Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc.  from i_flags into
ext2-specific i_flags.  Hence, when someone sets these flags via a different
interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It seems that the recent Windows changed specification, and it's
undocumented.  Windows doesn't update ->free_clusters correctly.

This patch doesn't use ->free_clusters by default.  (instead, add "usefree"
for forcing to use it)
Signed-off-by: NOGAWA Hirofumi <hirofumi@mail.parknet.co.jp>
Cc: Juergen Beisert <juergen127@kreuzholzen.de>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

It looks like a remainder from designing...
Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao@o2.pl>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Most architectures defined three macros, MK_IOSPACE_PFN(), GET_IOSPACE()
and GET_PFN() in pgtable.h.  However, the only callers of any of these
macros are in Sparc specific code, either in arch/sparc, arch/sparc64 or
drivers/sbus.

This patch removes the redundant macros from all architectures except
sparc and sparc64.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Gibson <david@gibson.dropbear.id.au>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patch shuts warnings of the sort:

make -C /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build \
	KBUILD_SRC=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6 \
	KBUILD_EXTMOD="" -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Makefile mandocs
make -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/scripts/Makefile.build obj=scripts/basic
make -f /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/scripts/Makefile.build obj=Documentation/DocBook mandocs
  SRCTREE=/mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/ /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/build/scripts/basic/docproc doc /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.tmpl >Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml
  if grep -q refentry Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml; then xmlto man -m /mnt/samsung_200/sam/kernel/trees/21-rc6/Documentation/DocBook/stylesheet.xsl -o Documentation/DocBook/man Documentation/DocBook/wanbook.xml ; gzip -f Documentation/DocBook/man/*.9; fi
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative     sppp_close
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version        sppp_close
Note: Writing sppp_close.9
Note: meta version: No productnumber or alternative     sppp_open
Note: meta version: No refmiscinfo@class=version        sppp_open

by adding a RefMiscInfo xml tag in the form of the current kernel version
to the function, struct and enum definitions in files included by
kernel-doc when building 'mandocs'.  However, the version string appears
truncated on the manpage due to some constraints in the xml DTD for the man
header, I believe, for the troff output is truncated too.
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Cc: "Randy.Dunlap" <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*,
Signed-off-by: NMilind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Cc: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

use __set_current_state(TASK_*) instead of current->state = TASK_*, in
fs/reiserfs
Signed-off-by: NMilind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Cc: <reiserfs-dev@namesys.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As scheduled, do_setitimer() now returns -EINVAL for invalid timeval.
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Acked-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Ingo Molnar's semaphore to mutex conversions left some noise on a few
trylock calls. Clean it up.
Signed-off-by: NJean Delvare <khali@linux-fr.org>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Mauro Carvalho Chehab <mchehab@infradead.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

If the thread failed to create the subsequent wait_event will hang forever.

This is likely to happen if kernel hits max_threads limit.

Will be critical for virtualization systems that limit the number of tasks
and kernel memory usage within the container.

(akpm: JBD should be converted fully to the kthread API: kthread_should_stop()
and kthread_stop()).

Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There's a missing check for CAP_SYS_ADMIN in do_change_type().
Signed-off-by: NMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The UTF-8 part of the vt driver suffers from the following issues which are
addressed in my patch:

1) If there's no glyph found for a particular valid UTF-8 character, we try
   to display U+FFFD. However if this one is not found either, here's what
   the current kernel does:

   - First, if the Unicode value is less than the number of glyphs, use the
     glyph directly from that position of the glyph table. While it may be a
     good idea in the 8-bit world, it has absolutely no sense with Unicode
     in mind. For example, if a Latin-2 font is loaded and an application
     prints U+00FB ("u with circumflex", not present in Latin-2) then as a
     fallback solution the glyph from the 0xFB position of the Latin-2
     fontset (which is an "u with double accent" - a different character) is
     displayed.

   - Second, if this fallback fails too, a simple ASCII question mark is
     printed, which is visually undistinguishable from a real question mark.

   I changed the code to skip the first step (except if in non-UTF-8 mode),
   and changed the second step to print the question mark with inverse color
   attributes, so it is visually clear that it's not a real question mark,
   and resembles more to the common glyph of U+FFFD.

2) The UTF-8 decoder is buggy in many ways:

   - Lone continuation bytes (section 3.1 of Markus Kuhn's UTF-8 stress
     test) are not caught, they are displayed as some "random" (taken
     directly form the font table, see above) glyphs instead the replacement
     character.

   - Incomplete sequences (sections 3.2 and 3.3 of the stress test) emit no
     replacement character, but rather cause the subsequent valid character
     to be displayed more times(!).

   - The decoder is not safe: overlong sequences are not caught currently,
     they are displayed as if these were valid representations. This may
     even have security impacts.

   - The decoder does not handle D800..DFFF and FFFE..FFFF specially, it
     just emits these code points and lets it be looked up in the glyph
     table. Since these are invalid code points, I replace them by U+FFFD
     and hence give no chance for them to be looked up in the glyph table.
     (Assuming no font ships glyphs for these code points, this change is
     not visible to the users since the glyph shown will be the same.)

