The paragraph on mcelog currently describes kernel v2.6.31. In that
kernel the mce code (for i386, that is) was in transition. Ever since
v2.6.32 the situation is much simpler (eg, mcelog is now needed to
process events on almost all x86 machines, i386 and x86-64). Since this
"document is designed to provide a list of the minimum levels of
software necessary to run the 3.0 kernels" let's just describe that
situation.
Signed-off-by: NPaul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>
Acked-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

HPA did the world a favour and reduced the number of perl scripts in the
universe. However we do now need bc

Resolves-bug: https://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60575Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

This tool hasn't been maintained in over a decade, and is pretty much
useless these days.  Let's pretend it never happened.

Also remove a long-dead email address.
Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@fedoraproject.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

That file harkens back to the days of the big 2.4 -> 2.6 version jump,
and was based even then on older versions.  Some of it is just obsolete,
and Jesper Juhl points out that it talks about kernel versions 2.6 and
should be updated to 3.0.

Remove some obsolete text, and re-phrase some other to not be 2.6-specific.
Reported-by: NJesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I noticed the 'mcelog' program had no comment and then ended up "fixing"
a few more things:

  * reiserfsck -V does not print "reiserfsprogs" (any more?)
  * is "udevinfo" still shipped? udevd certainly is
  * grub2 doesn't have a 'grub' binary
  * add a "# how to get the mcelog version" comment
Signed-off-by: NChristian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

I've found some web addresses not responding, giving the cannot
connect error when trying to load them. The below patch updates
the addresses that are not connecting with the best that I can find,
and also fixes a couple of addresses, so people can either choose an older
version of the package and/or a newer version(i.e. ppp).
Signed-off-by: NJustin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

Superseded by xt_string revision 1 (linux v2.6.26-rc8-1127-g4ad3f261,
iptables 1.4.2-rc1).
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>

For both .33 and .32-stable.
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de>
Cc: stable@kernel.org
Signed-off-by: NPatrick McHardy <kaber@trash.net>

Perl is used on the kernel Makefile to generate documentation, firmwares
in c source form, sources, graphs, and some headers and this fact is
undocumented.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: 80-columns, please]
Signed-off-by: NJose Luis Perez Diez <jluis@escomposlinux.org>
Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The Makefiles in the build directories use the internal make variable
MAKEFILE_LIST which is available from make 3.80 only.  (The patch would be
valid back to 2.6.25)
Signed-off-by: NAdam Lackorzynski <adam@os.inf.tu-dresden.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Signed-off-by: NHidetoshi Seto <seto.hidetoshi@jp.fujitsu.com>
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

btrfs requires version 0.18 of its tools, and squashfs requires 4.0.
ext3 should use and ext4 requires v1.41.4 of e2fsprogs.
Signed-off-by: NBill Nottingham <notting@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
cc: Ted Tso <tytso@mit.edu>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Grub older than 0.93 are broken when the kernel setup is bigger than
8K.  This was fixed in 2002, and 0.93 was the first grub version which
fixed this bug.
Signed-off-by: NH. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>

Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know
persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can
spell in more than one correct way, let me know.
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Based on conversations with greg kh (and noticing a simple typo),
these are the actual minimal versions for 2.6.18.
Signed-off-by: NSam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>

Just removes a few unused #defines and fixes some comments due to
devfs now being gone.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

The patch removes references to kernel 2.4 and to translations that
are outdated for 2.6 (german translation is at 2.4.20) or hosts that
are not available.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Remove various things which were checking for gcc-1.x and gcc-2.x compilers.

From: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

    Some documentation updates and removes some code paths for gcc < 3.2.
Acked-by: NRussell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Update ksymoops related documentation to reflect current 2.6 reality.
Signed-off-by: NJesper Juhl <jesper.juhl@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

The 071 release is needed to handle the input changes.  Older versions
will work properly with module-based systems, but not for users that
build input stuff into the kernel.
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add information about required version of the userspace library/utilities
to Documentation/Changes.  Also add pointer to this and to FUSE
documentation from Kconfig.

Thanks to Anton Altaparmakov for the reminder.
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Document that udev 058 is required.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

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

The below patch passes samples from anonymous regions to userspace instead
of just dropping them.  This provides the support needed for reporting
anonymous-region code samples (today: basic accumulated results; later:
Java and other dynamically compiled code).

As this changes the format, an upgrade to the just-released 0.9 release of
the userspace tools is required.

This patch is based upon an earlier one by Will Cohen <wcohen@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Levon <levon@movementarian.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

xmlto uses standared XSLT templates to generate manpages, (x)html pages, and
XML FO files which can be processed with passivetex.  This is much faster than
using jadetex for everything.  This patch also reduces the number of
kernel-specific scripts that are needed to generate documentation.
Signed-off-by: NMartin Waitz <tali@admingilde.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Initial git repository build. I'm not bothering with the full history,
even though we have it. We can create a separate "historical" git
archive of that later if we want to, and in the meantime it's about
3.2GB when imported into git - space that would just make the early
git days unnecessarily complicated, when we don't have a lot of good
infrastructure for it.

Let it rip!