NDA from VIA
* VIA Technologies, Inc. CX700
@@ -46,6 +46,7 @@ Your lspci -n listing must show one of these :
device 1106:3177 (VT8235)
device 1106:3227 (VT8237R)
device 1106:3337 (VT8237A)
+ device 1106:3372 (VT8237S)
device 1106:3287 (VT8251)
device 1106:8324 (CX700)
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575 b/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575
new file mode 100644
index 000000000000..25f5698a61cf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/chips/pcf8575
@@ -0,0 +1,72 @@
+About the PCF8575 chip and the pcf8575 kernel driver
+====================================================
+
+The PCF8575 chip is produced by the following manufacturers:
+
+ * Philips NXP
+ http://www.nxp.com/#/pip/cb=[type=product,path=50807/41735/41850,final=PCF8575_3]|pip=[pip=PCF8575_3][0]
+
+ * Texas Instruments
+ http://focus.ti.com/docs/prod/folders/print/pcf8575.html
+
+
+Some vendors sell small PCB's with the PCF8575 mounted on it. You can connect
+such a board to a Linux host via e.g. an USB to I2C interface. Examples of
+PCB boards with a PCF8575:
+
+ * SFE Breakout Board for PCF8575 I2C Expander by RobotShop
+ http://www.robotshop.ca/home/products/robot-parts/electronics/adapters-converters/sfe-pcf8575-i2c-expander-board.html
+
+ * Breakout Board for PCF8575 I2C Expander by Spark Fun Electronics
+ http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=8130
+
+
+Description
+-----------
+The PCF8575 chip is a 16-bit I/O expander for the I2C bus. Up to eight of
+these chips can be connected to the same I2C bus. You can find this
+chip on some custom designed hardware, but you won't find it on PC
+motherboards.
+
+The PCF8575 chip consists of a 16-bit quasi-bidirectional port and an I2C-bus
+interface. Each of the sixteen I/O's can be independently used as an input or
+an output. To set up an I/O pin as an input, you have to write a 1 to the
+corresponding output.
+
+For more information please see the datasheet.
+
+
+Detection
+---------
+
+There is no method known to detect whether a chip on a given I2C address is
+a PCF8575 or whether it is any other I2C device. So there are two alternatives
+to let the driver find the installed PCF8575 devices:
+- Load this driver after any other I2C driver for I2C devices with addresses
+ in the range 0x20 .. 0x27.
+- Pass the I2C bus and address of the installed PCF8575 devices explicitly to
+ the driver at load time via the probe=... or force=... parameters.
+
+/sys interface
+--------------
+
+For each address on which a PCF8575 chip was found or forced the following
+files will be created under /sys:
+* /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<bus>-<address>/read
+* /sys/bus/i2c/devices/<bus>-<address>/write
+where bus is the I2C bus number (0, 1, ...) and address is the four-digit
+hexadecimal representation of the 7-bit I2C address of the PCF8575
+(0020 .. 0027).
+
+The read file is read-only. Reading it will trigger an I2C read and will hence
+report the current input state for the pins configured as inputs, and the
+current output value for the pins configured as outputs.
+
+The write file is read-write. Writing a value to it will configure all pins
+as output for which the corresponding bit is zero. Reading the write file will
+return the value last written, or -EAGAIN if no value has yet been written to
+the write file.
+
+On module initialization the configuration of the chip is not changed -- the
+chip is left in the state it was already configured in through either power-up
+or through previous I2C write actions.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub
index 89e69ad3436c..0d8be1c20c16 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/i2c-stub
@@ -25,6 +25,9 @@ The typical use-case is like this:
3. load the target sensors chip driver module
4. observe its behavior in the kernel log
+There's a script named i2c-stub-from-dump in the i2c-tools package which
+can load register values automatically from a chip dump.
+
PARAMETERS:
int chip_addr[10]:
@@ -32,9 +35,6 @@ int chip_addr[10]:
CAVEATS:
-There are independent arrays for byte/data and word/data commands. Depending
-on if/how a target driver mixes them, you'll need to be careful.
-
If your target driver polls some byte or word waiting for it to change, the
stub could lock it up. Use i2cset to unlock it.
diff --git a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
index 2c170032bf37..bfb0a5520817 100644
--- a/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
+++ b/Documentation/i2c/writing-clients
@@ -267,9 +267,9 @@ insmod parameter of the form force_<kind>.