   With my fixes to the decoder it now behaves exactly as Markus Kuhn's
   stress test recommends.

3) It has no concept of double-width (CJK) characters. It's way beyond the
   scope of my patch to try to display them, but at least I think it's
   important for the cursor to jump two positions when printing such
   characters, since this is what applications (such as text editors)
   expect. Currently the cursor only jumps one position, and hence
   applications suffer from displaying and refreshing problems, and editing
   some English letters that are preceded by some CJK characters in the same
   line is a nightmare. With my patch an additional space is inserted after
   the CJK character has been printed (which usually means a replacement
   symbol of course). (If U+FFFD isn't availble and hence an inverse
   question mark is displayed in the first cell, I keep the inverted state
   for the space in the 2nd column so it's quite easy to see that they are
   tied together.)

4) There is a small built-in table of zero-width spaces that are not to be
   printed but silently skipped. U+200A is included there, but it's not a
   zero-width character, so I remove it from there.
Signed-off-by: NEgmont Koblinger <egmont@uhulinux.hu>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: "Antonino A. Daplas" <adaplas@pol.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NOliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de>
Cc: Tilman Schmidt <tilman@imap.cc>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A patch that stores inode flags such as S_IMMUTABLE, S_APPEND, etc.  from
i_flags to EXT3_I(inode)->i_flags when inode is written to disk.  The same
thing is done on GETFLAGS ioctl.

Quota code changes these flags on quota files (to make it harder for
sysadmin to screw himself) and these changes were not correctly propagated
into the filesystem (especially, lsattr did not show them and users were
wondering...).

Propagate flags such as S_APPEND, S_IMMUTABLE, etc.  from i_flags into
ext3-specific i_flags.  Hence, when someone sets these flags via a
different interface than ioctl, they are stored correctly.
Signed-off-by: NJan Kara <jack@suse.cz>
Cc: <linux-ext4@vger.kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As discovered here today, the change in Kernel 2.6.17 intended to inhibit
users from setting RLIMIT_CPU to 0 (as that is equivalent to unlimited) by
"cheating" and setting it to 1 in such a case, does not make a difference,
as the check is done in the wrong place (too late), and only applies to the
profiling code.

On all systems I checked running kernels above 2.6.17, no matter what the
hard and soft CPU time limits were before, a user could escape them by
issuing in the shell (sh/bash/zsh) "ulimit -t 0", and then the user's
process was not ever killed.

Attached is a trivial patch to fix that.  Simply moving the check to a
slightly earlier location (specifically, before the line that actually
assigns the limit - *old_rlim = new_rlim), does the trick.

Do note that at least the zsh (but not ash, dash, or bash) shell has the
problem of "caching" the limits set by the ulimit command, so when running
zsh the fix will not immediately be evident - after entering "ulimit -t 0",
"ulimit -a" will show "-t: cpu time (seconds) 0", even though the actual
limit as returned by getrlimit(...) will be 1.  It can be verified by
opening a subshell (which will not have the values of the parent shell in
cache) and checking in it, or just by running a CPU intensive command like
"echo '65536^1048576' | bc" and verifying that it dumps core after one
second.

Regardless of whether that is a misfeature in the shell, perhaps it would
be better to return -EINVAL from setrlimit in such a case instead of
cheating and setting to 1, as that does not really reflect the actual state
of the process anymore.  I do not however know what the ground for that
decision was in the original 2.6.17 change, and whether there would be any
"backward" compatibility issues, so I preferred not to touch that right
now.
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

The serial_txx9 driver have abused device numbers (major 4, minor 128) if
CONFIG_SERIAL_TXX9_STDSERIAL was not set.  This patch makes the driver use
proper device numbers assigned for it (major 204, minor 196-203).  I
suppose a typical user of this driver set CONFIG_SERIAL_TXX9_STDSERIAL to Y
(i.e.  use "ttyS0"), so this patch would not cause big compatibility issue.
Signed-off-by: NAtsushi Nemoto <anemo@mba.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A patch for getdelays.c that fixes a buffer overrun when you set -w.

Cc: <matt@bluehost.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Apparently it's not cool anymore to use SPIN/RW_LOCK_UNLOCKED.  There's
some mention of this in Documentation/spinlocks.txt, but that only talks
about dynamic initialisation.

