Requiring userspace to close and re-open sysfs attributes has been the
policy since before 2.6.12.  It allows userspace to get a consistent
snapshot of kernel state and consume it with incremental reads and seeks.

Now, if the file position is zero the kernel assumes userspace wants to see
the new value.  The application for this change is to allow a userspace
RAID metadata handler to check the state of an array without causing any
memory allocations.  Thus not causing writeback to a raid array that might
be blocked waiting for userspace to take action.

Cc: Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>
Acked-by: NTejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Add the obvious missing word.
Signed-off-by: NShaun Zinck <shaun.zinck@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>

Change filemode to use defines in stead of 0644,
based on suggestions by Walter Harms and Domen Puncer.
Signed-off-by: NJan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be>
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Fix whitespace after comma between parameters.
Signed-off-by: NJan Veldeman <Jan.Veldeman@advalvas.be>
Signed-off-by: NDomen Puncer <domen@coderock.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Signed-off-by: NYani Ioannou <yani.ioannou@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

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!