Fortunately, as a module writer, you just have to define the `normal_i2c'
parameter. The complete declaration could look like this:
- /* Scan 0x37, and 0x48 to 0x4f */
- static unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x37, 0x48, 0x49, 0x4a, 0x4b, 0x4c,
- 0x4d, 0x4e, 0x4f, I2C_CLIENT_END };
+ /* Scan 0x4c to 0x4f */
+ static const unsigned short normal_i2c[] = { 0x4c, 0x4d, 0x4e, 0x4f,
+ I2C_CLIENT_END };
/* Magic definition of all other variables and things */
I2C_CLIENT_INSMOD;
diff --git a/Documentation/ide.txt b/Documentation/ide.txt
index 1d50f23a5cab..94e2e3b9e77f 100644
--- a/Documentation/ide.txt
+++ b/Documentation/ide.txt
@@ -30,7 +30,7 @@
***
*** The CMD640 is also used on some Vesa Local Bus (VLB) cards, and is *NOT*
*** automatically detected by Linux. For safe, reliable operation with such
-*** interfaces, one *MUST* use the "ide0=cmd640_vlb" kernel option.
+*** interfaces, one *MUST* use the "cmd640.probe_vlb" kernel option.
***
*** Use of the "serialize" option is no longer necessary.
@@ -244,10 +244,6 @@ Summary of ide driver parameters for kernel command line
"hdx=nodma" : disallow DMA
- "hdx=swapdata" : when the drive is a disk, byte swap all data
-
- "hdx=bswap" : same as above..........
-
"hdx=scsi" : the return of the ide-scsi flag, this is useful for
allowing ide-floppy, ide-tape, and ide-cdrom|writers
to use ide-scsi emulation on a device specific option.
@@ -292,9 +288,6 @@ The following are valid ONLY on ide0, which usually corresponds
to the first ATA interface found on the particular host, and the defaults for
the base,ctl ports must not be altered.
- "ide0=cmd640_vlb" : *REQUIRED* for VLB cards with the CMD640 chip
- (not for PCI -- automatically detected)
-
"ide=doubler" : probe/support IDE doublers on Amiga
There may be more options than shown -- use the source, Luke!
@@ -310,6 +303,10 @@ i.e. to enable probing for ALI M14xx chipsets (ali14xx host driver) use:
* "probe" module parameter when ali14xx driver is compiled as module
("modprobe ali14xx probe")
+Also for legacy CMD640 host driver (cmd640) you need to use "probe_vlb"
+kernel paremeter to enable probing for VLB version of the chipset (PCI ones
+are detected automatically).
+
================================================================================
IDE ATAPI streaming tape driver
diff --git a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
index 65de5ba7b74c..880f882160e2 100644
--- a/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kernel-parameters.txt
@@ -370,7 +370,8 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
configured. Potentially dangerous and should only be
used if you are entirely sure of the consequences.
- chandev= [HW,NET] Generic channel device initialisation
+ ccw_timeout_log [S390]
+ See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
checkreqprot [SELINUX] Set initial checkreqprot flag value.
Format: { "0" | "1" }
@@ -382,6 +383,12 @@ and is between 256 and 4096 characters. It is defined in the file
Value can be changed at runtime via
/selinux/checkreqprot.
+ cio_ignore= [S390]
+ See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
+
+ cio_msg= [S390]
+ See Documentation/s390/CommonIO for details.
+
clock= [BUGS=X86-32, HW] gettimeofday clocksource override.
[Deprecated]
Forces specified clocksource (if available) to be used
diff --git a/Documentation/kprobes.txt b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
index cb12ae175aa2..53a63890aea4 100644
--- a/Documentation/kprobes.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kprobes.txt
@@ -141,6 +141,7 @@ architectures:
- ppc64
- ia64 (Does not support probes on instruction slot1.)
- sparc64 (Return probes not yet implemented.)
+- arm
3. Configuring Kprobes
diff --git a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
index 86320aa3fb0b..8fbc0a852870 100644
--- a/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
+++ b/Documentation/s390/CommonIO
@@ -4,6 +4,11 @@ S/390 common I/O-Layer - command line parameters, procfs and debugfs entries
Command line parameters
-----------------------
+* ccw_timeout_log
+
+ Enable logging of debug information in case of ccw device timeouts.
+
+
* cio_msg = yes | no
Determines whether information on found devices and sensed device