Below you will find an updated version from the original series bunching all patches into one big patch
updating broken web addresses that are located in Documentation/*
Some of the addresses date as far far back as 1995 etc... so searching became a bit difficult,
the best way to deal with these is to use web.archive.org to locate these addresses that are outdated.
Now there are also some addresses pointing to .spec files some are located, but some(after searching
on the companies site)where still no where to be found. In this case I just changed the address
to the company site this way the users can contact the company and they can locate them for the users.
Signed-off-by: NJustin P. Mattock <justinmattock@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: NThomas Weber <weber@corscience.de>
Signed-off-by: NMike Frysinger <vapier.adi@gmail.com>
Cc: Paulo Marques <pmarques@grupopie.com>
Cc: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Cc: Michael Neuling <mikey@neuling.org>
Signed-off-by: NJiri Kosina <jkosina@suse.cz>

This adds:
  alias: devname:<name>
to some common kernel modules, which will allow the on-demand loading
of the kernel module when the device node is accessed.

Ideally all these modules would be compiled-in, but distros seems too
much in love with their modularization that we need to cover the common
cases with this new facility. It will allow us to remove a bunch of pretty
useless init scripts and modprobes from init scripts.

The static device node aliases will be carried in the module itself. The
program depmod will extract this information to a file in the module directory:
  $ cat /lib/modules/2.6.34-00650-g537b60d1-dirty/modules.devname
  # Device nodes to trigger on-demand module loading.
  microcode cpu/microcode c10:184
  fuse fuse c10:229
  ppp_generic ppp c108:0
  tun net/tun c10:200
  dm_mod mapper/control c10:235

Udev will pick up the depmod created file on startup and create all the
static device nodes which the kernel modules specify, so that these modules
get automatically loaded when the device node is accessed:
  $ /sbin/udevd --debug
  ...
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/cpu/microcode' c10:184
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/fuse' c10:229
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/ppp' c108:0
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/net/tun' c10:200
  static_dev_create_from_modules: mknod '/dev/mapper/control' c10:235
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/net/tun' 0666
  udev_rules_apply_static_dev_perms: chmod '/dev/fuse' 0666

A few device nodes are switched to statically allocated numbers, to allow
the static nodes to work. This might also useful for systems which still run
a plain static /dev, which is completely unsafe to use with any dynamic minor
numbers.

Note:
The devname aliases must be limited to the *common* and *single*instance*
device nodes, like the misc devices, and never be used for conceptually limited
systems like the loop devices, which should rather get fixed properly and get a
control node for losetup to talk to, instead of creating a random number of
device nodes in advance, regardless if they are ever used.

This facility is to hide the mess distros are creating with too modualized
kernels, and just to hide that these modules are not compiled-in, and not to
paper-over broken concepts. Thanks! :)

Cc: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
Cc: Chris Mason <chris.mason@oracle.com>
Cc: Alasdair G Kergon <agk@redhat.com>
Cc: Tigran Aivazian <tigran@aivazian.fsnet.co.uk>
Cc: Ian Kent <raven@themaw.net>
Signed-Off-By: NKay Sievers <kay.sievers@vrfy.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This is a low density serial port so needs a real major/minor
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

As noted by Janne Grunau it would be good if the date was also right.

(Web site also resynched)
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Bring the devices.txt back into some relationship with reality. Update the
documentation a bit.
Signed-off-by: NAlan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

Allocate major 260 for osd.
Signed-off-by: NBoaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
CC: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: NJames Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>

This driver was originaly written by Stefan Kopp, but massively
reworked by Greg for submission.

Thanks to Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com> for lots of work in cleaning
up this driver.

Thanks to Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org> for reviewing previous
versions and pointing out problems.


Cc: Stefan Kopp <stefan_kopp@agilent.com>
Cc: Marcel Janssen <korgull@home.nl>
Cc: Felipe Balbi <me@felipebalbi.com>
Cc: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

This patch removes the auerswald USB driver from the linux kernel
2.6.26.

This driver was included into the kernel mainly to connect to the ISDN
framework. This was done in linux 2.4.x. For 2.6.x, due to the fragile
and moving ISDN support, this connection was never realized, and the
only use of this driver was for device configuration. In the age of DSL,
the demand of ISDN support is getting very low.

Meanwhile, with the advent of libusb, an userspace driver was done for
the device configuration which works fine for linux and mac. (Thanks to
the libusb developers!). The userspace driver is downloadable from the
auerswald web site.

So this driver is obsolete now and has to be removed. Many thanks to all
developers which helped me to bring this driver up and working.
Signed-off-by: NWolfgang Muees <wolfgang@iksw-muees.de>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were
approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases.

Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both
Kconfigs and documentation texts.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>

Signed-off-by: NDave Jones <davej@redhat.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

[jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Acked-by: NTorben Mathiasen <torben.mathiasen@hp.com>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some
misc words.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses
some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'.
Signed-off-by: NMatt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com>
Acked-by: NRandy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NAdrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>

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>

This patch adds support for Ontrak ADU USB devices.

Fixed for printk issues by Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net>
Signed-off-by: NSteven Haigh <netwiz@crc.id.au>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>

Change "Thrid" into "Third", and realign similarly to other entries.
Signed-off-by: NPete Zaitcev <zaitcev@redhat.com>
Cc: <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Update Documentation/devices.txt with a new version from the LANANA site
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txtSigned-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Update Documentation/devices.txt with a new version from the LANANA site
http://www.lanana.org/docs/device-list/devices-2.6+.txtSigned-off-by: NJan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

Changing the driver to use dynamic device numbers was one of the many
changes that were made in order to have the driver accepted into the
mainline kernel.  Therefore I would say that the entry in devices.txt is
obsolete.  This patch removes it.
Signed-off-by: NPeter Osterlund <petero2@telia.com>
Cc: Torben Mathiasen <device@lanana.org>
Signed-off-by: NAndrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

This patch deletes the bluetooth.txt help file of the bluetty driver and
hands over its major device nodes for character devices to the RFCOMM TTY
implementation of the Bluetooth subsystem.
Signed-off-by: NMarcel Holtmann <marcel@holtmann.org>
Signed-off-by: NGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Signed-off-by: NLinus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

      Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com>

This patch contains the code that enables us to access the previous kernel's
memory as /dev/oldmem.
Signed-off-by: NEric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>
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!