A comment in the code mentioning the preferred usage would be good IMHO.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: add reason for deprecation]
Signed-off-by: NMichael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

There are many places in the kernel where the construction like

   foo = list_entry(head->next, struct foo_struct, list);

are used.
The code might look more descriptive and neat if using the macro

   list_first_entry(head, type, member) \
             list_entry((head)->next, type, member)

Here is the macro itself and the examples of its usage in the generic code.
 If it will turn out to be useful, I can prepare the set of patches to
inject in into arch-specific code, drivers, networking, etc.
Signed-off-by: NPavel Emelianov <xemul@openvz.org>
Signed-off-by: NKirill Korotaev <dev@openvz.org>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Zach Brown <zach.brown@oracle.com>
Cc: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: John McCutchan <ttb@tentacle.dhs.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: john stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>
Cc: Ram Pai <linuxram@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

This patches modifies the pnpbios kernel thread to start with ktrhead_run
not kernel_thread and deamonize.  Doing this makes the code a little
simpler and easier to maintain.
Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Adam Belay <ambx1@neo.rr.com>
Cc: Bjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NEric W. Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Add usage to getdelays.c. This patch was originally posted by Randy Dunlap
http://lkml.org/lkml/2007/3/19/168Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NBalbir Singh <balbir@in.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Signed-off-by: NJarek Poplawski <jarkao2@o2.pl>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: NMilind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: NMilind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED cleanup,use __SPIN_LOCK_UNLOCKED instead
Signed-off-by: NMilind Arun Choudhary <milindchoudhary@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Document how to detect drive failures for cciss
Signed-off-by: NStephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

While the !highres/!dyntick code assigns the duty of the do_timer() call to
one specific CPU, this was dropped in the highres/dyntick part during
development.

Steven Rostedt discovered the xtime lock contention on highres/dyntick due
to several CPUs trying to update jiffies.

Add the single CPU assignement back.  In the dyntick case this needs to be
handled carefully, as the CPU which has the do_timer() duty must drop the
assignement and let it be grabbed by another CPU, which is active.
Otherwise the do_timer() calls would not happen during the long sleep.
Signed-off-by: NThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Acked-by: NIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Acked-by: NMark Lord <mlord@pobox.com>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Make cciss unconditionally include scsi/scsi.h, because of the use of
SCSI_IOCTL_GET_IDLUN and SCSI_IOCTL_GET_BUS_NUMBER.
Signed-off-by: NStephen M. Cameron <steve.cameron@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

HZ has not always been 100Hz for some time.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We used to warn unless the EFI system table major revision was exactly 1.
But EFI 2.00 firmware is starting to appear, and the 2.00 changes don't
affect anything in Linux.
Signed-off-by: NBjorn Helgaas <bjorn.helgaas@hp.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: "Luck, Tony" <tony.luck@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Simple driver that blinks the keyboard LEDs when loaded.  Useful for
checking that the kernel is still alive or for crashdumping
Signed-off-by: NAndi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

CREDITS:
 - Summarize 3 lines into one.
 - Add webpage.

MAINTAINERS:
 - Add auxdisplay drivers/tree webpages.
Signed-off-by: NMiguel Ojeda Sandonis <maxextreme@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Johannes Berg reported that struct names are not highlighted
(bold, italic, etc.) in html kernel-doc output.  (Also not in
text-mode output, but I don't see that changing.)

This patch adds the following:
- highlight struct names in html output mode
- highlight environment var. names in html output mode
- indent struct fields in the original struct layout
Signed-off-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A while back, Christoph mentioned that he thought that iunique ought to be
cleaned up to use a more conventional loop construct. This patch does that,
turning the strange goto loop into a do/while.
Signed-off-by: NJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.

Alan sayeth

  This is a behaviour change on all of these and limits some behaviour of
  existing established security modules

  When inode_change_ok is called it has side effects.  This includes
  clearing the SGID bit on attribute changes caused by chmod.  If you make
  this change the results of some rulesets may be different before or after
  the change is made.

  I'm not saying the change is wrong but it does change behaviour so that
  needs looking at closely (ditto all other attribute twiddles)
Signed-off-by: NSteve Beattie <sbeattie@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

notify_change() already calls security_inode_setattr() before
calling iop->setattr.
Signed-off-by: NTony Jones <tonyj@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NJohn Johansen <jjohansen@suse.de>
Acked-by: NStephen Smalley <sds@tycho.nsa.gov>
Cc: James Morris <jmorris@namei.org>
Cc: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

We've had various reports of some legacy "probe the hardware" style
platform drivers having nasty problems with hotplug support.

The core issue is that those legacy drivers don't fully conform to the
driver model.  They assume a role that should be the responsibility of
infrastructure code: creating device nodes.

The "modprobe" step in hotplugging relies on drivers to have split those
roles into different modules.  The lack of this split causes the problems.
When a driver creates nodes for devices that don't exist (sending a hotplug
event), then exits (aborting one modprobe) before the "modprobe $MODALIAS"
step completes (by failing, since it's in the middle of a modprobe), the
result can be an endless loop of modprobe invocations ...  badness.

This fix uses the newish per-device flag controlling issuance of "add"
events.  (A previous version of this patch used a per-device "driver can
hotplug" flag, which only scrubbed $MODALIAS from the environment rather
than suppressing the entire hotplug event.) It also shrinks that flag to
one bit, saving a word in "struct device".

So the net of this patch is removing some nasty failures with legacy
drivers, while retaining hotplug capability for the majority of platform
drivers.
Signed-off-by: NDavid Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Cc: Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org>
Cc: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

A patch for kernel-doc that enables the generation of a global, TOC-like
index.html page after building 'htmldocs'
Signed-off-by: NBorislav Petkov <bbpetkov@yahoo.de>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>